Justin Bieber’s latest album Justice dropped on Thursday night and begins with the voice of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” King’s voice declares before Bieber continues with the...

Elon Musk, the chief executive of electric carmaker Tesla, has downplayed espionage concerns from China, saying if its vehicles were used for spying, the company would be shut down.The entrepreneur was speaking at the China Development Forum, hours a...

A woman who currently works in the office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he looked down her shirt and made suggestive remarks to her and another aide, according to a newspaper report published on Friday.Alyssa McGrath told The New York Times ...

Hong Kong’s health minister has floated a handful of potential incentives aimed at encouraging residents to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, including relaxing quarantine restrictions for travellers, allowing visits to care homes and easing ...

A Russian man has pleaded guilty in the US to offering a Tesla employee US$1 million to cripple the electric car maker’s massive electric battery plant in Nevada with ransomware and steal company secrets for extortion, prosecutors and court records...

Environmental groups in China are celebrating a victory for “ecological protection” after a central government investigation backed up claims of widespread illegal deforestation at a forest farm in the country’s arid north west.A report publish...

Nguyen Minh Giang is not a big fan of singing but enjoys listening to others showing off – just not when the warbling is coming from karaoke gatherings near her home in Ho Chi Minh City. ‘’When people sing on the other side of the river at nig...

Hong Kong’s international business community has expressed its increasing unhappiness about the government’s coronavirus prevention measures, pressing for clarity on quarantine guidelines and a road map for relaxing social-distancing rules in a m...

Australia will not trade away important principles and values to restart talks with China, Foreign Minister Marise Payne told The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.Kurt Campbell, a senior aide to US President Joe Biden came out in support of Australia ...

Slapping the first sanctions on Chinese officials for three decades is not enough to convince some sceptics in Brussels to support the EU-China investment deal – even as Beijing warns that it is ready to retaliate in kind.On Monday, the bloc’s 27...

China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive infrastructure that they cannot afford and that will yield few benefits, all with the goal of Beijing eventually taking control of these assets from its...

A volcano erupted just 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Iceland’s capital Reykjavik on Friday, with red lava spewing out of the ground and a crimson glow lighting up the night sky as a no-fly zone was established in the area.Streams of red lava could ...

In Israel, where well over half the country’s 9 million residents have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, citizens are spilling out from bars onto the streets. After administering 24 million first doses of vaccine, British authorit...

Hongkonger Hugo He was expecting a fruitful, smooth final year of secondary school, but then came the Covid-19 disruptions.The 17-year-old Form Six student at an international school says classes have been disrupted three times since the outbreak beg...

As governments around the world assess how widely they will need to vaccinate populations to curb the spread of Covid-19, new data from the pandemic’s first epicentre shows the challenge ahead for China.Researchers there spent months tracking the i...

Born without a right hand, British pianist Nicholas McCarthy is striving to become a household name in the world of classical music.The 31-year-old says his childhood growing up in a town near London was normal, although school peers and passers-by w...

Relatives of a Chinese auxiliary police officer convicted of using sexual relationships to blackmail nine married men, many of whom are public officials, have claimed that an appeal court won’t allow a family lawyer for the defence. Xu Yan, 27, has...

When Cao Shan promised he could build a chip plant to challenge China’s reigning chip champion, Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), the Wuhan local government was quick to jump on board. The promises of sem...

The testy start to the Alaska meetings between the United States and China has taken analysts by surprise, with some pointing out that it does not augur well for US-China relations but others expressing cautious optimism that relations could return t...

US President Joe Biden called for unity and urged Congress to pass legislation to tackle hate crimes against Asian-Americans on Friday, following meetings with community activists in Atlanta, where eight people – including six Asian women – were ...

On the night Myanmar’s army seized power, Dr Sasa was in the capital, Naypyidaw, expecting to take a job in Aung San Suu Kyi’s cabinet after running a successful election campaign for her party in his native Chin state.But as troops fanned out ac...

Former US president Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, club has been partially closed because of a Covid-19 outbreak.That’s according to several people familiar with the situation, including a club member who received a phone call telling them a...

A two-day meeting between China and the United States got off to a tense start in Anchorage, Alaska on Thursday, putting their deeply strained relationship on rare public display.It is the first face-to-face talks between the two sides since US Presi...

As Hong Kong enters a new political era, amid not entirely unfounded fears, patriotism will soon become a criterion for the city’s leaders at all levels. Provided patriotism is not the only benchmark, we should see this as a reasonable requirement ...

On her 50th birthday, Xiaojie Tan would have gathered with her only child for a slice of strawberry fresh cream cake, her favourite.The mother and daughter were best friends.But the day before Tan would have celebrated her many accomplishments – ma...

