Tens of thousands of runners – from professionals to enthusiastic amateurs – took part in the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Half Marathon on Sunday morning. The event featured three groups: the 10-kilometre challenge, along with the half-maratho...

China and the United States held the first meeting of the trade council under the China-US economic and trade consultation mechanism via video link on Friday, China's Ministry of Commerce said on Saturday. Guided by the important consensus reached b...

The White House says US President Donald Trump, President Xi Jinping, and Russia's Vladimir Putin will hold a three-way meeting next week on the sidelines of the Apec summit in Shenzhen. White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said Trump wanted to disc...

China has approved its first orally administered GLP-1 weight-loss drug, permitting Eli Lilly to sell its orforglipron pill in a market where 630 million adults could be overweight or obese by 2050. GLP-1 drugs aid weight loss by mimicking a natural...

President Xi Jinping will chair the 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Apec economic leaders' meeting and deliver remarks, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday. The meeting will be held in Shenzhen from November 18 to 19 under the...

Tens of thousands of runners – from professionals to enthusiastic amateurs – took part in the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Half Marathon on Sunday morning. The event featured three groups: the 10-kilometre challenge, along with the half-maratho...

A fire at a public housing unit in Wong Tai Sin on Sunday claimed the life of an elderly resident and forced the evacuation of about 300 people. Firefighters were notified of the blaze at Lung Kwong House of Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate at 8.45am, and ...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said Hong Kong’s finance and trade sectors are moving from the accumulation of quantity towards enhancement of value, as the city looks ahead to the launch of the Offshore RMB Bond Index. Writing in his week...

Thousands of swimmers took to the water for the annual cross-harbour race on Sunday morning, swimming a one-kilometre course from Wan Chai Golden Bauhinia Square Public Pier to the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui. However, the race featuring one ba...

Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau on Sunday said the development of AI could slow down, and the SAR should keep looking for new opportunities to maintain its status as an international trade centre. His remarks came as Hon...

Genetic diversity is nature’s insurance policy – an evolutionary safety net that provides the building blocks for natural selection. While members of the same species share a mostly identical genome, a sliver of unique genetic variants determines...

Hongkongers will experience the chilliest days of autumn this coming week, with temperatures expected to drop to 16 degrees Celsius (61 Fahrenheit) as a cold front sweeps across the southern Chinese coast. The expected drop to 16 degrees on Friday an...

Chinese ambassador to the United States Xie Feng has signalled high hopes for major-power cooperation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Shenzhen this week, promoting a China-led AI alliance for regional prosperity. The prosper...

Hong Kong’s police chief has dismissed concerns that geopolitical tensions could affect attendance at the coming Interpol general assembly to be held in the city, saying transnational cooperation on policing is “inevitable”. Speaking on a telev...

The charred body of an elderly woman was found in a flat in Hong Kong’s Wong Tai Sin after a blaze broke out on Sunday morning, with officers uncovering a large amount of clutter piled up to the ceiling. The Fire Services Department received a repo...

"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.