Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific made waves this month for firing a cancer survivor, a breastfeeding mother and an employee with a heart problem, among those it sacked for failing to get vaccinated against Covid-19.In the ensuing debate on labour rig...

Nueva Vizcaya, a landlocked province in the Philippines with a population of about 460,900, is home to some of the biggest vegetable producers in the country.An agricultural region eight hours’ drive from the nation’s capital and known as “the ...

Hong Kong’s biggest opposition trade union has confirmed it is in the process to disband and expects to dissolve early next month over concerns for “members’ personal safety”.The Confederation of Trade Unions’ announcement on Sunday came a ...

Myanmar anti-junta dissidents have carried out a bomb attack on security forces near Yangon, with several killed in an ensuing firefight, the military and media said.The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military toppled Aung San S...

Police have seized about HK$3 million (US$385,000) worth of suspected methamphetamine hidden inside a piece of industrial machinery, arresting a 65-year-old man in connection with the discovery.In the course of an investigation, officers from the nar...

When Hongkonger Sean Barry checked out of his quarantine hotel last month, he took with him nearly 300 pieces of plastic collected from his 21-day stay.“I did get some weird looks as I was leaving, but I said it was for recycling,” he said, recal...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has not ruled out seeking re-election to parliament within the next two years, he told Reuters in an interview, despite a corruption conviction that would block him from running.Najib’s corruption-tainted...

Covid-19 cases climbed again in Fujian, China’s southeastern province battling the country’s latest outbreak of the pandemic, as local authorities stepped up travel restrictions and suspended mass activities ahead of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festi...

The lighting of 2,500 handcrafted lanterns for the Mid-Autumn Festival at an iconic Hong Kong fishing village has been cancelled on certain days after thousands of visitors brought the place to standstill.On Sunday, organisers of the Tai O Water Vill...

The Chinese military’s Western Theatre Command has introduced more night drills for units stationed near the Himalayan border as it seeks to familiarise its troops with new-generation weapons and equipment.Since the start of the autumn, several for...

The unprecedented cooperation pact between Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s government and the main opposition bloc is barely a week old, but analysts say there is good reason to be upbeat as the agreement shows early signs of promise...

France on Saturday accused Australia and the United States of lying over a ruptured Australian contract to buy French submarines, saying a crisis was under way between the allies.French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday recalled the ambassadors to ...

Recent satellite images show North Korea is expanding a uranium enrichment plant at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, a sign that it is intent on boosting the production of bomb materials, experts say.The assessment comes after the North recently ra...

The video opens with a wide shot of a truck moving across a flyover squashed between a red block of flats and an old industrial building.The frame widens to show the buzzing street life of an old district in Hong Kong, with restaurants offering conge...

In April with virtually no prior programming experience, Richard O’Connell, based in China’s tech hub Shenzhen, was amazed to learn that the first game he created for Roblox made him about US$5,000 a month, after just a short time learning.It was...

Voters fanned out across five polling stations in Hong Kong on Sunday to cast their ballots for members of the powerful Election Committee, marking the city’s first political race under a Beijing-decreed system overhaul.Under the central government...

Sampoorna Narayanan, 36, is happy. She works five and a half days a week as a part-time home cleaner and lives with three friends in a flat not far from central Singapore. She gets to decide what to cook for her meals and is free to move around as sh...

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit....

US police on Saturday searched a vast wildlife reserve in Florida for 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, while across the country, the FBI hunted for clues about the ...

Chinese scholars in the field of Australian studies are becoming caught up in the souring of relations between Beijing and Canberra, prompting concerns about the future of academic exchange.Chinese researchers Chen Hong and Li Jianjun, both specialis...

Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staff on Saturday as part of the forced move...

Children across the US are posting TikTok videos of themselves vandalising school bathrooms and stealing soap dispensers and even turf from football fields, bedevilling school administrators seeking to contain the viral internet trend.The “devious ...

Police vastly outnumbered protesters around the US Capitol on Saturday at a sparsely attended rally by supporters of the people who breached the building on January 6, trying to overturn former president Donald Trump‘s election defeat.About 100 to ...

Indonesia’s most wanted militant with ties to the Islamic State group was killed in a shoot-out with security forces, Indonesian police said on Sunday, amid the country’s sweeping counterterrorism campaign against extremists in the remote mountai...

Marcus Ng Pak-lam, a 10-year-old Hong Kong boy born with a rare and incurable genetic disorder, is about to face yet another life challenge – risky spinal surgery – in a bid to improve his deteriorating health.His mother Wenus Chan is calling for...

Malaysia on Saturday joined Indonesia in expressing concern that a new security pact involving Australia, the US and Britain could provoke a nuclear arms race in the Indo-Pacific region.Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison called his Malaysian...

