China on Thursday announced lower duties on dairy products imported from the European Union. According to the Commerce Ministry, the tariffs will range from 7.4 percent to 11.7 percent for a period of five years, effective Friday. That's down from ...

Premier Li Qiang has called for a comprehensive push in the technological innovation, industrial growth and application of artificial intelligence to foster new quality productive forces and promote high-quality development. Li made the remarks whil...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, extended festive greetings on Wednesday to people from non-CPC political parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), personages without ...

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged up 0.2 percent year on year in January, official data showed on Wednesday. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed the consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.2 percent ...

President Xi Jinping visited primary-level officials and residents in Beijing during a two-day inspection tour from Monday to Tuesday, extending Spring Festival greetings to Chinese people at home and abroad ahead of the festival. Xi, also general s...

Education minister Christine Choi on Thursday said the government had no plans to relax a proposal which would require teachers to renew their certificates every three years. This came after the Association of the Heads of Secondary Schools counter...

Chief Executive John Lee on Thursday said officials must adopt a “reform mindset” to ensure Hong Kong’s own five-year plan sets forward looking, strategic goals. He made the remarks while chairing a meeting of the Steering Group on Integratio...

Cigarette smuggling accounted for around 75 percent of the total number of cases the Customs and Excise Department worked on last year. In 2025, the department handled more than 38,000 smuggling cases in total, a 24 percent increase from 2024. Spec...

Lawmaker Perry Yiu on Thursday said the government should provide subsidies to encourage more local tours and in turn boost consumption. He said at a press briefing that Hong Kong has a lot of new go-to spots, such as the East Coast Boardwalk and t...

The government on Thursday said it was inviting expressions of interest in running stalls at Stanley Waterfront Mart after earlier indicating that it was now empty. The last operator at the market, which used to have 20 stalls offering light refresh...

Beijing has defended its travel ban on more than a dozen Philippine municipal officials that Manila said could harm ties between the two countries, after a diplomatic spat took yet another retaliatory turn. Angelica Escalona, spokeswoman for the Phil...

Vietnam has kicked off the new tourism year by shattering records. According to the national tourism authority, VNAT, almost 2.5 million international visitors arrived in January – the highest number ever recorded in a single month and an 18.5 per ...

A delivery company in central China has sparked controversy by introducing a range of services including kneeling and kowtowing to replace in-person family visits during the Spring Festival. On February 9, UU Paotui, based in Henan province, launched...

A driver and his passenger were arrested after their car, which had an expired licence and allegedly contained small amounts of the drug etomidate, hit a police vehicle, a taxi and a bus while attempting to evade officers on a northern Hong Kong road...

The United States and China are set to extend October’s trade war truce by up to a year when US President Donald Trump visits Beijing, the South China Morning Post reported exclusively on Thursday. Trump would probably meet Chinese President Xi Jin...

"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.