Photos for Valentino showing Japanese model Koki walking in high heels on a traditional obi kimono belt, and wearing shoes inside, have whipped up a storm of social media criticism amid accusations the luxury Italian fashion house was “trampling o...

It was the biggest hotpot fish soup anyone has ever seen. Fifty one-metre-long fish were dancing in orange “soup” that ran two kilometres by 15 metres, accompanied by 10 red peppers.However, no part of the “hotpot” was edible. The fish and pe...

A California community that has been a bellwether of the coronavirus pandemic’s rampage across the United States warned on Thursday that the number of cases of more contagious Covid-19 variants is increasing to worrisome levels.“The region’s pr...

Countries across Asia are trying everything from fertility tours to baby bonuses to spur population growth in an ageing world. Not so in Indonesia, where officials are trying to convince people to have fewer children.The world’s fourth most-populou...

About 100 people in Hong Kong reported feeling tremors from a 3.7-magnitude earthquake that struck near China’s southeast coast at 5.40am on Friday, according to the city’s Observatory.The government department said the earthquake’s epicentre w...

A 45-year-old mainland Chinese woman is wanted by Hong Kong authorities over her alleged role in an online investment scam after she jumped bail and fled the city last year.The Eastern Court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for Zeng Lingxi after ...

At least 48 people were killed and 66 injured when a train derailed as it exited a tunnel in eastern Taiwan on Friday, apparently after colliding with a runaway truck, in the worst incident of its kind on the island for at least 40 years.The eight-ca...

She died with no known family in America.Daoyou Feng, 44, of Kennesaw, Georgia, was one of eight people – six of them women of Asian decent – killed in a gunman’s rampage on March 16.She was a Chinese citizen and had been working in the spa for...

Hong Kong faced a slight Covid-19 rebound on Friday with a source expecting about 20 new infections, but the city’s vaccination drive was given a boost with the arrival of 300,000 BioNTech doses for the programme’s relaunch next week.Cathay Pacif...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson risks triggering a major backlash among members of the ruling Conservative Party if his UK government opts to use so-called Covid-19 passports to help reopen the economy.More than 70 members of Parliament from three parti...

Summer rains in western China have nearly doubled in the past 50 years because of climate change, posing an unexpected threat to Belt and Road Initiative projects in Xinjiang and central Asia, according to a new study.The risks of flooding in one of ...

South Korean authorities are facing a backlash for relying on global vaccine-sharing scheme Covax for a bulk of its Covid-19 shots as shipment delays threaten to slow the country’s inoculation programme.Once praised by the World Health Organization...

Indonesia’s two terror attacks this week resulted in limited casualties, but they point to an increasingly alarming trend. While women have always been crucial to terrorist networks, mostly behind the scenes, they are taking a leading role in extre...

Dr Sasa, the exiled special envoy of Myanmar’s disbanded parliament, has urged the embattled country’s global well-wishers to coordinate punitive measures against the military generals among themselves instead of awaiting action by the deadlocked...

Thailand is the latest country after the US, Britain, Belgium and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to shorten its 14-day quarantine requirement to 10 days for unvaccinated travellers.It is the first Southeast Asian country to reduce quarantine restr...

The United States may not need AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, even if it wins the nation’s regulatory approval, Anthony Fauci, the America’s top infectious disease doctor said on Thursday.The vaccine, once hailed as another milestone in the fi...

On my first visit to Hong Kong in the 1990s, I was struck by the city’s vitality, pluralism and openness. From my backpacker hotel, I experienced a dynamic metropolis fuelled by hard work and the free flow of ideas. Hong Kong felt upbeat and aliv...

Beijing’s massive shake-up of the Hong Kong electoral system is likely to remain in place for at least the next decade, as new amendments to the city’s mini-constitution have left no room for the local government to manoeuvre, according to severa...

A Chinese market supervision authority has launched an investigation into a controversial recruitment ad by a beverage manufacturer claiming new recruits will receive cars, houses, high incomes and be chased by “beautiful girls or handsome boys” ...

The daughter of an Asian-American woman attacked in New York said Thursday that a person not seen on surveillance video helped the woman by screaming to distract her assailant while others watched and did nothing to intervene.Elizabeth Kari, writing ...

Philippine Foreign Minister Teodoro Locsin will meet Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Friday facing an uphill task to convince Beijing to withdraw more than 200 ships from Whitsun Reef in the disputed South China Sea.Manila on Wednesday called on China...

US immigration authorities said on Thursday they have detained Anna Sorokin, the con artist who passed herself off as a wealthy German heiress and served more than three years behind bars for defrauding New York banks and hotels.Sorokin, who finagled...

The United States and the rest of North America will be the biggest importers of goods this year while China and other Asian economies will lead the way in supplying them, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said.North America will drive demand in mer...

