In more than 10 years in the logistics business, David Sun says he has never seen shipping fees climb as high or quickly as they have this year.“It’s unprecedented,” he said on the phone from Yiwu, a central Chinese city known as the world’s ...

A member of the South Korean air force has been arrested on charges of sexually harassing and injuring a female colleague, which led to her taking her own life, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The master sergeant, only identified by his surna...

Nearly 60 per cent of Hongkongers support the mandatory Covid-19 vaccination of police officers, firefighters and other frontline workers providing essential public services, according to a Chinese University survey.The study also found that a system...

In a bizarre incident that has outraged and shocked Indians in equal measure, the sister of a bride who collapsed and died in the middle of her wedding ceremony was made to marry the groom in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh last week.A doctor who...

China could achieve limited reopening of its borders in the first half of next year if it can speed up its vaccination rate against Covid-19, a renowned Chinese infectious disease expert said.Zhang Wenhong, director of Huashan Hospital’s department...

Chongming district in Shanghai, dubbed the “Long Island in the East”, has set its sights on sports and health care to buoy its economic growth and help it achieve its goal of becoming a world-class ecological territory.Miao Jing, governor of Chon...

The latest conspiracy theory sweeping the extended QAnon world claims that the US Supreme Court will reinstate former president Donald Trump before the Labour Day weekend, despite the fact that he lost a fair election nearly seven months ago and has ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Meredith McGraw and Tina Nguyen on politico.com on June 2, 2021.Twenty-nine days after it was launched, Donald Trump’s blog, once hailed by fans as his tr...

China’s services sector expansion slowed in May, a private sector survey showed on Thursday, with weaker overseas demand and increased costs putting pressure on businesses.The Caixin/Markit services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 55.1 i...

[Sponsored Article] Organised by The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (HKFYG) and funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the third HKFYG Jockey Club School of Global Leadership’s Global Seminar was successfully held on 21-28 Marc...

An assessment by Hong Kong’s leader that she was not too worried about the city’s declining population as it could rely on overseas or mainland Chinese talent and reduce the burdens posed by the elderly by having them live across the border has s...

There is an aspect of the US-China technology race that is more consequential than simply mining more data or developing better technology. It is writing the rules of the digital road. In this competition over standards, whichever nation first strike...

Boxer-senator Manny Pacquiao faces the fight of his life – but it won’t be in the boxing ring. Allies of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte seem bent on knocking him out of contention for the 2022 presidential elections in favour of his daughte...

The president of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee ruled out a cancellation or further postponement of the Olympics as doubts swirled among host cities and medical professionals whether the event can be held safely amid the pandemic.Public opinion ...

The rapid appreciation of the yuan against the US dollar recently is likely to draw increased scrutiny from the Biden administration of China’s opaque exchange rate mechanism, as high-level trade talks resume between the world’s two biggest econo...

A pair of leading Hong Kong business groups have called on the government to expand its exemption of compulsory coronavirus quarantine beyond the financial sector’s top brass if it hopes to reopen the economy, while foreign domestic helpers have sl...

Nasa announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how the planet became a hellscape while our own Earth thrived.“These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus beca...

China is hoping a major policy shift allowing couples to have up to three children – scrapping a two-child limit – will help tackle the problem of its ageing population. But researchers are not optimistic young Chinese will be convinced to have m...

Dangling everything from sports tickets to a free beer, US President Joe Biden is looking for that extra something – anything – that will get people to roll up their sleeves for Covid-19 shots when the promise of a life-saving vaccine by itself h...

Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid said he had succeeded in forming a broad-based coalition to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving leader.Should it be confirmed by the 120-member Knesset legislature in the com...

Tokyo would step up militarily to defend Taiwan if Beijing moved to reunify the island with mainland China by force, former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger said in a panel discussion on Tuesday with other top Trump administration offi...

The world has reached a milestone in recognising the gravity of climate change, but the battle to blunt environmental destruction will be protracted and require full-throated support from the financial industry, said global asset managers, regulators...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Betsy Woodruff Swan, Lara Seligman, Andrew Desiderio and Nahal Toosi on politico.com on May 29, 2021.The US national security community is monitoring two Ir...

The owner of a small sunflower oil factory in Bulgaria has accused US soldiers of illegally storming his facility during a Nato military exercise last month.Marin Dimitrov told reporters on Wednesday that he had filed a lawsuit against those responsi...

Two children in Florida ran away from a group home, broke into a house and engaged in a shoot-out with law enforcement officers responding to the scene, authorities said on Wednesday.A 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl found guns inside a home t...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ben Leonard on politico.com on June 2, 2021.After less than a month, former US president Donald Trump’s blog is apparently no more.When visiting the link ...

