Hong Kong Heritage Museum celebrated Bruce Lee’s 81st birthday on Saturday by unveiling a relaunched exhibition devoted to the kung fu legend.Almost a year in the making, the revamped “A Man Beyond the Ordinary: Bruce Lee” features exhibits pre...

Hong Kong minibus driver Yau Chi-kong, 71, rarely thinks about retiring for fear of the boredom that could follow such a decision.Living with his 69-year-old wife in a self-owned property without any children to worry about, he can afford to stop wor...

When Chinese President Xi Jinping met Southeast Asian leaders at a virtual summit on Monday, he cited a Chinese proverb to suggest that China was, is, and will always be a good neighbour, friend and partner to the region.“Distance tests a horse’s...

The widow of South Korea’s last military dictator issued a brief apology over the “pains and scars” caused by her husband’s brutal rule as dozens of relatives and former aides gathered at a Seoul hospital on Saturday to pay their final respec...

A man died on Saturday after falling onto the track at a Hong Kong train station, leaving railway services partially suspended.Police received a report at 10.30am of a person dropping onto the northern section of the railway at Tai Wo station, which ...

A new coronavirus variant identified in southern Africa is leading to a new round of travel restrictions just as globally many had finally begun to ease.The risks of the variant, called Omicron, are largely unknown. But the World Health Organization ...

Hong Kong police will flood the city’s streets with more than 10,000 officers on December 19 to ensure the Legislative Council election proceeds smoothly and safely, the force’s chief has said.Police Commissioner Raymond Siu Chak-yee on Saturday ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday renewed his pledge to consider “all options”, including acquiring enemy base strike capability, and vowed to create a stronger Self-Defence Force to protect the country amid growing threats from C...

Hong Kong’s paralysed business scene is showing signs of revival from the coronavirus pandemic as in-person events and lunches return, amid calls for the city’s strict social-distancing curbs to be eased.The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce,...

As degrees from overseas universities lose their competitive edge in China, graduates returning for work are getting mixed signals from employers, with some concerned the job market favours candidates who obtained local qualifications, despite an end...

Australia imposed new restrictions on Saturday on people who have been to nine southern African countries, a day after the Philippines made a similar move, as the new Omicron variant raises concerns about another wave of the coronavirus pandemic.Effe...

Hong Kong is considering banning unvaccinated residents from entering certain businesses in a bid to prevent the transmission of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant already found in the city, the minister in charge of the Covid-19 jab drive sa...

Veteran Thai journalist Nithi Thuamprathom has covered the automotive industry for two decades but it was only recently, at an exhibition in Shanghai a few years ago, that Chinese electric cars first caught his attention.“The show opened my eyes to...

The deaths of four people, including two Chinese nationals, in a militia attack on a gold mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Wednesday was just the latest in a string of incidents in the country’s troubled eastern region.Five Chinese m...

This week, the theft of a woman’s ashes shocked China. The woman, a live-streamer from Shandong province, eastern China, had taken her own life last month. After she was cremated her ashes were stolen by funeral home staff to sell to a local family...

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor says her administration is firmly in charge of running the city, regardless of how hands-on Beijing’s representatives have become with local affairs under the national security law, and the mass ...

A woman in China was detained for ‘borrowing the police’ to investigate if her husband having an affair.The woman called the police on her husband and lied that he had hired a sex worker.When police officers arrived at the hotel in Shaoxing, in t...

The bodies of three people have been discovered in a burnt-out building in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara, police said on Saturday, the first reported deaths after days of rioting.The charred bodies were discovered in a store in the Chinatown di...

When a schoolgirl in Singapore climbed onto rail tracks in August, tragedy was only avoided after trains were halted and the police called in to escort her away. Another teen in Tokyo was not so fortunate, when in May she stepped in front of a JR Yok...

The Shanghai Data Exchange opened for business on Thursday, marking China’s latest attempt to build a vast market for data – dubbed the new oil of the digital economy – which can be sorted, priced and traded like regular commodities.The new exc...

Sam Ng wakes up at 6am every Saturday to meet his friends and go hiking in Hong Kong. It is a big change from before the coronavirus pandemic, when weekends meant going out mainly to eat and drink.The 34-year-old, who works in a private bank, says he...

Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who helped American musical theatre evolve beyond pure entertainment and reach new artistic heights with works such as West Side Story, Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd, died early Friday at his home in...

A Chinese military researcher has downplayed the strength of the newly formed security alliance Aukus, arguing that lack of cohesiveness will prevent it becoming an Asian version of Nato.Neither Aukus nor the informal strategic alliance the Quad “c...

The Netherlands will be “effectively closed” in the evenings with bars, restaurants and shops shutting early to curb a spike in Covid-19 cases, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Friday.Dozens of protesters held a peaceful demonstration in The Hag...

