Pro-establishment lawmaker Kwok Wai-keung has publicly apologised for using his phone while driving – to call into a Legislative Council Zoom meeting – saying he will “deeply reflect” on his behaviour following the incident.Speaking to the pr...

Hong Kong’s professional education scene continues to be rated among the world’s best, and the city’s universities are among the highest-ranked in Asia.The SAR is a highly sought-after destination not only for business itself but also business ...

Filipino women on Friday reacted scornfully to President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that the country’s top leadership role was “not for women” because they were emotionally different than men, deriding the 75-year-old for ignoring the contri...

A Hong Kong firefighter has been sentenced to 34 months’ jail for his role in an illegal 2019 anti-government protest where he was arrested with petrol bombs and other weapons in his possession.Fong Chi-hung is the first firefighter sentenced over ...

A truck driver was flung out of his vehicle when it crashed into a roadside barrier on a motorway, but he survived the accident in northern Hong Kong on Friday.The incident occurred shortly before 8am when the container truck was travelling along Yue...

India, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of inoculations, plans to offer 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to its neighbours as it draws up a policy to supply vials to countries across the globe, people with knowledge of the matter sai...

On the eve of a historic opportunity to reset the battered US-China relationship, the incoming Biden administration should focus on getting the American house in order and achieving quick results, according to future and past US officials and top Chi...

Governments in Europe prepared a raft of tougher measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic, putting further strain on economies and political leaders as they seek a faster pace of vaccinations.France expanded a daily 12-hour curfew nationwide starti...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is aiming to attract around 1,000 delegates for its Singapore summit in late May and wants the iconic Marina Bay Sands complex to host the event, two sources familiar with the organisation’s plans said.The sources, wh...

It was 4am but a large crowd had still gathered outside the Serum Institute of India in Pune on Tuesday, its members jostling for position to get a better look as the gates of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer opened and a convoy of refriger...

China’s air quality improved last year, benefiting from coronavirus-related shutdowns as well as tougher industrial controls, government data showed.Concentrations of lung-damaging small particles known as PM2.5 in 337 cities fell an average 8.3 pe...

Tokyo has lodged a protest with Beijing over Chinese government vessels repeatedly spotted near a group of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea.Chinese coastguard ships entered the waters near the islands known as Diaoyutai in China and Senkaku i...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Starbucks’ former chairman Howard Schultz that he and the American coffee chain can play an active role in promoting US-China trade cooperation, state media reported.With less than a week before US president-el...

China is considering accepting some stranded Australian coal cargoes, an effort that would help ease a logjam of vessels that have stacked up off its coast for months.The shipments that could be cleared are those that arrived before a ban on Australi...

A senior Hong Kong home affairs official has resigned citing family reasons, becoming the second top political appointee to leave since city leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor took office in July 2017.In a statement issued on Friday, the government co...

Laura Rosenberger, a US State Department and White House veteran who was a foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful 2016 presidential election campaign, will serve as senior director for China in Joe Biden’s White House.Rosenberge...

Plagued by the collapse of travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, arrivals to Hong Kong plummeted nearly 94 per cent year on year in 2020 to just 3.57 million, the lowest number on record for the once-mighty tourism hub.The provisional numbers, publis...

A pigeon that Australia declared a possible biosecurity risk may escape death after the authenticity of its leg band identifying it as a US racing bird was thrown in doubt.The blue band suggested the bird found in a Melbourne backyard on December 26 ...

Indonesia’s ambitious vaccination drive to inoculate two thirds of its population of 270 million began on Wednesday when President Joko Widodo received a shot of Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac vaccine.Southeast Asia’s largest economy intends to va...

The government will begin mandatory coronavirus testing of residents living in one of the most densely populated areas of Hong Kong on Saturday in an attempt to contain an outbreak tied to several ageing tenement buildings, the health minister has re...

A Chinese research vessel was identified in the waters of Indonesia with its tracking system turned off, authorities said on Thursday, amid concerns in the region about Beijing’s maritime conduct.Colonel Wisnu Pramandita, spokesman of Indonesia’s...

The US FBI is tracking an “extensive amount of concerning online chatter,” including calls for armed protests leading up to next week’s presidential inauguration, Director Chris Wray said on Thursday.Wray, in his first public appearance since t...

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake that shook Indonesia’s Sulawesi island in the early hours of Friday killed at least 34 people and injured hundreds, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said, as tens of thousands of residents fled to safety.The ...

