Oppo, one of the largest smartphone brands in China, has unveiled its first in-house image processor, which is dedicated to enhancing imaging performance on handsets, joining rivals like Huawei Technologies Co and Xiaomi in a chip-design race amid Be...

Singapore on Tuesday said it would tighten its rules governing unvaccinated residents, with officials describing the measure as a pre-emptive step to guard against a “potentially big” wave of infections.As of Tuesday, the city state had 16 cases ...

Austria’s leader said no high-ranking politicians from his country will attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, but he insisted that the decision is entirely because of coronavirus restrictions in China and is not a diplomatic protest.Chancellor Karl N...

Hong Kong’s leader has defended her government’s approach of leaving schools to exercise professional judgment when teaching dark chapters of history, after some pupils were left distraught by graphic footage of the Nanking massacre.Chief Executi...

A nurse’s non-standard practice of extubation is to blame for the death of an 83-year-old man who suffered from two heart attacks after having his catheter removed, a Hong Kong inquest jury has found.A five-member jury before Coroner Stanley Ho Chu...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew his candidacy for a senate seat, the election commission’s spokesperson said.Duterte’s six-year term will end in June, 2022, and he is banned by the constitution from seeking another term a...

Hong Kong customs officers posing as karaoke parlour clients have raided 30 party rooms suspected of using pirated copies of music videos, with 12 people arrested and HK$700,000 worth of equipment seized in a four-day operation.The joint crackdown wi...

When Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke to European Council President Charles Michel in October, he voiced Beijing’s backing for the European Union’s push for “strategic autonomy”.At a time of rising China-EU tensions, Xi said he hoped the EU...

Singaporean academic Dickson Yeo, who has been detained under the Internal Security Act since last year for acting as a paid agent of a foreign state, was released on Tuesday.The Internal Security Department (ISD) said it had concluded investigations...

Guangzhou has identified the first Omicron case in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, making it the second imported case of the heavily mutated Covid-19 variant in China after an infection was reported in Tianjin.The case was identified amid...

A South Korean surgeon will stand trial accused of breaching medical laws and the manslaughter of the Hong Kong textile fortune heiress Bonnie Evita Law, who died while undergoing liposuction and breast augmentation procedures in Seoul last year.Law,...

The Beijing Winter Olympics may weigh on China’s economy as authorities close scores of factories in northern production hubs to cut pollution and ensure blue skies, economists say.“Although the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta are n...

China’s “aggressive actions” in the Indo-Pacific have worried governments across the region, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Indonesia on Tuesday, as he denied that Washington was trying to “keep any country down”.The United St...

Indonesia lifted a tsunami alert on Tuesday following a magnitude 7.3 undersea earthquake that struck off Flores Island, triggering panic in a region prone to fatal quakes but apparently causing no major damage or casualties.According to the US Geolo...

US Navy prosecutors have alleged that a sailor charged with setting the fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard last year was “disgruntled” after dropping out of Navy SEAL training, while his defence lawyers criticised the preliminary hearin...

Hong Kong police have arrested 10 alleged members of a “hidden” violent organisation and seized more than 200 airguns – some as powerful as an anti-riot shotgun – they say might have been intended to disrupt Sunday’s Legislative Council ele...

The US agency responsible for screening foreign investment deals has blocked a Chinese fund’s US$1.4 billion takeover of a South Korean chip maker, as Washington continues to exert its influence to restrict China’s access to semiconductor technol...

China should lower interest rates and boost infrastructure investment to ensure the economy will grow by at least 5 per cent next year, according to an influential Chinese think tank.Authorities need to boost domestic demand, including consumption an...

A potential Covid-19 outbreak in the Guangdong city of Dongguan is threatening to disrupt the return of quarantine-free travel between Hong Kong and mainland China, with an official over the border warning the infections could have an impact on reope...

A plan to offer residents free rides on Legislative Council election day is strictly voluntary on the part of Hong Kong’s franchised bus and railway operators, the city’s leader has said amid complaints about its expense and whether it will boost...

A town in China’s southern Guangdong province clamped down on the movement of people on Tuesday, banning most incoming traffic and stopping nearly all residents from leaving after two domestic travellers tested positive for the coronavirus early th...

China’s internet regulator has summoned and fined social media network Weibo for repeatedly allowing “information forbidden by law and regulations”, a move that comes just weeks after Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai first posted her sexual ass...

Nabi*, an Afghan refugee in Indonesia, has spent the past month demonstrating outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) building in the city of Pekanbaru with other refugees, seeking clarity about their resettlement status. Wh...

A top government adviser seeking another term as lawmaker has accused Hong Kong’s leader of applying “fundamentally flawed” logic in arguing that low turnout at this coming Sunday’s legislative election could indicate public satisfaction with...

December tornadoes are uncommon but not unheard of. The explosion of twisters across five Midwest and Southern states over the weekend? That might be unprecedented.The tornadoes that spun off a fast-moving storm Friday night and into Saturday morning...

