A leading health expert on Sunday stressed that it was safe for youths to receive the BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, but noted that a high-level committee would closely track any reports of adverse reactions once Hong Kong began immunising children as yo...

A recently-announced three child policy will not prevent a long-term trend toward lower annual births in China, and the country will struggle to raise the retirement age by more than a couple of years by 2025, an influential Chinese economist said.�...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said his government wants to restart dialogue with Beijing, as a series of trade reprisals from China strain the already-weakened relationship between the two countries.“We, of course, would like to see ...

At least one person has died and seven have been injured after a collision between a minibus and a car in Hong Kong, according to police.Photos on social media of the accident at 3pm on Sunday showed the minibus flipped on its side near the junction ...

Taiwan was seen as the place that got the Covid-19 response just right, until it all started to go wrong.The island reported just 799 cases last year and seven deaths, while scores of other countries faced mounting fatalities, waves of infections run...

Malaysia on Sunday deported a leading figure in conspiracy circles who is wanted in France over the kidnapping of an eight-year-old girl, sources said. Remy Daillet, his pregnant partner and three children were arrested late last month on the holida...

Investigators digging under the house of a suspected serial killer on the outskirts of Mexico City have found 3,787 bone fragments, apparently belonging to 17 different victims.In excavations carried out since May 17, authorities in the State of Mexi...

Hot on the heels of a multibillion-dollar merger between Indonesia’s tech behemoths Gojek and Tokopedia is not the much-anticipated public listing by their parent, GoTo Group, but a strike from drivers of Gojek’s same-day parcel delivery service....

China’s Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary next month, a chance for it to reinforce to a domestic audience how the party transformed the country into the world’s second-largest economy and major world power since taking control in 1...

A gas blast at a market in central China has killed at least 12 and seriously injured another 37, China Central Television reported on Sunday.The explosion took place at about 6.30am at the Yanhu market in Shiyan, a city in Hubei province, when many ...

Hong Kong’s unemployment rate could fall further, but a full economic recovery in the coming months hinged on vaccination against Covid-19 and the easing of pandemic control measures such as the reopening of borders, the city’s finance chief said...

Beijing’s high-profile gesture of holding a symposium on the Communist Party and its implementation of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” principle on Saturday stood in stark contrast to the low-key approach it had employed in the city fo...

As a guest professor at the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development in Beijing, Suresh Babu often finds himself eating out at Chinese restaurants after his lectures. Fortunately for him, Babu is a “rice lover”.“Whenever I go to China, I fin...

Hong Kong’s private hospitals can provide an extra 400 training places a year for medical specialists and help ease an acute shortage of doctors in the city if the public sector collaborates with them, the head of a private health group has said.Am...

The HK$10.8 million (US$1.4 million) apartment offered by one of Hong Kong’s largest property developers in a lottery to spur the city’s residents to take up the Covid-19 vaccine, is a single-room flat at Sino Land’s Grand Central project in K...

An ultra-modern online crowdfunding campaign has come to the rescue of one of the most traditional and uniquely Japanese businesses in the north coast city of Niigata – its geisha community.Japan’s famous female entertainers have been struggling ...

After more than a year of coronavirus restrictions, Hongkongers can now get their arts fix through a programme that delivers performances in much the same way takeaway food is ordered.One of six programmes at this year’s June 12 to 20 HKartsFestiva...

Shortly after Leung Chun-ying was elected chief executive of Hong Kong in March 2012, he launched a large-scale government reorganisation initiative. One of the key features of the plan, announced in May 2012, was the creation of a new “culture bur...

At a time Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy has emerged as a major stumbling block for India’s government, businesses hoping to give the country a boost are unveiling eclectic freebies ranging from free alcohol and food to gold nose pins and hand blenders...

When Ireland-based Philippine migrant Ramon Borje and his daughter were on holiday in Italy in 2018, they broke away from their tour group in Rome to make a side trip to Milan, three hours away.The draw? A meal at Jollibee, a giant Philippine fast fo...

Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori on Saturday said she trusts she will not be sent back to prison after a judge reviews her freedom in a money laundering case and insisted that fraud was committed by her rival in a recent election she na...

Several hundred people gathered in London, Ontario on Saturday to pay homage to a Muslim family deliberately run over by the driver of a pickup truck, in an attack that has shocked Canadians and which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced as “ter...

The Biden administration’s plan to resume long-stalled trade talks with Taiwan has raised hopes of a normalisation of relations, but observers say it remains to be seen how far it is willing to risk China’s wrath.The White House has surprised som...

At least thirteen people were killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical sources said.The first attack struck a residential area, while the second hit a hospital soon a...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was fined US$100 on Saturday for violating Covid-19 containment measures in Sao Paulo state by failing to wear a face mask and provoking huge crowds at a motorcycle rally for supporters.Thousands of roaring motorcyc...

