More than three-quarters of the North Pacific Garbage Patch, found between Hawaii and California, comes from the fishing industry, says The Ocean Cleanup.

Victim’s decomposed body was found buried in the basement of a mosque located on the madrasa’s premises.

Dr Jaime Rosa Duque of the University of Hong Kong recommends children get two doses of either the BioNTech or Sinovac vaccines, as city’s daily coronavirus tally falls to 7,938 cases.

On the first leg of an 11-day trip, Li Zhanshu blasts Western sanctions against Russia and China and suggests both countries find more ways to ‘strengthen exchanges’.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended an archaic protocol that bars the nation’s parliament from sitting following a British monarch’s death out of ‘respect for traditions’.

Ambrose Lee, who served as Hong Kong’s secretary for security from 2003 to 2012, died in his sleep on August 14, aged 73.

Japan plans to abandon its daily limits on foreign tourists, scrap visa restrictions and allow individual travellers without travel agency bookings. Elsewhere, New Zealand has ditched most of its Covid rules as it learns to live with the virus.

Thousands of people stood for hours to see Queen Elizabeth’s coffin arrive in Edinburgh. But there is a strong vein of republicanism in Scotland, and a few heckles could be heard amid the crowds.

Azmin Ali, Malaysia’s trade and industry minister, said that now is not the right time to hold a general election because the Southeast Asian nation’s economy ‘is just about recovering’ from the Covid-19 pandemic.

African leaders have expressed their disappointment at the lack of interest and apparent snubs from their European counterparts.

Foreign leaders attending Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in London have been advised to fly to the UK on commercial flights and are banned from using helicopters, according to leaked documents.

The 40-year-old’s act of self-mutilation triggered panic among the crowds at a popular temple in Uttar Pradesh. His wife told police her husband had ‘sacrificed’ his tongue to appease a goddess.

The Switzerland-based packaging firm has sold 50 million of its plant-based carton caps since starting production in China, where consumers are becoming more environmentally conscious.

Denny Tamaki’s re-election threatens to deepen tensions between Okinawa and Tokyo. After declaring his victory, he reaffirmed his unshakeable commitment to ‘resolving the US military base problem’ amid Taiwan tensions.

Much of the world’s nickel, used for electric vehicle batteries, is from Indonesia, but experts say the sector needs to become greener if it is to gain more market share around the world.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has died after seven decades on the throne. Adored by many, she was also a symbol of the British colonial empire.

A lonely tree in Hong Kong has proven to be the hope of an entire species, offering hope that botanical gardens can become centres of conservation.

Water levels continue to drop in the country’s biggest freshwater lake.

Money managers are scoring big wins betting on some regional lenders in the onshore markets, amid China’s banking and property gloom. They are likely an exception, rather than the norm.

Insiders say expert panel was told to stick with government’s main messages on managing pandemic

The ‘Strive and Rise’ scheme, taken from the chief executive’s manifesto, fails to address the underlying causes of poverty. The poverty trap is exacerbated by our widening wealth gap, inadequate support for working families and single parents,...

Ukraine’s forces continued their rapid advance in the Kharkiv region, exploiting an extraordinary collapse of Russian defences and raising the question of how far they can go.

An expansion of mainland China operations among Taiwanese firms is ‘not on their radar’, while the need to maintain a presence in the world’s biggest consumer market is putting them in a tight spot.

The aim of the visit is to coordinate positions on the nuclear issue and to finalise a document on strategic, economic and security cooperation, Lapid said.

The right-wing Sweden Democrats party promises to crack down on shootings and other gang violence that have shaken many people’s sense of security.

The El Mundo daily newspaper said the pneumonia was caused by Covid-19 and that the author had been hospitalised for months.

Coming almost five years after Catalonia’s failed secession from Spain, Sunday’s rally was themed ‘Let’s Return to Win: Independence!’.

The Mosquito Fire has now swept through a vast area in the Sierra Nevada range northeast of San Francisco in just four days, the official Cal Fire website reported.

The prince and his former wife Sarah Ferguson will take on Muick and Sandy following the queen’s death at Balmoral on Thursday aged 96, a spokesman said.

Local students offended fellow hall residents with inappropriate language and behaviour under influence of alcohol, university says.

Restrictions imposed to contain sporadic outbreaks of Covid-19 have disrupted philanthropic activities across China.

Tens of thousands of mourners lined the route of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral cortege on Sunday as it left the Scottish retreat where she died, to bid farewell to their longest serving monarch.

Angola has borrowed US$42.6 billion from Chinese lenders, much secured with oil as collateral but President Joao Lourenco has said such loans are not working.

Chinese president says he is ready to work together on expanding cooperation.

Commemoration at ground zero in New York begins as Americans remember September 11 with readings of victims’ names, volunteer work and other tributes.

It is the first time that UAVs from mainland China are known to have crossed the unofficial line that divides the strait.

Police in Beijing say a 35-year-old actor is under administrative detention and confessed to multiple visits to prostitutes.

During his tenure, Russia’s ambassador to China helped build stronger ties, but analysts say many points of contention remain between the two countries.

Raid came after officers spotted men loading goods from a van onto two speedboats in Sai Kung.

Two US military planes loaded with about 35 tons of relief aid to be distributed in southern Sindh province, one of the worst-affected regions.

‘They feel that they have been used by others to break the law,’ Secretary for Security Chris Tang says.

Elizabeth’s reign saw the hard-won independence of African countries and Caribbean islands, but cloud of colonialism hangs over her legacy.

The Baltic state has previously indicated the mission would open on Monday and named its first envoy to the island.

A primary school in remote China says none of its students have myopia, a stunning accomplishment in a country that has one of the highest rates in the world.

Luo Yong was at a hydropower station with colleagues when a magnitude 6.8 quake struck Sichuan province.

Pandemic adviser to government also predicts infections spread by more transmissible variants will peak in coming week.

Operations at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine have been fully stopped as a safety measure, Energoatom, the state agency in charge of the plant, said on Sunday.

In 2012, the Japan put the disputed islands – called the Senkakus by Tokyo – under state control, sparking a decade of security tensions in the East China Sea.

Geopolitical tension between India and China, a multibillion dollar price tag and terrain spanning some of the highest mountains in the world are just some of the challenges facing the proposed railway between Tibet and Kathmandu.

Politician reveals authorities had demanded safety enhancements by concert organisers a day before tragedy.