When the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced his decision, a former American diplomat was quick to offer support.J. Peter Pham, a former US special envoy to the Great Lakes and Sahel regions, endorsed Congolese President Felix...

A prominent group behind Hong Kong’s annual vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown passed a resolution to disband on Saturday.At an emergency general meeting held at the June 4 museum on Saturday afternoon, dozens of member groups of the...

A Hong Kong police officer is missing and three others were injured after their high-speed vessel capsized during an anti-smuggling operation near the city’s international airport on Saturday morning.Police, firefighters and helicopters have been s...

A US security firm hired by Britney Spears’ father monitored the pop singer’s phone calls and text messages during the court-sanctioned conservatorship she has lived under since 2008, according to a New York Times documentary released on Friday.I...

US prosecutors depict the deal that allowed Meng Wanzhou to leave Canada and fly home to China as a victory – but if so, it is an odd one after so much thwarted effort to secure her for trial.Ultimately, the Huawei Technologies Co executive has bee...

A pilot programme to allow some international students to return to Australia’s most populous state is likely to exclude Chinese nationals due to rules surrounding vaccination status.The phased plan was approved by the federal government and the fi...

Every morning, Sam Josti logged on from her US home to teach children halfway around the world, just one of thousands of foreign language tutors giving Chinese students a rare window into Western culture.But tutors like Massachusetts-based Josti have...

All hopes of Taiwan’s main opposition party are riding on their new leader, as members vote to elect a new chairman who could help steer the century-old group back to power in 2024.Billed as a vote between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the “T...

India on Friday upbraided Pakistan both in Washington and at the United Nations as Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan appealed to the world to work with the Taliban in Afghanistan.Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised concerns about Pakistan during ta...

Hong Kong officials have urged relatives of elderly residents who have yet to get a Covid-19 vaccine to encourage them to do so, before another wave of infections hits the city.With a death rate as high as 25 per cent for those aged 80 and above, and...

Indonesia’s plan to involve Japan and China to build two separate routes for the same railway project has raised debt-trap fears and concerns that Jakarta’s ties with long-time investor Tokyo could weaken, analysts say.Japan was in 2019 granted t...

China’s electronic warfare aircraft the J-16D will make its debut at the country’s largest air show next week, showcasing the advances in the military’s capabilities in electromagnetic warfare.A J-16D – the electronic variant of China’s J-1...

South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases topped 3,000 for the first time on Saturday as an outbreak fuelled by a three-day holiday this week continued to grow.The country reported 3,273 Covid-19 cases for Friday, a day after hitting the previous high,...

The severe shortage of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong has sparked a bidding war, with desperate employers offering to pay well above the minimum wage to secure a helper, recruitment agents say.There are six potential employers for every domest...

Zhang Jianwei, 35, a home decorator in Beijing, led a frugal life during the Mid-Autumn Festival, eating simple food such as noodles, dumplings and visiting free-to-enter local parks.He plans to continue the belt-tightening during the week-long Natio...

When Narendra Modi celebrated his birthday on September 17, the thali – one of his favourite meals – was trending on Twitter as India celebrated all things related to the prime minister.But the repast is nationally beloved, quite apart from its a...

A new shopping app launched in Hong Kong named KaiKai is pushing targeted discount deals to consumers and allowing them to order online and then physically pick up their products at offline stores, offering what the company calls a “gamified” sho...

China has reached out to Southeast Asian countries after the United States, Britain and Australia announced a new security pact designed to counter Chinese influence in the region.Liu Jinsong, the director general of the foreign ministry’s departme...

Another category of online influencers has run afoul of Chinese regulators amid the government’s internet clean-up campaign: people who are seen as exploiting Buddhist temples for attention.The influencers, who do not appear to be monks, typically ...

The US launched a campaign to offer boosters of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to millions of Americans on Friday even as federal health officials stressed the real problem remains getting first shots to the unvaccinated.“We will not boost our way out...

The unstable peace in the South China Sea was not far from the mind of Malaysia’s Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob when he offered his initial reactions to the recently announced defence partnership between the United States, Britain and Australi...

The surprise agreement between US prosecutors and Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou that allows Meng to return to China after nearly three years of detention in Canada will not reset strained relations among the three nations any time soon, ...

Elon Musk and musician Grimes are “semi-separated” after three years together, according to the SpaceX founder.“We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms,” Musk told Page Six on Friday.H...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Myah Ward on politico.com on September 24, 2021.The White House said on Friday that President Joe Biden will not invoke executive privilege on his predecess...

A gunman who killed one person and wounded 14 others in a Tennessee grocery store worked in a sushi business at the store and was the son of refugees from Myanmar who had settled in Nashville, a family friend said Friday.The shooter was identified by...

There was Cantonese in the air, a stall selling Hong Kong-style milk tea, and a “Lennon wall” of brightly coloured notes filled with protest slogans and messages that said: “UK welcomes Hongkongers”.The Friendship Festival, held at a park in ...

