A legendary pig that became a household name in China after surviving 36 days while trapped under debris after the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake is reportedly near the end of its life.The pig, called Zhu Jianqiang which means strong-willed pig ...

The number of people surveyed by an influential American business group who say they are considering leaving Hong Kong has risen since last year, with a significant portion citing the national security law as the primary driver.In the latest American...

Hong Kong will launch its quarantine-free travel bubble with Singapore as scheduled on May 26 despite sporadic local coronavirus infections, the city’s commerce minister has said.Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Edward Yau Tang-wah o...

India’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 250,000 on Wednesday, official data showed, as the pandemic raged across the vast country of 1.3 billion people.According to the health ministry, 4,205 people died in the past 24 hours – a new record – t...

A Taiwanese computer hardware maker has become the target of a boycott in mainland China, after calling Chinese manufacturing “low-quality” and touting its products as Taiwan-made.In an advertisement for its latest laptop series that has since be...

Veteran Hong Kong judge Johnson Lam Man-hon is expected to become a permanent member of Hong Kong’s top court after the city’s leader accepted a recommendation from an advisory commission that he be named to the post.In a statement issued on Wedn...

Two Singaporeans have been arrested in connection with the death of a newborn baby in Taiwan two years ago, police in the city state said on Tuesday.Taiwan had placed a couple from Singapore on its most-wanted list on suspicion of murder after the ba...

A Hong Kong couple was assaulted as they attempted to save their sons and two young friends from a gang attack in a park on Tuesday night, police have said.As of midday on Wednesday, a citywide manhunt remained under way for 12 suspects in connection...

As Indonesian authorities turn back thousands of people trying to return to their hometowns for the Eid ul-Fitr festival despite a nationwide interstate travel ban, some have questioned the inflow of foreign workers into the country. Earlier this mo...

Peru’s Health Ministry said it was investigating nurses who were accused of trying to inoculate patients with empty syringes during the country’s coronavirus vaccination campaign.The ministry said the three known cases were reported in the capita...

A county in China has banned birthday parties, housewarmings and other celebrations following calls for frugality from the country’s central government.Funing county in southwestern Yunnan province also revealed new rules for weddings and mourning ...

Hundreds of cities have no climate adaptation plans in place despite rising threats like floods, heatwaves and pollution, according to a report Wednesday that said this could put 400 million people at risk across the world.Fast-expanding urban areas ...

India is calling on China to help stop surging prices and increase cargo flights to get urgently needed supplies to the pandemic-ravaged country.Indian companies have sourced oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies from their Chinese counterp...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Olivia Beavers and Melanie Zanona on politico.com on May 11, 2021.On the eve of being ousted as House Republican conference chair, a defiant congresswoman L...

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a variant of Covid-19 behind the acceleration of India’s explosive outbreak has been found in dozens of countries all over the world.The UN health agency said the B. 1.617 variant of Covid-19, fi...

Vanessa and Tiffany Trump became “inappropriately – and perhaps dangerously – close” to Secret Service agents assigned to protect them when former president Donald Trump was still commander-in-chief, according to a new book from Washington Po...

The Hong Kong Observatory issued its first “very hot weather” warning of the year on Wednesday, with the mercury expected to reach as high as 33 degrees Celsius in urban areas and higher still in the New Territories.The warning was sent at 6.45am...

Hong Kong eased its strict 21-day mandatory hotel quarantine for most vaccinated travellers on Wednesday, while health authorities have released a list of 10 approved coronavirus vaccines for inbound arrivals.Five Chinese-made and produced vaccines w...

Hong Kong’s domestic workers say the government is unfairly forcing them to take a Covid-19 vaccine or else face the risk of undergoing repeated mandatory testing after authorities suddenly ordered them to be screened again.Although Chief Executive...

When he still had a Twitter account, Donald Trump shared tweets featuring the word “ratings” almost 400 times. It's no secret he's obsessed with numbers and how many eyes he has on him at all times. Along those lines, the former president might ...

[Sponsored article] Although multinational companies today recognise the value of a workplace that combines people from diverse backgrounds, polarisation – characterised by a rise in trade wars and growing hostility between the East and West –...

A multilingual Malaysian Chinese politician with a love of Hong Kong movies is being touted as a top candidate to lead Malaysia’s largest opposition party into the next general election.If he is elected as secretary general of the Democratic Action...

Sinovac Biotech Ltd’s vaccine is wiping out Covid-19 among health workers in Indonesia, an encouraging sign for the dozens of developing countries reliant on the controversial Chinese shot, which performed far worse than Western vaccines in clinica...

“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted,” Arthur Miller once observed. In the same vein, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), a once promising regional organisation, is confronting its own moment of truth....

Hoping to prove a cut above the competition, Pakistani barber Ali Abbas relies on an unusual array of tools to practice his craft – including blowtorches, meat cleavers, and even broken glass.Abbas’s fringe style has proved a hit in the conservat...

