A court in southeast China sentenced a former top student to death on Thursday after the man was convicted of murdering his mother to “help her”.Wu Xieyu, 26, killed his mother in 2015 by smashing her head with a dumbbell as she bent over to chan...

Hong Kong localist lawmaker Cheng Chung-tai was unseated as a Legislative Council member on Thursday with immediate effect, the city’s No 2 official said.Chief Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu made the announcement as chairman of the seven-member Candida...

A Royal Navy task force headed by aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth held its first naval drill earlier this week with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force off Okinawa, as part of Britain’s bid to join the US and its allies in an expanded rol...

Hong Kong police have arrested two suspected triad members in connection with the murder of another reputed gangster, who died earlier this month from wounds sustained in a bare-knuckle showdown with a group of nine men in June.One of the two suspect...

Streets that were once bustling with life have fallen silent. Few women dare to leave their homes. Fighters patrol the neighbourhoods.Welcome to the new Kabul, a city ruled by fear of the Taliban.“It’s like a zombie apocalypse,” a 20-year-old w...

“William” is refusing to take a coronavirus vaccine because he fears Indonesia’s military will use the country’s inoculation programme to poison him and wipe out his fellow Papuans.Decades of conflict, racism and human rights abuses are fuell...

Dragonfly FM, one of China’s biggest podcast platforms with 130 million monthly active users, was one of 66 apps recently removed from app stores at the behest of regulators.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said in a state...

A supply chain crunch that was meant to be temporary now looks like lasting well into next year as the surging Delta variant upends factory production in Asia and disrupts shipping, posing more shocks to the world economy.Manufacturers reeling from s...

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has fuelled concerns of a revival of militancy in Bangladesh, amid a surge in social media posts by sympathisers and claims by a police official that some Bangladeshis have been seeking to travel to the Central...

China’s senior cult-buster Peng Bo is set to be prosecuted after being investigated by the nation’s anti-corruption watchdog since March, according to Chinese prosecutors.The order for Peng’s arrest had been officially approved by the Supreme P...

A Hong Kong salesman who urged people to attack police officers with coconuts during a 2020 demonstration marking the anniversary of a chaotic protest in Mong Kok five years ago, has been jailed for three years for rioting and taking part in an unlaw...

Bare supermarket shelves, no milkshakes at McDonald’s, not enough chickens for Nando’s. Food supply chains in the UK are said to be struggling because of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. Unless action is taken, industry bosses warn the shortage...

One Hong Kong man is dead and another is missing after they were thrown into the sea from a speedboat as it made a sharp turn to avoid detection by a police vessel off Tuen Mun, sources say, sparking a massive search effort.The two men, aged 38 and 4...

China’s push for “common prosperity”, as President Xi Jinping aims to decrease inequality in the world’s second-largest economy, does not mean “killing the rich to help the poor”, a ruling Communist Party official said on Thursday.China m...

China stepped up its pre-emptive defence against a forthcoming US intelligence report on Covid-19’s origins, and accused US media of rejecting its attempts to counter the theory that the coronavirus could have spread from a Chinese lab.Beijing’s ...

Fewer than 20 domestic workers a day will be able to land in Hong Kong when a new scheme allowing entry to helpers vaccinated in the Philippines and Indonesia starts next week.Labour minister Law Chi-kwong said on Thursday that Hong Kong would tread ...

Qantas Airways on Thursday said it was preparing for international travel with countries with higher vaccine rates to resume in December, sending shares higher, as it reported a narrower annual loss of A$1.73 billion (US$1.26 billion).The airline, wh...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul revealed 12,000 more people died of Covid-19 than was reported under her disgraced predecessor, making good on her promise for greater transparency on just her second day leading the state.The state is now reporting a t...

Hong Kong lawmakers have passed long-delayed legislation to charge residents for their rubbish, but there is uncertainty over when the scheme will launch after officials extended the implementation period indefinitely.Environment minister Wong Kam-si...

Western nations warned their citizens Thursday to immediately leave the surrounds of Kabul airport over a terrorist threat, as thousands of people try to reach a dwindling number of evacuation flights.Nearly 90,000 Afghans and foreigners have fled Af...

An unmanned aircraft was brought down by a powerful electromagnetic pulse in what could be the first reported test of an advanced new weapon in China.A paper published in the Chinese journal Electronic Information Warfare Technology did not give deta...

President Xi Jinping said China will strive to hit key economic and social development targets set for this year, even as authorities maintain an aggressive approach to containing the coronavirus.In a front-page article in the People’s Daily on Thu...

In Singapore, a jump in Covid-19 cases to more than 100 a day poses a potential test of resolve for officials who are counting on one of the world’s best vaccination rates to allow them to stay the course and keep reopening.A cluster at Bugis Junct...

Some of the country’s leading technology companies have committed to investing billions of dollars to strengthen cybersecurity defences and to train skilled workers, the White House announced Wednesday following President Joe Biden’s private meet...

