A citywide manhunt is under way for a middle-aged woman wanted in connection with the case of an elderly man who was found bleeding and unconscious in a Hong Kong public housing block and later died in hospital.Emergency personnel were called to the ...

An unemployed Hong Kong man raped a woman who agreed to an encounter believing she was meeting another lesbian, only to discover his true sex at the moment of intercourse, a High Court jury heard on Monday.In opening their case, prosecutors said 30-y...

Canada’s “eyes are wide open” when it comes to normalising its relationship with China, Foreign Minister Marc Garneau said on Sunday, after three years of rocky ties with Beijing since the arrest of a Huawei Technologies executive who was relea...

China’s C919 aircraft – a no-show at the country’s biggest air show this week – has found it harder to meet certification and production targets amid tough US export rules, according to three people with knowledge of the programme.The state-o...

Taiwan needs to have long-range, accurate weapons in order to properly deter a mainland China that is rapidly developing its systems to attack the island, Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said.This comes after Taipei this month proposed extra defence ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday said he expected Australia to open its international border well before the end of the year, as New South Wales state announced a “blueprint for freedom” after a lengthy lockdown.Local Australian government...

A Hong Kong lawmaker can face criminal sanctions for disrupting Legislative Council proceedings, the city’s top court has ruled – a landmark decision that could potentially result in the conviction of 11 former opposition politicians.Five Court o...

About two dozen employees of a metalwork company in northeastern China were taken to hospital after a sudden power outage in a factory led to carbon monoxide poisoning.The failure comes as the country’s northeast grapples with a series of power sho...

Japan’s ruling party is set on Wednesday to vote for the country’s next prime minister in an election that includes women candidates for the first time in 13 years, including a China hawk backed by former premier Shinzo Abe.The winner of the cont...

Covid-19 vaccines have been scientifically proved to save lives, but for a select group of Americans in the religious realm, a more important matter is at stake – eternal salvation.As the Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads, many Americans res...

The Covid-19 outbreak in southeastern Chinese province of Fujian has tapered with only two cases reported in Xiamen on Sunday but the outbreak in northern Heilongjiang province is still on the rise.In Harbin and Suihua in Heilongjiang, 11 Covid-19 ca...

An unemployed Hong Kong man has been jailed for nine years for stabbing pro-establishment lawmaker Junius Ho Kwan-yiu in the chest at an election campaign event amid the social unrest of 2019.Madam Justice Esther Toh Lye-ping on Monday said the vicio...

More than 400 students in Hong Kong’s Tuen Mun district experienced something they had not in more than a year and a half on Monday – a full day of face-to-face classes – after becoming the city’s first school to successfully meet vaccination...

In late January 2020, as a new virus infected hundreds of people each day in the Chinese city of Wuhan, scientists at the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas urgently sought access to the pathogen to start their own research.They turned to the Wuh...

Carlos Ghosn may no longer sit atop the corporate hierarchy, but he hasn’t taken his eye off the world of business – including China’s meteoric economic rise.In an interview with This Week in Asia, the legendary Nissan CEO-turned-international ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to be considering whether to call in soldiers to deliver fuel to petrol stations as pumps ran dry after days of panic buying.Emergency measures were triggered on Sunday evening, with Business Secretary Kwa...

Children around the world will face a sharp jump in heatwaves, floods and droughts in their lives compared to their grandparents, researchers said on Monday, with teenagers from Nepal to Australia urging leaders not to turn a blind eye.Children will,...

Police in Norway on Sunday reported dozens of disturbances and violent clashes including mass brawls in the Nordic country’s big cities after streets, bars, restaurants and nightclubs were filled with people celebrating the end of Covid-19 restrict...

Kei Komuro, the 29-year-old boyfriend of Princess Mako, was set to arrive in Japan on Monday from the United States, where he currently lives, to prepare for their marriage amid a public controversy triggered by a money dispute involving his mother.K...

Hong Kong’s unprecedented purchase of broadcasting rights for the Tokyo Olympics was dubbed a “one-off arrangement” in May, but next year’s Asian Games are now set for the same treatment, according to the city’s leader, with the 2024 Paris ...

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Hong Kong’s police chief on Monday pledged to spare no effort in the fight against maritime smugglers, just hours after the discovery of the body of a senior inspector who went missing when her vessel was rammed by a speedboat and capsized during a...

China has said the United States’ decision to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines increased the risk of nuclear proliferation in the Indo-Pacific, but international experts say the extent of the risk depends on how the submarines are ...

Barely days after getting elected last Sunday, members of Hong Kong’s powerful new Election Committee have begun eyeing the next political prize on the table – Legislative Council seats.Different camps are hoping to sweep the most positions avail...

When news broke last week that prominent Malaysian transgender businesswoman Nur Sajat was detained in Thailand over an invalid passport, she trended to the top of Twitter.The 36-year-old Muslim cosmetics entrepreneur disappeared from Malaysia in Feb...

