South Korea will soon start developing a home-grown naval interception system designed to protect warships from hostile aircraft and missiles, the state arms procurement agency said on Friday.The country’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration...

Huawei Technologies Co, the Chinese telecommunications and smartphone giant, reported a 32 per cent slump in sales for the first nine months of 2021, deepening a 29.4 per cent decline in the first half, as the company’s handset business was cripple...

China’s recent ban on a satirical pop duet that pokes fun at jingoistic internet trolls has done little to help it in its quest to project a positive image abroad.In the video for Fragile, or bo li xin (heart of glass), by Malaysian artist Namewee ...

The decision to clear Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying of intimidating a reporter from a rival newspaper four years ago was “perverse”, prosecutors appealing against the verdict told the High Court on Friday.Lai, 73-year-old founder of t...

The number of newly infected people with the coronavirus has skyrocketed again in Denmark and Norway in recent weeks.The Danish disease control body, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), reported on Thursday a 73 per cent increase in Covid-19 cases in t...

China aims to cut concentrations of hazardous, small airborne particles known as PM2.5 by an average of 4 per cent year on year this winter in main cities where it is trying to tackle pollution, the environment ministry said on Friday.The Ministry of...

A new set of draft rules released on Friday by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s internet watchdog, have proposed additional requirements for businesses wanting to transfer Chinese data abroad, as Beijing seeks to tighten ...

Hong Kong police have arrested a jobless 21-year-old resident after a viral video emerged of a man throwing himself onto the bonnet of a car in an apparent attempt to fake a road accident.The incident – captured in a 10-second clip – took place o...

Hong Kong customs has seized HK$1.2 billion (US$154.3 million) worth of contraband products, the biggest haul in its 112-year history, after the items were uncovered in 24 shipping containers on an intercepted mainland China-bound vessel.The bust was...

American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker said the carrier has banned a male passenger who “violently, physically assaulted” a flight attendant and he’s urging “immediate” criminal prosecutions to deter such behaviour.The in-flight epis...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will take part in this weekend’s G20 leaders’ summit via video link. The foreign ministry said on Friday that Xi would deliver a speech to the gathering in Rome, where a handful of other leaders will also not be atten...

Washington’s defence ties with Taiwan are rock solid, the top US diplomat in Taipei said on Friday, as Beijing denounced as a political gesture the confirmation that American troops were present on the island.“The United States has a commitment t...

China submitted its updated emissions reduction commitment, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), to the United Nations on Thursday, just days ahead of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. But climate observers described it as mode...

Hong Kong’s health minister has rebuked a leading public health expert for criticising the government’s decision to impose an extra two weeks of quarantine on recovered Covid-19 patients, insisting the tough strategy “has the community’s over...

The UN Security Council demanded the Sudan military restore the civilian-led transitional government and release all those who have been detained.“[The members of the Security Council] also called upon all parties to exercise the utmost restraint, ...

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who went through the brutal US government interrogation programme after the 9/11 attacks described it openly for the first time Thursday, saying he was left terrified and hallucinating from techniques that the CIA long sough...

South Korea said on Friday it will drop all operating-hour curbs on restaurants and cafes and implement its first vaccine passport for high-risk venues, such as gyms, saunas and bars, as it tries to “live with Covid-19”.The first phase will go in...

Global transport, packaging and construction sectors will have to brace for more shortages in aluminium as China’s power-intensive metals industry buckles under the pressure of a national power crisis while Beijing maintains a cap on smelting to me...

A convicted murderer vomited and experienced convulsions as he was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Oklahoma, witnesses said.John Grant, 60, was the first inmate to be put to death in Oklahoma since a series of botched executions led t...

China Evergrande Group has staved off a potential default for the second time in a week, after paying an overdue offshore bond coupon before a 30-day grace period runs out.The Shenzhen-based developer paid US$45.2 million of coupon due on its 9.5 per...

Britain summoned the French ambassador to explain “threats” made over post-Brexit fishing rights, hours after France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex offered to open talks to resolve the increasingly bitter row.The two sides are at loggerheads over...

India has deployed recently acquired US-made weaponry along its border with China, part of a new offensive force to bolster its capabilities as the countries remain deadlocked over disputed territory in the Himalayas.The build-up in India’s northea...

The US Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to approve legislation to prevent companies such as Huawei Technologies Co or ZTE Corp that are deemed security threats from receiving new equipment licences from US regulators. The Secure Equipment Act, t...

Now that the dust has settled, the Chinese public is questioning whether the censuring of famous Chinese pianist Li Yundi, who was utterly discredited after he was accused of soliciting a sex worker by police, was reasonable.When the news hit – com...

