Stressed by family matters back home, Suliana Kasim Dapok acted out by stepping on her Singapore employer’s one-and-half-year old son and pushing him to the floor after he vomited on the carpet. The 42-year-old’s actions were captured on a close...

China’s carrier group – including the aircraft carrier Liaoning, one Renhai class stealth guided missile destroyer, two Luyang III class guided missile destroyers, one Jiangkai II multi-role frigate and one Fuyu class fast combat support ship –...

A South Korean man murdered two sisters and their mother at the women’s flat before living there for three days, consuming food and alcohol at the crime scene, in a case that has gripped the country.The suspect, identified only by his surname, Kim,...

Courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 and jazz period film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom were the big winners at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards, one of the last major ceremonies before the Oscars.The Trial of the Chicago 7, set during a Vietn...

Hunter Biden, the US president’s son, says that he did not make a mistake by joining the board of one of the largest natural gas companies in Ukraine when his father was serving Barack Obama’s vice-president.In wide-ranging interview with CBS New...

A Beijing mouthpiece has accused the United States’ consul general in Hong Kong of “upending black and white” in the wake of his criticisms of last week’s radical electoral system overhaul, but agreed on one point – the city will eventually...

The show will go on at last for Benis Cheng’s dance project, after two years of delays caused first by the social unrest of 2019 and then the Covid-19 pandemic. Dance Virtual@ Tai Po, a performance combining Indian and Western dance, is expected to...

Taiwanese rescuers were trying on Monday to retrieve the last body of a passenger from wreckage of a deadly train crash last week.Fifty people have been confirmed dead after a packed express train carrying almost 500 passengers and crew slammed into ...

A lawyer for the Singapore opposition politician ordered by a court to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong S$133,000 (US$98,840) for defamation said he had raised enough cash from donations to fully cover damages. Leong Sze Hian of the Peoples Voice ...

Hong Kong recorded 16 new coronavirus infections – of which 15 were imported – on Monday while top infectious disease experts warned the city could be in line for a post-Easter uptick in cases.The single local case, involving a 32-year-old man, w...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned the United States not to take a superior position and presume it has a final say on global affairs.Wang said China would not accept a list from Washington of unilateral demands for negotiations with Beijing...

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee tweeted that he has chosen to “identify as Chinese” because it will help him find favour with American corporations.“I’ve decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese,” Huckabee tweeted on Saturday. “Coke wi...

Hong Kong is reviving a trial of electric taxis as part of moves to encourage the use of alternative fuel vehicles, environment minister Wong Kam-sing has revealed. An earlier pilot scheme ended in failure, with cabbies complaining of a shortage of c...

The repeated boycotts by male internet users towards stand-up comedian Yang Li, famous for her biting jokes about men, shows female comedians in China are fighting an uphill battle against sexism.Many men said they were offended by Yang’s barbs, su...

China’s steel mills can meet their goal of reducing carbon emissions if the industry is willing to accept the high cost of improving the efficiency of production, according to analysts.As the largest crude steel producer and consumer, China’s ste...

A new industrial estate for metal smelting that Indonesia plans to build with China’s steel and nickel giant Tsingshan Holding Group in Borneo will provide the country with much-needed investment to develop its electric vehicles (EV) battery indust...

Hong Kong can increase its use of renewable energy while working towards achieving its climate goals by 2050, environment minister Wong Kam-sing has said, but he is not ready to fix hard targets.“It is still too early to talk numbers,” he told th...

Research into wildlife farms in southern China will be a critical next step in the search for the origins of Covid-19, a member of the WHO investigation team has said.Biologist and food safety and disease expert Hung Nguyen-Viet was one of the 10 int...

India’s daily Covid-19 cases soared by 103,558 on Monday, the biggest such daily increase, data from the health ministry showed, taking the total to 12.59 million.The country added 478 new deaths, raising the total to 165,101.Mumbai authorities ask...

The centre-right GERB party of outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has come first in parliamentary elections with around 25 per cent of the vote, according to exit polls published on Sunday evening after polls closed.With his party’s ne...

Valencia stopped playing its Spanish league game at Cádiz on Sunday and walked off the field after one of its players said he was racially insulted by an opponent. The club said it resumed the game after feeling threatened by the referee with the lo...

Britain is planning to test a series of measures including “coronavirus status certifications” over the coming weeks to see if they can allow people to safely return to mass gatherings at sports arenas, nightclubs and concerts.People attending a ...

The European Union on Sunday called for the departure of all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya, describing it as a “precondition” for a return to stability in the war-torn country.At a news conference in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, EU Co...

Officials in Washington appealed on Sunday for balance between securing the US Capitol and public accessibility after the second deadly attack this year targeted the seat of American democracy.A policeman was killed and another wounded on Friday afte...

An Australian couple has been freed from house arrest in Myanmar and allowed to leave the country without charge, one of the two business consultants said on Sunday.Christa Avery and her husband Matthew O’Kane were refused permission to leave Myanm...

