Hong Kong’s pro-establishment district councillors are urging the government to amend the necessary laws so their opposition counterparts can be unseated if they violate the oaths they are due to take as early as next month.The call on Monday came ...

One year after lockdown, Wuhan has long since sprung back to life – but Zhu Tao remains bunkered in his 14th-floor flat, spending his days doomscrolling through news, playing virtual soccer on his PlayStation and feeling China is teetering on the b...

Indian and Chinese troops had a “minor” face-off last week in a disputed area of both countries’ borders, the Indian Army said on Monday, after media outlets and sources said a brawl had broken out, leaving injuries on both sides.In a brief sta...

The head of a left-wing South Korean political party that has championed gender equality was sacked on Monday for sexually harassing one of his own MPs, a prominent rights campaigner.Kim Jong-cheol was chairman of the Justice Party, which with six re...

Police are searching for the driver of a car that was believed to have hit and killed an elderly woman in a road accident in northern Hong Kong.The woman, in her 90s, was found lying on San Sau Street near the San Hui Light Rail station in Tuen Mun s...

The United States is leading rivals in development and use of artificial intelligence while China is rising quickly and the European Union is lagging, a research report showed on Monday.The study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundatio...

The newly appointed United States defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, has called on key Asian allies to work with the US in the Indo-Pacific, part of its efforts to strengthen defence ties in the strategically important region as its intense rivalry wit...

A Hong Kong court has remanded a 15-year-old boy in custody ahead of sentencing after he was convicted of vandalising a snacks store that came under attack by hardcore demonstrators during the months of anti-government protests in 2019.Tuen Mun Court...

Health experts have questioned the effectiveness of an unprecedented lockdown of one of Hong Kong’s most densely populated neighbourhoods that uncovered 13 Covid-19 infections among more than 7,000 residents screened since early Saturday. The deba...

Former US president Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial starts in February, but the process really begins January 25, when the House sends the article of impeachment to the Senate and both sides begin preparing for a trial with many un...

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US federal law enforcement officials were examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former president Donald Trump nears, including ominous chatter about killing legislators or attacking them outside of the US C...

Ng, a 27-year-old Singaporean, used to travel to neighbouring Malaysia three times a year for skin tightening treatments as well as Botox and filler injections. Sometimes she would venture even farther, to Thailand.“The prices are cheaper in Johor ...

Portugal’s centre-right president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, won a second term on Sunday in an election marked by record abstention as the country battles a crippling third wave of coronavirus contagion.The 72-year-old former leader of the Social De...

A top Hong Kong university has suspended two student leaders for a semester for organising a memorial event on campus amid the Covid-19 pandemic and refusing to remove protest-related materials from notice boards.The president and vice-president of t...

China was the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak spread across the world during the course of the year, with the Chinese economy having brought in US$163 billion in inflows.China’s inflows last ...

Daily Covid-19 infections are on the rise again in South Korea, with new church-associated clusters dealing a blow to the country’s efforts to curb the contagion’s spread ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.The country reported 437 new cases on M...

Kuaishou Technology, the world’s second-largest short-video platform, plans to raise as much as US$5.4 billion (HK$41.9 billion) in what will be Hong Kong’s biggest initial public offering in more than a year. The Tencent Holdings-backed company...

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Sunday that he was infected with the coronavirus, but said his symptoms were mild and he felt optimistic.“I regret to inform you that I am infected with Covid-19. The symptoms are mild but I a...

Even as the coronavirus pandemic propels profits in Malaysia’s burgeoning rubber glove industry to new heights, widespread accusations of forced labour amid increasing competition from China and Thailand have left it facing an ultimatum: change or ...

Four soccer players from Brazilian club Palmas died in a plane crash Sunday while travelling separately from the team after testing positive for the coronavirus, the club said.The club’s president also died in the crash after the plane suddenly plu...

Hong Kong florists were up in arms when the government announced two weeks ago that it was cancelling this year’s Lunar New Year flower markets because of the Covid-19 pandemic.Then, on Tuesday, Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan Siu-chee re...

US President Joe Biden spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, with both leaders promising to closely coordinate on confronting climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic recovery, according to a White House statement....

US President Joe Biden will reimpose a Covid-19 travel ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil, Ireland and much of Europe, a White House official said Sunday, as the new administration ramps up its pandemic response.Biden will a...

Hong Kong employees were likely to receive a 3 per cent pay rise on average this year as employers tread carefully with their budget planning amid growing economic uncertainties brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, according to an annual survey.Th...

Vaccines featured prominently in a Southeast Asian tour by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi this month, just as the efficacy of one of his country’s vaccines was drawing scrutiny around the world.During a trip widely seen as China’s bid to shore ...

