A local delegate to the country's top political advisory body on Wednesday said Hong Kong can help the country achieve high quality growth by providing "financial vitality" for mainland enterprises to better innovate and go global. Tu Haiming, vice-...

Mainland airline bosses on Wednesday said the ongoing conflict in the Middle East will not have a “prolonged impact” on oil prices, but it is difficult to predict how much longer energy costs will fluctuate. Continued strikes by the United Stat...

The chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Wang Huning, on Wednesday said it had to do its best to help kick-start the country's 15th Five-Year Plan. He made the comment at the closing ceremony of the top nationa...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that China calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East and efforts toward a political solution, and supports Gulf countries in taking the future of the region in their own hands. Wang, also a member o...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Tuesday said Hong Kong’s financial markets have buffered challenges brought by the recent geopolitical situation as the city continues to attract mainland companies to come here. Speaking at a spring reception join...

A transport official on Wednesday reiterated that authorities tried their best to mitigate fare increases that are set to come into effect on April 1 on some outlying island ferry routes. Fares will go up by 12.5 percent for standard journeys from C...

Cathay Pacific Airways posted a 9.5 percent rise in full-year profit on Wednesday driven by a strong passenger traffic recovery and robust ⁠cargo demand and said it planned to lift capacity this year despite geopolitical volatility. Net profit at ...

A lawmaker on Wednesday said that the Middle East conflict was posing a burden on the transport sector due to rising oil prices, but a tourism sector representative said the impact was limited on air passengers. Speaking on an RTHK radio programme, ...

Hong Kong's customs department began hosting the three-day Regional Conference on Smart Customs on Wednesday, positioning itself as a hub for collaboration to accelerate digital transformation in border control across Asia-Pacific. At the opening ce...

The Customs and Excise Department on Wednesday said it has intensified its crackdown on cross-boundary vehicles illegally transporting large quantities of petrol from the mainland into Hong Kong, a practice driven by the recent surge in oil prices be...

Hong Kong police and a bomb disposal unit were deployed to a residential area in Happy Valley on Wednesday afternoon after a driver spotted a suspected wartime grenade lodged on a hillside. Police received a report at about 1.40pm from a driver passi...

India has relaxed curbs on Chinese investments in certain sectors to attract more foreign capital, as Beijing and New Delhi continue to gradually repair their economic relationship after years of tense relations. In a cabinet statement released on Tu...

We have put together stories from our coverage of China’s ongoing “two sessions”. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Taiwan, trade war, PLA and AI: Li Qiang lays out priorities at ‘two sessions’ ...

A former Hong Kong opposition district councillor has been jailed for three years and nine months for handling HK$590,000 (US$75,409) in telephone scam proceeds on behalf of a fraud syndicate, saying he wanted to earn quick cash to repay his gambling...

How does a missile strike on a Qatari gas plant end up raising the price of rice in Bangladesh? The answer is fertiliser, an unglamorous commodity that nevertheless sustains much of what the world eats. Qatar burns natural gas to produce ammonia. Amm...

"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.