Investors rushed to dump shares of Hikvision after it was reported that the Chinese firm may be added to the Specially Designated Nationals list, which would bar it from dealing with American companies or citizens.

In this week’s Quirky China, four women in a Porsche trash a farm, a woman lived in a phone booth during Shanghai’s lockdown, and a couple have a massive online wedding.

Shaun Connell has not been seen since Thursday morning and volunteers and police are searching Tai Tam Country Park.

Third round of campaign offering free tours and staycation discounts to more than 80,000 residents was initially suspended during fifth wave of infections.

Constable Au Kar-man, 47, tried to secure HK$1 million from a restaurant owner and HK$60,000 from a man arrested for public brawling.

Shanghai Japanese Commerce & Industry Club survey showed that 63 per cent of factories had yet to resume operations after the financial hub implemented a citywide lockdown on April 1.

The number of flats planned, equal to Hong Kong’s total home sales in the first seven months of 2021, is about the size of Whampoa Garden in Hung Hom, making it one of the city’s largest residential communities.

Foreign brands are struggling to hang onto China as a growth driver after almost a year of consumer boycotts and preferential treatment for home-grown companies.

Hong Kong’s sole chief executive candidate John Lee Ka-chiu will hold an election rally at 4pm on Friday.

All but one scheduled train service was cancelled on Friday as millions of the island’s workers stayed away from offices and factories in a strike organised by the trade union movement.

The 2013 scandal, which saw stocks in three companies surge multiple times in the months before they slumped, battered investor confidence and led to a series of reforms to the city state’s stock trading rules.

The QR code document can be used under city’s vaccine pass scheme for entry to premises such as restaurants, shopping centres and supermarkets.

The Conservatives will find out in the coming days as votes are tallied whether they will be made to pay the price for Boris Johnson’s scandals.

Hangzhou was expected to host Asian Games in September but organisers say it will now take place next year.

Beijing logged 72 local infections on Friday, with around 40 per cent of cases in this outbreak detected in Chaoyang district.

The WHO chief said two Omicron sub-variants, BA.4 and BA.5, were behind the surge in cases in South Africa.

Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters were still holed up at Mariupol’s sprawling Azovstal steelworks, the last pocket of resistance in a city largely reduced to rubble.

The World Health Organization’s estimate is around 10 times the country’s official Covid-19 death toll for 2020-21. India’s health ministry said the world health body ‘conveniently chose to ignore the available data’.

Man, 27, detained on suspicion of accessing a computer with dishonest intent – an offence that is punishable by up to five years in jail.

On top of the obvious but potentially short-term stagflationary forces in play are far more structural, long-term issues that amplify the danger of protracted inflation and sharply reduced economic growth.

The partial lockdown in Jinshan followed the discovery of two asymptomatic cases in quarantined areas, in setbacks for a district that claimed to have reached its so-called societal zero-Covid goal four days earlier.

New evidence emerged that the US provided intelligence that helped Ukraine sink a formidable Russian warship last month.

Satoshi Uematsu, who was sentenced to death in 2020 for killing 19 people at a care home for the mentally disabled in 2016, is seeking a retrial.

A young woman who helped lift her adoptive father out of poverty has now walked away from her lucrative business to travel the country with him to repay his kindness and renew their relationship.

Painting, drawing, cutting and printing are among the activities that help children hone their fine motor skills in a fun and creative way – and can even help build a sense of self

Authorities say all the missing are accounted for and the 10 people rescued are in good condition after hospital treatment.

Brazil’s far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro is trailing leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in early polls ahead of October 2 election.

A commentary in the official newspaper of Chinese armed forces suggests the world should be on high alert for the risk.

Researchers are trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig.

Karine Jean-Pierre, who will also be the first openly gay person in the role, will replace Jen Psaki.

Given geopolitical pressures, a split would protect HSBC’s hugely profitable Hong Kong and mainland business, while letting its global banking business proceed with fewer regulatory burdens and better financial discipline.

The tale of a dog who escaped the big city and ran 40km to his home village went viral in China, reminding people of the famous Richard Gere film Hachi: A Dog’s Tale.

Finance chief Paul Chan says trend of rate hikes for rest of the year could reach cumulative increase of 2.5 per cent or more.

Legal fraternity urged to rise up after ‘total disregard by certain quarters for the hallowed principle of the independence of the judiciary’, with rising anger over a probe into the judge who convicted ex-leader Najib Razak.

At least three killed in what police suspect was a Palestinian attack in the central Israeli city of Elad on the country’s independence day.

The Chinese leader was speaking at a meeting of the country’s top policymaking body, addressing the outbreak in the key commercial hub for the first time.

China needs help as it struggles with Covid-19, and Hong Kong can play a central role in its recovery by offering a financial lifeline. But this will only be possible if the city abandons its own zero-Covid straitjacket by dropping all policies – e...

Previous studies, which suggested the strain was more infectious, but milder, had not taken sufficient account of the effects of vaccines, the researchers say.

The T-90M, which features multilayered armour, a powerful engine and other upgrades, was photographed as a charred ruin by a Ukrainian journalist.

A report says Washington’s treaty allies in the region would be reluctant to provoke China by offering permanent bases for intermediate missiles.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton says China’s “interference” in the PM’s WeChat account and the actions of editors of Chinese newspapers in Australia are evidence Beijing is trying to influence the May 21 election.

Moscow’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov sparked outrage when he claimed Hitler may have had ‘Jewish blood’ during remarks about Ukraine leader Zelensky.

The hostility between China and the West could be seen in terms of Beijing being cast as a member to the out-group. By mediating in the current conflict, China would show that it is truly on the same page as the West in wanting peace.

‘Ukraine may be tomorrow’s East Asia,’ warns PM Fumio Kishida after talks with British counterpart Boris Johnson in London.

A number of activists are facing years-long jail sentences for online posts and organising private gatherings, activities that would have usually attracted a reprimand in the past.

US Justice Department said Fijian authorities served a search warrant freezing the yacht, which earlier was prevented from leaving the South Pacific nation. American officials say the 348-foot vessel belongs to Suleiman Kerimov.

Using lunar soil as a catalyst, scientists hope to test a life-support system for astronauts in space.