Claims by a vocational school in China that its students “hatched” boiled eggs through the power of their minds have been ridiculed on social media.Guo Ping, principal of Chunlin Education in Zhengzhou, in the central province of Henan, is standi...

Hong Kong’s District Court has thrown out opposition activist Tam Tak-chi’s final attempt to shelve or quash his sedition charges under a colonial-era law before trial, but stopped short of clarifying whether they are constitutional. District Ju...

A short video clip of nine women dancing during the anniversary celebration of a prestigious Chinese university over the weekend was panned for being “pornographic” and “vulgar”. The short video features the women dancing while wearing golde...

Police arrested a 66-year-old woman at gunpoint on Sunday evening after she broke a bottle and waved the jagged glass in front of officers outside a shopping centre in northern Hong Kong.Officers responding to a report of illegal gambling found the w...

A team of clinician-scientists from Singapore’s National University Health System (NUHS) has found that oral hydroxychloroquine and povidone-iodine throat spray are effective in reducing the spread of Covid-19 in high-transmission settings such as ...

The card tucked in US President Joe Biden’s right jacket pocket must weigh a tonne. You can see the weight of it on his face when he digs it out, squints and ever-so-slowly reads aloud the latest tally of Covid-19 dead.Sometimes he’ll stumble on...

Hong Kong confirmed four new Covid-19 cases on Monday, all imported, while medical experts urged the government to tighten the testing regime for returning residents to prevent infections from overseas entering the community.The latest cases came fro...

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woma...

It’s finally happening. What are the details?Quarantine-free travel between Singapore and Hong Kong will begin on Wednesday, May 26 for travellers irrespective of nationality who have remained in either city for 14 consecutive days before their dat...

China’s foreign vice-minister Xie Feng has called on Shanghai-based US business leaders to lobby Washington for the removal of tariffs on Chinese goods. Xie – who was appointed in February to his new role in charge of policy planning and US affai...

361 Degrees International Limited, one of China’s largest home-grown brands in sports shoes and apparel, has signed an agreement with the China Cotton Industry Alliance (CCIA) to obtain its fibre from Xinjiang, defying the boycott by Western consum...

South Korea has secured enough Covid-19 vaccines to administer two shots to its entire population, acting prime minister Hong Nam-ki said on Monday, dismissing concerns the country had fallen behind schedule. The country recently agreed a deal with P...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battling to get his government back on track amid incendiary claims about his conduct during the pandemic and ongoing rows over lobbying and cronyism.The Daily Mail reported on Monday that the premier said last yea...

Two Chinese Covid-19 vaccines are to be reviewed by a global regulator for the first time, a decision that could have far-reaching implications for worldwide vaccine rollouts.China’s pharmaceutical companies have faced intense scrutiny for not rele...

A long-delayed travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will finally allow for quarantine-free trips starting on May 26, both governments revealed on Monday. Travellers from Hong Kong will need to have received their second coronavirus vaccine ...

The Cambodian government’s two-week lockdown to contain a surge of Covid-19 cases in the capital, Phnom Penh, has cut off food supplies for thousands of garment workers, market vendors and others who survive on a day-to-day income. Prime Minister H...

A fleet of British warships and military aircraft billed as the “largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the UK in a generation” will depart next month for visits to India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, in a display of Britai...

Two months after New Delhi and Beijing completed the disengagement of troops from the hotly-contested Pangong Tso lake on their disputed border, there is a growing belief in India that its troops withdrew too early and what was meant to set the stage...

China’s recent white paper celebrating the end of extreme poverty will be dismissed by critics as propaganda or PR fluff. Yet what cannot easily be dismissed is the evidence that mainland China has indeed made extraordinary economic progress over r...

Sustainability experts are questioning if Hong Kong’s push to become an international “green finance” hub will help the city reach its climate targets, with half of its first US$1 billion (HK$7.8 billion) environmentally friendly bond going tow...

The red carpet is back. After the coronavirus pandemic forced awards shows to be cancelled or go virtual over the past year, movie stars and Hollywood A-listers returned on Sunday strutting their stuff, live and in person, on perhaps the most iconic ...

Two years after Hong Kong was shaken by political turmoil, influential businessman Michael Kadoorie believes the government needs to do more to address the concerns of younger people.The chairman of electricity supplier CLP Holdings and Hongkong and ...

Price-competitive Chinese companies are expected to continue to dominate construction of Africa’s power dams, highways, ports and railways, even as China’s official export credit agency takes a more cautious approach to lending, observers say.Tha...

