Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has asked a court to restore his voting rights as the major shareholder of Next Digital after the government froze nearly HK$500 million (US$64.4 million) of his assets under the national security law...

A rookie Hong Kong constable has been suspended from duty after being arrested on suspicion of taking illicit photos of a female colleague in the lavatory of a police station.A force insider said there were potentially several other victims after inv...

Pony Ma Huateng, the founder and CEO of Tencent Holdings, China’s most valuable internet conglomerate, said technology can be used for good in an appearance at an artificial intelligence conference (AI) in Shanghai on Thursday, avoiding any mention...

China has made 10 million people eligible to participate in its expanding digital yuan trial as it continues to lead global central banks in developing a virtual currency, according to a central bank official.For now, people interested in using the d...

The Pavilia Farm, Hong Kong’s bestselling new residential property of 2020, will be partially demolished even while it is still under construction, according to the developers of the Tai Wai project, citing construction defects.The concrete of the ...

Two pupils from a Hong Kong secondary school have been punished after performing a hit Canto-pop song with lyrics it deemed sensitive, while one also chanted a protest slogan at the end of a campus competition.ELCHK Yuen Long Lutheran Secondary Schoo...

A runaway elephant that was part of a herd trekking 500km north in the past few months has been captured and returned to its original habitat in Mengyangzi Nature Reserve, southern Yunnan province.The herd of 15 – originally 17 – elephants left t...

A debate over the efficacy of the Sinovac vaccine is emerging between Hong Kong and Singapore, adding another layer of uncertainty to the long-awaited travel bubble between the two cities.Professor Wallace Lau Chak-sing, convenor of Hong Kong’s adv...

A Canadian man who staged a rare bank robbery in Singapore has been sentenced to five years in jail, but will escape a caning because of an agreement that allowed his extradition.David James Roach, who robbed a Standard Chartered Bank branch in 2016,...

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will attend the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, breaking ranks with other EU members ahead of an expected non-binding resolution in the European Parliament calling for a diplomatic boycott of the Gam...

Farhana Sultana has her eight-day-old baby in her hands, while her two other children – aged five and seven – play outside her tiny house in the western Indian city of Pune. None of the little ones are aware they are fatherless, though it has bee...

The University of Hong Kong and the city’s education minister have condemned student leaders after they passed a motion mourning the death of the man who stabbed a police officer last week and then killed himself.The resolution, which said they “...

China will begin trading carbon emissions contracts later this month after eight years of trials, as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases kicks off the crucial market-based mechanism to put the nation on track to meet its 2060 carbon neu...

The emergencies chief for the World Health Organization is calling on governments to exercise “extreme caution” in fully lifting restrictions aimed to curtail the spread of Covid-19, warning that transmission will increase as countries open up.Dr...

South Korea on Thursday reported its highest ever one-day rise in new Covid-19 cases, as officials consider imposing a semi-lockdown in the capital Seoul, the epicentre of the country’s recent rise in infections.The 1,275 cases in the 24 hours to m...

Japan’s government on Thursday announced a new virus state of emergency stretching throughout the Tokyo Olympics.“We will impose the state of emergency in Tokyo,” Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said at a government meeting on infection measures....

A new book alleges that former US president Donald Trump frustrated four-star general and then-White House chief of staff John Kelly by praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.The Guardian, which obtained an early copy of Wall Street Journal reporter Mic...

The numerous WeChat messages that pop up on Amber Liu’s phone every day have become a go-to source of coupons and information about retail sales.These types of posts originate from chat groups, but the Shanghai-based journalist barely knows any of ...

A controversial incident that saw 16 Chinese military aircraft near Malaysian air space in late May coincided with similar activity by Chinese coastguard vessels in the area, and may have been part of “parallel escalation” efforts aimed at challe...

Haiti police killed four “mercenaries” they said were behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moise and took two more into custody, as the impoverished and crisis-hit Caribbean nation was pitched into uncertainty.Police did not identify the...

A research team in China has unveiled an underwater drone that can recognise, follow and attack an enemy submarine without human instruction.The secret project, funded by the military, was partially declassified last week with the publication of a pa...

The pandemic has cost Nairobi health care worker Mary Nanjala dearly. Her two sisters, brother and mother were all infected with Covid-19, and two close friends have died of complications from the disease.“One friend was buried last Friday. This ha...

A grizzly bear pulled a woman from her tent in a small Montana town in the middle of the night and killed her before fellow campers could use bear spray to force the bruin out of the area.Leah Davis Lokan, 65, of Chico, California, was on a long-dist...

Beijing’s tightening control over Hong Kong continues to pose an “extraordinary threat” to the United States’ security and interests, US President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday, as he extended a national emergency designation put in place b...

