Commerce minister Edward Yau says ‘border must be open’, but warns the city should also take Covid situation in mainland China into consideration.

Train driver killed and at least eight passengers and staff injured after vehicle hits soil on tracks.

The woman told her story in a public venue for the first time on Friday during a Los Angeles County civil trial over a separate assault.

Mission commander Chen Dong will be leading the first-ever team of second-generation astronauts picked from air force pilots in 2010.

Australia, New Zealand and South Korea have also been invited to attend next month’s summit in Madrid.

Though little seen in the early stages of the war, electronic warfare has become far more of a factor in fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine.

US State Department report cites religious leaders and groups in Hong Kong as saying authorities ‘less tolerant since the passage of the national security law’.

Killed for their tusks and straying into plantations, Sumatran elephants are in decline. In Indonesia, only about 1,400-1,600 are left in the wild.

After two years of pandemic restrictions, the class of 2022 is about to take the test that can make or break a young person’s future.

He tells state-run media Beijing-imposed political framework necessary for city’s development needs, vowing no repeat of 2019 unrest.

Authorities and businesses cite pandemic-hit economy as reason for non-review, amid calls to raise hourly mark from HK$37.5 to HK$50.

Kenichi Horie traced a similar route to the one he made 60 years ago when he became the first yachtsman to cross the Pacific alone with no port calls.

Reminders by Chinese foreign ministry office sent out in recent days, including to top diplomats of the European Union Office to Hong Kong and Macau.

US researchers have found that temperatures 10 degrees higher than average are associated with a 33.8 per cent higher rate of shootings.

Firms in China are targeting ‘singles’ as a new consumption demographic as more people are expected to live alone after the number of marriages registered hit a new low last year.

Long-term consumption could improve gut health and lower the risk of developing disease caused by the sleep disorder, researchers say.

Singapore’s loss of one-third of its chicken supply following Malaysia’s export ban has reinforced its vulnerability to shocks in the food supply chain.

Why are Hong Kong housewives and aunties so obsessed with handsome local butcher Samuel Lau? Maybe it’s because Hongkongers are desperate to feel more ‘local’ to reinforce their identity.

Cats have been found disembowelled and shot with blow darts, an animal charity said. Similar attacks have been reported at a US base in South Korea.

UN said Russia’s war on Ukraine could lead to ‘hurricane of hunger’ as 30 per cent of the world’s grain exports come from the warring countries.

A growing chorus is calling for a ban on the companies’ equipment over its purported use for surveillance in Xinjiang. A new public-procurement bill could lead to a ban on government purchases.

Wellness celebrity Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr Oz, has positioned himself as a champion of the former US president’s populist ‘America First’ agenda.

Less than half of China’s over-80s are double jabbed, yet the central government seems intent on making testing a permanent feature of daily life instead of formulating a plan to get the most vulnerable in society inoculated against Covid-19.

On the eve of Chinese civilisation, semi-isolated regions began to interact with one another, and an important tool for this cultural exchange was a red rice beer fermented in a basin called dakougangs.

The recent moves by Asian governments to save their own food supplies have sent already inflated food prices soaring across the region.

Working with bird breeders and sellers – the very group that contributed to the prized birds becoming critically endangered – conservationists are hoping to boost the wild population.

Overseas commemorations of event have taken on greater significance this year, especially as more Hongkongers have moved out of city.

Axon says it is working on a product using electric stun weapons that could ‘help prevent the next Uvalde, Sandy Hook or Columbine’ by stunning gunmen with electric weapons.

A mainland Chinese military magazine says the mountainous terrain and the problem of fighting in cities are among the main challenges in attacking the island.

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Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman to set out Sunday on a nine-day trip to South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and Laos.

Putin made a ‘historic and fundamental error’ in starting the war, France’s Macron declares, but warns the Russian leader must not be ‘humiliated’.

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The president accused the West of ‘bluster’ by claiming Moscow was blocking shipments, saying it could be done via ports now under Russian control.

The ex-adviser faces contempt charges for refusing to appear for a deposition or to produce documents requested by a panel probing the January 6 insurrection.

More than 20,000 animals have been infected across 16 provinces – raising fears the virus will reach tourist hotspots like Bali and be passed to Australian travellers.

Omar Manan, 80, was taking a shower when he collapsed. His wife and son who attended to him were also electrocuted.

Export volumes are predicted to jump at Shanghai Port, the world’s busiest in terms of container throughput, as the commercial hub reopens after a two-month long lockdown.

The 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown is now listed under a section titled ‘Difficulties encountered during the reform’, with some textbooks providing only a few photos or brief mention of death toll.

Many more injured as the train heading for Munich appeared to have derailed soon after noon in Burgrain – just outside the resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Chinese developers of the new systems have not officially submitted details to the list organisers.

Producers have no real excuse as to why they cannot afford to go down the sustainability path [and] corporations, buyers and traders need to join them, he said.

The move will ‘cement the junta’s reputation as among the worst of the worst human rights abusers in Asia’, a rights group says.

Central lawn, all six football pitches, jogging lane and basketball courts among sections of park to close from 11pm on Friday to 12:30am on Sunday.

Places such as Guangzhou were able to hold the first races to mark the Dragon Boat Festival since the start of the pandemic

So-called round-tripping investment from Hong Kong and Macau will continue to underpin foreign inflows to the mainland as its economy slows and foreign firms look to pull money out due to Covid-19 controls.

The number of daily infections should fall over the next two to three weeks, epidemiologists say.

Photographer Suzairi Zakaria has helped conserve more than 2,000 plants, including 200 types of wild orchids. Malaysia has lost about 29 per cent of tree cover since 2001 due to palm cultivation and logging.

The launch had been been expected during Friday’s Dragon Boat Festival but was delayed for an unexplained reason.

Two channels had same name as account previously blocked for allegedly sharing personal information of officials.