China and the United States have agreed to establish a trade council under which the economic and trade teams of the two sides will discuss cooperation, including reciprocal tariff reductions, the Commerce Ministry said in Beijing on Thursday. The t...

Mainland AI startup Z.ai said on Thursday it plans to use domestic listing proceeds to fund a quest for artificial general intelligence, after its latest model scored close to leading US models from Anthropic and OpenAI on public benchmarks. Z.ai's ...

A researcher on Thursday said the new cross-boundary banking arrangement for social welfare payments is a breakthrough in financial system integration among Hong Kong and the mainland. This came after Chief Executive John Lee on Wednesday announced...

Premier Li Qiang said innovation-driven development is key to China's long-term economic resilience and steady growth. Addressing the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as the Summer Davos, ...

Chief Executive John Lee on Wednesday announced that a new cross-boundary banking arrangement would start next month, saying it would make retirement on the mainland more convenient for elderly Hongkongers. Under the new arrangement, Hong Kong reti...

Officials announced on Friday that more than 75 percent of homeowners of the only building in Wang Fuk Court not directly hit by last year's inferno are in favour of selling their flats, making them eligible for a government buyout plan that also cov...

A total of 19 people, among them football players and coaches, have been arrested on suspicion of match-fixing and engaging in illegal gambling activities. Speaking on Friday, ICAC principal investigator Bill Ng said the arrests revolved around a c...

The Hong Kong International Data Privacy Academy was set up with the aim of helping people and organisations cope with the risks and challenges posed by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada...

A man died after being hit by a construction vehicle during renovations work in Kowloon Bay Sports Ground on Friday. Police received a report about the incident shortly before 9am, saying the man was unconscious after suffering a head injury. He wa...

The Observatory issued the Red Rainstorm Warning Signal at 12.15pm on Friday as heavy rain lashed the city. It replaced the Amber Rainstorm Warning which had come into force less than half an hour earlier. The Observatory said the Red Rainstorm War...

Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency and police have jointly arrested 19 people, including serving footballers and coaches, over illegal bookmaking, with one player accused of both fixing matches and handling illicit bets. Principal investigator Bill...

Only half of Malaysian women who were married or in a sexual relationship polled in a nationwide survey said they could refuse sex with their spouse or partner, with those who gave in saying they believed it was their marital duty or that they were g...

Who would have imagined that just over 100 days could so change the world? The US-Israeli “war of choice” on Iran has fundamentally – perhaps, permanently – shifted the global balances of economic, military and political power, and not in Ame...

Singapore’s cooling strategy, pioneered by founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, has come in for praise in Europe, which is sweltering under a deadly heatwave. Even Tesla founder and world’s first trillionaire Elon Musk has weighed in, calling th...

Hong Kong continued to draw US and European firms to expand their businesses in the city in the first half of this year, the latest data shows, adding new momentum to its superconnector role. A total of 413 companies either set up local entities or e...

"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.