US President Donald Trump left Beijing aboard Air Force One on Friday following his summit meeting in the capital. Trump said his patience with Iran was running out and he had agreed in talks with President Xi Jinping that the Islamic Republic canno...

China will continue to act in line with President Xi Jinping's four propositions and work with the international community to provide stronger support for peace talks and play a constructive role in achieving lasting peace in the Middle East, a Forei...

President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump had an in-depth exchange of views on major issues concerning the two countries and the world, and reached a series of new common understandings, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Friday. The ...

President Xi Jinping hosted his US counterpart, Donald Trump, in the central leadership compound of Zhongnanhai in Beijing on Friday for a second and final day of talks, with the American president hoping to secure trade wins. Xi led Trump on a shor...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday held a state banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to welcome his US counterpart Donald Trump on his state visit to China. Addressing the banquet, Xi said the China-US relationship is the most important ...

Chief Executive John Lee on Friday called on media practitioners to uphold the core values of serving the interests of the country and Hong Kong in the face of an ever-changing global landscape. The chief executive said the media sector should also ...

Police have arrested two people on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering. Sources said the case was in connection with a government loan scheme. The two are understood to be Kong Cheung-fat – a former member of the Wang Fuk Cou...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said on Friday it had received reports of data breaches from seven institutions affecting more than 72,000 people after the online learning platform Canvas became a target of a cyber attack. T...

One person has died after a fire broke out at a housing estate in Tung Chung early on Friday. The blaze started at around 4am at a unit in Hei Tung House, Yu Tung Court. Firefighters deployed one hose line and one breathing apparatus team to put ou...

Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho has expressed confidence that the government will be able to reach its public housing waiting time target of four and a half years. She was speaking in an interview with RTHK, a day after the Housing Bureau said the f...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China next week, days after US counterpart Donald Trump concluded a visit that was heavy on ceremony and light on substance. Putin’s one-day trip will take place on Wednesday, the South China Morning ...

Finland warned the public of drones possibly entering its airspace, for the first time near the capital city Helsinki, in the early hours of Friday. Flights were disrupted at the country’s biggest airport, Helsinki-Vantaa, and about 1.8 million res...

The Philippine Senate has witnessed political coups, scandals and the occasional shouting match. It had never, until this week, seen a sitting senator sprint down its corridors in a muddy olive shirt, knocking aside female investigators like bowling ...

President Xi Jinping’s new formula for China-US relations is “aspirational”, but the “real test” will be ensuring the two powers can work together despite their deepening rivalry, a leading Chinese political observer has cautioned. During h...

Most readers of foreign news pages this weekend will be assuming that US President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing has been dominating everyone’s attention. But across Asia, Trump, with his massive business ento...

"Borrow a boat to sail in the sea -- we will find more ways to use the opportunities brought by the Belt and Road Initiative," he said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Monday discussed bilateral ties and the situation on the Korean Peninsula on phone, pledging close contact by various means to promptly exchange views on major issues of common con...

Agricultural products have been exempted duty by the FTA , but most Thai rice sold in China ' s supermarkets is imported through regular channels , without taking advantage of the FTA , she said .

Public services including employment , education , healthcare and social security will be improved in the area , he said .

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, pledged on Friday to expand mutually beneficial cooperation and to manage their differences based on mutual respect.

Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes after a protest against the visit of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Jerusalem, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Jan. 23, 2018.

Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer has accused the U.S. of hitting Australia with a "diplomatic insult."

Laszlo Kover (1st L), Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, speaks at a conference of the parliament speakers of the Western Balkans in Budapest, Hungary on Oct. 27, 2017.

Two people were killed and transportation systems and businesses severely disrupted as Typhoon Lan lashed central Japan's Pacific coast after making landfall early Monday.

The U.S. decision to withdraw from UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, has triggered worldwide calls for supporting multilateralism amid world challenges.