A contingent of Wall Street veterans and high-level Chinese government officials are preparing for talks again, as business leaders work outside the Biden administration for greater access to the world’s most populous country.An influential group c...

Isabella was left perplexed when her appointment for a free dose of the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine was suddenly cancelled last week. The Argentine national, who has been living in Indonesia for 15 years, was told there was now a charge for foreigne...

Non-residential real estate investments into Hong Kong have soared this year, as mainland Chinese and foreign investors snapped up industrial buildings, shops, serviced apartments and car parking bays in the city.Purchases by foreigners and Chinese i...

A Hong Kong primary school has urged the government to rethink tying the resumption of full-day classes to high vaccination rates, stressing the importance of a return to normal for students on whom the coronavirus pandemic has taken an emotional tol...

During US Vice-President Kamala Harris’ major foreign policy speech in Singapore on August 24, she delivered a sharp rebuke to China for its incursions in the South China Sea, warning that Beijing’s actions constitute “coercion” and “intimi...

R&B singer R. Kelly forced his girlfriends to write fake blackmail letters that he could use to defend himself in case he was charged with sexually abusing them, one of his accusers testified on Wednesday at his New York City trial.The witness, testi...

At first glance, the high-profile visit by Beijing officials to Hong Kong this week appeared to be simply a series of meetings and forums to discuss China’s five-year grand plan, but analysts have said key messages were imparted during the four-day...

A US judge on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Sidney Powell, a former campaign lawyer for former US President Donald Trump, and other lawyers over a lawsuit they filed in Michigan seeking to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory.In a highl...

Adult film star Ron Jeremy has been indicted in Los Angeles on more than 30 counts of sexual assault stemming from allegations made by more than 20 women that span the past 25 years, prosecutors said.Jeremy, 68, now faces a dozen counts of rape, seve...

The US government on Wednesday vowed to isolate and “use every appropriate tool” against the Taliban if the group prevents the departure of people Washington is trying to evacuate from Afghanistan.Speaking in solemn tones, US Secretary of State A...

The United States has leapfrogged Australia as the leading exporter of frozen beef to China, with Chinese trade data further highlighting the fallout from ongoing tensions between Canberra and Beijing while helping further the progress of the phase-o...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given his first interview from prison, comparing it to a Chinese labour camp and saying he is forced to watch eight hours of state television a day.Navalny, who built his political career on exposing corruptio...

Ashley Farquharson rocks back and forth in her sled, grabs the start bars and hurtles down the icy track, hitting speeds of up to 128 kilometres per hour (80mph) before coming to rest.Farquharson and fellow USA Luge team members are honing their skil...

A team of archaeologists examining the remains of victims from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD have discovered coastal people of the time ate far more fish than modern Italians, with men getting more of the high-status food than women.The rese...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Quint Forgey on politico.com on August 25, 2021.The Pentagon’s top spokesman on Wednesday publicly reprimanded a pair of congressional lawmakers for trave...

A man who appeared as a naked baby on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 Nevermind album has filed a lawsuit against the surviving members of the influential band, alleging the image was child sexual exploitation.In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Cal...

More legislative documents concerning China have passed through Capitol Hill offices in recent months than ever before, mostly suggesting countering or restrictive policies on China and the Chinese people.On June 9, the US Senate passed the Innovatio...

Mexico received 124 media workers and their family members from Afghanistan, including New York Times journalists, the government said on Wednesday, as people flee after the Taliban militant group’s takeover.They arrived at Mexico City’s internat...

Armenia’s parliament descended into a mass brawl on Wednesday as the country remains split following last year’s defeat in the war with Azerbaijan for control of Nagorno-Karabakh.Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had faced a backlash at home over a ...

What is common prosperity?At an economic leadership meeting in August, Chinese leaders agreed that China must pursue a goal of “common prosperity” – where citizens share in the opportunity to be wealthy – as the main objective for the next st...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said the Covid-19 pandemic in the Asia-Pacific region was at a “critical phase” and everything must be done to limit transmission now to avoid more dangerous variants from emerging.Takeshi Kasai, r...

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, currently subject to a cybersecurity investigation, is quietly pushing ahead with a plan to make its own vehicles by expanding the team, according to people familiar with the matter.The Beijing-based company, ...

The chief of the Philippines’ coronavirus task force was on Wednesday forced to deny that the government was delaying its vaccination programme to gain an edge in next year’s presidential election. Vaccine tsar Carlito Galvez Jnr was called to t...

Pro-establishment lawmakers have warned the Hong Kong government against hosting next year’s Gay Games, with one politician calling the event “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” that could pose a threat to national security.Junius Ho Kwan-yiu had pr...

International scientists who took part in a World Health Organization probe into the origins of Covid-19 say time is running out to find answers, issuing their first joint statement since the release of their controversial mission report five months ...