China has lobbied Mexico about its bid to join an Asia-Pacific trade deal while continuing to lash out against new security alliance Aukus during Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s calls with Southeast Asian counterparts.Wang told Mexican Foreign Minister ...

The United States remains committed to expanding Taiwan’s space for international participation, a senior US diplomat said at an event with Taiwan’s foreign minister that was also attended by the deputy US ambassador to the United Nations.Beijing...

Taiwan may benefit from orders being shifted to the island if China’s power curbs disrupt the country’s exports, Taiwan central bank governor Yang Chin-long said on Thursday.The world’s second-largest economy is grappling with power cuts and el...

Advocates, lawmakers and legal experts in Hong Kong have welcomed the passing of a bill making upskirting and image-based sexual abuse criminal offences punishable by up to five years in jail.Six new violations have been introduced in the city after ...

China is seven years away from having its new super heavy-lift space rocket ready for crewed lunar landings, according to its developer.The Long March 9 (CZ-9) carrier vehicle will be able to up to 50 tonnes of payload to the moon, or up to 44 tonnes...

The top US climate diplomat encouraged China to move more aggressively to slash greenhouse gas emissions before 2030, calling this a “critical decade” for keeping global warming in check.“We hope we can find more common ground for moving the pr...

China’s “golden week” holiday this year is unlikely to see domestic travel rebound to pre-Covid levels, industry estimates show, hurt by uncertainty over pandemic curbs and consumer fears about the health of the economy.The seven-day holiday fr...

China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province reported only six symptomatic local Covid-19 cases for September 29, its National Health Commission said on Thursday, the lowest count since the local outbreak started more than a week ago.The seven-day mo...

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said lawmakers had reached an agreement to avoid a government shutdown on Friday, extending government spending until December 3.The legislation, scheduled for a Senate vote Thursday morning Washington time, th...

China’s current energy crisis can be traced back in part to a legal amendment targeting miners that garnered little notice when it went into effect in March.Article 134 in China’s criminal law elevated penalties for a series of violations from fi...

Singapore posted a record eight deaths from Covid-19 on Wednesday, a potential test of the government’s resolve to reopen amid fears tied to its recent exponential increase in infections.New cases topped 2,200 for a second straight day even as the ...

Nine months since Asian countries began rolling out Covid-19 vaccination campaigns, inoculation rates vary wildly – from eight in 10 of the population in Singapore, six in 10 in Japan, close to three in 10 in Indonesia and two in 10 in Vietnam.Much...

Former US president Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin during a 2019 meeting he’d only act tough towards him “for the cameras” and meanwhile Putin seemingly tried to set off Trump’s germaphobia by purposely coughing, according...

The US and Chinese militaries have concluded two days of high-level talks, with China calling on the US to resolve “serious issues” to improve defence ties.The talks were held by video conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, and involved Michael Cha...

Ecuador’s president declared the prison system under emergency for the second time since he took power in May after gang violence at a Guayaquil penitentiary claimed the lives of at least 116 people, in one of the bloodiest jail riots in the histor...

Activity in China’s manufacturing sector contracted in September due to “low sentiment of high energy-consuming industries”, data released on Thursday showed, but the services sector bounced back strongly from coronavirus outbreaks last month.T...

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into modern society, evidence suggests that the algorithms meant to help eliminate cultural biases have problems of their own, and Chinese companies are no different.A report published on Mon...

Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States announced in mid-September that they had formed a military alliance in response to growing concerns over regional security in Asia.While no particular country is explicitly mentioned, it is obvious ...

A day after Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co, returned to China with a hero’s welcome, the telecoms equipment maker organised a media tour to showcase how its technologies can serve the country‘s health care ind...

Hong Kong might need to share data on residents’ Covid-19 risk exposure with mainland China and tighten quarantine exemption rules, with the government carrying out a review of pandemic control measures in a bid to get the border between the two pl...

China has cautiously welcomed Fumio Kishida’s election as the new leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democrats, a victory that paves the way for the former foreign minister to take over as prime minister next week.Kishida defeated former defence an...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un condemned a US offer of dialogue as a “petty trick for deceiving the international community”, state media reported on Thursday, and accused the Joe Biden administration of continuing a hostile policy against his n...

Anna Chu, 10, has struggled with her eyesight since she was born, without even knowing what was causing the problem until three years ago.After years of failed diagnosis, genome testing eventually discovered a DNA defect she shared with other patient...

A judge on Wednesday suspended Britney Spears’ father from the conservatorship that has controlled the singer’s life and money for 13 years, saying the arrangement “reflects a toxic environment”.Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny agreed with a...

Unidentified assailants on Wednesday shot dead a top Rohingya community leader in a refugee camp in the Bangladesh resort district of Cox’s Bazar, officials said.Mohib Ullah was talking with other refugee leaders outside his office after attending ...

