Around 40 police officers sent to provide security at the Tokyo Paralympics have been sent home for drinking, brawling with members of the public and frequenting a brothel. The detachment from a special Yamanashi Prefectural Police security unit was...

Mainland hotel chain Atour Lifestyle Holdings has filed an updated prospectus for its US initial public offering, highlighting the risks from the Chinese government’s influence on its business and heightened cybersecurity scrutiny following more st...

Singapore’s High Court on Wednesday awarded Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong a total of S$370,000 (US$275,000) in damages, after he won two separate defamation lawsuits against the chief editor and a writer from news website The Online Citizen.The la...

A mother whose 25-year-old daughter died after being savagely beaten by a boyfriend has seen her petition calling for new legislation to outlaw dating violence in South Korea signed hundreds of thousands of times.Hwang Ye-jin had her ribs broken, int...

Thailand, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries subject to Hong Kong’s strictest entry and quarantine rules could be next in line for recognition of their Covid-19 vaccination records, the health minister has revealed, raising hopes fully in...

Princess Mako, a niece of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, will marry her boyfriend Kei Komuro by the end of the year and may start a new life in the United States, but without holding the related ritual ceremonies in a rare decision, a government source ...

Seven Hong Kong opposition activists and former lawmakers have been jailed for up to 16 months for causing “serious and indiscriminate” obstruction via an unauthorised rally that devolved into acts of vandalism during the anti-government protests...

The World Health Organization said it was monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as “Mu”, which was first identified in Colombia in January.Mu, known scientifically as B. 1.621, has been classified as a “variant of interest”, the global h...

There is growing concern among Pakistani officials about security in neighbouring Afghanistan, as the Taliban tries to form a government and stabilise the country following the departure of US and other foreign forces.Islamabad is particularly worrie...

Senior Beijing officials have warned against imposing sanctions on China and expressed confidence in Hong Kong’s future as an international financial hub under the country’s economic expansion.China’s commerce minister Wang Wentao, and Liu Guan...

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings’ music streaming business has announced that it terminated all exclusive licensing deals with copyright holders in accordance with a recent government mandate, removing a major obstacle for rivals in the entertai...

The Chinese ambassador to the US has warned Washington not to treat China in the same way it dealt with the former Soviet Union and called for increasing official exchanges between the two nations.Qin Gang, who took up the role in late July, said it ...

Three men held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre have been formally charged in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and other plots in Southeast Asia after 18 years in US custody, with defence lawyers insisting afterwards that the lo...

Bitcoin mining required so much energy that the sector would rank ninth among China’s 10 biggest carbon-emitting industrial urban centres by 2024, a dubious honour that explains why the Chinese government came down so hard this year to ban the crea...

Canto-pop singer and political activist Denise Ho Wan-sze has been banned from performing next week at one of Hong Kong’s top theatres, just days after a pro-Beijing newspaper accused her of taking part in anti-China activities.Responding to the te...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s U-turn on his decision to ban casinos on the resort island of Boracay, made in a bid to generate tax revenue for the country’s Covid-19 response, has been criticised by environmental activists and a local po...

The United Nations chief urged all nations to help the people of Afghanistan “in their darkest hour of need”, saying that almost half the population needs humanitarian assistance to survive and the country faces the threat of basic services colla...

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China’s record corn-buying spree – a cornerstone of its trade deal with the United States – may be running out of steam, with risks growing that imports by the top buyer will fall short of US official estimates. The domestic harvest season is ...

Some Hong Kong parents are urging education authorities to lower the 70 per cent vaccination threshold required to hold a full day of in-person classes, as not a single local school had met the requirement on the first day of the new academic year.We...

The US military likely abandoned tens of millions of dollars’ worth of aircraft, armoured vehicles and sophisticated defensive systems in the rush to leave the airport in Kabul safely.Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, head of US Central Command, sai...

China’s factory activity slipped into contraction in August for the first time in nearly one and a half years as coronavirus containment measures, supply bottlenecks and high raw material prices weighed on output in a blow to the economy.The slowdo...

Prosecutors in southwestern China have said they will not charge a woman who allegedly abducted a boy 33 years ago and then raised him as her own child because of the length of time that has passed.The decision came despite repeated calls from the vi...

China’s regulation requiring notification from foreign vessels entering its claimed territorial waters is unlikely to be obeyed by countries challenging those claims, as happened when it declared an Air Defence Identification Zone on the East China...

A senior member of Japan’s largest ‘yakuza’ crime group has been arrested on suspicion of killing a man in a drunken argument on Sunday, just days after the head of a rival gang was sentenced to death for his role in one murder and the attempte...

Meituan, China’s largest food delivery and on-demand local services provider, is sticking with its commitment to community group buying despite widening losses and increased regulatory pressure.The company’s new initiatives segment, which include...

Louisiana and Mississippi took stock of the disaster inflicted by powerful Hurricane Ida, as receding floodwaters began to reveal the full extent of the damage along the US Gulf Coast and the death toll rose to four.New Orleans was under a curfew Tue...

From Tokyo’s famous Shibuya crossing to the remotest Okinawan island, Japan’s streets have one thing in common: “tenji blocks” - yellow textured paving squares to aid people with visual impairments.The tactile paving was invented in Japan mor...

A day after an explosive fire emptied a resort city at the southern tip of Lake Tahoe, a huge firefighting force braced for strong winds on Tuesday as residents in neighbouring Nevada were put on notice to be ready to flee.The city of South Lake Taho...

As a diplomat, I am often asked how the Communist Party of China could continuously achieve success and how China could develop so fast. My answer has always been: putting people first.Over the past century, the party has led the Chinese people in an...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nick Niedzwiadek on politico.com on August 31, 2021.A defiant President Joe Biden called the Afghanistan evacuation effort a “success” on Tuesday, in a ...

Nearly 180,000 cadres working in China’s judicial and law enforcement authorities have been reprimanded or punished for “violating party discipline and the law” during an ongoing blitz.Of those, some 1,985 people working in the courts, prosecut...

Scottish tennis star Andy Murray launched a fresh rocket at his US Open conqueror Stefanos Tsitsipas on Tuesday, griping that the Greek player took longer on bathroom breaks than it took billionaire Jeff Bezos to reach outer space.The Briton was furi...