The Philippines’ health ministry said on Sunday it has detected the first case of Covid-19’s Lambda variant in the country, and reminded the public to strictly observe minimum public health standards.The World Health Organization classifies Lambd...

At least nine people in northern China are believed to have contracted anthrax, a disease found in domestic and wild animals, according to state media.Citing health authorities in the province of Shanxi, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday that...

A windfall of HK$7.5 million (US$960,000) may sound like a dream come true for someone yearning to own a home, but what is it really worth in Hong Kong’s bloated property market?To put it into perspective, consider the lottery grand prize that a ma...

Hong Kong health authorities have urged local labs to refuse antibody test samples from overseas after a domestic helper carrying a more infectious variant of the coronavirus was found to have supplied one to a screening facility to shorten her quara...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged on Sunday that the country would not wage war again, making the vow on the anniversary of the end of World War II as members of his cabinet visited a controversial shrine.Nearly eight decades since the e...

China has reported 53 new symptomatic and 29 asymptomatic coronavirus cases as the authorities vowed to control the country’s month-long outbreak.The symptomatic cases included 24 that were locally transmitted – 18 in the eastern province of Jian...

“So you’re saying that your mom’s a Rajput, but your dad’s a Mughal?”, says the text on a meme featuring Severus Snape from the Harry Potter universe. “Yes, I’m the Half-Blood Prince,” replies not Snape but Salim, the future Mughal e...

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has gone through many evolutions since it helped put the Communist Party in power in 1949. In the latest structural overhaul meant to help it become a modern fighting force, the PLA’s seven military regio...

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will resign on Monday and pave the way for the country’s protracted political crisis to be resolved, a minister has said.“We just finished the meeting. Tomorrow, there will be a special cabinet meeting. A...

The pro-opposition umbrella group behind some of the largest mass protests in Hong Kong’s history announced on Sunday that it had disbanded as it faces a police investigation into its activities.The 19-year-old Civil Human Rights Front said it was ...

Hongkonger Tiffany Lee was surprised when her 10-year-old son recently told her not to pack any snacks in his school bag, saying he wanted to focus on chatting with his friends during recess. Prior to that, Lee’s son – who was diagnosed with aut...

Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL) has not resulted in Japanese companies reducing their presence in the Asian financial hub, even though restrictions on information, rule of law and judicial independence remain concerns for these businesses, ...

China is Africa’s largest trading partner, exporting products such as garments, electronics and construction equipment to many countries on the continent, but traders are facing cargo delays and steep import costs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Obs...

A new investment platform founded by the former boss of Hong Kong stock exchange is aiming to provide much-needed funds to 10,000 small companies and one-man enterprises in mainland China in its first year.Micro Connect, launched last week by Charles...

On July 28, Pastor Marselinus Monang Sijabat, the head of the St Lusia Church in Pakpak Bharat Regency in North Sumatra, Indonesia, began to feel decidedly unwell. By August 2, the Catholic priest, 42, had received a double diagnosis – typhus and ...

The latest deal came just last week. Mining giant China Molybdenum Company (CMOC) announced a US$2.51 billion plan to double copper and cobalt production at its massive Tenke Fungurume mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It came on the ba...

When does political deal making cross the line into criminality?In Malaysia, this question has come squarely into focus after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Friday offered major concessions to the opposition in exchange for their backing in a no-...

Top executives of mainland Chinese enterprises and business associations make up a new “patriotic force” in Hong Kong’s powerful revamped Election Committee, drastically weakening the political clout of the city’s property tycoons.Nominations...

The number of children hospitalised with Covid-19 in the United States hit a record high of just over 1,900 on Saturday, as hospitals across the South were stretched to capacity fighting outbreaks caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant.The ...

Common fears about instability in Central Asia could push China and Russia towards closer counterterrorism cooperation in the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to observers. US President Joe Biden has ordered the US troops t...

Crowds gathered in coastal towns in eastern England on Saturday to view new works by Banksy, after the secretive street artist claimed responsibility for the murals.Ten images appeared in towns in Norfolk and Suffolk over the past week, sparking spec...

The Taliban raced closer to a complete military takeover of Afghanistan on Sunday after capturing more major cities, leaving only the isolated capital Kabul for them to conquer.The insurgents took control of the key eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunda...

Attackers targeted a truck in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Saturday evening, killing at least nine people and wounding nine others, police said.Javed Akbar Riaz, a senior police officer, said more than 20 people, including women and children...

The death toll from severe floods and mudslides along Turkey’s Black Sea coast has climbed to at least 57, the country’s emergency and disaster agency said on Saturday, as authorities disputed reports that dozens more people were missing.Torrenti...

Several thousand LGBT supporters took to the streets in the Romanian capital of Bucharest on Saturday for a gay pride parade that resumed after a year’s pause due to the coronavirus pandemic.Marchers young and old walked through the capital’s str...

