Japan announced on Friday that its seafood exports to China have resumed for the first time since Beijing imposed a ban over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant more than two year...

President Xi Jinping has attended the commissioning and flag-presenting ceremony of the Fujian, China's first aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults, in Hainan province. Xi boarded the aircraft carrier, launched in June 2022, to in...

China's total goods imports and exports in yuan-denominated terms rose to 37.31 trillion yuan in the first 10 months of 2025, up 3.6 percent year on year, official data showed on Friday. The growth rate slowed from an increase of four percent regist...

Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang on Thursday called for an end to trade barriers that are holding back the global energy transition, as he urged "true multilateralism" from fellow leaders at a global climate summit in Brazil. "We need to strengthen intern...

President Xi Jinping has stressed the need to adopt high standards for building the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP). Xi made the remarks when listening to a work report in Sanya on Thursday on the building of the Hainan FTP, according to Xinhua News Ag...

Property developers are encouraging employees to cast their ballots in the upcoming Legislative Council elections through various ways. Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) announced that it would grant a half-day leave to those who vote on December 7 whi...

Three people have been arrested for allegedly helping a suspect to escape following a knife attack on customs officers during a drug raid in To Kwa Wan on Thursday. Two men, 27 and 41 years old, were arrested in Mong Kok early on Friday on suspicion...

Thirty-two people have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the government of HK$140 million through its SME Financing Guarantee Scheme in the first joint operation between the ICAC and the police targeting such a scam. The anti-graft agency accus...

HSBC raised its GDP forecast on Friday from 2.5 percent to 3.2 percent, exceeding the government's estimate of a range between two and three percent for 2025. "Monetary easing on the back of US Federal Reserve cuts, improving connectivity, and empha...

The establishment and services of the International Organisation for Mediation (IOMed) can bridge cultural differences in dispute resolution, offer fresh options to involved parties, and strike a balance between settling disputes and preserving relat...

Chinese fintech firm Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, has picked healthcare as a new artificial intelligence-driven business pillar, as it seeks growth in China’s rapidly ageing society, according to CEO Cyril Han Xinyi. The group,...

The defeat of a Chinese contestant in a world slapping event, which left him with a broken cheekbone, has triggered a heated discussion on mainland social media. Power Slap is a global competition which features two opponents taking turns slapping ea...

In a scene that could have stepped out of a sci-fi film classic like Blade Runner or Ex Machina, Xpeng founder He Xiaopeng had the back of his company’s new humanoid robot unzipped to prove there was no person inside – after its lifelike movement...

The Panama Canal Authority is “moving fast” to pre-qualify bidders to build two new port terminals, with one-on-one meetings with operators set for the first week of December, its chief administrator said on Friday, amid the stalled sale of Hong ...

A 60-metre (196-foot) tower collapsed during demolition work at a decommissioned thermal power plant in the South Korean city of Ulsan, killing three people and leaving at least two others presumed dead, officials said on Friday. Five people remain t...

"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.