A generational shift is occurring among Chinese collectors with once popular items like tea replaced by handbags, toys and Japanese whisky as millennials and Generation Z refine their tastes and their investment habits. “Decades-old Puer tea had lo...

As safety concerns prompt western European countries to limit the use of AstraZeneca Plc’s coronavirus shot, Ukraine is leading a charge from the continent’s east to scoop up unwanted doses.The government in Kiev, which has struggled to secure va...

China’s population is set to peak in just four years’ time and the milestone will be marked by a significant downturn in consumer demand, an adviser to the central bank has warned.“When the total population enters negative growth [after 2025], ...

South Korea raised concerns over Japan’s decision to release contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea with visiting US climate envoy John Kerry, its foreign ministry said, but Kerry reaffirmed Washington’s confide...

Vietnam is at the cusp of a significant financial transformation. New lending systems and a culture of borrowing are taking over.Digital lending is thriving, with hundreds of smartphone apps available for download. They come from banks and consumer l...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has asked US drug maker Pfizer Inc. for additional supplies of its Covid-19 vaccine to speed up an inoculation drive that is lagging behind many other countries.Suga, after holding talks with President Joe Biden...

In a village 250 kilometres (150 miles) southwest of Shanghai, along a street peppered with rickshaws of various colours and flanked by five-storey buildings brimming with goods, mountains of boxes sit waiting for the myriad delivery workers who have...

In one of the latest big-ticket property deals in Singapore, a sea-facing bungalow in the exclusive residential enclave of Sentosa Cove was reportedly bought in recent weeks for more than S$39 million (US$29.2 million) by a Chinese national from Fuji...

China is not afraid of being outpaced in terms of military modernisation, analysts said, after South Korea last week unveiled a prototype of its planned 4.5th-generation fighter jet, as the two countries are looking at different export markets.The ne...

Hong Kong confirmed 30 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, 29 of which were imported, as officials ramped up warnings of a potential surge in infections amid an ongoing investigation into the source of the city’s first instance of a mutant strain bein...

China and the United States are committed to working together to uphold the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to a joint statement issued on Sunday, just days before a leaders’ summit on the issue hosted by US President Joe Biden.The sta...

Of all the difficulties created by the coronavirus pandemic in India, Basit Maqbool did not expect that experiencing frequent traffic jams in remote Kashmir would be one of them.Basit lives along the foothills of the Zabarwan hills, an eastern pocket...

Just as some patients recovering from Covid-19 suffer long-lasting symptoms, it is becoming clear that the same will be true for the global economy once this year’s V-shaped rebound fades.While US$26 trillion worth of crisis support and the arrival...

Thach Di Thi Phuong Thuy and her husband have their eyes glued to a smartphone screen in their tiny studio apartment in an industrial township near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. They are on a video call with their son Sarum, 11, who is keen to show th...

For a city to thrive and prosper, few issues are as important as housing. Hong Kong has been haunted by a housing crisis for years, with a growing queue for public housing. Hundreds of thousands of people are living in tiny subdivided units, and pr...

A year after they last saw one another, Prince William and his brother Prince Harry put their fraught relationship aside as they said farewell to their grandfather at his funeral on Saturday.The brothers were sombre and silent as they walked together...

The Biden administration’s displays of support for Taiwan have led many to wonder if the decades-old policy of strategic ambiguity is coming to an end. But observers said that while the Biden administration might want to deepen its relations with ...

Safety regulators warned people with kids and pets on Saturday to immediately stop using a treadmill made by Peloton after one child died and others were injured.The US Consumer Product Safety Commission said children and at least one animal were pul...

US President Joe Biden played golf for the first time in his presidency on Saturday, hitting the fairways in his home city of Wilmington – and taking a page out of his golf-obsessed predecessor Donald Trump’s book.The Democrat’s motorcade swept...

Queen Elizabeth never weeps in public – that’s the common perception forged over seven decades of soaring triumphs and terrible tragedies for Britain’s head of state.Even if many people believe it, it’s not strictly true, royal historians say...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny risks cardiac arrest at “any minute” as his health has rapidly deteriorated, doctors warned Saturday, urging immediate access to Russia’s most famous prisoner.On March 31, President Vladimir Putin’s most p...

Sometimes, people in a long-term partnership find it difficult to see anything other than the problems – or worse, they see problems that don’t exist. It’s often because they take the relationship and their partner for granted. It can also be ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced Hong Kong’s “politically-motivated” decision to sentence publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and multiple opposition lawmakers to prison for their roles in the 2019 mass protests that rocked th...

Amarjit Sekhon, a 48-year-old mother of two sons, was the breadwinner of her family and one of many members of Indianapolis’ tight-knit Sikh community employed at a FedEx warehouse on the city’s southwest side.Her death on Thursday night in a mas...

