Three days after Hong Kong won fencing gold at the Tokyo Olympics, Dylan Wong, a 28-year-old clerk, was still revelling in the victory – so much so he decided to give the sport a try himself.The Hongkonger was watching on Monday evening with collea...

The Hong Kong Sports Institute is planning to build a new fencing stadium ahead of the 2024 Olympics, as interest in the sport soars in the wake of Edgar Cheung Ka-long’s historic gold medal win at the Tokyo Games this week.Lam Tai-fai, the head of...

The United States has seized a Singapore-owned oil tanker that was used to make illegal oil deliveries to North Korea, the Justice Department said.A New York federal judge issued a judgment of forfeiture authorising the US to take ownership of the M/...

Communist Party mouthpieces Xinhua and People’s Daily have called for the eradication of Hong Kong’s largest teachers’ union, with both dubbing it a “malignant tumour” in a pair of commentaries released nearly simultaneously on Saturday.The...

The spread of the highly infectious Delta variant of Covid-19 shows no signs of slowing down in China as a case emerged in the flood-hit city of Zhengzhou.The National Health Commission reported a total of 55 daily cases from Friday, including 25 imp...

Life is harsh and people can be so nasty to one another, it’s hard not to be a cynic. And with Covid-19 refusing to back down even after more than a year of disruption to every aspect of our lives, it’s hard not to be a defeatist. But a toxic wor...

Until two years ago, Aamir Ataullah said his future as a merchant in the Indian town of Uri, close to the border with Pakistan, seemed bright.The 28-year-old was among hundreds of barter traders plying their goods along the Line of Control that divid...

China has opened the doors on what it bills as the world’s largest planetarium, a slick new Shanghai facility showcasing the nation’s recent extraterrestrial exploits while downplaying those of space pioneers like the United States.Beijing has sp...

Former US President Donald Trump suffered twin setbacks on Friday when the Justice Department cleared the way to release his tax records and disclosed a memo showing he had urged top officials last year to falsely claim his election defeat was “cor...

When Indonesian national Maria Caritas went to the city of Surabaya two weeks ago to get her first shot of Covid-19 vaccine, she was turned away.Staff at the vaccination centre told the 21-year-old fresh university graduate that she needed a “lette...

China’s factory activity expanded in July at the slowest pace in 17 months as higher raw material costs, equipment maintenance and extreme weather weighed on business activity, adding to concerns about a slowdown in the world’s second-biggest eco...

The fear was still visible in the eyes of Zhao Runtao, as he recalled how close a dam just outside Zhengzhou city came to collapsing during last week’s disastrous floods in Henan.Zhao, the party secretary responsible for the 61-year-old Changzhuang...

Hong Kong’s first-ever trial involving the Beijing-imposed national security law has come to an end.On Friday, the 24-year-old motorcyclist at the centre of the case was sentenced to nine years in jail days after three High Court judges convicted h...

Like the thousands of other journalists arriving in Japan to cover the Olympics, Canadian Devin Heroux anticipated that sports was going to be the only story in town.Heroux has indeed covered the fortunes of the Canadian teams in events such as swimm...

Hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots in the next three months with the highest alerts for “catastrophic” situations in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria, two UN agencies...

Beijing’s campaign to rein in the power and influence of Big Tech in the country is reaching new heights, pummeling tech stocks and leading many analysts to question if the tougher scrutiny could end up emasculating the most vibrant sector of China...

Judith Mackay arrived in Hong Kong in 1967 to find the city engulfed in pro-communist riots, and recalls the posters with large letters that screamed: “Imperialists, go home.”A young doctor from Yorkshire, England, she worked in Hong Kong hospita...

Pressure is intensifying on Southeast Asian nations to pick a side as China and the US step up their efforts to woo the regional players as part of their bitter rivalry.The dilemma was underscored over the past week, when US Defence Secretary Lloyd A...

Squeezed into a cramped Hong Kong noodle restaurant and perched on drink crates, a jazz band live-streamed its performance to bring out the grounded grass-roots spirit of jazz and reach a wider audience amid the coronavirus pandemic.Bringing jazz mus...

When Pauline Wong misplaced her bank card in the process of moving to Malaysia earlier this year, she was shocked to discover the steps she had to go through to get a new one.“Even after one and half years of Covid-19, they still haven’t made cha...

Hong Kong lawyers sitting the first legal exam that will allow them to practise mainland law in the Greater Bay Area are hopeful about boosting their career prospects, although some wish they had more time to prepare.An estimated 600 candidates – a...

Some legal experts have called the nine-year jail sentence handed down to the first person convicted under Hong Kong’s national security law “harsh” and expressed concerns the landmark decision could lead to heavier punishments for protest-rela...

The death toll in fires raging in southern Turkey rose to four as fire crews on Friday battled blazes that burned down homes and forced people to evacuate villages and beach resorts.Firefighters were still tackling wildfires in 14 locations in six pr...

