Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing giant Grab Holdings Inc. is setting up drive-through vaccination services across Indonesia in collaboration with the government to help the nation inoculate more than 180 million people against Covid-19.The programme, ...

To see the gulf between China’s ambitious carbon-neutral goals and the desire of its companies to maintain breakneck growth, look at Shandong’s oil refineries.The coastal province, a hub for private factories with an economy the size of Indonesia...

Children’s money is money earned most easily, goes a saying in China’s consumer market.Covering kids’ clothes, food and drink, sports equipment and all kinds of extracurricular activities, the Chinese market for goods and services for children ...

Hollywood’s award season kicks off Sunday at a very different Golden Globes, with a mainly virtual ceremony set to boost or dash the Oscars hopes of early front runners like Nomadland and The Trial of The Chicago 7.Usually a star-packed, laid-back ...

China has stepped in to help ease disruptions in domestic car manufacturing due to chip shortages by publishing a handbook listing suppliers of car chips and demands from carmakers, according to a state-run television network.The car industry, which ...

There will be fewer cash handouts for Hongkongers in the coming years as government spending hinges on economic recovery, the finance minister has warned.Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said that the government had to be “more flexible” about...

A second former aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has accused him of sexual harassment, saying he asked several questions about her sex life and made her feel “horribly uncomfortable and scared”.Charlotte Bennett, who was a health policy adv...

At Phuket’s Chalong pier, boat driver Mang is in rare, high spirits: he has just had his first paying guests in two months. But for other tour boat operators in the area, surviving until the Thai borders fully reopen to tourists is another question...

Police have charged 47 former opposition lawmakers and activists with conspiring to subvert state power under Hong Kong’s national security law over their roles in an unofficial primary run-off election that authorities linked to a plot to overthro...

China’s economic recovery continued in February, but at a slower-than-expected pace, with all major sectors posting lower growth rates since last spring.The data encompasses the Lunar New Year holiday period, during which economic activity usually ...

Ten people who ate at a Chinese restaurant in an upscale Hong Kong mall which has seen a coronavirus “super-spreader” cluster grow in recent days remain unaccounted for, and the city recorded 22 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday.The cluster, linked to...

Loud explosions shook Riyadh on Saturday as a Saudi-led military coalition said it thwarted a missile attack launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, which sent debris raining down on civilian homes.The Iran-backed Houthis have escalated attacks on the k...

Rama Sikri, 26, and Bhavesh Mehta, 28, clink their champagne flutes against the backdrop of the azure ocean as the camera zooms in on their smiling faces. Clad in a sequinned gold dress with orchids in her hair, Sikri smiles coyly as a tuxedo-clad Me...

A freezer cabinet on the ground floor of a Phnom Penh laboratory and an irrigation pipe in a wildlife sanctuary in Thailand are not the most obvious places to look for the origins of the virus that sparked the Covid-19 pandemic.But both have offered ...

A senior Beijing official has attended a weekend seminar in Shenzhen to hear views on electoral reforms from leaders among Hong Kong’s community, as well as from its business and political sectors, as part of the push to ensure the city is “gover...

Myanmar police opened fired on Sunday on protests against military rule, killing at least four people and wounding several others on the second day of a crackdown on demonstrations across the country, a doctor and a politician said.A woman also died ...

China cut its coal use to 56.8 per cent of energy consumption at the end of 2020, maintaining its target of below 58 per cent, but overall coal consumption continued to rise amid record industrial output and the completion of dozens of coal-fired pow...

If we were to judge the budget that Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po cooked up and served on Wednesday by the reactions of this city’s lawmakers, we would mistake it for something close to spectacular. The pro-establishment-dominated legislatur...

As momentum grows for the adoption of electric vehicles in Asia, Indonesia is hoping to become a key part of the supply chain by becoming a major producer of lithium-ion batteries.Southeast Asia’s largest economy owns one-quarter of the world’s r...

The biggest river in China is drying up.After examining decades of records from ground stations and satellite images, government researchers estimate that the average level of the Yangtze River has fallen by about 2cm (0.8 inches) every five years si...

Two months into 2021, there are signs that the Covid-19 pandemic is easing in Hong Kong, but the political shock waves triggered by the national security law continue to remain strong.Imposed by Beijing in June last year, the law bans acts of secessi...

Thailand started rolling out its long-awaited Covid-19 inoculation programme on Sunday with vaccines from China’s Sinovac Biotech, as the Southeast Asian nation tries to revive its pandemic-hit tourism industry.A group of health care workers receiv...

When the Philippine government started allowing local beach resorts to reopen to domestic tourists late last year, Evanika Makabali, a full-time graphic designer, was one of the first to book an extended stay. “Being a travel junkie during a pande...

Canada does not expect China to retaliate over its new work permit programme aimed at attracting talented young Hongkongers, launched in response to the national security law imposed by Beijing, its top diplomat in the city said.Jeff Nankivell, Canad...

There is still five months to go until the election to head Taiwan’s main opposition party but already the race is shaping up to attract a big field.Whoever wins the chairmanship of the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang is expected to go on to become the...

