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The US State Department has authorised the sale of a batch of military spare parts to Taipei, the same day President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs against mainland Chinese goods took effect. The US$330 million contract includes standard pa...

Swedish authorities said on Monday that they had temporarily halted the deportation of Muslim minority Uighurs to China due to concerns over the situation there. "Information from several human rights organisations indicates that the situation for U...

China must come clean about the fate of an estimated one million minority Muslims swept up in a "massive crackdown" in its far western region of Xinjiang, Amnesty International said on Monday. Beijing has tightened restrictions on Muslim minorities ...

Worshippers at masses in Hong Kong were largely upbeat on Sunday about a new deal between China and the Vatican, despite fears Beijing is trying to increase control over the Church, although it was condemned by Cardinal Joseph Zen, the outspoken form...

China summoned the US ambassador on Saturday to lodge an official protest over sanctions imposed by the United States against a Chinese military organisation for buying Russian fighter jets and missiles, state media said. Vice Foreign Minister Zheng...

The People’s Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison has opened a microblog account on Weibo, attracting more than 25,000 followers in just a few hours. A short video clip uploaded to the page says the soldiers are so handsome that they could make a li...

MTR chairman Frederick Ma said on Tuesday that people shouldn't judge the popularity of the Express Rail Link by passenger figures in the early days of the new service, after a plunge in numbers following its launch. Immigration Department figures s...

A local member of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Tam Yiu-chung, said on Tuesday that the SAR government was careful to avoid attracting judicial reviews over the decision to ban the pro-independence Hong Kong National Par...

The chairman of the government-appointed Land Supply Task Force, Stanley Wong, has reiterated that a preliminary report it submitted to the government on Monday contained no in-depth analysis or scientific data, and was meant only for a "point of ref...

The Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday visited Sai Kung which was one of the most severely affected districts when Severe Typhoon Mangkhut hit Hong Kong on September 16. Several beaches in the area have been closed after a sewage treatment facili...

A woman has been arrested in eastern China trying to buy a baby over the internet, according to a Chinese media report. The 43-year-old woman from Chizhou in Anhui province said she did not know it was illegal to adopt through an online broker, news ...

While being “bicycle-friendly” has been championed in Hong Kong’s new towns and other areas featuring comprehensive cycle track networks, officials have discouraged the mode of transport in urban parts of the city. Current laws proh...

A woman who threw water at her fellow train passengers has apologised after the conductor intervened in the latest row over seating to flare up on China’s railways. Witnesses travelling from Shanghai to Fuyang, Anhui province in northwest China...

A court has ordered Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s fiercest critic in Congress arrested after the president revoked the senator’s 2011 amnesty for a failed coup attempt and revived rebellion charges against him. Senator Antonio Tr...

A flyover in Hong Kong’s busy urban district of Kwun Tong is set to open to cyclists as the first part of a scheme to lift a biking ban on 16 bridges and underpasses in the coming months. The decision to abolish “bicycle prohibition zones...

"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.