Singer Joni Mitchell says she is pulling her music from Spotify over “lies” on the streaming service about Covid-19, just days after fellow musical titan Neil Young did the same.In a post on her website, the Big Yellow Taxi singer said she was su...

The threat of a terrorist attack in Hong Kong remains “moderate”, although there is no specific intelligence that one is in the works, the city’s police chief has said.Commissioner of Police Raymond Siu Chak-yee told a radio programme on Saturd...

Nearly a year after his son was last seen being hauled away by Myanmar junta troops, 66-year-old Win Hlaing says he just wants to know whether he is alive.One night last April, a neighbour phoned to tell him his son, Wai Soe Hlaing, a young father wh...

Canberra will seek to be included in consultations about a trade dispute between the European Union and China launched by the EU at the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Australian trade minister said on Saturday.Thursday’s EU challenge accuses C...

The fight for the attention span of short video viewers is heating up in China, and it is turning into a slugfest between WeChat, the ubiquitous super app operated by Tencent Holdings, Douyin, the domestic version of TikTok owned by ByteDance, and Ho...

Hong Kong’s struggling postal service is bracing itself for more challenges ahead as airfreight restrictions mount amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is banking its future on cross-border e-commerce.Hongkong Post is government-owned but run on a se...

A US toddler is being called a hero after alerting his parents that their house in Texas was on fire.Nathan and Kayla Dahl were asleep in their bedroom earlier this month when two-year-old Brandon came and tapped Kayla on her foot, she told Good Morn...

A Hong Kong study has confirmed the world’s first known instances of hamster-to-human transmission of the coronavirus, tying them to a cluster of Delta cases linked to local pet shops that sparked a controversial cull of thousands of the tiny roden...

Salvage operations for a US Navy fighter jet that crashed in the South China Sea will be a tough task, with the extent of damage to the jet, the depth of the wreckage and subsurface conditions all potentially affecting recovery work, according to Chi...

Hip-hop artist Kanye West will have to be fully vaccinated if he wants to play concerts in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday, after media said the performer planned an Australian tour in March.The warning comes just two weeks ...

Part of a bridge at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) where students gathered each year to paint calligraphic commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing was blocked off on Saturday.Nine construction workers were witnessed erecti...

Hong Kong recorded 120 coronavirus cases on Saturday, marking the seventh straight day of infections in the triple digits, as an outbreak of the Omicron variant at a public housing estate surged past 400 cases.But health officials said they believed ...

China’s ambitious plan to build a more open economic system in Shenzhen will present neighbouring Hong Kong with an opportunity to benefit from regional reform in the Greater Bay Area and also to serve as a model city that Shenzhen can learn from, ...

After more than a decade of flying, Cathay Pacific pilot Ian* is quitting the profession and preparing to leave Hong Kong, the city he has called home for most of his life.A spate of cockpit resignations has affected those still at work. “It feels ...

The Myanmar military’s recent placement of landmines around oil and gas pipelines connected to southwestern China suggests the junta is hypersensitive to possible attacks on the projects amid an escalating national rebellion, experts say.The Southe...

I burst out laughing when I saw the words “bright red underwear for Chinese New Year” in a promotional email I received the other day. It was as if a divine power from above was reminding me that it is time to prepare for the Lunar New Year.It is...

A federal judge resentenced “Tiger King” Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison on Friday, reducing his punishment by just a year despite pleas from the former zookeeper for leniency as he begins treatment for early-stage cancer.“Please don’t make ...

US plans to build a new warship are a clear response to the growing power of the Chinese navy to deter US operations, especially in disputed waters in the western Pacific, according to analysts.The United States is expected to start building its next...

Only people who have received at least one Covid-19 shot will be allowed to enter restaurants and bars, government premises and venues such as gyms, theme parks and salons from February 24, as Hong Kong’s leader looks to increase the inoculation ra...

Lim Kok Thay, the former chairman of Genting Hong Kong Ltd, which slid into provisional liquidation last week, has accused the German government of walking away from a promise to provide capital to Genting’s shipbuilding unit, whose demise ultimate...

The death of an 11-year-old Chinese boy after being attacked by a pack of dogs in northern China has triggered a fresh round of debate about how to regulate the surging number of pets in the country.Li Furun was mauled by four dogs in a deserted fact...

A pandemic, trade war and crimps on global supply chains or not, East Asia is still humming. The region remains the world’s most vibrant economic space. It was the case before Covid-19 and Trumpism, and it will be in the future.The United States an...

Days before Myanmar’s February 1 coup last year, mixed signals from the military over its planned course of action had prominent observers and journalists in the Southeast Asian nation scrambling for answers.With murmurs circulating that the milita...

Hong Kong needs a thorough debate on whether to expand its rehabilitation law to allow youngsters who have paid the price for their involvement in the 2019 anti-government protests to leave their criminal records behind, a local group supporting them...

