A single city in northeast China was the source of 52 of the 79 new local Covid-19 symptomatic cases that the country’s National Health Commission reported on Friday.The sudden spike in Dalian, which reported its first community case from the lates...

The spread of the coronavirus’ Delta variant around the world and global supply chain bottlenecks could weigh on Hong Kong’s recovery, with the city’s economy growing at a slower pace of 5.4 per cent in the third quarter, the government said on...

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Hong Kong customs has struck a heavy blow against a cross-border smuggling syndicate, arresting three men and confiscating HK$63 million (US$8 million) worth of contraband destined for mainland China.The haul of electronics, delicacies such as bird�...

A Hong Kong inquest has returned an open verdict in the case of a chronically ill man who died two days after receiving his first dose of China’s Sinovac vaccine.A jury of two men and three women returned the unanimous verdict at the Coroner’s Co...

China has become India’s biggest security threat and the tens of thousands of troops and weaponry that New Delhi rushed to secure its disputed Himalayan border last year will not be able to return to base for a long time, defence chief General Bipi...

The Netherlands will impose western Europe’s first partial lockdown since the summer this weekend, in a bid to stop a surge in Covid-19 cases, Dutch broadcaster NOS said on Friday.Bars, restaurants and non-essential stores will be ordered to close ...

Beijing will update its blacklist of Taiwan pro-independence figures to further deter both political and capital support flowing to the camp, but the absence of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen from the list allows room for future cross-strait intera...

Chinese businesses are being forced to become more accommodating of employee demands for flexible workplace arrangements, as young jobseekers flush with options find they have more leverage.Traditional employment relationships are being overturned in...

After nearly 20 years of waiting, Hong Kong on Friday finally celebrated the opening of its first purpose-built visual art museum, the M+, with hundreds of visitors queuing up in the morning for a peek inside the multibillion-dollar complex in the he...

Hong Kong is adding nearly 100 more quarantine rooms for arriving domestic workers, bringing the total number available to around 2,000 as the city seeks to ease its shortage of helpers.The Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong Sha Tin has been added to th...

Corporate sponsors of February’s Beijing Winter Olympics must speak up on rights abuses in China or risk being tainted by association, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.Preparations for the Games have been overshadowed by the Covid-19 pandemic and ...

China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) will include mental health screening as part of the health check-ups required for children to attend school by the end of 2022.While the screening will try and analyse a person’s mental health in general, it wi...

UN climate talks headed towards a rocky conclusion Friday after two weeks of fraught debate failed to resolve several key disputes or produce the emissions cutting plans needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.“The world is watching u...

A Myanmar junta court on Friday sentenced American journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison on charges of unlawful association, incitement against the military and breaching visa rules, his employer said.The military has squeezed the press sinc...

It is at lunchtime that Nancy Chen misses her father the most. For 30 years, she ate every day with her parents at their flat. Her father, despite being partially impaired by a stroke, would buy her a box lunch with cod. If she were 15 minutes late, ...

After news of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s marriage broke, Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen, who lives in India, felt shocked.Malala, 24, wed fellow Pakistani Asser Malik in her home in Birmingham on Tuesday. She moved to Britain af...

European countries and the US condemned Belarus over a crisis that has seen hundreds of migrants trapped on its border with Poland, after an emergency meeting at the UN Security Council on the tense stand-off between Minsk and the EU.Russia’s Presi...

Just three weeks ago, Zheng Shaoxiong was crowing to his friends on social media about his latest achievement. “The best player of [online kart racing game] QQ Speed who used to shake the whole school finally got his real-life driving licence!”Bu...

China’s economy likely continued to weaken across the board in October with little signs of bottoming out.A set of key economic data to be released Monday will be closely studied for signs that the slowdown is serious enough to prompt authorities t...

Extravagant Christmas decorations are making a major comeback in Hong Kong after two straight years of scaled-back displays because of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and the 2019 anti-government protests.For the first time since 2018, the public can on ...

A Missouri man who admitted to burying his wife’s body and misleading authorities for more than a year about her whereabouts was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder.After deliberating for almost seven hours, a jury found Joseph Elledge guilt...

Singapore’s coronavirus patients who choose not to get vaccinated could face high medical bills. In general, Covid-19 patients who need both treatment in intensive care units and therapeutics in hospitals may have to pay about S$25,000 (US$18,460)...

A non-profit organisation receives thousands of ties every year from corporations to be stripped and transformed into clutches, cushion covers and other art pieces by mothers from migrant and low-income families under a project to help them integrate...

Online abuse aimed at Thailand’s northeastern Isaan region on popular audio chat app Clubhouse has provoked a backlash among its people, who make up roughly one-third of the population and have helped swing past elections yet have long been looked ...

