The SAR's top deputy to the nation's top legislature said on Saturday that she is looking forward to the fourth annual session in Beijing next year, which is set to discuss issues such as reviewing the draft of the 15th Five-Year Plan for national ec...

China has lashed out against Japan's plans to spend a record nine trillion yen on defence for the fiscal year from April 2026, saying its plans reveal the "sinister intentions" of the country's right-wing forces to "push for the country's re-militari...

China will tighten oversight of new copper and alumina projects to curb irrational investment and disorderly expansion from 2026 to 2030, the nation’s top economic planner said on Friday. In an article on its website, the National Development and ...

An impeachment motion against Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te, submitted by lawmakers from the Chinese Kuomintang party and Taiwan People's Party, was approved by the island's legislature on Friday. According to procedures, the legislature is expected to...

China on Wednesday denounced US tariffs on semiconductors, saying that "holds back Chinese industries groundlessly". The comment was in response to the Trump administration's announcement that it will slap tariffs on Chinese semiconductor imports f...

Outgoing Legislative Council president Andrew Leung on Saturday said he was honoured and grateful to be able to serve the public during his 21 years at the legislature. Speaking on RTHK's "Letter to Hong Kong" ahead of the end of his term, Leung sai...

The Hospital Authority on Saturday said it was confident that operations would continue to run smoothly when fee adjustments took effect on January 1. The main fee for accident and emergency unit consultations will be raised from the current HK$180 ...

More than 1.18 million people entered and left Hong Kong on Boxing Day, according to the Immigration Department. This includes 622,000 arrivals and 558,000 departures on Friday. A majority of the outbound travellers opted for the Lo Wu checkpoint, ...

Two more men have been arrested in connection with the death of a 51-year-old man in Tin Shui Wai in August. Police said the two – aged 29 and 32 – were arrested on murder allegations at Shenzhen Bay Port on Friday. The arrests take the total n...

Customs officials on Friday seized four live endangered freshwater fish that a woman apparently tried to smuggle into Hong Kong inside her backpack via the Lok Ma Chau border crossing. The department said in a statement that officers had intercepted...

A woman in central China who was lying naked while awaiting a massage at a spa was shocked when a male therapist appeared, and she refused his services. Following her refusal she was mocked by the manager of the spa for being “ignorant”. The inci...

A Spanish family of four is missing after a tourist boat sank in rough seas in Indonesia, state news agency Antara reported on Saturday. The vessel was carrying 11 people when it sank in the Padar Island Strait near Labuan Bajo on Friday night, Antar...

Hong Kong police have arrested a man after finding an extendable baton in his checked luggage bound for the United States, marking the second discovery of unauthorised weapons in airline baggage this week. The force received a report on Friday after ...

In dark blue suits, the elders of the Khoo clan gathered outside the prayer halls of the Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi, a grand 190-year-old clanhouse in George Town, the capital of the Malaysian state of Penang. One by one, they stepped inside for the ...

Just over a year after an incident that nearly triggered a cascading failure across China’s national power grid, engineers have developed the most powerful smart direct current (DC) transformer on the planet – an innovation poised to neutralise r...

"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.