People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ships Nanning and Hengyang entered the waters of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Thursday morning for a five-day visit. Both vessels will be open to public visits at the PLA Hong Kong Garrison's nav...

Hong Kong should fully transform itself into a "super value-adder" which would be key to its prosperity for the next five years, according to a local think-tank. Research director Ray Poon from PoD Research Institute told RTHK that the SAR is "not t...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has stressed the need for China and the United States to stay on course towards a constructive relationship of strategic stability during a phone conversation with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday. Wang s...

Legislative Council president Starry Lee said on Wednesday lawmakers would speed up their review of local legislation covering the new Huanggang Port and complete the process with high efficiency. Her remarks came after the National People's Congres...

Chief Executive John Lee on Wednesday said Hong Kong would hold a series of activities to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. These include events themed around the country's aerospace accomplishments an...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has led the Chinese people in writing the most magnificent epic in the millennia-long history of the nation through unremitting endeavours, said President Xi Jinping, who's also general secretary of the party's Cent...

Chief Executive John Lee on Wednesday said Hong Kong’s first five-year blueprint would serve as the guide for the SAR’s development and that the government would work at full speed to complete the plan. In his address marking Hong Kong SAR Estab...

President and general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Xi Jinping, chaired a Politburo meeting on Tuesday on flood control and drought relief. According to Xinhua News Agency, the meeting called for measures to strengthen...

China and the European Union (EU) have agreed to establish the China-EU trade and investment consultation mechanism after the two sides held a meeting in Brussels. Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Se...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Tuesday that Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to connect the Greater Bay Area (GBA) with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). He made the remarks at the South China Morning Post GBA-Asean Summit 2026,...

China's factory activity returned to expansion territory in June, an official survey showed on Tuesday, driven by strong high-tech manufacturing exports linked to the AI boom, even as shipments of other goods remained weak alongside subdued domestic ...

The Ministry of Commerce on Monday added 20 Japanese entities, including the National Institute for Defense Studies, to its export control list to safeguard national security and interests and fulfil international obligations such as non-proliferatio...

Mainland officials on Monday said 13 people sustained minor injuries after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Gaoxian County, Yibin City, in Sichuan Province. The injured were sent to hospitals for treatment while 196 others have been relocated. Re...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said Hong Kong has been empowering mainland enterprises as a "super connector". Writing in his weekly blog, Chan said the country is creating the “China Opportunity 2.0” with innovation and technology, as...

Profits of China's major industrial firms increased 18.8 percent year on year during the January-May period, surpassing a rise of 18.2 percent in the first four months, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Saturday. Industrial firms...

Hong Kong's sole delegate to the country's top legislature said the National People's Congress Standing Committee has passed a bill endorsing co-location arrangements for the Huanggang Port. Starry Lee made the remarks in Beijing after attending thi...

President Xi Jinping said China supports Bangladesh's new government in its smooth administration and stands ready to carry out high-quality Belt and Road cooperation with the country. In his meeting with visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique ...

China and the United States have agreed to establish a trade council under which the economic and trade teams of the two sides will discuss cooperation, including reciprocal tariff reductions, the Commerce Ministry said in Beijing on Thursday. The t...

Mainland AI startup Z.ai said on Thursday it plans to use domestic listing proceeds to fund a quest for artificial general intelligence, after its latest model scored close to leading US models from Anthropic and OpenAI on public benchmarks. Z.ai's ...

A researcher on Thursday said the new cross-boundary banking arrangement for social welfare payments is a breakthrough in financial system integration among Hong Kong and the mainland. This came after Chief Executive John Lee on Wednesday announced...