Hong Kong has maintained some of the world's harshest quarantine measures and travel restrictions during the pandemic. The strategy has kept infections low but ensured a business hub that dubs itself "Asia's World City" has been cut off internation...

Beijing 2022 organisers have left nothing to chance with the games set to start in February, restricting entry to the capital and insisting on daily virus tests for thousands of athletes who will be kept within a "closed-loop" bubble. One of the at...

Asia's third-largest economy has been in a grip of an initial public offering frenzy, with start-ups attracting billions of dollars in investment in a bright spot in the Covid-battered economy. But while Paytm has established a leading position in ...

Fungistanbul, a trio that began experimenting with a sound they call "Trash Oriental" in 2019, have joined a growing global movement of groups that bang, strum and blow into things they find in dustbins. "We had no idea we would come up with this s...

The 58-year-old local winemaker has for months been battling the planned opening of a large pig farm that will breed almost 40,000 piglets a year from 2,200 sows less than three kilometres (1.9 miles) from his town of Quintanar del Rey, in the centr...

Armel Jekalovic and other miners, once hailed as local heroes who brought home steady incomes, now fear theirs could be the last generation to earn a living from Bosnia's coalfields. "This situation around the energy transition worries us," says J...

Antetokounmpo out-muscled a Lakers lineup still missing injured superstar LeBron James, along with Trevor Ariza and Kendrick Nunn. He set a tone with 17 points in the first quarter and combined with Middleton late to thwart a Lakers rally bid. "I ...

The UN's trade and development agency (UNCTAD) said global import price levels could increase by 11 percent and consumer price levels by 1.5 percent between now and 2023. "Global consumer prices will rise significantly in the year ahead until shipp...

Asia's third-largest economy has been in a grip of an initial public offering frenzy, with start-ups attracting billions of dollars in investment in a bright spot in the Covid-battered economy. But while Paytm has established a leading position in ...

Campaigning for this year's poll has been muted because of travel restrictions imposed after Tonga recorded its first coronavirus case earlier this month -- a traveller who tested positive while in quarantine after arriving from New Zealand. The ca...

The 35-year-old Peng, a former world number one in doubles, has not been seen since. It was the first time that the #MeToo movement has struck at the top echelons of China's ruling Communist Party. Here's what we know so far : The allegation On N...

Speaking at an online cybersecurity forum, Modi framed virtual money -- highly popular in India and exist beyond state and central bank control -- as a domain that needs to be closely policed. "Take cryptocurrency or bitcoin, for example," he told...

Peng alleged on November 2 on the Twitter-like Weibo that she had been "forced" into sex by former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli during a long-term on-off relationship, but the post was swiftly deleted. The 35-year-old Peng has not been seen since, but ...

The offer of residency cards has split opinion and sowed suspicion within the caravan that set out three weeks ago from near the border with Guatemala to demand refugee status. Promises of food, water and an airconditioned bus to take them to a she...

Best known for its densely packed skyscrapers, Hong Kong also boasts large tracts of subtropical mountains and parkland that host a thriving number of Eurasian wild pigs. And increasingly humans and pigs are meeting face to snout. Last week, offi...