Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen criticised the handling of a hostage crisis in Manila last night in which eight Hong Kong tourists were killed and two critically injured.

Bank customers whose deposits are frozen unable to join protests in Zhengzhou because their health QR codes turned red, declaring them a risk to public health.

Captain of river trade vessel initially arrested, but released after helping with investigation.

The NYU Stern Centre report found a spate of misogynistic videos, ‘many of which include physical threats’, posted by influencers backing India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party had helped fuel a conspiracy theory that Muslims spread Covid as a ...

Desperate merchants in the Qipu Road clothing market refused to open on Monday following a three-month closure, highlighting the pressure Covid-19 restrictions put on small businesses.

More than half a million Hong Kong people took to the streets in a landmark anti-government protest on the sixth anniversary of reunification with the mainland.

Lysychansk resident Yevgeniya Panicheva describes aftermath of shelling that killed her neighbour: ‘her guts were falling out’.

Sun Hung Kai Properties to spend HK$10 million for promotional activities, while BOC Pay and AlipayHK to offer rewards to new joiners.

Taiwan says it supports US freedom of navigation operations in the area.

With the passing of 20 days since the last case was put into isolation, the chain of infections was considered broken, the WHO said.

Many in attendance at France’s annual Eurosatory arms bazaar spoke of a massive surge in demand as countries ramp up production, both to send munitions to Ukraine and to strengthen their own arsenal.

Theary Seng and dozens of members of the Cambodia National Rescue Party were convicted on Tuesday over a failed attempt by the now-dissolved opposition party’s leader to return from exile in 2019.

Leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum members are due meet in July in Fiji, after they were caught off guard by the Solomon Islands’ security pact with China.

Beijing approved a reinterpretation of Basic Law provisions in a move which overturns a Court of Final Appeal ruling and revokes the right of abode for more than 1.4 million mainland residents.

Ukrainian investigators exhumed more bodies from makeshift graves in a forest near Kyiv and police said they were civilians who had been killed by Russian forces during their occupation of the area.

Anthony Albanese played down the possibility of a reset in relations with the Chinese government and said any further warming would depend on the removal of trade sanctions and barriers on Australian exports.

The Government launched its first-ever defence of the local stock and futures markets with a concerted intervention which drove the Hang Seng Index 8.5 per cent higher.

Tugboats take the tourist attraction to moor outside the city after talks between owner and government fail to save it.

The British government was to send a first plane carrying failed asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against the controversial policy.

The European Commission is expected to update its code on disinformation this week, targeting deepfakes and fake accounts, a change partly spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam cites state leaders’ visit and transition of power in explaining position on not easing travel curbs.

Two Central African neighbours have long accused each other of supporting various rival armed groups.

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin made the remarks during a visit to long-time military ally Thailand. He also called his recent conversation with his Chinese counterpart ‘an important step in our efforts to develop open lines of communication�...

As June 30 moved into July 1, the flags of Britain and Hong Kong were lowered, and those of China and the Special Administrative Region raised in the Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Oscar-winning actor has been charged him with four counts of sexual assault against three men between 2005 and 2013.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing acquired the 145-year old London Metal Exchange in 2012, extending its role as a ‘super-connector’ by linking China’s commodity markets with the world. It has not gone according to the script.

Global stocks enter bear market in a wipe-out of US$18 trillion as more aggressive interest-rate increases by the Fed loom, and China’s resurgence of Covid-19 adds to a bleak growth outlook.

Banks will repay at least HK$6.3 billion to 29,000 people who bought Lehman Brothers minibonds in what is likely to be the world’s largest compensation package for retail investors.

Google parent Alphabet is making the offer after the European Commission singled out Google’s requirement that advertisers use its Ad Manager on YouTube.

The cost of liquefied natural gas has surged by more than 1,000 per cent in the last two years, pushed higher by Europe’s bid to quit Russian fuel – leaving Pakistan teetering on the brink of default.

Life expectancy rises to 85.4 years, but non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol a concern.

City government mounts crackdown in response to violence assault in group at restaurant.

A teacher in northwest China was fired over the weekend after a video emerged from May in which he was seen punching a student in the face and chest, resulting in injuries that needed 16 stitches.

A YouTube video shows Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr, son of the late dictator, talking of reliance on ‘troll army’ to ‘keep political fortunes alive’.

Disney was unable to get permission in 14 Asian and Middle Eastern nations to screen the prequel to Pixar’s Toy Story films.

Speaking to the media for first time since retiring, former Hong Kong chief justice Geoffrey Ma lays out his expectations for city’s rule of law at halfway point of city’s promised 50 years of autonomy.

‘An outbound investment review mechanism is a critical tool,’ says a bipartisan group of seven US senators and representatives.

President Xi Jinping congratulated the British monarch earlier this year on her 70-year reign. Hong Kong officials, products of the British colonial system, may be caught in the middle but they can’t just ignore the past.

Fears about a fragile economy and rising interest rates sent the S&P 500 more than 20 per cent below its record set early this year

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi meet in Luxembourg to discuss Taiwan, Ukraine, North Korea and Washington’s Indo-Pacific diplomatic efforts.

The former US president refused to listen to advisers who told him his claims of fraud were unfounded and would not reverse his loss, witnesses said.

Many analysts expect China’s central bank to cut the rate on its medium-term lending facility on Wednesday, as the government steps up efforts to revive its pandemic-hit economy.

The proposal echoes a controversy that erupted when the WHO renamed Sars-CoV-2 after people around the world referred to it as the China or Wuhan virus.

Thousands of artefacts found in sacrificial pits help date what is believed to be a centre of the Shu Kingdom.

The longer the war ploughs on, the higher the chance of it turning into a nuclear crisis. To reduce the threat, China must put to good use its access to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and help broker a ceasefire.

Congressional hearings will aim to show Trump’s unfounded allegations of fraud quickly grew into a conspiracy to cling to power.

The team ran thousands of simulated space battles in which the hunters developed the ability to ‘trick’ their target.

The textbooks also adopt government’s account of 2019 social unrest, saying it was a threat to national security and external forces were behind protests.

Alibaba’s bullish outlook for China’s small exporters comes as the country’s export growth rebounded in May.

China’s mass coronavirus-testing campaign looks to rack up a US$26 billion bill during the year’s second quarter, according to researchers with Soochow Securities.