Thousands of anti-coup protesters on Thursday marched on the streets of Myanmar, as the Singapore foreign minister was set to meet his Indonesian counterpart on a trip that was expected to include discussions on Myanmar.Indonesia and Malaysia are see...

The European Union will look for ways to end its vaccine struggles at a summit on Thursday, as a Covid-19 surge takes the death toll in Brazil past 300,000.A crucial tool in the fight against the pandemic, vaccines were in the spotlight again with As...

A Hong Kong court has widened prosecutors’ power to indict suspects by ruling that even those not physically present at an unlawful assembly or riot can face the same charges as actual participants under the legal principle of “joint enterprise�...

Taiwan has begun mass production of a long-range missile and is developing three other models, a senior official said on Thursday, in a rare admission of efforts to develop strike capacity amid growing pressure from mainland China.The island’s arme...

China is encouraging the early implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and members of the Asia-Pacific trade pact aim for it to take effect from January 1, Wang Shouwen, China’s vice-commerce minister, said on Thur...

US talk show host Jay Leno is apologising for decades of racist jokes he has made about Asian people.Leno recently met the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) to discuss how his past comments had been harmful to the Asian community, acco...

After two decades building a business empire centred around coal, Indian billionaire Gautam Adani is now looking beyond the fossil fuel to cement his group’s future. His ambitious plans are getting a boost from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Adani ha...

A 27-year-old barista has been remanded in jail ahead of sentencing after she was convicted of taking part in a riot during the siege of a Hong Kong police station during 2019’s anti-government protests. Siu Lok-ting was also found guilty at the D...

International brands such as Nike and Adidas have come under fire in China for not using Xinjiang cotton over claims of genocide and forced labour in the region,.It comes soon after a backlash in China against Swedish fashion brand H&M for refusing t...

Hongkongers who have already received their first shot under the city’s now-suspended BioNTech vaccination scheme will be given their booster jab straight after the investigation into packaging defects has concluded, a top official has pledged, wit...

Five Guys, the American burger chain, is opening a branch on Russell Street, taking advantage of a near 60 per cent drop in rents following an exodus of luxury brands.It will be the first US fast food outlet on one of Hong Kong’s most exclusive sho...

British-Swedish drug maker AstraZeneca on Wednesday revised down by three percentage points the effectiveness of its Covid-19 vaccine after American authorities raised concerns that results reported from its US trial were outdated.The company now say...

Taiwan has stepped up its fight against its worst drought in decades, further reducing water supplies to areas including a key hub of semiconductor manufacturing in the central part of the island, in an effort to stop reserves from running dry.The go...

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A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal further imperilled global shipping on Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.Th...

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Adrian Cheng Chi-kong, the third-generation scion of one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest families and largest conglomerates, is poised to list a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in New York, joining the hottest fad to grip the global capital ma...

A second senior Australian government minister has revealed his mobile phone was hacked through the Telegram messaging app, with a media report saying the phishing scam was aimed at revealing contact details of anti-government activists in Hong Kong....

North Korea fired two projectiles into the sea early on Thursday, the South’s military said, in what could be its first ballistic missile test during the administration of US President Joe Biden.The missiles flew 450km and reached an apex of 60km b...

A mainland Chinese actress has apologised for releasing a photo in which she presented a controversial pose designed to show-off her slender waist and body shape.The Z-shape, or “cartoon waist”, has been in fashion for weeks on social media in Ch...

The question of how exactly defective packaging could compromise vaccines became a talking point among the scientific community on Wednesday after the Hong Kong government suspended the use of BioNTech jabs because of faulty bottles, with at least on...

For decades, Japan’s security relationship with Taiwan has been left deliberately vague. But in the wake of the recent visit to Tokyo of the US secretary of state and the secretary of defence, during which security and the rise of China dominated t...

Two men trapped in vehicles hundreds of miles apart have become the first fatalities of record flooding on Australia’s east coast.A car became trapped in floodwater northwest of Sydney at dawn on Wednesday and emergency services later recovered it ...

Hackers in China used fake Facebook accounts and impostor websites to try to break into the computers and smartphones of Uyghur Muslims, the social network said on Wednesday.The company said the sophisticated, covert operation targeted Uygur activist...

Ryanair is planning 2,500 flights a week to, from, and across Spain this summer as it bets on a surge in demand for holidays even as infections rise across much of Europe.Marketing director Dara Brady told a news conference on Wednesday that Europe�...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday began a week-long trip to the Middle East, where he is expected to weigh in on the Iran nuclear issue and seek to expand alliances in the face of sanctions from the West.Wang’s first stop is Saudi Arabi...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday suddenly scrapped plans for a stricter national lockdown over Easter, saying the decision – reached after hours of negotiations with state leaders – was a “mistake”.“The idea of ​​an Easter s...

