Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said Hong Kong would expand its renminbi-denominated bond market as part of efforts to strengthen its role as a safe, reliable offshore platform that fully aligns with international rules. Writing in his weekl...

Top Beijing and SAR officials on Sunday paid their final respects at a funeral for the city's first chief executive, Tung Chee‑hwa, who died earlier this month. Shi Taifeng, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Centra...

The 20th Asian Games officially got underway on Saturday with a dazzling opening ceremony in the Japanese city of Nagoya, kicking off the continent's largest sporting event in spectacular style. Japan's Emperor and Empress were given a respectful re...

When President Xi Jinping lands at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington on Wednesday, his counterpart, Donald Trump, plans to be there to greet him, senior US administration officials said. That’s a rarity– Trump typically meets foreign le...

Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, on Friday said the government would explore more ways in which the renminbi could be used to handle payments. This, he added, was a "natural" process to promote the use of the natio...

Xinhua News Agency on Sunday said Tung Chee-hwa is regarded as having been an outstanding contributor to One Country, Two Systems, a renowned patriot, an outstanding social activist and a close friend of the Communist Party of China. In a report on ...

Chief Executive John Lee says the Northern Metropolis is the breakthrough Hong Kong needs to power up its economy. In an interview with TVB, he said the project combines four elements in one – land and housing, a university town, industry, and tec...

Hong Kong, China's karateka Grace Lau took home a silver medal at the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya in Japan on Sunday. Delivering the SAR’s first medal of the Games, Lau, currently ranked World No. 1 in the individual kata event, advanced to t...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said Hong Kong would expand its renminbi-denominated bond market as part of efforts to strengthen its role as a safe, reliable offshore platform that fully aligns with international rules. Writing in his weekl...

Saint Francis University’s president Stephen Cheung on Sunday suggested the government set up a cross-institutional research fund to encourage universities in the Northern Metropolis to collaborate with each other. Announced in the SAR’s first f...

The prospect of United States, Chinese and Russian leaders meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Shenzhen this November has revived the Yalta analogy. Talk of a Trump-Xi-Putin summit – echoing the 1945 meeting that resha...

Hong Kong police suspect a dog attack may have caused the death of a woman who was taken to hospital in the early hours of Sunday, the South China Morning Post has learned. A force spokesman said the woman was found unconscious beside a bicycle on Po...

Hong Kong prosecutors are set to open the murder trial of three former relatives of slain socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung later this week, three years after her killing shocked the city and drew international attention. The High Court will hold the firs...

Hong Kong authorities should shoulder a larger share of the cost of facilities jointly used by institutions at the Northern Metropolis university towns, a varsity president has said, while calling for dedicated research funding to encourage collabora...

Hong Kong’s first post-colonial leader, Tung Chee-hwa, has been lauded as a pioneer of “one country, two systems”, a staunch patriot and a close friend of the Chinese Communist Party who also contributed to Sino-US relations, according to a eul...

"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.