Commemorative activities have been held across the country on the 95th anniversary of the September 18 Incident which marked the start of Japan's 14-year invasion of China. During the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression wh...

Mainland authorities on Friday said that direct economic losses incurred from natural disasters in August amounted to 36.03 billion yuan, with Typhoon Dolphin causing the most damage. The Ministry of Emergency Management counted 595 people who had d...

Chairman of HSBC Asia‑Pacific, Peter Wong, says Hong Kong should "spare no effort" in promoting the internationalisation of the renminbi. Speaking on RTHK's "On Broadcast Drive", he said Hong Kong's key advantage is being China's only internationa...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday held a phone conversation on high-level interactions between the two countries, a week before a planned summit between their leaders. The foreign minister said Beijing and Wa...

President Xi Jinping has urged sustained efforts to expand and strengthen advanced manufacturing to provide strong support for advancing Chinese modernisation. He made the remarks in a recent instruction, which was conveyed at a national conference ...

Chairman of HSBC Asia‑Pacific, Peter Wong, says Hong Kong should "spare no effort" in promoting the internationalisation of the renminbi. Speaking on RTHK's "On Broadcast Drive", he said Hong Kong's key advantage is being China's only internationa...

Education secretary Christine Choi on Friday said that a scheme which encourages and supports publicly-funded primary and secondary schools to merge would pave the way for better education amid a drop in the city's student population. Speaking on a...

Condolence books were opened up across the city on Friday for people to pay their respects to Hong Kong's first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, who passed away on September 8 at the age of 89. At one of the condolence points, Moreton Terrace Activit...

Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun on Friday said the move to increase the monthly allowance to caregivers from low-income families by HK$300 showed that government aimed to channel resources to those most in need. In announcing his Policy A...

Hong Kong's massive Northern Metropolis project is an opportunity for the city to diversify its economy and upgrade living conditions, Chief Executive John Lee told an RTHK phone-in programme on Friday – saying the initiative will provide more room...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to the US for a summit next week, which is likely to include talks about artificial intelligence (AI), tariffs and a potential trade-war truce extension. Final details will be firmed up in New York on Sunday a...

Chinese artificial intelligence models from seven major developers combined generate only about 10 per cent of the revenue reported for OpenAI and Anthropic, even as investor enthusiasm remains intense, according to US-based research firm Rhodium Gro...

North Korea’s underground nuclear tests have triggered a chain of seismic events, activating ancient fault lines that stretch towards one of the most dangerous volcanoes on Earth, about 100km (62 miles) away, according to a paper published by the j...

China has begun mass production of a super-coating that can cut wall temperatures by 25 degrees Celsius in summer, according to the state-run Science and Technology Daily. The material, which has undergone six months of real-world testing at a petroc...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has drawn a clear line against any US request for Seoul to join the war against Iran, explicitly ruling out the dispatch of troops or military assets that could involve his country in the conflict. The stance come...

"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.