A 13-year-old boy who battled a life-threatening condition for six months has successfully undergone a heart transplant at a Hong Kong hospital, which his father described as a “new chapter” at the start of Lunar New Year.The young patient was in...

Dried goji berries, a fruit long used in traditional Chinese medicine, may help healthy middle-aged people fight off the causes of eye degeneration, according to a new study out of the University of California, Davis.The study, published in the peer-...

Boris Johnson’s latest effort to get the British public’s attention back onto his policy plans was drowned out on Wednesday by more reports of lockdown parties at 10 Downing Street and another letter of no confidence, from a senior Conservative.T...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan arrives in Beijing on Thursday to adorn the Winter Olympics shunned by Western governments with his global cricketing superstar credentials and highlight his country’s special relationship with China.Khan’s ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s wife, Ri Sol-ju, appeared in state media for the first time in nearly five months on Wednesday, as the ruling family has maintained a low profile during the coronavirus pandemic.Kim and Ri attended an art performan...

The World Health Organization chief said that 90 million cases of coronavirus have been reported since the Omicron variant was first identified 10 weeks ago – amounting to more than in all of 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.With many ...

Coronavirus flare-ups in China could still prove a “headache” for global supply chains as it is too early to “sound the all-clear” from the impact of the Omicron variant on worldwide manufacturing, according to an analyst.Expansion of China�...

A woman in the UK wrote in a blog post on Medium that she experienced a real horror play out in the virtual game Horizon Worlds developed by Meta, formerly known as Facebook.“Within 60 seconds of joining I was verbally and sexually harassed – 3-4...

Japan will consider imposing tighter curbs on companies in security-sensitive sectors that procure overseas software as part of efforts to ramp up steps to counter cyberattacks, according to a proposal by a key panel released on Tuesday.The move woul...

Dennis Casey Wu, a student at Lowell High School in San Francisco, did not know much about his city’s history of racism against Chinese-Americans.But when he saw nearby Antioch apologise for the 1876 burning of its Chinatown by white residents, he ...

More than a dozen former national security officials from Democratic and Republican administrations have written to Congress calling for a bipartisan approach to technology funding legislation, calling it “critical” if the country is to compete a...

Economic ties could be all that remain of China and Japan’s relations, after a cross-bench parliamentary resolution in Tokyo on China’s human rights record was condemned by Beijing as a “severe provocation”.Observers said a focus on trade cou...

British police apologised after an investigation found that officers had discussed beating women and made racist and homophobic slurs and that one officer had messaged a female colleague to say he would rape her.Confidence in London’s police servic...

Hong Kong coronavirus patients can expect to leave hospital five to seven days earlier following a relaxation of discharge criteria that will free up beds amid a surge in untraceable infections, a government pandemic adviser has said.The revelation o...

Lee Dong-jin has made an empire out of the thrift shop habits he developed during his high school years.The 24-year-old stands at the counter of his high-end Seoul vintage clothing shop “JANDARIROSTORE” – named after the street it is on – tha...

The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades has killed at least 24 people in Quito, inundating homes, swamping cars and sweeping away athletes and spectators on a sports field.A dozen people were missing and 48 injured, Ecuador’s SNGRE emer...

The Year of the Tiger does not herald a roaring start for Hong Kong’s housing market, according to analysts.The omicron strain of coronavirus currently plaguing the city and the spectre of interest rate increases are likely to dampen sentiment in t...

China has failed to meet its commitments under a two-year phase-one trade deal that expired at the end of 2021, and discussions are continuing with Beijing on the matter, deputy US Trade Representative (USTR) Sarah Bianchi said on Tuesday.“You know...

A top rural leader drew a prophecy warning against playing the “hero” and urged the city to “stick to the old ways” during an annual Lunar New Year ritual on Wednesday.The “neutral” No 38 fortune stick, drawn by Heung Yee Kuk chairman Ken...

Australian defence chiefs on Wednesday said a warship delivering aid to Tonga was not the source of an outbreak that has plunged the previously coronavirus-free Pacific kingdom into lockdown.Residents of the remote island nation, struggling to recove...

One of the most successful drama series in China in the past year is Word of Honour, which depicts the friendship and brotherly love between two male protagonists.Not only has it turned the two little-known leading actors, Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan, ...

At a cliffside restaurant on Thailand’s Koh Larn, where squat teak dining tables overlook an empty white-sand bay, manager Sutthiea Saengsaswi says the last time Chinese tourists were around for the Lunar New Year celebrations her takings went up t...

“This is, for me, the greatest book of the 20th century bar none,” says Peter Kennedy, honorary associate professor in the University of Hong Kong’s School of English, who has been teaching James Joyce’s Ulysses to students for more than 30 y...

The response from Beijing was swift and stinging after the European Parliament passed a resolution in January calling for action on the “deterioration” of media independence in Hong Kong and repeated calls for sanctions on its top officials.Conde...

Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended for two weeks as co-host of The View because of what the head of ABC News called her “wrong and hurtful comments” about Jews and the Holocaust.“While Whoopi has apologised, I’ve asked her to take time to ref...

Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday acknowledged that its Iron Dome defence system is too expensive and the country is speeding the roll-out of laser technology to help protect it from rocket attacks.Naftali Bennett told a security conference that t...

Americans support a US diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics by a two-to-one margin – even though most are not versed in the details – while almost 90 per cent see China as a competitor or an enemy, according to a Pew Research report ...

Sydney’s hopes of reviving its downtown business activity amid a Covid-19 reopening may have hit a snag as the local Chinese diaspora shuns its “death-themed” Chinatown.The local city council has decorated its Chinatown with white and blue lant...

More frequent military exercises carried out as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to counter China in the Indo-Pacific are partly to blame for the crash of a F-35C jet in the South China Sea, according to a Chinese observer.Chen Xiangmiao,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war and ignoring Russia’s security concerns over Ukraine.In his first direct public comments on the crisis for nearly six weeks, a defian...

China has suspended imports from yet another Australian meat processing facility, this one hit by a high-profile coronavirus outbreak.China customs said on Friday it would stop beef coming in from the south Australian plant Teys Naracoorte from Janua...

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo survived an attempted coup on Tuesday but said many members of the security forces had been killed repelling an attack on democracy that may have been linked to drug trafficking.Earlier, heavy gunfire ...

A single lightning bolt that leapt across three US states has been identified as the longest ever, the UN weather agency said on Tuesday.Dubbed a megaflash, the rare low-rate horizontal discharge covered 768km (477 miles) between clouds in Texas and ...

Denmark and Norway on Tuesday became two of the first European Union countries to scrap most pandemic restrictions.Despite a surge in Covid-19 cases from the Omicron variant, Denmark no longer considers the outbreak “a socially critical disease”,...

A Norwegian court has rejected mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s parole application, it said in a ruling on Tuesday, ordering that he must stay in prison.Breivik, an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi, killed 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity i...

The Myanmar National Unity Government, the shadow government formed last year by opponents of military rule after civilian leader and former peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in a coup, is among the nominees for this year’s Nobel P...

There is no reason for concern about the risk of war over Ukraine, China’s envoy to the United Nations said on Monday, accusing the United States of obstructing efforts to resolve the crisis through dialogue.At a special meeting of the UN Security ...

A North Korean documentary showed a limping leader Kim Jong-un as he tackles the impoverished country’s “worst-ever hardships” amid the coronavirus pandemic and sanctions over its weapons programmes.Broadcast on Tuesday, the show titled The Gre...

Local governments in China are racing to clean up off-balance sheet borrowing as cutting debt is now top of the political agenda for Beijing.Late last month, the State Council said it would allow Guizhou, one of China’s poorest and most indebted pr...

Ho Chee Boon, the globally celebrated chef who has just opened a new restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown, is on a mission.“I want to play my part to bring business back and elevate Chinatown,” he said. “If you see the cover of a book, if ...

One inmate and a guard have been injured in a brawl involving 10 triad members over unauthorised food supplies at a maximum-security prison in southern Hong Kong that also triggered the deployment of the elite “Black Panthers” rapid response team...

China has sent a new batch of food supplies to Afghanistan as the country struggles with an economic and humanitarian crisis.China’s ambassador to Kabul Wang Yu said on Twitter on Sunday that a train loaded with 500 tonnes of wheat, sugar, cooking ...

South Africa’s legal lion breeding has spawned a tiger farming industry for commercial exports, potentially posing a threat to the species already in decline, an animal welfare group warned Tuesday.Breeding lions for commercial hunting and for bone...

The death of a 17-year-old Hindu girl who complained of being given excessive chores by her Christian school in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has put a spotlight on the thorny topic of religious conversions.The teenager, Lavanya Murugananth...

China’s relief mission to Tonga after last month’s devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami has highlighted the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to conduct long-range operations, according to observers.The relief force involved navy and ai...

The murder trial over one of the world’s most devastating factory disasters has resumed after five years mired in appeals and court procedure.More than 1,130 workers died in 2013 when a nine-floor warren of textile factories in the Bangladesh capit...

Taiwan’s team will attend the opening and closing of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, just days after the island said its delegation would give the ceremonies a miss because of late flights and Covid-19 pandemic issues.The U-turn was apparently in r...

An elderly man drowned after jumping into the ocean to rescue his stepdaughter who was swept away while taking photos along the shore of the popular sightseeing destination of Tung Lung Chau in Hong Kong’s southeastern waters on Tuesday.According t...

A free-trade deal between the United States and Taiwan, expanded US sanctions on Chinese tech companies and a “second battlefield” opening up on the Belarus-Poland border after a Russia-Ukraine conflict.These are some of the startling scenarios p...

China will continue to be a major destination for the global illegal wildlife trade because of its demand for wildlife products, particularly for traditional Chinese medicine, according to The Hague-based Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC).“Whilst c...