A special Legislative Council meeting has been scheduled for Friday on the Huanggang port co-location bill during which its second reading is to resume. That's after the Legco House Committee completed its vetting of the Huanggang Port Hong Kong Por...

An industry representative for non-franchised bus operators has welcomed the government's decision to introduce franchised services at the redeveloped Huanggang port. This came after Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan said on Wednesday...

Transport minister Mable Chan on Wednesday said a convenient public transport network at the new Huanggang port would encourage travellers to use private cars less frequently. In a written reply to the Legislative Council, Chan said a public transpo...

Security chief Chris Tang said the Legislative Council House Committee will hold a special meeting on Thursday to review a bill on the redeveloped Huanggang port. As the State Council had decided the Hong Kong port area is to be commissioned on July...

China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 4.7 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Wednesday. The world's second-largest economy generated around 69.57 trillion yuan (US$10.25 tr...

A special Legislative Council meeting has been scheduled for Friday on the Huanggang port co-location bill during which its second reading is to resume. That's after the Legco House Committee completed its vetting of the Huanggang Port Hong Kong Por...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) on Thursday reported that its betting turnover rose more than three percent in the latest racing season, as a Year of the Horse tourism boom helped lift growth. In a statement, the club noted that its total racing wa...

A Hongkonger has died in a car crash in New Zealand. The accident happened on Crown Range Road near the alpine resort town of Queenstown on the South Island, Beijing's consulate-general in Christchurch said, adding that it has activated its emergenc...

Visitor arrivals topped 26.7 million in the first half of this year, the Tourism Board said on Thursday. That is a 13 percent increase year on year. Visits by mainland travellers were up 16 percent, accounting for 77 percent of the total. Non-ma...

A motorists' group on Thursday said the occurrence of traffic accidents for three consecutive days on Tsuen Wan Road in Kwai Tsing district was due mainly to drivers not being familiar with arrangements for a new exit. The exit leads to a new southb...

Chinese electric car giant BYD is building a network of 6,000 charging stations in overseas markets including Europe, as it looks to turbocharge its deliveries with the roll-out of cutting-edge flash-charging technology. The world’s largest electri...

Jensen Huang, chief executive of US artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia, held a “yakitori summit” with Japanese executives from semiconductor materials and components companies while visiting Tokyo – a move appeared aimed at strengthening ...

Capital is finite, as is political bandwidth and public concern. So far, this year has asked all three to stretch further than usual, split between security spending, market volatility and now simultaneous disasters unfolding on opposite ends of the ...

A coordinated push towards global market diversification is urgently needed to shield savers from a potentially dangerous valuation correction in highly concentrated US equities, a former World Bank official has warned. Speaking at an event in Hong K...

A senior Hong Kong police officer has been convicted of indecently assaulting a subordinate on three occasions at the force’s headquarters in Wan Chai, with one of the incidents taking place at a work party in full view of several colleagues. Senio...

"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.