Narcotics seized at airport during first six months of 2022 valued at HK$600 million.

The embattled leader is expected to submit his resignation as protesters continued to push for his ouster.

Weapons from Western countries have given Ukraine capability to attack deeper into Russian-controlled territory.

Technology minister Sun Dong says no plans to update “Leave Home Safe” app, notes it already has some real-name functions via users’ vaccine records.

The software from Kingsoft Corp has been mired in controversy since an author said she was locked out of her own document stored on the cloud platform.

High-level talks establish cooperation on South China Sea issues but Hanoi vents frustration at progress of economic ties.

The projection echoes alerts by analysts who foresee at best an ‘underwhelming’ recovery for China’s US$2.7 trillion property market given the developer debt crisis and damaged consumer confidence.

Activist Alexandra Wong, famously known for carrying a British Union flag during protests, sentenced at Eastern Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty.

US and Chinese officials have been negotiating for more than two years to ensure staff from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board can access the audit papers of Chinese companies traded in the US.

Penny Mordaunt is still little known beyond Westminster and her ruling Conservatives. However, she has now emerged as a top leadership contender.

Many poor, digitally illiterate elderly residents do not own smartphones, according to Society for Community Organisation.

A chronic supply gap in copper, a metal essential to electrification and energy transition globally, could emerge in a few years and threaten efforts to fight climate change through decarbonisation, S&P Global said.

The young rape victim crossed state lines to terminate her pregnancy, in a case that’s drawing broad attention after the US Supreme Court overturned a federal right to abortion.

The UK has been hit hard by the pandemic, with one of the highest fatality rates globally and concern rising again as Omicron subvariants drive a new wave of cases.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) intervened in the foreign-exchange market on Thursday to defend the local currency peg, as the market braces for an aggressive US rate rise.

China has increased petrol prices 10 times this year due to rising cost of crude oil, indirectly filtering into daily lives and forcing authorities to rethink energy strategies.

Aged 35, the equivalent of 105 human years, the beloved animal has been kept out of visitors’ sight.

North Korea has become one of the few nations in the world to recognise the independence of two Russian-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine in support of Russia’s war against its neighbour

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also said he had ‘constructive’ talks with Solomons’ leader Manasseh Sogavare at the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji.

Tsang Chi-kin, 21, who is facing protest-linked charges, survived being shot in the chest in 2019 unrest, and had tried to seek asylum at the US consulate.

New York City residents now have a YouTube video teaching them how to deal with a nuclear strike. But why now?

Tencent has downsized its investment department, months after TikTok owner ByteDance dissolved its own strategic investment unit.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore said the decision would help slow the momentum of inflation and ensure medium-term price stability.

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Huludao authorities say they cannot increase funding to hospitals because of blow to city finances.

A Chinese newsreader cool as a cucumber as his nose starts bleeding live on air, a driver trying to cool down rescued from a refrigerated truck and a man steals from his ex to buy presents for new girlfriend.

The latest hearing is a result of a 2019 appeal by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea, on behalf of a prisoner convicted of murdering his parents.

Victorinox’s focus on e-commerce after the initial setback from the pandemic has paid off. Now the Swiss firm is turning to personalised products to grow sales further.

Less than a fortnight into job, Lo Chung-mau has offered a glimpse into the man – and the minister – who will helm Health Bureau and how it might operate over the next five years.

Will the new regulations help promote a bigger ecosystem for cryptocurrency assets when opening bank accounts continues to be a challenge for many start-ups, asks Ken Lo, the co-founder of HKbitEX.

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Dovetailing transatlantic legislation will offset China’s influence in face of unfair competition, says European Commission’s Sabine Weyand.

China’s manufacturing hub of Zhejiang province reported record electricity consumption amid soaring temperatures, with some factories receiving power rationing notices, although a repeat of last year’s crisis is seen as unlikely.

The Microsoft co-founder says he plans to move down and eventually off the list of the world’s richest people, on which he currently holds fourth place.

China’s central government must find ways to promptly repay the depositors or risk the effects of damaged public confidence, say scholars.

The bipartisan legislation would make it official US policy that Tibetans have the right to ‘self-determination’.

‘For me, respecting human rights are essential,’ Jens Stoltenberg tells European Parliament in hearing on Nato’s new ‘strategic concept’, which identifies China as a ‘systemic challenge to Euro-Atlantic security’.

The actress had been ordered to pay her ex-husband US$10.35 million in damages after a jury ruled she had defamed the Pirates of the Caribbean star.

The US president’s body language will be closely watched as he meets the leader of a country he previously vowed to snub over Jamal Khashoggi’s killing.

Ukraine, the United Nations and Türkiye hailed progress at talks in Istanbul that aim to resume Black Sea grain exports blocked by Russia.

The successful trial of the Lockheed Martin system comes after a string of failures spurred concerns that the US is falling behind in the superpower arms race.

The former finance minister got 88 votes, followed by junior trade minister Penny Mordaunt second with 67 and foreign minister Liz Truss third with 50.

‘Financial activities that are abhorred by the public’ will be identified and stamped out, China’s central bank vows as Henan banking scandal threatens to snowball and affect the nation’s entire financial system.

Despite efforts by Chinese fabless firms to develop competitive products in the car sector, none have managed to rival those from US giants such as Qualcomm.

Algorithm could command four orbital platforms to inspect nine hostile targets in less than a day, according to team.

Biden will spend two days in Jerusalem before meeting Palestinian president then flying to Jedda – to help towards normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Fightback against ‘incorrect information’ about Hong Kong overseas as city looks to promote itself in emerging markets.

Man, 45, and woman, 52, convicted of five counts of conspiracy to defraud at the District Court.

Smart court’s electronic reach allows the system to access police, prosecutor and government databases and integrate with China’s social credit system.

Report ranks the country as 116th among 146 – shows women’s participation in the political and economic arenas remains low. In Asia, the Philippines is in 19th place, while South Korea ranks 99th and China 102nd.