Torrential rain across southern and central China triggered widespread flooding on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, closing schools and businesses, and disrupting transport and power supplies, authorities said. The China Meteorological Administ...

A joint Chinese-European spacecraft blasted off into orbit on Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield. Particularly fierce solar storms can knock o...

Premier Li Qiang on Monday emphasised efforts to promote deep integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced manufacturing. Li made the remarks during an inspection tour in Beijing. The premier called for scaling up the application of i...

China's value-added industrial output increased by 5.6 percent year on year in the first four months of 2026, official data showed on Monday while retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, expanded 1.9 p...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Liuzhou, a city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, early on Monday, leaving two people dead and another missing, local authorities said. The quake hit Liunan District at 0.21am at a depth of 8km, according to ...

The MTR Corporation said on Tuesday that it expects the main structure for the future Tung Chung West Station to be completed in the first half of 2027, while tunnel boring works will be done in the coming quarter. Head of Project Delivery for Lant...

Police said a car struck an elderly woman in Kowloon Bay on Tuesday morning, leaving her seriously injured. Officers said they received a report around 11am that a woman in her eighties had been hit by a vehicle near the Auxiliary Police Headquart...

An air-conditioning worker died on Tuesday afternoon after falling from a residential building while installing a unit in Kowloon City. Police said they received a report around noon that a male worker in his thirties was working outside a mid-leve...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan has urged French investors and companies to make use of Hong Kong to expand their portfolios and businesses amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainties. The call came as he arrived in Paris on Monday as part of a visit to E...

The Centre for Health Protection said on Tuesday it would only further raise its alert level for the Ebola outbreak in Africa if there were wider transmissions overseas or if Hong Kong recorded any imported cases. The comments came as the SAR gover...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is once again using his massive social media megaphone to trumpet Chinese infrastructure to an international audience. On Monday, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla reposted on X, which he owns, a nearly six-minute video of Chongq...

Indonesian authorities, including the military, used online disinformation campaigns to brand activists and ⁠journalists as “foreign agents” and silence dissent, ⁠sometimes leading to physical threats, Amnesty International said ⁠in a repor...

The Hong Kong government will lift resale restrictions on replacement homes for flat owners displaced by the Tai Po fire and provide them with two-year vouchers to purchase second-hand subsidised housing, according to an official buy-back document se...

A surge in stock offerings by quantum computing firms suggests 2026 could be a breakout year for technologies still in their early stages of commercial viability. Investor exuberance is soaring as governments and industry anticipate significant miles...

A Hong Kong court has acquitted a former HSBC banker of assaulting his wife at their home in a luxury seaside estate last year, suggesting she may have tried to frame him to gain an advantage in divorce proceedings. Kenneth Tung Hoi-yi, who previousl...

"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.