China's "one country two systems" model of ruling Hong Kong has worked in protecting the city and must continue long term, says Xi Jinping.
The Chinese leader mounted a stern defence of the political system in a speech in Hong Kong, following recent (...)
Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Hong Kong to mark 25 years since the former British colony returned to Beijing's rule.
It is his first visit outside mainland China since the start of the pandemic nearly two-and-a-half years ago.
He said (...)
Nato has announced plans to massively increase the number of its forces at high readiness to over 300,000 troops.
The bloc's rapid reaction force currently has 40,000 troops at its disposal, with many of those based along the alliance's eastern (...)
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina celebrated the opening of the country's longest bridge, which took eight years to build.
The 6.51-kilometer (4.04-mile) bridge spanning the Padma River cost an estimated $3.6 billion and it was paid for with (...)
The King Abdulaziz Public Library has announced it will hold the ceremony to distribute the 10th King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation in the Library of Alexandria in Egypt next October.
Supervisor General of the King (...)
The leaders of the Brics group of nations are meeting this year amid major shifts in the geopolitical order.
The group, which owes its name to the initials of its five member states — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is holding its (...)
At least eight Russian and Chinese warships have been spotted in the seas near Japan this week, another sign of the apparent pressure the two partners have been putting on Tokyo as relations deteriorate over Ukraine and Taiwan respectively.
Japan's (...)
Hundreds of thousands of people in China have been evacuated in several southern and eastern provinces after unrelenting rains caused floods and triggered landslides.
Two provinces upgraded flood warnings on Tuesday as rivers overflowed and (...)
A total of 29 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan's self-declared air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Tuesday, according to the island's Defense Ministry.
The Defense Ministry said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force planes were a mix of (...)
Russia has become China's biggest supplier of oil as the country sold discounted crude to Beijing amid sanctions over the Ukraine war.
Imports of Russian oil rose by 55% from a year earlier to a record level in May.
China has ramped up purchases of (...)
China on Friday launched its third and most advanced aircraft carrier from Shanghai's Jiangnan Shipyard, with new combat systems that experts say are fast catching up with the United States.
Named "Fujian," the ship is China's first domestically (...)
Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday ahead of a Federal Reserve decision on how sharply to raise interest rates to cool U.S. inflation, the Associated Press reported.
Shanghai and Hong Kong advanced. Tokyo and Sydney declined. Oil prices edged (...)
For decades the Amur River has separated modern China and Russia -- its waters cutting through more than 1,000 of their roughly 2,500 border miles. But it's always lacked one thing: a vehicle bridge. Now -- as Russia's economic isolation in the wake (...)
Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe on Sunday accused the United States of being a "bully" and "hijacking" countries around the region, during a combative speech in which he said his country would "fight to the very end" to stop Taiwanese (...)
Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles revealed on Sunday that he held a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Gen, Wei Fenghe, on sidelines of the "Shangri La summit" in Singapore.
The Singaporean news agency, News Asia, quoted the minister as (...)
China has the world's largest number of world natural heritage sites, according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
The country is now home to 14 world natural heritage sites and four heritage sites noted for both cultural and (...)
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called out China on Saturday for a series of coercive, aggressive and dangerous actions that threaten stability around Asia and vowed the United States would stand by partners to resist any pressure.
"Indo-Pacific (...)
Shanghai will carry out Covid-19 testing on more than half of its 25 million residents this weekend, fueling fears of a return to more stringent restrictions just days after the financial hub emerged from two months of painful lockdown.
The mass (...)
At least ten people have died in China after heavy rains and flooding, the dpa quoted state news agency Xinhua as reported.
Since the start of June, severe rainstorms have been hitting Hunan province, and some areas have recorded historic rainfall (...)
China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie, after the World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe (...)
Major Asian stock markets advanced Monday after Wall Street declined and a survey showed the downturn in Chinese service activity eased in May as anti-virus controls on Shanghai and other major cities were lifted, the Associated Press (...)
Australia has accused the pilot of a Chinese fighter jet of carrying out a dangerous maneuver near one of its aircraft over the South China Sea.
It says the Chinese aircraft released flares and cut in front of the Australian surveillance plane.
The (...)
China launched on Sunday crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-14 to its orbital outpost, TASS quoted the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) as reported in a statement.
The spacecraft blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China using (...)
China will launch a spacecraft on Sunday carrying three astronauts to the core module of the unfinished Chinese space station, where they will work and live for six months as construction enters advanced stages, Reuters reported.
During a news (...)
Multiple neighborhoods in Shanghai were placed back under lockdown only a day after city-wide restrictions were lifted, as China's stringent zero-Covid strategy continues to haunt the financial hub.
Shanghai lifted its two-month lockdown on (...)
