China and the United States will hold a new round of economic and trade talks in Spain from Sunday. The Commerce Ministry said Vice Premier He Lifeng will meet a US delegation from September 14 to 17. The ministry said the two sides will discuss is...

The National People's Congress Standing Committee on Friday adopted a new law to regulate the response to public health emergencies and enhance the country's capacity to address such situations. According to Xinhua News Agency, "the law on public he...

A chartered plane carrying some 300 South Koreans, who were detained in a large-scale US immigration raid at a battery project site in Georgia, landed at Incheon airport near Seoul on Friday. Their return capped a week of intense negotiations by Seo...

The Oman Investment Authority (OIA) on Thursday pledged support for Chinese investors seeking to enter the Middle Eastern market. Speaking at the Belt and Road Summit in Hong Kong, the authority’s chief investment officer for private markets, Ib...

Nasa has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programmes, underscoring the intensifying space race between the rival powers. The policy shift was first reported by Bloomberg News and confirmed by the US government agency...

Crowds of local supporters flocked to Victoria Park centre court on Saturday to cheer on team Hong Kong, China, on the opening day of their Davis Cup World Group II tie against Uzbekistan. The SAR’s top-ranked player, Coleman Wong, came out of th...

The Liberal Party has called on the government to hand out HK$2,000 consumption vouchers to help local businesses, with the proposal, made as part of suggestions for the Policy Address on Wednesday, drawing support from lawmakers from other parties a...

Police are investigating a traffic accident in Ta Kwu Ling early on Saturday morning in which a 37-year-old woman died. Police said the woman was driving a car along Man Kam To Road towards the Man Kam To Control Point when her vehicle crashed into ...

Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health head Henry Tong on Saturday said surveillance cameras could help enforce the new tobacco-control measures passed by the Legislative Council on Thursday. Although the measures will help reduce Hong Kong’s smo...

An advisor to the government on Saturday said ensuring a secure supply of vaccines was a factor in the administration's decision to include Sinovac in its seasonal influenza vaccination programme for the first time. On Monday, the Centre for Health...

Hong Kong’s weather is expected to become unstable next week as three low-pressure areas develop near the South China Sea, bringing showers and thunderstorms to the city. The Hong Kong Observatory said on Saturday at least two of the low-pressure a...

A US-based church has recently dropped a bombshell by suing a top Hong Kong international school it co-founded for allegedly breaching an operating agreement, threatening to evict the institution from its campuses and set up a new one. The Lutheran C...

Two years ago, it was unveiled with much fanfare as a grand riposte to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Today, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor is being steadily eclipsed by regional hostilities and global disinterest. The architects...

In an attempt to jointly address two major policy priorities for China – fostering a “birth-friendly society” and bolstering its scientific talent pool – Shanghai has introduced a subsidy programme to support female researchers returning to w...

An Indian car crash victim who was declared brain-dead by doctors sparked shock and disbelief when he began moving and coughing at his own funeral. Bhau Lachke, 19, from Trimbakeshwar taluka in India’s Maharashtra state, had suffered multiple sever...

"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.