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New Delhi [India] May 8 (ANI): Foreign affairs expert Robinder Sachdev has characterised the escalating tensions between the United States and Iran as a 'theatre of the absurd,' describing a paradoxical state of 'Schrodinger's War' where a ceasefire and active combat appear to exist simultaneously.Speaking with ANI, Sachdev suggested that the current […]

New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Star Indian doubles badminton player Satwiksairaj Rankireddy on Friday cleared the air over his statements on lack of reception for Team India's Thomas Cup bronze medal win, saying that his remarks 'did not come from a place of wanting personal fame or taking credit away from other's achievements', but his message is to […]

Berlins years of obedient Atlantic loyalty have ended in troop cuts, shelved missiles, and fresh humiliation from WashingtonDespite what Western mainstream media, think-tanks, and some propagandists with academic titles have been telling us, NATO-EU Europe has never "appeased" Russia.In reality, the NATO-EU European elites, with Germany among the leaders, […]

Americas reputation has been deteriorating for two years straight, according to a globalist pro-NATO nonprofitAmerica's reputation has been worsening under US President Donald Trump and the country now lags behind China and Russia, an annual study commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation indicates.The Denmark-based nonprofit was founded by […]

(260508) -- HONG KONG, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Guests attend a panel discussion during the Global Mediation Summit held in Hong Kong, south China, May 8, 2026. TO GO WITH "Roundup: IOMed announces landmark maritime dispute settlement at Global Mediation Summit" (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)

(260508) -- BEIJING, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, inspects Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, east China, April 30, 2026. Ding has stressed that the country needs to comprehensively improve its basic […]

Sao Paulo [Brazil], May 8 (ANI): Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday described his meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House as an 'important step' towards strengthening ties between the two largest democracies in America.Speaking to reporters at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington after the talks, Lula said discussions […]

(260508) -- BEIJING, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, holds talks with Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic adviser to the French president, in Beijing, capital of China, May 8, 2026. (Xinhua/Dai Tianfang)

Hong Kong has raised HK$27.6 billion (US$3.5 billion) through a green and infrastructure bond sale to finance the Northern Metropolis and low-carbon transformation projects. The offering drew investors from more than 30 markets across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, signalling global institutional investors’ confidence in Hong Kong’s […]

HANGZHOU, May 8 (Xinhua) -- After crashing and foaming, the sea calmed down after about 30 seconds. The Haiying Jiake cut through the water for its first launch, as 37 men standing on the shore wiped tears from their weathered cheeks.They are fishermen, and the owners of this brand-new oceanographic research vessel capable of sailing to the farthest waters […]

(260508) -- BEIJING, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- President of Xinhua News Agency Fu Hua meets with Egyptian Ambassador to China Khaled Nazmy in Beijing, capital of China, May 8, 2026. (Xinhua/Shen Hong)

The South China Morning Post has taken home three honours at the International News Media Association’s 2026 Global Media Awards, with its infographic on Hong Kong’s deadly Tai Po fire winning first place for the best use of visual journalism. The awards were announced and presented in Berlin on Thursday, with the SCMP being the only Hong Kong media […]

Munich [Germany], May 8 (ANI): Uyghur advocacy efforts, cultural initiatives, and international human rights discussions continued this week amid ongoing concerns over repression, forced labour, and the protection of Uyghur identity and heritage, according to the latest weekly brief issued by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC).The WUC said that beginning April […]

Taipei [Taiwan], May 8 (ANI): Taiwan's top security officials have warned that the Chinese navigation application AMap may pose a serious national security threat after an internal probe found that the app continues gathering and transmitting sensitive user information to servers in China, as reported by The Taipei Times.According to The Taipei Times, […]

Washington DC [US], May 8 (ANI): John Moolenaar, Chairman of the Select Committee on China, has introduced the Protecting US Farmland and Sensitive Sites from Foreign Adversaries Act, according to a press release issued by the SCCCP.The proposed legislation seeks to strengthen U.S. national and food security by addressing loopholes in federal oversight […]

