Lawmaker Kenneth Fok called on the government on Monday to enhance cooperation with the Greater Bay Area to further enhance Hong Kong’s status as an international aviation hub. The call was among recommendations proposed by the G19 bloc of Legisla...

China on Monday congratulated Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on his re-election, even as challenger Flavio Bolsonaro refused to accept defeat. "China has noted that Brazil's Superior Electoral Court has announced President Lula has won...

President Xi Jinping opened the fifth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing on Monday. Xi, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a work report on behalf of the ...

Chief Secretary Eric Chan on Sunday instructed government departments to ensure the smooth flow of travellers at boundary control points. His comments come after footage circulated on social media showing what appeared to be long queues at the check...

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Jong-un visited the Chinese border city of Dandong on Saturday, crossing a newly opened bridge. Upon his arrival, Kim was met by China's top political advisor Wang Huning, who conveyed greeting...

Lawmaker Kenneth Fok called on the government on Monday to enhance cooperation with the Greater Bay Area to further enhance Hong Kong’s status as an international aviation hub. The call was among recommendations proposed by the G19 bloc of Legisla...

Hong Kong, China’s top-performing athletes at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games were commended by Chief Executive John Lee on Monday for their historic performances. The SAR achieved its best result to date at the Games in Japan, reaching new heights i...

The Securities and Futures Commission has approved the world's first secondary trading of tokenised public funds on its licensed virtual asset trading platform (VATP), with around-the-clock trading of two tokenised money market funds beginning on Mon...

A No. 3 alarm fire broke out at a waste-management facility on an artificial island off Shek Kwu Chau on Monday. Emergency services were called to the scene at 12.43pm, with the blaze upgraded to a No. 3 alarm about 40 minutes later. Firefighters w...

Lawmakers hailed on Monday an upcoming arrangement that allows employees to transfer not only their own mandatory provident fund contributions but also their employer’s to a scheme of their choice once every calendar year. Their remarks came as ph...

South Korea earned US$116.63 billion more from the world than it spent in the second quarter of this year – exceeding the combined current account surpluses of Germany and Japan for the first time on record. The current account measures a country�...

For decades, China was one of the world’s largest sources of migrant labour. Its workers staffed factories at home and built infrastructure abroad. But demographic decline may eventually force China to contemplate a striking reversal: importing wor...

Hong Kong employees will have better control over the management of their compulsory retirement savings under the Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) starting from December 21. The new “full portability” mechanism comes after another major change in 2...

A Malaysian ruler has demanded accountability over the mismanagement of a pilgrimage fund, where a government rescue, criminal proceedings against former officials and half-hearted reforms have fuelled concerns over political influence in an institut...

Chinese biotech firms face fresh headwinds in their global expansion as Washington’s proposed outbound investment restrictions threaten to disrupt deal structures, even though drug licensing agreements remain untouched for now, analysts say. The US...

"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.