British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit China from Wednesday to Saturday. The Foreign Ministry said he will pay an official visit to China at the invitation of Premier Li Qiang. Starmer is set to meet President Xi Jinping and other top leade...

President Xi Jinping said China and Europe are partners, not adversaries, in his meeting with visiting Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo in Beijing on Tuesday. Xi said cooperation between China and Europe outweighs competition, and their common gr...

China on Monday said a preliminary trade deal with Canada was not directed at any third party. Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun also told a regular media briefing that arrangements made between the two countries to properly address their econom...

The new president and chair of the board of directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Zou Jiayi, on Monday said there is huge collaboration potential between the Beijing-headquartered bank and Hong Kong. Speaking at a panel duri...

The Hong Kong section of the high-speed rail network is expanding its reach into the mainland, with 16 new direct destinations added from Monday, according to the MTR Corporation. The expansion spans parts of eastern China, Chaoshan in Guangdong, as...

Hong Kong’s annual Chinese New Year night parade will usher in the Year of the Horse with a vibrant display of floats and international performances, organisers said on Tuesday. The event, organised by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, will begin at 8...

Police have charged a man for allegedly illegally possessing around 800 kilogrammes of fireworks. Officers said they found 58 boxes of fireworks worth an estimated HK$1 million in a rented container in Tai Lam Chung, Tuen Mun, on Monday. A man arre...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said that "everything is negotiable" when it comes to attracting leading tech and industrial firms to the Northern Metropolis. His remarks came as he delivered a keynote speech at the inaugural Global Business Summit in...

Chief Executive John Lee has underscored the importance of improving the executive-led political system and vowed to strengthen his government's sense of ownership over Hong Kong, following a Beijing official's address on the city's governance. Le...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Tuesday that around 90 percent of homeowners at Wang Fuk Court have taken part in a government survey on their long-term housing arrangements following the fire at the estate last year. Lee said officials have been ...

China is tightening approvals for intercity railways and urban metro projects – long-standing pillars of fixed-asset investment – as policymakers pay closer attention to debt risks while shifting the growth model towards consumption. The move com...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang bought street snacks worth 65 yuan (US$9) at a market in Shanghai while giving its owner a lai see of 600 yuan (US$90), but the operator did not recognise the artificial intelligence (AI) chip mogul. Huang recently sparked a s...

Indonesia’s decision to join US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” has raised eyebrows at home, with critics zeroing in on how it deviated from Jakarta’s values by serving the interests of only the US and Israel instead of Palestine....

Bali’s elephant-riding attractions have begun shutting down after Indonesia’s forestry authorities ordered conservation centres to end the practice, as local officials threaten to revoke the relevant permits for non-compliance. The directive call...

Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterisation of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as re...

"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.