The deal will further strengthen Sino-Thai relations after the two nations conducted a joint military drill on Sunday.

The Philippines is considering partnering with Japan to revive three rail projects after Beijing turned down an earlier request for funding.

Beijing has stopped short of confirming state media reports that some PLA ballistic missiles in latest drills went directly over Taipei.

With its presidency of the G20 in 2022 and next year’s chairmanship of Asean, Indonesia is at the ‘pinnacle of global leadership’ and has been ‘accepted as a diplomatic bridge’, the country’s president said in a state of the nation speech...

President Vladimir Putin promotes Russian weapons to his foreign allies, saying they had all been tested on the field of battle.

Team from Xidian University say they have used their mobile device to track civilian aircraft, with the data suggesting the technology works.

Clerical worker, 41, was targeted after he tried to sell bottle of Karuizawa 1983 whisky via Carousell, according to police.

Analysts say the survey vessel is used to monitor satellite, rocket and intercontinental ballistic missile launches.

South Korea’s new president has moved to step up joint exercises with the US as his government takes a tougher line with China and the North. Washington, Tokyo and Seoul agreed at a June meeting in Singapore to hold the drills.

A former battleground, the islets are just 3.2km from the coast of mainland China and have become a popular destination.

Sunday’s figure of 7,428 airport arrivals was a new high in recent months under city’s eased ‘3+4’ travel rule, but this means competition fierce for quarantine hotels.

Russia is planning to quit the ISS after 2024 and is working to develop its own orbital station.

Three children and an 18-year-old beat and robbed a 70-year-old Asian woman last month inside her San Francisco residential building and two of them have been arrested.

Mainland’s Taiwan Affairs Office accuses seven, including six DPP members, of being pro-independence provocateurs.

The former US president announced that the FBI confiscated three of his passports – two of which were active, one expired – during the search of his private residence in Florida last week.

Both countries said they were aware of Chinese media reports of a ban by Beijing due to concerns over foot and mouth disease, but had not yet received any official notice and shipments were clearing as normal.

Some cinephiles welcome the discount scheme, valued at 100 million yuan, but others lament what they see as a lack of quality movies to lure them back.

Tens of millions of immediate fatalities in the war zone would be followed by hundreds of millions of starvation deaths around the globe in the months and years that followed, an international study led by Rutgers University scientists found.

Student volunteers at Sunshine Action nominated for this year’s Spirit of Hong Kong Awards, in recognition of commitment to helping elderly residents and grass-roots families

Instead of joining China in condemning the US over Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan trip, Asean has called for restraint in the region. While Southeast Asian countries would rather not provoke their larger neighbour, China’s military drills so close to thei...

The tragedy occurred on Monday night and the woman was rushed to hospital but died from her injuries past midnight.

Video of a girl on her knees worshipping a Confucius statue after a poor test score goes viral on mainland Chinese social media, renewing debate on the academic pressure placed on youth.

More than 10 provincial and municipal governments have issued their five-year energy-sector plans, calling for a cloud-based distributed power-plant management system to aggregate capacities in their regions.

Yoo Hee-yeol was known as a “musical genius” in South Korea, but was forced to leave his show in disgrace following accusations of plagiarism – a deep-seated problem within the industry.

The city state’s prime minister-in-waiting said the relationship between the world’s biggest economies was on a “very worrying” trajectory in the wake of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and China’s subsequent military drills.

Financially motivated cyberattacks are on the rise after declining following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, cybersecurity consultancy Kroll said.

The voluntary delisting of five SOEs including Sinopec and PetroChina from the New York Stock Exchange could pave the way for further exits, according to analysts.

New police head of PR says hi-tech public opinion tracker will help quell rumours and misinformation

MIT professor Gang Chen, whose name was cleared this year following an investigation into his alleged China ties, says the new material conducts heat 10 times better than silicon.

The actual search warrant has already been made public, but the department wants the affidavit to remain sealed to protect the integrity of the investigation.

The investigation is looking into attempts by the ex-president and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 race.

Taiwanese food like fruit and tea is prized by consumers in the mainland for its ‘fragrance’, subtlety and freshness. But finding it is going to be increasingly difficult after Beijing banned a range of imports earlier this month.

Little is known about the shadowy paramilitaries, who are thought to be linked to Putin associate Yevgeny Prigozhin

Attack suspect Hadi Matar became fixated on religion after a visit to see his estranged father and started to lock himself in the basement.

The air force’s largest peacetime deployment comes amid rising tensions with China in the region in wake of US House Speaker Pelosi’s Taiwan visit.

The Pentagon head, who is vaccinated and received 2 boosters, says he is experiencing mild symptoms and will quarantine at home.

Production company MakerVille offers Mirror fans a complete refund or option of keeping the tickets for a future show – if there is one.

Few potential candidates to head State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office tick all the right boxes, with analysts pointing to a shortage of younger cadres able to take up senior roles.

Kenya’s elections chief declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of a tight presidential race, but some senior election officials disowned the result.

She Zhijiang, the chairman of Yatai International Holdings Group, which has made gaming investments in Cambodia, the Philippines and Myanmar, is accused of running illegal online gambling operations and will be extradited to China.

Education Bureau to make copies of Xi’s handover speech available to collect from Tuesday, marking first time a state leader’s address will be given to teachers for study.

Court hears teacher turned publisher lost most of his vision in right eye after he was hit by tear gas canister during 2019 demonstration.

The US tech export restrictions mark an escalation of Washington’s efforts to boost America’s hi-tech advantage over China.

The youngster, one of thousands killed during former president’s crackdown on drugs, was shot dead by police in 2017; officers said they acted in self-defence.

About 18,000 third-country nationals fled Ukraine to Germany following Russia’s invasion. Now many of them may be on the move again, unless they can secure a work or study permit or find other options that would grant them legal stay in the country...

Current methodology for determining rate has ‘insufficiencies’, Hong Kong’s Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration Warner Cheuk says.

The bestseller was Evans’ debut novel about a trainer hired to help an injured teenager and her horse back to health after severe injury; it was adapted for film in 1998, with Scarlett Johansson in her breakout role.

Flight uncertainties add to worries, along with new pre-departure quarantine and multiple negative test requirements.

Beijing protests against the visit by the ministers and a donation by the Japanese leader.

Defence says evidence shows Justice Nazlan Ghazali had ‘direct’ knowledge of Maybank’s role in formation of SRC International but did not mention it in his judgment.