Financial Secretary Paul Chan said he's optimistic about Hong Kong's future development, citing its advantages over New York and Silicon Valley because of its close proximity to the Greater Bay Area (GBA). Chan on Friday joined a dialogue session at...

The Iranian nuclear issue cannot be solved through political confrontation, but through diplomatic efforts and cooperation on safeguards and supervision, a Chinese envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. This came as the Ministr...

A Thai court handed out death sentences on Thursday to two ethnic Uyghur men from Xinjiang for a 2015 bombing in Bangkok that killed 20 people. Reacting to the verdict, China said it supports Thailand in "severely punishing" the pair. The explosion...

China has pledged to further improve the mechanisms for protecting citizens' civil and political rights, according to a report released on Thursday by the State Council Information Office. The National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2026-2030), ...

Seven people were killed and 17 others injured in an explosion in Guangxi. The blast occurred in the town of Xingan at around 1.40am on Thursday. The cause of the explosion is not immediately known but authorities have ruled out it involving gas pi...

An Ocean Park employee has died after being found unconscious at the theme park on Friday. Police said they received a call around 9am that the man had been found unconscious with head and shoulder injuries at the park’s peak area. Officers said...

The government has allocated the first batch of permissions for 1,000 restaurants to host dogs, ending a decades-long ban on canines in eateries and unleashing a niche potential for the catering sector. The 1,000 restaurants, randomly selected in a ...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said he's optimistic about Hong Kong's future development, citing its advantages over New York and Silicon Valley because of its close proximity to the Greater Bay Area (GBA). Chan on Friday joined a dialogue session at...

Director of Leisure and Cultural Services Manda Chan on Friday said priority access for people using iAM Smart in facility bookings could combat touting. The remarks came after her department announced a new measure that from July 7, users of SmartP...

Chief Executive John Lee said Hong Kong's first five-year development plan might be rolled out by the end of the third quarter, earlier than the year-end release that had been originally envisaged. Speaking in a joint interview with RTHK and Ta Kung...

China called on major nations to “foster a free and facilitative trading environment” ahead of two summits next week that may herald a trade war with the European Union. Vice-Premier Zhang Guoqing said China was “steadfastly expanding high-stan...

Chinese scientists have uncovered differences between American and Chinese vaginal microbiomes, revealing that a bacterium closely linked to bacterial vaginosis and preterm birth is significantly more prevalent and virulent in American women. The stu...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr will travel to Russia next week for a summit with Moscow and Southeast Asian leaders, a visit analysts say will allow Manila to show it can fulfil its role as Asean chair and keep diplomatic channels open wit...

In their 2022 book Sinostan, Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen saw Central Asia as China’s “inadvertent empire”. If that is true – and the five-country region embracing Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan ...

The EU’s concept of tech sovereignty may prove an “illusion” in a world where artificial intelligence is dominated by China and the US, a Chinese expert has argued, urging Beijing to seize the opportunity provided by Donald Trump to make its pr...

"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.