Flights resumed at Sanya Phoenix International Airport on Hainan at 6am on Saturday as Typhoon Maysak, the 10th typhoon of the year, weakened. The tropical storm made landfall at around 6.20pm on Friday in Yelin Township of Lingshui Li Autonomous Co...

The State Council has issued a plan for building a Beautiful China during the 15th Five-Year Plan period from 2026 to 2030, setting out the overall requirements, targets, key tasks and major projects for comprehensively advancing the initiative. By ...

Tropical Storm Maysak lashed Hainan on Friday, making landfall with maximum winds near its centre of 23 metres per second and forcing flight, rail and ferry suspensions. Maysak hit the island's southeastern coast at around 6.20pm, the National Meteo...

China's national observatory on Friday renewed a yellow alert for Typhoon Maysak, which was expected to bring strong winds and rainstorms to southern China. At 10am on Friday, the 10th typhoon this year was observed some 145 km south of Lingshui on ...

China said on Friday that cooperation between Japan and India "should not target" Beijing. In response to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that Tokyo and New Delhi will strengthen cooperation over critical minerals, Foreign Ministry spo...

Technology minister Sun Dong on Sunday said a second batch of land tenders for the Hetao Hong Kong Park will likely be launched within the next one to two months. This comes weeks after the government started inviting bids for the first four land p...

Visitors on Sunday continued flocking to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Stonecutters Island naval base for a chance to step aboard two ships currently making a port call in Hong Kong. A PLA fleet is visiting as part of celebrations marking the 2...

The Medical Council has found a paediatrician guilty of professional misconduct in connection with a medical incident in 2009 and has suspended his registration for nine months. The inquiry involved a mainland couple's negligence complaint against B...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan is calling on the city to "seize every minute and second" to support the nation's development goals. Writing in his weekly blog on Sunday, Chan said he was deeply moved by a recent gathering in the Great Hall of the P...

Police are investigating a fatal crash in Sai Kung on Saturday evening that left one man dead, and a man and a woman injured. Police said the incident happened at around 6.40 pm, when a taxi reportedly veered into oncoming traffic on Hiram's Highway...

A Hong Kong tour group on an aurora-chasing boat ride near an island in Australia saved two fellow city residents who went missing while scuba diving, in a dramatic rescue the agency said “shone light on the brilliance of humanity”. WWPKG Tours d...

Residents at the epicentre of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) Ebola outbreak are pinning their hopes on experimental treatments after researchers began a highly anticipated study in early July of two possible Ebola treatments in hopes ...

Nearly 60 per cent of Hong Kong parents mistakenly believe that invasive meningococcal disease is no different from a common cold, a survey has found, prompting doctors to urge greater public awareness of the potentially fatal infection ahead of the ...

The world’s attention is fixed on frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models, but China’s robot-making factories deserve just as much attention. Chinese e-commerce company JD.com has predicted that robots would ultimately replace its 700,000 de...

From the ancient Aztecs’ efforts to appease the sun god to Apollo’s demands in the Iliad, human history is permeated with traditions of sacrifice, and China was no exception. In Zhejiang province, eastern China, scientists recently announced the ...

"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.