Netflix has removed Australian spy drama Pine Gap from its services in Vietnam after a complaint from broadcast authorities in the Southeast Asian country about the appearance of a map which depicts Chinese claims in the South China Sea.The map, whic...

A social media campaign by the WWF is engaging creatives in the fight against climate change. And a who’s who of the contemporary art world is on board, including artist Tracey Emin and sculptor Anish Kapoor.Called Art For Your World, the project �...

Hong Kong judges have imposed stiffer sentences on 11 laboratory technicians convicted of falsifying safety test records for the world’s longest sea crossing, which links the city with Macau and mainland China.The defendants subjected to harsher pu...

All US and Nato troops have left the biggest airbase in Afghanistan, a US defence official said on Friday, signalling the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from the country after two decades of war was imminent.Bagram Airfield served as the linch...

Johnson & Johnson said that its single-shot coronavirus vaccine neutralises the fast-spreading Delta variant and provides durable protection against infection more broadly.The company said that recipients of its vaccine produced strong neutralising a...

A lone assailant who stabbed a Hong Kong police officer then turned the knife on himself on Thursday night left behind several suicide notes mentioning plots to kill police for the sake of the city, the Post has learned.Sources said the force had ste...

Hong Kong health officials will on Friday visit the quarantine hotel where a cleaner tested preliminary-positive for a Covid-19 variant to investigate whether environmental contamination or screening errors were at play.The probe into the case involv...

India reached the grim milestone of 400,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Friday, half of them during a second wave in the past few months that overwhelmed the health care system and crematoriums.India has recorded 30.45 million cases since the outb...

A Chinese magazine marked the ruling Communist Party’s centenary by publishing a detailed outline of a three-stage surprise attack which could pave the way for an assault landing on Taiwan.An accompanying video was also posted on social media platf...

After consecutive years of controversy about its rule limitations, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will now allow non-English language films to compete for its best picture prizes.The move came after the group faced criticism for shunting fil...

Five centuries after Goans began making feni – a pungent, fermented liquor not for the faint-hearted – a new crop of distillers is hoping to take the spirit global. But first, they have to convince other Indians to drink it.Usually made from crus...

Taiwan will get the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine through the World Health Organization-backed Covax Facility for lower income countries, giving a much-needed boost to the island’s immunisation programme.Taiwan’s vaccine orders include 4.76 million do...

Call it a space race for billionaires: British mogul Richard Branson one-upped rival Jeff Bezos on Thursday, announcing that he too will blast beyond Earth’s atmosphere – as many as nine days ahead of the Amazon founder.With both tycoons having c...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Tina Nguyen on politico.com on July 1, 2021.On Tuesday, Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire who runs a Chinese-language media network with Trump advis...

A schoolgirl in southern China has shot to fame with her car repair skills and triggered a heated debate on gender boundaries at work and the value of vocational education.Gu Huijing, a 17-year-old student at Shenzhen No. 2 Vocational Technical Schoo...

A wildfire that forced people to flee a small town in British Columbia that had set record high temperatures for Canada on three consecutive days burned out of control on Thursday as relatives desperately sought information on evacuees.The roughly 1,...

Kristen Lei Tsz-wing wants to help Hongkongers improve their emotional well-being. The 16-year-old, who aspires to contribute to society and fight mental health stigma in the community as a clinical psychologist, has put a lot of work into promoting...

Most of the countries negotiating a global overhaul of cross-border taxation of multinationals have backed plans for new rules on where companies are taxed and a tax rate of at least 15 per cent, they said on Thursday after two days of talks.The Pari...

The United Nations has asked Beijing to allow human rights officials to visit Hong Kong to investigate whether the national security law has undermined the freedoms of its residents.The call was made on Thursday at an event on the sidelines of the on...

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Well into the second year of the pandemic, it seemed like Australia had Covid-19 under control.But this week almost half the country’s population – more than 12 million people – is in lockdown, as the state...

A recent surge of coronavirus cases in Australia has prompted an expert in Hong Kong to suggest a tightening of the rules for arrivals from the country by raising its Covid-19 risk status.But a government health adviser said the recommendation by Dr ...

Hundreds of firefighters worked on Thursday in high heat to beat back wildfires in the forests of far Northern California, where the flames have forced many communities to evacuate.Mount Shasta, the volcano that towers over the region, was shrouded i...

US President Joe Biden drew on his own experiences with grief and loss to comfort families affected by the Florida condo collapse, telling them to “never give up hope” even as the search for survivors paused early on Thursday, a week after the bu...

Ivermectin, a drug used to treat parasitic infections in humans that is more commonly used on animals, is now trending in Indonesia.Pharmacies across the country are reporting a boom in sales of the medication, and it has been sold out on e-commerce ...