Suzhou [China], May 8 (ANI): India kept their AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup China 2026 quarter-final hopes alive with a commanding 4-0 victory against Lebanon in their final Group B fixture at the Suzhou Taihu Football Sports Centre Pitch 8 on May 8.Pritika Barman starred for the Young Tigresses with a brace, while Alva Devi Senjam and Joya also found the net […]

Kathmandu [Nepal], May 8 (ANI): Nepal has called for the resolution of the Lipulekh territorial issue through diplomatic channels with India while maintaining claims over it. Nepal's reiteration over the disputed territory comes in wake of the recent opening of the route to the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage via Lipulekh Pass. The pilgrimage, organised by […]

TIANJIN, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Warm light washed over the concert hall of the Tianjin Grand Theater as a stream of orchestral music flowed like an audio clear spring, filling every corner of the space. On stage, the Neojiba Orchestra of Brazil was building toward a climax.On May 3, the orchestra made its debut in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin and […]

SOUTH CHINA SEA, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Recently, the China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel Chuanshan, which is patrolling on duty in the territorial waters of China's Huangyan Dao, has organized comprehensive training on maritime rights safeguarding and law enforcement.

(260508) -- NAIROBI, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- People pose for a photo during a Chinese poetry event held at the Confucius Institute of the University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya, May 7, 2026. The 2026 "Poetry Connects the World" Global Celebration of Classical Chinese Poetry was held on Thursday in the Kenyan capital, bringing together government officials, […]

A Hong Kong court has convicted two footballers and a betting agent of bribing fellow players to rig game outcomes in the city’s largest match-fixing case in recent years. Former Hong Kong Under-23 player Brian Fok was convicted on Friday of five charges, including three counts of offering an advantage to an agent in violation of the Prevention of Bribery […]

GUANGZHOU, May 8 (Xinhua) -- With assistance from staff, Argentine purchaser Maria Laura put on a device and took a few minutes to adjust it at the Canton Fair in Guangzhou, south China. Without any support, she took a step forward with the help of the exoskeleton.The crowd erupted in warm applause, and her friends shed tears of joy."I thought I would never […]

XINING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China's first large-scale science museum dedicated to modern glaciers opened to the public on Friday on the northwestern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, offering visitors an immersive window into the frozen giants that feed the region's inland water system.The Bayi Glacier Science Museum, located in Qilian County of Qinghai Province, spans […]

(260508) -- SOUTH CHINA SEA, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Law enforcer Gui Zijie operates a drone during a training aboard China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel Chuanshan in the territorial waters of China's Huangyan Dao in the South China Sea, May 5, 2026. Recently, the CCG vessel Chuanshan, which is patrolling on duty in the territorial waters of China's Huangyan […]

(260508) -- BELGRADE, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Li Ming (front L) and Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Milica Djurdjevic Stamenkovski (front R) attend an event commemorating Chinese journalists killed in the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, […]

(260508) -- HUAINAN, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Yang Weiyun, a retired Chinese primary school teacher, prepares her lessons at home in Huainan, east China's Anhui Province, April 16, 2026. TO GO WITH "Feature: A Chinese classroom at the edge of the algorithm" (Xinhua/Zhu Qing)

(260508) -- WELLINGTON, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Maori performers stage a kapa haka performance at a concert marking the 20th anniversary of sister city relations between Wellington and Beijing, the capital cities of New Zealand and China, in Wellington, New Zealand, on May 8, 2026. (Photo by Meng Tao/Xinhua)

Taipei [Taiwan], May 8 (ANI): Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense detected the presence of 12 sorties of Chinese military aircraft, six naval vessels and two official ships around its territorial waters as of 6am (local time) on Friday.Of the 12, 10 crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's northern, southwestern and eastern part ADIZ.In a post on X, […]

Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Janice Tse Siu-wa has emerged as the biggest landlord among Hong Kong ministers after declaring that she has 25 properties in her name in the city, mainland China and the UK. The 61-year-old constitutional affairs chief also revealed that she or her family held shareholdings of more than 1 per cent in eight […]

Washingtons rhetoric and mixed signals are turning the Iran conflict into a wider test of US power and of global trust in American leadershipPeace does not seem to be on the horizon in the Middle East, though genuine de-escalation and a credible movement towards peace is sorely needed in the interest of all the parties to the conflict, and the rest of the […]

