From July 1 travellers will only need to apply for electronic travel authorisation and obtain approval 72 hours before boarding.

Adult Singaporeans earning below S$34,000 (US$24,500) a year will receive S$300 in cash in August, and every household will get S$100 to offset utilities.

A series of clandestine, against-the-odds helicopter missions to reach besieged soldiers are being celebrated in Ukraine as one of the riskiest, most heroic feats in the four-month war against Russia.

Zhao Faqi’s 7½-year sentence for bribery and theft of state secrets was upheld in verdict that lasted just a few minutes, according to his wife Cathy Li.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been moved to shelters, but at least 9 million are still stranded near their inundated homes. More than 50 people have been killed across both nations.

In Montreal in December, about 200 member states of the CBD are expected to finalise a new accord to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 and achieve recovery by 2050.

A new wave of digital-first enterprises focused on NFT and metaverse projects may be in a position to deliver the city’s next tech breakthrough, nearly 25 years since the Octopus card was launched.

Tencent collected US$92 million by selling down its stake in Koolearn Technology in two transactions this month after the education group switched its focus to live-streaming business.

Looming military enlistment for the older members of BTS is creating a headache for the company behind the band. Last week’s shock announcement also leaves the group’s social justice efforts in doubt.

Vladimir Putin, who has likened himself to Peter the Great, has used recent public appearances to articulate his raw imperial ambitions.

Examples of content that could be blocked reportedly include live-streamed videos of mass shootings and viral social media challenges that encourage young people to perform dangerous stunts.

Chamber of commerce chief Joerg Wuttke says companies will find it difficult to prove their supply chains are free of forced labour links.

Chinese video gaming giant NetEase plans to introduce its Yaotai app as early as August to help expand the virtual meeting platform’s user base.

Quirky China: A factory is caught using a mannequin to police fire warnings, three students have turned a train bench into a homework desk and a school is allowing pupils to attend classes dressed in traditional hanfu costumes.

Pyongyang only acknowledged that it had a coronavirus outbreak last month. Yet state media claims cases are already plummeting and says just 73 people have died – a widely disputed fatality rate of 0.002 per cent, the lowest in the world.

Belgium handed over the last remains of slain Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba – a tooth – to his family, turning a page on a grim chapter in its colonial past.

Vivian Jenna Wilson cited gender identity as a reason for the name change and ‘the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form’.

The envisaged meeting on the sidelines of next week’s gathering of Nato leaders in Spain is reportedly seen by the four nations as an attempt to keep an assertive China in check.

The city weathered the global financial crisis in a relatively calmer period domestically, but the seeds of activism were sowed over the demolition of Queen’s Pier.

A group called Khilafatul Muslimin aims to turn Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, into an Islamic caliphate, which is ‘very dangerous’ for the nation, according to the national terrorism prevention chief.

Central Asia’s post-Soviet republics offer access to the Russian language, the Soviet past and the post-Soviet world, and are uniquely placed to build links with institutions that have lost access to Russia.

American Express International claimed Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee had ‘refused, failed or otherwise neglected’ to settle an outstanding bill of HK$93,155 as of April 28.

Police in China helping a distraught woman recover some of the money she’d saved for an operation after her daughter stole it and blew it on online games, mobile phones and clothing.

120 cadres from ruling parties attend workshop at the US$40 million facility in Tanzania funded by the Chinese Communist Party.

Hong Kong’s satire today takes the shape of internet memes, cartoons, protest props, chants of clever word plays, and derivative works to express opposition.

Much-hyped deliveries of military aid have not kept pace with the defenders’ needs, and they are forced to conserve ammunition as Moscow’s forces pummel them.

City launches counterterrorism initiative as law enforcement says they have dealt with 20 cases related to explosives or precursor chemicals since mid-2019.

Such a move would further restrict Moscow’s energy revenue, in addition to existing or planned Western restrictions over the Ukraine invasion.

Offer at first-of-its-kind peace and governance gathering in Addis Ababa finds Beijing positioning itself as a ‘different kind of external actor’ in conflict-prone region.

The Kremlin made its first formal acknowledgement that it was holding Andy Huynh and Alexander Drueke, and said they were not subject to the Geneva Convention.

A dispute with Türkiye, which is blocking their bid to join the alliance, appears unlikely to be resolved before a summit in Spain next week.

European ambassadors from Switzerland, France, Norway, Italy and Croatia have appealed to China to relax rules that prevent face-to-face meetings, saying direct communication will help reduce international tensions.

Fugitive Lu Ke is accused of filming young villagers saying racist things about themselves in Chinese, then selling the footage on social media.

China’s timeline is two years ahead of a US-European planned Mars mission to return samples to Earth for laboratory testing, according to Sun Zezhou.

Besieged PM Naftali Bennett will be replaced by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid until new polls can be held.

The ‘one country, two systems’ principle was supposed to provide a ‘high degree of autonomy’ to Hong Kong, but the agreement to protect that autonomy has been ‘breached comprehensively’ in recent years, according to Chris Patten, the city...

The crash in cryptocurrencies shows how the fundamental principle of DeFi – the pursuit of higher yields in the era of cheap money to disrupt and replace traditional banks – has been upended by rising interest rates.

The stingray measures almost 4 metres from snout to tail and weighs about 300kg. Scientists say it’s a hopeful sign for the waterway that faces environmental challenges.

‘War and violence devastate people and leave lasting traumatic effects … Protecting people forced to flee is a collective global responsibility,’ the star of Zoolander and Night At The Museum said.

Museum to amplify global influence of Chinese culture, Wang says two days ahead of opening ceremony.

Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises says the vessel capsized as it was passing Paracel Islands in South China Sea during the weekend.

Beijing sends rescue task force to region as heavy rain forces nearly 150,000 residents to flee.

Sources say the event that had been scheduled to be held in Kunming in December will move to Montreal instead.

Industry has been rebuilding its networks after pandemic led to border shutdowns and airlines laying off workers, says director general of IATA.

Exco members propose allowing travellers to head to mainland China on small-scale basis, to meet employees and business partners.

Kindergartens have fewer pupils due to plunging birth rate, emigration wave and absence of cross-border pupils.

All eligible elderly single people with assets of no more than HK$374,000 and couples with no more than HK$568,000 will receive HK$3,915 a month.

The District Court in Osaka rejected arguments made by three same-sex couples as part of a series of suits filed by activists seeking marriage equality.

Remarks from Senior Counsel Victor Dawes come as role of incoming deputy secretary for justice in prosecutorial decisions remains undefined.

Pro-Beijing legislators say some residents have misunderstandings about history due to lack of education about Basic Law and nation’s constitution.