Tencent Holdings, China’s biggest social media and gaming business, reported better-than-expected profits for the third quarter of 2021, beating estimates of 32.6 billion yuan (US$5.1 billion) to report a 3 per cent increase from the same period a ...

The total number of cases reported during China’s current Covid-19 wave passed 1,000, as Shanghai’s marathon became the latest to fall victim to one of the country’s most serious outbreaks this year.But the National Health Commission on Wednesd...

South Korea’s ruling party candidate for next year’s presidential election on Wednesday said he was not in favour of Japan joining the US and South Korea in a three-way military alliance, questioning whether Tokyo was a “trustworthy friend”.L...

Licking its lips imperiously, a ginger cat mops up every last morsel of food from its curly whiskers, clearly undaunted by its supper’s rather unusual base ingredient – silkworm pupae.The 15 feline residents of the Mao Thai Thai cat cafe in Taiwa...

Renowned Chinese computer scientist Andrew Yao Chi-chih, whose research has had far-reaching implications for e-commerce and cryptoasset management, has been recognised with the international Kyoto Prize in advanced technology.The 74-year-old Shangha...

A part-time Hong Kong police officer was knocked down and bitten in the right calf in an attack by a wild boar, which then fell to its death from the car park of a building in Tin Hau in the early hours of Wednesday.As of midday, the auxiliary office...

A 60-year-old Australian man escaped the jaws of a large crocodile by stabbing it repeatedly in the head with his pocket knife as it dragged him into a river, local authorities said on Wednesday.After surviving the terrifying attack at a remote river...

Health experts have called for tighter quarantine arrangements for aircrew to seal off any remaining avenues of coronavirus transmission in Hong Kong after two cargo pilots who were exempted from isolation subsequently tested positive for Covid-19.Th...

There are early signs that upstream producers in China may have started to pass on rising costs to downstream businesses – a shift that was underscored when both the consumer and factory-gate indices beat expectations on Wednesday, although analyst...

A former veteran engineer at Broadcom Inc was charged by the United States with stealing trade secrets for chips used in high-volume data centres and taking them to his new job with a China-based start-up.Peter Kisang Kim, 50, was a principal enginee...

Global investors pumped in a record US$11.5 billion into Southeast Asia’s tech companies in the first half of this year, with the bulk of funds going into e-commerce and the digital financial services sector, according to a new industry report.The ...

A US judge Tuesday ordered White House records that could implicate former president Donald Trump in the January 6 attack on the Capitol be released to a Congressional committee, despite the ex-leader’s attempts to keep them secret.The documents ha...

Beijing staged a joint combat readiness patrol towards Taiwan on Tuesday, coinciding with the arrival of a US congressional delegation – on board a military aircraft – to the self-ruled island.According to a brief notice issued by the PLA’s Eas...

Four lions at a Singapore wildlife park have tested positive for the coronavirus after coming into contact with infected zookeepers, and have symptoms including coughing and sneezing, officials said on Wednesday.The endangered Asiatic lions started d...

Nasa is extending its target date for sending astronauts back to the moon to 2025 at the earliest, the US space agency’s chief said, stretching out by at least a year the timeline pronounced under former president Donald Trump.Trump’s administrat...

Lawyers for a Chinese-American scientist have filed a complaint against the US departments of commerce and justice to support a lawsuit seeking US$5 million in damages resulting from her partially reversed dismissal from a government job.Charges agai...

“My mind and body were in agony,” 41-year-old Ting Ting* recently recalled, describing the time she spent living on the streets four years ago.Ting Ting was first introduced to methamphetamine while playing mahjong with friends in 2010, and later...

China’s consumer prices rose only slightly last month amid public concerns over food shortages, but factory-gate inflation surged to the highest level in 26 years, data released on Wednesday showed.China’s official consumer price index (CPI) rose...

A Chinese professor’s account of using kung fu to beat off an armed robber on the street in Los Angeles has gone viral, in a case reported widely by local news outlets.Zhou Pigai, from School of Public Administration of Xiangtan University in centr...

An original Apple computer, hand-built by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 45 years ago, sold for US$400,000 at auction in the United States on Tuesday.The functioning Apple-1, the great-great-grandfather of today’s sleek chrome-and-gl...

Dozens of Hong Kong primary and secondary schools face closure as a result of falling enrolment, a situation made worse by the departure of about 40,000 families who emigrated over the past year, according to the head of the city’s biggest pro-esta...

This is the final part of a series on China’s new push for “common prosperity”. Here, Jane Cai looks at the impact on the country’s wealthy.With wealth inequality worsening amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s rich are under pressure to ...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of orchestrating an unprecedented wave of migrants trying to illegally enter Poland from Belarus, saying the “attack” threatens to destabilise the Europe...

An unauthorised book recording TikTok owner Zhang Yiming’s social media posts between 2010 and 2016 has become popular online as Chinese netizens rush to get a glimpse of the young tech billionaire’s thinking at a time when he is maintaining a lo...

