China’s military has eased stringent physical requirements for pilots, based on the improved cockpits of the People’s Liberation Army’s newest warplanes. Changes to height, weight and limb length requirements are among several revisions made to...

Chinese television personality Liang Yi became China’s first “wheelchair anchor” despite a sudden illness taking away her health and bright future. Born in central China’s Hunan province in 1979, in 2001 Liang became an anchor at Hunan TV, on...

A Hong Kong student delegation has pulled out of a regional exchange programme in Japan next month amid an ongoing diplomatic dispute between Beijing and Tokyo. The Education Bureau confirmed on Saturday that Hong Kong would withdraw from this year�...

A pet dog in China has been miraculously found 1,500km from home and reunited with her owner three months after she went missing. September the Labrador was lost on August 13, at a beach in Qingdao, in eastern China’s Shandong province. According t...

Xiaomi has open-sourced a new foundation model that integrates autonomous driving and embodied artificial intelligence, as the Chinese smartphone and electric-vehicle (EV) manufacturer seeks to enhance its AI capabilities. MiMo-Embodied, which comes ...

With ex-leader Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity, Bangladesh is turning its focus towards a referendum aimed at reforming its political system and rebuilding its democratic institutions. Interim leader Muhammad ...

Hong Kong’s chief executive has pledged to harness the city’s unique advantages to bring mainland China’s strengths, technology and compassion to belt and road nations while fostering people-to-people ties at the launch of the headquarters of a...

More than 103,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that K-pop girl group Aespa be banned from taking part in a New Year music event in Japan over an image posted by one of its singers that protesters claim depicts the atomic bombings o...

Sports officials have hailed Hong Kong’s success in co-hosting the National Games and said the city will explore running more athletic events with its Greater Bay Area neighbours after the region was named as a possible candidate for staging the Ol...

Organisers of the Hong Kong Victoria Harbour Race are considering recruiting mainland Chinese lifeguards to increase the participant limit to beyond 10,000 after more than 3,700 swimmers, including National Games medallist Siobhan Haughey, joined Sat...

Chinese investment is still being actively welcomed in Ireland, the head of a major business organisation said, even as the wider European Union adopts a more cautious attitude and Dublin walks a tightrope to maintain ties with both the US and China ...

In modern-day office politics, Chinese people use the phrase “wearing small shoes” to describe someone who abuses their power or position to deliberately make things difficult for others. The term originates from an ancient marriage folklore in w...

China’s ambassador to the United Nations has doubled down on his criticism of Japan, calling Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi’s earlier comments on Taiwan “highly dangerous” and damaging to the post-war international order. According to state b...

Authorities on Friday arrested seven bodyguards suspected of being involved in the assassination earlier this month of a popular mayor in west-central Mexico whom they were supposed to be protecting. At least five of the suspects were seen being arre...

When Japan’s then incoming leader Sanae Takaichi was scrambling in October for a new coalition partner so the Liberal Democratic Party could remain in power, she seemed open to requests put forth by the Japan Innovation Party in return for its supp...

Taiwan’s military plans to allocate more than NT$1 billion (US$32 million) for drone technology integration as the island scales up its uncrewed platforms and bolsters asymmetric warfare strength amid growing pressure from Beijing. According to a b...

Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Andrew Lau Wai-keung, chief director of the National Games opening ceremony in Guangzhou on November 9, has revealed the event was designed not just for mainland viewers, but as a heartfelt showcase of Chinese culture an...

The US Federal Aviation Administration warned major airlines on Friday of a “potentially hazardous situation” when flying over Venezuela and urged them to exercise caution. The FAA notice cited the “worsening security situation and heightened m...

At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline. The eel, hugely popular across Japan, is also endangered and will be discussed at a key global ...

For Gu Chuan and his wife, relocating from China to Japan appeared to be a logical choice. Last year, when China’s economy slowed and optimism about job prospects dimmed, the Beijing-based tech worker did not want his family to put all its eggs in ...

South Korea is watching with mounting alarm as tensions between China and Japan escalate over the Taiwan Strait, a development that threatens to test Seoul’s pragmatic diplomacy and its balancing act between Beijing and Washington, observers warn. ...

This article was first published on November 22, 1995 By David Wallen and other agencies New blow to monarchy as Diana admits adultery Princess Diana’s frank admission of adultery, her graphic description of a three-year battle with bulimia, and he...

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of US President Donald Trump who later became a critic, has said she is resigning from Congress in January. Greene, in a more than 10-minute video posted online, expl...

Japan will find it hard to replace the revenue lost if Chinese tourists keep avoiding the country amid a diplomatic row over Taiwan, a subsidiary of the data provider Fitch Solutions warned on Friday. A sustained drop-off in visitor numbers from Chin...

In a spacious three-storey village house in Sai Kung on a recent sunny Saturday, Chen Wei and his family were unpacking the final boxes after their move from Shenyang, the capital of China’s northeast Liaoning province. Having come with his wife an...

