A Chinese city is deploying a strange ally as the country tries to keep its borders sealed to prevent possible imported cases of Covid-19: geese.In Chongzuo, a hilly city bordering Vietnam in southern China’s Guangxi autonomous region, about 500 of...

A group behind Hong Kong’s annual vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown will be represented by a government body in a coming subversion trial under the national security law.A barrister appointed by the official receiver, which se...

Li Ka-shing, Lee Shau-kee and Henry Cheng Kar-shun remain Hong Kong’s three richest men on the annual ranking compiled by Forbes magazine, leading the multibillionaires whose wealth increases defied the global coronavirus pandemic.The fortunes of L...

The yuan is standing out for its resilience as global markets reel from Russia’s attack on targets across Ukraine.While major stock markets tumbled, and currencies from the euro to the Korean won declined, the yuan is still hovering near a four-yea...

Myanmar’s ruling generals are the subject of a global “fake news” campaign that unfairly pins blame on them for the country’s violence and sees no scope for negotiations with anti-coup militias, a junta minister has claimed.In a new interview...

A top epidemiologist has urged Hong Kong to lift flight bans and allow residents to return to the city now the risk of local Covid-19 transmission exceeds that posed by imported cases, as officials revealed more than 17,000 infections were reported i...

A Hong Kong businessman has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death, after his Lexus collided with a motorcycle, killing a 26-year-old rider near Sai Kung on Wednesday night.The 62-year-old man was accused of failing to stop at ...

China urged action to stop tensions escalating over Ukraine and has called for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis as Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised a military operation in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.China’s envoy to the Unite...

A number of Communist Party officials in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region have been sacked for failing to contain their local Covid-19 outbreak.The ongoing outbreak prompted the dismissal of Wang Zhiqiang as secretary of the party committee of th...

Hong Kong’s lived-in home prices suffered their biggest drop in almost two years as the fifth wave of Covid-19 prompted anxious owners to offload their flats at steeper discounts.Prices fell 1.14 per cent to 388.9 in January, according to an index ...

The Hong Kong government has asked a court to penalise fugitive ex-lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung for jumping bail in four criminal cases stemming from his allegedly disruptive conduct in the legislature and involvement in an anti-government protest, argu...

Singapore will push back plans to ease limits on home gatherings and other pandemic curbs as a resurgent Covid-19 outbreak tests the city state’s pivot to living with the virus.The plans to ease and simplify some virus rules in phases, originally d...

As Russia launches action against Ukraine and most of the world rallies around Kyiv, the limits of China’s new, more muscular, foreign policy have grown more apparent.Ukraine poses a compelling question for Beijing: How to manage relations between ...

Some world leaders swiftly condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine on Thursday, with Western capitals pledging new sanctions on Moscow and the UN chief demanding the conflict “stop now”.Here are some reactions to the Russian operation:“The praye...

Hong Kong’s finance chief has sought to play down concerns about the decision to distribute handouts to residents in the form of digital consumption vouchers after being taken to task in some quarters for not offering cash instead.The voucher schem...

South Korea successfully test-fired a long-range missile interceptor that could potentially replace an expensive US missile defence system installed in 2017 which triggered China’s wrath.The state-run Agency for Defence Development launched the lon...

Fintech giant Ant Group’s non-fungible token (NFT) platform punished 56 accounts for participating in the resale of digital collectibles for profit, highlighting a fundamental difference between the blockchain-based products in mainland China compa...

From Russia’s massing of soldiers along the border in November to Vladimir Putin announcing an operation, here is a timeline of months of tensions around Ukraine.November 10, 2021: Washington reports unusual Russian troop movements near the Ukraini...

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), which operates the third largest stock market in Asia, posted record annual profit for a fourth consecutive year as brisk trading lifted revenue and earnings to record highs.The bourse operator posted a 9 per ...

A woman and her teenage daughter managed to escape unscathed after an electric heater sparked a predawn blaze in their Hong Kong public housing flat on Thursday.The pair, aged 47 and 15, were among about 200 residents who fled Chui Kwai House at Kwai...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is betting on a risky election strategy in his bid for another surprise come-from-behind election win: Turning China relations into a major campaign issue.The 53-year-old leader has recently painted the opposi...

China’s power producers and steel mills continue to invest in coal-based production capacity at alarming rates, showing no signs of scaling back despite the country’s pledge to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, a study showed.China started buildin...

Immunity wanes six months after three doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine are given, but a fourth shot will not provide more protection against the Omicron strain, a study has found.Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou said their ...

In the early 1970s, the skilled artisans who created dazzling Kyoto-style “yuzen” kimonos could barely keep up with demand. Dyers, cloth cutters, designers and everyone in the associated businesses, from delivering the raw materials required for ...

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to hate crime charges for attacking an Asian family, slashing open the face of a six-year-old child with a knife during the 2020 assault in a store.The Midland man also punched the father of the child and attacked a Sam...