China wants to achieve global leadership in the next-generation IPv6 internet protocol by 2025 as Beijing prepares itself for the internet of things (IoT) era, when a washing machine or a microwave oven may have its own IP address.According to a docu...

Amazon was fined €746 million (US$880 million) by Luxembourg authorities over allegations it flouted the EU’s data protection rules, the online retail giant said on Friday.The fine was issued on July 16 by the Luxembourg National Commission for D...

More than two decades ago, the Middle East ushered in the era of private military companies (PMCs) and the return of mercenaries. Since the United States – during the invasion of Iraq – opened the proverbial Pandora’s Box of privatising what wa...

An attack on an oil tanker linked to an Israeli billionaire killed two crew members off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, authorities said on Friday, marking the first fatalities after years of assaults targeting shipping in the region.No one imm...

In the final article in a five-part series on US-China technology policies, Jodi Xu Klein looks at the status of United States efforts six months into a new presidency and new session of Congress. The first part of the series, on how China policies v...

The United States imposed sanctions on the Cuban police force and two of its leaders on Friday in response to the Havana government’s crackdown on protesters as President Joe Biden prepared to meet Cuban-American leaders at the White House.The US T...

One of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies on Friday hit out at the Disney film studio in an escalating public dispute over claims by Scarlett Johansson that she had lost money over the release of her Black Widow film.Bryan Lourd, co-chairman of th...

A bright pink lagoon is setting off red alarms for environmentalists in southern Argentina.The pond is one of several located about 30km (20 miles) from the city of Trelew used by local industries for releasing chemicals or treated water.Pablo Lada, ...

A new study by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention showed that three-quarters of individuals who became infected with Covid-19 at public events in a Massachusetts county had been fully vaccinated.The study, published on Friday, showed t...

A US agency on Friday rejected a protest by Blue Origin and defence contractor Dynetics Inc over Nasa’s decision to pick a single lunar lander provider.The companies challenged the US$2.9 billion award to SpaceX for the lander, arguing Nasa was req...

The US Department of Justice will retry a fraud case that ended in a hung jury against a former University of Tennessee professor accused of lying about ties to a Chinese university.In a federal trial last month in Knoxville, Hu Anming – a tenured ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Gavin Bade on politico.com on July 30, 2021.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not bring the Senate’s sprawling anti-China bill to the floor of her chamber u...

The principal of a Hong Kong kindergarten ordered teachers to carry out personal tasks for her when classes were suspended for the coronavirus pandemic and insulted one of them when they exposed her behaviour publicly, according to a government inves...

China’s Ministry of Transport, the key regulator in terms of the country’s ride-hailing industry, has toughened its stance on platforms like Didi Chuxing by calling out specific problems and threatening to impose deadlines on compliance.The minis...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to keep a key military agreement with the United States will boost America’s goal of keeping China under pressure over the South China Sea and Taiwan, according to observers.Duterte had threatened t...

US securities regulators plan to require additional information from Chinese companies seeking to go public on American exchanges, saying the move will protect domestic investors.The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday that Chinese firm...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris will visit Vietnam and Singapore next month to discuss regional security issues and the global Covid-19 pandemic response, the White House announced Friday.Harris heads to the Southeast Asian nations “to strengthen r...

China’s leaders have called on the country to start looking ahead to economic challenges in 2022, aiming to keep the world’s second-biggest economy growing at a “reasonable range” for the rest of the year as it prepares to host the Winter Oly...

China’s top law enforcement body has named four sectors that will be in the cross hairs of an ongoing crackdown on organised crime over the next 12 months.Chen Yixin, secretary general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, said at ...

A top Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has urged local politicians to win the public’s trust by delivering results in several policy areas every year that residents can “see, touch and feel”.Xia Baolong, director of the State Counc...

Hong Kong’s sole delegate to the nation’s top legislative body has defended a political ally who attacked a badminton player representing the city at the Tokyo Olympic Games for wearing a black jersey, a colour widely associated with the 2019 ant...

China is tracking thousands of people who visited a theatre in a popular tourist destination as part of its efforts to curb the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19.The outbreak, which originated in the eastern city of Nanjing, h...

The Cybersecurity Bureau under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has summoned 12 major Chinese technology companies, including Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent Holdings and ByteDance, to lecture them about improvements in their...

Hong Kong is considering tightening coronavirus measures for travellers from the United States, as authorities prepare to unveil a broader overhaul of risk rankings for foreign countries, according to industry sources.One of the options being conside...

A reactor at a nuclear plant in southern China was shut down for “maintenance” due to minor fuel damage, the operator said on Friday, after an increase in radioactivity levels previously sparked fears of a leak.Chinese authorities last month blam...

An underage boy has admitted carrying two firebombs into Prince Edward MTR station on August 31, 2019, the same night its platform became a scene of chaos as police stormed the concourse in pursuit of anti-government protesters.The boy, who cannot be...

A grisly murder in the heart of Islamabad involving families from the privileged elite of Pakistani society has dominated headlines for the past week, stirring national outrage over femicides in the South Asian nation.Noor Mukadam, 27, the daughter o...