The Chinese-American scientific community marshalled more ammunition on Thursday in its bid to roll back the Justice Department’s “China Initiative” with the release of a detailed study aimed at fighting racial bias in national security investi...

When a lesbian couple in Hong Kong broke up last year after nearly two decades together, they agreed it was crucial they both continued to play an equal role in the lives of their two young children.Securing shared custody would make dealing with man...

Chinese entrepreneurs in the fields of science and technology are calling for more government action to help push forward the Greater Bay Area’s development, as various challenges, including a talent shortage, remain four years after Beijing fir...

US President Joe Biden promised to show the world that democracies can work to meet the challenges of the 21st century. As he prepares to push that message at a pair of global summits, his case could hinge on what’s happening in Washington, where h...

Hong Kong’s trade office in Australia has sought to distance itself from a brewing controversy over allegations that it exerted political influence on the country’s largest Asian-themed festival to pull a cultural workshop that featured yellow um...

As Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party heads for Sunday’s lower house election, rumblings of discontent among its conservative rank-and-file members towards its China-friendly junior coalition partner Komeito are growing.It is a sign of how d...

China has lashed out at the United States and its allies over their assessment of the country’s trade policies at a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) periodic review, describing them as “unreasonable” and “improper”.Wang Shouwen, China�...

A criminal complaint charging former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo with a misdemeanour sex offence has been filed in a court in Albany, the state’s capital, a spokesman for the New York state courts said on Thursday.“As this is a sex crime, a re...

The youngest daughter of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose ousting by a military coup in 2006 triggered years of political instability, has taken a post with a party closely associated with her father.Thailand’s largest oppositio...

China is calling for dialogue among warring factions in Sudan and may evacuate its citizens if the situation following an apparent coup escalates.The military arrested Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other civilian leaders on Monday. The ...

The head of the FBI urged US companies on Thursday to develop closer ties with it to counter a “multi-avenue” effort by Beijing to amass enough intellectual property to “become the world’s only superpower”.In a virtual address to the Econom...

A bipartisan group of US senators on Thursday proposed an amendment to an annual defence policy bill that would impose a diplomatic boycott of China’s Winter Olympics – less than 100 days away – amid accusations of rights abuses by Beijing.The ...

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Thursday that her engagement with China is aimed at reducing the temperature of a trading relationship between the world’s two largest economies that has become dangerously heated.Tai, speaking at a mee...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future – what Zuckerberg calls the “metaverse”.Sceptics point out that it also appears to be an attempt to c...

US authorities returned about 250 antiquities to India on Thursday in a long-running investigation of a stolen art scheme.The items, worth an estimated US$15 million, were handed over during a ceremony at the Indian Consulate in New York. The centrep...

A German electrician went on trial Thursday accused of murder in the death of one man, and mutilating several others by performing illegal operations on their genitals.The 66-year-old told a regional court in Munich that he performed the procedures a...

Hong Kong police found the body of a solo hiker on a Tuen Mun hillside on Thursday afternoon, four days after his family reported him missing.Law Hung-fai, 57, was believed to have gone hiking alone on Saturday morning, his daughter told police.A sec...

1. China’s state planner is weighing steps to tame pricesChina’s state planner has met coal producers and an industry body to discuss measures such as setting price levels and ways to better identify companies engaged in “profiteering”, it sa...

China has increased the number of test flights its missiles must undergo before they enter mass production in an effort to improve reliability, according to a new study.New air-to-air missiles previously had to take eight tests where they hit a movin...

A British teenager has been jailed for at least 35 years for murdering two sisters as part of a satanic blood pact.Danyal Hussein, 19, savagely stabbed Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, to death in a London park last year in June. A London co...

The son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was on Thursday granted bail, three weeks after being arrested during a cruise ship drugs bust in a case that has gripped India.Aryan Khan, 23, the eldest son of the actor dubbed the “King of Bollywood�...

A man died of pneumonia just days after Hong Kong police took his trousers as evidence but rejected replacement clothes from his family while he was in detention, the force’s watchdog has disclosed in a report.The man had been arrested for possessi...

A former Hong Kong design school student was jailed for more than two years on Thursday for rioting during a 2019 anti-government protest in which activists vandalised smart lamp posts.Tse Cheuk-wa, 25, pleaded guilty before a District Court judge la...

With all eyes on the G20 leaders summit this weekend, China and the United States are expected to strike a conciliatory chord at the multilateral gathering, which could see an agreement on a long-awaited global minimum corporate tax.During a virtual ...

To this day, Lee still rues the HK$1 million (US$128,600) she invested in a new residential property in the United Kingdom in 2014.An overseas property neophyte at the time, Lee, who manages a consultancy and declined to give her full name, said she ...