Three years ago, a lack of job prospects in his Mekong Delta hometown led Truong Ba Long, 33, to move to Vietnam’s economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. “Saigon is the promised land for people from the delta,” said Long, ...

The Chinese government has complained about France’s military activities in the disputed South China Sea, after it sent warships there this month. France’s presence in the contested waters comes at a time of increased activity by the American mil...

US President Joe Biden’s decision not to sanction Saudi Arabia’s crown prince over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder has frustrated campaigners, underscoring Washington’s delicate balancing act as it seeks to avoid a diplomatic rupture.Wash...

British finance minister Rishi Sunak will announce £5 billion (US$7 billion) of additional grants to help businesses hit hard by pandemic lockdowns in his budget statement next week, the government said on Saturday.Shops, bars, clubs, hotels, restau...

With the Chinese Communist Party celebrating its centenary this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping has urged study of its history, of Marxism and socialism with Chinese characteristics. The president’s focus on  history reminded this writer to vis...

Myanmar’s United Nations envoy in New York vowed to fight on Saturday after the junta fired him for urging countries to use “any means necessary” to reverse a February 1 coup that ousted the nation’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.“I decid...

There are fresh signs from the Chinese and the American armed forces that tensions over the South China Sea will continue under the new US administration.The Chinese military’s Southern Theatre Command conducted a live-fire drill to test its respon...

Hundreds gathered in a violent anti-lockdown protest in Dublin on Saturday, with police charging the crowd and arresting 23 demonstrating against ongoing virus curbs in Ireland.Irish prime minister Micheal Martin condemned the protest on the streets ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday shrugged off criticism of her government’s rights record as hundreds marched in a second day of protests over the death of a prominent writer in prison.Demonstrators marched at Dhaka University ch...

Kidnappers have freed 42 people, including 27 children, snatched from a school in central Nigeria 10 days ago, officials said Saturday, a day after gunmen abducted more than 300 schoolgirls in the northwest.“The abducted students, staff and relativ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Gabby Orr and Nahal Toosi on politico.com on February 27, 2021.Donald Trump loomed large over day one of the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference i...

Supporters of Tunisia’s ruling party took to the streets on Saturday in one of the largest protests the country has seen in years.Witnesses said thousands of supporters of the Islamic conservative Ennahda party travelled to the capital Tunis, after...

One person was killed and another wounded in an oxygen explosion at a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi, Ukraine’s emergency service said on Saturday.The explosion occurred on the second floor of the hospital at lunchtime on Satu...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday urged Russia’s Vladimir Putin and new US President Joe Biden to push for deeper restrictions on nuclear weapons.Tensions soared between the two nations under previous US leader Donald Trump, fuelle...

A group of opposition activists in Hong Kong who organised a primary election said to have breached the national security law by attempting to overthrow the government disbanded on Saturday.The announcement came a day before 52 former opposition lawm...

A Chinese state laboratory has detected two more-transmissible mutations of the African swine fever virus, a disease that has devastated pig herds across the country in recent years.In a paper published on Friday, researchers at the Chinese Academy o...

The US military aims to use troops on the ground to help multinational fleets more accurately guide missiles over longer ranges, an approach that analysts say could be used in the South China Sea.In a drill in early February, the USS Dwight D. Eisenh...

Legendary Hong Kong actor Ng Man-tat, best known for co-starring alongside “king of comedy” Stephen Chow Sing-chi in many popular films, died on Saturday afternoon of liver cancer. He was 70.Ng’s friend, Tenky Tin Kai-man, chairman of the Feder...

Britain bid farewell on Saturday to Captain Tom Moore with a nationally televised funeral for the 100-year-old war veteran who became a global hero for his extraordinary fundraising efforts during the pandemic.Soldiers formed a guard of honour at the...

When Chinese University (CUHK) acted against its student union on national security grounds on Thursday, it was hard to imagine a time when the city’s student leaders enjoyed a cosy relationship with the authorities.But in May 1967, the University ...

The Hong Kong government has relaxed some of the restrictions imposed due to the fourth wave of Covid-19 as the number of new cases come down. Still some of the curbs imposed to reduce the risk of transmission, like gathering of large groups, remain ...

Hong Kong’s homebuyers returned to the real estate market, defying an uptick in the city’s coronavirus cases as they remained upbeat about the effectiveness of a Covid-19 vaccination programme and low interest rates on consumption levels.Wheelock...

Kate Moss brought London’s Oxford Street to a standstill in 2007 when the supermodel posed at Topshop’s flagship store to launch her clothing collection.Hundreds of shoppers lined Europe’s busiest retail street, trying to get their hands on the...

Hundreds of people are set to lose their jobs at a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Wuhan that was once touted as part of the country’s plans to become a self-sufficient chip maker, according to Chinese media reports.Employees at Wuhan Hongxin ...

A pair of black swans have been spotted in Victoria Harbour over the past few weeks, stunning passers-by and prompting one of them to capture the birds’ movements with a drone.The swans, which were first seen at a pier in Yau Ma Tei in early Februa...