Australia will push ahead with plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions before Christmas, officials said on Tuesday, even as new coronavirus cases in the country’s most populous state reached a 10-week high.After a string of infections linked to festive...

The United States is testing satellite resilience to threats from China and Russia miles above the Earth’s surface, just weeks after Russia shot down an ageing communications satellite.The computer-aided simulations included potential shooting down...

Australia’s bid to develop a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines will cost more than US$80 billion and take decades in the “most complex” project the country has ever embarked on, a study released on Monday warned.The report from the Australian...

Booster shots for the German-made BioNTech coronavirus vaccine will be available to all age-eligible Hongkongers from January, according to the city’s leader.But Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, speaking at her final press conference of ...

Dutch political parties agreed on Monday to form a coalition government that will hand Prime Minister Mark Rutte a fourth term in office, a record 271 days after elections in March.Four parties – Rutte’s centre-right VVD, the progressive D66, the...

Lawmakers investigating the assault on the US Capitol voted unanimously Monday to pursue criminal contempt charges against Donald Trump’s former chief of staff for refusing to testify.Mark Meadows has made clear he has no intention of complying wit...

FWD Group, the Hong Kong-based insurer backed by tycoon Richard Li Tzar-kai, will drop its New York listing plan to sell shares on its hometown exchange, a source said. The firm was poised to raise more than US$1.4 billion in a private fundraising ah...

The chief executive of China’s largest designer of chips for mobile phones has expressed relief that Unisoc did not go under due to the heavy debts of its parent, two days after Tsinghua Unigroup secured fresh investment from two buyout funds.Uniso...

Children from low-income families in Hong Kong discovered the charm of traditional Chinese folk dances through a four-session workshop under a charity programme last month.Accompanied by a light melody, 12 children dressed in colourful traditional co...

A man was found guilty of having stolen 150,000 yuan (US$23,568) from his ex-girlfriend by lifting her eyelids while she slept to use her irises to get past the facial recognition check on the Alipay app.A court in Nanning, in Guangxi Zhuang autonomo...

China’s first floating nuclear power station may be able to withstand an extreme, once-in-10,000-years weather event, according to testing by marine engineers.But they said the ship-like facility’s mooring crane would need strengthening to avoid ...

The term “metaverse” is suddenly everywhere, a buzzword constantly on the lips of tech gurus and cryptocurrency enthusiasts.But the latest group taking an interest in what many believe to be the next iteration of the internet is made up of proper...

California will impose a statewide mask mandate in all indoor public spaces as Covid-19 case rates soar and as precautions ramp up against the Omicron variant.The United States on Monday hit 50 million Covid-19 cases, according a tally by Johns Hopki...

Children playing in a village in Yunnan, southwest China, were dumbfounded at the sudden appearance of a shaven-headed, bare-chested European sprinting, screaming, down the main street.The agitated individual in question was Dominic Johnson-Hill, who...

US reality television star Kim Kardashian, 41, has passed California’s First-Year Law Students’ Exam, known as the “baby bar”, she announced Monday on social media.The daughter of the late Robert Kardashian (known for his work as O.J. Simpson...

The new owner of Citybus and New World First Bus is in talks with the Hong Kong government about potentially securing the rights to develop the land above and around its depots, a model long used by the MTR Corporation to generate income to fund its ...

Hong Kong should be in the grip of election fever. The “improved” electoral system put in place by Beijing will ensure, we have been told, that the city can finally get done what the broken process before would not allow.But, even though voting f...

The death toll from a string of tornadoes that tore through six states rose to 74 with at least 109 people still missing, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said on Monday. He said the number of fatalities was likely to rise in the coming days.Thousands ...

A new coronavirus variant has upended travel plans with countries racing to impose border curbs to keep out the new strain, despite the World Health Organization denouncing blanket bans on entry. Omicron (often pronounced “oh-me-cron” or “ah-m...

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, Park Kyung-su, a 22-year-old student at China’s Zhejiang University, was considering finishing off her remaining three years of school from her home in South Korea – completely online.Under this plan, Park w...

Victims of jailed former US national gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar are to receive US$380 million after reaching a settlement with USA Gymnastics, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and their insurers, lawyers said on Monday.The settlement ...

China’s northern Inner Mongolia region is aiming for a fivefold increase in rare earth production value by 2025. This comes as the country’s near-total dominance of global supply raises concerns about its possible use as a bargaining chip.“Inne...

The wife of a US diplomat is expected to face a London court hearing next month over a fatal car crash in England in a case that led to diplomatic tensions between Britain and the United States.Harry Dunn, 19, died after his motorcycle was in a colli...

This will be my last Christmas as chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping. As I prepare to hand over to Emanuele Grimaldi next June, I can say with some confidence that in my time, the shipping industry has had to navigate some its greatest...

Russia said it may be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as Nato’s plans to do the same.The warning from Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Monday raised the risk of a new arms build-up...