China is under pressure to stabilise grain prices and should roll out more support to counter price volatility in domestic and international markets, state media said in the latest warning on food security.Domestic prices of corn and wheat are high, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday designated a new Covid-19 variant detected in South Africa with a large number of mutations as being “of concern”, the fifth variant to be given the designation.The WHO said in a statement that it had...

Water leaking through the ceiling of a Chinese national research facility might have destroyed a new-generation quantum computer under construction if not for the quick action of students working late.The incident has brought attention to the fragili...

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed on Friday to “bury the enemy” in what state media said was his first message from the battlefront, as the United Nations warned that the year-long conflict has left more than 9 million people in need o...

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said Ukraine had uncovered a plot to overthrow his government next week, involving individuals from Russia caught on tape talking about roping Ukraine’s richest businessman into backing a coup.The Kremlin deni...

Stocks closed sharply lower on Wall Street on Friday, after the new Omicron coronavirus variant detected in South Africa appeared to be spreading across the globe and the European Union proposed suspending air travel from southern Africa.The Dow Jone...

Macau detectives took Suncity Group CEO Alvin Chau Cheok-wa and others to a police station for questioning on Saturday, after mainland Chinese authorities issued an arrest warrant over his alleged involvement in running cross-border gambling activiti...

Beijing-based ByteDance, which operates TikTok and its Chinese version Douyin, is expected to cut at least 1,000 jobs at its education unit, marking a sharp contrast to this time a year ago when the tech giant’s thirst for fresh talent seemed insat...

Beijing’s call for “moderately excessive development of infrastructure” may reflect its growing concerns over an economic slowdown, but it is unlikely to repeat the previous mistakes of debt-fuelled blind expansion of traditional projects, anal...

France reacted with anger and dismay on Friday to Britain’s latest proposals for dealing with the deadly flow of migrants between their shores, ramping up a battle of wills over dangerous crossings of the English Channel that killed 27 people, incl...

Hong Kong on Friday joined a growing list of jurisdictions imposing tough travel and border controls on southern African countries, amid global concern over the emergence of a new coronavirus variant already found in the city.Health officials have ba...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen told a group of visiting US congressmen the administration will set up an office in Washington next year to handle veterans affairs, as the island continues to strengthen ties with the United States.She also told the ...

China is ready to open new economic areas and provide more conveniences to lure foreign talent and investment in the latest bid to build a market-oriented and law-based business environment which aligns to high-standard international trade agreements...

Beijing is taking steps to tighten its regulations over China’s coal market amid ongoing concerns over a power shortage and rising factory-gate inflation.The nation’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), re...

Hong Kong businesses have urged the government to roll out its new Covid-19 app soon so users can become comfortable with how it works as many company executives are optimistic they will be allowed to travel to mainland China without undergoing quara...

City governments should rely on big data rather than their experience when making key decisions as a way to reduce risks, a senior Chinese security official has told cadres, and he said to do this more data needed to be collected.Chen Yixin, secretar...

A new, heavily mutated coronavirus variant causing global concern has arrived in Hong Kong, just as the city is finally making progress with mainland Chinese authorities on reopening the border.So far, most of the cases have arisen in southern Africa...

Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has reminded staff to clearly note down prescription instructions and store details accurately in record-keeping systems after two recent miscommunications led to wrong medication given to patients.Friday’s warning ...

Climate change led to the collapse of the ancient city of Liangzhu, in what is today’s eastern China, bringing the advanced civilisation to a sudden end 4,300 years ago, a new study has found.Intense monsoon rains are likely to have caused severe f...

Beijing has offered its support to troubled Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and condemned violence in the capital.The assurances came as protesters in Honiara continued to demand Sogavare’s resignation and the Chinese embassy warne...

Hong Kong’s new cultural hub is inviting bids from developers to construct and operate three buildings earmarked for offices and entertainment, the first commercial project in the area.The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority issued the tenders...

A man in southwestern China urged authorities to arrest his own father on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, four months after his mother died of burn injuries caused by his father.Chen Changyu, 20, took to social media ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has again accused the United States of trying to impose its definition of democracy on others and of using it to promote the independence of Taiwan.“The US claims it does not support Taiwanese independence, yet it p...

China will not scale back its investment in Africa, a Chinese diplomat said before a ministerial forum with the continent next week.Beijing has become one of Africa’s largest creditors in recent years, lending hundreds of billions of dollars to gov...

An MTR employee has pleaded guilty to impersonating a Hong Kong police officer to solicit pornographic videos from teenage girls, along with a host of other offences committed over a span of nearly two years.Fong Hung-shun, 36, also admitted making s...

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