Over 60 memorandums of understanding (MoU) were signed at the two-day Belt and Road Summit in Hong Kong last week, with a total deal value worth US$3.1 billion – three times last year's figure, the city's Belt and Road Commissioner said on Monday. ...

President Xi Jinping on Sunday proposed five initiatives on greater Brics cooperation in areas of artificial intelligence, trade and investment facilitation, digital industry, smart manufacturing, and talent development. Xi made the proposals when a...

President Xi Jinping said India and China should "keep the future of humanity in mind" and work together to advance cooperation within the greater Brics framework. Xi made the comments on Saturday alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the...

Brics is returning to China once again, as President Xi Jinping announced that Beijing will assume the bloc's presidency next year. He spoke on Saturday in the Indian capital New Delhi, at the opening of the two-day annual Brics Leaders' Summit. X...

President Xi Jinping arrived on Saturday in New Delhi for the 18th Brics Summit as well as talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Scheduled for September 12 to 13, the annual Brics conference gathers the leaders of the 11-nation bloc of eme...

The head coach of the Hong Kong, China cycling team, Hervé Dagorne, said the squad hopes to secure at least five medals at the upcoming Asian Games. The team is fielding 13 male and 10 female cyclists to compete across disciplines in track, road, m...

The government has been urged to roll out a reservation system for all popular ecotourism spots as part of its approach to offer high-quality ecotourism in Hong Kong. The call made by lawmaker Perry Yiu on Monday came after his office and the New Yo...

Apple on Monday said it was currently working to identify and cancel any potential fraudulent transactions after police received reports of more than 700 unauthorised credit card transactions during a pre-order launch of the new iPhone. Officers sai...

Manufacturers of disposable sanitary pads have been urged to step up quality control and transparency to better protect users. The call from the Consumer Council on Monday came after it carried out tests covering 36 types of disposable winged sanita...

The Consumer Council on Monday called on the public to calculate the unit price of products and look at price trends to find the best value for money when making purchases online, instead of solely considering promotional offers. It analysed the pri...

Singapore’s openness to chemical castration for sex offenders has cast light on the ethical questions surrounding the treatment, with the discussion centred on whether it would fill any gap left by existing legislation. Experts point to how safegua...

Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has sacked the finance minister and appointed the deputy ‌finance minister as his replacement, the president’s office said on Monday. Deputy Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara was among the senior ⁠officia...

Anthropic’s discovery of an AI-powered election manipulation platform targeting Malaysia offers a glimpse into how the technology can exploit a country’s political vulnerabilities for sophisticated influence operations. The operation’s use of m...

Beijing has hailed a “one country, two systems” proposal by a Taiwanese scholar in a rare official statement on an issue regarded as politically sensitive on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. “We are pleased to see that more and more Taiwan comp...

Hong Kong’s stock market is facing fresh pressure to accelerate its review of longer trading hours after South Korea’s main bourse extended its session by four hours on Monday, according to an industry player. The Korea Exchange, South Korea’s ...

"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.