President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States in autumn this year at the invitation of US President Donald Trump, top diplomat Wang Yi said on Friday. Wang was speaking to reporters after the summit between the two leaders in Beij...

China Central Television (CCTV) has secured the rights to air the World Cup this year and in 2030, the broadcaster and Fifa said on Friday. With kick-off less than a month away, hundreds of millions of Chinese fans were left wondering how they could...

US President Donald Trump left Beijing aboard Air Force One on Friday following his summit meeting in the capital. Trump said his patience with Iran was running out and he had agreed in talks with President Xi Jinping that the Islamic Republic canno...

China will continue to act in line with President Xi Jinping's four propositions and work with the international community to provide stronger support for peace talks and play a constructive role in achieving lasting peace in the Middle East, a Forei...

President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump had an in-depth exchange of views on major issues concerning the two countries and the world, and reached a series of new common understandings, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Friday. The ...

A man died after he fell and lost consciousness on a KMB bus on Saturday. Police received reports at around 8am, stating the 72-year-old collapsed on the lower deck of a route 5 bus bound for Fu Shan Estate, Diamond Hill, when the double-decker was...

Police said on Saturday an officer allegedly discharged his revolver accidentally once while reloading it. The incident occurred at around 7.10am, when the Police Tactical Unit officer was reloading the revolver at an area designated for just that p...

Executive Council convenor Regina Ip said Hong Kong will benefit in various ways now that a Sino-US consensus has been reached on building a constructive relationship of strategic stability. That consensus emerged following this week's summit betwee...

Two Hongkongers died in a three-vehicle crash in New Zealand on Friday. According to reports from broadcaster CCTV, the traffic accident happened near the intersection of North Rakaia Road and State Highway 1 in the Selwyn District on South Island ...

The Hospital Authority said on Saturday that its extended visiting hours regime has proceeded without a hitch so far. Since early this month, visiting hours have been increased from four hours to round-the-clock access for paediatric wards and nine...

Hundreds of prospective buyers gravitated to a Sun Hung Kai Properties’ (SHKP’s) project in the New Territories on Saturday, keen to view the 121 flats on offer in a fresh sign that Hong Kong’s home market is on a sustained upwards cycle despit...

A primary school in China sparked controversy for letting its pupils fill in a detailed questionnaire about their parents’ work. The survey, titled Observation List of Parents’ Occupation, was distributed to pupils at the beginning of May at Huat...

A Hong Kong police officer accidentally fired a single round from her service firearm on Saturday morning, with no injuries reported. The force said the incident occurred at the Kai Tak police headquarters at around 7.10am, when the officer was loadi...

It is hard not to be impressed by the sheer energy Donald Trump displayed during his whirlwind visit to Beijing. Within just 43 hours, the 79-year-old president held two meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, inspected troops, attended a state b...

Even as Singapore positions itself at the frontier of AI technology, human intelligence still remains critical, according to the city state’s foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan. “We should beware of just trying to throw every problem, and every...

"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.