Israeli police on Sunday allowed Palestinians to access a promenade around Jerusalem’s Israeli-annexed Old City, in a move apparently aimed at easing tensions after days of clashes.A few hundred Palestinians held a rally at the Damascus gate and po...

Family members, friends and clergy members dressed in white and red honoured the life and faith of hip-hop icon DMX at his homegoing celebration Sunday in New York.Religious leaders and musicians prayed, sang and delivered moving tributes as members ...

Kim Kardashian thanked US President Joe Biden for acknowledging the mass killings of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide.“After more than a century of fighting for truth and acknowledgement, today the Armenian people rec...

The United States must remove sanctions designations for some 1,500 individuals as part of efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with the state-run ICANA news agency on Sunday....

French authorities detained a fifth person on Sunday in an anti-terrorism investigation seeking to identify potential accomplices and motives after a police official was fatally stabbed at a police station outside Paris.French police killed the 37-ye...

The United States has led international pledges of support for India as the country grappled with worsening Covid-19 crisis with record daily death rates and severe medical shortages.The Indian health care system has struggled to cope with a huge sur...

A 61-year-old Chinese-American man was attacked by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, police said.The man was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head on Friday. He was ta...

Protesters in Paris and other French cities on Sunday denounced a ruling by France’s highest court that the killer of Jewish woman Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible and therefore could not go on trial.Thousands of people filled Trocadero ...

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International pressure against China over its Xinjiang policies has gained traction in recent months, with China criticised over the treatment of Uygur Muslims in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. China has denied allegations of forced labour and det...

Alber Elbaz, the fashion designer whose playful designs transformed the storied French house Lanvin into an industry darling before his shock ouster in 2015, has died aged 59 after a battle with Covid-19, the Richemont luxury group said on Sunday.“...

The consensus forged between Southeast Asian leaders and Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to de-escalate his country’s post-coup crisis has come under scrutiny a day after it was forged at a summit in Jakarta.The Association of Southeast As...

Cathay Pacific Airways plans to shrink its order of Boeing’s newest marquee aircraft, the 777X, as the long-lasting effects of the Covid-19 pandemic trigger a rethink on the top-of-the-range commercial jets. The airline would “optimise” its ord...

Beijing’s top office in Hong Kong has ratcheted up its attack on the Bar Association chairman, denouncing him as an “anti-China politician” whose continuing tenure it warned would make a mockery of the legal body.“How could such an anti-China...

Hong Kong police have reclassified a case to murder-suicide, revealing evidence that suggested an elderly man may have killed his chronically ill wife before hanging himself in their North Point flat.The couple’s 54-year-old son returned home on Sa...

The European Union has criticised China’s activities in the South China Sea, accusing it of threatening regional peace and stability.On Saturday the bloc issued a statement saying it strongly opposed “unilateral actions that could undermine regio...

A pension deficit and looming debt crisis driven by a rapidly greying population. That’s the nightmare scenario for Chinese authorities, including the nation’s central bank, who are increasingly worried about the financial implications of the cou...

A former student union chief at Hong Kong’s Chinese University who was involved in setting up a now-defunct cross-party platform for political cooperation in the city has revealed he fled to Canada fearing arrest under the national security law.Ern...

Vietnam is building up its maritime militia in the South China Sea in an apparent challenge to Chinese efforts to dominate the disputed waterway, according to a Chinese military magazine.Beijing claims almost all of the South China Sea, but Hanoi is ...

Iraq’s Interior Ministry on Sunday said that at least 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients.Negligence on the part of hospit...

The visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) earlier this year was indicative of a shift in Beijing’s lending and investment focus for Africa, according to analysts.During his trip to Kinshasa in January, ...

Providing better protection for intellectual property rights in the hi-tech field is a central part of China’s development strategy, a senior official said on Sunday, as Beijing seeks to drive the next stage of its economic evolution and end its re...

Conflict with China over Taiwan “should not be discounted,” but Australia will work with its allies in the region to try to maintain peace, Australian defence minister Peter Dutton said on Sunday.“I don’t think it [conflict] should be discoun...

Western countries are becoming concerned about their reliance on China for supplies of rare earth elements and other scarce metals and minerals that are essential for the manufacture of electric car batteries, satellites, weapons, wind turbines and s...

China and Vietnam have agreed to work together to improve trust amid simmering tensions between the two neighbours over their territorial claims in the South China Sea.The commitment was made at a defence and security consultation in the south China ...