Tech giant Xiaomi will invest at least 60 billion yuan in artificial intelligence over the next three years, its founder said, as he stressed the need for all companies to adapt to a "new era". The company, one of the world's largest smartphone make...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Thursday said Hong Kong can leverage its research and financial strengths to contribute to the country's tech self-sufficiency push, as the SAR works on drafting its own first five-year development strategy. Speaking...

A powerful artificial intelligence model that appeared anonymously on a developer platform last week has been revealed to be from Chinese smartphone and EV giant Xiaomi, after it fuelled speculation that startup DeepSeek was quietly testing its next-...

Chief Executive John Lee on Wednesday called on people to learn more about the nation's development opportunities, as a series of books featuring President Xi Jinping's thoughts and stories were released in Hong Kong. The chief executive and the hea...

Internet giant Tencent on Wednesday reported a 16 percent jump in full-year net profit, with gaming still its main business driver even as the company extends its AI push. Tencent, the world's largest video game publisher, is competing to offer arti...

Representatives from the sports sector are optimistic about Hong Kong’s growing sports scene, with many highlighting the potential of combining athletics with entertainment to boost the city’s global image and economic vitality. Kenneth Fok, vic...

A youth think tank on Friday revealed that more than 90 percent of diners in a survey found it difficult to tell whether dishes served up by restaurants had been freshly cooked or pre-made, with most calling for mandatory labelling to restore trust. ...

Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun on Friday said the government had achieved "remarkable results" over the past three years with a comprehensive talent drive that has seen recruits contributing some HK$34 billion to the local economy each ye...

A probe into the Wang Fuk Court inferno was told on Friday that the main contractor of the renovation works there appeared to have used fire-resistant foam boards along with ones that were not. On the second day of hearings, the independent committe...

An infectious diseases expert on Friday said the immediate threat of meningitis is not high in Hong Kong despite the ongoing outbreak in Britain. Lau Yu-lung, chairman of the scientific committee on vaccine preventable diseases at the Centre for Hea...

US President Donald Trump said he will be “speaking Japan’s praises” when he makes a delayed trip to China, even with the two Asian nations engaged in a long-running dispute over Taiwan. The Beijing visit, including a summit with Chinese Presid...

US Senator Steve Daines, a close ally of President Donald Trump, will make the first visit to Hong Kong by a sitting US senator since 2019 at the end of this month, according to sources. Sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were n...

Firefighters battled a blaze at a giant oil refinery in Kuwait on Friday after a fresh drone attack as Iran kept up a wave of strikes on its neighbours and vowed there was “no concern” about its missile production. Despite calls for an end to tar...

If there is a thread that provides coherence to Donald Trump’s mad emperorship, it is the frenetic invention of new, evermore dramatic diversions: no week can be allowed to pass without new melodrama that erases the chaotic melodramas of weeks past...

Chinese stocks have emerged as outperformers in the latest oil shock, reversing their reputation as laggards, as crude takes a back seat to renewable fuels in the world’s second-largest economy. The CSI 300 Index of stocks trading on the mainland�...

"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.