A convicted felon has been jailed for rioting for the second time in five years after being found guilty of taking part in violent clashes around Polytechnic University in 2019.Customer service operator Lin Yun-faat, 31, was convicted on Tuesday of r...

China and North Korea said they would step up cooperation to maintain security and stability on their border, after the Chinese public security minister met North Korea’s top envoy in Beijing.Zhao Kezhi told North Korean ambassador Ri Ryong-nam on ...

China is seeing one of its slowest summer holiday box office seasons in years after a Delta-driven outbreak kept audiences home, while concerns grow that a regulatory crackdown on celebrities and idols could prevent the industry from bouncing back.Ti...

Hong Kong health authorities have proposed further relaxing a hiring scheme aimed at tackling the city’s ongoing doctor shortage, opening the door for non-permanent residents to practise as specialists without taking a local licensing exam.Secretar...

Hong Kong police have arrested four men in connection with a burglary in which a safe holding more than HK$2 million (US$257,000) in cash and valuables was stolen from a public housing flat in Kwun Tong last month.The four suspects, aged 31 to 53, we...

Japan’s defence ministry is seeking an annual budget increase that will add to past years’ hikes to expand military spending over a decade by almost one-sixth, as it looks to counter the growing strength of neighbouring China.Since last year, Jap...

In 2017 a quiet and unassuming 18-year-old girl named Gong Yuwen found herself caught at the centre of a major story about Chinese fandom and star-chasing.The teenager had left school and did not work, giving her endless hours to lurk around Shanghai...

Hong Kong’s leader has denied that police are cracking down on civil society, saying an investigation into the alliance behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil represents a proper use of the powers granted to officers under the national s...

The body of a dead Bryde’s whale was spotted off the coast of Shenzhen on Monday night, and experts are working to ascertain whether it is the same animal that had become a local celebrity for the past two months.“Our law enforcement team found t...

Singapore’s count of daily coronavirus cases remained above 100 for the seventh consecutive day amid a surge in clusters at bus depots, testing its resolve to use one of the world’s best vaccination rates to continue reopening the economy.The cit...

After a day at work, Ezmari Ahmadi was just arriving at his home Sunday in Khwaja Burgha, a working-class neighbourhood a few kilometres west of Kabul’s airport, when calamity struck.As he pulled into the driveway about 4.30pm, children – his own...

Beijing’s campaign to “prevent the irrational expansion of capital” and address “barbarous growth” in China’s technology sector is beginning to bear fruit in the wake of an accelerated antitrust campaign targeting internet platforms, Chin...

A legal scholar known for his liberal stance has resigned from the governing council of the Law Society, Hong Kong’s biggest lawyers’ group.Eric Cheung Tat-ming, who was elected in 2018, revealed his decision to step down on his Facebook page on ...

When the history books on Covid-19 in India are written, the mystery of Kerala – why this tiny state has recorded a disproportionately high caseload – will probably merit its own chapter. For weeks now, while nationwide the virus has been recedi...

Hong Kong’s current office market downturn, stretching over seven quarters from late 2019, is on par with the longest in history. The contraction in occupancy, however, is more severe this time at 3 million square feet (278,710 square metres), comp...

China has called for an investigation into the killing of civilians by US-led forces in Afghanistan over the past two decades, demanding the United States reflect on its intervention in the Central Asian nation.China’s deputy permanent representati...

Even after receiving her second dose of the Sinovac vaccine last month, Soh, a 43-year-old Singaporean, was unsure about her immunity levels. So she went to get an antibody test – and the result took her by surprise.Her antibody count stood at 140,...

From endangered freshwater dolphins drowned by discarded fishing nets to elephants scavenging through rubbish, migratory species are among the most vulnerable to plastic pollution, a United Nations report on the Asia-Pacific region said on Tuesday, c...

Hong Kong customs Divisional Commander Philip Chan Siu-kau was asleep when his phone rang at 3am one night last month.A light sleeper after 11 years with the customs department’s drug investigation bureau, he answered the call, knowing that critica...

The US military shared an image of the last of the country's soldiers to leave Kabul, marking the end of a 20-year war in Afghanistan.General Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd airborne division, is shown boarding the flight late Monday out of Kabu...

Unvaccinated Hongkongers could have their movements in the city limited if a fifth wave of Covid-19 infections strikes, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor warned on Tuesday.Despite assuring residents there were no immediate plans to restrict ...

The Taliban were in full control of Kabul’s international airport on Tuesday, after the last US plane left its runway, marking the end of America’s longest war and leaving behind a quiet airfield and Afghans outside it still hoping to flee the in...

Forrest Li, Sea Ltd’s billionaire co-founder, chairman and CEO, has become Singapore’s richest person as shares of his company surged.Li, who was born in China and later became a Singapore citizen, is now worth US$19.8 billion, according to the B...

The parents of a Shanghai-based singer and actor who took his own life five years ago have been attacked on the internet for not looking sad in videos they released on social media, with some people mocking their physical appearance.Qiao Renliang’s...