Business as usual at Guinea’s bauxite mines following a coup early this month and China’s campaign to reduce domestic energy consumption have mitigated concerns about supply shortages of the mineral – a key ingredient in aluminium, analysts say...

Hundreds gathered on Friday in southeast London to light candles and to mourn for slain primary school teacher Sabina Nessa while demanding an end to violence against women.Nessa’s death – as she walked through a park to meet a friend a few minut...

Leaders of the “Quad” alliance comprising the United States, India, Japan and Australia convened at the White House on Friday to pledge cooperation on coronavirus vaccine distribution, advanced technologies, climate change, and scientific exchang...

US President Joe Biden on Friday vowed to take action against border patrol agents on horseback whose actions in Del Rio, Texas, drew widespread outrage.“It’s outrageous. I promise you those people will pay. They will be investigated. There will ...

The Urban Renewal Authority (URA) has unveiled a blueprint for redeveloping parts of two old, densely built Hong Kong districts with relaxed planning restrictions, potentially allowing residents to enjoy more living space and open areas while providi...

If there is a country likely to be hurt the most by President Xi Jinping’s decision for Beijing to stop building new power plants overseas, it is Zimbabwe.Among several African countries with large deposits of coal, it is heavily dependent on China...

The prominent Chinese civil rights activist Xu Zhiyong has been accused of plotting a “colour revolution” to subvert state power, according to an official indictment.Xu, 48, has been held in detention for more than 20 months, including at a centr...

A veteran TV news executive said CNN anchor Chris Cuomo sexually harassed her by squeezing her buttocks at a party in 2005.Shelley Ross said in an opinion piece in The New York Times on Friday that Chris Cuomo, who had formerly reported to her at ABC...

Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou is flying back to China, after reaching a deal on Friday with prosecutors in New York that effectively resolves a US fraud case that had kept her in legal limbo in Vancouver for nearly three years.The deal d...

President Xi Jinping has called for international technology cooperation to tackle global challenges at a time when rivalry between China and the US is heating up.Xi made his comments on Friday in a video speech to the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing, ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told France’s Emmanuel Macron on Friday that he wants to “re-establish cooperation”, the president’s office said, amid a diplomatic crisis over a submarine contract with Australia.Macron was left furious l...

Two top executives of HNA Group have been detained by China’s police, days after one of the country’s largest private conglomerates was broken down into four separate businesses following its bankruptcy restructuring.HNA’s founder and former ch...

Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Authority (URA) will redevelop more than 2.6 hectares of land in Cheung Sha Wan, including a cluster of 62-year-old tenement buildings, to provide nearly 2,000 private flats.The authority estimated about HK$10 billion (US$...

Huawei Technologies Co’s rotating chairman put on a brave face amid threats of fresh US sanctions, saying that the existing trade ban is causing at least US$30 billion in losses in its annual handset revenue, but the company has learnt to live with...

A core member of the group behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil has told the Security Bureau it does not pose a threat to national security ahead of a key vote by the organisation on whether to disband.The Hong Kong Alliance in Support ...

China’s state-backed gaming industry association and 213 video gaming companies, including Tencent Holdings and NetEase, issued a self-regulation pact on Thursday, pledging to follow Beijing’s mandate to fight video game addiction by filtering un...

Police and customs officers confiscated HK$4.28 million (US$549,760) worth of contraband, including lobsters and abalone, after intercepting a speedboat in waters off northwestern Hong Kong on Friday.It was the third such seizure in three weeks in De...

China’s central bank will “deepen” its antitrust investigations into the mobile payment sector, which has been dominated by a few private financial technology firms, despite “interim progress” made in the last year, its deputy governor said...

Two projects – one aimed at helping Hong Kong’s homeless enter the workforce and another at promoting “social-emotional” learning in city schools – have claimed the two top prizes in this year’s NGO Leadership Programme.Organised by the C...

Britain on Friday vowed to do whatever it takes to resolve a trucker shortage that has closed petrol stations and strained supermarket supply chains to breaking point but the haulage industry cautioned that there were no quick fixes.Just as the world...

The Chinese ambassador to France has said the two countries should strengthen cooperation following the announcement of the new US security alliance with Britain and Australia.“As permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and France shoul...

Singapore on Friday moved to tighten Covid-19 measures as daily infections soared to record levels, with diners once again limited to groups of two – instead of up to five – and companies directed to make working from home the default setting.The...

Con artists have been impersonating health officials in Hong Kong or staff of e-commerce giant Amazon in a new wave of phone scams targeting residents, police have warned.The new ruses prompted the force’s Anti-Deception Coordination Centre to issu...

Alibaba Group Holding will divest its entire equity stake in a Chinese shopping and entertainment television network at an estimated loss of 2.3 billion yuan (US$356 million), according to a corporate filing to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange published o...