Homebuyers on Saturday flocked to the first new flat sale in five years at Kennedy Town, which property agents attributed to the project’s ideal location in the northwestern part of Hong Kong island and the large developers behind it.Sun Hung Kai P...

Lithuania would “appreciate” stronger European Union support in its dispute with China, Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said, after the United States agreed to offer the Baltic nation financial support to help cushion any financial losses...

The option of running Hong Kong Sevens behind closed doors without spectators was ruled out as the move was not financially viable for the organiser, the city’s sports chief said on Saturday as he explained the postponement of the tournament for th...

Singapore will from Monday ease strict Covid-19 restrictions that were reimposed in September after its biggest outbreak of the Delta variant, though officials emphasised further reopening would be done in an incremental manner.With over 85 per cent ...

Hongkongers may have arrived late to the online game phenomenon Popcat Click, but they have raced to the global top spot with no sign of waning enthusiasm.The most ardent players admit this competition requires neither skill nor hard work. All you ha...

A beige sofa, a white reception desk, and a wall painted in the colours of the rainbow greet customers of La Beauté & Style salon. Standing proudly on the desk at reception is an LGBT flag.The salon is a first for New Delhi. It is owned by a transge...

Several thousand people took to Australia’s streets on Saturday protesting Covid-19 vaccination mandates, while smaller crowds gathered to support the measures that have elevated the country to be one of the most inoculated in the world.Nearly 85 p...

The beating of a teenager on a subway in Philadelphia has reignited fears in the city’s Asian communities about racially motivated violence, and it’s left some students worried for their safety commuting to and from school.On Friday, the family o...

Children as young as three in Hong Kong will have access to the Chinese-made Sinovac coronavirus jab, with priority for those aged 12 to 17, following a latest government approval to extend the city’s vaccination drive to a wider group.“The secre...

While bringing ample benefits, China’s growing contributions and influence in global organisations like the World Bank and the United Nations should be reconsidered, a new report on China’s international engagement has concluded.The country is no...

Voters wearing masks cast their ballots on Saturday in a Malaysian state election that pits Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s Malay party against its allies in the government for the first time amid a widening rift.The poll in southern Malacca s...

November 11 has increasingly been a big day in Asia. Consumers, hit by a marketing blitz weeks before Singles’ Day, plan their purchases and put items into virtual shopping carts early so they can pay for them the instant the clock strikes midnight...

China has again hinted at a potential pairing of its most advanced aircraft, the J-20, with drones in a tandem strategy that would expand Beijing’s combat capabilities, according to state media.“The future is a big era for drone development. Impo...

Archaeologists in central China announced last week the discovery of a 5,500-year-old structure that they believe was used by a neolithic culture at the forefront of ancient Chinese pottery.The structure, which lies in Taiyuan in Shanxi province, was...

Tour guide Lai Chi Phuc has been counting down the days until travellers return to the white-sand beaches and thick tropical jungle of Vietnam’s Phu Quoc, a once-poor fishing island pushing to be Asia’s next holiday hotspot as pandemic restrictio...

Never would I imagine feeling so protective towards the “f” word, but this particular “f” word probably isn’t the one that you are thinking of.The Chinese word fuk, which means “fortune” or “good luck” in English, encapsulates one o...

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has suspended a probe at Manila’s request into suspected rights abuses during Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on drugs.ICC judges approved a probe in September into t...

Ninety-seven candidates have filed to run for the presidency, but when the election commission prunes the list by mid-December, rejecting nuisance candidates and those not capable of running a national campaign, there will probably be seven left.Emma...

Georgia’s jailed opposition leader and ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili ended his 50-day hunger strike Saturday after he was moved to a military hospital from a prison clinic, his doctor said.The flamboyant pro-Western reformer launched a hunger st...

Hong Kong-born Alfie Pinckney, eight, is hoping that somewhere in the world, there is a stranger who might save his life.Diagnosed three years ago with aplastic anaemia, a condition that occurs when the body stops producing enough new blood cells, he...

The final instalment of a four-part series on the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow looks at how Hong Kong can play a role in reversing global warming. The first three instalments are here, here and here.Hong Kong’s track ...

From local fashion brands to traditional medicine, hot selling items during this year’s Singles’ Day shopping bonanza were mostly home-grown goods, reflecting rising nationalist sentiment among Chinese consumers.Domestically designed and produced...

The longest partial lunar eclipse in a millennium dazzled night skies around the world on Friday, in an event dubbed the “Blood Moon” due to its red haze.The partial eclipse, which lasted three hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, is the longest sin...

As the last year of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term winds down, the list of candidates to replace him after next May’s election poses a troubling question for the Philippines: might one of them be a “Manchurian candidate”?That term, for a po...

During the day, Bijiashan Park is a green respite from the concrete jungle that is Shenzhen, but at night, it turns into a fairyland – if you know where to look.Pink eggs from the golden apple snail glisten like crystals in the evening mist. A clus...