James Watson was probably racist and sexist, but possibly no worse than many people. He was just less inhibited in saying such things out loud. Such views got him into serious trouble late in his life. He was cancelled before “cancel culture” was...

For Henry Hung Chi-kuen, a veteran of the plumbing and drainage industry with more than 60 years of experience, toilets are not only how he earns his living but also something of an obsession. “Wherever I go [around the world], the first place I go...

The steep rise in memory chip prices is expected to continue on the back of heightened demand from the artificial intelligence industry, while average consumers are likely to pay more for a new smartphone, according to analysts. Memory chip prices we...

A same-sex couple from Taiwan welcomed four babies through surrogacy in Mexico, sparking an online backlash with accusations of “buying babies” and “selfishness”. The pair, a space designer surnamed Liu and his husband Lin, married in 2022. T...

Indonesian films and series are seeing a surge in interest on international streaming platforms. In recent years, several titles broke through to wider audiences and have made it into Netflix’s Global Top 10. Notable examples include The Elixir, wh...

A gentle breeze stirs the wooden houses of Sarang, a sleepy fishing village on Sabah’s northern coast, its tranquillity seemingly at odds with the mounting troubles facing the resource-rich yet persistently impoverished Malaysian state. For years, ...

After weeks of traded insults, New York City’s newly elected democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and US President Donald Trump concluded their first in-person meeting on Friday. The duo praised each other and pledged cooperation, with the �...

Over the Hexi Corridor, a ribbon of fertile land on the edge of the Gobi Desert blessed by the Yellow River in western China, a gleaming forest of wind turbines and solar farms stretches to the horizon. This is Gansu, China’s renewables frontier, a...

An Ohio jury found a white police officer not guilty of murder on Friday in the 2023 fatal shooting of a pregnant black woman suspected of shoplifting from a supermarket, lawyers in the case and court records said. Connor Grubb, an officer with the B...

Former president Mauricio Macri warned on Friday that Argentina could weaken its export base if it distances itself from China, sharpening his public split with President Javier Milei. Macri argued that China remains central to Argentina’s sales of...

In 2004, Joshua Cooper Ramo, now co-CEO of Kissinger Associates, coined the term “Beijing Consensus” as an alternative to the Washington Consensus, the neoliberal framework of economic policies devised in the 1980s by the International Monetary F...

US officials are having early discussions on whether to let Nvidia sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China, according to people familiar with the matter, a contentious potential move that would mark a major win for the world’s most val...

A Democratic lawmaker who served on Donald Trump’s National Security Council in his first term urged the White House on Friday to release a transcript of Trump’s 2019 call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after journalist Jamal Khashog...

The first test for a much-celebrated US–China trade truce is looming. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hopes to finalise a rare earth deal by next week’s Thanksgiving holiday, but experts say a breakthrough is unlikely as the two sides maintai...

A jar of “carbonara sauce” for sale at the European Parliament in Brussels has whipped up Italian emotions after criticism that it does not contain the right ingredients. Italy’s agriculture minister Francesco Lollobrigida unleashed his ire ear...

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Ukraine faced losing its dignity and freedom or Washington’s support over a US peace plan that endorses key Russian demands and which Donald Trump said Kyiv should agree to by Thursday. The US presid...

The curtain came down on the National Games on Friday, wrapping up a two-week sporting celebration with a closing ceremony that felt much more like a beginning than the end of an occasion steeped in historic achievement. After a gold, silver and bron...

Hong Kong authorities have launched an investigation after the personal details of “some voters were uploaded to a social media platform” ahead of the Legislative Council election next month, with the government strongly condemning the act. The g...

Swiss authorities were searching on Friday for two robbers who overpowered a security guard at an ancient Rome-themed museum in Lausanne, smashed a display case and made off with dozens of gold coins that had been displayed inside. City police said t...

A hard-right British politician and former ally of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was sentenced Friday to 10½ years in prison for accepting bribes to make favourable statements about Russia in the European Parliament. Nathan Gill, 52, pleaded guilty ...

Hongkongers hoping to settle in the United Kingdom under a bespoke visa pathway will face a tougher English test and potentially an income threshold as part of an overhaul of the country’s immigration system, British authorities have told the Post....

At least seven people, including two children, were killed and around 100 injured when a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Bangladesh on Friday, the government said, with buildings damaged in many areas including the densely populated capital Dhaka. Tr...

China’s Jinglei-1 (JL-1) missile could pose a nuclear threat to Alaska – and potentially the rest of the United States – though it still has significant limitations, according to a Chinese military magazine. The JL-1, which made its debut at Ch...

A Hong Kong judge has called on elderly drivers to regularly assess their ability to continue with their jobs, as she jailed a 70-year-old cabby for two years over a fatal collision that killed a teenage cyclist last year. Lau Chor-hi was sentenced o...

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