Egypt’s first female sea captain says she was skewered on social media for causing the grounding that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week even though she was working on a ship hundreds of miles away.The controversy comes as the canal authority...

Five people have died and rescuers are searching for survivors after a small ferry packed with up to 50 passengers sank after colliding with another boat in central Bangladesh on Sunday, officials said.Mobarak Hossain, an official at Bangladesh Inlan...

 A senior Jordanian official on Sunday accused the country’s former crown prince of conspiring with foreign elements in a “malicious plot” that threatened national security.Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told reporters that the plot had been fo...

Hong Kong police have seized 700kg of cocaine worth about HK$900 million (US$115.7 million) in their largest bust of the narcotic in a decade. Officers arrested two men, aged 19 and 25, after finding bricks of cocaine in Fo Tan and Sha Tin on Friday ...

Some of Beijing’s most trusted loyalists will be handed a direct seat in the occupation-based subsectors in an influential committee that oversees Hong Kong’s key elections, without having to go through a poll as their professional peers will, th...

At least 22 members of the Indian security forces were killed in a central Indian state by Maoist fighters, in one of the bloodiest attacks by the extreme left-wing insurgent group this year, officials said on Sunday.Security personnel belonging to t...

Workers from Hong Kong’s pubs, karaoke bars and mahjong parlours have started a four-day hunger strike outside the city’s legislature to pressure the government into allowing them to reopen as new coronavirus infections have remained low.Although...

 Millions of Christians around the world celebrated a second Easter under coronavirus restrictions on Sunday with Pope Francis calling for vaccines to be shared among the poorest nations as Covid-19 surges.Despite vaccine roll-outs gathering pace in...

Zhang Chunxian was seen by many as the hope of Xinjiang in 2010. Just months after the 2009 bloodbath and violent ethnic clashes that shocked the region and left more than 190 dead, Zhang, the region’s media savvy and somewhat charismatic new party...

A Hong Kong university has expressed deep regret after a lecturer refused to make flexible arrangements over an online exam for a student in Myanmar who pointed to internet blackouts enforced by the military following a coup two months ago. The human...

Last month, Hong Kong’s heritage officials disclosed the results of a survey of some 8,800 historic buildings conducted two decades ago, in the wake of a controversy over the last-minute rescue of a century-old underground reservoir slated for demo...

 Flash floods unleashed by torrential rains killed at least 41 people on the Indonesian island of Flores on Sunday, the disaster management agency BNPB said, and at least three more were reported killed in neighbouring East Timor.At least 49 familie...

With less than three weeks to go until Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, just eight of the 40 heads of state invited to take part in the online event have so far accepted.The two-day summit is set to start on April 22 – Earth Day – which m...

The former head of one of China’s largest weapons manufacturers is under investigation for alleged corruption offences, according to the Communist Party’s anti-corruption watchdog.Yin Jiaxu, who was Communist Party chief and chairman of China Nor...

Just three months into the year, India has already recorded half a dozen deaths by people taking selfies. And that’s just the ones that are recorded.Police officials say the number of selfie fatalities could be much higher, possibly in the thousand...

Eleven people died and 19 people were injured after a truck and a bus collided in eastern China on Sunday, authorities said.The accident happened in the early hours of Sunday, when the truck crossed the central divider in the middle of a highway in t...

China and South Korea have agreed to new security talks and discussed a possible visit by President Xi Jinping as the two sides continued efforts to rebuild their relationships following the 2016 row about a US missile system that seriously harmed ti...

A streak of sell-out weekends for residential property in Hong Kong ended on Sunday when three developers managed to sell only 20 out of 148 flats between them.Wheelock Properties and Sino Land had sold just 13 units as of 4:30pm at their Grand Victo...

The Philippines’ defence chief on Sunday said China was looking to occupy more areas in the South China Sea, citing the continued presence of Chinese vessels that Manila believes are manned by militias in disputed parts of the strategic waterway.�...

The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan may create uncertainty in neighbouring Xinjiang, but might improve China’s security environment in the longer run, analysts have said.At Tuesday’s Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Pr...

About 55 per cent of Hong Kong parents living in subdivided flats have said their children study and use electronic devices in low-light areas, according to a non-profit group that has raised concern about the students’ eye health. A survey of 291...

Warships from the United States, Japan, Australia, India and France will from Monday sail together through the Indo-Pacific in a three-day naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal. It will be the first such exercise between the so-called Quad countries �...

Domestic air travel in China returned almost to pre-pandemic levels on Saturday at the start of the three-day Ching Ming tomb-sweeping festival, according to the aviation authority.More than 1.5 million passengers flew on the first day of the long we...

When the son of a wealthy Indian politician returned home in 2019 after acquiring an Ivy League education in the United States, his search for a prospective partner soon stalled as he realised he had no way of meeting someone suitable.“I was abroad...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Sunday that he would expand emergency measures as needed to contain a new wave of coronavirus infections, amid fears over the spread of virus mutations.Suga, asked on a Fuji TV programme whether Tokyo mi...