Two giant pandas will be heading to Zoo Atlanta in the United States as part of a Sino-US agreement on giant panda conservation. The China Wildlife Conservation Association said the future Atlanta pandas are male Ping Ping and female Fu Shuang. Bot...

Chinese startup DeepSeek released "preview" versions of a new artificial intelligence model on Friday, more than a year after it stunned the world with a low-cost reasoning model that matched the capabilities of US rivals. The long-awaited DeepSeek-...

The China National Space Administration announced on Friday the results of its international collaboration selection for Tianwen-3, China's first Mars sample-return mission. Following a call for co-operation proposals last April, in which the agency...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called for the complete eradication of scam centres in Cambodia during a meeting with the country's Prime Minister Hun Manet in Phnom Penh. According to a Foreign Ministry statement published late on Wednesday, Wang tol...

The 6th Asian Beach Games opened on Wednesday evening in Sanya, Hainan amid fanfare. State Councillor Shen Yiqin declared the Games open. Forty-five delegations took part in the opening ceremony at the seaside Yasha Park in Sanya. A total of 1,790...

Hongkong Electric on Friday said its fuel-clause charge would come down in May but confirmed it would rise "significantly from mid-year" following a sharp surge in international oil and natural-gas prices resulting from heightened tensions in the Mid...

Residents of Wang Fuk Court displaced by last November’s deadly inferno on Friday continued to return to their homes to salvage what they could. The returnees were from Wang Cheong and Wang Yan blocks. One of them, surnamed Kwok, who injured his...

The government on Friday announced that the chief executive had appointed Jat Sew-tong to succeed Samuel Chan at the reins of the Competition Commission for a term of two years from May 1. Seven new members were also appointed and eight incumbents w...

Fire service officials and building authorities both have statutory powers to oversee the use of polystyrene panels and temporary moveable boards installed at emergency staircases during renovation works, an independent committee probing the Wang Fuk...

Health officials on Friday dismissed claims that large amounts of patients have stopped collecting their medication after visits to public hospitals and clinics because of fee rises since the start of the year. During a Legislative Council session ...

A winning bid involving Henderson Land Development to operate a major Hong Kong harbourfront event space has expanded the developer’s footprint in Central to three prime locations, a situation that experts have said could result in greater accessib...

As my wife and I quaffed our way through a sumptuous five-course South African wine tasting dinner at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) early this week, the world food crisis and global food insecurity seemed a very long way away. Ye...

Just weeks before US President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Beijing next month, China is sending two giant pandas to Atlanta in what observers describe as a “goodwill gesture” amid persistent tensions that range from trade to broader securit...

US President Donald Trump’s order for the US to attack Iranian gunboats is the latest sign that an asymmetrical war-fighting strategy is stymieing the world’s mightiest navy, with US aircraft and destroyers forced to track swarming speedboats in ...

As Southeast Asian leaders descend on Cebu in the Philippines for the 48th Asean summit on May 8, immediate concerns such as the global energy crunch will top the agenda. Yet a year-end deadline to finalise a long-delayed code of conduct in the South...

"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.