A senior central government official overseeing sports on Friday praised this year’s National Games – co-hosted by Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau – as a resounding and unforgettable success. The comment by Tong Lixin, deputy director of Chinaâ...

China and Zambia launched Thursday a US$1.4 billion project to modernise a railway line that will transport minerals from the copper-rich southern African country to Indian Ocean ports for export. Premier Li Qiang attended the ground-breaking ceremo...

Trade cooperation between China and Japan has been "severely damaged", the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday. The dispute between Beijing and Tokyo was triggered by comments by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi earlier this month. She said the...

Even if Japanese aquatic products were exported to China, there would be no market for them, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a regular briefing that Tokyo had previously committed to fulfilling its regulato...

The Secretary for Transport and Logistics, Mable Chan, on Wednesday said that the SAR government is actively building an international "partner port" network that covers strategic cooperation with ports on the mainland and Belt and Road countries. ...

Chief Executive John Lee on Friday called on the city's banks to be "flexible and accommodating" in lending to eligible businesses as part of a concerted effort to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in these times of economic uncertain...

Chief Executive John Lee on Friday said authorities would capitalise on the momentum from the recently concluded National Games to attract more world-class events and foster broader regional cooperation. Lee’s comments came as the National Games, ...

Police said on Friday an industrial accident that happened more than a year ago has been reclassified as manslaughter and that two men have been arrested. The incident ended with two women killed and three people injured when scaffolding measuring 1...

Customs officers said on Friday that around 120,000 suspected unlicensed products with an estimated value of HK$65 million had been seized in a major crackdown on the cross-border trade in counterfeit goods. The haul was uncovered during a special o...

A 44-year-old teacher is in urgent need of a heart transplant due to severe cardiac failure, with his spouse calling the procedure "the only hope of survival". The Hospital Authority (HA) on Thursday said the male patient is in critical condition a...

Huawei Technologies on Friday introduced open-source software that it claimed can significantly improve the utilisation rate of artificial intelligence chips, marking the latest effort by Chinese companies to achieve world-class AI training capabilit...

Beijing’s recent fury directed towards Japan is hammering home a point on Taiwan to the wider world, especially the United States and its allies, analysts in mainland China have suggested. Earlier this month, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ...

A bizarre ancient courtship ritual practised by some of China’s ethnic groups involved a test of love where only a deep and painful bite was seen as a true expression of affection. This practice, known as yao shou ding qing, or “biting the hand t...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has confirmed that an arrest warrant has been issued for former lawmaker Zaldy Co and 17 others accused of involvement in anomalous infrastructure projects. The move marks the first major enforcement action s...

The Chinese and Russian militaries have pledged to deepen cooperation in sensitive areas including missile defence, following high-level talks in Moscow involving China’s top general. General Zhang Youxia, the first-ranking vice-chairman of Chinaâ€...

"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.