A second ceremony will take place on Tuesday for Abe’s political colleagues and contacts from the worlds of business and diplomacy.

Offenders, which also include Bilibili and Weibo, have been fined nearly US$75,000 for each case, some dating back as early as a decade ago.

Video posted online shows black seven-seater vehicle travelling behind ginger cat on path in Yuen Long before running over it and driving on.

Russia opened fire with artillery, multiple rocket launchers and tanks around Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv and shelled cities in the east, where an earlier strike killed 18 people in a residential block.

The Australian PM said his country ‘doesn’t respond to demands’ when asked about the four ‘actions’ China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi had said could improve ties between Canberra and Beijing.

Patient ‘greatly improved’ and no new cases discovered after dormitory is sealed off and sterilised over the weekend.

Forty-seven out of every 100,000 city residents were centenarians in 2020, according to a global survey.

Health chief Lo Chung-mau says booking system will be able to process 400 people per hour.

Russian gas giant Gazprom began 10 days of routine maintenance on its Nord Stream 1 pipeline on Monday – with Germany and other European countries watching anxiously to see if the gas comes back on.

The remote island nation’s withdrawal from the 51-year-old forum overshadowed the first day of the Fiji-based organisation’s first in-person summit in three years.

The positive outlook reflects the current pace of recovery in those industries, as China braces for its lowest quarterly growth rate in more than two years this week.

Footage of the incident on Tuas Second Link showed a woman prying off a car’s number plate with her bare hands before hurling it at the vehicle’s windscreen.

The military bloc says Beijing and Moscow are using leverage and coercion to expand their reach in the region.

Senior Saudi officials have pressed their US counterparts to scrap a policy of selling only defensive arms to its top Gulf partner, ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to the kingdom this week.

Observers say the cameras with facial recognition capabilities pose a serious risk to democracy activists because the military and police use the technology to find and track dissidents.

Despite presenting many challenges, remote learning had its benefits, including helping parents better understand their child’s ability and focus, as well as gaining a better appreciation of the work of teachers

The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever sent into orbit, is set Tuesday to unveil breathtaking new views of the Universe with a clarity that’s never been seen before.

A leaked cache of confidential files from ride-sharing company Uber illustrates ethically dubious and potentially illegal tactics it used to fuel its frenetic global expansion.

Tiffany Werner said she used the phrase ‘third world’ because that’s how her friends from Mississippi had described the places she was visiting. Her TikTok video of a Kuala Lumpur shopping centre has been watched 2.4 million times.

Victims of what could prove one of the country’s worst financial scandals had gathered in Henan province to demand their frozen deposits be returned.

As fuel costs eat into their earnings, some cabbies forgo days off, while others rely mainly on calls.

The US secretary of state had been on a visit to Southeast Asia and decided to stop in Tokyo to see Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Abe was fatally shot during a campaign stop on Friday.

A report in France’s Le Monde newspaper alleges that transport giant Uber came to a ‘deal’ with Macron when he was economy minister between 2014 and 2016.

The precise timetable for the leadership contest is expected to be set out Monday, after a meeting of a committee of Conservative Party backbenchers.

China’s remote-working trend is in its early stages, but it’s catching on among these pioneers who dare to ditch the office – and even local governments are looking to cash in on new opportunities.

Hundreds of inmates and nearly 70 jihadists escaped when gunmen using explosives blasted into the Kuje prison near Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday.

The turbine, which is used on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany, is in Canada for repairs and was initially held back as part of sanctions imposed on Russia.

US-China tech rivalry is compounding the risks scientific advances could pose to humankind.The two economies ought to cooperate on the world’s most pressing problems instead of engaging in competition that could leave us vulnerable to climate chang...

Israel will hold its fifth elections in under four years in November after the government headed by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett collapsed last month.

In Sunday’s election, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito held at least 75 of the 125 upper house seats up for grabs.

The Serb stretched his unbeaten streak at Wimbledon to 28 matches as he seized the initiative after being eclipsed in an opening set dominated by the Kyrgios serve.

Country is viewed as a strategic location for spreading Chinese influence.

Government of the Danish territory says a reduced yearly catch limit of 500 white-sided dolphins has been provisionally proposed by Ministry of Fisheries.

Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho made the remarks following visit to subdivided flats and ‘cage homes’ in Sham Shui Po.

Centre for Food Safety says four batches of the ice cream found to contain ethylene oxide, pesticide banned by European Union.

Outlooks for Western economies are declining, lowering forecasts for Chinese exports, while consumers in China also becoming more risk averse, analysts say.

China’s gambling hub is suspending almost all business activities for a week from Monday to control a rising number of new Covid-19 infections.

Country had hoped to take the lead in drafting conservation framework for next decade before Covid struck.

After five hours of discussions with his Chinese counterpart, US secretary of state says the summit will happen soon.

Zhou Qiang, president of the Supreme People’s Court, tells a conference of judges that violence against women, children and elderly must be severely punished.

Traffic has intensified after the Shenzhen government increased quota of quarantine hotel rooms.

The violent deaths are ‘unacceptable and worrying,’ said President Cyril Ramaphosa. No arrests have been made yet and there were no details regarding the assailants.

China’s financial and commercial hub plans to create an industry fund, with around US$1.5 billion in assets, to support metaverse development.

Visitors can check out the fossils of eight dinosaur species and get a chance to ‘gently touch’ an authentic leg bone belonging to the sauropod family.

A wind tunnel experiment finds that a turbine can cause more than 50 per cent of the dust and sand in the air nearby to sink and stay on the ground.

Mainland China’s first laws allowing people to choose in advance how they wish to die when approaching end-of-life care or too ill to make decisions will come into effect next year.

Sri Lanka’s opposition parties were due to meet Sunday to agree on a new government the day after president and prime minister offered to resign amid protesters’ rage over economic crisis.

Ukraine reports clashes with Russian troops on fronts in the east and south, with at least 15 civilians killed in one rocket attack and many others feared trapped.

Beyond simply bringing back art forms, India’s royals also focus on keeping the tradition alive for future generations by engaging youth, developing entrepreneurial skills in craftsmen

Assurances over future of ‘one country, two systems’ by Chinese President Xi Jinping follows recent tumultuous relationship between mainland and Hong Kong.