China's ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng, on Monday said the pressing priority following the Busan summit between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump is to ensure solid steps will be taken to follow up on the consensus reached...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that Washington hopes to finalise a deal with China for securing supplies of rare earths by the Thanksgiving holiday at the end of November. Under the tentative deal – reached in late October at a...

Shanghai’s Fan Zhendong emerged victorious over his Paris Olympic teammate, Wang Chuqin of Beijing in a thrilling all-star semifinal at the National Games, securing his place in the men's singles table tennis gold medal match. The highly anticipat...

The Security Bureau on Saturday updated its amber outbound travel alert against Japan, saying that there has been an increasing trend of attack incidents against Chinese citizens there since mid-2025. The government reminded those who wish to go to ...

President Xi Jinping hosted King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua of Thailand in Beijing on Friday, calling for joint efforts to further advance the building of a China-Thailand community with a shared future. He said Vajiralongkorn has ...

Chief Executive John Lee has led his cabinet in an appeal for voters to turn out for the upcoming Legislative Council election while the security chief made a separate call in a video that recalls an iconic scene from one of Hong Kong's signature cr...

Hong Kong tennis star Coleman Wong advanced on Monday to the men's singles quarter-finals of the National Games. He defeated Guangdong's Zeng Yaojie 6-2, 6-4, in Hengqin, serving up six aces in the process while taking advantage of five double faul...

The Consumer Council on Monday offered a timely reminder ahead of a drop in temperatures this week, saying that filling compositions for three double duvets fell short of claims. Its findings came after tests conducted on 20 duvets filled with down,...

Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong said on Monday the government would unveil a conceptual outline for developing the San Tin Technopole on Thursday as he called on market players to join forces to develop the city's future te...

Tourist arrivals in October climbed 12 percent from a year ago, with travellers from the mainland accounting for three-quarters of them. Provisional data from the Hong Kong Tourism Board on Monday showed the total number of visits reached nearly 4.6...

A wonton street shop owner in China has become a local celebrity for looking like the Japanese animator and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. Yin Zhenggen, 76, who has been nicknamed the Hayao Miyazaki of Nanjing because he bears a striking resemblance to th...

Chinese airlines have recorded about 491,000 cancellations of tickets to Japan since Saturday – roughly 32 per cent of their total bookings to the typically popular destination – after Beijing advised citizens to avoid travelling there amid a dip...

A 26-year-old Australian man who rushed at Wicked star Ariana Grande during a premiere in Singapore was sentenced to nine days’ jail on Monday for public nuisance. In delivering the sentence, District Judge Christopher Goh told Johnson Wen that he ...

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong’s forecaster has reminded the public to stay warm as a cold front is due to hit the city on Tuesd...

Ant International, the Singapore-based spin-off of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, is stepping up its global treasury operations through a strategic partnership with Swiss bank UBS, as both companies also seek to explore innovations in blockchain-ba...

"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.