Chief Executive John Lee on Tuesday thanked mainland officials for their support with disaster relief and rescue efforts following the Tai Po fire. He noted that President Xi Jinping had shown great concern and ordered full support for Hong Kong. O...

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit China between December 3 and 5, according to the Foreign Ministry in Beijing. Macron's office said on Wednesday that he would meet President Xi Jinping during the visit. The confirmation of the trip comes...

The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the nation's manufacturing sector stood at 49.2 in November, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, official data showed on Sunday. A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while a reading below 50 ...

Mainland authorities have ordered a nationwide campaign targeting fire hazards in high-rise residential and public buildings. This came after Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in decades at Tai Po's Wang Fuk Court claimed at least 128 lives. The State Co...

President Xi Jinping has emphasised the importance of improving long-term mechanisms for cyberspace governance. Presiding over a Politburo meeting on Friday, he called for sustained efforts to cultivate a clean, healthy and sound online environment....

A hotly contested constituency in this Sunday's Legislative Council polls is New Territories South West. RTHK English News earlier asked the candidates there about their elections platforms. Watch our video to find out more.

The Labour Department (LD) on Wednesday said it has banned Ying Garden from applying for imported workers for two years. The department has also withdrawn the restaurant group’s current labour-importation applications under the Enhanced Supplemen...

The Housing Department on Wednesday dismissed social media claims that Wang Fuk Court fire victims have been moved to interim units with unfurnished floors. A department spokesman clarified that no residents of the apartment complex in Tai Po are cu...

Danish facility management group ISS says its Hong Kong unit which was the property manager for fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court played no role in the renovation work suspected of being behind the deadly blaze. The group's shares plunged about 8 percent...

Former security minister Lai Tung-kwok on Wednesday believes the independent review committee, which will probe the cause of the deadly fire in Tai Po and the reasons why it spread so fast, would work in tandem with the government groups set up to lo...

After selling a HK$319 million (US$41 million) luxury home in Hong Kong’s affluent Southern district, a former finance executive has rented a 4,715 sq ft house at The Peak, the city’s most exclusive neighbourhood, for HK$525,000 a month, official...

French football legend Zinedine Zidane has delighted Chinese internet users by joining local residents in Shanghai to play shuttlecock in the street. Videos of Zidane, 53, a newcomer to the sport, played the game skilfully with some middle-aged Shang...

French President Emmanuel Macron has started a three-day visit to China, where he is expected to confront thorny issues including Europe’s trade with Beijing and the Ukraine war. On Wednesday evening, Macron landed in Beijing at the start of his fo...

China and Russia had reached a “high degree” of strategic consensus on issues related to Japan and jointly opposed the revival of “Japanese militarism”, a readout from Beijing said after Foreign Minister Wang Yi met chief Kremlin security aid...

More than 1,400 people have been killed across South and Southeast Asia in a week of catastrophic floods, exposing how rising global temperatures are amplifying extreme weather, even as international negotiations to phase out fossil fuels stall. Succ...

"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.