Doctors in Japan announced on Thursday they have successfully performed the world’s first transplant of lung tissue from living donors to a patient with severe lung damage from Covid-19.The recipient, identified only as a woman from Japan’s weste...

A former pro-independence group member arrested over Hong Kong’s biggest explosives seizure in two decades has confessed to hiding 1kg of the deadly materials in an industrial building in the early days of 2019’s anti-government protests.Louis L...

Health experts have backed calls for fully vaccinated travellers from Covid-19 low-risk countries to be allowed quarantine-free entry into Hong Kong subject to conditions such as mandatory testing. The city’s tourism lawmaker on Friday also said a ...

Tensions are escalating over China’s move to mass militia vessels in disputed areas of the South China Sea, with the US and Philippines expressing renewed concern and an investigation under way into reports that armed Chinese navy ships chased down...

Ambulances filled with breathless patients lined up in Brazil as nations around the world set records this week for Covid-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections. The disease surged even in some countries that have kept the virus in check.Brazil th...

Iran released on Friday a South Korean ship and its captain detained since January after Seoul promised to try to secure the release of Tehran’s funds frozen in South Korean banks under US sanctions, an official said.The Iranian foreign ministry c...

Chile has provided a real-time demonstration of the effectiveness of Chinese firm Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine, with its vaccination drive results showing it to be 56.5 per cent effective two weeks after the second dose. The findings were in line wit...

Chinese officials who let a convicted murderer walk free just months into a 15-year sentence have been exposed in a web of corruption dating back decades.In a statement released on Wednesday, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region judicial authority in...

A backlog of container ships carrying consumer goods has grown in some key strategic ports after a near week-long blockage in the Suez Canal, adding to ongoing disruptions to global trade, industry sources said. Dozens of container ships were stuck w...

A banner with two flags is unfurled, a large box is lowered from a cargo hold, and cameras flash for a photo op as local politicians and a Chinese ambassador welcome a shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from China.This moment has been repeated around the ...

Hong Kong has asked embattled drug giant AstraZeneca to delay delivery of its Covid-19 vaccine and requested they offer a second-generation version of the drug better able to handle new coronavirus variants. The decision emerged ahead of officials o...

Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government put aside factional differences to call for calm after frustration among pro-British unionists over post-Brexit trade barriers helped trigger some of the worst violence in the region in years.Despite the ...

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), the market operator, will further expand its circuit-breaker mechanism to temper wild swings in the price of futures contracts in Asia’s third-largest capital market.The move will add to similar con...

Beijing seeks to make IP protection a central part of its new development strategy.

A Vietnamese teenager accused of being a key “organiser” in the fatal people-smuggling operation which saw 39 migrants suffocate in the back of a container on its way to Essex has lost his appeal against extradition.Ngo Sy Tai, also known as Hung...

Every four years, when the World Cup rolls around, most football fans are willing to pay the price of sleep deprivation and sorely tested relationships. But there have been other, far steeper, costs for next year’s edition in Qatar.In February, rep...

US intelligence officials are painting a dark picture of the world’s future, writing in a new report that the coronavirus pandemic has deepened economic inequality, strained government resources and fanned nationalist sentiments.Those assessments a...

China’s factory gate prices rose the most in more than two years in March, as producers passed on rising raw material prices, data released on Friday showed.The producer price index (PPI), which reflects the prices that factories charge wholesalers...

The attempted suicide of a woman in eastern China after years of taking care of her three siblings sparked a debate about the legal responsibilities placed on siblings in the absence of parents. The 20-year-old from Zhejian province, identified by h...

China’s move to produce its Sinopharm vaccine in the United Arab Emirates, and Sinovac in Malaysia and Indonesia, will allow Beijing to expand manufacturing capacity while bringing its jabs closer to those who need them, boosting its vaccine dipl...

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) adopted the amended Annex I to the Basic Law on Method for the Selection of the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Annex II to the Basic Law on Method f...

Former justice minister Elsie Leung Oi-sie has cautioned Western governments against undermining Hong Kong’s rule of law by politicising the presence of foreign judges in the city and pressuring them to quit.The city’s first secretary for justice...

Hong Kong police have arrested more than 10,200 people in connection with the anti-government protests in the 20 months since mid-2019, with over 600 of those already convicted, according to latest official updates to legislators.During that period, ...

Last weekend, four members of Indonesia’s banned Islamic Defender Front (FPI) extremist group made shocking video confessions; two were planning to bomb Chinese-owned businesses as well as shops owned by ethnically Chinese Indonesians, while the ot...

