Under the new measure, so-called MCNs are required to provide Weibo and Douyin with updated information about which influencers they manage.

General Mark Milley’s comments come ahead of an Indo-Pacific defence meeting this week in Australia, where key topics will be China’s escalating military.

This is the first time in China’s space history that a docking will take place with astronauts present at Tiangong.

Authorities note system has been in place since 2020, but preflight registration has not been compulsory, meaning those logging on only upon landing may hinder processing time for others.

Restart may not stop Macau’s six licensed casino operators from burning through millions of dollars every day, as one forecasts calls for gaming revenue this year to be 81% lower than 2019.

Design suggests limited stealth capabilities, but new jet could still impact regional power balance, Macau-based observer says.

A California-based businessman who grew up in Cambodia during Pol Pot’s regime is sharing his story in podcast helmed by his daughter.

Seven-member group reached Hainan Island on June 30, served a week of quarantine, were questioned for two days and have been held on board vessel ever since.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced strikes on Odesa as blatant “barbarism” that showed Moscow could not be trusted to implement Friday’s grain deal sought to avert a major global food crisis.

The world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases faces a shortfall of 44 trillion yuan in green financing over the next four decades as it strives to hit its carbon neutrality goal, according to a report by WEF and Oliver Wyman.

One bakery in Manila reduced the size of a ‘pandesal’ from 35 grams to 25 grams to avoid raising the 2.50 peso (US$0.04) price. Filipinos often dunk the slightly sweet and pillowy soft pastry in their coffee.

Political stability is central to getting Pakistan’s economy back on track and avoiding a debt default. Ousted prime minister Imran Khan is pushing for early national elections as he taps into growing public anger amid soaring prices and acute shor...

Poised to overtake China next year as the world’s biggest country, India is facing an economic emergency as its rising unemployment leaves more than half of the population jobless.

Passengers have to go through both UK and French border checks at Dover before boarding ferries to northern France. Extra paperwork was reintroduced when Britain left the EU last year.

Just 1 per cent of Vietnam’s corals are in a healthy state while the rest face multiple threats to survival, say scientists.

The 200,975 cases marked the fourth straight day of a record count during the seventh wave of coronavirus infections in the country. The new tally is roughly double the peak of the sixth wave in February.

The story of the unitary, all-powerful central government worked in the past, but it is failing to keep up with today’s complex realities. Such an oversimplified message undermines people’s confidence in tough times and provides a convenient tool...

Fortnum & Mason, which counts the British royal family among its customers, is back again with a collection of tea-flavoured mooncakes for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.

Ranil Wickremesinghe only gained the presidency through horse-trading and with Western help, writes Kalinga Seneviratne.

A young woman in China has been diagnosed with anxiety disorder after years of constant pressure to get married resulted in her going to hospital as she was struggling to breathe.

Historian Elizabeth Sinn argues that far from being shipped overseas as indentured labourers, Chinese emigrants to California chose to go there under their own steam.

Satellite images show hundreds of hectares of trees cleared from a site in the Malaysian state by a company majority-owned by Johor’s royal family without the proper approvals.

The pungent fruit divides opinion like no other, but for Beijing the vast domestic market offers a way to boost ties with neighbouring countries like Vietnam.

Tencent is speeding up efforts to make money from Channels after reporting almost no revenue growth in the first quarter of 2022.

Hong Kong officials are advocating for a mechanism that bans data coming from the mainland from leaving the city, to ease Beijing’s concerns.

State media hailed the flight in the port city of Qingdao as a breakthrough that would pave the way for such vehicles to operate in the deep seas.

The Oak Fire started on Friday afternoon near the town of Midpines in Mariposa County. Evacuation orders were put in effect on Saturday for more than 6,000 people living in the rural area.

A statement issued by the ministry’s defence intelligence directorate was aimed at people in and around the southern city of Enerhodar, which is home to a major nuclear power plant.

The UK’s Met Office weather agency recorded 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit) in England on Tuesday, the highest temperature registered,

According to Iran’s state-run TV, Iranian forces arrested all members of the group and confiscated weapons, explosives, and technical and communication equipment.

Cambodian police found the runaway at a Phnom Penh guest house and he has since been sent to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital for medical treatment.

The US president’s lungs remain clear and his oxygen saturation ‘continues to be excellent on room air,’ the president’s doctor said on Saturday.

Personnel were moving around a mining site in Baiyin city ‘when a mountainside collapse occurred’ which ‘buried employees and vehicles’, said CCTV.

‘I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern,’ said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Residents are angry big factories are largely still operating, allowed to suck up groundwater via private wells amid reservoirs draining in the drought.

Beijing says first shipments have gone to Ethiopia and Djibouti, and aid for Somalia and Eritrea is ready to be shipped.

The future of the CR-929 project appears increasingly uncertain as China looks to freeze Russia out of a share in of the profits from its domestic market.

Hundreds of tourists and residents on the Greek island of Lesbos were evacuated by bus and boat with at least two homes ravaged by fire, authorities said.

The vast western region is on high alert as temperatures in some areas topped 40C (104F) increasing the risk from melting glaciers.

New administration will reduce ratio of tiny flats in subsidised estates, Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho says.

Ukraine says Russia attacked the port of Odesa on Saturday, despite the export grain plan signed by Moscow and Kyiv on Friday to try to avert famine for tens of millions around the world.

Annual awards, organised by the Post, celebrate secondary school pupils who have shown academic excellence, outstanding commitment to community service.

The death of the Tibetan influencer Lhamo caused widespread shock and revulsion and shone a spotlight on the problem of domestic abuse.

A court in China found itself needing to decide if the parents of a dead man should receive a house they bought for him, despite the fact he gave it to his girlfriend in his will.

A single US warship challenging China’s claimed territorial waters three times in just a week is something rarely seen, says head of a think tank based in Beijing.

International human rights groups on Saturday urged the new President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to act according to the rule of law after armed troops attacked demonstrators with batons.

While other world leaders were photographed being vaccinated to boost take-up rates, Beijing had previously stayed silent on the topic.

Meta regional creative head Kitty Lun joins 19 other advertising veterans to launch book to motivate young residents to learn and transform.

The CDC said a toddler and an infant likely became infected by others in their household, adding they are in good health.

A shock by-election win for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the heartland of his political rivals has raised the prospect of a swift return to power – but he’d need the military’s help.