Ying Yong said to have taken up job as deputy party secretary at the Supreme People’s Procuratorate office last week. He was a graft-buster and senior judge in Zhejiang when Xi Jinping governed the province.

It was the second such sentence that has drawn scrutiny of the kingdom this month.

The office of Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chiu Tai-san gave no further details on the postponement.

Hinnamnor is packing gusts over 300km per hour, with sustained winds of about 260km per hour – making it the strongest storm of the year, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Investigation suggests victim assaulted one of three suspects during dispute over tens of thousands of dollars, according to source.

Court rules being first-aider did not automatically grant riot suspect immunity from prosecution.

From next week, tourists to Japan will be able to visit without a guide – but they still need to be booked on a package tour. Elsewhere, South Korea will from Saturday no longer require travellers to the country to test for Covid-19 before departur...

After the fall of the Soviet Union, former president Mikhail Gorbachev brought the people of Russia a nice, hot pizza from Pizza Hut – despite his wife’s objections.

Number 1 Driver School’s advert says its female instructors ‘can’t perform intensive training and their students often improve only very slowly’.

China has been hit by its most severe heatwave in six decades, exacerbating a drought that has had an impact on food and factory production, power supplies and transport across a vast area of the country.

European governments fear Moscow could extend the outage in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed on it after its invasion of Ukraine.

Scientia Secondary School head says race to fulfil criteria in two months is tight, and switching teaching models again will adversely affect learning.

Suspects carrying what appeared to be weapons threatened staff before shoving watches into a bag and fleeing in a getaway car.

A procurement plan unveiled by Japan’s defence ministry on Wednesday shows that its military is seeking the ability to strike more distant targets by developing and mass producing a cruise missile and a high-velocity ballistic missile.

White House records held in a storage room at Donald Trump’s Florida home may have been concealed or removed before an FBI June search for classified documents, the Department of Justice said.

Papua New Guinea proposed a security treaty with Australia amid increasing tensions in the Pacific after China had struck a similar pact with neighbouring Solomon Islands, Canberra’s defence chief said on Wednesday.

Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatiev is notorious for a scathing first-person account of the war in Ukraine published online.

Taiwan’s defence ministry says it will exercise the right to self-defence and counter-attack if mainland drones do not leave its territory when warned.

In video speech, Han Zheng tells high-powered Belt and Road Summit that city must maintain common law system, develop value-added services for projects under Beijing’s trade initiative.

The Taliban declared Wednesday a national holiday to celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan after a brutal 20-year war.

The United Nations has appealed for the last US$14 million needed to try and prevent a stricken oil tanker from triggering a disaster off Yemen that could cost US$20 billion to clean up.

The 97-year-old, who has a history of heart problems, has been admitted to the National Heart Institute for observation, his office said. He underwent a procedure at the institute earlier this year.

The momentous era of ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, was often defined by buzzwords and slogans.

A group known as TA423 was likely behind the phishing campaigns against Malaysia’s Petronas, Australia’s government and a wind farm in the Taiwan Strait, tech security firm Proofpoint said in a report.

Singapore’s Chinese-ness can be appealing to diaspora communities, but city state is conscious that Asean neighbours could view it as ‘an agent of China’’.

An Iranian ship seized an American military unmanned research vessel in the Persian Gulf but released it after a US Navy patrol boat and helicopter were deployed to the location, the Pentagon said.

A slew of allegations have emerged against Japanese doctor Takeshi Kasia since January from staff both past and present. He has been temporarily replaced as the Western Pacific chief by WHO Deputy Director General Zsuzsanna Jakab.

From homeless adults to underprivileged children, 20-year-old helps them all.

The chief executive was earlier expected to meet mainland authorities to discuss cross-border travel arrangements.

Google said it had notified Truth Social about ‘several violations of standard policies’ for distribution in its app store on Android, which accounts for 40 per cent of US smartphones.

Power shortages caused by record heatwaves in China have largely subsided, but new coronavirus outbreaks are set to weigh on both manufacturing and services sectors.

The notion that gay men aspire to respect and acceptance entrenches discrimination and marginalisation of LGBTQ people in society. Singaporeans must ask what kind of society they want in relation to not just sexual minority rights but all aspects of ...

The country of fewer than 800,000 people – known for its fabulous mountain vistas, untouched forests and imposing Buddhist monasteries – will start allowing international tourists back in from next month.

Weibo users allege the write-up promotes benefits of isolationism, as seen in China’s current Covid-19 policy.

A boy in China who made headlines for giving 30 vials of blood to see if he was a bone marrow match for his mum who is fighting leukaemia, has now completed successful transplant surgery.

Statistics show only 74 of 168 listed Japanese firms in Russia will mothball their facilities or exit the market there, with just six completely pulling out.

Restaurants, mask vendors and Asian brands that mainly cater to Hongkongers have snapped up retail spaces left empty by upmarket Western brands such as Prada and Victoria’s Secrets.

Human resources experts say Singapore is poaching talent from Hong Kong, especially from financial or high technology sectors.

The yuan breached 6.9 per US dollar for the first since August 2020 on Monday, but other Asian currencies have shown a sharper decline, ramping up risks for the region, analysts say.

Encounter in airspace over Quemoy archipelago just 4km (2.5 miles) off mainland city of Xiamen came soon after warning shots.

World leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, following Gorbachev’s death in Moscow.

The move, coming on top of a 3-day halt at the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, deepens concerns over Europe’s winter energy supply.

The leadership race has been driven by debate about taxation, inflation and the Thatcherite legacy. It bears noting that the tax-cutting plans of Liz Truss, the front runner, are expected to translate into lower public spending and even austerity.

People who identified as ‘strong Republicans’ were the most likely to anticipate a conflict, a poll shows; the US is facing deepening political divisions, with the FBI’s search of Trump’s home fanning the flames.

An autopsy is under way to determine if the virus was the cause of death; the patient was severely immunocompromised and had several serious illnesses.

Germany has long been the engine of European growth and the German model rests on trade surpluses and factories powered by Russian energy. With electricity prices going through the roof and euro weakness making imported energy more expensive, the sit...

Father says quarantine regulations for people with disabilities ‘inhumane’ and should be scrapped.

Researchers from space physics laboratory say they made ‘breakthrough’ during ‘multiple’ hypersonic weapon tests, and their system could overcome the plasma blackout seen at this extreme speed.

Hospital Authority Chief Manager Dr Lau Ka-hin says 2,100 of the coronavirus patients sent to public facilities were aged 60 and above.

Admitting to consuming cannabis earlier this year means the Olympic gold medallist loses his disruption privileges while serving mandatory military service.