A former pro-independence group member has been jailed for 12 years for his role in Hong Kong’s biggest seizure of explosives in two decades, the heaviest sentence handed down on charges relating to the 2019 civil unrest.During sentencing at the Hi...

Reliance Industries Ltd., controlled by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, bought Stoke Park Ltd. for US$79 million, adding an iconic locale that’s been the setting for two James Bond films to its portfolio of tourism properties.A wholly owned unit ...

Eight people, including two firefighters, died after a fire on Thursday at a subsidiary factory of Taiwanese electronic manufacturer Casetek Group, a supplier of US tech giant Apple, in the outskirts of Shanghai.The fire broke out at 1:30pm on Thursd...

The Chinese public is crowing on social media after French fashion brand Chanel lost a trademark dispute to telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies this week.The dispute was over an application filed by Huawei to the European Union Intellectual ...

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday named Lawrence Wong as the country’s next finance minister, signalling that the 48-year-old - the public face of Singapore’s Covid-19 response - may be among the favourites to become the cou...

A Hong Kong magistrate’s suggestion for how reporters could obtain information from a government database without falling foul of the law that ensnared an RTHK contributor is simply unworkable, according to a legal scholar and a journalists’ grou...

After delivering sermons and visiting slums, Philippine priest Fiel Pareja tends to his Gen-Z flock on TikTok, creating videos of himself praying, dancing and lip-synching Christian pop music for 1.6 million followers.As the coronavirus pandemic forc...

Fatima Gud, a 54-year-old Indonesian widow, visits the Al-Mashun Mosque in the city of Medan, North Sumatra, almost every day during Ramadan – the Islamic holy month during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.Fatima, a 54-year-old widow, enjo...

China and the United States might agree on the need to work together to tackle climate change but they are still far apart on the burden each should bear.Addressing the US-hosted Earth Day Summit on Thursday, US President Joe Biden said his country w...

A Hong Kong woman was assaulted in a terrifying encounter with an intruder in the early hours of Friday after she woke to find the man sitting on top of her in her bedroom, according to police.The 36-year-old woman was punched repeatedly as she put u...

Hong Kong confirmed nine new Covid-19 cases on Friday, as experts sought to get to the bottom of a rash of false positives at a major testing firm that were revealed the day before. Eight of the cases were imported, while one was local and the sole u...

Pangolins have clever defence mechanisms. When threatened they curl up into a tight ball – the name pangolin is derived from the Malay word pengguling, meaning “one who rolls up” – the hard scales covering their bodies overlap to create an �...

A sheriff’s deputy in the San Francisco Bay Area has been charged with manslaughter and assault in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Filipino man during a slow-moving car chase more than two years ago.Last month, the same deputy shot and killed a bl...

Lawmakers have called for tougher penalties against Hong Kong schools and NGOs drawing on public funds that refuse to make their premises available for election authorities to use as polling stations.A bill enabling Beijing’s overhaul of local elec...

Chinese live-streamer Huang Hanwen uses domestic cosmetics brands and spends his time talking about animation, comics, games and short novels (ACGN), as well as domestic, Japanese and Korean celebrities and entertainment news. At weekends, he uses Ma...

India reported the world’s highest daily tally of coronavirus infections for the second day on Friday, surpassing 330,000 new cases, as it struggles with a health system in crisis and beset by accidents.Deaths in the past 24 hours also jumped to a ...

The Japanese government is seeking a “short and powerful” state of emergency for Tokyo, Osaka and two other prefectures, a cabinet minister said on Friday, as the country struggles to contain a resurgent pandemic just three months ahead of the Ol...

The World Health Organization’s review of two Chinese Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use licensing - a prerequisite for their inclusion in the Covax Facility global vaccine distribution programme - is proceeding as scheduled. Kate O’Brien, direc...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Seligman, Andrew Desiderio and Betsy Woodruff Swan on politico.com on April 22, 2021.The Pentagon warned lawmakers this week about the growing and urg...

As soon as he heard that the army had seized power on February 1, Myanmar entrepreneur Samuel, who owns a construction material company with 10 employees, rushed to Yangon bank to withdraw most of the money in his business account and convert the kya...

Dozens of Hong Kong students from the first 3,400 candidates to sit this year’s university entrance exams were forced on Friday to take the tests in backup venues after the sudden coronavirus-related closure of at least two schools.Exams were abrup...

A Norwegian climber hoping to summit Everest confirmed on Thursday that he had tested positive for Covid-19, in a blow to Nepal’s hopes for a bumper mountaineering season on the world’s highest peak.The pandemic wiped out last year’s season, bu...

Two US senators are working to attach legislation to allow automakers to deploy tens of thousands of self-driving vehicles on US roads to a bipartisan China bill, a significant reform that could help speed the commercial use of automated vehicles.Sen...