Israel will ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday evening for a week, the government announced on Sunday, as protesters in some ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities clashed with police over coronavirus lockdown measures.Clashes bro...

US President Joe Biden is poised to repeal his predecessor Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people enlisting in the US military, a person familiar with the matter said.The source, who spoke to Reuters anonymously because the action is not yet publ...

Egypt began its Covid-19 immunisation programme on Sunday, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to vaccinate its citizens, with a doctor and a nurse receiving the Chinese-made Sinopharm jab.Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country wit...

Israel opened an embassy in the United Arab Emirates Sunday, its foreign ministry said, in a historic move four months after the Jewish state and the Gulf country normalised ties.“Today the Israeli embassy in Abu Dhabi has officially been opened, w...

Scotland’s leader said on Sunday that she intends to hold a “legal referendum” on independence from the UK if she wins Scottish elections scheduled for May.Such a move would put First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on a constitutional collision cours...

Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved a deal to upgrade ties with Morocco, the fourth Arab country to forge relations with Israel in a parting foreign policy push by the former Trump administration, Israel’s N12 news reported.The agreement will now...

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of threatening Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen after a weekend protest against coronavirus restrictions turned violent, police said on Sunday.An effigy of Frederiksen was hung from a lamp post and set a...

Dozens of officers who are members of ethnic communities in Hong Kong and work for the disciplinary services were sent to liaise with locked down residents on Saturday, many of whom had struggled to understand the restrictions imposed because of the ...

Indonesian authorities said that they seized an Iranian tanker and Panamanian tanker suspected of carrying out the illegal transfer of oil in their country’s waters Sunday.The tankers – the Iranian-flagged MT Horse and the Panamanian-flagged MT F...

It has already been tested three times but so far China is saying nothing.The JL-3, the country’s most advanced submarine-launched long-range missile, is projected to be fully integrated with the PLA’s next generation of submarines in 2025, but C...

Former Hong Kong opposition lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung, who is now in Britain after fleeing the city, has said he has given evidence related to his frozen HSBC accounts to the British parliament before it questions the bank’s bosses over the matter....

Four private universities in the Philippines rejected accusations on Sunday by the authorities that they serve as recruitment grounds of Maoist rebels, days after students protested against security force patrols at some university campuses.President...

Hong Kong’s finance chief hopes the government’s support for innovative technology will give the city’s economic recovery a boost as it battles the fourth wave of coronavirus infections.Paul Chan Mo-po’s remarks came as authorities carried ou...

More than 25 million Covid-19 cases have been recorded in the United States since the pandemic began, Johns Hopkins University said Sunday, just days after President Joe Biden’s inauguration.The milestone was reached only five days after the US, th...

Washington urged Beijing to end its military pressure against Taiwan on Saturday, hours after the island reported a large incursion into its airspace by the mainland Chinese air force.“The United States notes with concern the pattern of [Beijing’...

Residents inside a locked down Hong Kong neighbourhood have expressed concerns about their food supplies, with some raising questions over the inclusion of pork, a lack of vegetables, and no hot meals in packages from the government.Some 10,000 peopl...

The world must prepare for a “protracted war” against Covid-19, a high-profile Chinese medical expert has warned, as he compared the effort to stop the disease spreading to catching rats in a china shop.The warning came as China continues to batt...

Guangdong, China’s export powerhouse, has set a relatively low growth target of “over 6 per cent” for the year and avoided setting a specific target for trade growth, as provincial authorities remained cautious about this year’s outlook follo...

A Russian social media celebrity was being deported from Indonesia on Sunday after he held a party at a luxury hotel on the resort island of Bali attended by more than 50 people despite coronavirus restrictions.The party held on January 11 violated h...

The destruction of a forest in China’s arid northwest to make way for vineyards has triggered an investigation by the local authorities as environmentalists warned it could cause an ecological disaster.Previous efforts by environmentalists to sue t...

Several of China’s provincial governments have released their economic growth targets for 2021, but policy advisers say that as in 2020, the central government is unlikely to set a national goal for the year.Beijing said last week that the Chinese ...

A second round of testing may be required for residents currently subject to Hong Kong’s first Covid-19 lockdown if the initial operation identifies more than a handful of infections, according to a government pandemic adviser.Professor David Hui S...

It started as a diplomatic compromise, but the arrangement seems to be coming to an end because the consensus has been broken. That is the likely fate of the British National (Overseas) status in Hong Kong.Accusing Beijing of violating the city’s f...

Almost four decades after the first workers arrived in Japan to work at “Philippine pubs”, the Filipino community has become one of the most rooted in the East Asian country – but one that still remains largely female.Filipinos are the fourth-l...