Police staged an ambush at another location after being alerted to acts at Kwun Tong branch of One Satoshi.

British inflation leapt last month to its highest annual rate since 1982, piling pressure on finance minister Rishi Sunak to step up help for households facing a worsening cost-of-living crisis.

North Korea reported 232,880 more people with fever symptoms, and six more deaths as leader Kim Jong-un accused government officials of inadequacies in handling the escalating Covid-19 outbreak.

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg received the bids from Finnish and Swedish ambassadors in Brussels.

The top court in an interim order stated Muslims right to prayer should not be disturbed, and simultaneously the area where Hindu religious relics were said to be found should be protected.

Russia’s defence ministry says that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian troops holed up in their last stronghold in Mariupol have handed themselves over.

Official committee reveals recommendations based on survey of private sector.

A court in China has granted a 49-year-old man a protection order against his wife who he says physically abused him, even biting him, and started a conversation about gender and domestic abuse.

Health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the coronavirus has changed significantly since it was first identified.

Victim’s uncle says China Eastern Airlines must give families answers if Wall Street Journal report is proved.

Polling conducted by the Lowy Institute found support for the government among Australians of Chinese heritage dropped 14 percentage points last year to 28 per cent, faster than its popularity declined among the broader population.

Civil service chief Patrick Nip says about 280,000 had received third jab since May, with another 160,000 signed up while 310,000 expected to seek out private clinics.

Package under consideration would include foreign military financing of as much as US$500 million, according to one person, which would make India one of the largest recipients of such aid behind Israel and Egypt.

US move would leave Russia as ‘a debtor seemingly desperate to make payments, but not allowed to do so’.

The IPEF is part of the Biden administration’s efforts to counter China’s clout in Asia, following America’s withdrawal from talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership regional trade agreement under former President Donald Trump.

Turkey, which has Nato’s second largest army, has traditionally been supportive of Nato enlargement. But it has objected to Sweden and Finland joining.

Conditions expected to be normal to ‘relatively worse’, with more droughts and floods in some regions, according to National Climate Centre.

A vocal supporter of Donald Trump, first-term congressman Madison Cawthorn made a number of unforced political and personal errors that led top Republican leaders to turn against him.

David Chou, the man charged with opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation in Southern California wanted to ‘execute in cold blood as many people in that room as possible,’ a prosecutor said.

For India, the affordability of Russian military equipment comes with lower quality and coercive leverage, and that price is too high. The solution is to diversify towards suppliers such as the US. Signalling this intention at the coming Quad meeting...

Even as the unvaccinated nation faces a collapse of its health system, Pyongyang has rebuffed aid offers from South Korea and the UN.

A young girl’s tooth excavated from a cave wall in northeastern Laos is providing new insight into the mysterious extinct human species called Denisovans and revealing their resourcefulness in adapting to both tropical and chilly climes.

Chief Executive-elect John Lee’s plan follows largely that of outgoing leader Carrie Lam’s earlier proposal, but includes new deputy secretary for justice position.

A restaurant chain in China has recalled milk tea it sells after alarmed consumers pointed out the close resemblance of its packaging to detergent bottles that could mislead children into drinking laundry liquid.

Masks must still be worn indoors and on public transport in Indonesia. The country also announced a negative pre-departure test is no longer required for foreign and domestic travellers.

Experts say China’s adoption of open-source RISC-V architecture would not shield them from all US sanction risks, as US still dominates in EDA tools.

But more than half of Hongkongers report an improvement in their mental health after moving to Britain.

After the Stroke 120 programme was launched in 2016, median delay time fell from 19 to six hours, according to study.

Rent at prime street locations fell 5 per cent in the first quarter according to Savills, giving non-luxury retailers the pick of choice locations in what is still one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets.

Size of governments has been getting bigger to meet public expectations, but more bureaus could ‘create more silos and therefore more coordination problems’.

Emigration consultants say applications for US, Canada and Australia have soared, with interest strongest among tech professionals.

Online posts during the pandemic reveal a resurgence in tensions, with some referring to overseas students as ‘fake Chinese’. Prejudice is rooted in uneven access to opportunities in China and the harsh working environment young people face.

The former Wynn Resorts CEO allegedly contacted Donald Trump in 2017 to convey Beijing’s request to remove a Chinese national seeking political asylum in the US.

Don’t swallow ‘informational tranquilisers’, military analyst Mikhail Khodaryonok warns viewers, in a rare criticism of Putin’s invasion.

‘Will cinema keep quiet, or will it speak up?’ Volodymyr Zelensky asks in a pre-recorded video at the film festival’s opening.

A Liberal MP who mixed up two Asian candidates, then refused to apologise, has been ridiculed on social media as the ruling coalition trails in the polls.

An increasing number of unidentified flying objects have been reported in the sky over the past 20 years, a top US defence official told lawmakers.

Information recovered from the black box suggests someone in the cockpit input controls that sent the aircraft into its deadly descent, according to insiders.

The teen suspected of murdering 10 people at a neighbourhood store embraced a conspiracy theory that white Americans were being ‘replaced’ by immigrants.

London says it will move to unilaterally change trade rules unless the EU caves on its refusal to renegotiate the pact.

The authorities say Jeremy Theron Smith, who allegedly wounded three people at a Texas hair salon, was in a car crash involving an Asian man two years ago.

Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus has vast implications on every facet of Chinese people’s lives, on the nation’s economy, and on a world that has come to rely so heavily on China.

Boey, from the National University of Singapore, will succeed Professor Way Kuo next year.

Suspected gunman was identified as a Chinese immigrant and US citizen and said to have a grievance with the Taiwanese community, but was later confirmed to be Taiwanese himself.

Authorities in China want to ensure every citizen has access to a nucleic acid test booth within a 15-minute walk, while vaccination of elderly people lags.

Team from Sun Yat-sen University say new device is compatible with existing mass-production processes, but more research is needed before clinical trial stage.

Save the Children Hong Kong poll also reveals teenagers received unwanted requests for sexual photos or intimate details of themselves in past 12 months.

The Liaoning aircraft carrier conducted high-intensity drills in the Philippine Sea this month as the PLA navy seeks to hone its skills.

About 440 kindergartens, comprising 300 subsidised schools and 140 non-subsidised ones, applied for tuition increase in 2022-23 school year.

One theory suggests the lingering presence of the coronavirus may have triggered an immune response that led to liver damage.