More than 200 emergency services and security officers have held a large-scale counterterrorism drill at Hong Kong International Airport to strengthen the city’s response to bomb attacks and incursions from hostage-taking knifemen.Code-named “Iro...

Hong Kong’s Canton Road has overtaken Russell Street as the most expensive place to rent a shop in the Asia-Pacific region for the first time, according to a survey by Cushman & Wakefield.The street in Tsim Sha Tsui ended 2020 at HK$944 (US$122) pe...

The United States voiced solidarity on Thursday with Australia, saying it suffered from China’s “coercive” diplomacy, after Canberra angered Beijing by scrapping a major infrastructure deal.State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Austral...

Cross-border technological collaboration took centre stage when Chinese Vice-Premier Han Zheng met Hong Kong’s leader in Guangzhou on the Greater Bay Area regional integration plan on Thursday.Previously, such high-level talks took place in Beijing...

A man who battled extreme poverty and family hardship to achieve academic excellence has moved China to tears with his story that has attracted more than 770 million views online.Huang Guoping grew up without shoes and had to catch eels to pay for sc...

Veteran primary school teacher Eva* will be leaving Hong Kong with her husband and child by summer to start a new life in Britain.Changes in the city’s education scene since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong last June pr...

China and the United States may have expressed willingness to work together on climate change, but little else points to the clouds lifting from their stormy relationship.Just as Chinese President Xi Jinping prepared to attend a virtual summit hosted...

Canada on Thursday said it is banning all flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days due to the growing wave of Covid-19 cases in that region.Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said the ban would start late on Thursday, speaking hours after India repo...

A Chinese tycoon who served 13 years in prison for bribery and embezzlement and is still wanted by Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has taken a position as an adviser to a cosmetics and skincare products manufacturer in Shanghai, according to a n...

Consumer Reports engineers said they “easily tricked” a Tesla vehicle to drive via its Autopilot feature without anyone in the driver’s seat, just days after a fatal crash in Texas where police said they found no one behind the steering wheel o...

Relations between China and Australia have become fraught over the past year after Canberra pushed for an international probe into the origin of the coronavirus without diplomatic consultations beforehand, and Beijing eventually responded with a nu...

The British parliament has passed a non-binding motion declaring that Uygurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang region “are suffering crimes against humanity and genocide”, even as the government made clear it did not back the reso...

The US Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would help combat the rise of hate crimes against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, a bipartisan denunciation of such violence during the coronavirus pandemic and a modest step toward l...

A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map took a further step Thursday as the House of Representatives approved a bill to make the nation’s capital the 51st state.Approval came by a 216-208 vote along strict party lines. Republ...

Russia’s defence minister on Thursday ordered troops back to their permanent bases following massive drills amid tensions with Ukraine, but said that they should leave their weapons behind in western Russia for another exercise later this year.Ukra...

American broadcasters must start disclosing programmes sponsored or paid for by a foreign government such as China or Russia, the US communications watchdog said on Thursday.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said any radio or television sta...

Fudan University’s plans for a satellite campus in Budapest – the first by a Chinese university in Europe – have run into a wall of protests after leaked documents indicated the project would saddle Hungary with debt and was negotiated without ...

As Indonesia races to locate a missing submarine, with its oxygen supply expected to expire on Saturday, experts have expressed concern over the fate of the crew and highlighted the risks of the country’s ageing military equipment.The KRI Nanggala ...

The sudden death of Chadian president Idriss Deby has unleashed anxious speculation about how leadership change will affect a nation pivotal to events in the Sahel and beyond.Deby died on Tuesday from wounds sustained in a battle with rebels, accordi...

A judge denied bail to a former opposition lawmaker charged with subversion under the national security law after learning he had received repeated invitations from the United States consulate in the city asking him to meet up “for coffee”, Hong ...

Hong Kong secondary school students will learn about national security through US-China relations, ecology and even astronomy under fresh guidelines education authorities have issued as part of a wider effort to instil patriotism through the classroo...

The chairman and two directors of a listed company in Hong Kong were among four people arrested on Thursday in a joint crackdown by police and stock regulators on a syndicate involved in market misconduct and fraud.The two men and one woman of the fi...

Leaders from around the world called on Thursday for cooperation to reduce greenhouse gases towards an eventual goal of net-zero carbon emissions in a bid to tamp down a rapidly warming planet.Addressing 40 leaders from six continents, summit host US...

More than 100,000 African and ethnic minority soldiers who died fighting for the British Empire in World War I were not properly commemorated due to “pervasive racism”, according to a report released on Thursday.The Commonwealth War Graves Commis...

A leading Beijing think tank has lowered the ranking positions of Australia and the United States as destinations for Chinese outbound investment, in its latest assessment of 114 countries, underscoring the risk to investors amid deteriorating relati...

A local green group has officially recorded a species of bauhinia not previously known to grow in Hong Kong, it has said.Green Power first noticed the Bauhinia aperilobata, of the same family as the city’s official flower, the Bauhinia blakeana, du...