An explosion at a biotech factory in Shanxi province has claimed eight lives. The blast occurred at a workshop of the Jiapeng biotech company in Shanyin County, Shuozhou City, on Saturday. The firm's legal representative has been taken into custody...

Defending Olympic champion Su Yiming delivered China's first medal of the Winter Olympics on Saturday, claiming bronze in a fiercely contested men's snowboard big air final defined by soaring difficulty. With consistency proving decisive in the high...

President Xi Jinping has congratulated Laura Fernandez on her election as president of Costa Rica. Xi said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations 18 years ago, China and Costa Rica had made rapid progress in bilateral ties, with fruitf...

President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that he hopes to work with US President Donald Trump in the new year to steer the giant ship of China-US relations steadily forward through wind and storms, and accomplish more big things and good things, a Xinh...

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday said that China and Russia should increase high-level exchanges and strengthen pragmatic cooperation in various fields. Xi was speaking to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a virtual meeting, when he not...

Police arrested a man on suspicion of dangerous driving causing the death of a 65-year-old woman in Kwun Tong in the early hours of Monday. The 60-year-old medium goods vehicle driver was approaching Tsui Ping Road when he reportedly knocked down th...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Monday the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai, deserved the 20-year prison sentence handed down on him as the case marks an important milestone in Hong Kong's work in safeguarding national security. La...

Jail sentences ranging from six years and three months to 10 years were handed down to eight co-defendants of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai in his national security trial. The court adopted a starting point of 15 years’ imprisonment for the charge...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong announced on Monday they found that a drug used to treat diabetes-related conditions could also be used to address a cause of infertility. Up to three percent of women around the world suffer from premature...

Former media tycoon Jimmy Lai committed offences of "a grave nature" and his role as "the mastermind and the driving force" behind conspiracies to seek foreign sanctions warranted a tougher sentence, three High Court judges ruled on Monday as they ha...

Prince William will begin his first official visit to Saudi Arabia with a meeting on Monday with host Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as London seeks to deepen economic cooperation with the Gulf nation. The visit comes as daily revelations from the...

China has showcased a range of uncrewed platforms – including a drone for anti-submarine warfare – at the World Defence Show in Saudi Arabia, as demand grows in the region for autonomous systems. More than 770 exhibitors from 76 countries are tak...

A woman has quit her job as a senior manager for a large Beijing company to work on an uninhabited island in the East China Sea. Despite paying just 3,000 yuan (US$430) a month, the remote job has sparked an outpouring of envy online. Yue Li, who was...

Japan’s ruling coalition secured a commanding victory in Sunday’s general election, but analysts warn that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s embrace of a hardline conservative agenda could narrow her party’s support base and ultimately weaken i...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won a landslide election victory, and the nation’s first single-party supermajority since World War II, after a campaign centred on cutting taxes and boosting defence spending amid a dispute with China. Takaic...

"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.