One person was killed and five people were wounded on Thursday in the wake of a shooting at a cabinet-making business in Bryan, Texas, authorities said, and a state trooper was later shot during a manhunt that resulted in the suspected shooter being ...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “dictator” in front of the press, causing a stir.Draghi spoke to the press in Rome on Thursday evening about the visit of European Commission President Ursula...

Archaeologists hailed on Thursday the discovery of “the largest” ancient city found in Egypt, buried under sand for millennia, which experts said was one of the most important finds since unearthing Tutankhamen’s tomb.Famed Egyptologist Zahi Ha...

“This is clearly an effort by one party to rewrite the rules of the political system.” This sentence was spoken, not by a member of Hong Kong’s opposition, but rather, by US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell about the Democrats’ sweepi...

Australia has seemingly moved towards “less combative” interactions with China, despite ongoing tensions and alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his cabinet expressed a desire for a “positive” and ...

The US Marshals have secured an international warrant for the man suspected of fatally shooting a Yale graduate student, who was also an Army veteran.The Interpol “red notice” asks member countries to arrest Qinxuan Pan, 29, on charges of murder...

The United States on Thursday restricted trade with top Chinese supercomputing centres, saying that Beijing’s growing efforts in the field could have military uses that pose dangers. The seven centres or entities were put on the US government’s ...

US lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next week that would put additional sanctions on Chinese officials, build closer US relations with Taiwan and place more checks on Beijing’s military operations and territorial claims, among other measures...

Immediately after his meeting with senior US diplomats in Alaska, Foreign Minister Wang Yi embarked on a six-state tour of the Middle East. In Iran, his third stop, he signed the long-discussed 25-year cooperation agreement between China and Iran.The...

A South Korean professional video gamer has described the “unspeakable” racism he has suffered while based in Texas in a clip that has gone viral on social media, sparking condemnation of the abuse.The United States has seen a surge in anti-Asian...

This is the first in a series of reports on Chinese intellectual property as Beijing seeks to make IP protection a central part of its new development strategy.Chinese universities have been rising in global rankings for patent filings, according to ...

[Sponsored Article] As the brand-new CUHK Medical Centre moves in stages towards full operating mode later this year, the second phase will see the start of in-patient services, including the opening of general wards, a paediatric ward, a day surger...

Manila and Beijing’s row over the massing of Chinese vessels in the contested South China Sea has plunged bilateral relations into uncharted waters, with both the Philippine defence and foreign affairs departments saying they were keeping their opt...

The release of a new state media video of China’s Shandong aircraft carrier suggests the giant vessel might soon be heading out on the high seas as it continues its preparations to become combat-ready, according to a military insider.“The Shandon...

Hundreds of seats on two special flights intended to bring stranded Hongkongers home from Britain after the end of a coronavirus travel ban were snapped up in two hours on Thursday, in a process marred by a crashed booking site, phone calls that went...

Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar fought back with handmade guns and firebombs against a crackdown by security forces in a town in the northwest but at least 11 of the protesters were killed, local media reported on Thursday.Initially, six truckload...

While Beijing is unlikely to have a major problem with Washington’s call for the world’s leading economies to agree on a global minimum corporate tax rate, China is nevertheless likely to take a cautious approach in international negotiations giv...

Wedding days are infamous for shocking moments that are remembered for a lifetime, but it might be hard for any marriage to surpass what happened in Suzhou, in eastern China, on March 31. As the wedding celebrations were kicking off, the groom’s m...

Although pork prices in China have reached their lowest point in more than a year and a half, stabilising the nation’s pork supply remains a challenge amid risks of a possible second wave of the devastating African swine fever, analysts say. The wh...

Health organisations say they are concerned by the findings of a new study that suggests more than a third of Covid-19 survivors go on to suffer neurological or psychiatric problems, and have called for more research and monitoring.Scientists from th...

The United States has further stepped up its military presence in the South China Sea, reportedly sending an amphibious assault vessel to the disputed waters amid heightened tensions in the region.Satellite data showed that the USS Makin Island amphi...

Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on Thursday unexpectedly took himself out of the running to become the country’s next leader, marking a major shake-up in the succession plan of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) after a wea...

Jurors in the Hong Kong trial over the death of a five-year-old girl and the abuse of her brother were reminded on Thursday not to let feelings cloud their judgment while deliberating the fate of the children’s family members. “You should not let...