It has been the catchphrase of Hong Kong’s finance chiefs since the city returned to Chinese rule that the government should save surpluses in the public coffers for a “rainy day”.The city is now facing not just any “rainy day” but is battl...

Tim Leissner was supposed to be the US government’s star witness in the bribery case against Roger Ng, the only Goldman Sachs banker to go to trial in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.Instead, a misstep over crucial evidence about Leissner coul...

After selling his property in Taiwan last year, engineer Richard Chang bought shares in his current employer on the Chinese mainland. Such a bet might worry some, but Chang, who works for a semiconductor equipment company in China, is confident in hi...

[Sponsored Article] Inspired by Mother Nature, scientists of City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have discovered that the spreading direction of different liquids deposited on the same surface can be steered, a challenge that had remained unsolved ...

Korea’s cultural visibility in the spheres of music, television and film has been ubiquitous recently through globally recognised brands such as BTS, Squid Game and Parasite.Its success as a “cultural juggernaut”, in the words of The New York T...

A recently published study in the Netherlands that revealed the Dutch’s systematic use of extreme violence in Indonesia during the revolutionary war in the 1940s has prompted calls for the country to address its own dark past, including genocide co...

Hong Kong is invoking an emergency law to allow medical professionals from mainland China to treat Covid-19 patients in the city without a licence or registration.A source said the unprecedented decision, made in a meeting of the chief executive’s ...

A hut in northeastern China that an escaped North Korean prisoner transformed into a hideaway has become a popular tourist attraction and created another draw to the already famous Songhua Lake.The fugitive, known by his Chinese name Zhu Xianjian, ca...

International and senior students could be allowed to continue their studies online in March and April, when the rest of Hong Kong’s pupils begin their summer holidays under a timetable revised due to the Covid-19 pandemic, after school heads raise...

China’s government plans to cut the cost of energy storage systems by 2025 to help local industries leapfrog the world as the vanguard of novel energy storage technology five years later.The production cost of large chemicals-based systems will be ...

Lawmakers and advisers to Hong Kong’s leader have called for greater flexibility in the distribution of consumption vouchers and a clear explanation by the government on landlords’ liabilities under an unprecedented rent relief scheme following t...

Hundreds of truckers and their supporters set off from southern California on Wednesday on a convoy headed across the United States towards the capital Washington to protest against pandemic restrictions.Inspired by the demonstrations that crippled C...

Anta Sports Products, one of China’s largest producers of athletic gear, said it’s seeking to expand its collaboration with the free-skiing gold medallist Eileen Gu after its brand hit a marketing mother lode with the superstar’s endorsement du...

The launch of the government’s vaccine pass scheme has proved to be yet another blow to Hong Kong’s already struggling restaurants, with one industry representative reporting an immediate drop in revenue and patrons being turned away for failing ...

As China geared up to host the Winter Olympics, a viral video of a woman chained to a shabby hut in a village in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, shocked and enraged the nation. Local authorities initially denied any claims of abuse, but, under increasing p...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday he is removing emergency powers police can use after authorities ended the border blockades by those opposed to Covid-19 restrictions as well as the occupation of downtown Ottawa.Trudeau i...

The two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former president Donald Trump and his business dealings suddenly resigned Wednesday, throwing the future of the probe into question.A spokeswoman for Dis...

As South Korea enters a bitter presidential race, Hong Hee-jin is one of many young women who feel the country’s politics has become dominated by discrimination against women, even outright misogyny.“Women are being treated like they don’t even...

China’s new envoy for Horn of Africa affairs will help Beijing take a bigger role in the African region’s politics, economy and security to further peace in a part of the world where Beijing has vast investment interests and its first overseas mi...

Russian’s Defence Ministry claimed it subdued Ukrainian air defences and knocked out the country’s airbases, hours after President Vladimir Putin authorised what he called a special operation in the east.Explosions were also heard in Ukraine’s ...

Moscow was shocked when US president Richard Nixon drove a wedge between the Soviet Union and China 50 years ago but now Russia is returning the favour, analysts said on Wednesday as they assessed the US-China-Russia dynamic.Since 2014, Vladimir Puti...

A Canadian court has ruled that a Chinese government agency responsible for citizens living abroad and liaising with overseas Chinese communities engages in acts of espionage that are “contrary to Canada’s interests”.The Overseas Chinese Affair...

The US Justice Department on Wednesday announced the end of the China Initiative, a programme launched by the Trump administration to fight Chinese espionage and intellectual property theft but which critics said was racially biased and led to prosec...

Relaxing rules to allow foreign nannies could boost China’s ailing birth rate by as many as 200,000 a year, and save families as much 200 billion yuan (US$31.6 billion), according to a report published on Wednesday.With the minimum salary for a dom...

A United Nations meeting on Ukraine Wednesday heard that a full-scale Russian invasion of the country would have a devastating global impact that would likely spark a new “refugee crisis”.The United States said a war could displace up to five mil...