Hong Kong’s pipeline for initial public offerings (IPOs) is starting to fill up as more companies emerged from the summer lull to file their listing plans, potentially helping the city catch up with New York in the global race for fundraising.Ximal...

A prisoners’ rights group in Hong Kong has announced it will disband after the city’s security chief warned that inmates arrested on national security charges were being encouraged by people outside prison walls to fight on for their causes.Wall-...

A former clerical assistant of the Hong Kong Immigration Department has pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office for leaking the private data of 215 individuals in a move termed by a judge as an “al-Qaeda-style cyberterrorist” doxxing campai...

Indonesia’s national intelligence agency has denied a report claiming its servers were breached by a suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, but says it is still investigating whether other government agencies have been affected.Insikt Gro...

Beijing’s new envoy to the US called on Washington to create favourable conditions for implementing the nations’ phase one trade deal, as he assured American businesses they were welcome in the Chinese market.Qin Gang urged the Joe Biden administ...

Senior diplomats from Japan, the United States and South Korea on Tuesday agreed to continue their efforts toward the denuclearisation of North Korea through “dialogue and sanctions”, a Japanese foreign ministry official said.Their meeting in Tok...

After a semester online, Wang Ziwei looked forward to meeting classmates returning to campus at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. But the US revoked his visa on security grounds, the 23-year-old finance student said.Wang is among at least ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a letter of encouragement to a PLA unit stationed in Tibet on the China-India border, praising the troops for their “great job” over the past five years.Unit 77656 – which was named a “model plateau batta...

For the first time in 60 years of human space flight, a rocket is poised to blast into orbit with no professional astronauts on board, only four tourists.SpaceX’s first private flight will be led by a 38-year-old entrepreneur who’s bankrolling th...

South Korea fined Alphabet Inc’s Google US$177 million for hampering the development of rivals to its Android operating system, sustaining a campaign targeting the US search giant’s dominance in smartphone software.Regulators accuse Google, whose...

The Chinese embassy in Singapore has urged its citizens not to travel to the city state unless necessary amid a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases there.In a statement on Monday, the embassy noted that Singapore had recorded more than 500 daily infections ...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has defended her plans to restructure the government despite having less than a year left to her term, insisting it has nothing to do with her wanting to secure her political future.Lam told the press ahead...

China’s first C919 narrow-body aircraft to be delivered to launch customer China Eastern Airlines is about to enter final assembly, China’s aviation regulator said on Monday, with delivery due before the end of the year.The C919, being built by s...

US President Joe Biden travelled to California to campaign with Governor Gavin Newsom on the eve of a Republican-backed recall race that Democrats have cast as an attempted power grab by acolytes of former president Donald Trump.Biden made a Monday e...

The heads of state of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries meeting in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, later this week are expected to seek a consensus on dealing with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, analysts said.Afghanistan joined the...

A Hong Kong quarantine facility offering 800 places for the swelling number of foreign domestic workers headed back to the city was fully booked within minutes of its online reservation system opening on Tuesday morning.Users were allowed to start wa...

The United States and the European Union have agreed to aim to cut emissions of the planet-warming gas methane by around a third by the end of this decade and are pushing other major economies to join them, according to documents seen by Reuters.Thei...

The US has given its support to Lithuania with a call on Monday to its prime minister from President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, in the face of pressure from China over the name of Taiwan’s representative office in Vilnius.China demand...

The Philippines’ capital region will exit wide-scale Covid-19 restrictions from Thursday, as the government launches a pilot test of localised lockdowns, amid efforts to balance reopening the economy and containing the spread of the coronavirus.The...

It is the elephant in the genomics room: can extinct species be resurrected? One bioscience firm insists they can, announcing its intent to use emerging technology to restore the woolly mammoth to the Arctic tundra.New company Colossal, capitalising ...

A cyber surveillance company based in Israel developed a tool to break into Apple iPhones with a never-before-seen technique that has been in use since at least February, internet security watchdog group Citizen Lab said on Monday.The discovery is im...

Residents of Xiamen in China’s southeastern Fujian province went into lockdown on Monday night, as an outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 continued its rapid spread.The decision to place all residential areas of the city ...

For millions of young girls living in poverty in the Philippines, becoming a beauty queen is the rags-to-riches fantasy of choice when it comes to plotting a way out of the shanties. They dream of becoming the next Catriona Gray or Pia Wurtzbach, mu...

In Arthur Dong’s documentary Hollywood Chinese, we see Taiwan-born American director Justin Lin at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where his largely self-financed feature film Better Luck Tomorrow was screened.The film depicts Asian-American high ...

The countdown has begun and the signs are everywhere.In Xian, the ancient Silk Road city in northwestern China, just days remain until the start of the National Games, an Olympics-style sporting event being held in Shaanxi province for the first time...

