Macao's civil protection response to Typhoon Mangkhut achieved the expected results, and was effective to minimise the negative impact of the storm on the community, the special administrative region (SAR)'s chief executive said here on Tuesday.

The Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions issued the highest-level typhoon warning, No. 10, yesterday morning as Typhoon Mangkhut hit Pearl River Delta cities.

China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) government had stepped up its preparation efforts in response to the anticipated arrival of two typhoons Barijat and Mangkhut, with multiple measures put in place since early Thursday.

Hong Kong is preparing for a super typhoon that is predicted to land this weekend and may be the strongest ever in the city since records began.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), called for focusing reforms on solving practical problems on Thursday.

Despite economic uncertainties at home and abroad, policymakers, business leaders and industry experts are optimistic about China's economy as they gather for the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2018, also known as Summer Davos.

China has the second-largest number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies in the world, trailing only the United States, according to a blue paper published Monday.

On Tuesday morning, air raid sirens sounded for three minutes in Shenyang and 13 other cities in northeast China's Liaoning Province to mark the 87th anniversary of the "Sept. 18 Incident", the start of Japan's invasion of China.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a third consecutive term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Thursday, which will give him a chance to become the longest-serving prime minister in postwar Japan.

China welcomed the consensus reached between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (ROK) Wednesday to improve inter-Korean ties, ease military tensions in the region and advance the denuclearization process and peace talks on the Korean Peninsula.

In spite of overwhelming opposition from the international community and US industries, the United States announced Monday that it will impose additional tariffs of 10 percent on 200 billion US dollars’ worth of Chinese exports to the US, and will also adopt other tariff escalation measures. China on Tuesday night announced a series of differentiated rates for tariffs on about 60 billion US dollars’ worth of American imports, starting on Sept 24th, the same day the new US tariffs take effect.

The Foreign Ministry urged Sweden on Monday to pay attention to China's concerns over the brutal abuse of three Chinese tourists by Swedish police in Stockholm, and take concrete measures to protect the safety and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese tourists in the country.