The US plan to use overseas military bases to accommodate evacuees from Afghanistan has divided opinion among South Korean politicians and prompted discussion about the strength and scale of the security ties between the two countries.South Korea hos...

Australian police on Monday criticised a Sydney church for flouting the city’s Covid-19 lockdown by holding a service for 60 people in a pandemic hotspot.The church is part of Christ Embassy, an international religious group headquartered in Lagos,...

A senior Beijing official in charge of Hong Kong affairs called on lawmakers to focus on economic development in an unprecedented meeting on Monday, and said the city had already wasted a lot of time during the 2019 anti-government protests.The first...

A community outreach worker arrested during a violent Hong Kong demonstration two years ago has been cleared of rioting charges, after a judge ruled that providing first aid to injured protesters constituted reasonable grounds for his presence at the...

A communicable diseases expert said there was “limited” risk of foreign domestic helpers bringing Covid-19 into Hong Kong on Monday, just hours before the city confirmed five new imported infections, including a domestic worker from Indonesia.Jos...

The government of Shenzhen, the southern Chinese tech hub where many cross-border online merchants are based, told the local “made in China, sold on Amazon” community that it will not intervene in their disputes with the US e-commerce giant, acco...

A firefight broke out between unidentified gunmen, Western security forces and Afghan guards at the North Gate of Kabul airport on Monday, Germany’s armed forces said, as thousands of Afghans and foreigners thronged the airport, seeking to flee Tal...

“I’m too old for this, but young generations will certainly like it,” said 57-year-old Peng as an empty roller coaster car passed nearby on another test run ahead of the opening of China’s latest theme park.A few years earlier, Peng had been ...

The Swedish government is being obligated to return roughly US$1.5 million worth of bitcoin to a drug dealer after the value of the digital asset appreciated while he was in custody, according to a report by The Telegraph.The unusual turn of events w...

With the Taliban cementing its grip over Afghanistan, the country faces an economic cataclysm as world powers and international financial institutions move to withhold or freeze billions of dollars in assets and aid from a government run by a pariah ...

New Zealand on Monday extended its Covid-19 lockdowns as the caseload from its Delta outbreak rose to 107 with 35 new infections, including from a church cluster in the largest city.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Auckland, the epicentre of the ou...

A key Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs expressed his support for city leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Monday, hailing her administration for stabilising society after imposition of the national security law.Huang Liuquan, a deputy d...

The world’s most valuable non-state-controlled companies saw their market value grow by more than 40 per cent from two years ago, driven by the surge in growth of the digital economy amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Shanghai-based Hurun Res...

President Tsai Ing-wen got vaccinated with Taiwan’s first domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, and gave her personal stamp of approval as the island began rolling out the shot, whose approval critics say has been rushed.The health min...

While China and the United States have a long list of public disagreements, tackling the threat caused by climate change has been regarded as one area of cooperation between the world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. But that is also now...

A 63-year-old woman has succumbed to her injuries after a Hong Kong taxi driver slammed into a pedestrian island filled with people crossing a street in Tai Po on Sunday.The woman died at 7.05am on Monday at Tuen Mun Hospital ICU, where she had been ...

The Chinese Communist Party has a new catchphrase to guide its economic policy, a so-called cross-cyclical approach that government advisers say means taking action sooner, in smaller steps and with a longer time frame in mind. It is a departure fro...

Every week, Singapore health care worker Toh Lixin offers about 4,000 of her neighbours the chance to get discounts on items such as fruit tarts, bottled coffee and baby lobsters.Toh, 26, is the organiser of an informal network of consumers who use T...

Stuck in Mumbai while her elderly parents struggle through the Covid-19 pandemic on their own in Hong Kong, Rhea Mahtani is desperate to get back to the city where she was born and raised.Her 81-year-old father is ill with a heart condition, and her ...

A new wave of local infections has spread throughout China in the country’s most widespread outbreak since the virus emerged in 2019  

[Sponsored Article] For children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who may struggle to communicate and interact socially, school can be a particularly gruelling experience. So, in 2015, made aware of the rising number of children with ASD in loca...

Indonesia’s digital economy was still in its infancy when Michael Widjaja – a third-generation member of the Widjaja family that runs Sinar Mas Group, one of the country’s largest conglomerates – returned in 2007 after finishing his business ...

The head of the Heung Yee Kuk, Hong Kong’s rural powerhouse, is fed up that villagers in the New Territories have become a punching bag in the debate over the city’s shortage of land for housing.Kenneth Lau Ip-keung, the pro-Beijing group’s cha...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris on Monday met Singapore’s president and prime minister to kick off a visit to Southeast Asia focused on strengthening ties with key allies in the region, a task complicated by the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanist...

When Chinese student Ding Xueliang was studying in the US city of Boston in the late 1980s, one of the biggest lessons he learned occurred outside the classroom.Ding crossed paths with a number of other Chinese students who had arrived in the United ...

