China confirmed that Canadian and British citizens will be able to visit the country visa-free from Tuesday, after the two countries' leaders announced such agreements following official trips to Beijing. British and Canadian prime ministers Keir St...

Premier Li Qiang has signed a State Council decree issuing a regulation on water supply, which will take effect on June 1, 2026. The regulation consists of eight chapters and 50 articles. It aims to promote high-quality development in the water sup...

President Xi Jinping on Saturday extended Spring Festival greetings at a reception in Beijing to usher in the Chinese New Year – the Year of the Horse. At the Great Hall of the People, he conveyed New Year greetings on behalf of the central commit...

China and the United States have agreed to strengthen dialogue and co-operation in various fields and promote the stable development of bilateral relations as Foreign Minister Wang Yi engaged in a flurry of meetings with his Western counterparts on t...

Beijing urged Tokyo on Friday to protect the rights of a Chinese crew after a fishing boat was seized by Japanese authorities. "It is hoped Japan strictly respects the China-Japan fisheries agreement, fairly enforces the law and safeguards the safet...

A catering industry leader on Monday forecast that local restaurants would see revenues rise by five percent year-on-year during the Lunar New Year holiday. While many Hong Kong people are likely to travel out of town to enjoy the festivities, incom...

Kerry Properties has won the tender for a residential site in Shau Kei Wan with a bid of HK$1.38 billion, which beat market expectations. The site – Inland Lot No 860 located at Shau Kei Wan Main Street East – was the first new land supply on Ho...

Chief Executive John Lee visited a Lunar New Year fair in Kwun Tong on Monday, greeting passersby and stall owners. He spent more than HK$1,000 on fortune flowers and plants, including HK$800 on two pots of orchids. Lee spoke to stall owners abou...

The observatory on Monday said this Lunar New Year's Eve is the warmest on record, with temperatures surging to 28 degrees Celsius or above over many districts in the territory. The average maximum temperature recorded by the weather forecaster clim...

A Hospital Authority dietician has reminded people to watch what they eat during the Lunar New Year holiday as festive favourites such as rice cakes, turnip cakes or poon choi are usually high in salt, sugar and fat. Sandra Lai said people should re...

China’s first man in space, Yang Liwei, has officially retired from active duty, but he has not stopped training and remains ready to don a spacesuit again if needed. He said in a CCTV interview on Saturday that the country’s first group of astro...

Bangladesh has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend Tarique Rahman’s swearing-in as the country’s next leader, a gesture analysts say could help steady relations after months of strain between the neighbours. Rahman’s Banglades...

After a year of refusing to choose between Washington and Brussels, Keir Starmer shifted tone in Munich by edging Britain closer to the European Union and calling for an end to over-reliance on American military support. In a speech to the Munich Sec...

The Chinese region of Inner Mongolia expects to start work this year on two new “flexible” power plants mixing coal and green energy. The plants, which will provide power to the eastern economic hubs of Shanghai and Jiangsu province, mark a major...

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its next-generation open artificial intelligence model, Qwen-3.5, in a move set to have major implications for the global AI race between China and the US. The much-anticipated release, timed on the eve of the Lunar New Yea...

"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.