A Russian artist based in Hong Kong has expressed surprise over the public outcry after government workers painted over one of his colourful cat murals on a public wall.

About 3,000 officers searched 130 sites in 11 German states against adherents of the so-called Reich Citizens movement – some members reject Germany’s post-war constitution and have called for the overthrow of the government.

Government will strive to postpone clearance date for brownfield sites to be reclaimed for development, says secretary for development.

Concerned about the impact on Australian visitors, Canberra is ‘seeking further clarity’ after Jakarta approved legislation to overhaul its criminal code and outlaw sex outside marriage.

Semiconductor imports fell 14.4 per cent to 498.5 billion units in the 11 months ended November 30, down from 582.1 billion in the same period last year.

The European Union and China failed to resolve two trade disputes during lengthy bilateral talks.

The good-as-new notes, introduced in 2013, are generally crisp and new-looking. But most are returned to the city state’s central bank soon after being used for gifting, which it said was not environmentally friendly.

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Yeoh, who began her storied 40-year acting career in popular Hong Kong action films, said ‘give it to me’ when asked about the possibility of becoming the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for best lead actress.

Scammers fleece victim out of HK$2 million but suspicious bank teller foils second attempt to get even more money.

City legislators voted unanimously to explicitly ban the use of robots in such a fashion for now, but could vote in the future to let police use robots in a lethal manner in limited cases.

Aaron Joseph Hutton, known on the dark web as ‘Kiwipedo’, offered US$9,500 in cash or in bitcoin for a child. His intended victim was to be a 3-year-old girl who ‘was to become a sex slave’, a judge said.

Beijing allows positive cases to quarantine at home as State Council issues new nationwide instructions to protect health and keep social and economic impacts to a minimum.

Proposal by authorities is part of bid to boost deterrence, with city leader earlier mentioning focus on environmental hygiene in maiden policy speech.

India has some 135 million overweight citizens in a population of 1.4 billion, and fat-shaming is ‘very normalised in Indian households’.

Democrats’ new outright majority means the party will no longer have to negotiate a power-sharing deal with Republicans and will not have to rely on Vice-President Kamala Harris to break as many tied votes.

Leung Kin-fai drove knife into back of patrolling constable on July 1 last year, then stabbed himself in chest.

Shuttle bus services activated between Kowloon Tong and Sha Tin.

Analysts expect China’s exports to stay weak in the coming months as high inflation eats into demand in developed countries and the country is gradually reopened after three years of hardline Covid controls.

Authorities said the attacker may have been an Islamic militant angered by the country’s new criminal code, which parliament ratified on Tuesday.

China will will aim to stabilise growth, employment and prices after beginning to ease its ct zero-Covid policy, the top-level Politburo said in a tone-setting meeting on Tuesday.

While US relations with Saudi Arabia are at an all-time low, Beijing is looking to deepen cooperation in the region on all fronts.

A consortium led by Anta Sports agreed to buy Finland’s Amer Sports for US$5.2 billion in 2018 as part of an effort to bring high-end athletic equipment to China’s increasingly wealthy middle class.

China’s interbank clearing and settlement service plays a ‘complementary’ role to the global payment system Swift, Agustin Carstens of Bank of International Settlements (BIS), told the Post.

The ‘really dramatic’ shift in public opinion has been shaped by China’s willingness to drop an ‘anvil’ on Canadian trade products whenever it wants to make a political point, an expert said.

The Philippines’ air force chief welcomed the visiting jets, saying the Japanese ‘are now our allies’ who believe in the rule of law. Japan heralded the visit as a milestone in the two countries’ defence exchanges.

About 2,000 people thronged the Italian Women’s Association ‘Il Mercatino di IWA’ charity fair, which sold high-quality merchandise at cut prices.

A mother in China who let her toddler draw on her luxury car with removable paint has started a vigorous online debate about parenting.

Indian traders have begun importing products from China weeks in advance amid lingering concern that authorities will continue with snap lockdowns to contain Covid-19 outbreaks, which may hit production of key inputs.

Fishermen are still finding plastic in fish from the Singapore-registered vessel carrying chemicals, plastic pellets that caught fire and sank near Sri Lanka, but there’s been little compensation so far for the ‘developing’ tragedy.

Millimetre wave radar can detect cardiac motion and transform the data into electrical signals with 90 per cent morphology accuracy, study says.

Nearly 8,100 Hongkongers issued study permits for higher education in Canada from January to September this year.

Ministerial meetings involving Blinken, Austin and their opposite numbers lead to announcement of expanded military presence down under.

She was also given a lifetime ban from holding public office over a scheme that saw US$1 billion embezzled through public works projects.

The facility, producing four-nanometer chips, is expected to go online by 2024, subsidised in part by funds from Biden’s signature Chips & Science Act.

Beijing has been laying increasing stress on the milder nature of omicron and some cities have already started easing their rules

The shipment worth nearly US$15 million has been delayed for over a week over an alleged misdeclaration of the device models and their value.

The guilty verdict adds to the legal woes the former US president faces as he makes another bid for the White House in 2024.

Australian wine and lobsters firms have been some of the hardest hit since trade bans and tariffs were imposed by Beijing in 2020, but a recent softening in diplomatic relations has raised hopes of a brighter future.

The airbase attacks strike a powerful psychological blow, suggesting that Kyiv’s forces can ‘operate in Russia at will’, one Western official says.

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In an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine, Olaf Scholz cautions that ‘China’s rise does not warrant isolating Beijing or curbing cooperation’, while also bolstering support for democracies around the world.

The 45-year-old man is accused of sharing videos and images of ‘unimaginable brutality’ involving babies, children and teenagers.

Lawmaker Amy Ndiaye was slapped by an opposition MP during a debate, threw a chair in reprisal, and was attacked by another colleague.

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Researchers have ‘growing concerns’ about harm to marine habitats and local communities from China’s overseas infrastructure investments.

Service confirmed a media report that the hackers reportedly responsible are known as APT41 or Winnti, a prolific cybercriminal group; several members have been indicted in recent years for spying.

‘The damage to the status of Hong Kong as a hub has been very significant,’ Willie Walsh says, adding airlines are ‘fed up’ with changing rules.

The last Arab and African side still in the tournament, Morocco has been willed on by some of most impassioned supporters at the event.

Pew Research Center think tank carried out a survey in 19 countries to see what people view as being the actions of a good citizen.