The Cyberspace Administration of China will conduct on-site inspections of firms and ask them to submit their various services for review.

Suspect, 28, arrested days after businessman lost HK$800,000 in bogus transaction which took place on Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Most of Hong Kong’s skilled professionals can expect a pay rise of between 3 and 6 per cent this year as an exodus of talent has forced employers to dig deep, according to a survey by Hays recruitment agency.

Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine Corp has bought 44 vessels from mainland since 2018, all but two of which from shipyards that produce PLA warships, says CSIS.

Andrew Gosling was sentenced to five and half years in prison for killing an elderly Singaporean man and hurting his wife with a thrown wine bottle in what the judge called an act of religious hostility toward Muslims.

Customs says one suspect was intercepted outside private housing estate while carrying 420 grams of suspected ketamine, and second was found inside flat along with cocaine, crack and production equipment.

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Haider Ali who claimed to have ties to Pakistan’s intelligence service is charged with conspiracy after posing as a US security agent, and cultivating access to secret service which protects President Joe Biden.

Moscow says soldier returned in prisoner swap was captured on March 2 and repeatedly hit in the head with bricks and a pistol, but provided no evidence of abuse.

A handful of people in China have turned to balcony gardening to improve their mental health and provide some food amid China’s lockdowns to fight Covid-19.

Civil service minister Patrick Nip says seniors who received their third dose at least three months ago can simply walk into vaccination venues to get their fourth doses from Friday.

A good kindergarten blurs play and academics, serving as a bridge from home or preschool education to learning in a more traditional classroom setting

US authorities arrested a Japanese “yakuza” organised crime leader and three Thai men who trafficked heroin and methamphetamine and tried to acquire surface-to-air missiles for rebel groups in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

In rare direct response to an American trip to the self-ruled island, Foreign Minister Wang Yi says Washington would ‘bear the consequences’.

Australia’s east coast has been hammered by three separate wild weather patterns in the past six weeks as devastating floods submerged entire towns.

Health authorities are taking no chances, even if the vast majority of the infections – daily symptomatic cases were in triple digits – showed no symptoms, and there had been no fatality in the current wave.

The municipal authorities have introduced their strictest measures since early 2020, including more curbs on arrivals and wider quarantine regulations.

Lee, however, stopped short of announcing his anticipated chief executive run, saying he would explain his ‘next moves’ on Saturday.

Ukrainian president says international sanctions that have been imposed so far are not yet sufficient to stop Russia and end the war.

A US cybersecurity firm says it collected evidence that India’s power sector was targeted by hackers in a long-term operation carried out by a state-sponsored Chinese group.

Many among the elderly are unsure how to use the government’s online self-reporting platform, others find the scheme futile.

In the northeast, villages face not only military violence but struggle to receive aid and funding as they’re placed under a communications blackout.

Hong Kong and Shanghai have both reversed policies where Covid-positive youngsters were kept apart from their parents, but there will still be a negative impact on fertility, and human rights record.

Since early March, 13 children have been diagnosed with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome, which can cause high fever, skin rash, diarrhoea two to five weeks after recovering from Covid-19.

People in China are furious after a video emerged of a pandemic prevention worker killing a corgi after its owners were sent to quarantine.

The move could free up US$50 million per vessel annually for other priorities, but would also reduce the size of a fleet that’s already surpassed by China’s in sheer numbers.

Letitia James is asking a judge to hold the ex-US president in contempt for not complying with a court order to produce documents in a fraud probe.

China, which is Ukraine’s leading business partner, may see a shift after its refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion, analysts say.

Haitao Xiang was ordered to serve 29 months in prison and fined US$150,000 for attempting to bring proprietary farming software back to China on a memory card.

Oil could be next on the list, with Western countries seeking new ways to punish Moscow as evidence of torture and killings emerge outside Kyiv.

The University of Kansas academic was accused of concealing work he was doing for Fuzhou University while doing research funded by the US government.

The vote is a victory for President Joe Biden, who is making his first appointment to a bench with an increasingly assertive 6-3 conservative majority.

Moves to keep the besieged leader in power by dissolving parliament and calling early elections were declared illegal in a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court. The no-confidence vote will take place on Saturday.

Current engineering standards ‘severely underestimated the actual impact’ of a nuclear blast targeting underground defence facilities, according to paper.

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China opposed the resolution to unseat Russia from the Human Rights Council after atrocities were uncovered in Bucha; the measure passed 93-24 with 58 abstentions.

She was followed home by two Russian soldiers who held her down with a gun; her experience is similar to those of other victims documented by human rights organisations which say rape is being used as a ‘weapon of war’ in Ukraine.

The House speaker received the positive test after having tested negative earlier in the week; a congressional trip to Asia that Pelosi had planned to lead, reported to include a stop in Taiwan, has been put off indefinitely.

A year after President Xi Jinping declared an end to extreme poverty in China, the economic fallout from Beijing’s zero-Covid ambitions is taking a hefty toll on livelihoods, especially in poorer regions.

The latest Switchblade-600s donated by the US have several counterparts made in China, where their effectiveness will be watched with interest.

China’s central bank said in a draft law released on Wednesday that the existing legal framework to mitigate financial risks is disorganised and ‘lacks overall design’.

The struggling Chinese telecoms giant has filed a patent application on the mainland for a semiconductor packaging innovation that could help lower the cost of chip manufacturing.

Russian watchdog said Google-owned YouTube was distributing fake news about ‘the special military operation in Ukraine, discrediting the armed forces of Russia’.

An open letter to members does not openly address residents’ frustrations but tells them to ‘go deep into the grass roots and masses’ to serve the people’s needs.

Students of higher forms will be first to return to campuses on April 19 for half-day classes.

Mountainous region known for its scenic beauty is seeing tourism boom, with high-end domestic holidaymakers preferring it to some overseas destinations because of the pandemic.

US House Speaker is expected to arrive in Taipei on Sunday, according to media reports.

Incoming leader Yoon Suk-yeol wants Washington to redeploy nuclear bombers and submarines to the Korean peninsula as Kim Jong-un’s missile tests continue and China seems to have stopped ‘leaning on the North to behave’.