The ‘man-eater’ of Champaran in eastern India terrorised locals near the Valmiki Tiger Reserve; conservationists blame rapid expansion of human settlements for increase in man-animal conflict.

The space telescope will orbit the Earth to monitor solar storms that are expected to reach a peak in 2025.

A Colombo-based human rights group is urging the Sri Lankan government to do more for its seven citizens freed after an ordeal in Eastern Ukraine where they said they were tortured by Russian forces.

The latest measures will see an opening up of the tourism and elderly care sectors in three major cities and the province of Hainan.

Chief Secretary Eric Chan on Sunday echoes city leader’s remarks on proceeding carefully in pandemic fight.

Findings from Penang’s Centre for Marine Science and Coastal Studies will help justify the establishment of a seagrass sanctuary in Penang, where the state government has already created a multi-agency committee to support the planning and establis...

One protester was shot dead while driving a car, while another was killed after security forces fired gunshots to disperse crowds, rights monitors said.

Lee’s efforts in dealing with controversial civil servant pay rises, rolling back Covid-19 curbs and boosting events has won local support. But will he be bold enough to open up the city further to attract the tourists, tech talent and investors Ho...

Police said that Leila De Lima was being used as a cover by inmates, whose intentions were to escape from prison.

A stockpile could help Taiwan hold out against an attack but there are more factors at play, observers say.

Bankers have cited India’s stable political environment and strong growth prospects amid global uncertainty. India is also reviving trade pacts and last year saw its highest annual foreign direct investment inflow of US$85 billion.

Russian divers will examine the damage caused by a powerful blast on Moscow’s road-and-rail bridge and a key supply route to forces battling in southern Ukraine.

Hong Kong needs to train thousands of professionals to help buildings decarbonise, according to Hong Kong Green Building Council chairman Cheung Hau-wai.

Exactly how the girl, identified only as Emmy survived when all her classmates were killed remains unclear. Earlier reports suggested she was covered by a blanket when the attacker entered her classroom.

In Nicaragua, authorities issued an alert for all types of vessels to seek safe harbour as the hurricane followed a general path toward the area of Bluefields and Laguna de Perlas.

A fabricated article was used to refute allegations about the negative environmental impact of Chinese dam building, with Beijing’s leaders, hydropower companies, experts emphasising that China is benevolent towards downstream states in its dam ope...

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed 1,000-year-old murals from the Northern Song dynasty

Online scam cases rose to 14,160 involving HK$2.04 billion from January to August this year.

Revelation of debt details could attract criticism, result in project delays in countries such as Laos, Malaysia and Indonesia, analysts note.

Following the deaths of 66 children, most from acute kidney failure, police said in a statement they were putting senior officers on the investigation.

A state shipbuilding company has previously said the country must be able to achieve a breakthrough in the technology by 2027.

Leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro were targeted on social media with a series of viral videos and propaganda. Both men tout their Christian beliefs.

Already serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault, the 70-year-old former film producer faces four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault charges involving five women. He has pleaded not guilty.

Sorokin, who used the name Anna Delvey, was convicted in 2019 of conning US$275,000 from banks, hotels and wealthy New Yorkers to finance her luxury lifestyle.

The high temperature of a forest fire this week has accelerated the process through which the stone carvings will eventually turn into sand, the island’s mayor said.

South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff announced the launches – the seventh and eighth in two weeks. The Japanese government also confirmed one of the launches.

‘Thanks to sniffer dogs, agents found around 1,140 kilos of cocaine in bags hidden under a cargo of cat litter,’ police said. Brazil is a crossroads for international drug trafficking.

The blast occurred at around 3.20pm local time on Friday in the County Donegal village of Creeslough, Ireland’s police, the Garda Siochana, said in a media conference on Saturday.

The WikiLeaks founder is currently appealing against a decision to extradite him to the US where he is wanted for allegedly violating the US Espionage Act by publishing classified files in 2010.

Students at the all-female Alzahra University in Tehran chanted ‘get lost’, according to activists, as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited the campus and recited a poem that equated ‘rioters’ with flies.

Musk stirs up a warning and scepticism by suggesting the island become a special administrative region.

A research report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute says China has the highest level of self-sufficiency in weapons production in the Indo-Pacific region.

General Sergey Surovikin, 55, has been leading the ‘South’ forces in Ukraine and has combat experience in the 1990s conflicts in Tajikistan and Chechnya and in Syria in 2015.

Last-minute walk-in candidates head to airline’s first large-scale recruitment fair in nearly three years.

The three-hour rail service suspension in northern Germany raised alarm bells after the EU and Nato last month stressed the need to protect critical infrastructure, following what they called acts of ‘sabotage’ on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

The UN’s nuclear watchdog said the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had lost its last external power source after renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators.

The new satellites will be designed to test technology that will allow the network to offer more precise positioning around the globe.

Current talent schemes are too restrictive, expats are put off by high taxes when they buy homes.

North Korea has warned that return of US carrier is worsening tensions, a day after the USS Ronald Reagan began a new round of naval drills with South Korean warships off the peninsula’s east coast.

With a week to go until the Communist Party’s national congress, officials ordered to prevent spillovers to Beijing.

Two teen astronomy enthusiasts are social media celebrities in China after working together online to win the Royal Observatory’s Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year award.

Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun says charity’s independent review committee should identify any inadequacies in services.

Ding joined Huawei in 1996, rising through the ranks to become president of the carrier business group and enterprise business group.

India’s Supreme Court banned over-the-counter acid sales in 2013 to stop acid attacks but the Delhi Commission for Women has found that acid remains freely available as before.

Footage of the test of a midcourse missile was released in the build-up to a major political gathering this month.

Russian authorities have said that three people were killed after a truck exploded on its bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to Russia, adding that the owner of the vehicle had been identified.

Last month, year-on-year food inflation hit 95 per cent, meaning millions of families have had to forgo basics.

Dr Tony Ko, head of the Hospital Authority, says limited research so far has shown that the response in patients to an infection from mutant strain is similar to that of BA.5.

The policy document released for the first time in 10 years features four main pillars, including security, environmental protection and global cooperation.

They are part of 20-strong Returning Valiant group believed to have organised street booths and press briefings, calling themselves ‘embers of revolution’.