China’s services sector activity contracted in August to the second-lowest level on record, further adding to evidence of a slowing economy after the key indicator missed expectations.The official non-manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI...

Two developers are bringing the personal skyscraper, or at least a miniaturised version of the latest must-have of Indian billionaires, to Hong Kong, with plans for an eight-storey, vertical villa at Mid-Levels.K Wah International Holdings and Chuang...

Despite a few high-profile conservation success stories – like the dramatic comeback of bald eagle populations in North America – birds of prey are in decline worldwide.A new analysis of data from the International Union for the Conservation of N...

Japan is unlikely to be able to evacuate several hundred Afghans who assisted at Tokyo’s embassy in Kabul, and with a number of Japanese NGOs, ahead of Taliban’s Tuesday deadline for foreign forces to leave the country.The Japanese government has...

An 80-pound (36kg) cougar was removed from a New York City flat where it was being kept illegally as a pet, animal welfare officials said on Monday.The owner of the 11-month-old female cougar surrendered the animal on Thursday, Kelly Donithan, direct...

China and the US could work together to support the Taliban and deter extremism in the militant group but differences over Xinjiang are a stumbling block, according to Chinese observers.The Taliban took over the Afghan capital Kabul two weeks ago but...

The United States completed the withdrawal of its military from Afghanistan shortly after midnight Kabul time, Pentagon officials said on Monday, bringing to an end a 20-year mission sparked by the terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001.Ma...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Meredith McGraw on politico.com on August 30, 2021.Former President Donald Trump plans to hold a rally in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa as he...

Canada’s tax agency has released details of a secret investigation by its auditors linking millionaire migration and suspected tax cheating to high home prices in Vancouver, now one of the world’s most unaffordable cities, after taking five years...

China’s ravenous appetite for iron ore has helped Australian miner Fortescue double its profits and achieve record shipments while making Australian shareholders and governments wealthier with a bumper dividend and royalty payouts.In its 2020-21 fi...

Rescuers combed through the “catastrophic” damage Hurricane Ida did to Louisiana, a day after the fierce storm killed at least two people, stranded others in rising floodwaters and sheared the roofs off homes.The city of New Orleans was still mos...

Scientists in South Africa are monitoring a new coronavirus variant with an unusually high mutation rate, and whose frequency has gradually increased in recent months, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Monday.The variant, known...

R. Kelly asked a teenage boy what he “was willing to do for music” before sexually abusing him, according to the first male to speak out against the singer accused of sex crimes.Louis, using a pseudonym, told the Brooklyn federal courtroom he was...

Three prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre had their first day in court on Monday after being held by the US for 18 years in connection with the deadly 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and other plots in Southeast Asia.Indonesian prisoner Enc...

The European Union on Monday removed six territories including the United States from its list of countries exempted from restrictions on non-essential travel during the coronavirus pandemic.“Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Montenegro, the Republic of Nor...

Police in London on Monday warned activists from Extinction Rebellion they faced arrest after the environmental pressure group blockaded Tower Bridge, one of the capital’s most recognisable landmarks, to traffic.The Metropolitan Police said demonst...

A man accused of killing eight people at Atlanta-area massage businesses and has already pleaded guilty in four of those murders appeared briefly in court on Monday but he did not enter a plea in the other four killings.Robert Aaron Long, 22, is accu...

A coronavirus booster shot is a way to keep the most vulnerable safe and not a luxury robbing people who have yet to have even a single jab, a senior World Health Organization official said on Monday.The comments from WHO Europe head Hans Kluge appea...

Police stormed a Hong Kong flat on Monday night, arresting a woman suspected of heading a triad faction and six alleged members in connection with the murder of a reputed gangster who died of injuries sustained in a bare-knuckle showdown in June.The ...

The Taliban hopes to work with China to forge peace in Afghanistan and will make good on its pledge to keep the country from being a staging ground for terrorists, its spokesman Suhail Shaheen has told This Week in Asia.“We are ready to exchange vi...

The Communist Party of China must keep a firm grip on the country’s data just as the ruling party controls its military and the media, as data is a fundamental resource for the party’s rule, the chairman of a state-owned enterprise has written in...

Japan is considering withdrawing its Self-Defence Forces from their mission to evacuate people, including Japanese nationals, from Afghanistan on Wednesday at the earliest, government sources said, amid heightened tensions in the war-torn country.Jap...

Hong Kong residents stranded in the Philippines and Indonesia will be given the same treatment as foreign domestic workers on Covid-19 vaccine recognition under a revised policy that comes into effect on Wednesday.Under the updated measure, announced...

In the days since taking power in Afghanistan, a wide range of Taliban figures have entered Kabul – hardened commandos, armed madrasa students and greying leaders back from years of exile.The group’s deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has...

Cooperation between China and the US on Afghanistan and moves to improve ties between Beijing and Washington may be complicated by Beijing’s list of demands on Washington, analysts say.In a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Su...

Chinese tech giant NetEase has joined Weibo and Tencent Holdings in removing celebrity ranking lists amid Beijing’s ongoing crackdown on fan club culture in the country.NetEase Music, one of China’s leading music streaming services, on Sunday rem...