China said on Tuesday it had "noted" clarifications from the United States about the reasons for a possible delay to US President Donald Trump's planned trip. Trump, who was expected to visit Beijing at the end of March, said on Monday he had asked ...

China called for "calm and restraint" between Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, after an air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul killed at least 400 people. Afghanistan accused Pakistan on Tuesday of hitting a treatment centre for dru...

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he had asked China to delay his summit with President Xi Jinping by around a month while he deals with the war in the Middle East. Trump had been due to visit Beijing from March 31 to April 2 to reset ties an...

China said on Monday its special envoy had spent a week mediating between Afghanistan and Pakistan and had urged an immediate ceasefire after deadly cross-border clashes flared. South Asian neighbours Pakistan and Afghanistan have had a strained rel...

China and the United States said on Monday the two countries held "constructive" trade and economic talks in Paris. China's International Trade Representative Li Chenggang told reporters that the two sides discussed establishing a bilateral working ...

Health minister Lo Chung-mau on Wednesday rejected an idea from the DAB to expand automatic fee waivers for public healthcare patients. Since the start of the year, patients aged 75 and above receiving the Old Age Living Allowance do not need to pay...

Permanent Secretary for Development (Planning and Lands) Doris Ho on Wednesday said officials have not considered expanding the proposed Northern Metropolis bill to cover more parts of Hong Kong, as she stressed that the legislation would only apply ...

Chief Executive John Lee on Wednesday expressed his sorrow over the death of former non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal Anthony Mason. The Australian served on the city's highest court from 1997 to 2015. Lee said that Mason was instr...

Security chief Chris Tang said on Wednesday that it would be disproportionate to issue mobile phone emergency alert messages at a district level whenever a fire breaks out, saying frequent messages would tire the public. He said in general, fires r...

The principal of a small school facing closure said on Wednesday that the news was sad but expected, and he promised to manage the transition with the students’ best interests in mind. The government earlier announced that 15 primary schools would...

Singapore sits just one degree north of the equator, where the air rarely drops below 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) and humidity clings year round. It is, by most measures, one of the worst places on Earth to cool a data centre. Yet the ...

The chief designer on the J-20 stealth fighter jet has been removed from the website of China’s national research institute, amid a sweeping campaign to stamp out corruption in the defence sector. Yang Wei, 62, had been listed as a member of the Ch...

Hong Kong could introduce pilot schemes for booking campsites in the city before the National Day holiday in October, as authorities revealed that 32 people were prosecuted for offences in Sai Kung’s country parks over the Chinese New Year holiday ...

Tencent Holdings’s net income stayed largely in line with analyst expectations in the fourth quarter of 2025, registering a 17 per cent jump amid an artificial intelligence boom that is reshaping the global economy and fuelling a frenzy in China. T...

Distrust in Australian police among Queensland’s Indian diaspora is set to deepen after an officer was caught on body camera hurling expletives at an Uber driver, leading the victim to sue the force in federal court. The officer said, “f*****g In...

"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.