Former princess Mako Komuro and her husband are planning to leave Japan for New York on Sunday, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.The newlywed couple, both 30, are expected to depart from Haneda airport in Tokyo to start their new life...

Here we are again having yet another debate on how social media is broken, and whether it can be fixed. This time, the global conversation is fuelled by hard evidence.Like others who have a love-hate relationship with social media, in recent weeks I ...

As nominations for the Legislative Council election close on Friday, one noteworthy trend is the growing prominence of aspiring candidates from mainland Chinese enterprises and the professional classes. Will they compete with the traditional pro-Beij...

Climate change was described earlier this year by António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, as “the defining issue of our time”, so expectations for COP26 in Glasgow could hardly have been higher.After the hottest decade in human history, comm...

A space object with an intimidating name – “earthgrazer” – zoomed over Georgia and Alabama this week, offering witnesses a glimpse of something rare, Nasa said.“Earthgrazers” are fireball meteors with a trajectory so shallow that they ski...

China has approved trials for the use of a domestically developed mRNA Covid-19 vaccine as a booster shot — a development that could widen the options for China’s vaccination campaign.The Ministry of Science and Technology said it had approved cl...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given permission to marry his partner, Stella Moris, in his London prison.Assange has been held in Belmarsh Prison in London since 2019, after the United States took legal action to extradite him.The couple, ...

Municipal authorities in the port city of Dalian, in northern Liaoning province, have suspended all cold chain food trading as outbreaks of coronavirus threaten to halt exports of frozen food to the United States and Europe ahead of the Christmas hol...

US President Joe Biden signed a law on Thursday to block Chinese telecommunications companies like Huawei and ZTE from obtaining new equipment licences from US regulators, the latest move from Washington to crack down on China’s tech giants over na...

The United States is raising the alarm with European Union allies that Russia may be weighing a potential invasion of Ukraine as tensions flare between Moscow and the bloc over migrants and energy supplies.With Washington closely monitoring a build-u...

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has formed a new transitional council, headed by himself, to lead the country following the military takeover late last month, state media reported on Thursday.The new 14-member Sovereign Council, for which...

In what it called a world first, Israel on Thursday held a “war game drill” in case of an outbreak of a new lethal variant of Covid-19.Civilian and military officials took part in the exercises, named “Omega” after the supposed strain, held a...

The world’s biggest online shopping event recorded a slower pace of annual growth pace after Alibaba Group Holding swapped the usual razzamatazz of Singles’ Day for a more down-to-earth event that stressed sustainability.Alibaba reported that gro...

Security staff evacuated eight people from a Hong Kong court building on Thursday after a threatening letter containing a highly corrosive substance was sent to a judge who had recently jailed five university students for their roles in a major clash...

The Chinese Communist Party in its landmark resolution on Thursday endorsed President Xi Jinping’s policies on Hong Kong and Taiwan as part of his major political achievements.The move indicates Beijing continues to hold a firm red line on the two ...

The challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s stranglehold on power has vowed to shake up Budapest’s close ties with Beijing if he wins next year’s election.Peter Marki-Zay, a unity candidate picked from a coalition of opposition pa...

Armistice remembrances took place around the world on Thursday after the coronavirus pandemic wiped out ceremonies twelve months ago to mark the 1918 end of World War I.Dignitaries and government leaders across the Western Front in Europe stood still...

Hong Kong’s native-speaking English teachers will be among the very small number of new faculty hires not required to pass a mandatory test on the city’s mini-constitution before the new school year, education authorities have said.The first Basi...

Xi Jinping has been hailed as the creator of a body of “theories and thoughts” in a historical Chinese Communist Party resolution, putting him on par with party immortals Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. The resolution adopted on Thursday sets the ...

Heavy rain across southern India and Sri Lanka have killed at least 41 people, authorities said on Thursday, with weather forecasters expecting the downpours to ease in the next few days as stricken communities pumped out the deluge.The Indian Meteor...

The European Union is considering imposing sanctions on Belarus’ main airport in a bid to make it more difficult for airlines to bring in migrants and exacerbate a crisis on the bloc’s borders, diplomats said on Thursday.The EU has accused Belaru...

Competition has emerged for seats in all 10 directly elected constituencies in Hong Kong’s first legislative poll after Beijing’s electoral overhaul, with two more moderate candidates signing up for next month’s race before the close of nominat...

As the administration of US President Joe Biden edges closer to discussions with Beijing over the progress of the phase-one trade deal, China’s failure to purchase commercial aircraft from Boeing is likely to be one of the “weaknesses” identifi...