A group of Filipinos in Macau who staged a gathering on Sunday were invited for questioning at a police station after the unauthorised event to support Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr’s bid to become the next Philippine president.According to t...

Beijing authorities have sealed off a mall and locked down several residential compounds over a Covid-19 flare-up, as the latest outbreak spreads to the Chinese capital’s central districts.China has largely curbed widespread transmission of the cor...

Royal Caribbean International is to resume “cruises to nowhere” from Hong Kong on Thursday night, marking the end of a 21-day suspension imposed on the multinational operator over a crew member testing re-positive for the coronavirus.A spokesman ...

Falguni Nayar, 58, joined the rarefied ranks of India’s self-made billionaire women this week as the beauty start-up she founded went public and promptly doubled on its trading debut. Now she’s encouraging more women to seize control.Nayar runs I...

Japan has raised concerns over Chinese military activities in the disputed East China Sea in talks on Wednesday, while Beijing urged Tokyo not to do anything to complicate the situation.In the meeting, Hong Liang, director general of the boundary and...

Viral video of a Tesla speeding through a Hong Kong zebra crossing as an elderly man walked across it has led to the arrest of the motorist involved on suspicion of dangerous driving.According to the police force, the 51-year-old driver was detained ...

Hong Kong’s most ambitious museum ever, the M+, will not shy away from showcasing the work of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, an official overseeing it has pledged, despite one of the dissident’s works previously sparking accusations from pro-Beiji...

A former food delivery worker has been jailed for five years and nine months under Hong Kong’s national security law for inciting secession by chanting pro-independence slogans at protests and advocating the stance in interviews.Adam Ma Chun-man re...

A Japanese train driver is suing his employer after his wages were docked 56 yen (US$0.50) over a minute-long delay to the country’s famously punctual rail system, the company said on Thursday.The driver filed the suit against the West Japan Railwa...

Christian “Xian” Gaza, a self-proclaimed Filipino businessman who paid US$30,000 for a billboard ad asking Blackpink’s Jennie Kim out on a date, has shot down descriptions his move is “creepy”.“Creepy people invade your privacy by stalkin...

A mentally ill man has been sentenced to six months in a Hong Kong psychiatric hospital for stabbing a railway worker in the neck with a syringe because he was frustrated at having his ticket inspected.Pang Wai-ming pleaded guilty last month to wound...

The average waiting time for a public housing flat in Hong Kong has edged upwards to 5.9 years, despite a long-standing Housing Authority pledge to allocate homes to applicants in no more than three.The wait, the longest it has been in 22 years, grew...

A lack of top-tier intelligence on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s inner circle is frustrating senior Biden administration officials struggling to get ahead of Beijing’s next steps, according to current and former officials who have reviewed the m...

Hong Kong police have arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of drug trafficking after some HK$6.1 million (US$783,000) worth of narcotics were found hidden in a pair of rain boots inside his delivery van.Senior Inspector Tam Wai-lok of the Narcotic...

Japan’s new foreign minister said on Thursday it was important to build constructive and stable ties with China while calling for responsible behaviour from its giant neighbour.Staunch US ally Japan has recently been more outspoken on questioning C...

The president of City University will not be renewing his contract in 2023, with the institution’s vice-president announcing an international search for his replacement.The news that Professor Way Kuo, who has been with CityU for over 13 years, wou...

Queues formed outside Hong Kong’s coronavirus vaccination centres on Thursday, with eligible residents eager to boost their immunity against Covid-19 with a third jab after being fully inoculated earlier this year.Booster shots for elderly and high...

The United States warned Russia against making another “serious mistake” on Ukraine as it sought clarity about troop movements near the border.Welcoming Ukraine’s foreign minister to Washington on Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken sa...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States and its allies would “take action” if China used force to alter the status quo over Taiwan.Blinken did not say what sort of action he was referring to, as he responded to a question on t...

US President Joe Biden acknowledged that US shoppers were paying too much for everyday goods, vowing to tackle inflation “head on” after government data showed it had reached a 30-year peak last month.The sharp spike in the consumer price index (...

Singapore’s central bank chief would like Hong Kong and mainland China to open up quicker and more decisively over the next year as their strict border restrictions may impact business ties between the key Asian financial hubs.“I would hope that ...

Two international universities in China have told their overseas students to prepare for a return to campus as early as March, after they were shut out of the country because of the pandemic.While there has been no official announcement on when China...

Thousands of Afghan refugees are fleeing the Taliban into neighbouring Iran every day and the trend could eventually become a crisis for Europe, a top aid official said.Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, visited refugees...

A SpaceX rocket carried four astronauts into orbit on Wednesday night, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years.The repeatedly delayed flight occurred just two days after SpaceX brought four other astronauts home from the International S...

Three days after he went missing, thirteen-year-old Ke Liangwei’s body was found in the wilderness on October 26. The young teenager had drowned.Then last week, his story took a dark twist that casts new light on his death and shines a spotlight on...

