A Chinese envoy said on Wednesday that Japan is not qualified at all for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Japanese militarism has not been thoroughly reckoned with and its right-wing forces are pushing for remilitarisation, s...

Def Jam, the influential US record label, will launch a division in the "capital of Chinese hip-hop" Chengdu, its parent company Universal Music announced late on Tuesday, in a vote of confidence for China's music scene. The New York-based label wor...

President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for solid efforts to secure a good start to the 15th Five-Year Plan. Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, ma...

China never deliberately pursued a trade surplus and is willing to be "the world's market", Vice Premier He Lifeng told the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Tuesday. "We are not only willing to be the world's factory, but also, more eagerly, to be the ...

The British government has given approval for China to build its largest embassy in Europe in London. Local Government Secretary Steve Reed formally approved plans for the building on the site of the two-century-old Royal Mint Court near the Tower o...

Accounting giant Deloitte on Thursday called on the government to reduce taxes when it unveils the next Budget in late-February. It is forecasting a HK$500 million consolidated surplus for this current fiscal year, up from the financial secretary's...

Discussions centred on the absence of a watertight door revealed “systemic deficiencies” among marine authorities in acting without independent verifications, the Coroner’s Court said on Thursday, as it wrapped up an inquest into one of Hong Ko...

A former leader of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance, Albert Ho, has pleaded guilty to a subversion charge in court. The alliance and three of its former leaders – Ho, Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan – are the defendants in the High Court tria...

The government said on Thursday that Legislative Council President Starry Lee has resigned from a government working group on patriotic education with immediate effect. In a statement, it said Lee tendered her resignation earlier this month when sh...

A think tank and university found moderate knowledge on the part of the public of herbal remedies following the city's first Chinese medicine health literacy survey carried out to take the pulse of the city's efforts to transform the sector. Followi...

A Chinese son invited a violinist to play for his dying mother as she lay in her hospital bed, moving many people online with a melody dubbed “the most tender farewell”. Huang Haile, from southern China’s Guangdong province, bid farewell to his...

China’s “infrastructure first” approach to developing its artificial intelligence industry will help unlock frontier innovation in the fast-moving technology, according to the president of Kimi model developer Moonshot AI. The country’s energ...

China’s ambassador to the Philippines, Jing Quan, said Beijing and Manila were seeking a “road map” for the next phase of talks aimed at settling their long-running dispute in the South China Sea. Speaking at a media reception at the Chinese em...

Hong Kong’s labour authorities are investigating an accident at a government site involving a construction worker who lost his footing and fell onto steel rebar, piercing his buttock. Police received a report at around 10.30am on Thursday that a wo...

The Golden Raspberry Awards on Wednesday released the nominees for the 2026 Razzies, “honouring” last year’s most dubious achievements in film. Among the biggest losers was Disney’s Snow White, which was nominated for worst picture and worst ...

"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.