Taiwan and China have also traded barbs this week over the severing of an undersea communications cable off the Beijing-claimed island’s southwest coast.

Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, now the head of the BRICS bloc's development bank, has been discharged from a hospital in Shanghai after nearly a week hospitalized, her press office said on Friday.

Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, has held talks in Beijing with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Friday. It cited Shoigu, Russia's former defence minister,

Hong Kong will officially open a new 50,000-seat stadium with a gala event, part of its bid to compete with cities around the region that are spending billions of dollars on state-of-the-art arenas to attract sports games and concerts by the world’s biggest stars.

New Zealand's foreign minister said he had raised concerns over China's recent live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea during meetings with Chinese leaders on Wednesday. The issue was a lack of notice given to New Zealand over the military exercises off its coast,

When Chinese President Xi Jinping gathered two dozen of the nation’s business leaders for a summit last week, one of the surprise attendees was a little-known, 34-year-old robot pioneer.

Hong Kong's home prices fell for a second straight month in January, government figures showed on Friday, as potential homebuyers searched for more positive market signals amid a weak economic outlook.