San Marino residents on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to legalise abortion, rejecting a 150-year-old law that had criminalised it and making the tiny republic the latest majority Catholic state to approve the procedure under certain circumstances, acco...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Maya Parthasarathy on politico.com on September 26, 2021.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said that Democrats will pass an infrastructure bill with US$5...

As official US-China exchanges slowed amid rising tensions, a Wall Street veteran visited Beijing for talks with a top leader – acting as a powerful backchannel for the two nations, the Post has learned.John Thornton, executive chairman of Barri...

Queues of mourners paid their respects on Sunday to Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old whose death on a cross-country trip has sparked a manhunt for her boyfriend. Among those who congregated in Holbrook, about 35 miles (56km) east of New York City, were ...

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes recovered from a terrible start at the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi to become the first Formula 1 driver to reach 100 wins after rain helped his cause in Sunday's closing laps.“It's taken a long time to get to 100 and at t...

Two fishermen were reported dead after a cyclone packing strong winds and rains barrelled into India’s east coast late on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of more than 200,000 people in three states to shelters.Cyclones are a regular menace in the no...

Switzerland agreed to legalise civil marriage and the right to adopt children for same-sex couples by a nearly two-thirds majority in a referendum on Sunday, making it one of the last countries in western Europe to legalise gay marriage.According to ...

Iceland believed briefly on Sunday it had become the first country in Europe to have a women-majority parliament after its election a day earlier, but a recount showed it fell short, an election official told Agence France-Presse.Of the 63 seats in t...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson must do the “hard yards of diplomacy” if he wants any kind of success at the COP26 climate change conference in November, Ed Miliband, opposition Labour’s climate policy chief, said on Sunday.With just over ...

A female Hong Kong police officer has been arrested and charged with 12 counts of assault for allegedly beating her domestic helper multiple times at her Kwun Tong home.The 43-year-old police constable had been suspended from duty after her arrest on...

Myanmar’s junta has denied suspending the internet in conflict-wracked regions, blaming a recent spate of data blackouts on anti-coup protesters who had destroyed military-owned communications towers.The Southeast Asian country has been in chaos si...

The return of Meng Wanzhou to China without legal penalty is being used to shore up nationalist sentiment by feeding up the narrative that Huawei and China were innocent victims of the United States.Repeating Beijing’s line on the case, Foreign Min...

A new trilateral defence alliance between the United States, Britain and Australia has jolted two unlikely partners: America’s adversary China, and France, one of its oldest allies.Washington and London will help Canberra build nuclear-powered subm...

Some of the biggest names in China’s tech industry made an appearance at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen on Sunday to pledge support for the country’s “common prosperity” and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) nearly a ye...

The results from Germany’s elections are paving the way for a nail-biting new phase, with the two men bidding to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel both saying they could lead the next government.With the conservative CDU-CSU alliance and the SPD eac...

British detectives investigating the murder of schoolteacher Sabina Nessa in southeast London have arrested a 38-year-old man in East Sussex, authorities said.The Metropolitan Police said the suspect had been detained at around 3am on Sunday and is i...

Just 419 new voters registered in Hong Kong over the past 12 months, compared with nearly 334,000 who did so last year, official data released on Sunday showed.The number of voters aged 20 or younger also dropped by more than 20 per cent over the pas...

Soon after the plane carrying Meng Wanzhou touched down in Shenzhen, her husband – standing on the tarmac among a 100-strong crowd – waved to her excitedly as he shouted: “I love you”.“I love you,” the Huawei chief financial officer re...

Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed the hope that Communist Party and Taiwan’s Kuomintang can work together to “seek national reunification” in a congratulatory letter to the KMT’s new leader Eric Chu.Xi described the cross-strait situatio...

The return of Huawei Technologies’ executive Meng Wanzhou to China after nearly three years on bail in Canada was met with overwhelming attention domestically, including hours of live coverage on television and social media.In stark contrast, state...

South Korea on Sunday urged North Korea to restore dormant communication hotlines, a day after the North repeated an offer to open conditional talks.The North might be seeking to extract concessions about two weeks after it raised tensions by carryin...

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga sounded an optimistic tone about lifting Japan’s state of emergency when it expires at the end of this month, saying the Covid-19 situation in the country was improving.“The situation has certainly taken a ...

Hong Kong police have charged a 21-year-old man with drug trafficking in connection with the force’s largest seizure of crystal methamphetamine so far this year, valued at more than HK$130 million (US$16.7 million).Detectives from the narcotics bur...

Defeat an army without a fight and without casualties? Quite possible, if a new type of hypersonic weapon proposed by a team of rocket scientists in China becomes reality.Designed to generate intense electromagnetic pulse capable of wiping out commun...

Hong Kong’s biggest opposition party ended its long-awaited special meeting on Sunday on whether to take part in December’s Legislative Council election without reaching any decision as members believed to be keen on running stayed away.Their abs...