Questions have been raised over the effectiveness of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese drug maker Sinovac Biotech after a partner science institute in Brazil, where phase 3 clinical trials are under way, released lower-than-expected efficacy...

Nuclear-armed North Korea unveiled a new submarine-launched ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang, state media reported Friday, in a show of strength days before Joe Biden’s inauguration as US president.The display came after the five...

The Trump administration’s attempt to reinstate US restrictions on the Chinese-owned WeChat app was met with scepticism by a judicial panel.The US Court of Appeals in San Francisco signalled on Thursday it was largely sceptical of efforts to overtu...

I sympathise with the Hongkongers whose plans have been upended by the government’s recent change in quarantine and entry regulations. On December 25, returning Hong Kong residents woke to the unexpected news that hotel quarantine had been extende...

US President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a US$1.9 trillion stimulus package proposal designed to jump-start the economy and speed up the US response to the coronavirus pandemic.Biden campaigned last year on a promise to take the pandemic mor...

One year after signing the phase one trade deal with the US, China remains far behind in its commitment to buy more American goods, though the agreement has been a vital sticking plaster in a fast deteriorating bilateral relationship, experts said.Th...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged nations around the world to maintain a unified front against Chinese detentions of foreign citizens, saying every country was vulnerable.Trudeau made his remarks as China offered more consular access to tw...

Global health experts gathered on Thursday to tackle new coronavirus strains blamed for a fresh surge in infections as countries including Britain and France tightened restrictions to head off a further worsening of the pandemic that has claimed near...

A team of Chinese experts has warned that the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic could be worse this year than it was in 2020.By the beginning of March, the death toll from Covid-19 could rise to 5 million – from just under 2 million on Thur...

Fans of a celebrity pig are cheering on her survival through to the Lunar New Year after it was discovered the national icon is now struggling to stand on her own four feet.Zhu Jianqiang, meaning “Strong Pig”, was found alive 36 days after being ...

Has the US embarked on its third revolution? This is the question in many minds after the world’s richest and most powerful democracy saw its Capitol attacked and ransacked by angry Donald Trump supporters who dispute the results of November’s pr...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Seligman on politico.com on January 14, 2021.US president-elect Joe Biden is tapping current Deputy Defence Secretary David Norquist to temporarily run...

The Trump administration stepped up efforts in its final days to crack down on China with new additions to a military blacklist, new sanctions aimed at pushing back on Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea and the addition of another Chinese corp...

China has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uygurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, a bipartisan commission of the US Congress said in a report released on Thursday.The Congressional-Executive Commissi...

The United States announced sanctions on officials of Chinese state-owned enterprises and military on Thursday and added Chinese oil giant CNOOC to an economic blacklist, accusing them using coercion against states with rival claims in the South Chin...

Hong Kong authorities have stepped up their vigilance against bird flu after a highly pathogenic strain was detected in the city for the first time.The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said on Thursday it was notified that two sampl...

China has tentatively planned to hold a long-delayed summit between President Xi Jinping and leaders of central and eastern European nations from the “17+1” bloc in early February, sources have said.Set to take place via video link, the summit wo...

An MIT professor and nanotechnology expert was charged with failing to disclose to the US Department of Energy millions of dollars in funding he allegedly received from China, the latest in a slew of similar cases.Gang Chen, 56, a naturalised US citi...

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Cambodian police have launched a murder investigation after a Chinese couple was killed in Phnom Penh, local media reported on Thursday.The bodies of a 38-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, reportedly his girlfriend, were discovered on Wednesday i...

Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday declared that the presidency was no job for a woman because of their emotional differences to men, and dismissed speculation that his daughter would succeed him next year.“My daughter is not running. I ...

Hong Kong’s justice department has asked an appeal court to remove a three-decade old rule and allow prosecutors to recommend specific punishments for certain offenders, but a judge declined to immediately consider the request given its potential �...

Eight months after it began, a bitter, tense border stand-off between tens of thousands of Chinese and Indian troops in the Himalayan region of Ladakh shows no signs of a resolution.Talks between the two countries have all but been derailed since mil...

Embattled Philippine journalist Maria Ressa faces a third cyber libel charge, her lawyer said on Thursday, this time for a story about students allegedly paying a professor for passing grades.Ressa and her news site Rappler face at least a dozen crim...