The short video platform will challenge Amazon on its home turf with TikTok Shop after finding success in Southeast Asia.

CATL has agreed with renewables developer Primergy to provide the batteries for Gemini, a giant solar energy storage facility under construction in Nevada.

Singapore’s media regulator says the film ‘denigrates a religious community’ and has the ‘potential to cause enmity and social division’.

During the 20th party congress in Beijing this week, all eyes will be on who CMC chairman Xi Jinping chooses to join the top brass.

Air raid warnings have sounded across Ukraine amid fresh missile and drone attacks from Russia.

United Arab Emirates gives green light to clinical testing of Suzhou Abogen Biosciences jab aimed at prevalent strains.

Wong said ‘global companies based in the city state will simply find other places to operate in if the government’s policies become overly restrictive’.

Mr Justice Albert Wong notes ban only restricts the form in which individuals exercise freedom of expression and assembly.

Consignment containing 76kg of meth was in transit in city and scheduled to be delivered by air to Australia.

The local legislation cannot be rushed as it has to ‘cover situations which are fast-developing’ in the complex geopolitical environment, John Lee says.

Prime Ministers Fumio Kishida and Anthony Albanese are expected to sign the agreement when they meet this weekend in Perth.

They are precise, small in size, able to effectively penetrate air defences when fired in groups and above all, they’re cheap.

Sources say top advisers approved move at Tuesday’s Exco meeting, with authorities earlier indicating more social-distancing curbs would also be eased on Thursday.

During speech to 20th party congress, President Xi Jinping highlights achievements of anti-graft campaign, which has purged hundreds of generals.

A princess who speaks to angels and a self-proclaimed shaman who sells pricey healing medallions: the unusual couple are madly in love but struggling to win hearts in Norway.

Ismail Sabri Yaakob said gone were the days when the coalition could field a songkok – the black cap traditionally worn by Muslim males in Malaysia – and still win.

President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has set Russia on a path towards turmoil that could unseat the Kremlin chief, trigger civil war or even ultimately break the country apart, the former diplomat said.

President Xi Jinping laid out China’s overall development goals for 2035 on Sunday during the opening of the 20th party congress, placing a greater emphasis on technological self-reliance, national security and rural development.

Imposing more taxes on businesses and wage-earners struggling through the pandemic would be ‘really bad timing’ and would fuel public discontent.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Canberra will not support previous conservative government’s decision that undermines a two-state solution.

Quirky China: doctors spend 1 hour reviving a man whose heart had stopped, a baby’s name sounds like a lot of money, and kittens can’t get enough of the cat and mouse cartoon Tom and Jerry.

The State Department said the ‘US values our long-standing cooperation with Pakistan’ after the president doubted Islamabad’s ability to control its nuclear arsenal.

Narratives that put the cities in competition with one another overlook the positive-sum gains from close cooperation. Both Hong Kong and Singapore have unique traits that make them valuable to Asia’s economy, which can easily accommodate two busin...

City only recently banned import, sale and manufacture of alternative smoking products, but authorities may amend law, with eye on billions of dollars that trade generates annually, source says.

Actor Anthony Rapp has accused the Oscar winner of climbing on top of him at a party in 1986, when Rapp was 14.

As many as four top positions on the Politburo Standing Committee could change hands and nearly half the Central Committee expected to be replaced.

The US secretary of state says problems like climate change and global health will be difficult to solve if the two nations ‘are not actually engaged’.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a satirical novel set during the country’s civil war.

This included bills as high as US$1,100 per night for rooms, according to documents released by a congressional committee.

Young adults are buying more wine, and Chinese vendors are adapting to meet the demand, but how long will it last as trends can change so quickly?

The days of China’s rise driving international forums, meetings and events bringing people together from all over the globe seem like a distant memory. The growing gap between China and other countries is a loss for everyone involved, the world as ...

Embattled UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has apologised for her ‘mistakes’, but vowed to remain leader despite a series of humiliating climbdowns.

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell makes comments after ministers discuss a paper urging EU to stand up to Beijing’s efforts to ‘systematically promote an alternative world order’.

The Special Service Unit has been in the spotlight as cases of disappearances and murders in the East African country soared in recent years.

At least 13 people dead after a Russian fighter plane crashed into a residential building in the southern city of Yeysk soon after take-off.

Protester says he was pulled into Chinese consulate in Manchester and beaten during demonstration.

Acquiring Parler would give West, legally known as Ye, control of a social media platform and a new outlet for his opinions. He was locked out of Twitter and Instagram over antisemitic posts.

From its zero-Covid policy and heavy-handed regulations to deteriorating international relations in a weakened global environment, China faces a ‘storm’ like it’s never seen.

Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off the 20th Party Congress with a two-hour-long speech during which he rallied his country to build a modern, digital economy.

The Justice Department recommended the most severe sentence allowed under guidelines for the two counts of contempt: 6 months jail and US$200,000 fine.

Special office to create incentives to attract talent to city to be announced by Chief Executive John Lee on Wednesday, sources say.

The London-listed energy titan is flush with cash after surges in oil prices triggered calls for UK government to enlarge a windfall tax on British energy giants.

On the verge of a third five-year term, Xi signals renewed focus on top party officials who become ‘agents of interest groups’.

Consumer Council receives 28 complaints about veterinary services in the first nine months of the year.

Chan Po-hong, who has autism, was 17 when he made the calls to the judicial officer and his family over a nine-minute span in 2020.

Hainan province is trying to boost its education sector by wooing prestigious foreign universities with a focus on science, technology, agriculture or medicine.

A new questionnaire is making the rounds among China’s university students as the Ministry of Education tries to assess and strengthen a job market where nearly 1 in 5 fresh graduates struggle to find gainful employment.

Beginning next month, the EU will train 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers and provide about US$500 million more for weapons.

Cathay to add 700 flights in November between Hong Kong and top locations, such as Japan and UK and 1,200 in December.

Group calls on Beijing to help ‘save the Malaysians’ still trapped in Myanmar, as junta would give ‘serious attention’ to advice from Chinese government.