More than 180 firefighters spent nearly 15 hours putting out a cargo boat blaze in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour after the 6,448-tonne vessel burst into flames and sent smoke across the city as far as Tai Po.Residents reported “choking” smoke in...

China’s memory chip makers are pushing into the lower-end of the market even as the country faces an increasingly steep uphill battle to achieve its self-sufficiency goals amid ongoing geopolitical tensions and a global semiconductor shortage.Yangt...

US public health officials were “in the dark” about whether their experts would be included in a WHO coronavirus mission to China early last year, according to newly released emails obtained by US outlet BuzzFeed News.The disclosure was one of a ...

Budapest has renamed streets around the planned site of a top Chinese university to protest an “unwanted” project forced on it by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, the city’s mayor said Wednesday.Four street signs at the site now bear...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appealed to the public on Wednesday to get vaccinated against Covid-19, after data showed the government was far behind its immunisation targets as it battles one of Asia’s worst and longest-running outbreaks.�...

More Chinese vaccine makers are lining up for World Health Organization approval after the global health body authorised the emergency use of two of the country’s products.Three pharmaceutical firms have formally registered their interest with the ...

As China’s industrial hub of Guangdong steps up its fight to contain an outbreak of Covid-19, the southern province faces another challenge: the annual college entrance examination.Guangdong education officials say the exam will go ahead next week,...

Israel’s parliament elected the even-keeled Labor veteran Isaac Herzog as its 11th president on Wednesday, a vote that came as opposition lawmakers scrambled to forge a coalition to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.Herzog, 60, beat forme...

Hong Kong students need to focus on learning Mandarin under a system where the language is incorporated into the local exam system for primary and secondary pupils, a report commissioned by the state ministry has proposed.The latest report on the lan...

A lottery featuring a new flat worth HK$10.8 million for vaccinated Hong Kong residents will open on June 15, organisers have revealed, as more businesses offer incentives for getting the jabs.Permanent identity card holders who are aged 18 and above...

Telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co plans to expand the reach of its HarmonyOS mobile platform in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market, where its self-developed operating system could be used in more devices than Google’s Android.At the ...

Holding a giant bottle of water and a plastic bag full of steamed buns, a man with unkempt hair and awkward speech addressed the media. It was a far cry from the stereotypical image of a university professor.Wei Dongyi, an assistant professor in math...

China has rejected Malaysia’s complaints about its air force’s activities, saying on Wednesday that its warplanes had been conducting routine training in accordance with international law.“This is a routine training activity carried out by the ...

The number two US diplomat on Wednesday said Washington remained confident in Asean’s five-point consensus plan to defuse Myanmar’s post-coup crisis, even as criticism mounts over the blueprint’s failure to take off nearly six weeks after it wa...

China’s government formally accused an array of Western fashion brands – including H&M, Nike and Zara – of selling substandard children’s clothes that posed potential health hazards, amid ongoing calls by Chinese shoppers to boycott Western c...

Three Hong Kong universities have risen in the rankings of Asian institutions compiled by a prominent publication, with Chinese University becoming the city’s second best.In the latest Times Higher Education (THE) rankings, the Hong Kong University...

Weaving through congested Ho Chi Minh City on his Honda motorbike, Ho Duc Quang zips past a statue of the city’s namesake revolutionary leader and the warren-like Ben Thanh Market to drop off toys, books and other packages to customers of online re...

Beijing’s new top diplomat in Hong Kong has promised to make a more robust opposition to perceived external interference his top priority, saying it was his office’s job to establish and guard the city’s “defensive lines”.Liu Guangyuan, hea...

The Chinese foreign minister has accused some developed countries of “hoarding” Covid-19 vaccines, but praised the BRICS bloc of emerging economies for doing the opposite and offering doses to other nations.Wang Yi made the remarks on Tuesday in ...

Four people have been charged with running a vice establishment at an unlicensed Hong Kong massage parlour where the deputy chief of police’s National Security Department was found in March.The man accused of operating the Viet Spa in Wan Chai, and...

Hong Kong’s leader has announced the postponement of a scheme that would have allowed for quarantine-free entry for arrivals from mainland China, as officials across the border battle a fresh outbreak of coronavirus cases in neighbouring Guangdong....

China’s Tiangong space station could help pave the way for a manned mission from Mars with its use of a propulsion system that has never before been deployed for a manned spacecraft.The space station’s core Tianhe module is powered by four ion dr...

Hong Kong marked 40 straight days without a single untraceable case of Covid-19 locally after a policeman whose reported infection snapped the long streak the previous day turned out to be officially coronavirus-free on Wednesday.The mistaken diagnos...

Zhao, a Chinese national who has lived in Singapore for four years, has been looking forward to receiving the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine since a shipment of 200,000 doses arrived in the city state in February.The 27-year-old IT worker, who only wish...