Lee Kam-hung, 46, still remembers vividly the restless night seven years ago when he received a call from Prince of Wales Hospital telling him his one-year-old daughter’s heart had stopped for a few seconds and been restarted with a defibrillator.H...

First-time exhibitors from Hong Kong said they were confident about generating business at the China International Import Expo (CIIE), which is being held in Shanghai.Exhibitors from the city were representing the services, equipment, science and edu...

Hong Kong’s two power companies will be under tremendous pressure to raise the price of electricity as the city moves to become carbon neutral by 2050 and residents should brace for double-digit increases in the future, analysts warn.But the city c...

Modern languages ranging from Japanese and Korean to Turkish and Mongolian may share a common ancestor from ancient China around 9,000 years ago, according to a new study.An international team of researchers said languages from the Transeurasian fami...

This second instalment of a four-part series on the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow looks at coal, and why it is shunned by environmentalists as the “dirtiest” of all fossil fuels.Coal is the focus of discussions at the a...

The head of lighting on the film Rust filed a lawsuit Wednesday over Alec Baldwin’s fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the Western, alleging negligence that caused him “severe emotional distress” that wil...

Almost two months since France and Australia first clashed over Canberra’s decision to buy American nuclear-powered submarines, the war of words between both has shown no signs of abating, sparking questions about the longer-term implications of th...

The Biden administration is getting traction with China in talks over Beijing’s compliance with a Trump-era trade deal, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Wednesday, but she declined to predict an outcome while discussions continue.She t...

The US government on Wednesday sanctioned Cambodian officials for alleged graft at the Southeast Asian nation’s largest naval base, where the demolition of structures funded by Washington has drawn criticism from US officials concerned about China�...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday pledged a raft of economic reforms as part of China’s efforts to join a Pacific Rim trade pact abandoned four years ago by the US and warned against efforts to “draw ideological lines” in the Asia-Pacific region...

Kamala Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on Wednesday that their countries are ready to work together again, after a diplomatic drama surrounding a submarine deal that put the relationship at a historic low.The US vice-president met ...

At a Shanghai facility the size of a soccer field, Chinese scientists are firing powerful laser beam pulses at a tiny pair of gold cones in a bid to replicate the nuclear fusion process at the heart of the sun.The cones, as small as pencil tips, have...

The United States and China unveiled a surprise commitment to ramp up collaboration on climate action on Wednesday, with Washington’s top climate envoy saying that despite tensions between the two countries, cooperation was the “only way to get t...

Britain’s Prince Harry has sharply attacked the failure of social media companies to challenge hate online, revealing that he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the January 6 Capitol attack that the site was being used to stage politica...

The World Health Organization says coronavirus deaths have risen by 10 per cent in Europe in the past week, making it the only world region where both cases and deaths are steadily increasing.It was the sixth consecutive week that the virus has risen...

A Thai court has ruled that three anti-government activists who had called for reform of the country’s powerful monarchy violated the constitution by making what it called a veiled attempt to overthrow the institution.The Constitutional Court rulin...

China “stands ready to work with the United States” to bring relations back on the right track, President Xi Jinping has said, days ahead of a scheduled virtual meeting with US counterpart Joe Biden.This comes as the two nations seek to reopen li...

Health authorities launched a large Covid-19 screening exercise in Hong Kong’s Discovery Bay on Wednesday after a pilot living in the area contracted the coronavirus, forcing hundreds to queue for tests and triggering a wave of complaints over the ...

In a harsh criticism of Australia’s recent policies in the Asia Pacific, the country’s former prime minister Paul Keating has taken Canberra to task for missteps ranging from a deal to acquire nuclear submarines to what he called “a deteriorati...

A local market watchdog summoned 16 e-commerce platform operators – including a branch under Alibaba Group Holding, Meituan’s group-buying business, and Vipshop – to warn them against “unfair competition” activities and other business malpr...

A group of US lawmakers visiting Taiwan have met senior officials, including President Tsai Ing-wen, to discuss the island’s defence in the face of growing military threats from Beijing.The 13-member congressional delegation, including four senator...

Young people suffering from a type of diabetes should be screened for fatty liver, Hong Kong researchers have suggested after a pilot study found a connection between the two.Researchers said the study suggested people who had fatty liver and Type 1 ...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was busy telling the nation about important revisions to Covid-19 restrictions when an unexpected voice cut in: “Mummy”?In a situation familiar to parents worldwide, the leader’s three-year-old daughter...

Foot binding was a feature in Han Chinese society for a large swathe of its history and, in certain regions, was nearly ubiquitous for generations.But because foot binding was not universal in China, it created an impossible decision for women, accor...

More than one in five Hongkongers, or 1.65 million people, were living in poverty in 2020, the most since record-keeping began 12 years ago, new government figures have revealed.But officials stressed, in the annual Poverty Situation Report released ...