JINAN, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Walking along the quiet, mottled flagstone paths of Wubu Village in east China's Shandong Province, visitors are greeted by an architectural tapestry of stone walls and grey tiles that whisper six centuries of history."We were instantly captivated by the ancient alleys and century-old courtyards," said Li Fanghua, a tourist from […]

KUNMING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Monthong durians from Thailand are now priced starting at 28 yuan (about 4.09 U.S. dollars) per kilogram at a fruit wholesale market in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.Meanwhile, on live-streaming e-commerce platforms across the country, shoppers can get a two-kilogram-plus durian yielding six generous pods […]

SHANGHAI, May 8, (Xinhua) -- The 2026 Shanghai International Flower Show has turned blooms into a booming "flower economy."In just nine days, over 8.5 million visits were recorded, averaging nearly 947,000 per day.And the numbers speak for themselves: 34 core commercial areas have seen sales hit hundreds of millions of yuan - proving that a beautiful […]

SYDNEY, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China's photovoltaic (PV) industry has achieved many innovative breakthroughs, and its development experience is worth studying by other countries, said a leading Australian expert on PV.Ned Ekins-Daukes, head of the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), made the […]

The operations of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in London will remain unaffected by a UK spying verdict, observers have said, arguing that the British government is unlikely to seek its closure so as to maintain relations with Beijing. A British court on Thursday found Bill Yuen Chung-biu, the London HKETO’s manager, and Peter Wai […]

HANGZHOU, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Outside the Renhe grain depot in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, the early-summer heat was sticky and oppressive. Inside, however, grain kernels were nestled in a crisp, 19-degree-Celsius "climate-controlled suite."This is the front line of China's green grain storage revolution. At a national conference on […]

The “mechanical mindset” of Hong Kong building authorities has come under scrutiny at a hearing into the deadly Wang Fuk Court blaze, with a former inspection director conceding his team had “blindly” followed outdated guidelines when deciding not to conduct on-site audits of renovation work at the estate. Rudolf Lau Fu-kwok, who was the head of the […]

(260508) -- SUZHOU, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Giovanni Placci of Italy competes during the men's lead qualifications at World Climbing Series Wujiang 2026 in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 8, 2026. (Photo by Wuang Xuzhong/Xinhua)

(260508) -- SUZHOU, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Heloise Doumont of Belgium competes during the women's lead qualifications at World Climbing Series Wujiang 2026 in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 8, 2026. (Photo by Wuang Xuzhong/Xinhua)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will dip into its reserves to repay a HK$4 billion (US$510.9 million) government loan owed by its debt-ridden private hospital, the institution’s council chairman has said. The finances of the CUHK Medical Centre were on the agenda of Friday’s Legislative Council health panel meeting, but the discussion was […]

Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways will lower its fuel surcharges for passenger flights by as much as 12.9 per cent from May 16, after a series of increases that began in March. For long-haul flights, the surcharge will fall from HK$1,560 (US$199) to HK$1,362 per leg of the trip. The rate for medium-haul journeys, such as those between Hong Kong […]

(260508) -- BEIJING, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Bionic hands are seen at the 28th China Beijing International High-tech Expo in Beijing, capital of China, May 8, 2026. The expo opened here on Friday and will last until May 10, attracting more than 800 exhibitors from home and abroad. (Xinhua/Xie Han)

(260508) -- WENCHANG, May 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 8, 2026 shows the combination of the Tianzhou-10 cargo craft and a Long March-7 carrier rocket being vertically transferred to the launch site in Wenchang, south China's Hainan Province. The combination of the Tianzhou-10 cargo craft and a Long March-7 carrier rocket was vertically […]

PHNOM PENH, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The results of a new survey released on Friday showed that 97.4 percent of the respondents were optimistic about Cambodia's relations with China, saying that China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects have brought a lot of benefits in many development areas of Cambodia.Conducted by the Asian Vision Institute (AVI), an […]

Hong Kong authorities have appointed veteran politician Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung to chair the board of directors of the Hung Shui Kiu Industry Park Company – the first government-owned entity established to accelerate the development of the Northern Metropolis megaproject. The Development Bureau said on Friday that the board of directors comprised five bureau […]