Mainland authorities on Sunday unveiled a series of measures to boost exchanges and cooperation across the Taiwan Strait as the chairwoman of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party, Cheng Li-wun, wrapped up her six-day visit. The Taiwan Work Office of t...

The trend that compatriots from both sides of the Taiwan Strait will get closer and get together will not change, Xi Jinping said, as he met the head of the Chinese Kuomintang Party in Beijing on Friday. Xi, the General Secretary of the Communist Pa...

China is expected to see growth dip to 4.6 percent this year and 4.5 percent next, down from five percent, on the back of continued weakness in its property market and slower export growth, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned on Friday. That gro...

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose one percent year on year in March, official data showed on Friday. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, increased 1.1 percent, according to data released by the National...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday told his Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) counterpart Choe Son Hui that China was willing to step up exchanges and cooperation with Pyongyang. Xinhua News Agency reported that Wang – who is on a two...

Secretary for Justice Paul Lam says the government will continue to uphold national security while safeguarding human rights and the rule of law. He was speaking in an interview with the Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group ahead of the National Security Edu...

Secretary for Security Chris Tang said on Sunday he is thankful that many people would like to get involved with a rehabilitation project aimed at helping young people who were arrested during the 2019 protests. Tang was responding to news that sing...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said Hong Kong must place security at the heart of development amid risks to the financial and energy markets from geopolitics. Writing in his weekly blog, Chan said global uncertainties showed that national ...

Chief Executive John Lee on Sunday said Hong Kong was a welcoming environment for global companies and talent with its favourable business climate. The SAR has long served as the world’s super connector and super value-adder, Lee said at the openi...

The government on Sunday said residents of Wang Fuk Court would be allowed to go back inside the fire-ravaged buildings more than once to retrieve more of their personal belongings. More than 1,700 households affected by last November's fire can re...

An open-source artificial intelligence project aimed at harvesting human capabilities into reusable AI “skills” has gone viral in China, gaining traction as a meme among the country’s uneasy young workers as they face growing job insecurity ami...

No Ethiopian, Pakistani, Indian, Brazilian or other serious policymaker believes artificial intelligence will solve corruption or improve governance overnight. National policies such as Digital Ethiopia 2030, Pakistan’s National AI Policy 2025 or o...

Hong Kong and Singapore routinely top global rankings of unaffordable cities. Yet it is the residents of Manila, Colombo and Yangon who are far more likely to tell pollsters they cannot afford shelter. The Philippines recorded the world’s highest s...

Chinese scientists say they have developed a wafer-scale 2D semiconductor growth method with 1,000 times faster growth, paving the way for industry advances. The surging demand for high‑performance, low‑power chips driven by AI and large-language...

When Su Shaojun launched an audacious plan to build a life-size replica of the Titanic, he felt he was on to a sure-fire winner. After all, James Cameron’s iconic 1997 film had been a worldwide hit – including in China, where it had grossed over ...

"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.