The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation scheduled for mid-May is a high-profile international meeting on the Belt and Road Initiative.

China's manufacturing sector expanded for the ninth straight month in April, but the pace has slowed as authorities stepped up efforts to contain financial risks.

Protests against the deployment of the U.S. missile defense system continued Monday in South Korea amid rising controversy over which side would pay for the billion-U.S.-dollar costs THAAD.

DPRK said on Sunday that the U.S.-South Korea joint exercises and U.S. buildup of nuclear assets on the Korean Peninsula are the root cause of high tension here.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that his position in White Househas affected his family life, adding that his wife Melania Trump has been "terribly abused by the press."

ASEAN welcomed the progress on a framework of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, a statement following an ASEAN summit said.