A car-sized rover that recently explored a remote glacier in the Tibetan Plateau has become the first robot deployed on the roof of the world, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced.Chinese rovers have already explored Mars and the far side of...

Hong Kong’s chief executive and her new security chief Chris Tang Ping-keung will be among a delegation travelling to Beijing on Monday for the Communist Party’s centenary celebrations, leaving the city’s freshly appointed No 2 official to lead...

At first the students petitioned local governments for information about the future of the colleges they attended.With no clarification from the authorities, thousands of the students mounted protests on campus earlier this month, clashing with polic...

France votes in the second round of regional elections on Sunday after a first round that saw a drubbing for President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party, disappointment for Marine Le Pen’s far-right and record low turnout.For some observers, the out...

Nine months after starting hormone therapy in 2004, transgender distance runner Joanna Harper found she was 12 per cent slower than she was beforehand – equal to the difference between the performance of male and female distance runners.This led he...

Former US president Donald Trump opened his score-settling summer tour with a rally before thousands of supporters in Ohio, returning to his familiar script of grievances, exaggerated claims and support for loyal Republicans.The gathering outside Cle...

Months after a video depicting an unclothed man working at a Chinese kimchi factory went viral in South Korea, people in the country have begun looking more carefully into Chinese food imports before they end up on the dining table.Kim Ji-sook, the o...

One person was sent to hospital and more than 30 boats were damaged or destroyed as a fire raged through a Hong Kong typhoon shelter on Sunday morning.The fire broke out at Aberdeen South Typhoon Shelter at 2.34am, and quickly spread to at least 14 v...

A customer service employee at a Hong Kong shopping centre where the city’s first patient infected with the Delta variant also works became the latest local Covid-19 infection, among six cases confirmed on Sunday.The 24-year-old woman had already b...

In the interior of Malaysia’s Sabah state, two thirds of which remains under forest cover, citizens are deeply sceptical about Covid-19 vaccinations.The state has experienced its fair share of trauma during the pandemic, stemming from its experienc...

Faced with a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, Thailand’s capital on Sunday announced a ban on indoor dining and gatherings of more than 20 people for 30 days.Construction sites were also ordered to shut and workers’ quarters in Bangkok and nine o...

Hong Kong’s financial chief has said the upcoming roll-out of the city’s HK$36 billion (US$4.6 billion) voucher scheme is intended to push residents towards embracing electronic payments and lay the groundwork for a digital transformation that wi...

China has continued to conduct experiments to strengthen its defences in space since its first anti-satellite missile tests in 2007, according to a veteran Chinese space scientist.Qi Faren, an 88-year-old academician of the Chinese Academy of Enginee...

Hong Kong rail enthusiasts rushed to board the first train on the now fully operational Tuen Ma Line on Sunday morning, as the key section of the long-overdue HK$90.7 billion Sha Tin to Central link – the most expensive rail project in city history...

A humanitarian agency set up by the former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying and business leaders is seeking to provide medical aid and win goodwill for China in countries that have signed up to the Belt and Road Initiative.The GX Foundation,...

Yoyo* put aside her treasured violin 10 years ago and never played it again. Every time she looks at it, she says, she is reminded of the day she was raped by three men.She was a 20-year-old music student in university and a part-time violin teacher,...

The parent company of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily is weighing a Security Bureau request to hand over a list of employees and other “sensitive information” in its bid to have assets frozen under the national security law released so it can pay outst...

Vaccines have become the latest source of tension between Beijing and Taipei, as the self-ruled island grapples with its worst outbreak of Covid-19 and a shortage of doses.Taiwan had been a success story for its handling of the pandemic but a sudden ...

Anne Villarama, a 37-year-old housekeeper in Manila, longs to be able to wave a rainbow flag in a pride parade without fear one day.The mother of one belongs to the LGBT community, which has long faced discrimination in the Philippines, a country wit...

Fires on Saturday destroyed two more Catholic churches in Indigenous communities in western Canada, following grim discoveries at former church-run indigenous residential schools of nearly 1,000 unmarked graves.St Ann’s Catholic Church on the Upper...

Rescue crews found another body in the rubble of a collapsed 12-story condominium tower near the US city of Miami on Saturday, raising the death toll to five as they raced to recover any survivors while fighting back fire and smoke deep inside the co...

Just days after completing West Africa’s longest double-track standard railway in Nigeria, the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has started work on a US$1.3 billion railway on the other side of the continent, in Tanzania.CCE...

Tesla is recalling about 285,000 electric vehicles in China because the cruise-control function can be activated accidentally and cause cars to accelerate suddenly, creating a safety hazard, Chinese authorities said Saturday.In a message to customers...

Aiming to preserve a fragile bipartisan deal on infrastructure, US President Joe Biden endorsed it “without hesitation” on Saturday, walking back from a threat to veto it if Congress also did not pass an even larger package to expand the social s...