Greece on Wednesday kicked off two days of celebrations to mark the bicentenary of the start of the country’s war of independence, although events are far more muted than originally planned due to the coronavirus pandemic.Dignitaries from Britain, ...

Australian miner Hawkstone Mining has successfully produced battery-grade raw lithium at its Arizona mine that would be valuable to US critical mineral and battery supply chains amid a global race to step up security in key sectors. As the United Sta...

The decision to delay the arrest of Meng Wanzhou until Canadian border officers had first questioned her in a three-hour examination at Vancouver’s airport was not directed by police or the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to gather evidence agai...

A reputed leader in the Oath Keepers militia group discussed forming an “alliance” and coordinating plans with another extremist group, the Proud Boys, ahead of the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, according to new court papers.The court fili...

Lawyers for imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny sounded the alarm on Wednesday over the politician’s deteriorating health in prison and demanded immediate access, saying he complained of back pain and leg numbness.Last August President Vladimi...

Tesla raised the prices of its made-in-China Model Y sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) by 8,000 yuan (US$1,227) on Wednesday, which suggested it was comfortable with the sales of the car, an analyst said.Less than three months after their launch in mainl...

The United States and Europe pledged deeper cooperation on countering China on Wednesday, with an agreement to start a formal US-European Union dialogue on the issue and a pledge by Nato to close ranks with “like-minded democracies” in the Asia-P...

Trying to save jobs as the pandemic pummels Vatican revenues, Pope Francis has ordered pay cuts for cardinals and other clerics, including priests and nuns, who work at the Holy See.In a decree published online on Wednesday by the Vatican’s officia...

Hong Kong residents have shown “unstoppable” support for Beijing’s plan to overhaul the city’s electoral system and ensure that foreign powers could not meddle in the nation’s domestic affairs, according to the central government’s top of...

Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the deputy ruler of Dubai and an internationally renowned horseman, has died age 75, his brother Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said on Wednesday.Sheikh Hamdan served as the finance minister of the United A...

China’s investment deal with Europe is on the rocks, with the major parties in the European Parliament either withholding, or considering withholding, support while sanctions remain on elected officials.Three of the four biggest parties have alread...

Experts on extremism are warning about a troubling shift in the right-wing QAnon movement towards a new vein of conspiracy that blends anti-Chinese and anti-Jewish tropes with fears of vaccines and a global plot to take over the world.Broadly collect...

Swedish multinational clothing retailer H&M is facing a backlash within China for not buying cotton produced in Xinjiang, as Beijing battles claims of genocide and forced labour in the region.In a statement last year, H&M, the world’s second-bigges...

Are the winds of change finally blowing across Sir Creek, the narrow strip of water dividing India and Pakistan?After years of tension, violence and even aerial bombings that have brought the two countries to the brink of war, a series of moves have ...

The North Korean missile tests conducted at the weekend were a sign of Pyongyang’s frustration over deepening US-South Korean defence ties, but were calculated not to provoke a backlash, according to diplomatic observers.Senior US administration of...

The British government said on Wednesday it will toughen immigration rules to make it harder for people who arrive by unauthorised routes such as small boats and truck stowaways to be given asylum.Home Secretary Priti Patel said asylum seekers who co...

Life seemed to be a world waiting to be explored for Sun Chenlu at 25 with a master's degree and a promising career in an overseas study agency, when a car accident on the way to the airport for an overseas holiday in 2017 destroyed her world.Sun und...

Tencent Holdings has confirmed a meeting between its founder Pony Ma Huateng and Beijing’s antitrust authority, but it called the meeting “voluntary” and “one of the regular meetings that we have” amid speculation about whether China’s bi...

Hong Kong’s biggest international school group has decided to freeze tuition fees at its 22 schools for a second consecutive year amid the coronavirus pandemic, but at least five private schools have proposed an increase of up to 4.9 per cent for t...

The European Union has extended its power to stop Covid-19 vaccine exports to the rest of the world, setting the stage for an escalation of tensions with allies and manufacturers as it faces a resurgence of cases.In strengthening its existing export ...

​The High Court has ruled part of a legal bid challenging a police decision to use tear gas for the first time during the 2019 anti-government movement in Hong Kong is “reasonably arguable” but the case should be handled through a civi​l​ ...

Singapore on Wednesday announced it was expanding its vaccination programme from seniors to everyone above the age of 45 as its Health Minister Gan Kim Yong warned that supplies were “very tight” and the vaccination drive could face disruptions �...

Hong Kong will be included in the central government’s plans for an intercity rail network using maglev trains, a senior transport ministry official said on Wednesday.“We will introduce the high-speed maglev train to Hong Kong as soon as possible...