China's value-added industrial output increased by 5.6 percent year on year in the first four months of 2026, official data showed on Monday while retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, expanded 1.9 p...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Liuzhou, a city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, early on Monday, leaving two people dead and another missing, local authorities said. The quake hit Liunan District at 0.21am at a depth of 8km, according to ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to China from May 19 to 20 at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson in Beijing announced on Saturday. Putin's trip comes hot on the heels of US President Donald T...

President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States in autumn this year at the invitation of US President Donald Trump, top diplomat Wang Yi said on Friday. Wang was speaking to reporters after the summit between the two leaders in Beij...

China Central Television (CCTV) has secured the rights to air the World Cup this year and in 2030, the broadcaster and Fifa said on Friday. With kick-off less than a month away, hundreds of millions of Chinese fans were left wondering how they could...

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has set up a new AI lab at Science Park that is focused on training robotic brains. The Hong Kong Embodied AI lab is being run by the university's Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics. With 24 industry partner...

Police on Monday said they are investigating a case in which a senior citizen was killed after being hit by a taxi in Tung Chung early in the morning. The accident happened at around 6am on Man Tung Road, when a taxi driver, aged 65, lost control of...

The government on Monday said it hopes to promote hydrogen as a fuel in Hong Kong to help cut carbon emissions by half from its 2005 levels before 2035. The International Hydrogen Development Symposium is being held at the Convention and Exhibition ...

The Hong Kong government on Sunday activated the “alert” response level – the lowest of a three-tier mechanism – in light of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda. The move came as the World Health Organisati...

Police said a motorcyclist died following a late-night crash on Saturday after his vehicle hit a fallen tree branch in Tai Po. Authorities reported receiving an emergency call at around 10.30pm. The 38-year-old motorcyclist was travelling along Yue...

Beijing has slammed Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te for paying tribute to a former Japanese coloniser in Taiwan. In a commentary published on Sunday, the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily accused Lai, from the independence-leaning rul...

In South Korea, the clock is ticking on what threatens to become the most consequential labour dispute in recent history – and Seoul is running out of patience. With 50,000 workers at Samsung Electronics poised to walk off the job on Thursday in an...

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A rare Ebola outbreak that may have circulated undetected in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo for several weeks has exposed the difficulty of detecting deadly viruses in regions where malaria, typhoid and other fever-causing illnesses were c...

Chances of Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim winning a fresh mandate look increasingly fraught, according to experts, as the unravelling of his coalition government gathered pace over the weekend amid threats of all-out war between allies and the defection ...

"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.