China has approved its first orally administered GLP-1 weight-loss drug, permitting Eli Lilly to sell its orforglipron pill in a market where 630 million adults could be overweight or obese by 2050. GLP-1 drugs aid weight loss by mimicking a natural...

President Xi Jinping will chair the 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Apec economic leaders' meeting and deliver remarks, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday. The meeting will be held in Shenzhen from November 18 to 19 under the...

Tokyo on Friday said Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will visit China next week for the first time since she took office, attending an Asia-Pacific summit in Shenzhen. "Prime Minister Takaichi is scheduled to visit the Philippines and China f...

China accused the United States on Thursday of using spurious spying claims as a pretext to impose a technological "blockade" on Beijing, following claims that Nvidia boss Jensen Huang was the victim of a Chinese espionage plot. "China's technologic...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for carrying forward the legacy of Sun Yat-sen, one of the nation's revered revolutionary forefathers, to make joint efforts for national rejuvenation and turn into reality the great dream of all Chinese people...

The Housing Authority approved two measures to assist people in purchasing subsidised sale flats on Friday. This included a government proposal aimed at further facilitating families with newborns to buy their own homes. Starting with the next Home...

Heavy losses incurred by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority are the result of a "time-lag problem" that ensues when cultural venues have opened but the commercial developments meant to support them have not yet been built, its chairman said...

Chief Executive John Lee on Friday praised SAR athletes at a homecoming ceremony for the Hong Kong, China delegation, after they won 41 medals at the fifth Asian Para Games. The team won three gold, 14 silver and 24 bronze medals. More than 150 peo...

Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn on Friday said the government would improve its acceptance-inspection regime for lifts. Her remarks came after authorities found that 720 lifts installed by Taizoom Elevator were missing mandatory fire resis...

Lawmakers voiced concern on Friday over the seriousness of the lift faults at Queen Mary Hospital's new clinical block, after Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn reported the investigation findings to a special meeting of the Legislative Counci...

A university student in central China has attracted attention on social media for pursuing an unusual career: shoeing racehorses. Fu Donghua, a fourth-year student at the Equestrian School of Wuhan Business University, earned his junior farrier certi...

A scandal involving Nvidia founder Jensen Huang and an alleged Chinese spy is putting Malaysia’s booming data centre industry in Washington’s crosshairs, as US lawmakers demand tighter controls on advanced artificial intelligence chips. Malaysia ...

Algeria’s military has released footage showing what appears to be the export variant of China’s YJ-12 supersonic anti-ship missile being test-fired along the country’s Mediterranean coast, offering a rare glimpse of an advanced Chinese weapon ...

Schoolteachers found to be working without new practising certificates will face a maximum penalty a fine of up to HK$50,000 and two years’ imprisonment from the 2028-29 academic year, as Hong Kong authorities tighten requirements for educators. Ho...

Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has launched a compliance check on the use of a proposed facial recognition system at a private housing estate with 8,000 households, after the measure raised privacy concerns among some residents. The Office of the Pri...

"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.