Malala Yousafzai, the campaigner for girls’ education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who survived being shot aged 15 by a Taliban gunman in her native Pakistan in 2012, has got married, she said on social media on Tuesday.The 24-year-old, who lives...

A flat in Wheelock’s ultra luxury residential property Mount Nicholson at The Peak has sold at a new record price per square foot in Asia, with analysts saying an expected reopening of Hong Kong’s border with mainland China will likely boost the ...

The world had generated about 8.4 million tonnes of “mismanaged” plastic waste from the pandemic as of late August, with nearly 26,000 tonnes entering oceans, according to a study that highlights the problem of dealing with medical waste in Covid...

US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to hold a virtual summit next week, though no specific date has been set, according to people familiar with the matter. The long-distance summit comes as ties between the world’s tw...

A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make US Navy submarines.Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of...

One of the leading global authorities on the Holocaust and other mass atrocities warned on Tuesday that Beijing’s policies targeting the Uygur Muslim population in far-west Xinjiang may have risen to the level of genocide, and that the world must a...

A Missouri man accused of killing his wife and burying her body in a park testified on Tuesday that they had a turbulent relationship and he had been considering divorce before her death.Joseph Elledge is charged with first-degree murder in the death...

China’s new weapons-testing range containing a mock-up US aircraft carrier is aimed at deterring military intervention by Washington in regional security issues, defence observers said.Satellite images taken by Maxar Technologies showed the People�...

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday extended a ban that prohibits American investments in Chinese companies that have alleged ties with the Chinese military.“The PRC [People’s Republic of China] is increasingly exploiting United States capital to r...

A Dutch judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the transfer of eight dolphins, two walruses and two sea lions to a Chinese amusement park after animal rights activists launched an urgent court case.Conservation groups Sea Shepherd and the local House o...

France on Tuesday handed back 26 treasures that were looted from Benin during colonial times, fulfilling a promise made by President Emmanuel Macron to restore a lost part of Africa’s heritage.Benin President Patrice Talon and Culture Minister Jean...

The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday there could be shortfall of up to 2 billion syringes in 2022, which threatens to hamper vaccine efforts globally is production does not improve.The shortages are the result of Covid-19 vaccine campaigns...

How important is shipping to China’s economy?As the world’s largest exporter and producer of industrial goods, China’s exports contributed to 39.18 per cent of the country’s GDP in 2020. Meanwhile, the country is also the world’s second-lar...

European lawmakers have raised the alarm over what they say are Beijing’s growing efforts to disrupt democratic processes in the EU, amid a smattering of instances of alleged Chinese political interference across the bloc.At a hearing in Brussels o...

The chief of Germany’s navy on Tuesday said that its dispatch of a warship to the Indo-Pacific underscored his country’s concerns that freedom of navigation and the rule-based international order were being threatened in the region, an apparent r...

Singapore believes neither the United States nor China is turning inward for good, as both recognise their dependence on the rest of the world for talent, resources and markets, one of the city state’s next generation leaders said on Tuesday.With t...

The United States plans to invest in large infrastructure projects around the world as part of a broader G7 programme to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a senior US official said on Monday, with between five and 10 flagship projects annou...

Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency on Tuesday arrested three people for allegedly urging others to cast blank ballots in the coming Legislative Council election, one day after security chief Chris Tang Ping-keung warned that such calls might be illegal....

A senior US diplomat on Tuesday said Washington would “welcome” an increase in Japan’s defence budget, as signalled by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida amid China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region.“This is the decision for our ...

A delegation of US lawmakers including Republican senators John Cornyn of Texas and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama landed in Taiwan on Tuesday in a surprise visit organised by Washington’s de facto embassy on the island.The group boarded a US Navy C-4...

A Hong Kong police officer who led a clearance operation in a park two years ago has denied giving insufficient time for street sleepers to pack up before seizing their belongings, but admitted he did not know how the confiscated items were handled a...

Chinese state-run media on Tuesday continued its tirade against the decision by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to hand over chip supply chain information to the US government, blaming Taipei for being soft on Washington.TSMC, the world�...

Lawyers for Hong Kong’s health department and Sinovac on Tuesday insisted the death of a man after taking the Chinese drug maker’s Covid-19 vaccine was simply a coincidence, as they urged an inquest jury to rule out any link between the two event...

China’s military has conducted high-altitude exercises near the frontier with India, according to state television, as border tensions continue to simmer.They took place in recent days in the remote Tibetan Plateau region near the de facto border, ...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor will deliver a live-streamed lecture on the chief executive’s constitutional role to 1,500 secondary school teachers later this month, though some educators have said the talk clashes with their afternoon...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris on Tuesday touched down in Paris on a mission to further mend relations with France after a crisis brought on by a cancelled submarines contract.During her five-day visit, Harris will meet French President Emmanuel Mac...