Twenty-four foreign domestic helpers were among 29 people arrested by Hong Kong police this week in a crackdown on an alleged money-laundering syndicate said to have washed more than HK$27 million (US$3.5 million) in criminal proceeds over a 10-month...

North and South Korea are in talks to reopen a joint liaison office that Pyongyang demolished last year and hold a summit as part of efforts to restore relations, three South Korean government sources with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.So...

China has reaffirmed its support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the country’s biggest employers, but some entrepreneurs have turned their noses up at the gesture, saying Beijing’s recent regulatory crackdowns have added pressure o...

Taiwan’s police on Wednesday said they had launched an investigation after local media reported more than 100 LINE messaging app accounts used by officials had been hacked and the company admitted “abnormal activities” had been detected.The hac...

Follow our live coverage of day five here.Tokyo on Wednesday reported 3,177 new coronavirus cases, setting an all-time high and exceeding 3,000 for the first time days after the start of the Olympics.The new cases on Wednesday exceeded the previous r...

Hong Kong home prices were flat in June after reaching a two-year high, as buyers stayed on the sidelines, apparently taking a breather after months of rising prices buoyed by low-interest mortgage rates and a rebounding economy.An index measuring th...

A Hong Kong constable has been suspended from duty after being arrested for taking illicit photos of his female colleague in the lavatory of a police station on Tuesday – the second such case in just three weeks.A police source said the 26-year-old...

For Chinese director Zhang Yimou and well-known actor Ni Dahong, track suits were the attire of choice for a red carpet premiere in late April, although as this came just a month after a nationwide boycott of H&M, Adidas and Nike, the decision behind...

China has pledged support for the Taliban’s role in Afghanistan’s reconstruction, while demanding that it cuts ties with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement – blamed by Beijing for attacks in its Xinjiang region.Foreign Minister Wang Yi made th...

The Australian city of Sydney extended its lockdown by four weeks on Wednesday after an already protracted stay-at-home order failed to douse a Covid-19 outbreak, with the authorities warning of tougher policing to stamp out non-compliance.Far from a...

Residents on Tuesday laid bouquet after bouquet, the neatly tied yellow and white flowers standing on end, outside an entrance to a subway station in central China where 14 people died last week after a record-breaking downpour flooded large swathes ...

A third child of a Saudi Arabian consulate employee in Hong Kong was the city’s sole Covid-19 case confirmed on Wednesday, a week after two of her siblings were confirmed as infected.The latest family member to test positive is the older sister of ...

A man has been arrested and charged in federal court with sending emails that threatened to harm and kill Dr Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health Director Dr Francis Collins, and their families, federal prosecutors in Maryland announced.A cri...

Two years before winning a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, Philippine weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz was mocked and threatened online after her name was included on a list of dozens of people alleged to be plotting to oust President Rodrigo Du...

A federal jury convicted a wealthy California political donor on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, leading to two deaths and other overdoses.Ed Buck, 66, was found guilty of all nine felony counts in federal court,...

First proposed at the 17th Asean-China Summit in 2014 by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism aims to enhance economic cooperation, environmental protection efforts and transboundary water governance between the ...

Electronic cigarettes and similar devices are dangerous to health and must be regulated to curb the tobacco industry’s “criminal” tactics to get young people hooked on nicotine, the World Health Organization warned.“Nicotine is highly addicti...

There are signs that immune protection from the world’s most widely used coronavirus vaccine drops significantly after six to eight months but a booster shot lifts levels three to five times, a new study has found.The study came as some countries, ...

An armed man using a stand-up scooter has robbed famed Parisian jeweller Chaumet in an audacious evening heist.The robber stole almost €2 million (US$2.37 million) worth of jewellery and precious stones after bursting into the shop near the Champs-...

A former intelligence analyst was sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking secrets about the US military’s drone attacks that were the basis of a powerful 2015 news expose.Daniel Everette Hale, 33, worked as a US Air Force intelligence officer ...

China’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2060 covers various greenhouse gases – not just carbon dioxide, its climate envoy said on the weekend, signalling a potential shift in Beijing’s climate change policy.Addressing a financial forum in Beijing ...

Dozens of tourist sites have offered free entrance or half-priced tickets for visitors who wear Erke trainers to thank the brand for donating 50 million yuan (US$7.7 million) to help flood-devasted Henan province get back on its feet.Erke, made by th...

Hong Kong’s top medical school will seek approval from authorities for a new complex housing the Greater Bay Area’s first laboratory that could manufacture human cells to save the lives of those suffering from cancer and other terminal diseases.T...

President Joe Biden warned that if the United States ended up in a “real shooting war” with a “major power” it could be the result of a significant cyberattack on the country, highlighting what Washington sees as growing threats posed by Russ...

England’s High Court will begin hearing arguments on Wednesday from lawyers for four Russian billionaires including Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich and state-owned oil firm Rosneft about a book on President Vladimir Putin which they say defames t...