A firefighting plane from Russia crashed on Saturday in a mountainous area in southern Turkey, killing the eight crew members and emergency workers aboard, Russia’s Defence Ministry said.The Russian ministry said five Russian and three Turkish citi...

At least 304 people have been killed while 1800 people are injured and missing following an earthquake, Haiti’s civil protection agency said on Saturday.The 7.2-magnitude quake, which was followed by a series of aftershocks, struck 8km (5 miles)...

Spain endured what it expected to be its hottest day of the year on Saturday, with temperatures topping 45 degrees Celsius, while authorities in Italy expanded the number of cities on red alert for health risks to 16 as a heatwave engulfed southern E...

Police in the eastern Chinese city of Jinan have detained a former employee of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on criminal charges over allegations that he sexually assaulted a female colleague while working at the company.In a statement on Saturday...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Eric Geller on politico.com on August 14, 2021.US President Joe Biden has said he’ll take on hackers’ payment method of choice – cryptocurrency – in...

The chances of a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden will be determined over the coming weeks, according to diplomatic observers, who say all depends on how Beijing and Washington handle some of their most co...

Destinations such as Britain, Canada, the United States and Taiwan are popular with many of the about 90,000 Hong Kong residents who left the city in the past year, a Post study of government statistics has found.Immigration consultants and analysts ...

For 11-year-old Husna, books are her only source of happiness. Her school in Wat village, 3km from the Spin Boldak district in Afghanistan that is now under Taliban control, is closed for summer holidays until September. But no one knows for sure whe...

India has denied being involved in the bus attack that killed nine Chinese nationals last month in Pakistan, rejecting the accusation made by the Pakistani authorities.The Indian Ministry of External Affairs rejected Pakistan’s allegation and calle...

A weekend launch of micro apartments sold out in Hong Kong, as first-property buyers snapped up the only new flats available for less than HK$5 million, days after home prices broke records in the world’s least affordable real estate market.Wang On...

The United States is a threat to both China and North Korea and the two neighbours need to step up cooperation to tackle it, according to Pyongyang’s envoy to Beijing.North Korean ambassador Ri Ryong-nam said US military exercises in the region, in...

China’s regulators should tighten their grip on video games to avoid the distortion of history, according to top radio broadcaster China National Radio (CNR), adding even more uncertainty to one of the country’s strongest industries.“Industry r...

President Ashraf Ghani said on Saturday the remobilisation of Afghanistan’s armed forces was a “top priority”, as Taliban fighters inched closer to the capital after routing the country’s defences over the past week.Ghani gave no hint he woul...

The evolution of China’s economy and its job market has created new opportunities for young Chinese workers, many of whom are keen on avoiding the heavy pressure and dreary conditions that are often associated with traditional private-sector jobs.A...

The World Health Organization has denied shifting stance on its Covid-19 origins investigation in China after the head of its expert team gave an interview suggesting a lab researcher collecting bat viruses in the wild was a “probable hypothesis”...

Hong Kong police are looking into the deaths of a couple after their bodies were found in their Chai Wan district home shortly before noon on Saturday.First responders and investigators arrived at Sui Ming House in Siu Sai Wan Estate after a security...

China protested against the Japanese defence minister’s visit to a controversial shrine in Tokyo honouring the country’s war dead, days before the 76th anniversary of Japan’s World War II defeat.On Friday, two senior ministers in Japanese Prime...

Australian police hiked fines for people breaking lockdown rules in Sydney and the rest of its home state on Saturday and strict stay-at-home orders were extended statewide amid a record jump in daily new Covid-19 infections.State police will fine up...

One month after a car suicide bomber attacked a convoy headed for a hydropower project in northern Pakistan, workers for the Chinese companies involved in the dam’s construction are reportedly on tenterhooks and fearful of another terrorist attack....

China reported 30 locally transmitted coronavirus cases on Saturday, the lowest daily total in two weeks and a further sign that the month-long outbreak could be waning.In all, 18 of the new cases were from the eastern province of Jiangsu, four were ...

At Hong Kong’s award-winning Yung Kee restaurant in Central, a chef picks out a glistening, charcoal-grilled roast goose drumstick from a rack, skilfully chops it up and places it in a cardboard box, separate from the steaming hot rice.He clips the...

The United States will stand with Lithuania against China’s “coercive behaviour” after Beijing’s decision to recall its envoy to the Baltic state, according to US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman.In a phone call with Lithuanian Foreign...

Thousands of foodies and bargain hunters on Saturday flocked to the five-day Hong Kong Food Expo, where exhibitors were busy dishing out freebies to compensate for this year’s ban on taste-testing.The event made its grand comeback two days earlier ...

Xiaomi, the world’s No. 2 smartphone company, has removed a highly-touted feature from the latest version of its flagship smartphone just three days after its launch in the latest case to show the growing complexity and difficulty in navigating Chi...

China may have to come up with a new approach to its changing relationship with Europe, analysts say, though that is not likely to include a softer stand on challenges to its “red lines”.They expect Beijing will keep pushing for more cooperation ...