Rider suffers multiple injuries after being trapped under truck and had to be rescued by firefighters.

A 14-year-old student in Fukuoka Prefecture was ordered to study entirely on her own for three days after teachers concluded she breached school policy by trimming her eyebrows.

Student says he was inspired by discrimination ruling from court in 2020 in favour of former opposition lawmaker ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung.

Former leader seen at Chinese opera show and a seminar at the Convention and Exhibition Centre

China’s embassy in Bangkok said Beijing had not issued any directives requiring Chinese travellers to cancel their trips to Thailand.

This is the first time the blooming of so many separate plants has taken place within such a short period in a greenhouse, say botanists.

Crimea is of particular strategic importance to Russia as it includes the headquarters of its Black Sea fleet at Sevastopol.

New trend deviates from start of fifth wave when Omicron variant swept across care homes.

A former chairman of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification said that its founder had a close relationship with both the grandfather and the father of the late Japanese leader.

The news item showed the dead soldier’s parents exiting the driveway of their home in a white Lada on a trip to the cemetery.

The former US secretary of state says recent administrations in Washington have been too influenced by domestic policies.

Investigations continue into the cause of a gas explosion in a six-storey residential building on Tuesday morning.

Australia has seen more than 300,000 cases over the past seven days, with the number of people admitted to hospitals near record levels. Elsewhere, the Pacific state of Micronesia reported its first Covid-19 cases in the community.

The White House said, citing intelligence, that Russia was seeking to annex Ukrainian territory by installing proxy officials and establishing the rouble as the currency in Russian-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine.

Titles featured include works of late writer Ni Kuang, publications on wide range of subjects and even a 14-page Xi Jinping speech.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) believes that strong heatwaves, such as the one currently affecting Europe, are to become the norm during the summer months.

The controversial cleric was released on Wednesday just over a year after being found guilty of breaching coronavirus curbs and spreading fake news. He had been sentenced to four years in prison.

Dozens of green sea turtles were found dead or dying last week with stab wounds on their necks in Okinawa Prefecture. Many were caught in fishing nets, with fishermen stabbing them after they could not disentangle the creatures.

G695 highway is planned to run north of the Line of Actual Control and near or through hotly contested areas.

Rights campaign group Amnesty International says Myanmar’s junta is committing war crimes by laying anti-personnel mines around villages ‘on a massive scale’. More than 2,000 people have been killed in the military’s bloody crackdown followin...

Several public health experts have called for authorities to gradually lift social-distancing rules as part of efforts to develop hybrid immunity among residents.

All four countries have made weak efforts to stop forced sex work or assist migrant labourers, the State Department’s annual report alleged. Nations that are put on the blacklist, or “Tier 3”, are subject to US sanctions.

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, exacerbated by rising food and fuel costs, has set alarm bells ringing across the region. Bangladesh has warned that sanctions are affecting imports of vital goods and materials, while India has been forced to rely more...

China’s coal power production is set to rise after policymakers sign off on 8.63GW of fresh capacity in the first quarter. But the approvals will set back the nation’s carbon neutral goals, experts say.

Women say they were disciplined by student affairs office for leaving 10 rainbow flags, symbols of the LGBT movement, behind campus supermarket counter.

China has been shocked by another child abandonment case after a woman is filmed dumping her baby at a rubbish collection point in an effort to get back at her husband.

America’s status as ‘number one economy and innovator in the world’ at stake, says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as he urges passage.

The feud over the eastern Malaysian state, linked to a colonial-era land deal, has sparked a blame game between politicians, with a police report filed against ex-premier Najib Razak.

Students planning to pursue studies in medicine say they want to support local healthcare sector and combat manpower shortage.

The new rules could require mainland companies to pass a security assessment before transferring data to Hong Kong, experts said.

Bigger financial burden for homebuyers and borrowers as experts warn interest rate increase on the cards.

The Russian leader’s statement cranks up pressure on the bloc, which fears Moscow could turn off the tap to wreak havoc in Europe in the winter.

Women’s wages and workforce participation have dropped since the start of the pandemic, while their unpaid duties have increased. But women are indispensable to Hong Kong’s future growth; closing the wage gap, while providing more support at home...

The US is renegotiating the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, a centrepiece of its relationship with 16 Pacific nations and territories.

Chinese officials have trumpeted dazzling economic figures to make the case that the country can escape the middle-income trap, but some inconvenient statistics point to a worrying trend for the world’s second-largest economy.

State Department advisory follows executive order issued by President Joe Biden aimed at punishing state actors including Russia, Iran and North Korea.

The ally of the former US president was charged with contempt of Congress after declining to provide testimony or documents to a panel investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden welcomed Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, to the White House ahead of her address to Congress on Wednesday.

As oil prices head skyward, some fuel surcharges on flights in China are now nearly as much as the base fare of the flight itself, and thrifty travellers are seeking alternative transport to save money.

Centralised PLA logistics system ‘something of a soft underbelly’ that could hamper battlefield effectiveness, say Pentagon experts.

America’s large aid donations to Afghanistan while it also imposes debilitating sanctions on the Taliban does no one any good. China shares US security and humanitarian concerns and has experience in engineering rapid economic growth – plus, coop...

Discussion comes amid China’s slowing growth, EU’s high inflation and Beijing’s tacit support of Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

A US judge said the social media company deserves a quick decision, as the Tesla founder tries to walk away from an agreement to buy the firm.

In Tehran, the Russian leader is also meeting Türkiye’s Erdogan to discuss a Ukraine grain deal and the situation in Syria.

Soaring temperatures across China, India, Japan, the US and Europe are endangering people’s health and countries’ energy grids. Cooling buildings and warming the planet could create a vicious cycle, with power use from cooling potentially blowing...

Buyers from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan spent US$6.1 billion on property purchases in the 12 months to March 2022, up 27 per cent year on year, the NAR said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed additional high-ranking intelligence agency officers on Tuesday as part of a wide-ranging clear-out of the country’s security and prosecution services after numerous defections to the Russian side.

The KF-21, also known as the Boramae, completed a 30-minute flight on Tuesday. The aircraft, developed by Korea Aerospace Industries, will require additional tests before planned mass production in 2026.

China’s holdings of US Treasuries fell from US$1.003 trillion in April to US$980.8 billion in May, the lowest since 2010, amid concerns over strained bilateral ties between Beijing and Washington.

ASML could lose up to US$2 billion in revenue a year if sales of DUV systems to China are restricted, analyst says.