A Chinese food delivery worker is hailed online as ‘the most diligent’ after it is revealed that he works 17 hours a day, rarely eats and meets 1,500 orders each month.

Cathay Pacific intends to add hundreds of flights during last two months of this year as it seeks to build back capacity.

Four children and two adults have been killed while five others were seriously injured as several houses collapsed in the western district of Doti, and shook New Delhi in neighbouring India.

While Goertek tries to fix ‘production issues’ on what analysts suspect to be the AirPods Pro 2, rival Apple contract manufacturer Luxshare ICT is expected to fill the supply gap this fourth quarter.

Jobless man, 46, remanded in custody for psychiatric reports after admitting attempted murder.

Suspects accused of reposting messages from former lawmaker Ted Hui, ex-district councillor Yau Man-chun or activist Sunny Cheung.

Teacher, 48, at Hong Chi Pinehill No 2 School in Tai Po allegedly used anonymous letters to make accusations against her superiors and colleagues.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis won a landslide victory over his Democratic rival, boosting his chances of successfully challenging Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

China’s main missile maker Casic has equipped its product with ‘full skill set’ against all types of UAVs, including the small and hard to detect.

Court of Appeal dismisses justice department bid against chief judge’s earlier ruling for King’s Counsel Tim Owen from London to join media tycoon’s side.

Seoul’s defence ministry said a projectile that landed near South Korean waters last week was a SA-5 anti-aircraft missile of the type the North has had since the mid-1980s.

‘Smart’ flying skateboard code-named SF-FB-30 reportedly flies autonomously and has both military and civilian applications.

Hackers on Wednesday began leaking nearly 10 million people’s sensitive medical records stolen earlier from Australian health insurer Medibank, whose clients include Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Republican US senator holds a key seat as the Republican Party tried to regain control of a closely divided Senate.

Some of Peter Gerard Scully’s victims were as young as 18 months, a prosecutor said. He was already serving a life sentence for rape and trafficking of girls.

Local governments face ‘inherently contradictory’ task of balancing coronavirus controls and economic challenges without policy support, analysts say.

Overseas trips still not allowed, but vaccinated students can join local camping tours.

More than 90 per cent of the social media company’s staff in India have been fired, according to reports, dealing a blow to the platform’s prospects in a potential growth market.

Ocean shipping rates for goods leaving China are likely to fall next year when freight operators take delivery of new vessels, according to carriers at a major trade fair in Shanghai.

Secretary for the Civil Service Ingrid Yeung says take-up rate ‘not ideal’ in light of low overall vaccination figures among city’s children aged under three years.

The rise of outspoken hardliners in the Kremlin is alarming insiders fearful the Russian president will heed their calls for even more confrontation abroad and sweeping repression at home.

China’s sluggish economy, a slump in the real estate market and policy uncertainty following the 20th party congress have led to an uptick in foreign visa enquiries from wealthy Chinese, immigration consultants say.

No meeting between the two leaders has yet been finalised, the Australian prime minister said on Wednesday, but both are set to attend next week’s G20 summit in Indonesia.

Tokyo’s decision is part of bigger Nato efforts targeting Beijing, Chinese analyst says.

Moscow announced in early August that it was suspending US inspections of its military sites under New START, saying it was responding to American obstruction of inspections by Russia.

A Thai government spokeswoman said Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman will attend next week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders’ Meeting as a special guest.

At 18.18 carats, the jewel is the largest pear-shaped ‘fancy vivid pink’ diamond ever sold under the hammer, Christie’s auction house said.

The PLA must be prepared to ‘resolutely defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests’.

Justice Without Borders provides logistics and legal aid to those who have returned to their home countries but still have legal cases being processed in Hong Kong.

China’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 2.1 per cent in October from a year earlier, while the producer price index (PPI) fell by 1.3 per cent last month, data released on Wednesday showed.

Authorities knew of ‘a number of cases’ of Australians being approached to train the Chinese military, the country’s defence minister said, as he launched a review of current and ex-military personnel’s obligations to protect state secrets.

A young Chinese girl trends on mainland social media after a video of her environmentally friendly-themed home fashion show goes viral on social media.

As business confidence dims across China, the nation’s top economic planning agency says authorities will encourage private investment in infrastructure projects, while carrying out reforms to ‘mobilise enthusiasm’.

Jaime FlorCruz, the former CNN Beijing Bureau chief, who once bitterly fought Ferdinand Marcos Snr, has been nominated as the Philippines ambassador to China by the late dictator’s namesake, President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr.

From reviewing Covid-19 rules to the needs of the events industry, Hong Kong has a chance to reposition itself as an events capital – with the catalyst of the success of the Hong Kong Sevens.

Republicans made gains in their drive to take control of the US House in midterm elections, while Democratic candidates stayed competitive in pivotal Senate contests.

Nearly third of 142,000 Hongkongers who have applied to scheme that leads to UK citizenship are under 18, while those aged 25 to 54 make up majority.

Sonoran Desert toads secrete a hallucinogenic substance used in expensive underground ‘toad ceremonies’ in the US and Mexico.

Foreign ministers Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Sergey Lavrov discuss continued sales of oil and the possibility of joint arms production.

The episode of an international spin-off of RuPaul’s Drag Race marks the first time a world leader has been a guest on the franchise.

The senior minister stepped down after a report that he had told a civil servant to ‘slit your throat’ while acting in a previous role.

A single winning ticket was sold in California, ending a string of 40 drawings that pushed the top prize to the highest in the world for a lottery.

The midterm elections will determine control of Congress and with it the fate of President Joe Biden’s agenda as Donald Trump eyes a run in 2024.

The island states want the 2 Asian powers to contribute to a compensation fund to help countries rebuild after disasters wrought by global warming, along with historic emitters like the US, UK and EU.

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Tuesday’s US midterm elections will determine which party will control Congress, who will serve in governors’ mansions and state policies in dozens of states.

Russia’s war has led to an energy crisis that is forcing nations to turn back to coal, the president says in a video message.

Here is some advice for anyone following Tuesday’s US midterm elections: be ready for a long night and maybe days of waiting before it’s clear whether Republicans or Democrats will control Congress.

The German chancellor’s meeting with Xi Jinping charted a path for limiting dependency on China without decoupling. Unconvinced, however, are Scholz’s own coalition members, who want a complete restructuring of Sino-German relations.

Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, India and South Korea are seen ‘prime candidates’ for a so-called China plus one strategy to diversify manufacturing as US firms lose confidence in Beijing’s zero-Covid policy.