The Ministry of Commerce on Monday added 20 Japanese entities, including the National Institute for Defense Studies, to its export control list to safeguard national security and interests and fulfil international obligations such as non-proliferatio...

Mainland officials on Monday said 13 people sustained minor injuries after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Gaoxian County, Yibin City, in Sichuan Province. The injured were sent to hospitals for treatment while 196 others have been relocated. Re...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said Hong Kong has been empowering mainland enterprises as a "super connector". Writing in his weekly blog, Chan said the country is creating the “China Opportunity 2.0” with innovation and technology, as...

Profits of China's major industrial firms increased 18.8 percent year on year during the January-May period, surpassing a rise of 18.2 percent in the first four months, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Saturday. Industrial firms...

Hong Kong's sole delegate to the country's top legislature said the National People's Congress Standing Committee has passed a bill endorsing co-location arrangements for the Huanggang Port. Starry Lee made the remarks in Beijing after attending thi...

A construction worker died on Monday after he was trapped underneath an excavator which tipped over at a site in Ho Man Tin. Police were alerted to the scene on Liberty Avenue shortly before 10am, after receiving a report that an excavator which wa...

A medical school dean said on Monday that a proposal to increase the number of lay members to the Medical Council strikes a good balance and increases diversity of the statutory body. Under a reform to the Medical Registration Ordinance, the governm...

Officials on Monday set out how they will take a flexible approach to building and fire safety requirements to allow new campsites to be opened in rural areas, and for more holiday flats in villages houses. This comes after Chief Executive John Lee ...

Hong Kong will soon see its first certified "Basic Housing Unit", less than half a year after a regulatory regime on subdivided homes came into force, according to Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho. Under the Basic Housing Units Ordinance, which took ...

Two vessels of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) will visit Hong Kong for five days this week and they will be open for public visits and cultural exchange activities during their stay in the SAR. Guided-missile destroyer Nanning and guided-missi...

Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing’s back-to-back visits to India and China have been described as an effort to avoid becoming overdependent on either country, but analysts said there was little reason to think it would erode Beijing’s “overarch...

Malaysia’s bet on Chinese tourists is increasingly being shaped by the same forces influencing their itineraries: short videos, lifestyle apps, online personalities and newly opened routes from beyond China’s biggest cities. Tourism Malaysia conf...

A Hong Kong national security police officer has admitted filming upskirt footage of a woman and attempting to grab a colleague’s handgun in an apparent bid to harm himself after his arrest last year. West Kowloon Court heard on Monday that Constab...

The critical 72-hour window for finding survivors of the powerful twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela had completely closed by Monday, leaving international teams facing a grim race against time to pull anyone else alive from the debris. The death...

Hong Kong has relaxed its licensing requirements for rural holiday camps and village guest houses, allowing greater flexibility in building and fire safety requirements for some properties to encourage more tourist accommodation options outside urban...

"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.