China said on Wednesday trade last year reached a "new historical high", increasing 3.8 percent. "In 2025, China's total import and export value of goods reached 45.47 trillion yuan, marking a year-on-year increase of 3.8 percent," said vice customs...

The Trump administration on Tuesday gave a formal green light to China-bound sales of Nvidia's second most powerful AI chips, putting in place a rule that will likely kickstart shipments of the H200. According to the regulations, the chips will be r...

China said on Tuesday it would protect its rights and interests after US President Donald Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on any country doing business with Iran. "We have always believed that there are no winners in a tariff war, and China will...

China said on Monday it has reached a deal with the European Union on exports of Chinese-made electric vehicles to the bloc. The Commerce Ministry in Beijing said the EU will be issuing guidelines on minimum pricing for Chinese auto exporters. It di...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will pay an official visit to China from January 14 to 17 at the invitation of Premier Li Qiang, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Monday. At a regular news briefing, spokeswoman Mao Ning said this visi...

Discussions at the first full meeting of the legislature on Wednesday centred on better efforts to oversee bids for renovation works and resettling residents of fire-hit Wang Fuk Court, with the new batch of lawmakers taking turns to offer suggestion...

Housing Secretary Winnie Ho said on Wednesday that it is highly likely seven Wang Fuk Court blocks that caught fire last November will have to be demolished, although they do not pose an immediate danger of collapsing. All but one of the towers on ...

A 78-year-old man died after a fire broke out at a public housing unit in Lai King on Wednesday. Fire services were alerted to the blaze at the Kai Him Lau flat in Cho Yiu Chuen around 12.40pm. The fire was put out shortly after firefighters arrive...

Hong Kong must harness digital innovation to revitalise its crucial trade finance sector, an economist said on Wednesday, adding that the city’s traditional financing models are failing to keep pace with a fast-fragmenting global trade landscape. ...

A series of legal changes to strengthen regulations for fire safety and the role of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) in overseeing bids for renovation works were proposed on Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a tragedy like the Wang Fuk Court infern...

A production blunder at a factory in eastern China has turned toy ponies into viral crying-faced horses which have become popular mascots for the Year of the Horse. In January, a netizen shared a picture of a pony with a crying face and the retailer,...

The summit between South Korea and Japan has exposed a growing divergence in how the two neighbours are responding to a more volatile regional order, as supply chains harden into strategic tools and great-power rivalry sharpens, analysts have said. D...

Hong Kong activist investor David Webb, who has died aged 60, has been remembered for his integrity, courage and rigour as a “true pioneer” of the city’s corporate governance. Tributes have poured in online for Webb, who died in Hong Kong on Tu...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, is the ideological arm of Tehran’s military, answering to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and stands accused by Western countries of orchestrating and perpetrating the crackdown on protest...

A worker was killed and two others injured after three gas cylinders fell from height and struck them at a construction site in Tsuen Wan on Wednesday afternoon. Police received a report at about 1.34pm that the cylinders fell as they were being hois...

"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.