Hong Kong’s No 2 official delivered a stark warning this week: a city long celebrated as one of the safest in the world was now showing signs of breeding terrorist activities.The assessment by Chief Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu on Wednesday came in t...

South African former president Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police on Wednesday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama seen as a test of the post-apartheid state’s ability to enforce the rule of l...

Shanghai authorities busted a fraudulent gang of “relationship saving masters” after they swindled over 7 million yuan (US$1.1 million) from more than 500 people across China.The Shanghai Municipal Police said 69 people were detained under suspic...

This year, the release of results for China’s National Higher Education Entrance Examination, or gaokao, usually a season of fame and celebration for top students, seems rather quiet, especially after the education ministry warned against hype. But...

Most people prosecuted for trafficking women from Vietnam to China between 2012 and 2020 were young members of ethnic minority groups with no prior criminal record, a new report has found, underlining how vulnerable people from those communities are ...

The departure of two senior executives at Cathay Pacific could spark a reshuffle of key talent as Hong Kong’s flagship carrier prepares to usher in a new generation of leaders faced with the challenge of guiding the company’s return to profitabil...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Alexander Ward on politico.com on July 7, 2021.As a new Cold War takes shape between the US and China, progressives fear the result will be a dramatically w...

Britain should step up sanctions against China over its treatment of Uygur Muslims in Xinjiang, including banning cotton imports from the region, fast-tracking asylum procedures for dissidents and boycotting celebrations for the 2022 Beijing Winter O...

China’s decision to back a global overhaul of cross-border taxation aimed at preventing a race to the bottom on tax rates and halting multinational tax evasion is likely to hinge on diplomatic calculations as much as economic concerns, according to...

China says it will not do business with countries that undermine it, while analysts say that any “trade alliances” to neutralise China’s trade actions will not work in a free global market.Responding to a request for comment by the state-owned ...

For three consecutive days last week, amid a baking heatwave in British Columbia, the inland township of Lytton shattered Canada’s temperature record, topping out at 49.6 degrees Celsius (121.3 degrees Fahrenheit).On the fourth day, June 30, the vi...

Obesity is a major health problem that society is fighting against as it can lead to diabetes, cardiovascular issues and other illnesses. Following a strict diet regimen is the usual prescription, but surgery is sometimes needed to remove fat in extr...

On the 14th day of searching, 10 more victims and additional human remains were recovered from the rubble of what was once Champlain Towers South, Miami-Dade Fire Chief of Operations Ray Jadallah told families in a private briefing on Wednesday.The r...

The largest party in Malaysia’s ruling alliance said on Thursday it will withdraw support for Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin immediately and urged him to make way for a new leader.The announcement is a political bombshell that could spark a genera...

Nora al-Matrooshi, from the UAE, is the first Arab woman to start training to be an astronaut, one of two Emiratis picked from thousands of applicants as the Gulf nation looks to the stars.The 28-year-old mechanical engineer from Sharjah – one of t...

Zambia’s founding leader Kenneth Kaunda was laid to rest at the country’s presidential burial site on Wednesday despite an 11th-hour bid by some of his relatives to block the interment.Kaunda, who was also a hero of the struggle against white rul...

Iran on Wednesday hosted the first significant talks in months between the Taliban and Afghan government representatives – a previously unannounced meeting that comes as the US completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan and districts increasingly fa...

By most accounts, the Communist Party had a momentous first century as it transformed a war-torn, impoverished homeland into a secure, prosperous nation. In the next century, the party’s storyline is likely to take on an international trajectory as...

Chinese farmers have sharply increased corn planting this year to cash in on demand-fuelled record prices, a trend that is likely to cool the country’s recent rampant appetite for imports heading into 2022.The expansion, which comes mainly at the e...

Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he is filing suits against three of the country’s biggest tech companies: Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their CEOs.Trump said he was serving as lead plaintiff in the class-action su...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said he was “instinctively” against boycotts after the main opposition Labour Party urged ministers and the royal family to snub the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights claims.The gover...

China is promoting cooperation with the European Union in Africa on infrastructure and pandemic support as a way to find common ground and restore its damaged ties with the bloc – a move diplomatic observers said could ease pressure on Beijing from...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday replaced 12 cabinet members, including the health minister, in a bid to reinvigorate his government after fierce criticism of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, ...

Combating fake news is not a priority for Hong Kong authorities even though the city will eventually require legislation targeting the spread of misinformation, according to a top government adviser.Ronny Tong Ka-wah conceded it was difficult to defi...

Two students charged in relation to a violent demonstration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) during the social upheaval two years ago have been found guilty of rioting and violating a ban on wearing masks at rallies.Vocational school stu...

Taiwan’s foreign ministry stated on Wednesday that the self-ruled island is a sovereign state which seeks to maintain a stable relationship with mainland China and wants to safeguard its free and democratic system.The statement follows comments by ...