US President Joe Biden on Friday sought to maintain pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, announcing a small troop deployment to eastern Europe even as top Pentagon officials backed a renewed push for diplomacy.As President Volodymy...

A senior US official will visit Lithuania next week to discuss enhancing economic cooperation with the small Baltic nation, which has faced pressure from China for boosting ties with Taiwan.Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environ...

A former senior inspector of China’s top anti-corruption agency has been given a suspended death sentence for taking 463 million yuan (US$72.9 million) in bribes.Dong Hong, who was until 2018 a deputy leader of the central inspection team of the Ce...

As the Omicron onslaught continues in Hong Kong, undermining the administration’s embattled efforts to stick with its “zero-Covid” tactics, the need is urgent for a rigorous cost-benefit examination of the best way forward.At a time when Covid-...

The new ending to the Chinese release of Fight Club in which the authorities win is actually closer to the original book, the author has said.Film fans in China noticed this week that a streaming version of David Fincher’s 1999 cult classic had bee...

More Chinese drones will be delivered to North Africa after Algeria confirmed an order of six of the new Caihong variant unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), while a new delivery of Wing Loong UAVs to Egypt is in the pipeline, according to reports.Defenc...

The US Navy confirmed Friday that a photo and video circulating on social media this week did show an F-35C, one of its most advanced fighter aircraft, crash-landing on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and floating in the South China Sea after fa...

Relatives and neighbours of the Indian family who froze to death near the US-Canada border last week said the father repeatedly failed to secure better paid jobs in recent years, prompting them to take a risky trip aided by an illegal migrant network...

China’s ambassador to the US on Friday accused Washington of encouraging Taiwan to seek independence and said that such moves raised the risk of military conflict.“The Taiwan issue is the biggest tinderbox between China and the United States,” ...

As war drums are being beaten over Ukraine and the Taiwan Strait, what are the economic and diplomatic options available to all parties?“Jaw, jaw is better than war, war” is a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill. But why is Britain today ...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday did not rule out a full-blown war with Russia but said his country was not a sinking Titanic and accused Washington and the media of fuelling panic that weighed on the economy while there were “no tank...

The dog-loving Bidens have finally fulfilled a key White House pledge – they got a cat.The political pussycat is a short-haired tabby named Willow, a spokesman for Jill Biden said Friday.Pictures posted by the first lady on Twitter showed the grey-...

An Irish businessman who was stuck in China for nearly three years can now return home, after travel restrictions were lifted, the government in Dublin said on Friday.Richard O’Halloran has been unable to leave Shanghai because of a legal dispute i...

More lunar landings, an asteroid defence system and space debris cleanups are among major aims for China as the country steps up its ambitions to become a leading space power.China has released the fifth white paper on its space programme, outlining ...

A bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed on Friday hours before US President Joe Biden was due to arrive in the former steel city to highlight his efforts to strengthen the country’s infrastructure.Ten people sustained injuries, all of them minor, when the...

ByteDance, owner of short-video sharing app TikTok and its Chinese sibling Douyin, has launched a social app in China that allows users to interact in a virtual community through avatars, as interest around the metaverse continues to grow.While the f...

More than 60 per cent of young people in Hong Kong do not seek help when they feel stressed or have negative emotions despite the coronavirus pandemic adding to their pressures, a survey has found, with weak awareness of available services seen as th...

Pope Francis denounced fake news about Covid-19 and vaccines on Friday, blasting the “distortion of reality based on fear” but also urging that people who believe such lies are helped to understand true scientific facts.Francis met with Catholic ...

A county in central China has sparked controversy by offering a host of incentives to encourage “leftover” women to marry, including with unemployed men, local media have reported, amid rising concern about the country’s dwindling birth rate.Yi...

Chinese and Russian presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will spend a “lot of time” discussing security in Europe and the set of demands Moscow has made of the West when they meet for talks next week, the Kremlin said on Friday.Putin will tra...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will officiate at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics next Friday, and host diplomatic activities for visiting foreign dignitaries over the weekend.China’s foreign ministry said Xi would hold welcome ban...

Hong Kong’s air quality has improved over the past decade, in part due to reduced road and marine traffic during the coronavirus pandemic, but most of the major pollutant concentration levels still fall short of the goals set by the World Health Or...

Chinese companies that received investment from the endowment fund of a prominent American university will be investigated by the school’s in-house committee amid concerns about alleged human rights abuses in China.The Yale Daily News, the Yale Uni...

China’s new plan to further relax market access in Shenzhen has underlined the southern tech hub’s position at the heart of the country’s tech ambitions for the Greater Bay Area (GBA), a region covering Hong Kong, Macau and nine cities in south...

An oil slick off the coast of Thailand continued to expand on Friday and was approaching beaches on the east coast, home to fragile coral and seagrass, officials said.The oil leak from an underwater hosepipe at an offshore mooring point used to load ...