President Xi Jinping will head to Central Asia's Kyrgyzstan on Monday for a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). He will be joined by around a dozen other heads of states, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian l...

Researchers have completed a laser communications test between Earth and the Moon that successfully verifies two-way high-speed laser link capabilities in orbit, the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilisation of the Chinese Academy of Sc...

Seven people had been killed, and 554 others remained missing, while two local villagers had been rescued as of 1 am on Saturday after a mudslide struck the Gyirong Port along the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, acco...

Mainland authorities have assessed that risks from an overflowing lake formed after a glacier collapse that triggered catastrophic flooding on the nation's border with Nepal had become manageable by Friday afternoon, allowing suspended rescue operati...

Search and rescue intensified on Friday at the mudslide-stricken border port of Gyirong in the southwestern Xizang Autonomous Region as rescue personnel raced against time to save lives. As of 10am on Friday, a total of 681 fire and rescue personnel...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Saturday HK$50 million from the Disaster Relief Fund has been earmarked for those affected by the mudslide at Gyirong Port in the Xizang Autonomous Region. In a social media post, Lee said he was deeply saddened by t...

A primary school that saw its campus come perilously close to disaster during November's Wang Fuk Court inferno in Tai Po has moved to a new site ahead of the upcoming academic year. Tai Po Baptist Public School's new campus, located at nearby Fu Sh...

Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan said on Saturday that there would be no cap on the number of ride-hailing licences issued to companies. Her remarks came a day after the Transport Department invited applications for the licence. Sp...

Secretary for Education Christine Choi said on Saturday that authorities are closely monitoring textbook prices, with data from her bureau showing a 3.6 percent increase for the upcoming school year. She was speaking after a newspaper reported recen...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan acknowledged the longstanding rivalry between Hong Kong and Singapore, but insisted their shared future hinges on deeper collaboration. Speaking at the Singapore National Day Dinner on Friday, Chan highlighted the commo...

Vietnam is seeking to end executions for drug trafficking under a draft revision to its Penal Code, a notable shift in a country with one of Southeast Asia’s toughest anti-drug regimes. The proposal, presented to lawmakers last week, would remove t...

China’s shrinking car market has received another reality check as regulators step in to police the hi-tech offerings that carmakers use to drive sales. A nationwide inspection campaign assessing the quality of Chinese-made cars that was announced ...

Speak a few sentences of your hometown dialect into a microphone at a museum in central China, and a machine will pinpoint exactly where you are from. The interactive voice-recognition booth is among star attractions at a new language resources hall ...

Hongkongers can present either their identity card or home return permit at the revamped Huanggang border checkpoint instead of both documents under the latest agreement with mainland Chinese authorities, the security minister has revealed. Secretary...

Hong Kong’s government has earmarked HK$50 million (US$6.3 million) from the Disaster Relief Fund for those affected by deadly flash floods near Nepal’s border with Tibet’s Gyirong county, which have left hundreds dead and thousands missing. Ch...

"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.