Covid-19 border closures have crimped the flow of income for North Korean women, who are still expected to feed their families, take care of sick family members and make contributions to the state.

The Mill Fire destroyed several buildings in northern California’s Siskiyou county, forcing many towns to be placed under mandatory evacuation orders.

Budget request covers acquisition of more than 100 items, including upgrades to missile interception systems.

With just weeks to go for the September 19 event, Moscow said not a single member of the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov-led team has got a US entry visa.

A girl who dreams of being a doctor like her father gets to practise surgical procedures thanks to her dad’s patience and support and has gone viral on social media.

An advocate says Kenyan workers in Hong Kong are working ‘like slaves’, with some reporting verbal abuse, lack of food and limited freedom of movement.

The Biden administration is considering an executive order targeting US investments into Chinese tech companies as part of a broader strategy that also involves new restrictions on chips sales to China.

Bill Barr said it’s ‘unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club’.

Government pandemic adviser Professor David Hui makes prediction and urges parents to get their children vaccinated, citing studies overseas indicating doses are safe.

Chen Chien-je, a former vice-president, will attend the ceremony to highlight ‘the close friendship’ between Taiwan and the Vatican.

A father was so emotional after dropping his son off for the first day of kindergarten that he went and hid in the boy’s room, sobbing and holding his son’s photo and was filmed by his wife.

Firefighters intercepted the emotional woman in Sham Shui Po in the early hours of Saturday, preventing her from jumping off building.

A debt crisis in the property sector and an economy hobbled by a zero-Covid policy have left small lenders struggling. This could spell trouble for millions of individual savers.

War in Ukraine and China’s Covid controls are expected to limit Malaysia’s economic growth, but PM Ismail Sabri Yaakob also faces friction over tax system reforms, and pressure from his Umno party for an early general election.

State-owned Gazprom said it could not safely restart deliveries until it had fixed an oil leak found in a vital turbine.

As Myanmar’s junta government is squeezed by internal opposition and external isolation, the fear is that it will take yet more drastic measures to stay in power. To avoid a deepening of the crisis, the junta must show a willingness to end all viol...

China’s new leadership line-up could be finalised by the end of September, if officials follow a similar timetable to the last congress. But don’t expect any straw polls – or to find out who made the cut until the final day.

An 8-year-old boy in China has given a police officer something to laugh about after he called an emergency hotline when his parents went missing and had to spend the night at the station.

The average price of second-hand homes have fallen in Hong Kong, as a resurgent Covid-19 outbreak – and the quarantine rules to contain it – has driven the city into a technical recession.

Feedback exercise offers Lawrence Wong, the next prime minister, a timely platform to strengthen his political legitimacy before a general election, analysts note.

Experts urge more action on booster jabs, warning that two jabs do not provide the elderly with adequate protection.

US State Department approval of arms sale follows aggressive PLA military drills around Taiwan in response to last month’s visit to the island by Nancy Pelosi.

The Kennedy Space Centre will be closed to the public, but spectators on local beaches will be able to see the most powerful vehicle Nasa has ever launched – scheduled for lift-off at 2.17pm local time on Saturday.

Nearly 615mm of rain fell in August, 36 per cent higher than expected, but not close to record for month.

Nation is preparing for the strongest storm it has ever seen, forecast to be worse than 1959’s Typhoon Sarah, which killed more than 600 people; preparations also under way in China’s coastal areas.

Appointment of long-time China hand, the US consul general in Shenyang from 2016 to 2019, is said to have been made at least in part to avoid adding tension between Washington and Beijing.

She wrote on her Instagram account that she has started chemo treatments and is ‘lucky to have health insurance and access to the best doctors’.

The first US-Pacific Island Country summit will be at the White House on September 28-29.

The country’s fastest trains currently experience little turbulence, but higher speeds raise the risk that tiny bumps could give passengers motion sickness.

Biden’s administration received a formal request from businesses benefiting from the tariffs, after getting hundreds of responses for them to remain since May.

South Korea has identified slowing trade with China as a major economic risk after posting its highest ever trade deficit in August. Seoul has vowed to enhance bilateral economic and ministerial cooperation to address the issue.

A welcoming party at the airport was a sign of his enduring influence despite fleeing to Singapore then Thailand, where he ‘has been living as a virtual prisoner and was keen to return’.

Fufeng USA asked to supplement ‘insufficient’ information it provided so that foreign investment committee can better assess risk level.

Many states barely use the laws touted as the most powerful tool to stop gun violence, due to a lack of awareness and resistance by some authorities.

The US says Iran was trying to capture the unmanned surface vessel, while Iran says it was trying to ensure safety of navigation. With the US updating its commander’s handbook to categorise such unmanned vessels as warships, there are likely to be ...

Online and postal polls of Conservative members closed on Friday afternoon, after a two-month contest between the two final contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, with the latter widely expected to be the next Prime Minister of Britain.

Decoupling with China is ‘clearly not what we want’, German ambassador Patricia Flor says after two months on the job in Beijing, but ‘China is still isolating’.

The message from Huawei’s chief financial officer provided a sharp contrast to her father Ren Zhengfei’s recent leaked memo, which painted a gloomy picture of a world heading into economic recession.

Police warn that young residents are being increasingly targeted by such scams, with more than 65 per cent of victims aged 30 and below.

Focus on cross-border cooperation as tough law enforcement in China sees fraudsters set up base in neighbouring countries.

Prosecutors say accused preyed on jobless youth and forced them to work for telecom and online fraud rings.

Jakarta and Phnom Penh to enhance cooperation between police departments, speed up handling of human trafficking cases.

The reduction in classes means about 1,675 spots were shed this academic year.

Those who impose a price cap ‘will not be among recipients of Russian oil’, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

With travel between provinces fraught with difficulty, China has announced it will enforce health code system nationwide.

The 25-year-old, who was assaulted during last week’s Christopher Street Day parade, succumbed to his injuries in hospital.

China’s economy is faced with a rapidly ageing society and looming population peak, as well as a technology rivalry with the West, and its financial system must respond to aid its transition, according to central bank adviser Wang Yiming.

The 3.5cm cut severed a vein and nerve in Sergeant Wesley Leung’s neck, causing vocal cord paralysis and other injuries.

The massive and long-anticipated railway project, spanning 16 stops across the Yangtze River Delta, is expected to help reverse the economic misfortunes in a region responsible for a big chunk of China’s GDP.

Shenzhou 14 crew members Chen Dong and Liu Yang use a smaller robotic arm and bigger hatch to complete tasks outside the module.