The UK Royal Navy is undergoing its biggest revamp in a generation. But its new First Sea Lord Vice-Admiral Sir Ben Key will have his work cut out as the country aims to boost its sea power.Key took the helm of the 30,000-sailor Royal Navy last month...

Clinging to the wire fence at the border in Heung Yuen Wai and staring across the Shenzhen River at his girlfriend 100 metres away, Don Ho shouts: “It’s been a long time. I miss you. I love you!”She replies, but cannot be heard clearly. He beam...

The US and Taiwanese governments will convene a formal dialogue on Monday meant to strengthen commercial and economic cooperation between Washington and Taipei, the State Department announced on Friday, sparking an angry response from Beijing’s US ...

Dutch police fired warning shots, injuring several people, after rioters against a partial Covid lockdown torched a police car and hurled stones in Rotterdam on Friday.Chaos broke out after a protest in the port city against the coronavirus restricti...

A Chinese naval ship sailed in Japan’s waters earlier this week off its southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, the defence ministry said on Friday, as security tensions between the two countries have shown no signs of easing.It is the first time sin...

Riot Games, the creator of online game League of Legends and a subsidiary of Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, is expanding into animation and other entertainment forms to become the “Disney for gamers” after the launch of its first animat...

A Chinese team of scientists has won a top annual international prize for a breakthrough that closes the gap in “quantum supremacy”.The Association for Computing Machinery said on Friday that the 14-member team behind the New Generation Sunway ex...

Beijing is in no rush to reunify Taiwan by force even though it is stepping up its efforts to target pro-independence forces, according to Chinese government advisers.Concerns about possible conflict have been rising in recent months, but this week X...

Poland accused Belarus on Friday of trucking hundreds of migrants back to the border and pushing them to attempt to cross illegally, only hours after clearing camps at a frontier that has become the focus of an escalating East-West crisis.The accusat...

Engaging directly with Xi Jinping to prevent inadvertent conflict over Taiwan and check a nuclear arms build-up is vital given the Chinese leader’s ever greater power and the lack of decision-making authority further down the chain, a top White Hou...

The United States on Friday joined growing calls for China to provide details about the well-being of tennis pro Peng Shuai, after she disappeared from the public eye following an accusation of sexual assault against a former senior Chinese official....

Monika the Russian rescue dog is ready for her new life after she was fitted with four prosthetic titanium paws in a pricey and complex operation paid for by a crowdfunding campaign.Two weeks after the procedure, the small beige pooch is still weak a...

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after pleading self-defence in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice.Rittenhouse, 18, cried and hugged one of hi...

A powerful exascale supercomputer in China has made a massive increase in its artificial intelligence performance, according to a new study that says more advanced machines are being developed to meet demand for greater computing power.Aided by a bre...

US lawmakers voted on Friday to elevate President Joe Biden’s giant social welfare bill to the Senate, in a major step forward for his vision to create a more equitable society – the centrepiece of his domestic agenda.Build Back Better – Biden�...

The US government’s leading advisory panel on China policy is calling for more transparency from American businesses operating in China, and it has recommended further restrictions on investment in US-listed Chinese stocks, as well as comprehensive...

US President Joe Biden briefly transferred power to Vice-President Kamala Harris Friday while he was under anaesthesia for a colonoscopy, marking the first time a woman officially served as acting commander in chief.Harris was given the title “acti...

Chinese authorities are looking to “deepen international cooperation” in cyberspace, while pushing for a “purified internet ecology”, as Beijing continues efforts to develop its ideal of a clean and civilised online environment.That agenda wa...

A new analysis of the earliest cases of Covid-19 in China has renewed questions over who the first known patient was, and suggested spillover from a live-animal market was the most likely source of the virus that causes the disease. Michael Worobey,...

China’s top trade negotiator has publicly hosted a visiting foreign business guest in Beijing for the first time since the pandemic began, amid growing debate over the country’s zero-Covid approach and when the world’s second-largest economy wi...

Authorities in southwestern Spain have issued an international health alert to locate a group of Dutch tourists who left a hotel where they were meant to isolate for 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus.Spain, which has one of Europe’s hi...

The Chinese ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, has called for justice and condemned hatred and xenophobia after 24-year-old Chinese graduate Dennis Zheng Shaoxiong was fatally shot on November 9 in Chicago.Zheng’s death has sparked outrage ...

The Chinese Communist Party has released a directive telling members to prepare for the election of delegates to next year’s national congress, marking the official start of preparations for an event that will usher in major changes in the leadersh...

Hong Kong’s chief justice has expressed alarm over pressure being exerted on the courts after two judges were recently threatened, saying attacks on the rule of law must be condemned.Andrew Cheung Kui-nung also stressed on Friday the importance of ...

The Kremlin denounced as “absurd” on Friday a resolution proposed by US lawmakers to stop recognising Vladimir Putin as Russia’s president if he stays in power after 2024, and described it as Washington meddling in Moscow’s affairs.Putin’s ...