The window of opportunity is narrowing for climate cooperation between China and the United States, observers and environmentalists have warned, after a visit by Joe Biden’s special climate envoy appears to have yielded little result.John Kerry wra...

Queen Elizabeth bade farewell to Prince Philip at a funeral on Saturday that celebrated his seven decades of service and gave grandsons William and Harry the chance to talk in public for the first time since claims of racism threw the family into cri...

A joint study by think tanks from the United States and China warns that cyberattacks on nuclear systems could trigger conflict, with both sides underestimating the risk.The three-year study by the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)...

Hong Kong police have arrested a former public hospital employee accused of accessing and obtaining information from a database of patients which included police officers, politicians and entertainers. In a press briefing on Saturday, Chief Inspecto...

Two Russian warships transited the Bosphorus en route to the Black Sea on Saturday and 15 smaller vessels completed a transfer to the sea as Moscow beefs up its naval presence at a time of tense relations with the West and Ukraine.The reinforcement c...

Iran named a suspect on Saturday in the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility that damaged centrifuges there, saying he had fled the country before the sabotage happened.While the extent of the damage from the April 11 attack remains unclear, it come...

Hongkongers living in mainland China may be allowed to cast their votes in future local elections at special polling stations on the city side of border if the coronavirus pandemic continues to curb travel.Officials also told lawmakers the newly empo...

At least five people were shot dead and dozens injured when Bangladesh police opened fire Saturday on demonstrating workers at the construction site of a Chinese-financed power plant, officials said.Police started shooting after workers became violen...

IT officials designing a mobile application to help Hong Kong restaurants and bars check their customers’ Covid-19 inoculation records under a new “vaccine bubble” scheme should address privacy concerns before its roll-out, industry and union r...

The long-running rivalry between China and the United States, including decades of confrontations over Taiwan, have been the driving force for the modernisation of the People’s Liberation Army, including the construction of an advanced naval fleet ...

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will attend an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit in Indonesia on April 24, a Thai foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday, for his first known foreign trip since he staged a February 1 coup....

Just over a year since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, the world crossed a threshold on Saturday with the global death toll reaching 3 million lives.It took around 10 months from the first known cases of the disease before one million deaths were c...

About an hour’s drive from Chennai lies India’s oldest avian sanctuary, Vedanthangal, which offers a haven to an estimated 40,000 birds every year during the post-monsoon season between October and February.The core area of the sanctuary is about...

Beijing’s national security office in Hong Kong is set to take over a second hotel in the city to provide additional workspace, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People’s...

Beijing has accused the United States and Japan of sowing division after they said they would counter China’s “intimidation” in the Asia-Pacific region and referred to Taiwan in a joint statement for the first time in over 50 years.US President...

Some parents and educators have questioned why children were allowed to play with toy guns at a Hong Kong police event, after the force’s chief hit out at critics and slammed the doxxing of one school that took part.Commissioner Chris Tang Ping-keu...

The French community in Pakistan is torn between disbelief, fear and annoyance in reaction to their embassy’s call for them to leave the country after Francophobic rioting this week by an extremist Islamic party.Most, it seems, have decided to stay...

Japan’s plan to release radioactive water into the Pacific has put Taiwan’s government in a bind, caught between standing up for its fishing industry and avoiding a dispute with its northern neighbour.Japan’s decision this week to release more ...

Australian and New Zealand beef are commonplace in Chinese kitchens, supermarkets and e-commerce platforms, but China’s increasingly discerning diners have, until recently, been hard-pressed to find much beef from other major beef exporters such as...

Philippine authorities on Saturday said they have seized some 200 tonnes of illegally harvested giant clam shells worth nearly US$25 million in one of the biggest known operations of its kind in the country.Conservationists have expressed alarm over ...

Iran has begun enriching uranium to its highest-ever purity, edging close to weapons-grade levels, as it attempts to pressure negotiators in Vienna during talks on restoring its nuclear deal with world powers after an attack on its main enrichment si...

As India’s daily tally of Covid-19 infections surged by a record 200,000-plus cases on two consecutive days, public health experts worry that a new – possibly more virulent – coronavirus variant could be racing through the crowded nation of mor...

Hong Kong authorities have imposed their “toughest infection-control measures” to quarantine about 80 residents of a Jordan building for 21 days, after a man staying there was found to be infected with the city’s first community-detected mutant...

South Africa’s wine sector may be raising a glass to the consequences of China’s dispute with Australia after its share of the Chinese market grew since Beijing slapped tariffs on Canberra.Exports of South African wine to China rose 50 per cent i...

One of the most notable measures taken by Washington and its allies in response to China’s rise and the threat it poses to the liberal international order has been the development of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or “Quad”.China sees the...

Singapore is betting on floating solar farms and vertical panels to increase its clean-energy supplies and cut carbon emissions, a model that could work in other densely populated cities, urban experts said.With renewable energy options such as wind,...