Thailand aims to complete by 2030 the construction of a 250km section of a high-speed rail line that will connect it to China, its government said on Monday, as Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul concluded a five-day visit to the country. Thailand's...

Standard Chartered on Monday maintained its forecast that China's economy would grow by 4.6 percent year-on-year for 2026, with policymakers from Beijing to ramp up fiscal support to aid key infrastructure projects. The prediction came as the countr...

Rescue teams in southwestern China used explosives on Monday to blast through heavy boulders hampering efforts to reach 34 people reported missing for three days after a landslide during torrential rain. Eight people died in Friday's disaster in the...

Jingye Steel has urged Britain to immediately stop "trampling on international investment rules" ⁠and to promptly, fully and effectively compensate the company for all investment losses incurred in the decision to nationalise British Steel. The Br...

The government will take reference from tests conducted ahead of the Kai Tak Sports Park opening to prepare for Huanggang port's coming onstream, Secretary for Security Chris Tang said on Saturday. He was speaking a day after lawmakers passed the Hu...

Customs arrested three people after seizing more than 30 live endangered turtles with an estimated market value of about HK$330,000 at the airport. The arrests were made on July 13 when officers examined three inbound parcels declared as containing...

Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau said on Tuesday the government is working closely with the Competition Commission to make bid-rigging a criminal offence following alleged links between such practices to the city's deadlie...

Seven people have been arrested for alleged involvement in bookmaking and betting with a bookmaker at the Happy Valley Racecourse this month. The arrests were made following complaints by the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Their arrests happened a day afte...

A lawmaker on Tuesday urged the government to strengthen the background screening process for contractors to be listed on a new tendering platform that will be launched in the fourth quarter this year. The enhanced version of "Smart Tender", rolled...

About 10 people were injured after a Kowloon-bound Citybus hit a railing on Tuen Mun Road near Sham Tseng. Part of the highway was closed due to the incident. The incident happened at about 9am when the driver lost control of the vehicle and cras...

Fifteen Indian workers were feared trapped on Tuesday after a blast caused by a suspected gas leak in a tunnel at ‌a hydroelectric project in the rugged state of Sikkim killed 10, authorities said. Monday’s incident took place at state-owned Nati...

Malaysia is close to overhauling its nearly 30-year-old cybercrime law and giving authorities long-sought tools to pursue online fraud, digital impersonation and AI-generated abuse, but experts say the bill’s impact will depend on whether investiga...

While Beijing has lifted refined fuel export restrictions this month amid elevated global oil prices and ample national reserves, it has also introduced compliance requirements for refiners – a cautious pivot aimed at safeguarding domestic stockpil...

Nvidia’s H200 chips, a step down from its most advanced Blackwell line, have resumed imports into China, albeit in small quantities. Meanwhile, China’s chip exports nearly doubled in the first half of this year. Much of these exports are mature l...

A man stabbed and wounded two tourists Tuesday morning near the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece’s top tourist attraction, police said. The assailant attacked a man and a woman, both Greek Americans, with a knife on a pedestrian street near an e...

"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.