China said it supported Cuba and urged the United States to "stop brandishing the judicial stick" against the country, after Washington indicted the Caribbean island's former leader Raúl Castro on murder charges. The US charges against the 94-year-...

President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had a tea chat on Wednesday night at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi said that over the years, he and Putin have maintained frequent and close exchanges, and jointly created...

China will buy 200 Boeing jets, the Ministry of Commerce announced on Wednesday, days after President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump held talks in Beijing. Washington will guarantee Beijing a sufficient supply of engines and spare pa...

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for driving the development and revitalisation of China and Russia through their comprehensive strategic coordination of even higher quality. Xi made the remarks while holding talks with visiting Russian Pres...

President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin opened talks in Beijing on Wednesday. Prior to their meeting, Xi held a welcome ceremony for Putin, who's on a state visit to China. Xi was seen walking down the steps of the Great Hal...

A survivor spoke on Friday of how she tried to save her husband during a late-night fire in Jordan on Thursday that killed him and injured four others. She was speaking as police officers went to Man Yuen Building to investigate the fire that broke ...

Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan was appointed by the San Francisco Symphony on Thursday to become its next music director, starting in September next year. The 39-year-old will be the first female music director in the orchestra's 115-year histor...

Commissioner for Belt and Road Nicholas Ho on Friday said the city's professional services sectors are expected to get a boost from the government-led trip to Central Asia early next month, but called for more flights to aid the development of ties. ...

Hong Kong and Kazakhstan on Friday signed three bilateral agreements on surrender of fugitive offenders (SFO), mutual legal assistance in criminal matters (MLA) and transfer of sentenced persons (TSP) to foster legal co-operation of the two jurisdict...

An expert on infectious diseases on Friday said that only travellers coming from two northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo provinces – where there is an Ebola outbreak – carry an extremely high risk of bringing in the disease to the SAR. ...

Funding for China’s artificial-intelligence-related start-ups jumped nearly threefold year on year in the first quarter, as investors poured capital into large language models (LLMs) and embodied AI amid growing optimism over the country’s techno...

China criticised the United States for filing criminal charges against former Cuban president Raul Castro, as the Trump administration stepped up pressure on the Communist-ruled Caribbean island. “The United States needs to stop wielding the big st...

Hong Kong film producer and actor Raymond Wong Pak-ming has been found guilty of sharing insider information with his sister to trade shares of an entertainment company he chaired in 2017, bringing her more than HK$1 million (US$127,650) in profit. M...

Perhaps the most fascinating and important aspects of US President Donald Trump’s jolt to the global economy have been its unintended consequences, especially the impact on relations between China and India. Two consistent aspects of Trump’s mean...

Bowing to pressure ⁠from within its ranks, the Democratic National Committee released on Thursday its long-withheld “autopsy” of Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race – only to quickly disavow it. The report foun...

"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.