Dozens of cases were traced back to the 41-year-old man who spent half an hour running round a park in Chongqing in August.

A video clip of a nine-year-old girl expertly gutting and descaling fish on her parents’ seafood stall in southern China has been viewed online more than six million times as netizens debate the virtues of hard work at such a young age.

Former spymaster and new army chief General Asim Munir takes charge of the military amid political rife between the government and a popular opposition leader, and faces fresh threats from the Pakistani Taliban.

During speech to business leaders, Chinese premier stresses role of respect, equal treatment and ‘sound and stable’ ties in regional development.

A poorly-worded notice outside an Adelaide post office, which meant to convey that technical issues kept it from taking photos that met requirements of Indian passport authorities, has sparked online backlash.

Executions in Japan usually take place long after sentencing, with inmates held for years in solitary confinement and only told of their impending death a few hours beforehand.

PLA says USS Chancellorsville guided-missile cruiser entered waters off archipelago, evidence of American ‘militarisation’ of South China Sea.

Other gems added to the Macquarie Dictionary this year include ‘spicy cough’ for a Covid-19 infection and ‘orthosomnia’ for insomnia caused by a preoccupation with tracking your sleep.

One suspect tested positive for Covid-19 and was sent to hospital for treatment.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander gives first official word on casualties in two months of anti-government protests.

In 1998 hundreds of people in Indonesia, many of them of Chinese descent, were killed, and scores of women raped, in two days of violence; now ‘Koko Cici’ contests often take place, encouraging youngsters to help preserve Chinese culture.

City leader John Lee doubles down on move to ask central government for review of legislation after court rules British lawyer can represent media tycoon.

AAX personnel are incommunicado after the exchange froze withdrawals and deleted social media pages, revealing Hong Kong’s exposure to the FTX fallout.

The children’s bodies were discovered in August when an Auckland family bought abandoned goods, including two suitcases, from a storage unit in an online auction.

The strategically important Horn of Africa nation is struggling under mounting financing pressures.

The British government abandoned a plan to force tech firms to remove internet content that is harmful but legal, after the proposal drew strong criticism from lawmakers and civil liberties groups.

Scientists have speculated for years that the world is coming up on its sixth mass extinction. Researchers are studying what happened in the first in hopes of avoiding another.

A shrinking and ageing population has huge implications for Japan’s economy and national security. The number of births has been falling since 1973.

A conservative Islamist group tore off labels from tents donated by a church for earthquake survivors, underlining lingering fear of Christianisation in the world’s most populous Muslim majority nation.

Nine in 10 millennials view a balanced lifestyle as more important than a high income, according to a survey commissioned by British wealth management company St James’s Place Asia.

Mother Barsha Gurung says Rhenish Church Grace School offers her son Jebson opportunities to learn beyond standard education, such as sports and social activities.

New Jersey-based BlockFi filed for bankruptcy after exposure to FTX led to a liquidity crisis, but said it does not face the ‘myriad issues’ as that exchange.

The South Korean president warned of an influx of military assets to the region if Beijing does not make its ‘best efforts’ to get North Korea to denuclearise.

It is believed the ships, which can carry 30 helicopters and 1,000 marines, would play vital role in potential military campaign against Taiwan.

An older sister in China has worked hard and saved money for 12 years to buy a home and a car for her brother to help him find a wife, prompting a heated debate over the gender imbalance in the country.

Ju-ae has been photographed in public twice in the past nine days, fuelling debate she is being primed as successor to her father, Kim Jong-un.

Eddie Yue, CEO of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, which manages the Exchange Fund, will present the fund’s investment returns at a meeting of the Legislative Council’s financial affairs panel on Wednesday.

From renewable energy grids and green transport to risk management systems and climate finance, carbon neutrality must be at the heart of national development strategies.

Expats have left, Hongkongers have emigrated and there aren’t enough fresh tech graduates to fill vacancies.

The billionaire says the iPhone maker has threatened to oust his recently acquired social media platform from its App Store.

Control measures could include residential quarantines, mass testing, transport disruptions and possible family separation, says statement from mission in Beijing.

Rival models from the two tech giants have achieved record-high scores on a set of tasks designed to evaluate how well a machine can understand and respond to Chinese text.

The hard reality is that the virus is now out of control, the economy is in tatters, and angry citizens are showing public defiance.

White House statement backing ‘everyone’s right to peacefully protest’ called inadequate by Republicans, which some analysts say overt support would backfire.

Few details are known about the incident that prompted the call from the US, but it was not made over the errant missile that landed in Poland, killing 2 people.

The 56-year-old had been a backup crew member four times before finally getting the chance to go into space on the Shenzhou 15 mission.

A new approach to foreign policy with Beijing is needed as the so-called golden era between the two countries is over, Sunak says in first major foreign policy address on Monday.

The discussions under the New START treaty would have been the first ones since Moscow’s forces invaded Ukraine in February.

Ukraine’s president warned that he expected new attacks that could be as bad as last week’s, which left millions of people without heat, water or power.

With essential workers such as content moderators cut, hate speech has quickly increased on the social media platform. This does not bode well for a platform that already had content moderation problems, and which might descend into chaos.

Unrest over the country’s zero-Covid policy stoked worries that a crackdown or expanded lockdowns could slow the Chinese economy.

Payton Gendron, 19, will spend life in prison for killing 10 black shoppers and workers in a store in Buffalo, New York; this is the first time anyone in the state has been convicted of the hate-motivated terrorism charge.

The return of face-to-face meetings, the motivating effect of our grave global challenges and the moderating influence of ‘middle power’ multipolarisation all point to a revival of global cooperation.

City leader John Lee is asking Beijing’s top legislative body to interpret the law, with the committee’s next meeting set for December 30.

Beijing accuses Ottawa of exaggerating the China threat and making groundless attacks.

Head of the world’s toxic arms organisation, OPCW, said the situation in Ukraine has again increased the real threat posed by WMDs, including chemical weapons.

As logjams in the global supply chain ease, China is losing the edge it had over the past three years when the coronavirus disrupted production in the rest of the world, a top government economist says.

As Europe and the US seek to cut dependence on Russian petroleum products, it opens opportunities for refineries in places such as China and Kuwait.

Event wants to ‘inspire youngsters to develop an interest in science and innovation’, says advisory group convenor, Tsui Lap-chee.

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began erupting for the first time since 1984, ending its longest quiet period in recorded history.