Almost two decades ago, in a small hillside town in southern Shan State, Myanmar’s largest coal-run power plant was built. Tigyit has been forever changed by this joint venture between the China National Heavy Machinery Corporation and a group of M...

Thousands of protesters have marched through the streets of Cornwall, in south-west England, on day two of the G7 summit as leaders of the world’s richest nations gathered to discuss coronavirus and other key issues.Members and supporters of Extinc...

A court has sentenced four migrants to 10 years in prison each for their part in fires that engulfed the Greek refugee camp Moria last year.The Afghans immediately appealed after the verdict in the trial on Saturday, but this has no postponing effect...

A second teenager appeared in court on Saturday on a charge of conspiracy to murder over the shooting in south London last month of Sasha Johnson, a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain.The Metropolitan Police said 18-year-o...

An unnamed bidder paid US$28 million at auction on Saturday for a seat alongside Jeff Bezos on board the first crewed space flight of the billionaire’s company Blue Origin next month.The Amazon founder revealed this week that both he and his brothe...

A shooter opened fire in a popular entertainment district in downtown Austin, Texas early on Saturday, wounding 13 people, including two critically, before getting away, authorities said.Investigators were looking into what sparked the shooting but w...

Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed while playing and was given CPR by medical staff during his side’s Euro 2020 soccer match with Finland in Copenhagen, Denmark on Saturday. The game was suspended. A Reuters photographer at the match s...

Turbulence from the divorce between the UK and the European Union provided an unwanted distraction at the Group of Seven (G7) summit taking place in southwest England, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying on Saturday that post-Brexit agre...

The lead organiser of Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil, which calls for an end to “one-party dictatorship” in mainland China, has vowed not to disband despite a fresh round of pressure exerted by a top Beijing official, even as the gro...

Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday it will allow 60,000 residents vaccinated against Covid-19 to perform this year’s haj, but Muslims from abroad will be barred for a second straight year.The haj – a must for able-bodied Muslims at least once in ...

China will soon start targeting foreign and Chinese businesses under its new law to counter Western sanctions, effectively forcing them to “pick sides”, according to legal observers.They say the broad scope of the legislation could present foreig...

A fire and a powerful blast ripped through a small cargo ship docked to refuel in the Philippine capital of Manila on Saturday, injuring at least six people and igniting a blaze in a nearby riverside slum that gutted dozens of shanties, officials sai...

The Group of Seven richest democracies on Saturday sought to counter China’s growing influence by offering developing nations an infrastructure plan that would rival President Xi Jinping’s multitrillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).The G...

Hong Kong’s property buyers snapped up every single flat put on the market by New World Development during its second round of weekend sales of The Pavilia Farm III project in Tai Wai, with a record number of bidders chasing after every unit.As man...

Nearly a year after a deadly clash on its border with India, China has reasserted its claims to the area, with a survivor of the confrontation saying he was willing to give his life to safeguard the country’s sovereignty.In a ceremony to commemorat...

A major Chinese-funded and built hydropower dam taking shape in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo may find itself affected by the Congolese president’s desire to renegotiate deals signed with foreign mining companies.Work on the US$...

Hong Kong confirmed three new Covid-19 infections on Saturday, all of them imported, as a leading health expert sought to allay fears over possible vaccine side effects as the city prepares to inoculate younger children. The latest cases, three arri...

Hong Kong’s government plans to allow a longer list of professionals to gain access to the personal data of corporate directors and executives, in a refinement of a plan to crack down on money laundering and financial misdemeanour.The Financial Ser...

India’s quest for Olympic glory has run into a hurdle, even before it can start.Days after Olympic kits for its athletes were unveiled by sports minister Kiren Rijiju at a special ceremony, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) cut ties with the mai...

China has criticised the United States over plans to deploy missiles and defensive systems in neighbouring countries and called for cuts to the American and Russian nuclear arsenals.Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the comments in an address to the UN-b...

China was not represented at the G7 summit in Cornwall but wound up a focus of talks as the US announced a massive infrastructure plan to counter Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative.The G7 agreed to a global infrastructure plan called “Build Back ...

At least four people were arrested as muted demonstrations by small, scattered groups marked the anniversary of the first major clash of Hong Kong’s 2019 anti-government protests amid a heavy police presence on the streets. At about 9.30pm, police...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen has apologised for the recent surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths.On Saturday, Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Centre reported 251 new Covid-19 cases and 26 deaths, a slight decrease from the previous day’s tally...

Strict coronavirus containment measures in Guangdong are heaping pressure on local businesses still finding their feet after the first wave of the pandemic swept through the province last year, threatening to wipe up to a percentage point off local g...

China and Belarus could forge stronger military and technology ties as sanctions from the West prompt Minsk to look to Beijing for more support, diplomatic observers said.The European Union and the United States imposed sanctions on Belarus after a f...