Ocean Park has received dozens of inquiries from businesses interested in the Hong Kong attraction’s plans for a massive overhaul, its chairman has revealed as the resort reopened after more than two months of coronavirus-related closure.The Aberde...

Japan and the United States have reached an agreement to freeze the amount Tokyo pays to host American forces at the current level for the 2021 financial year, with analysts suggesting both sides were keen to conclude a deal swiftly and move on from ...

China is second to Russia on the list of nations that Britons least trust to act responsibly in global affairs, and more now see its rise as a “critical threat”, according to a new survey by a British think tank.Just 22 per cent of respondents su...

Hong Kong’s High Court denied bail to media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying on Thursday, just over a week after the city’s top court ruled that a previous decision to let him await trial under house arrest stemmed from a judge’s erroneous interpreta...

Joblessness in Hong Kong worsened in January to 7 per cent – close to a 17-year high – piling pressure on the government to roll out emergency measures in its coming annual budget.The rolling quarterly unemployment rate between November and Janua...

To the Nepalese government, a proposed law requiring women under the age of 40 to get permission from a male guardian before travelling alone to the Gulf states and Africa for the first time is a means of protecting them.But to hundreds of Nepali wom...

Indonesia is requiring those eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine to take the shots as the country seeks ways to quicken its inoculation programme to curb Southeast Asia’s largest outbreak.The government can punish those who refuse the vaccine by stop...

Myanmar’s military junta has issued arrest warrants against six celebrities for encouraging strikes that have paralysed many government offices in protests against this month’s coup, with total arrests since then now nearing 500.Late on Wednesday...

A Florida manufacturer that pounced on the N95 mask shortage at the start of the pandemic and retooled to churn them out now has 30 million of the coverings going begging.DemeTech, a factory based in Miami, blames its woes on lower prices for Chinese...

A Malaysian court on Thursday ordered Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former prime minister Najib Razak, to enter a defence in a corruption trial linked to a multimillion dollar project approved while he was still in power.Dozens of charges were filed aga...

A motorcyclist died in hospital early Thursday morning after colliding with a truck near a container terminal in Hong Kong.Police arrested the truck driver on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death after the accident at a roundabout on Containe...

Millions of Americans faced another frigid day without electricity or heat in the aftermath of a deadly winter storm as utility crews raced to restore power before another blast of snow and ice sowed more chaos in places least equipped to deal with i...

The global iron ore market is likely to remain robust for some time, given supply concerns and stronger-than-usual demand from top consumer China, Fortescue Metals Group CEO Elizabeth Gaines said on Thursday.“Not only in China, but the ex-China act...

Hong Kong recorded eight new Covid-19 cases on Thursday as it began to loosen its strict social-distancing regulations – though one new rule led to a McDonald’s employee being attacked by a man who was upset over the amount of time he spent helpi...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has accused developed nations of stockpiling large quantities of Covid-19 vaccines, leading to inadequate supply for poor countries, and hit back at attempts to politicise the pandemic.Wang told a United Nations Secur...

An Indian court has acquitted a journalist of criminal defamation after she accused a former editor-turned-politician of sexual harassment.MJ Akbar, now 70, filed a case against journalist Priya Ramani in October 2018, denying the allegations as “f...

Hong Kong’s mass vaccination drive against Covid-19 will launch next week, with online bookings opening from Tuesday and frontline workers as well as those in vulnerable groups getting priority in the queue.The first jabs are scheduled to be given ...

Hong Kong is set to roll-out its universal coronavirus vaccination programme next week, with online bookings opening from Tuesday.How much do we know about the vaccines made available to the public for now, and how do we decide on which to get?Which ...

The world’s oldest DNA has been discovered, scientists announced in a new study.The DNA, which is about 1.2 million years old, was recovered from two specimens of steppe mammoth, a predecessor to the more well-known woolly mammoth. Until now, the o...

American companies would lose hundreds of billions of US dollars if they slashed investment in China or the nations increased tariffs, the US Chamber of Commerce said in a report highlighting the cost of a full decoupling of the world’s largest eco...

Former US president Donald Trump went on a media blitz on Wednesday, providing his first interviews since leaving the White House.Trump called into Fox News, Newsmax and OAN, all Trump-friendly networks, to speak about the death of conservative radio...

Cheung and her husband were more than HK$100,000 in debt when they first settled into a transitional home run by a social enterprise. Three years later, they have saved double that amount, repaid the debt and are now earning enough to rent a new plac...

Chinese consumers spent about 821 billion yuan (US$127 billion) on shopping and dining during this year’s Spring Festival holiday, an increase from 2020 but still below the amount in 2019, which was over 1 trillion yuan, according to government dat...

