All workers at an upscale Hong Kong shopping centre will undergo mandatory testing for Covid-19 after almost half of Saturday’s 33 new infections were linked to a growing “super-spreading” restaurant cluster at the mall.And there were fears of ...

China’s total overseas energy financing last year dropped to its lowest level since 2008 but still topped US$4.6 billion, with two-thirds – US$3.1 billion – going to Africa.Most of the money, about US$2.5 billion, went into the building of a na...

When President Joko Widodo in February extended his best wishes to Indonesia’s Chinese community for Lunar New Year, he referred to them as “Tionghoa”. The word is now used in the Southeast Asian nation to describe its Chinese ethnic minority g...

The US House passed an enormous, US$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package early Saturday, hailed by Democrats as a critical step in funnelling new funding toward vaccinations, overburdened local governments, and millions of families devastated by t...

Hong Kong schools should brace for a surge in pupils falling ill with the common cold after in-person classes resume this week, experts warn.A study by researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) suggests that children might be more susceptible ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has extended partial coronavirus curbs in the capital until the end of March, as the country awaits the arrival of vaccines, the presidential spokesman said on Saturday.With Southeast Asia’s second-highest tally...

Changes such as varying the number of instalments could be made to Hong Kong’s HK$5,000 vouchers scheme to enhance flexibility for residents and spur consumption, according to the finance minister.Paul Chan Mo-po said the government was listening t...

Lady Gaga’s two stolen French bulldogs, snatched in a violent abduction in Hollywood that left their caretaker shot in the chest, were turned over to police on Friday and have been reunited with the pop singer’s representatives, police said.The s...

For decades, university students have been the backbone of Hong Kong’s civil rights movement.But some of their increasingly aggressive rhetoric, and involvement in the sometimes violent and disruptive anti-government protests in 2019, has left the ...

The thrills and chills of the big screen are back in the world’s largest film market.With the coronavirus well under control in China and cinemas running at half capacity, film-goers are smashing box office records, setting a new high mark for tick...

When Nasa scientist Swati Mohan confirmed the touchdown of the Perseverance rover on Mars and said it was “ready to begin seeking the signs of past life”, the mission control centre in Pasadena, California, erupted in joy and high fives. A video...

China will double efforts in developing applied research in the next five years even though the country failed to meet its research spending target for its last five-year plan, according to its science minister.Minister of Science and Technology Wang...

More than 400 prisoners were on the run in Haiti on Friday after they escaped from jail in a violent breakout that left 25 people dead, including the prison director, officials said.“Twenty-five people died including six prisoners and Divisional In...

The death of a woman from a suspected drug overdose after a Bangkok party has underscored the risks faced by Thailand’s “pretties” – models-for-hire who offer services ranging from making appearances at sales promotion gigs, modelling at moto...

The 585,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines that landed in Hong Kong on Saturday were packaged on arrival in boxes equipped with temperature-monitoring and location-tracking devices, as part of the strict logistical arrangements in place t...

The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s student union has withdrawn its controversial election manifesto and other campaign statements, two days after school management cut ties with the body citing possible national security law breaches.“Our cabi...

Tech entrepreneurs at China’s biggest annual political gala next week will be under pressure on two fronts as Beijing pushes its national strategy of technology independence while ratcheting up regulatory scrutiny of their business operations.This ...

Angela Chan Ka-yee, 60, still recalls the day she found a black and brown puppy curled up inside a tree hole in Ta Kwu Ling in the New Territories.The poor animal was weak, with a deep wound on the left part of his head, covered in blood and maggots....

There’s no avoiding the exuberance of electric vehicle evangelists these days, and who can blame them? In the midst of all the market see-sawing during the Covid-19 pandemic, the sector has emerged as a darling of investors from Wall Street to Hong...

Moving to the West in the 1980s and 1990s was considered peak social status for anyone lucky enough to get the green light to emigrate. Rule of law, affordable housing, freedom to travel, high-quality education and capitalism achieved through a merit...

In southwestern China’s Yunnan province, there is great fanfare around the construction of a mega-railway link to neighbouring Laos, Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country and one of its least developed.“To build the Sino-Laos Railway as a sy...

Winnie Tam spent more than a year and HK$500,000 planning her dream wedding with 800 guests.The 32-year-old marketing manager pictured herself walking down the aisle at sunset to marry entrepreneur Jimmy Yu, 34, and celebrating with their families an...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Laurens Cerlus on politico.com on February 24, 2021.Huawei‘s European executives have been promoting content published on more than a dozen fabricated new...

The worst is over for Hong Kong’s retail sector, with sales likely to surge by double digits in the second half of the year, according to New World Development, which has a much more bullish view about the market than its fellow developers.The immi...