Petrol stations from Florida to Virginia began running dry and prices at the pump rose on Tuesday, as the shutdown of the biggest US fuel pipeline by hackers extended into a fifth day and sparked panic buying by motorists.The administration of US Pre...

Hongkongers are among the keenest buyers of homes that have been owned or rented by Hollywood actors, pop stars and tycoons, seeing them as a sound investment whose resale value is likely to be boosted by their celebrity associations, according to a ...

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said the Central American nation, a long-standing diplomatic ally of Taiwan, could open a trade office in China in a bid to acquire coronavirus vaccines.Honduras does not have formal relations with China and ...

This is the third in a series of stories about China’s once-a-decade census conducted in 2020. The world’s most populous nation released its national demographic data on Tuesday, and the figures will have far-reaching social policy and economic i...

A US industry group on Monday applauded the New York Stock Exchange’s move to delist China’s big three telecommunications carriers to comply with a ban introduced last year by the Trump administration.The Big Board last week rejected the appeals ...

FBI agents searched the sprawling site of a Hindu temple on Tuesday as a lawsuit filed in federal court alleged workers from marginalised communities in India were lured to the US and forced to work long hours for just a few dollars per day to help b...

Its fragments plunged into the Indian Ocean with no casualties, but the fall to Earth of the Long March 5B rocket focused attention on China’s forays into space – against the inevitable backdrop of broader tussles with the West.As the rocket was ...

China is looking to Turkmenistan to expand natural gas supplies as it cuts back on Australian energy imports.Wrapping up a meeting with his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov and the country’s deputy prime minister Serdar Berdymukhamedov in Xian on...

The worst Israeli-Palestinian violence since 2014 saw 1,000 rockets fired at the Jewish state by Wednesday, the Gaza Strip pounded by relentless air strikes and at least 50 people killed, fuelling fears of a descent into “full-scale war”.In anoth...

The man accused of killing eight people in a shooting spree in Georgia targeted most of his victims because they were of Asian descent, a prosecutor said on Tuesday, saying that she would be seeking the death penalty against the suspect.Robert Aaron ...

The White House on Tuesday announced a series of steps aimed at boosting US Covid-19 vaccination rates, including a partnership with ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft, as it seeks to achieve President Joe Biden’s July 4 reopening deadline.The lat...

US President Joe Biden has so far shown more continuity from his predecessor than expected when it comes to China, according to Chinese foreign policy scholars.But at a seminar on the US leader’s first 100 days in office on Tuesday, they concluded ...

The No 2 officer in Hong Kong’s police National Security Department is considering resigning after he was caught during a raid on an unlicensed massage parlour and placed on leave, a high-level source has told the Post.The further fallout on Wednes...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban describes his foreign policy as a “peacock dance”.“He takes one step to the right, one step back, and tries to rattle his beautiful feathers to please everyone,” said Tamás Matura, a professor covering C...

In the past three weeks, more than 68 trains carrying 4,200 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen have travelled from Indian states that produce it, such as Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal, to cities that are in dire need of it, ...

Amazon.com has apparently blocked several prominent mainland Chinese merchants for alleged “suspicious behaviour”, in a move that industry insiders said is part of a targeted crackdown on questionable business practices sellers on the platform, i...

China’s population has grown to 1.412 billion over the past decade, the slowest pace since the 1950s, in a continuing demographic shift to a declining labour force and rapidly ageing society that is expected to weigh on the country’s economic pro...

A variant of the coronavirus that caused a deadly outbreak in France can evade standard tests, detectable only deep in the lungs, according to a new study.In a paper published on the preprint service medRxiv.org on Monday, researchers in western Fran...

The US’ aggressive China policy will prove self-defeating and threatens to weaken both sides, according to a former senior American defence official.In an article published in the influential East Asia Forum on Sunday, former assistant secretary of...

The death of a 17-year-old student at his school in Chengdu, southwest China, has caused online uproar after his parents raised questions over an initial investigation that suggested he had taken his own life, without providing any details.The educat...

Hong Kong will send more civil servants for working stints across the border in the Greater Bay Area under an extended exchange deal to be signed with mainland Chinese authorities, the city’s leader has revealed.The scheme would boost local governm...

When Malaysia’s former police chief last week took aim at government officials over their links to elite officers as he passed the reins to his successor, insiders who had long discussed the issue in hushed tones found their suspicions brought out ...

The People’s Liberation Army has conducted island landing drills apparently targeting Taiwan, amid heightened tensions across the strait.Video footage released by the PLA Navy on Monday shows marines from the Eastern Theatre Command in a recent lan...

An unemployed man with moderate mental disability has been placed in a rehabilitation centre for attempted arson and criminal damage during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong.The District Court heard Hongkonger Mahmood Hamaad, 19, placed ...

Tesla’s sales in mainland China hit a blip last month as the leader in the electric vehicle (EV) field ran foul of angry customers raising concerns about safety and quality.The US carmaker delivered 25,845 Shanghai-made vehicles in April, 27.2 per ...