The United States has an unwavering commitment to getting US citizens and at-risk Afghans out of Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden said, as Taliban fighters beat back thousands desperate to flee outside Kabul airport.Biden said the security situati...

Devastating floods in the southern US state of Tennessee have left at least 21 people dead and many missing, local officials said on Sunday in what they warned was a preliminary toll.Tennessee was hit Saturday by what meteorologists called historic s...

US country rock pioneer Don Everly, who was the surviving half of the Everly Brothers, has died aged 84 after a career delighting fans with a string of hits such as Bye Bye Love and Wake Up Little Susie.His death on Saturday in the music hub of Nashv...

Group of 7 (G7) leaders will discuss the crisis in Afghanistan on Tuesday in a virtual summit, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Sunday, a week after the Taliban retook power.“It is vital that the international community works t...

Tropical Storm Henri hit the coast of Rhode Island on Sunday afternoon, packing high winds that knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and bands of rain that led to flash flooding from New Jersey to Massachusetts.The storm was downgraded fro...

Ahmad Massoud, leader of Afghanistan’s last major outpost of anti-Taliban resistance, said on Sunday he hoped to hold peaceful talks with the Islamist movement that seized power in Kabul a week ago but that his forces were ready to fight.“We want...

[Sponsored Article] The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is one of the world’s largest outdoor art festivals. In 2018, the Art Promotion Office (APO) launched a three-year project “Hong Kong House at Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale'' in Sakasamaki, Kam...

The United States on Sunday enlisted several major airlines in its frantic evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghans, Americans and other foreigners from Kabul following its fall to Taliban militants.Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin activated the r...

Hong Kong’s development chief has hailed the conservation of a school building in Sai Ying Pun as an example of how the public and owners can work with authorities to conserve the city’s heritage for future generations.Writing on his official blo...

The largest US amphibious exercise in 40 years highlighted Washington’s anxiety to show its global military supremacy over Russia and China but also exposed some of its weaknesses, Chinese military observers have said.The Large Scale Exercise 2021 ...

Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob struck a conciliatory tone in his first national address on Sunday, saying he would embrace the opposition in an effort to tackle the runaway pandemic and revive a slumping economy.A day after being...

The regulatory storm sweeping across China’s economy has raised concerns about the scale of government intervention in local markets, while some analysts question whether the changes are enough to boost innovation and ensure “quality growth” am...

China will now allow couples to have up to three children, marking a major shift from the strict policies of the past four decades, but a lack of childcare options may limit the number of people willing to take up this option.While China’s birth ra...

China has administered nearly 2 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine but an outbreak of cases in Shanghai has fanned fresh concerns about the spread of the disease and forced hundreds of people into quarantine.According to the National Health Commiss...

Hong Kong authorities were pursuing every available option to find land for new housing, the city’s leader told a town hall meeting on Sunday, where residents called on her administration to restore a “deeper sense of happiness” among disgruntl...

Domestic helpers vaccinated against the coronavirus in the Philippines could be able to fly to Hong Kong as soon as next week, as “fruitful” talks on recognising inoculation records from the country near completion, Manila’s top diplomat in th...

Troops from the Hong Kong garrison of the People’s Liberation Army have conducted a joint exercise involving ground, air and sea operations to test their capability in tracking down and intercepting fugitives fleeing the city by boat.The drills inc...

A repeat next year of Hong Kong’s consumption voucher scheme to boost local spending will depend on the government’s financial strength, top officials have said, noting the ongoing initiative has had a positive impact on the economy and may furth...

A month after Angela Merkel wrapped up her second state visit to China as German chancellor in 2007, and three weeks before the 17th Chinese Communist Party Congress in October that year, she hosted Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at...

Amid a drizzle and gusts of chilly wind, Anika pulls taut a rope tied to a shovel held by Chandrika as they mix a pile of cement with sand by the side of the road. The women, both in their early 20s, have their babies fastened to their backs by a she...

Former US president Donald Trump launched a sustained attack on President Joe Biden’s handling of the retreat of US forces from Afghanistan, which he called “the greatest foreign policy humiliation” in US history.Trump, a Republican who has dan...

A primary school head teacher in central China has been detained on suspicion of child molestation, after multiple women reported him to the police.Police in Gongan county, Hubei province, said late on Saturday that a 67-year-old man, identified only...

Driving through South India, it is common to come across small eateries with boards outside saying ‘Tiffin ready’. In the region, tiffin means any light snack or finger foods eaten between breakfast and dinner. These include cutlets, idlis (rice ...

Hong Kong’s coronavirus strategy of “zero infections” cannot be for the long term, a health expert has warned, urging more elderly people to get vaccinated to create better conditions for the easing of pandemic control measures.Professor Ivan H...

Could artificial intelligence, drones, and solar-powered trackers aid in efforts to conserve Australia’s beloved koala?That is the hope of university researchers in Australia’s northernmost state of Queensland, as they undertake two innovative pr...