The Middle East and Gulf region should not become a battleground for great-power rivalry and Beijing is willing to work with Arab nations to achieve lasting peace, President Xi Jinping told Oman's sultan on Monday. China has traditionally played a l...

The National People's Congress has begun deliberating on a draft law on combating cross-border corruption, including a provision on promoting the building of a fair and equitable global anti-corruption governance system. The draft was submitted for ...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) on Sunday made public a resolution following this week's annual plenary session in Beijing. The document titled "The Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Certain Major Issues conce...

Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group announced a partnership with Apple on Saturday to integrate its Qwen AI model into Apple Intelligence. The Qwen-powered feature will be available for testing in the latest iOS developer beta starting November 4, and ...

China's manufacturing activity moderated in October, with the purchasing managers' index falling to 49.3 as the high-tech and equipment manufacturing sectors maintained expansion, official data showed on Saturday. The overall reading was down 0.8 pe...

Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong on Monday said liaison officers would be assigned to handle homeowners' enquiries and complaints regarding future building renovation projects. The government announced last week comprehensive reforms to the b...

The Securities and Futures Commission has released its first-ever AI readiness survey, showing that most large financial firms in Hong Kong already use artificial intelligence across their operations, with adoption expected to accelerate over the com...

Banking giant HSBC says an artificial intelligence and emerging technology institute being set up in Hong Kong is due to become operational in the first quarter of 2027. Announcing the update at Hong Kong Fintech Week on Monday, chief executive Geor...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has set out the next phase of its Fintech 2030 strategy, which will pair new technology initiatives with a renewed emphasis on governance and risk management. Speaking at Hong Kong Fintech Week on Monday, authority c...

Chief Executive John Lee on Monday said Hong Kong strives to attract global organisations and promote international legal cooperation. He made the remarks in an opening ceremony by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law – a...

Hong Kong has touted rapid progress in the first year of its five-year fintech strategy, pledging to double down on artificial intelligence and tokenisation even as many initiatives face the challenge of achieving commercial scale. Tokenisation, for ...

Millions of people in China were moved by the story of a secondary school graduate who put off university to care for her seriously ill mother – and of the classmates who donated their treasured collections to help her. Cao Feng, a graduating stude...

As India seeks to expand its security cooperation with Southeast Asia by sharing its battle-tested counterterrorism expertise, defence analysts say its experience would only partly meet Asean’s needs given the differences in threat perception and d...

China and Oman have called for a peaceful resolution and full ceasefire between the US and Iran, stressing that safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz must be restored. The call came during talks in Beijing on Monday between Chinese President Xi J...

China’s central bank announced on Monday it would start a fresh round of a swap facility to channel about US$15 billion into the struggling onshore stock market, after its worst sell-off in almost a decade dealt a heavy blow to investor confidence ...

"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.