European entrepreneurs and innovators on a government-led tour of the Greater Bay Area wrapped up their five-day trip on Friday, calling it a fruitful journey and hinting at potential business opportunities. The 20-strong delegation included winners...

The Hong Kong and Shenzhen governments on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding and several bilateral agreements covering areas such as finance, innovation and technology, and support services for enterprises going global. Chief Executive Jo...

President Xi Jinping will attend the Brics summit in New Delhi this weekend, Beijing said on Thursday, marking his first visit to neighbouring India in seven years. "At the invitation of Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi, Preside...

Twenty-five people were confirmed dead after a foreign cargo ship caught fire during maintenance at a shipyard in Qingdao, Shandong Province on Thursday. The fire broke out at around 11:15am when the ship was undergoing maintenance at China State Sh...

Searchers in the southeastern part of the mainland have found another body from rain-triggered landslides last weekend in Jiangxi province, raising the death toll to 16, state media said on Thursday. The deaths were spread across three towns in Suic...

Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun said on Friday there are no plans to cap the number of people arriving under various talent admission schemes. Sun said people of talents are welcome to stay in Hong Kong as long as they contribute to the c...

Chief Executive John Lee said the sentencing of three former leaders of the group behind the June 4th vigils on Friday showed that anyone who intends to incite subversion and endanger national security will be punished in accordance with the law. Th...

European entrepreneurs and innovators on a government-led tour of the Greater Bay Area wrapped up their five-day trip on Friday, calling it a fruitful journey and hinting at potential business opportunities. The 20-strong delegation included winners...

Cathay Pacific Airways chief executive Ronald Lam says he sees great potential for the airline to scale up its adoption of artificial intelligence. Speaking on RTHK’s "On Broadcast Drive" programme, he noted that the company already has more than ...

Harbourfront Commission chairman Ivan Ho said on Friday that the construction of a new pedestrian walkway at the praya of Kennedy Town would not affect a seawall there. This came after the Antiquities Advisory Board granted a grade 2 historical stat...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to India for the first time since 2019 and finalising plans for a US trip as he works through his busiest month of international travel in years. Xi will attend the annual Brics summit in New Delhi over the wee...

Turkey has unveiled plans to more than triple its defence spending over the next three years, driven by regional conflicts and a desire for a greater security footprint across Europe and the Middle East. Rather than ramping up its purchases from West...

Battle-testing modern weapon systems can come at a steep price: a country must send its forces to war. But for China’s 4.5-generation J-10CE fighter aircraft, exports have opened another route. Pakistan provided the aircraft’s first major combat ...

The Hong Kong government will not cap the number of admissions under its talent schemes, with the labour minister saying “the more, the better” amid a global race for skilled workers, despite rising concerns over whether the city can absorb the i...

On September 1, former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced that Alex Karp, CEO of artificial intelligence and data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, would become the lead investor in a new defence technology company he is buildi...

"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.