Beijing is likely to step up its military activities to deter Taiwan while retaliating diplomatically against the US if the island’s de facto embassy in Washington gets renamed, but these countermeasures are likely to be limited, diplomatic and mil...

Hong Kong police have arrested an officer in the force’s anti-terror unit for allegedly assaulting a bar-goer in the early hours of Saturday.The 32-year-old constable, surnamed Keung, was off-duty when the incident took place in a Tsim Sha Tsui bar...

The unprecedented rift between the US and France over the new three-way alliance with Britain and Australia raises questions about Washington’s commitment to its transatlantic alliance and may offer Beijing a chance to improve ties with Europe, Chi...

Chinese Vice-Premier Han Zheng has called on Hong Kong’s leader to ensure the city’s three coming landmark elections proceed smoothly, urging her also to implement the “patriots governing Hong Kong” principle.Han issued the instructions at a ...

Hong Kong’s homebuyers continued to pile into the residential property market, snapping up three of four flats on offer in two districts across the city, encouraged by an improving local economy and prospects of easy financing.Up to 197 of 265 apar...

Several police officers were wounded and hundreds of protesters were arrested in Australia’s second-largest city Saturday in violent clashes at an anti-lockdown march.Officers used pepper spray and made more than 200 arrests in Melbourne as several...

Singaporean Anthony* and his wife were greeted by a foul smell of mould when they stepped into their room at the Empire Hotel in Causeway Bay to begin their 14-day quarantine in Hong Kong.He had a pack of disinfectant wipes, but quickly realised that...

Hong Kong’s police chief accused a journalist group of selective listening within its industry, as a war of words between both sides intensified on Saturday.“I have observed that the Hong Kong Journalists Association has selective listening towar...

Hong Kong police have arrested a 47-year-old man suspected of indecently assaulting at least two women in Tsuen Wan over the past two months.According to police, the two victims filed reports after they were both groped in separate incidents while wa...

A two-day international conference convened by the Russian government in the city of Khabarovsk in early September to re-examine the war crime trials that took place in the city in December 1949 has angered Japan’s conservatives who have accused Mo...

After two suicide bomb attacks outside Kabul airport on 26 August, nearly 20 of a convoy of female Afghan university students fleeing for their freedom abandoned their plans for an urgent evacuation.But the rest were adamant they would try a third ti...

A Christian church leader who left Hong Kong last year after pro-Beijing media accused him of attempting to incite secession and subversion has died of Covid-19 in Britain.Reverend William Yeung Kin-keung, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, succu...

A local university professor has apologised after Hong Kong police accused him of smearing members of the force’s official youth group in a recent newspaper comic.Wong Chiu-tat, an assistant professor of Baptist University’s academy of visual art...

The new three-way pact between the United States, Britain and Australia is the latest in a series of efforts to build a network of security partnerships to counter China’s influence in East and Southeast Asia as mutual concerns about Beijing draw a...

Beijing held a military drill targeting Taiwan and described the United States as the “biggest troublemaker” in the region as a US destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday in the ninth such passage by American warships this year. The ...

Hong Kong firms in Shenzhen’s expanding Qianhai economic zone will soon find it easier to settle various company matters without having to cross the border, but opening a mainland Chinese bank account remains challenging, according to a top officia...

It took five years for Minhaz Mannan to see justice for his brother Xulhaz after Islamist extremists hacked him to death with a machete. Xulhaz was the co-founder and publisher of Bangladesh’s first LGBT magazine, Roopbaan. He and his associate Ma...

China has urged Brazil to ensure there is no repeat of an incident in which a man threw an explosive device at its consulate general in Rio de Janeiro.The device damaged the premises but no one was injured in Thursday evening’s attack, the consulat...

Two women are in contention to become prime minister of Japan for the first time in its history – a potential turning point for a country that ranks below Saudi Arabia in terms of female political representation.Victory for either Seiko Noda and Sa...

The Covid-19 outbreak in China’s southeastern province of Fujian showed signs of slowing on Friday, with daily infections recording the smallest growth since cases started emerging last week.Thirty-one Covid-19 cases were reported on Friday, includ...

An influential Chinese military magazine has said that the Chengdu J-20 is likely to appear in more training exercises – but analysts say its inferior engine and the air force’s lack of strategic transporters will limit the country’s ambitions....

Hong Kong’s welfare chief has admitted that there will inevitably be some “hiccups” when what is effectively an 800-room hotel at a government-run quarantine centre opens its doors next week to foreign domestic helpers arriving in the city.Citi...

Firefighters battling to protect the world’s biggest tree from wildfires ravaging the parched United States said on Friday they are optimistic it can be saved.Flames are creeping closer to the majestic General Sherman and other giant sequoias, as m...

Hong Kong police will deploy between 5,000 and 6,000 officers on Sunday when some 4,900 people go to the polls to vote for members of the powerful Election Committee, as part of the city’s first political race under a system overhaul imposed by Bei...