China and the United States pledged to set up a working group on climate change as agreement was reached in some areas during two days of talks, though both sides noted a wide gap on many contentious issues.After the meeting ended on Friday, US Secre...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson received his first dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Friday and urged the public to do the same, saying “he did not feel a thing”.Johnson, 56, received his vaccine at the same hospital where almost a...

Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou’s lawyer ridiculed and rejected the testimony of Canadian border officers who dealt with her before her arrest at Vancouver’s airport 27 months ago, telling the judge at Meng’s extradition hearing on F...

The US should have more flexible rules to define which Chinese companies have military ties and move away from forcing firms to disclose government connections, financial market experts told a congressional advisory panel on Friday.“Congress should...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andy Blatchford and Sue Allan on politico.com on March 19, 2021.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he expects the cases of two Canadians “arbitr...

Three Chinese naval vessels including a large guided-missile destroyer have been spotted in the Strait of Tsushima, north of Japan’s Kyushu main island, sailing into the Sea of Japan, the Defence Ministry said on Friday.The Renhai-class vessel is a...

China’s youth do not seem to want to go so far as to be labelled anti-American, but while older generations once admired US values, films and brands and held the political conditions and economic and technological advancement in a positive light, c...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke on Friday to four Hong Kong families who moved to the country on a special visa for people with British National (Overseas) status, as the UK government revealed that it had received a total of 27,000 applic...

The European scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely-used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe, and the technology behind it will soon be used to fight another global scourge – cancer. Dr Ozlem Tureci,...

Senior diplomats from Beijing and Washington have been urged to seek common ground on climate change after this week’s high-level talks in Alaska.Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi, China’s two most senior diplomats, kicked off the much-watched summit with ...

Several European countries were resuming AstraZeneca vaccinations on Friday after an all-clear from EU regulators, as US President Joe Biden was set to meet his goal of having 100 million Americans inoculated weeks ahead of schedule.Days of commotion...

A social worker who discovered injuries on an abused boy has testified to teaching his parents softer child discipline methods before his five-year-old sister allegedly died as an indirect result of ill-treatment, a Hong Kong court has heard.“At th...

A move by Pyongyang to sever ties with Malaysia, following the extradition of a North Korean national to the United States on money-laundering charges, could be aimed at testing the administration of US President Joe Biden, according to analysts.Pyon...

A fierce level of enmity and distrust was on full display at the first high-level talks between China and the United States since President Joe Biden took office, but Beijing still raised the prospect of achieving more of substance in future meetings...

Extending China’s legal retirement age will keep more people employed longer as society ages, but a number of Chinese workers are worried that it might exacerbate discrimination in the job market.After years of discussions, Beijing announced in its...

Estonia has convicted a maritime scientist who also worked at a Nato facility of spying for China, officials and media reports said on Friday, in the country’s first intelligence case not linked to Russia.Tarmo Kouts was convicted and sentenced to ...

Hong Kong lawmakers will start discussing Beijing’s coming overhaul of the city’s electoral system even before China’s top legislative body unveils the final details of its plan.The Legislative Council’s House Committee, which scrutinises bil...

Through the haze of grief and pain, there is one moment of clarity to which the family of Khant Nyar Hein keep returning: they have lost everything since they lost him.The 17-year-old, a first-year medical student, was killed by Myanmar security forc...

Beijing is once again upping the ante on its bet that it can revitalise northeast China’s rust-belt industrial base in line with the central government’s push to promote technological self-sufficiency in its own backyard.Greater government suppor...

China and Russia will look to nurture a “back to back” and “shoulder to shoulder” relationship when their foreign ministers meet next week against a backdrop of rising mutual tensions with the United States, observers say.Zhu Feng, an interna...

Neither the local nor central government has done anything so far to interfere with judicial independence in Hong Kong, the city’s justice minister has asserted, in the face of pressure on foreign judges to quit the system over concerns about the n...

A cemetery in China found itself in hot water after touting a mortgage plan for buying a burial plot, amid concerns about unethical funeral cost mark-ups. The Kunming Jinlong Ruyi Park in the southwestern province of Yunnan revealed on Tuesday a pla...

Hong Kong’s debt-ridden Ocean Park secured lawmakers’ approval for its HK$6.8 billion rebirth plan on Friday, despite questions being raised over the operations of its planned retail, dining and entertainment zone and viability of its new water p...

Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery.Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will fin...

Hong Kong police have arrested 21 people suspected of controlling public parking spaces on more than 10 streets and forcing drivers to pay for their illegal car jockeying service in a popular shopping and entertainment district.The suspects used plas...