Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned Britain to be cautious about its Aukus security pact with Australia and the United States that will allow Canberra to build nuclear-powered submarines.In a phone call with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Fri...

Trade ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised nations have agreed to eliminate forced labour and shared their concern over such state-sponsored practice on minorities, in a veiled criticism of China’s treatment of Muslim Uygurs in its far-...

A group of NFT collectors has paid US$4 million to purchase the only copy of a one-of-a-kind album by the rap group Wu-Tang Clan.A non-fungible token (NFT) is a digital object – a drawing, animation, piece of music, photo, or video – with a certi...

The number of quarantine slots for domestic helpers in Hong Kong will jump by more than a third of the existing capacity from next month, with a hotel in Tsing Yi adding 500 rooms to the government scheme.Labour chief Law Chi-kwong on Saturday said a...

There are signs that China could be developing a new type of helicopter for its aircraft carriers, with the publication of research by a group of Chinese engineers on an algorithm for safer aircraft landing procedures, analysts said.The engineers are...

Malaysia is looking into the findings by Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog that cancer-causing substances were detected in biscuits and crackers including those produced by Hup Seng Industries, according to a statement on Friday.Hong Kong Consumer Coun...

The staff of the Food and Drug Administration said the benefits of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for young children likely outweigh its risks, ahead of a meeting next week where experts will weigh whether the shot should be cleared for use...

Opening the gates to non-locally trained doctors will not ruin Hong Kong’s licensing exam system or lower medical standards, the city’s health minister has said, doubling down on her support for a contentious bill passed amid fierce opposition fr...

Even as an exodus of Hong Kong’s expat community continues, driven in part by the harsh Covid-19 quarantine rules and also political concerns, French national Marc says he is staying put.The 21-day isolation period which he served in January after ...

North Korea on Saturday lambasted US President Joe Biden’s recent commitment to defend Taiwan if it is attacked by China, saying Washington has been attempting to stifle socialist countries.In a statement dated Friday, Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myo...

Actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun in an incident that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on the New Mexico set of the movie Rust, authorities said on Thursday. That accident was eerily reminiscent of another...

This month, two typhoons big and close enough to Hong Kong for city authorities to raise the No 8 typhoon signal – No 10 is the highest – were expected to strike.As they approached the city, many took to supermarkets to stock up their fridges and...

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon when 45 people boarded a Hong Kong tour bus for a five-hour ride planned to put them to sleep.Aside from signs reminding them to remain silent, everyone was offered earplugs and light-blocking sleep masks at the star...

Airlines in Asia are bringing back international capacity as the region gradually follows North America and Europe in reopening borders, led by Singapore, whose economy depends on open access.By January, Singapore is poised to reach 84 per cent of th...

Hong Kong is interested in adopting a European Union digital application that shows users’ Covid-19 records, a move that will make travel more convenient when its borders reopen, according to a top EU official in the city.The Digital Covid Certific...

Managers from a Chinese airline were made to stand in the freezing cold as punishment for forcing flight attendants to wear summer uniforms despite temperatures dropping significantly across the country last week.Eight Hainan Airlines executives were...

China’s official lawyers’ association has introduced new guidelines that ban lawyers from “hyping up cases” online or in the media in the latest move to tighten control over the legal profession.The ethical guidelines issued by the All-China ...

Helen Fan Lok-yi was intrigued when she came across old pictures of Hong Kong children clambering over brightly coloured abstract sculptures.The art curator and designer, 36, grew up in the city and was used to playgrounds that appeared identical ev...

When Moon Jae-in gave his first address as the president of South Korea, he promised not to rest until he had secured a permanent peace between the divided Koreas.“I will fly to Washington, Beijing and Tokyo, if needed, and I will also go to Pyongy...

Armed with a set of pencils and a feather to sweep away eraser dust, Hitomi Tateno is training the next generation of anime artists at a new Netflix-funded academy as global demand for the Japanese genre soars.From runaway box office triumph Demon Sl...

China and Russia’s future military drills may be elevated with joint air and sea patrols, defence analysts said as the two nations jointly sailed through the Tsugaru Strait and Izu island chain in the Japanese archipelago in an apparent move to cou...

The small live chicken, offered as a lure to get the crocodile to come out of the lake, barely convinced the massive male reptile to the water’s edge. The croc, himself the lure for the sprinkling of visitors who had come 20 miles (32km) from the c...

US officials scrambled on Friday to clarify that Washington’s policy toward Taiwan had not changed, after an apparent gaffe by US President Joe Biden Thursday night when he said on CNN that the United States would come to the island’s defence in ...

The Alec Baldwin-involved fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico movie set has reignited talk of prop gun safety, while the film world mourns the death of the 42-year-old cinematographer.Hutchins, who was killed on Thursday when Baldwin di...

US intelligence officials issued a warning to American technology firms against working with China in five crucial areas.Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, bioscience, semiconductors, and autonomous systems are sectors “where the stakes ar...

