Scheme expanded to include non-permanent residents eligible for permanent residency, but will not cover people planning to emigrate.

Union leaders call for strikes as police defend hard-line response and Benny Tai admits protest movement’s leaders are not in control.

Huawei’s cloud operations crashed for 34 minutes on Monday morning, causing disruptions across a variety of services in Guangdong, including a popular stock trading app.

Kneeling victim makes no attempt to defend herself.

One analyst believes the escalating violence is an attempt by the Yamaguchi-gumi to eliminate a rival by absorbing its members before Japan reopens its borders to tourists.

Company director, two jobless men and another suspect have been charged with attempted wounding and weapons possession.

Mainland investors rush to snap up flats at new Yuen Long project before the midnight introduction of the 15pc Buyer’s Stamp Duty.

Omicron subvariants BA.4 or BA.5, which potentially have higher ability to evade vaccine protection, not among most frequently seen imported cases, academic says.

Currently, the penalty for insults is detention for less than 30 days or a fine of less than US$74. The proposed amendments will introduce a prison term of up to one year and raise the fine to up to US$2,221.

He was Vladimir Putin’s first prime minister but Mikhail Kasyanov never in his worst nightmares imagined that his former boss would unleash a full-scale war on Ukraine.

During Lee’s week-long local leave, Wong will have a chance to chair his first Cabinet meeting.

Alphabet has placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on paid leave on claims he breached confidentiality policies, after he told a newspaper that the Google AI he interacted with was a person.

Crowds enjoy a smooth ride as heat and pollution fail to take the gloss off theme park’s big day.

Ukrainian and Russian forces were fighting for ‘literally every metre’ in the city of Sievierodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The settlement covers about 15,500 female employees who have worked for the company since September 2013.

India, an oil-hungry country of 1.4 billion people, has guzzled nearly 60 million barrels of Russian oil in 2022 so far, compared with 12 million barrels in all of 2021. Shipments to other Asian countries, like China, have also increased in recent mo...

Cheung, 46 - star of the hit 1993 movie Farewell My Concubine - fell from the 24th floor window of the hotel and was found lying in Connaught Road at 6.41pm.

Two men were certified dead at the scene, with police treating the case as an industrial accident.

Andriy Pokrasa, 15, and his dad are being hailed in Ukraine for their volunteer aerial reconnaissance work in the early days of the invasion.

Amnesty International said it had uncovered proof in Ukraine’s second-largest city of the repeated use of cluster bombs and scatterable landmines, which are banned under international conventions.

A China Airlines jet crash-landed at Chek Lap Kok and overturned in flames, killing two passengers and injuring 211 others on board.

Malaysia lacks at least 1.2 million workers across manufacturing, plantation and construction, industry and government data show. Shortage has forced numerous companies to refuse orders, foregoing billions in sales.

British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing in the Amazon rainforest a week ago.

Chinese mine acquisition spree, in contrast to Western wariness, seen as classic sign of putting long-term gains over short-term costs.

Petrochemical firms joined automobile and steelmakers in cutting operations due to inventory issues from transport disruptions from the truckers strike. The 22,000-strong union is protesting soaring fuel prices and demanding minimum pay guarantees.

The lights were turned out at Kai Tak at 1.16 this morning, marking the end of the airport’s 73-year history.

Retired four-star Marine general John Allen is under investigation into whether he illegally lobbied on behalf of the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar.

Netflix described the second season as “a whole new round,” but did not provide any other details, including a premiere date. The Korean-language series premiered in September, becoming Netflix’s most-watched series in just 12 days, according t...

Crime has come down, city’s transport networks have grown, people have more leisure choices now.

In the quarter century since the handover, home ownership in Hong Kong has been a relatively safe bet with home prices up 140 per cent on average. Those Hong Kong people who left the city in 1997, or invested overseas, did even better with five-fold ...

Police probe was launched after 13 members of the region’s predominantly Konyak tribe and one security trooper were killed in December after defence forces stationed in the border state mistook the labourers for militants entering from Myanmar and ...

Muslims have taken to the streets across India in recent weeks to protest against the anti-Islamic comments by two members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Legal scholar Surabhi Chopra says research efforts showed public information on immigration detainees was harder to find than data for prisoners.

A woman in China was so desperate to keep her boyfriend she posed as a wealthy heiress using forged property ownership documents but the deception fell apart when a police check revealed her fake alias.

‘Half my friends have full-time work, which makes me optimistic’; youth make up about 42 per cent of the 8.4 million people out of work.

Meanwhile, those aged below 60 who were infected were more likely to die as a result of other conditions compared with older residents, according to data.

Travel companies have complained over the lack of communication regarding entry procedures and last-minute Covid-19 guidelines.

The vessels can send a political message in a time of tension, analyst says.

Yue’s warning, made last week before the July 1 handover anniversary, showed the unique position occupied by the world’s fourth-largest capital market, a quarter of a century since it ceased to be a British colony.

The global nuclear arsenal is expected to grow in the coming years for the first time since the Cold War, a leading conflict and armaments think tank said.

Members of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against the former US president for seeking to overturn the results of t...

French President Emmanuel Macron could lose his outright majority in parliament, forcing him to compromise and rely on coalition partners to push forward his ambitious reforms.

Senior foreign ministry official says China’s cooperation in the region has resulted in real benefits for its Pacific partners.

Wang Yi’s eight-nation voyage across the Pacific is of a piece with China’s decades-long diplomatic focus on its neighbours and the developing world. However, China is not trusted and remains misunderstood and largely unloved – even in regions ...

The killings were reported in region that borders China and Afghanistan, formerly a bastion of resistance to government forces during civil war in Tajikistan in the 1990s.

Three victims found at the scene were rushed to hospital. At least one was in critical condition. Two other victims drove themselves to the hospital

The protest at an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport was in opposition to government plans to start sending migrants to the east African country from next week.

The new proposals include tougher background checks for gun buyers under the age of 21 and cracking down on illegal gun purchases.

The death toll has climbed to 461, with 87 people still unaccounted for, southeastern KwaZulu-Natal provincial government premier Sihle Zikalala said.

A court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic last week found two Britons and a Moroccan guilty of ‘mercenary activities’ seeking to overthrow the republic.