A Chinese businessman based in Hong Kong has been indicted for allegedly stealing millions of dollars’ worth of trade secrets from General Electric, the US Justice Department announced on Friday.Chi Lung Winsman Ng, along with an unnamed co-conspir...

Myanmar police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters in Yangon on Saturday, after the country’s ambassador to the United Nations broke ranks to make an emotional plea for action against the military junta.The country has been shaken by a wave...

Two self-made South Korean billionaires have pledged in as many weeks to give away half their fortunes – a rarity in a country where business is dominated by family-controlled conglomerates and charity often begins and ends at home.Kim Beom-su, the...

New York prosecutors on Friday filed hate crime charges against the suspect in a stabbing in Manhattan’s Chinatown that left a man in critical condition. The incident is the latest in a string of violent attacks against Asian-Americans.The 36-year-...

China has created a new government body to cement its inroads against poverty and to promote development in rural areas.The agency, called the National Administration for Rural Revitalisation, was launched on the same day as President Xi Jinping decl...

A growing awareness among Chinese consumers about the health and wellness benefits from drinking milk helped imports hit two “major milestones in 2020”, as the trade avoided coronavirus-related headwinds and political risks.Chinese appetite for m...

US Defence Department spokesman John Kirby said on Friday his recent remarks supporting Tokyo’s claims over the sovereignty of the Japan-controlled, China-claimed Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea were an “error” and apologised for any confu...

US President Joe Biden travelled to Texas on Friday, where he met volunteers at a food bank, toured a health centre and visited an emergency operations facility to assess recovery efforts from a severe Texas winter storm while an aide blamed state go...

When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited India in September 2014, India and China signed a film co-production treaty in New Delhi. That same year, China was the focus country for India’s International Film Festival, held in Goa. Their bilateral tr...

More than 300 cats left in cages in two houses in Bangkok have been rescued after neighbours alerted animal activists that their owner had abandoned them.The cats were thought to have been strays the owner had given shelter to. But she could no longe...

A US intelligence report made public on Friday said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – a key figure in the US-Saudi relationship – “approved” the gruesome murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.The prince, who is de facto r...

The terrorism trial of the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda can be held in Rwanda, a judge there ruled on Friday, rejecting Paul Rusesabagina’s argument that a court there cannot try him because he is no longer a citizen.Rusesabagina’s lawy...

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Friday that China is restricting basic civil and political freedoms in the name of national security and coronavirus measures, adding to a wave of criticism of the country’s rights record....

A Shenzhen drone maker has commended two employees for supporting Chinese troops on the ground during last year’s Himalayan border clash with India, giving a rare glimpse into how the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is using technology services fr...

Scotland’s former leader Alex Salmond on Friday launched a blistering attack on the government of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, a former protegee, in a row with potentially huge implications for the country’s independence push.Salmond was givin...

About 15 million urban workers, including a record-high 9.09 million university graduates, will enter China’s job market this year, exerting greater employment pressure on the world’s second-largest economy.Zhang Jinan, minister of human resource...

A Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) decision to sever all ties with its student union on national security grounds and impose a host of tough measures on the body has provoked outrage among alumni and undergraduates, with thousands signing petit...

Britain’s Prince Harry has said he stepped back from his royal duties because the “toxic” British press had been destroying his mental health, adding he had not walked away from public service.Last week, Buckingham Palace announced that Queen E...

Unidentified gunmen seized 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria on Friday, police said, the second such kidnapping in little over a week in a region increasingly targeted by militants.School kidnappings, first practised by jihadist groups Boko Haram ...

The US military conducted a successful test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this week in what it described as evidence of its ability to “deter twenty-first century threats”.An LGM-30G Minuteman III missile was fired from V...

A Bavarian radio station apologised on Friday for a host’s comments comparing popular South Korean K-pop band BTS to the coronavirus, saying his choice of words had gone too far but was in no way meant to be “hurtful or racist”.The statement ca...

Two months after China and the EU struck an investment deal, cracks are appearing that could threaten relations between them.The Chinese commerce ministry said on Friday that the European Commission’s trade policy strategy, released last week, was ...

Beijing’s national security office in Hong Kong will move out from its base at the Metropark Hotel Causeway Bay, after nearly eight months of operations, according to a government source.The source however stopped short of revealing the location of...

China has earmarked 1.74 billion yuan (US$270 million) to expand its Chinese Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), as part of a plan to strengthen the detection and handling of public health emergencies, in the wake of fallout from the Covi...

Two US Navy warships operating in the Mideast have been struck by coronavirus outbreaks, authorities said on Friday, with both returning to port in Bahrain.A dozen troops aboard the USS San Diego, an amphibious transport dock, tested positive for Cov...

Hundreds of academics have called on Australia’s top-ranked university to take “swift and decisive action” against a lecturer who is attempting to highlight the negative experiences of women who share spaces such as changing rooms with their tr...