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has lost a substantial amount of weight in custody, his organisation said on Thursday, a day after the well-known government critic called a hunger strike to protest what he called poor medical care...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Sarah Owermohle on politico.com on April 1, 2021.A contractor Johnson & Johnson enlisted to make its coronavirus vaccine acknowledged on Thursday that it ha...

US-China tensions have continued seamlessly into the Biden administration. Beijing’s desire for a reset was bluntly rebuffed in Alaska, however China is trying to spin that story now. The sanctions dispute over Xinjiang will only further strengthen...

The head of a conservative Islamic party who has emerged as a kingmaker following Israel’s latest inconclusive election called for change on Thursday, without endorsing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or his rivals.Mansour Abbas’ prime-time add...

The judge in Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case has been told by Canadian government lawyers that she has no business ruling whether the United States has jurisdiction to bring its fraud charges against the Huawei Technologies executive, and that the ...

More than half of Canadians oppose participation in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, according to a recent survey, underscoring the negative public opinion in the country toward China stemming from allegations of human rights abuses.Online p...

World powers and Iran will meet by videoconference Friday to discuss the possible return of the United States to the Iran nuclear deal, the European Union announced.Representatives of China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and Iran - the ...

Egypt is expecting more than US$1 billion in compensation after a cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week, according to the top canal official. He also warned the ship and its cargo will not be allowed to leave Egypt if the issue of damag...

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte survived one of the biggest political fights of his decade in power on Friday, narrowly winning a no-confidence vote over claims he lied about coalition talks.Dubbed the “Teflon premier” for his ability to dodge sc...

Beijing hit back at the United States on Thursday following the release of an annual report on Hong Kong, saying the Biden administration had disregarded basic facts and made irresponsible remarks on the city’s operations, and had seriously interf...

The World Health Organization on Thursday slammed Europe’s vaccine roll-out as “unacceptably slow” and said it was prolonging the pandemic as the region sees a “worrying” surge in coronavirus infections.“Vaccines present our best way out ...

Problems in the sealing process of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine vial caps may have caused the defects in existing batches of the German-made jabs delivered to Hong Kong, the city’s health director has revealed.The remaining vials would be kept in ul...

A British police officer has been found guilty of being a member of a banned neo-Nazi group and possessing extremist material including the manifesto of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, the BBC said.Benjamin Hannam, 22, a probationary po...

A week after getting an invitation from the United States to attend a global leaders’ climate summit, Beijing said it was still considering whether to take part, highlighting the challenges it faces in dealing with Washington.Analysts said the resp...

Some pro-Beijing lawmakers in Hong Kong have joined political rivals in a rare show of unity to warn of possible abuse of a proposed bill aimed at ensuring the allegiance of public office holders, citing what they said was vague language used.The con...

A judge has explained a court’s reasoning in granting and denying bail to some of the 47 defendants charged in Hong Kong’s largest crackdown under the national security law. Madam Justice Esther Toh Lye-ping on Thursday laid out why former Democr...

Two Chinese Covid-19 vaccines are a step closer to being included in the Covax Facility – the global initiative to ensure poorer countries receive fair access to such products – after the head of a World Health Organization (WHO) experts group sa...

Pakistan’s government has made a swift U-turn on plans to allow limited imports of sugar, cotton and wheat from India after a political backlash against the move.The government’s economic coordination committee on Wednesday said import permits wo...

A growing conversation about mental health, sparked by the 18th anniversary of the death of a music icon, highlighted an unmet need for accessible and affordable mental health care in China.On April 1, 2003, Leslie Cheung, a Canto-pop superstar, awar...

Hong Kong’s pro-establishment lawmakers on Thursday clamoured for more details about the newly created role of chief convenor of the powerful Election Committee, with the city’s leader saying the new position would be the only element of this wee...

The humble rice porridge lugaw has become a trending topic in the Philippines after a lowly official was recorded preventing a Grab driver from delivering the food to a home because it was past the coronavirus curfew. The incident happened in the ea...

Pressure from the G7 to force China to change its economic behaviour is “doomed to fail”, and Beijing might simply choose to ignore it if external pressure continues to mount, experts said.On Wednesday, trade ministers from the Group of 7 (G7) ...

A 48-year-old Hong Kong woman was slashed to death with a knife as she slept in her bed on Thursday morning before her husband attacked their two sons, then took his own life in a suspected murder-suicide, according to police, who said they believed ...

Hongkongers will get a chance this month to look back at the glory days of the iconic State Theatre complex in North Point before it is revitalised under a multibillion-dollar redevelopment plan.An immersive tour of the 1,400-seat venue, noted for a ...

Beijing’s drastic overhaul of Hong Kong’s electoral system would neither produce any “meaningful democratic results” nor represent the inclusive and credible will of Hongkongers, the United States’ top envoy to the city said on Thursday.But...

A man in Beijing who said he pulled a misguided April Fool’s Day prank on a doctor by writing a blackmail letter and demanding 600,000 yuan (US$91,300) was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail for the poor decision. The man, identified only by his fam...