The world's last Cold War frontier now has a Starbucks cafe in South Korea where customers can get a glimpse through the heavily militarised border into the North, all while sipping a latte.

The chairman of talks aiming for an international treaty to rein in pollution from plastics issued a document on Friday outlining measures that could furnish the basis of a pact, in an attempt to spur ...

Any accusations of Russian interference in Romania's presidential election are groundless, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.                  Romania's top court on Thursday ordered a re ...

Indonesia is in talks with the United States and Russia about acquiring technology to develop nuclear power plants, an Indonesian government deputy minister told Reuters on Friday.                  So ...

Four civilians including two students were killed on Friday in the Syrian city of Aleppo in insurgent shelling of university student dormitories, the state news agency SANA reported.

The European Union's ambassador to Georgia said on Friday that Tbilisi's move to effectively halt its EU accession bid until 2028 was "heartbreaking" and he also condemned police violence against prot ...

Indonesian rescuers on Friday searched for survivors buried in three cars and bus at the base of a cliff after flash floods and landslides in North Sumatra province killed at least 29 people.

國家外匯局公布, 10月份國際收支貨物和服務貿易進出口規模4萬3234億元人民幣, 同比增長百分之6.         其中, 貨物貿易出口2萬1462億元人民幣, 進口1萬6071億元人民幣, 順差5391億元人民幣; 服務貿易出口2342億元人民幣, 進口3359億元人民幣, 逆差1017億元人民幣.         服務貿易主要項目為: 運輸服務進出口規模1675億元人民幣, 旅行服務進出口 ...

1997年尖沙咀寶勒巷卡啦OK縱火案, 造成17人死亡、 13人受傷, 其中一名涉案通緝犯、 52歲男子陳惠良落網, 警方在網上的懸紅通緝人士公告顯示, 有關人士已經被捕.         案件發生在97年1月25日凌晨, 寶勒巷一間卡拉OK發生三級火, 多人未能及時逃生, 15人當場死亡, 兩人其後傷重不治. 警方當年鎖定7名疑犯身份, 先後拘捕5人, 其中4人謀殺罪成, 被判終身監禁, 一人誤 ...

香港零售管理協會主席謝邱安儀表示, 雖然恢復並擴展深圳一簽多行政策, 不會立即對香港零售表現見效, 但相信效果會逐漸浮現.         謝邱安儀表示, 由於國內旅客消費模式轉變, 政策生效後不會即時有大成效, 但業界會努力轉型配合旅客模式, 相信有人流就有商機17, 相信政策能增強大灣區居民來港頻率.         謝邱安儀指, 10月雖然有黃金周, 但相比其他月份並沒有太大分別, 而12月 ...

金管局公布, 十月份新申請住宅按揭貸款個案按月增加百分之46.5, 至7289宗.         至於十月新批出的按揭貸款額按月增加百分之9.5, 至190億港元, 當中涉及一手市場的貸款減少百分之2.4, 至54億港元, 涉及二手市場的貸款增加百分之14, 至114億港元, 至於涉及轉按交易的貸款則增加百分之21.2, 至22億港元.         至於十月新取用按揭貸款額按月減少百分之26 ...

金管局公布, 十月港元存款上升百分之0.4, 外幣存款則下跌百分之0.3, 整體存款總額並無明顯變動.         今年首十個月, 存款總額及港元存款分別上升百分之5.8及2.8.         至於香港人民幣存款十月下跌百分之5.8, 於十月底為9578億元人民幣, 主要反映企業資金流動, 跨境貿易結算的人民幣匯款總額於十月為1萬2180億元人民幣, 而九月份為1萬2672億元人民幣.