This is the third in a series of stories on China’s job market, looking at its history, the role of migrant workers, inequality and the future for its graduates entering the workforce.After riding out the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Chinese fac...

Tibetan Buddhists have been told by a Beijing-appointed leader to stay away from “separatist forces” and adapt their religion to “socialism and Chinese conditions”, according to state media.Gyaincain Norbu, the Panchen Lama chosen by Beijing,...

Hong Kong’s first trial under its one-year-old national security law had sparked what appeared to be a semantic dispute but one with potentially far-reaching consequences.On Tuesday, restaurant worker Leon Tong Ying-kit, 24, was found guilty of inc...

University student Tran Thanh Nha has been working 14-hour shifts almost every day for the past two months, delivering food to locked-down residents and assisting medical workers in conducting Covid-19 tests in Vietnam’s southern commercial hub of ...

People vaccinated against Covid-19 in high-risk parts of the United States should resume wearing masks indoors, the top health authority said, a major reversal in guidance that underscored the country’s struggle to suppress the Delta variant.US Pre...

The World Health Organization plans to drive forward the investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is more likely to be spinning its wheels for months to come.The UN mandated body has laid out five areas of interest and one of t...

Moroccan authorities have arrested a Uygur activist in exile based on a Chinese terrorism warrant distributed by Interpol, according to information from Moroccan police and a rights group that tracks people detained by China.Activists fear Yidiresi A...

US military leaders said on Tuesday that they see Arctic operations as a deterrent to China, which has staked a claim to the region as part of its Belt and Road Initiative, and increasingly as a base for operations in the Indo-Pacific.Panellists incl...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Maeve Sheehey and Nicholas Wu on politico.com on July 27, 2021.Daniel Hodges, one of the police officers who testified at the first January 6 select committ...

US multinational sponsors of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics deflected tough questions by lawmakers on Tuesday over alleged Chinese human rights violations, saying their primary focus was on the athletes and breaking down global barriers.Under persi...

A fraud and embezzlement trial over alleged mismanagement of the Holy See’s investments began on Tuesday in Vatican City, with a once-powerful cardinal among the 10 defendants saying he remains “obedient” to Pope Francis, who stripped his privi...

An explosion in a German industrial estate on Tuesday killed at least two people and injured 31, setting off a fierce blaze that sent a pall of smoke over the western city of Leverkusen. Several people were still missing.Emergency services took three...

Mexico’s murder rate remained essentially unchanged at 36,579 killings in 2020 due to rising gangland violence, according to the country’s National Statistics Institute.Even though the coronavirus pandemic reduced many activities in Mexico in 202...

Swedish prosecutors said on Tuesday they were charging an Iranian man for “war crimes and murder” over the execution of more than 100 political prisoners in 1988 in Karaj, Iran.The case against 60-year-old Hamid Noury, who was arrested in Sweden ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in India on Tuesday for meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India’s top diplomat, the latest sign of Washington’s growing embrace of New Delhi as relations with Beijing continue to spiral do...

China’s top legislative body is set to endorse as early as next month the imposition of a new anti-sanctions law on Hong Kong by inserting the provisions into the city’s mini-constitution, the Post has learned.Analysts suggested the move provided...

Gaotu Group, a Beijing-based education and training firm, has seen its New York stock price plummet to US$2.50 from US$149 in the span of just six months, exemplifying the vulnerability of Chinese stocks to regulatory risks in the wake of the latest ...

Beijing’s move to set out demands for Washington in their latest talks suggests it is taking a more pragmatic approach to handling tense relations with its rival, according to analysts.They say it could be a starting point to improve the fraught re...

A man accused of killing eight people, mostly women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty to murder in four of the killings and was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the...

Gold medallist Edgar Cheung Ka-long’s triumph at the Tokyo Olympics has triggered a wave of euphoria in Hong Kong, with celebrity well-wishers among those flooding the fencing hero with congratulations, and businesses rushing to associate themselve...

US firms are hugely interested in working with China on climate-related issues, according to the nation’s top climate diplomat, Xie Zhenhua.Xie, China’s climate change envoy, said at a financial forum in Beijing over the weekend that China’s to...

Hong Kong victims of romance scams were conned out of more than HK$288 million in the first half of this year as the number of such cases almost doubled, figures released on Tuesday showed.Deception cases recorded a 7 per cent year-on-year increase f...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday cut its economic growth forecast for China this year because of the patchy recovery from new coronavirus variants, as Beijing focuses on reducing debt and public investment.The Washington-based organis...

The number of newborn babies in China fell sharply in the first half of the year, according to select local government data, amid growing warnings the world’s most populous nation is hurtling towards a demographic crisis.China does not release nati...

Beijing and Washington have continued to wrangle over protocol following a visit to China by America’s No 2 diplomat, with the two sides presenting different versions of the high-level talks.The US statement on deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherm...