Welfare minister Law Chi-kwong says 4,005 and 2,188 domestic workers have arrived from Philippines and Indonesia, respectively, since city eased travel curbs.

Ambassador Qin Gang also pledges to help fight anti-Asian hate crimes at a time when racist attacks are rising sharply

Ardern broke the news on social media and will work remotely as she isolates for the next seven days. Meanwhile New Zealand also reported its first case of the BA.5 variant of Omicron.

China’s experience could offer lessons but Hanoi remains wary of involving Chinese investors in projects deemed crucial to national security.

‘The crowd is almost back to pre-pandemic levels and business is almost 70 per cent better than last year,’ says a flower shop owner.

Regional Governor fears as many as 60 people may have been killed in the bombing, but emergency services were able to rescue 30 people.

Wang Qishan will attend South Korean president-elect’s inauguration, signalling Beijing’s focus on ties with Seoul.

Banks are being asked to grant easy loans as more manufacturers in Shanghai prepare to reopen their factories after more than a month of citywide lockdown. New Covid-19 cases fell for a 15th day.

The 52-year-old sherpa first scaled Mount Everest in 1994 and has been making the trip nearly every year since then. Everest has been climbed more than 10,000 times since it was first scaled in 1953.

Thailand is the world’s largest exporter of orchids, but the pandemic forced one in five farms to close, and growers are expecting further hits due to the war in Ukraine. Exports to China have also dropped by more than a third in the last year.

Anna Zaitseva fled the plant with her six-month old baby and said there were times she lost hope, because she thought “everyone forgot about us”.

The longer Hong Kong is closed off, the greater the risk of being surpassed by rivals and fading into economic irrelevance. If this means a further delay in reopening the border with the mainland, so be it.

Venture capitalists are biding their time on new investments in China amid increased uncertainty in the market.

Artificial intelligence at the heart of the project on the Tibetan plateau will build the structure slice by slice, with no human workers.

Indonesia’s coordinating minister of maritime and investment affairs Luhut Pandjaitan offered Musk the candy during a meeting about Indonesia’s efforts to develop electric vehicle batteries along with other investments.

If enforced it would mark the heaviest administrative penalty ever imposed under Japan’s maritime transport law.

Without mentioning incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by name, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told supporters at a rally that his adversary was unable to govern and lied constantly to the nation to hide his incompetence.

Sole candidate for top job secures 99.4 per cent of all ballots cast on Sunday by members of the Election Committee.

With prominent election surveys indicating Marcos Jnr will likely clinch an easy victory over Leni Robredo, some businessmen say they are ‘surfing the web’ for emigration ideas.

Researchers in Indonesia analysed proverbs in Mandarin and Bahasa Indonesia to compare and contrast how the Chinese zodiac differs in Mandarin vs Bahasa Indonesia.

Commitment comes ahead of Sunday’s virtual G7 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and a day before Russia marks its Victory Day holiday.

The colt, which went off at 80-1 odds, crossed the finish line ahead of Messier, taking second place, and favourite Epicenter, in at third place.

The violent protests over Carrie Lam’s ill-fated fugitive offenders bill, and Beijing’s subsequent strong measures to assert its overall jurisdiction have caused a sea change in Hong Kong. The next leader bears the twin responsibilities of safegu...

The country’s first and largest Type 075-class amphibious assault ship was commissioned a year ago and is deemed useful for small island assault combat operations.

‘His work paved seminal stories across comics. George Perez was an artist, a writer, a role model and a friend,’ said Marvel Entertainment.

William Burns said the US believed China was unsettled by the reputational damage of being associated with the ‘brutishness’ of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military action.

If the Supreme Court overturns the 1973 ruling that established a federal right to abortion, each US state will be free to ban or allow abortion.

Liberal Party senator Andrew Bragg was referring to the ruling coalition’s ‘intemperate rhetoric’ about China; observers said that showed how ‘out of touch’ the coalition is about racism.

Pro-UK unionists conceded a historic election victory for O’Neill’s Irish nationalist party, while threatening anew to boycott the devolved government.

Officials said the dead included four children and adolescents. The blast at the prestigious Saratoga Hotel in Havana was due to a suspected gas leak, state TV reported.

The decree says that women should leave the home only when necessary, and that male relatives would face punishment for women’s dress code violations.

German police said the device was discovered on Friday afternoon in the basement of a building ‘housing the office of a Russian press agency’ in the city’s Steglitz district.

Evacuating civilians from the mill had drawn the world’s attention, with the UN and Red Cross desperately trying to organise departures. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister made the announcement on Saturday.

Research also found that both sexes under the age of 45 were more likely to put on the pounds than those in other age groups; severe Covid-19 can be affected by weight.

United States first lady met the Ukrainian women on a tour of Romania and Slovakia to see US servicemen deployed in the countries; Despite their ordeal, the women helped fellow refugees.

A driver at the terminus says ambulance personnel estimated the man had been dead for at least 10 hours by the time he was discovered

Foreign vice-minister Le Yucheng tells forum that Beijing will not be intimidated by Russia-style sanctions.

Former No 2 official John Lee had no public activities on Saturday, but sources said he was calling Election Committee members in a bid to secure as many votes as possible.

PM Narendra Modi seeks to be a dependable global leader, but faces record-high inflation, an issue that brought down India’s previous government; could he be considering export restrictions?

The late delivery of Paladin howitzers and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles – as a result of the Ukraine war – is unlikely to have an immediate impact.

Police found the women on the floor by the window of a hotel room in the MGM Cotai.

18 aircraft involved in flyover while aircraft carrier strike group conducts exercises in the area.

Developers, tourism players worry about impact on plans for residential, leisure hub in the area

Narayanan Iyer died at around 8,200 metres above sea level; his death is the third to be reported on Nepal Himalayas during the current climbing season, which started in March and is due to close at the end of May.

Fangshan district follows Chaoyang in urging all but essential workers to avoid the office.

Chinese foreign minister says American Indo-Pacific strategy is not in the interest of East Asia.

He takes on a daunting agenda of domestic reforms he vowed to implement when he came to power as France’s youngest-ever president in 2017, as well as dealing with the Russian assault against Ukraine.

An Indonesian warship intercepted the Singapore-flagged MV Mathu Bhum as it headed for Malaysia carrying material that is temporarily prohibited for export, Navy said.

Amid talk of revamp, morale takes a beating, even among elite corps of administrative officers

Launch is violation of UN Security Council resolutions and ‘serious threatening act that harms international peace and stability’, South Korea said, vowing to take tougher approach to North’s nuclear ambitions.