Pro-democracy protesters have staged repeated demonstrations outside the Chinese embassy in Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial capital, demanding that Beijing stop supporting the country’s junta.Myanmar’s military overthrew the elected government in ...

After months of tighter restrictions, stepped-up mandatory testing and “ambush-style” lockdowns, Hong Kong is finally experiencing a significant reduction in new coronavirus cases – enough for officials on Thursday to relax tough social-distanc...

A cold war. Extreme competition. Strategic rivalry. Call it what you want, what matters is a prolonged struggle for supremacy between the United States and China is under way. Great power rivalries rarely end in indefinite stalemate, which means the...

The number of students from Hong Kong and mainland China applying for British universities rose to its highest in more than a decade, after rising by about 10 and 20 per cent year on year respectively, according to official statistics.Analysts believ...

Just under four months ago, the politician described as the “most pro-Chinese” in Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was sitting pretty. Fresh from hosting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in November, Toshihiro Nikai – the secret...

Cheaper than a coffee but powerful enough to keep him riding Bangkok’s streets without sleep, Soonthorn puts a flame to a methamphetamine tablet wrapped in foil and inhales the intoxicating vapours.Thailand has long been a global gateway for export...

The Brazilian town of Serrana on Wednesday began immunising its entire adult population, the first such clinical mass vaccination trial in one of the worst affected countries in the world from the coronavirus pandemic.The ambitious campaign to vaccin...

By day, Bai Zhi is a white-collar worker, researching and writing reports about business for a large Beijing corporation. By night, she is an online vigilante, hunting down gender discrimination in recruitment advertisements and Chinese workplaces.�...

Hong Kong’s beauty parlours and gyms are almost fully booked and eager to reopen on Thursday, after more than two months of coronavirus-related closures left businesses out of pocket by an estimated HK$2 billion (US$258 million).At Mong Kok’s Cup...

Australians woke to empty news feeds on their Facebook pages on Thursday after the social media giant blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute with the government over paying for content.The move was swiftly critic...

Former president Donald Trump’s unbridled attack on a powerful Senate Republican citing his wife’s business ties with China suggests he will continue to use Beijing as a cudgel against the Joe Biden administration and adversaries as he manoeuvres...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will conduct talks with counterparts in Japan, Australia and India on Thursday, part of an effort to advance common goals in the Indo-Pacific region, as the new Biden administration vows to move against Beijing fo...

The new director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, faces an uphill battle to reform the global body, especially as China and the United States remain far apart on key issues like subsidies, Chinese economic experts s...

The United States has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a massive hacking spree aimed at stealing more than US$1.3 billion in money and cryptocurrency, affecting companies from banks to Hollywood movie studios, the Department of Ju...

Amid geopolitical concerns over China’s plans to curb exports, Australian rare earth miner Ionic Rare Earths, which has previously fielded interest from governments, has secured commitments to raise A$12 million (US$9.3 million) in new funding to f...

Supporters of an Emirati princess held against her will for almost three years are urging Joe Biden to put pressure on her father to release the woman, saying the US president is one of the few world leaders with the stature to win her freedom.Sheikh...

In recent days, a verbal battle has developed between the White House and the World Health Organization (WHO), with the US expressing “deep concern” about the WHO report on its coronavirus investigation in China because the US alleges the latter ...

The latest in a series of mystery monoliths to capture the imagination of science-fiction fans around the world met a fiery end in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday when it was torched at a roundabout in the capital.The 12-foot (3.7-metre...

The US government’s communications watchdog said on Wednesday that it is seeking ways to allow more rural telecommunications carriers to tap a federal fund to help them accelerate theremoval and replacement of equipment made by Chinese companies Hu...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by David Cohen on politico.com on February 17, 2021.Rush Limbaugh, a scathing conservative voice who made himself into a powerhouse political figure on talk ra...

Britain on Wednesday proposed that the UN Security Council call for ceasefires to allow for Covid-19 vaccinations, a move that will be a key test of cooperation at the United Nations between China and new US President Joe Biden’s administration.Bri...

A hi-tech study has offered new clues into the killing of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt over three millennia ago, the antiquities ministry said Wednesday.Seqenenre Tao II, “the Brave”, reigned over southern Egypt some 1,600 years before Christ.He fam...

Under the world’s keen watch, US President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 11. He made public his censure of China on human rights issues regarding Xinjiang and Hong Kong, and its “coercive and unfair” trade practices,...

Europe’s rights court told Russia on Wednesday to immediately release jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, saying his life was in danger in prison.Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken opponent, was arrested and jailed upon returnin...

The coronavirus pandemic, log-jammed trade talks and a long-delayed meeting of member states are just a few of the crises awaiting Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as she takes the helm of the World Trade Organization (WTO) next month.The WTO needs a kiss of life...