Consumer inflation on the mainland reached its highest in 34 months in December while producer deflation eased, data from the National Statistics Bureau (NBS) showed on Friday. The consumer price index rose 0.8 percent in December from a year earlie...

Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodriguez met with China's ambassador to the South American country, Lan Hu, she said in a post on Telegram on Thursday. "We value China's firm and consistent stance in strongly condemning the serious violation of i...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit China from January 13 to 17, his office announced on Wednesday, signaling a thaw in relations. The trip, the first to China by a Canadian leader since 2017, aims to "strengthen cooperation in the areas ...

Cambodia said on Wednesday it had extradited three people to China, including an individual named Chen Zhi, after a joint investigation into transnational crime amid international probes into sprawling "scam centres". An interior ministry statement ...

China's economic growth in 2026 is expected to be driven mainly by resilient exports, manufacturing, and infrastructure, Standard Chartered economists said on Wednesday. But the bank's analysts, who had revised their GDP growth forecast for the nati...

Shares of MiniMax Group surged around 109 percent on the first trading day for the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up in Hong Kong. The company's shares opened trading at HK$235.40 and saw a 42.7 percent surge in demand. The stock finally clo...

The government is distributing questionnaires to Wang Fuk Court flat owners to gauge their long-term rehousing preferences, with three sites identified as potentials for relocating them within Tai Po. According to the questionnaire, the earliest pos...

The Law Reform Commission has suggested including defence clauses for cybersecurity professionals and parents when it comes to unauthorised access to programs and data under a proposed legislation. In a report on Friday, the government-appointed bod...

Bus operator Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) said it would intensify public education and reminders ahead of the new seatbelt regulation that is coming into effect, but emphasised the legal responsibility to fasten seatbelts ultimately rested with the passen...

With the summer flu season now at an end, health authorities are advising people to get vaccinated for the winter even if they caught the flu during the summer season. Speaking on an RTHK programme, Centre for Health Protection controller Edwin Tsu...

A Chinese defence giant has flexed its production muscle early in the new year by releasing a video of its star product, the J-35 stealth fighter, and pledging to double its warplane production over the next three to five years. On Tuesday, a green-c...

Taiwan actress and ex-model Jean Wang escaped an unhappy and abusive marriage to rebuild a career using her master culinary skills. Wang, 55, debuted as a model at the age of 15. She was once hailed as Taiwan’s most beautiful woman and was soon sna...

A teenager in the Philippines has been arrested for trying to sell her one-month-old baby for 50,000 Philippine pesos (US$845) on social media, as police warn that similar cases have been “spreading like wildfire” in recent years. The 17-year-old...

Fortnum & Mason, the upmarket department store chain that counts the British royal family among its regular customers, has announced that its flagship shop in Hong Kong will close by the end of the month. The British luxury goods brand, known for its...

India and Bangladesh have begun the process to renew a landmark agreement on sharing the waters of the Ganges, as analysts warn political disputes and uncertainty over Dhaka’s general election could complicate talks between the two neighbours. Offi...

"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.