“Great European”, “compromise machine” and “monument” were among the tributes paid by leaders to Angela Merkel at what is likely to be the outgoing German chancellor‘s last EU summit after almost 16 years in charge of Europe’s largest...

Police in England said on Friday they had arrested three men, after several days of increasing alarm at reports that revellers had been injected with needles at nightclubs.A number of young women and men, mostly students, have come forward, saying th...

Alec Baldwin was handed what was described as a safe “cold gun” on the set of his movie Rust, but the prop weapon contained live rounds when it was fired, according to details of the police investigation into the fatal shooting released on Friday...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday a new Covid-19 lockdown is not on the cards, as advisers warned that acting early with lighter measures to cut rising case numbers would reduce the need for tougher restrictions later.Johnson’s go...

China is expecting there to be modest growth in foreign investments into the country in the coming five years amid increasingly challenging international political and economic conditions, according to a new plan released by the Ministry of Commerce ...

The US government’s decision to issue US$100 billion worth of export permits to suppliers of Huawei Technologies Co and China’s top chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) – both on the US trade blacklist – sho...

People seeking legal aid in Hong Kong will no longer be able to choose their criminal lawyers and attorneys will be limited to taking on fewer judicial challenges under proposed changes that some critics fear will leave protesters and other governmen...

China has underlined its “no first use” nuclear policy in a position paper amid discussion over its commitments in a developing nuclear arms race.In the “Position Paper on China and United Nations Cooperation” issued by the foreign ministry o...

Hong Kong’s election watchdog has urged the government to streamline procedures, deploy experienced staff and improve in “areas of incompetence”, as it completed its investigation into the vote count delay of a recent major poll.The Election Co...

Award-winning Swedish rapper Einar, who topped the country’s charts, was shot and killed in Stockholm, police and media said on Friday as police hunted for suspects.The 19-year-old Einar, who raps in Swedish, was the most streamed artist on Spotify...

China has ramped up its electricity imports from North Korea, Russia and Myanmar amid its worst power shortage in decades, customs data shows, although the increases do not offer an immediate solution to the nationwide crisis.Imports from North Korea...

China’s new “white list” of government-approved internet news providers and aggregators will give Beijing tighter control over news in cyberspace but will not have a big impact on the few delisted publishers, industry insiders and observers sai...

South Korea’s Justice Ministry on Friday blocked the army from appealing a landmark court ruling that said it unlawfully discharged the country’s first known transgender soldier before she was found dead earlier this year.The ministry, which over...

Energy, food security and conservation were on the agenda as President Xi Jinping visited Shandong province in eastern China this week, according to state media.Xi inspected conservation efforts in the Yellow River estuary in Dongying on Wednesday be...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s proposal for France and Germany to join a “quad” to develop Africa may not work, scholars have said.But German and French companies will always find ways of working with those from China in Africa even without the...

Hong Kong authorities have made it a national security priority to stop smugglers crossing the border with goods from countries which have frosty relations with mainland China, a government source has said.This was revealed after the city’s first f...

China has warned Slovakia and the Czech Republic that nobody should harbour any illusions about the “necessary measures” Beijing will take to defend its sovereignty, ahead of a visit to both European countries by Taiwan’s foreign minister.Beiji...

China’s top economic planner is seeking to eliminate cryptocurrency mining activity in the country, months after a government crackdown that turned dozens of companies from model energy consumers into pariahs in the world’s second-largest economy...

Senior officials from Hong Kong and mainland China called for more collaboration on Friday, as they identified Guangzhou’s Nansha district as a key platform for the sides to work together on health tech, shipping, as well building a new community w...

TikTok-owner ByteDance, which had been expanding into video gaming aggressively, is laying off dozens of employees at one of its gaming studios as Beijing’s crackdown on the industry clouds the outlook for once-promising titles, according to a pers...

Americans may have misinterpreted a phrase used by officials in China as celebrating the United States’ decline, a prominent Chinese scholar has said.“The East is rising and the West is declining” has gained traction in China since the emergenc...

The Chinese foreign ministry’s office in Hong Kong has hit out at Western nations who criticised the government’s disqualification of opposition district councillors, with a spokesman accusing the overseas politicians of “fishing for fame with ...

Residents in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang are still waiting to hear when they can return home after a deadly gas explosion that killed at least four people.The blast at a mixed-use residential building near the centre of the Liaoning pro...

An international student asked to leave Australia after allegedly assaulting members of the Sikh community received a hero’s welcome on his return to India.A roadshow greeted Vishal Jood, 24, “an unlawful non-citizen” of Australia as he arrived...

An Italian city is going ahead with plans to host an art exhibition by a Chinese dissident despite a request from China’s embassy to cancel it.The exhibition by Badiucao, a cartoonist also known as “The Chinese Banksy”, is expected to denounce ...