President Xi Jinping met with Myanmar's President Min Aung Hlaing in Beijing on Tuesday, seeking to bolster trade and security ties between the two countries. Xi held a welcome ceremony for the visiting Myanmar president in the Great Hall of the Peo...

The National Immigration Administration projected on Tuesday an 11.7-percent year-on-year increase in boundary entries and exits during the upcoming Tuen Ng Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, break, with a daily average of 2.2 million crossings natio...

Home prices in China's first-tier cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, increased month on month in May, official data showed on Tuesday. Prices for new homes in the four first-tier cities edged up 0.2 percent month on month in M...

China's value-added industrial output increased by 5.4 percent year on year in the first five months of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday. For May alone, output grew 4.5 percent year on year and rose 0.4 percent com...

China on Monday said it welcomes the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States ending their months-long conflict. "China hopes that the United States and Iran will sign the first-phase MoU on schedule, and that all relevan...

Xia Baolong, the Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, will arrive in Hong Kong on Tuesday for a two-day visit, the government said on Monday. The senior Beijing official will inspect Hong Kong's alignment with the National 15th Five-Y...

Technology minister Sun Dong on Sunday said a real-time chat between Hong Kong residents and the city’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying could be arranged in one to two months at the earliest. Speaking on a Commercial Radio programme, he said the gover...

The first facilities at the Hetao industrial zone are already operating, and the leasing situation is satisfactory, the Permanent Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Kevin Choi, said on Saturday. Choi, who also chairs Hong Kong-Shenzhe...

China warned communities in its northwestern Xinjiang and nearby regions on Friday to prepare for "extreme floods" this summer, driven by abnormally high temperatures, heavy rainfall and rapid glacier melt. Xinjiang's Taklamakan Desert, China's larg...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said he's optimistic about Hong Kong's future development, citing its advantages over New York and Silicon Valley because of its close proximity to the Greater Bay Area (GBA). Chan on Friday joined a dialogue session at...

The Iranian nuclear issue cannot be solved through political confrontation, but through diplomatic efforts and cooperation on safeguards and supervision, a Chinese envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. This came as the Ministr...

A Thai court handed out death sentences on Thursday to two ethnic Uyghur men from Xinjiang for a 2015 bombing in Bangkok that killed 20 people. Reacting to the verdict, China said it supports Thailand in "severely punishing" the pair. The explosion...

China has pledged to further improve the mechanisms for protecting citizens' civil and political rights, according to a report released on Thursday by the State Council Information Office. The National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2026-2030), ...

Seven people were killed and 17 others injured in an explosion in Guangxi. The blast occurred in the town of Xingan at around 1.40am on Thursday. The cause of the explosion is not immediately known but authorities have ruled out it involving gas pi...

Permanent residents entering and leaving the SAR through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge will soon be able to pass the boundary in about five seconds as the Immigration Department gives its contactless e-channels an upgrade. The Immigration Depar...

China remained the world's leading contributor to high-quality scientific research, according to the Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders rankings released on Wednesday. The latest rankings showed that China's research output increased by 22.4 percent...

Beijing on Wednesday said it was deeply concerned over the conflict in the Middle East and urged against escalation after Washington carried out strikes on Iran over the downing of a US helicopter. "Various relevant parties should maintain calm and ...

China's producer prices rose for a third straight month in May to the highest since July 2022, while consumer prices also climbed, official data showed on Wednesday. The producer price index (PPI), which measures costs for goods at the factory gate,...

Beijing on Tuesday said it "firmly opposed" the US blacklisting of Chinese companies after Washington added tech giants Alibaba and Baidu to a list of firms it says are aiding the Chinese military. The Pentagon update on Monday came months after it ...

President Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un, president of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), agreed on Tuesday that the two countries should carry forward their great traditional friendship from generation to generation. Xi ...