With China’s coal-fired power stations reeling from record coal prices that make electricity generation unprofitable – resulting in blackouts across the country and mounting social concerns about adequate heating this winter – Beijing vowed on ...

An electricity crisis engulfing much of China has exposed the underbelly of the country’s governance system, with local officials often paying lip service to Beijing’s orders and using shortcuts to get around their failures, according to climate ...

Chinese language community news groups in Australia are publishing news censored by translators they use in China to avoid potential repercussions in Beijing, an Australian think tank said.A report by the Lowy Institute found that staff working in ma...

A 21-day quarantine for non-fully vaccinated athletes, officials and workers at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Daily testing for vaccinated people. No tickets sold to anyone living outside China as Olympic venues open their doors again.Restrictions impos...

Fewer than 2,000 of the estimated 300,000 Canadians living in Hong Kong cast ballots in last week’s federal election, and the true number is likely less than half that, overseas voting data suggests.It is a rate dwarfed by political participation a...

China pushed back against criticism of policies in its Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region (XUAR), calling them “a legitimate struggle against terrorism” in an event that its delegation to the United Nations organised with the participation of Russi...

Brazil’s Butantan biomedical institute is in talks to sell a locally manufactured Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac to other countries in South America and Africa, as the federal government has not ordered more of the shots.Butantan D...

Late on Wednesday in a former steel factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the European Union and United States unveiled an alliance to sharpen their modern arsenals for tackling China on trade and technology.The agreement, however, was reached only af...

YouTube announced on Wednesday it would remove videos and some high-profile users that falsely claim approved vaccines are dangerous, as social networks seek to crack down on health misinformation around Covid-19 and other diseases.Video-sharing gian...

China has unveiled a version of its most powerful air-to-air missile designed for the export market at the Zhuhai air show. In a post on Weibo on Monday, the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China said the PL-15E “has the ability to at...

The United States on Wednesday declared 23 species extinct, including one of the world’s largest woodpeckers, dubbed the “Lord God Bird”.The announcement came via the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which proposed to remove the birds, mussels,...

A British court heard on Wednesday that a serving police officer kidnapped a woman as she walked home, handcuffing her in a false arrest for breaking coronavirus restrictions, before raping and murdering her.The disappearance of Sarah Everard during ...

The United States has been urged to join China and Russia for talks on banning weapons in outer space.In a speech to a United Nations conference in Geneva on Tuesday, Li Song, China’s ambassador for disarmament affairs, urged the US to stop being a...

Hong Kong police will mobilise more than 8,000 officers and maintain high-profile patrols over the next 48 hours to guard against any eventuality on National Day.The preparations were being carried out to ensure the official flag-raising ceremony, Na...

A 13-year-old maths prodigy is taking in stride the pressure that comes with being the youngest student in the history of City University of Hong Kong.Sean Kong Ko-lun is used to being younger than his classmates. He skipped his last year of kinderga...

The Chinese government has not announced any new licensed video games for August and September, breaking a tradition of monthly approvals, according to information on the website of gaming watchdog the National Press and Publication Administration (N...

The chief of Hong Kong’s rural affairs body has urged Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to make it easier for villagers to sell their ancestral land to help unlock swathes of the city for housing and other development.The Heung Yee Kuk proposal is one of ...

Myanmar’s currency has lost more than 60 per cent of its value since the beginning of September, driving up food and fuel prices in an economy that has tanked since a military coup eight months ago.Many gold shops and money exchanges closed on Wedn...

An incitement offence targeting hatred against the Hong Kong government may be included in a long-shelved security bill, a top city official has revealed days after online users mocked a police officer who died while on duty.Secretary for Security Ch...

The American ambassador to Indonesia, Sung Kim, said on Wednesday that the Aukus defence pact – in which the United States and Britain will share nuclear submarine technology with Australia – would not lead to an arms race in the Indo-Pacific.“...

Tunisia’s president on Wednesday named geologist Najla Bouden as the country’s first ever female prime minister-designate, to form a government with limited executive clout after he seized wide-ranging powers two months ago.The university lecture...

Chinese archaeologists announced on Monday the discovery of a 32,000-year-old human skull in the central province of Henan, the oldest ever found there.Archaeologists and officials said they had found fossils in two mountain caves, including two diff...

Former Australian leader Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday his successor “deliberately deceived” France when he scrapped a multibillion-euro submarine deal with Paris in favour of nuclear-powered US or British alternatives.Turnbull, whose govern...

Most Hongkongers have chosen the Octopus digital payment platform to store their HK$5,000 consumption vouchers from the government, with spending centred on groceries, personal care products and cosmetics.On Wednesday, officials revealed for the firs...

All 10 Hong Kong opposition district councillors whose allegiance to the city was called into question following an oath-taking ceremony last week were unseated on Wednesday.Half of those ousted were Democratic Party members: ex-lawmaker James To Kun...