Hong Kong’s Education Bureau says 49,448 eligible Primary Six children joined the secondary school places allocation system for 2022-23 academic year.

Moscow is seeking to overthrow the Ukrainian government, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, going back on earlier statements that the leadership question was up to the Ukrainian people.

In a new television commercial, John Lee pledges to live up his election promises to the community in his first policy address on October 19.

North Korean state media has been churning out stories about the effectiveness of traditional herbal medicine, but defectors and experts say that’s only because Pyongyang lacks alternatives.

Hong Kong court dismisses Peter Mui’s lawsuit after finding it ‘clear and obvious’ he could not win case against Edko Films with two registered trademarks irrelevant to film Anita.

Donald Trump is coming back to Washington as Republican rivals manoeuvre for a possible primary challenge and lawmakers probe his culpability for the January 6 insurrection.

Authorities in Yamaguchi city have broken out the tranquilliser guns after 42 people were hurt in a spate of monkey attacks in recent weeks.

Lu Shan is the second Chinese ambassador to Burkina Faso since the country switched its diplomatic allegiance from Taipei to Beijing in 2018.

At same time, Hong Kong authorities hope to launch a mainland China-style two-colour health code barring infected patients and incoming travellers from public places.

The head of Russia’s investigative committee proposed an international tribunal backed by countries including Bolivia, Iran and Syria.

The heirs are the descendants of the Sultan of Sulu, who entered into a deal in 1878 with a colonial British trading company to exploit resources in his territory.

A curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio discovered an old mirror sitting in storage was actually a Chinese ‘magic mirror’, making it an incredibly rare special artefact.

An estimated 57,000 children get help across the local and international school systems, including two dedicated special needs ESF schools

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, one of AI’s most influential figures, has exerted a profound impact on the country’s technology pioneers, who have gone on to start multibillion-dollar start-ups.

A former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and another prominent activist were among the four executed prisoners.

Elon Musk said that he and Google co-founder Sergey Brin remain friends and denied a report that he had been involved in an affair with Brin’s wife Nicole Shanahan.

A China-funded US$30 million infrastructure push ahead of next year’s Pacific Games has encouraged a more favourable view of Beijing in the archipelago nation.

Democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders opposes the bill that would add US$79 billion to the deficit over 10 years, joining with conservatives and narrowing its route to becoming law.

A 9-year-old boy in China is praised for his quick thinking and calmness by performing CPR he learned from TV on his mother who was left unconscious and bleeding by a serious car accident.

The Trump-loving anti-immigration party, set up in March 2020 and big on social media, seems to have already found a firm following among younger voters.

Rishi Sunak has promised to ban China’s Confucius Institutes from the UK, in what would be a major hardening of government policy on China if he becomes the next British prime minister.

Tse Chin-wan says new Environment and Ecology Bureau aims to tackle green issues ‘holistically’.

Prime Minister Philip Davies said a criminal investigation had begun into the suspected human smuggling operation. Davis said the dead included 15 women, one man and an infant.

China wants to integrate Hong Kong into the Greater Bay Area, but workers and businesses are put off by the hassle, expense and cultural differences. Experts say it is holding the region’s economic potential back.

Work to build an advanced spectrograph – which will help explore distant corners of the universe – is a rare example of cooperation between the two countries.

The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency, having affected nearly 17,000 people in 74 countries.

The lack of take-up in the region for the US latest attempts to contain China lays bare its obsolete policy of containment as the world moves towards greater collaboration and development.

Several fire engines have been sent to the scene at Hankley Common in Surrey where the fire is estimated to be affecting at least eight hectares of land. The cause of the blaze is unknown, fire services said.

Pope Francis is meeting survivors near the site of a former residential school in Maskwacis on Monday, where he is expected to deliver an apology for decades of abuse by missionaries.

US president’s cough and body aches have diminished since he tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday.

Russia’s top diplomat begins a tour of African countries, amid uncertainty over a deal to resume Ukrainian exports from the Black Sea.

A British man had two identical laptop hard drives in a drawer in 2013 – one was blank, the other contained 8,000 bitcoin – he threw the wrong one away. Now he’s on a mission to plough through 110,000 tons of trash.

The Ukrainian army, emboldened by deliveries of Western-supplied long-range artillery have been clawing back territory in the southern region in recent weeks.

America’s recent successes follow a series of setbacks but it is still lagging behind other major powers.

Most of the migrants were found on a fishing boat 124 miles off the coast of Calabria, the boot of Italy – others were rescued in the water.

Findings show water and electricity charges for 73 per cent of respondents about the same as before law was enacted, while others say they now pay more.

Two areas in To Kwa Wan, known as ‘13 Streets’ and ‘5 Streets’, under consideration for redevelopment.

More Chinese physicists are becoming entrepreneurs thanks to the rapid growth of the country’s quantum communication market.

Television footage showed red-hot rocks and dark plumes exploding from Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima. There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage but evacuations have been ordered.

Unlike Brussels, Beijing does not see Africa as a problem but as a continent of opportunity. China is creating visible change on the continent while Europe, with its paternalistic behaviour and insistence on applying its own values, is struggling to ...

The International Truth and Justice Project says, based on universal jurisdiction, the alleged abuses are subject to prosecution in Singapore, where former president Rajapaksa fled after months of unrest over the country’s economic crisis.

Observatory registered reading at about 3pm on Sunday, higher by 0.4 degrees than original mark of 35.7 degrees in July 1968.

Banking watchdog says Li Huanting, who was once responsible for overseeing the banks in question, is facing a disciplinary probe.

A former mayor was among those killed as she attended her daughter’s graduation. A suspect, wounded in a shoot-out, is in custody.

Honor chief executive Zhao Ming told Chinese media that the company was pulling out of India for ‘obvious reasons’.

The nation hit a record high of more than US$7 billion dollars last year – it is now the eighth largest exporter globally, and Asia’s second after China. The Philippines and Indonesia are the two biggest buyers of its weapons.

Financial Secretary Paul Chan notes city has US$440 billion in foreign currency reserves, part of solid foundation of linked exchange rate system.

Family alerted Hung Hom station staff that the man, 66, was missing inside a toilet at around 6pm on Wednesday, only for a cleaner to find him inside one at 10.30pm.

Lack of dedicated training facilities, likely drain on other sectors and political impact render any extension unfeasible, one camp believes.

Secretary for Security Chris Tang says many young people had wrong ideas about country and city government during 2019 social unrest and had to ‘bear the legal consequences’.