The Colombian government said on Saturday it is offering a reward of nearly US$800,000 for information leading to the capture of those behind an attack on a helicopter Friday carrying President Ivan Duque near the Venezuela border.“A reward of up t...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to re-establish his government’s authority after the health secretary resigned for breaking his own pandemic rules.Matt Hancock resigned on Saturday after he was caught embracing a senior aide in his offic...

The suspect in a knife attack in southern Germany that left three women dead was ordered kept in custody Saturday on suspicion of murder, while authorities puzzled over a possible motive, examining his mental health and seeking to determine whether h...

A recent signal that Chinese Wolf Warrior diplomats should stop baring their fangs is unlikely to cage them for long, if at all, given China’s growing power, arrogance and diplomatic traditions that extend back decades.That’s the assessment of an...

Five people died after a hot-air balloon they were travelling in hit power lines in New Mexico’s largest city, police said on Saturday.The crash happened at around 7am local time on Albuquerque’s west side, police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said....

Police in riot gear on Saturday blocked streets to try to thwart gay Pride marchers in Istanbul, while thousands turned out joyfully in Paris and elsewhere in Europe after pandemic privations – although setbacks against LGBT rights tempered some of...

An almost complete skull found in northeastern China promises to shed light on human evolution for many years to come even as researchers debate whether the find represents an entirely new species, according to scientists involved in the study.In a s...

Cathay Pacific has put the worst of its financial crisis behind it and now has more cash than ever before to ride out the Covid-19 fallout, as company executives revealed it would burn through the least amount of money since the pandemic began.Hong K...

Trade power tensions, regulatory hurdles and attempts by the West to counter Chinese competition are delaying a return of the 737 MAX in China, frustrating US-based Boeing as a potential rival shows its growing influence. Six months after the West li...

Thousands of worshippers trudged up an active Indonesian volcano on Saturday to cast livestock and other offerings down its smouldering crater in a centuries-old religious ceremony. Every year people from the Tengger tribe gather from the surroundin...

Hong Kong’s weekend property sales were mixed, as buyers snapped up the apartments on offer at a new development in Tai Wai but gave their collective cold shoulder to leftover flats from a 20-month project in Cheung Sha Wan. New World Development ...

The day Rizzy Pennelli was convicted on bomb-making charges should have been a special one for entirely different reasons.It was a day he would never forget, he said, recalling how his Italian father put his head in his hands and wept as the judgment...

Hong Kong’s new police chief has denied the force suffers from a poor relationship with the public and blamed “fake” news for undermining the reputation of the organisation. Police had won supporters in the wake of the social upheaval triggere...

Beijing has congratulated the new Iranian president but is still treading carefully as the the talks between Tehran and Washington over the revival of a nuclear deal continue to overshadow its relations with the Islamic Republic.Chinese President ...

Local governments across China are rushing to appoint their own “supply chain chiefs”, a new title emerging as part of a quasi-military command system for corporate governance in an effort to add some muscle to local support of Beijing’s self-s...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has vowed to learn from the troubled construction of the city’s most expensive rail project, a key stretch of which is slated to open on Sunday after repeated delays and cost overruns. At a ceremony on S...

Supporters of Myanmar’s anti-coup movement this week have been scrutinising reports about Min Aung Hlaing’s visit to Russia for tell-tale signs that even the Kremlin – one of the junta chief’s key backers – is uncertain about recognising hi...

Philippine former president Benigno Aquino was laid to rest in a Manila cemetery on Saturday beside his parents, two of the Southeast Asian country’s democracy icons. Hundreds of mourners in black and white, some also wearing yellow – the colour...

From sinkholes to concrete-weakening saltwater intrusion, theories abound on what caused a Florida beachside condominium tower to collapse with no warning.The Champlain Towers South building in Surfside that partially went down was in the midst of it...

Period-proof underwear designed to protect women from leaks and keep them feeling dry has become popular in Japan in recent years, and one mother with a young daughter has developed a similar product for girls who are starting to menstruate.Mayumi Mi...

Hong Kong administered a record 58,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine on Saturday, with the health chief predicting the local inoculation rate could hit 50 per cent as early as August.“The numbers have been encouraging,” Secretary for Food and Heal...

A laugh is good not only for the soul, but also for business, as many Chinese companies are finding out.Over the past several years, a growing number of businesses have hit on a novel advertising method to reach younger customers and create a buzz ar...

Samorn Anantakul, 75, lives in a sparse room in eastern Thailand, with just a handful of belongings, including a television set, an old clock, and a plastic shelf of ointments and medicines, to keep her company every day.Until last year, it was a hom...

Hong Kong’s new deputy leader John Lee Ka-chiu on Saturday dismissed concerns he lacked policy experience, citing his cross-departmental work as a veteran security official and insisting he had a “much better” grasp of government operations tha...

More American opinion leaders view China as the United States’ most important partner in Asia given the countries’ trade relations, but Japan is considered most trustworthy, a survey by the Japanese Foreign Ministry showed.Asked to choose “the ...

Last month a meeting of China’s top leaders discussed ways to communicate the country’s message more effectively and improve its image to the rest of the world.The Politburo also heard from a Shanghai-based professor, Zhang Weiwei, who offered hi...