Foreign Minister Wang Yi also tells counterparts the country will carry out safety inspections on 20 reservoirs and dams.

Hong Kong customs officers impound millions of untaxed cigarettes in a single month.

Leader’s goal ‘realistic’, when wait more than double government’s pledge of three years, says Federation of Public Housing Estates chief.

With the shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, on the nation’s 246th birthday, the US marked its 309th mass shooting this year, according to a non-profit that tracks gunfire incidents.

Police found the bodies of a 26-year-old woman and a three-month-old boy following a tip-off. If found guilty, the suspect could face the death penalty.

A bizarre incident unfolded Monday early on in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest when a protester rushed the stage and bumped into 15-time champion Joey Chestnut.

The MPF’s loss adds to the woes of Hong Kong’s working population and pensioners as the city grapples with soaring borrowing costs, joblessness and shaky business prospects caused by a Covid-19 outbreak.

Police investigate after suspected triad member slashed and robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars and Rolex watch.

Pay increment was endorsed by Chief Executive John Lee’s de facto cabinet on Tuesday.

South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has rejected the idea of phasing out nuclear energy after making it a key pledge of his election campaign to boost investment in the industry.

Lawmakers will discuss new measures to manage wild pigs in the city to safeguard public safety and maintain environmental hygiene next week.

Wang Jisi, a Peking University professor, says that while the island is a potential flashpoint, he has not heard senior officials discussing the use of force.

Following the fall of the city of Lysychansk to Russian forces on Sunday, the focus of the fighting in eastern Ukraine appears to have shifted from the Luhansk region to the neighbouring region of Donetsk.

John Lee says the government is planning to reduce the quarantine period for incoming travellers while at the same time controlling the risk of potential outbreaks.

A ‘real quiet’ kid who kept to himself. An aspiring YouTube rapper. A face etched with tattoos. Robert Crimo was a mystery to his own family.

The geopolitics of the South Caucasus makes it harder for Beijing and Moscow to share space there, compared with in Central Asia. Russia lacks a strategic motive to support the expansion of China’s presence in former Soviet regions if it does not h...

The first popping noises sounded like firecrackers or maybe a gun salute honouring the American flag. Then someone screamed: ‘There’s a shooter’. And, in an instant, everyone understood the reality.

Molest cases on trains are likely to remain a major problem in the post-pandemic era as perpetrators become more organised to feed their ‘addiction’ to groping, according to observers.

Consumers can enjoy discounts of up to 75 per cent on certain products during campaign in July and August.

Work on what will be the world’s largest circular array for solar radio imaging is expected to be finished by the end of the year, supervisor says.

In this week’s Quirky China, a couple races through highway barriers to get divorced, two students return US$1,500 found on a bicycle and a 30kg honeycomb falls through a ceiling.

While law will be enacted ‘as soon as possible’, John Lee says his administration wants to spend more time doing legal research.

The Chinese-Canadian businessman has been detained in the mainland for five years after disappearing from a Hong Kong hotel.

A Japanese defence ministry official said China was likely trying to demonstrate its territorial claim to the disputed islands with Monday’s chase. Two Chinese vessels were again spotted near the islets on Tuesday.

Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He held a virtual conference with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday amid reports Joe Biden may announce his decision on rolling back some tariffs on Chinese imports as soon as this week.

Analysts expect more than 82,000 ‘eVTOLs’ to be operational in the Asia-Pacific region by 2050 – and Singapore’s tiny second airport at Seletar is positioning itself at the vanguard of the flying taxi revolution.

China’s Caixin/Markit services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 54.5 in June from 41.1 in May, data released on Tuesday showed.

In China the chances of parents conceiving twins is just 0.5 per cent, but in one remote village at least 33 sets of twins have been born between just 631 families in the last dozen years alone.

Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea are not Nato members but are global partners of the military alliance.

Authorities use sweeping powers under national security legislation to enforce sedition law, which has low threshold for arrest and lighter jail terms for convictions.

China is not abandoning its ‘dynamic zero’ strategy, but related policies will be open to more flexible implementation.

Two other senior government officials – parliamentary speaker Tan Chuan-Jin and culture minister Edwin Tong – have also tested positive.

The world-famous landmark is in a poor state, and work has been delayed because of the pandemic, a French magazine says, citing confidential reports.

Even a rebound in the second half of 2022 might not be enough for China to hit its annual economic growth target, as Beijing clings to zero Covid and its rivalry with the West heats up.

A gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago, sending hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles fleeing in terror.

Changes could include suspension of duties on some consumer goods and setting up a way for importers to request waivers on the import taxes.

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmygal says the frozen assets of Russia and its oligarchs should be a ‘key source of recovery’ for his war-torn country.

The exodus is a sign not only of the heavy toll exacted by China’s zero-Covid policies, but also of the country’s turn inwards. Foreigners are no longer considered vital to progress. But the loss of the very people with long-term knowledge, exper...

Thailand’s hotels, businesses and private hospitals should refrain from offering big discounts to lure tourists and focus instead on raising the country’s value as a premium travel destination, government ministers said on Monday.

Moscow’s forces seized the strategic city of Lysychansk over the weekend, and now Russia now has its eyes on the entire Donetsk region. The loss of Lysychansk prompted Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to step up calls for an increased supply of weapo...

Chinese University of Hong Kong Shanghai Centre to be established in Yangpu district, as part of university’s development plan on mainland.

Well-known Al Jazeera journalist was killed as she was covering an Israeli army operation in the Jenin camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. A Palestinian probe said that an Israeli soldier shot her dead.

US envoy Nicholas Burns says the ‘unprovoked’ invasion violates the UN Charter while Moscow’s representative Andrey Denisov blamed Nato expansion.

Vaccination still protects against severe disease, but jabs and medication are less effective against BA. 4, and BA. 5 subvariants, according to researchers.

June 30, the Russian army said it withdrew from the island ‘as a sign of goodwill’, while Kyiv insisted Moscow’s forces were driven away by Ukrainian strikes.

A feathery coat and adaptation to extreme cold helped dinosaurs, even Tyrannosaurus, survive the end-Triassic mass extinction that wiped out reptiles: paper.

The movie is set to be Malaysia’s highest-grossing film, and has even drawn the attention of royalty like the influential Sultan of Selangor.

American official Bill Nelson says Chinese astronauts are learning how to destroy other countries’ satellites.

Taiwanese scientist Ye Li-hua can hardly find the words to pay tribute to Ni Kuang. For Singaporean lyricist Ng King Kang, the author was the last living representative of a golden age of Hong Kong culture.

Xiao to face court on Monday, according to the Canadian embassy in Beijing.