French President Emmanuel Macron will visit China between December 3 and 5, according to the Foreign Ministry in Beijing. Macron's office said on Wednesday that he would meet President Xi Jinping during the visit. The confirmation of the trip comes...

The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the nation's manufacturing sector stood at 49.2 in November, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, official data showed on Sunday. A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while a reading below 50 ...

Mainland authorities have ordered a nationwide campaign targeting fire hazards in high-rise residential and public buildings. This came after Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in decades at Tai Po's Wang Fuk Court claimed at least 128 lives. The State Co...

President Xi Jinping has emphasised the importance of improving long-term mechanisms for cyberspace governance. Presiding over a Politburo meeting on Friday, he called for sustained efforts to cultivate a clean, healthy and sound online environment....

Mainland authorities on Thursday said 11 people were killed and two others injured in the early hours of the morning, after a test train collided with maintenance workers on the track in Kunming, in southwest Yunnan province. The train, which was ...

A former consultant to the owners' corporation of Wang Fuk Court has urged law enforcement officers to launch a probe into the current committee of the Tai Po residential estate, where the city's deadliest blaze in decades happened. Peggy Wong, also...

Hong Kong's retail sales recorded their fastest growth in almost two years in October, rising 6.9 percent year on year and beating market expectations. Official provisional figures released by the Census and Statistics Department showed that the va...

Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung on Monday said the public should be on guard against phishing text messages and websites that seek to scam donors who want to help survivors of the Tai Po blaze. In a statement, her office noted that messages that pret...

Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said on Monday the SAR would introduce legislative amendments next year that allow the digitisation of trade documents as part of measures to boost cross-border digital trade among businesses. He made the remarks at th...

Several schools in Tai Po that were affected by the Wang Fuk Court inferno resumed classes on Monday, with some switching to online teaching. One of these is Fung Leung Kit Memorial Secondary School, which is near the residential estate and had been...

A popular Chinese snack brand has ignited online controversy after netizens revealed that its employees have to change their surnames to “rat” and refer to customers as “master”. Recently, a mainland netizen posted online claiming that “aft...

A 7.5 billion yuan (US$1.06 billion) hydroelectric construction project in southeast China is under investigation for alleged corner-cutting and legal violations, with experts raising concerns that there may be serious safety problems. The scandal-st...

A retired Hong Kong star tutor has been spared jail for taking upskirt footage of a woman at a railway station last year. Sha Tin Court on Monday placed Kenneth Kwong Si-san, 64, on probation for a year in light of his timely guilty plea and previous...

A Japanese singer was forced to stop performing on stage in Shanghai over the weekend, triggering accusations of excessive restriction amid the downward spiral in tensions between Beijing and Tokyo over a Taiwan contingency. On Saturday, Japanese sin...

A district councillor under public scrutiny amid Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades has said she will personally file reports with both police and the corruption watchdog to request an investigation. Peggy Wong Pik-kiu, a directly elected distr...

"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.