Customer testing of Huawei's new AI chip, designed to challenge Nvidia in ⁠the China market, has gone well and big tech giants including ByteDance and Alibaba plan to place orders, two insiders said. The development marks a milestone for Huawei. ...

The Ministry of Commerce in Beijing on Friday announced trade barrier investigations into US actions and measures that harm global production and supply chains as well as that impede trading of green products. The probes into alleged disruptions to ...

China wishes to strengthen economic co-operation with the United States to avoid "vicious competition", Minster of Commerce Wang Wentao told US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, according to a readout released on Friday. The two met on Thursday o...

Profits at China's major industrial firms increased 15.2 percent year on year in the first two months of 2026, with emerging sectors such as equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing serving as major growth drivers, official data showed on ...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned of immeasurably serious consequences on Thursday if nuclear facilities were targeted in the ongoing Middle East conflict as it would plunge the people in the region into a dire situation. His warning came as he met In...

Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong said on Saturday that plans are in place to deal with the extra demand for electricity once the Sandy Ridge data facility in the Northern Metropolis comes online. Speaking at a groundbreakin...

Charges may be levelled against contractors if cigarette butts are found around construction and major renovation sites during inspections proposed under imminent regulatory changes implementing a complete smoking ban following the tragic Wang Fuk Co...

The government said on Saturday that residents returning to their flats to salvage belongings in the seven Wang Fuk Court blocks scorched in the November inferno would be allowed to go up to their homes in groups of up to four. However, the actual n...

Customs officers on Friday arrested two fitness centre employees in Mong Kok for allegedly using aggressive tactics to entice customers into purchasing fitness packages, with one case involving HK$170,000. Johnny Chong, a divisional commander at the...

The MTR Corporation on Friday said it would again keep its fares at existing levels this year, marking the second fare freeze by the railway giant since its pricing formula was reformed in 2023. In a statement, it also said it would continue to offe...

The law of unintended consequences, a theory popularised by American sociologist Robert K Merton, has rarely been more applicable to any situation than to US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran. Those consequences will be far greater than genera...

A prominent Chinese political scientist has cautioned Southeast Asian countries against leveraging China-US tensions for short-term benefits, saying this strategy could backfire. Speaking on the sidelines of the Boao Forum for Asia on Friday, Zheng Y...

Hong Kong authorities have insisted that the three-hour time limit is sufficient for residents of the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court to retrieve their belongings, with discretion to be exercised for those requesting a second entry. Deputy Chief Secretar...

Hong Kong police are searching for a driver who fled the scene after crashing a car into a barricade and hitting a bus on Saturday. The force said it received a report at about 9.20am that a car had crashed into a roadside railing along Pui To Road i...

A month after the US and Israel launched the war with Iran, nothing seems to be going according to President Donald Trump’s plan for a conflict lasting four to six weeks. Despite the assassinations of most of the Islamic Republic’s political and ...

"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.