Officials in southwest China launched last Tuesday a “food court” for migrating elephants after a trekking herd captured the country’s and the world’s imagination and caused headaches for towns and cities along their route this summer.The Glo...

Environmental groups have criticised a government decision to remove protections for vulnerable finless porpoises, allowing underwater cable installation near their main marine habitat during their most active season in Hong Kong. The government is ...

The United Nations humanitarian chief says US$1.2 billion has been promised to help Afghans facing a growing humanitarian crisis in the country and millions in the region, calling the pledges “an important step” toward helping the needy.UN Unders...

All children aged 12-15 will be offered Covid-19 vaccinations, Britain announced on Monday, following the advice of four top medical officers.Britain has been one of the countries hardest hit by Covid-19, recording more than 134,000 deaths.Despite a ...

More Hong Kong businesses are making it compulsory for staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19, even as unions and the equality watchdog are warning employers to tread carefully or they could be at risk of breaching the city’s anti-discrimination l...

China’s technology companies from the smallest start-ups to the biggest multibillion-dollar companies are rushing to comply with a government order to unionise, as the Communist Party asserts its imperative as the champion of the working class, eve...

When long-time Vietnam resident Benjamin Herman heard that the Peace Corps was for the first time recruiting English teachers to help run classes in the Southeast Asian nation, he was overjoyed.Volunteering with the US-government-funded programme is ...

British rock band Coldplay have confirmed their rumoured collaboration with K-pop superstars BTS.My Universe, which will be sung in both English and Korean, was co-written by the groups and produced by Swedish songwriter and producer Max Martin, who ...

Norway’s left-wing opposition headed by Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Store won Monday’s general election after a campaign dominated by questions about the future of the key oil industry in western Europe’s largest producer.The five opposition...

US President Joe Biden will host the leaders of the Quad alliance, which agreed earlier this year to counter China’s military build-up in the Asia-Pacific, at the White House next week as he seeks to deepen the group’s cooperation.The first in-pe...

Canada’s Conservative Party has China in its election crosshairs amid the worst period of diplomatic relations in recent history – prompting a strong pushback from Beijing’s ambassador and state media, which lambasted the opposition party’s �...

Excavated Buddha heads and other items have been looted from the storage facility of a French archaeological team involved in conserving and restoring the famous Bamiyan site in central Afghanistan, a Unesco World Heritage Site, it was reported on Mo...

Scientists say they have successfully “potty trained” cows to urinate in a designated toilet area as part of a programme aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions.The team of New Zealand and German researchers admitted the idea began as a joke b...

Three companies of exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui have agreed to pay US$539 million in penalties to settle charges over illegal cryptocurrency sales, the top US financial market watchdog said on Monday.GTV Media Group, Saraca Media Group and V...

The United States remains prepared to engage with North Korea, a White House spokeswoman said on Monday, despite Pyongyang’s announcement that it had tested a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend.“Our position has not changed when it co...

Britain’s Prince Andrew plans to challenge a US court’s jurisdiction over a civil lawsuit by a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting and battering her two decades ago, according to a Monday court filing.In the filing with the US District C...

The US Capitol Police arrested a California man with multiple knives in his truck marked with white supremacist symbols near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, police said on Monday.Around midnight, a Capitol Police officer...

Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hotspots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found...

A proposed cap on rent increases for subdivided flats, home to some of Hong Kong’s poorest people, will be lowered from 15 per cent to 10 per cent in an amendment to a tenancy control bill authorities hope to pass next month.The government previous...

Beijing is protesting against the possibility of Washington allowing Taipei’s US office to be renamed, and has warned the United States not to challenge the one-China principle.The US is considering a request from Taipei to change the name of its m...

China’s semiconductor crunch remains severe and could drag on, the country’s top industry agency warned, despite efforts to mitigate problems stemming from a global chip shortage.“The chip supply chain will remain tight for some time, and the c...

A record-low number of voters showed up for Macau’s legislative elections this year, with the polls marking a surge in blank and invalid ballots, some of which contained vulgarities, seen as a protest gesture against the banning of 21 opposition fi...

Nineteen Chinese miners who became trapped underground when a coal mine collapsed last month were found dead on Monday, state media reported, after a huge rescue effort.Twenty-one people were working in the Chaidaer mine in remote Qinghai province in...

Covid-19 vaccines work so well that most people do not yet need another jab, an all-star panel of scientists from around the world said in a review that is likely to fuel the debate over whether to use booster shots. Governments would be better serv...

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings said it will follow a regulatory order to unblock online links after China’s industry ministry ordered internet companies to open up their platforms to each other, signalling the demise of Big Tech’s “wal...