A commercial passenger flight operated by Air China was safely diverted to Shanghai on Saturday after a battery stowed in a passenger's carry-on luggage caught fire, the airline said. The incident occurred aboard the national carrier's daily flight ...

China Eastern Airlines will resume Shanghai-Delhi flights from November 9, the airline's website showed on Saturday, as China and India restore direct air links after a five-year freeze. The flights will operate three times a week on Wednesdays, Sat...

Vice Premier He Lifeng, also Beijing's lead figure for China-US economic and trade affairs, held a video call on Saturday with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, during which the two sides agreed to hold a ne...

Renowned physicist Yang Chenning, a Nobel laureate and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died in Beijing on Saturday at 103, according to Tsinghua University. Yang was born in Hefei, Anhui, in 1922. In the 1940s, he went to the United ...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that he would likely meet Vice Premier He Lifeng next week to prepare for upcoming high-stakes talks between the presidents of the world's two biggest economies. Bessent's high-level meeting comes a...

US President Donald Trump said his proposed 100 percent tariff on goods from China would not be sustainable, but blamed Beijing for the latest impasse in trade talks that began with Chinese authorities tightening control over rare earth exports. Ask...

RTHK will broadcast a mini-drama series from Friday night to mark the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. The broadcaster co-produced the five-minute e...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died on Friday aged 101, officials said. Murayama issued the 1995 proclamation on the 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender, expressing...

Twenty-eight qigong practitioners who will be representing Hong Kong at the National Games say they are on a mission to dispel a common belief that the sport is merely a pastime for the elderly. They say the ancient Chinese exercise has plenty of he...

Mainland car maker BYD will make its largest recall yet of more than 115,000 Tang series and Yuan Pro vehicles produced between 2015 and 2022 due to design defects and battery-related safety risks, China's market regulator said on Friday. BYD has fi...

HKT International on Thursday said it is "carefully reviewing" the show-cause order issued by the American telecom regulator. The comments were in response to a move by US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overnight to revoke the right of the ...

Foreign nationals made 7.2 million visits to China in the third quarter of 2025 under visa-free policies, marking a 48.3 percent year-on-year increase, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) said on Thursday. Visa-free entries accounted for 7...

China said on Thursday that its purchases of Russian oil were legitimate and decried "unilateral bullying" by the United States, as President Donald Trump pushes countries to stop buying fuel from Moscow over the war in Ukraine. Trump said on Wednes...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Thursday said Hong Kong welcomes US enterprises and talent to come to the city despite trade tensions, as he continued a trip to the United States where he will attend annual meetings of the World Bank and Internation...

China expressed willingness to strengthen high-level exchanges with France in a strategic dialogue between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and France's presidential diplomatic adviser, according to a foreign ministry statement on Thursday. Wang told the Fr...

The US Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it is moving to revoke the authority of Hong Kong telecom carrier HKT International to operate in the United States, citing national security concerns. The US telecom regulator issued an ord...

China recently prosecuted two criminal gangs based in northern Myanmar over telecom fraud and other crimes targeting civilians in China, the Ministry of Public Security said on Wednesday. Through joint law enforcement cooperation, more than 57,000 C...

Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla has said the US pharmaceutical industry needs to collaborate with China’s, where speedy processes have vaulted it to 30 percent of global drug development over the past decade. "In biopharma, China's dramatic s...

China's leading state-backed semiconductor association said on Tuesday it "firmly opposes" Dutch authorities intervening over a European subsidiary of Chinese chip firm Wingtech. The Netherlands invoked the Goods Availability Act to take control of ...

China announced sanctions on Tuesday against five US-linked subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean amid trade tensions between the world's two largest economies, sending the company's shares sharply lower. The move, announced by the C...