A research team in Shanghai has achieved a technological breakthrough to allow them to build the most powerful laser on the planet.The leap means they could fire a 100-petawatt shot in about two years, a scientist involved in the project told the Sou...

The United States expressed concern on Thursday over a report that China is building more than 100 new silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles.The Washington Post, citing a study of commercial satellite images by a California-based group, repor...

Investors poured billions into Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing’s blowout IPO in New York on Wednesday, ending the first half of the year with a record amount of capital raised by Chinese companies in US markets.As many as 36 Chinese compani...

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into four fashion retailers suspected of concealing crimes against humanity in China’s Xinjiang region, a judicial source said on Thursday.The procedure is linked to accusations against China over its...

A US congressional body pushed United Nations Secretary General António Guterres on Thursday to act on recommendations by UN-appointed monitors and take special measures to investigate alleged human rights abuses by China.Highlighting the one-year a...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Betsey Woodruff Swan and Quint Forgey on politico.com on July 1, 2021.The Trump Organisation is officially facing criminal charges. The organisation – a c...

The Joe Biden administration on Thursday designated 17 countries as not doing enough to combat human trafficking and warned them of potential US sanctions. The administration also called out several US allies and friends, including Israel, New Zealan...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Meredith McGraw, Tina Nguyen and Cristiano Lima on politico.com on July 1, 2021.Former US president Donald Trump’s team quietly launched a new social medi...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg launched a new broadside on Thursday against “role-playing” by political and economic leaders over the climate crisis, accusing them of using it as a business opportunity.Appearing via video-link at the Aus...

Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos has chosen an early female aerospace pioneer – an 82-year-old pilot denied astronaut wings decades ago because of her gender – to rocket into space with him in just three weeks.The company announced on Thursday that Wal...

China’s rejuvenation is finally within grasp and any attempt to bully the nation will be met with a steely response, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday in a spirited speech marking the Communist Party’s centenary.For the first time, the ruling...

British Princes William and Harry put their differences aside on Thursday when they unveiled a statue to their late mother Princess Diana on what would have been her 60th birthday, saying they hoped it would be a lasting memorial to her life and lega...

Chinese President Xi Jinping paid special tribute to his predecessors and revolutionary leaders in his speech to mark the Communist Party’s centenary on Thursday morning as he urged the younger generation to follow the party in pursuit of the dream...

While the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali – home to almost 60 per cent of the population – are set for an 18-day lockdown to curb a surge in Covid-19 cases linked to the Delta variant, epidemiologists have warned that the restrictions may not...

French society is becoming increasingly “racialised”, President Emmanuel Macron has warned in comments that blamed imported US social science ideas that focus on race.“I see that our society is becoming progressively racialised,” Macron told ...

The Chinese Communist Party’s centenary celebrations featured the largest display yet of its most advanced active stealth fighter, the J-20.Fifteen of the jets, known as the “Mighty Dragon”, featured in Thursday’s performance above Tiananmen ...

It was a celebration on a grand scale as the Communist Party marked its centenary in the heart of Beijing on Thursday, seeking to reinforce political messages and calling on young Chinese to take part in its vision for the future.Security was tight a...

President Xi Jinping warned on Thursday of the “unprecedented uncertainties” and challenges China was facing in its global ascendance during a nationalistic speech marking the centenary of the Communist Party in which he also pledged that foreign...

The US Navy pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.The Navy spent more than a decade developing the electromagnetic rail gun and once considered putting them o...

A man drowned just yards from a Hong Kong beach on Thursday where a lack of lifeguards meant emergency personnel had to be called to help find him.The 56-year-old went missing at about 12.44pm while swimming outside the shark net on Lantau Island’s...

Vaccinated Singaporeans may be able to undertake quarantine-free leisure travel to Europe and the United States by the end of the year, according to the island nation’s health minister Ong Ye Kung, who says Hong Kong and Singapore are now “in a g...

The government has come under fresh criticism over its failure to plug loopholes in a public transport subsidy scheme that is leading to the waste of millions of taxpayer dollars in Hong Kong every year.Pro-Beijing lawmaker Wilson Or Chong-shing said...

Authorities in the Philippines started evacuating thousands of people on Thursday after the alert status was raised on a restive volcano that spewed a 1km-high plume of gas and steam.The alert for the Taal Volcano, about 70km south of central Manila,...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to crush any attempt that gets in the way of “complete reunification” of the mainland with self-ruled Taiwan.In an address marking the centenary of the Communist Party in Beijing on Thursday, he said “reso...

A Hong Kong public library employee has been suspended after being held responsible for displaying books by jailed Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying as “the librarian’s choice” last week.The Leisure and Cultural Services Department launch...

The Trump Organisation’s long-time chief financial officer has surrendered to authorities in New York, facing tax-related charges in the most direct attack on Donald Trump and his business to emerge from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jnr�...