Official figures on Tuesday showed that the nation's trade has surged by a fifth in the first two months of the year, significantly outpacing forecasts. The data – usually combined to account for distortions arising from the varying Chinese New Ye...

Local National People's Congress (NPC) deputy Ma Fung-kwok on Monday said Hong Kong delegates should be allowed to play a bigger role in the NPC’s future outbound exchanges or overseas visits. His remarks came after Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC...

China's rural affairs head on Monday said the country's agriculture sector was "almost fully mechanised" and becoming smarter, thanks to advancements in argitech that raised productivity while ensuring food security. The comments came as Han Jun, th...

China's top sports official on Monday said the hosting of the National Games by Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong late last year marked "an innovative practice of the One Country, Two Systems principle". Speaking to reporters in the "Ministers' Corrido...

The heads of China's top court and the country's highest legal supervision body delivered their work reports on Monday to the annual session of the National People's Congress. Zhang Jun, president of the Supreme People's Court, announced that China'...

Cathay Pacific announced on Tuesday that it would continue with its suspension of Middle East flights for the rest of March due to the volatile situation in the region. The cancelled flights include daily passenger flights to and from Dubai in the U...

Hong Kong Airlines has announced it is further increasing fuel surcharges for most of its flights effective from March 12, with those for short-haul tickets rising 30 percent compared to the beginning of this month. The changes came as oil prices co...

Islands district councillor Yip Pui-kei said on Tuesday many residents had been left with the feeling they had little choice but to accept proposed fare adjustments on six major outlying island ferry routes. Set to take effect from April 1, a 12.5 p...

A former mainland security official said an Interpol annual event to be hosted in Hong Kong in November would showcase the SAR police force’s capabilities. Hong Kong's hosting of the Interpol general assembly will see the city gather, for the firs...

A construction industry representative on Tuesday suggested that items at fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court be returned to homeowners and tenants before construction works take place. Police have tightened security measures since Monday, after three const...

Chinese technology firms, including internet giants Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holding and ByteDance, are offering easy or inexpensive access to OpenClaw, the popular open-source AI agent software amid a “lobster fever” in the country. Tence...

This year’s government work report delivered by Premier Li Qiang marks a shift from the perennial fixation with growth towards a greater emphasis on effective strategic development, especially social and people-centred outcomes. The “two sessions...

A Bangladeshi man who spent over three years on bail in Malaysia fighting local child pornography charges has been spirited to Alaska by the FBI to face what prosecutors describe as one of the most prolific child exploitation cases in US history. Zob...

A Hong Kong police officer has been jailed for 16 months for extorting HK$60,000 (US$7,675) from a rape suspect he believed had been wrongly released by prosecutors. The District Court on Tuesday condemned Constable Ng Wai-fung for taking the law int...

HSBC Holdings is phasing out its remote-work flexibility as it tightens its post-pandemic policy in Hong Kong, requiring frontline employees to be in the office or meet clients five days a week. In an internal memo seen by the South China Morning Pos...

"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.