The Ministry of Transport in Beijing on Monday announced a one-year suspension of special port fees for ships owned or operated by US enterprises, organisations and individuals "simultaneously" with Washington's pause on levies targeting Chinese ship...

She lived a life of luxury that earned her the nickname "goddess of wealth", but Chinese businesswoman Qian Zhimin now faces a long jail sentence after police made the UK's largest-ever cryptocurrency seizure of Bitcoin worth over US$6 billion. The ...

The 15th National Games – co-hosted by Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong for the first time – got off to a rousing start on Sunday night as President Xi Jinping declared the Games open at a spectacular curtain-raiser in Guangzhou. Xi and other dign...

Hong Kong table tennis star Wong Chun-ting on Sunday made it to the round of 16 in the National Games' men's singles event. He defeated Shanghai's Zhao Zhaoyan in a gruelling 4-3 encounter. Wong, 34, said afterwards this was the first time that he...

Consumer prices on the mainland were up 0.2 percent year on year in October. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Sunday showed that the consumer price index (CPI) also rose 0.2 percent on a monthly basis. The core CPI, which exclud...

Hong Kong rower Chiu Hin-chun will serve as the city's flag-bearer for Sunday's opening ceremony of the National Games in Guangzhou. Chiu, a two-time Olympian, is part of a 69-strong delegation that will walk in the Guangdong Olympic Sports Centre, ...

Hong Kong cycling star Ceci Lee on Sunday successfully defended her National Games road race title in a thrilling finish. She broke out from the pack in the final seconds to edge out the other riders to the finish line in Zhuhai. The 24-year-old ...

Hong Kong men's handball team captain, Freddie Tse, said he hopes his team will collect themselves and go for bronze on Monday, after suffering a tight defeat to giants Anhui Province at the National Games. The SAR - reaching the final four for the ...

President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 15th National Games in Guangzhou on Sunday. Xi will declare the Games open, Xinhua News Agency reported. Chief Executive John Lee will lead a Hong Kong government delegation to Guangzhou ...

The Ministry of Commerce on Saturday called on the Netherlands to put forward constructive plans and take concrete actions to restore the stability of the global semiconductor supply chain. The call came as China agreed to a request by the Dutch Mi...

President Xi Jinping has called for a comprehensive deepening of reforms and opening up for high-quality development and advancing the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area with sustained efforts. Xi made the remarks during a...

Hong Kong rowers Leung King-wan and Wong Sheung-yee made it to the final of the women's pair event with the third-fastest qualifying time in their group. The SAR duo finished the 1,500-metre course in a time of five minutes 37.99 seconds, about sev...

Hong Kong table tennis stars Wong Chun-ting and Doo Hoi-kem advanced to the quarter-finals of the National Games after defeating Hebei's Zhou Yu and Zang Xiaotong 3-1 in the mixed-doubles event. The game was a thriller with the Hebei pair edging th...

Shandong’s Liu Zhicheng rode to victory in the men’s individual road cycling event at the National Games on Saturday, while Hong Kong’s Franco Chu finished 15th after a final sprint within the main peloton. The race was the only event of the G...

Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek made its first public appearance in almost a year after it became a global sensation, fielding a senior researcher who told a government-organised internet conference that he was pessimistic about AI...

The Hong Kong men's handball team is through to the semi-finals of the National Games after a nail-biting 28-26 victory over Guangdong at Kai Tak Arena on Friday. In a tightly contested quarter-final, the SAR squad built a steady 13-10 lead by halft...

Japan announced on Friday that its seafood exports to China have resumed for the first time since Beijing imposed a ban over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant more than two year...

President Xi Jinping has attended the commissioning and flag-presenting ceremony of the Fujian, China's first aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults, in Hainan province. Xi boarded the aircraft carrier, launched in June 2022, to in...

China's total goods imports and exports in yuan-denominated terms rose to 37.31 trillion yuan in the first 10 months of 2025, up 3.6 percent year on year, official data showed on Friday. The growth rate slowed from an increase of four percent regist...

Hong Kong cyclist Charles Ng narrowly missed a podium finish at the National Games men's individual time trial event, placing fourth with a time of 46 minutes 43.98 seconds. He was about eight seconds behind an opponent from Shandong who got bronze....