Championed by everyone from celebrities to fitness coaches, today’s yoga includes rail, goat and dog yoga, which are among the latest versions of this ancient practice.

‘If the city is still sticking to the existing border control measures in the coming half-year, or by the end of this year, I will be a bit worried,’ Lam says.

As borders reopen, travel has sprang back with such voracity that it’s resulted in an unprecedented labour crunch for the aviation industry.

It wasn’t the first time employees at an Apple store had tried to unionise, but it was the first attempt that resulted in a vote.

A new study argues that chickens were first domesticated in Thailand about 3,500 years ago thanks to environmental changes made by ancient rice farms.

China is the African country’s biggest lender and is a key player in efforts to resolve its debt problems.

The French president and his proxies took on an apocalyptic tone as the country heads to the polls for the second round of a parliamentary election.

Peter Dutton said on Sunday that the United States ‘would pull out every stop’ to support Australia acquiring nuclear submarines ‘as quickly as possible’.

A bill that would legalise same-sex marriage won initial approval from Thai lawmakers this week despite opposition from the government, which wants civil partnerships for LGBT people instead.

The Nato chief’s comments came amid intensified Russian assaults after the EU recommended granting Ukraine candidate status to join the bloc.

Veteran bureaucrat Eric Chan appointed chief secretary, Financial Secretary Paul Chan stays in current post and Paul Lam named new justice secretary.

The procedure is legal and widely available across the country but it is also used as a means of population and social control.

With more people needing financial aid, the Malaysian government is trying to widen its revenue sources to can boost social welfare, analysts say.

Father of two Chris Cheng, 44, has muscular dystrophy and has to call on foster care to raise his sons, but still tries his best to remain a key part of their lives.

Canberra had chosen symbolic gestures and feeble investments over more practical initiatives now being offered by Beijing to Pacific island nations. Australia must shed its colonial mindset and stop claiming to always have the moral high ground over ...

A video of a college-educated patient who married her cousin and telling a doctor about a string of failed pregnancies sparks online debate.

Police chief remembers day he was called to robbery carried out by notorious ‘king of thieves’ Yip Kai-foon.

The president’s lobby group Projo says it may register as a political party as talk swirls of officials mulling a constitutional change to allow third terms.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Yang Jiechi met in Europe’s Luxembourg on Monday, the 4th in-person meeting of US-China officials in 15 months.

Marked health inequalities exist in wealthy Hong Kong, and government intervention alone is not enough to address them. Civil society and businesses play a major role in the improvement of living and working conditions, thereby minimising illness and...

‘I’m good,’ Biden told reporters after US Secret Service agents quickly helped him up. ‘I got my foot caught’ in the toe cages.

On Saturday evening, Defence Minister Benny Gantz suspended an increase in Israeli entry permits for Gazan workers in response to the rocket fire.

Chinese mining company denies that court-appointed administrator has taken control of operation.

Largest cryptocurrency tumbles as much as 13 per cent on Saturday, breaching US$18,000, as sell-off quickens.

Dry and windy conditions have caused fires in several areas, with Zamora, near the border with Portugal, among the worst hit.

Oscar Munoz, 60, was sentenced by a criminal court in the capital Santiago. Pope Francis expelled Munoz from the church in 2019.

The country will be in a better position to negotiate at that time, Kyiv’s chief negotiator, David Arakhamia, said in an interview with US broadcaster Voice of America.

US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to roll out the vaccines to the under-5 age groups as early as next week.

Siberian tigers Yuri and Nikita at the Denver Zoo, who are supposed to mate, suffer most during Denver’s intensifying heatwaves.

Police said Jefferson da Silva Lima turned himself in at a police station in Atalaia do Norte. Two others are in prison for alleged involvement in the killings.

The British singer’s 1985 track has enjoyed a renaissance globally after featuring in the hit Netflix sci-fi horror series Stranger Things.

Police say the suspect, Robert Findlay Smith, showed up for the dinner, pulled out a handgun and fatally shot three of the elderly participants, one of whom died in his wife’s arms.

Biden said he would be talking to Xi and was ‘in the process’ of making a decision about the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese imports.

A wealthy person has bid a whopping US$19 million to eat at a New York steakhouse with Warren Buffett, 91, in his last such auction for San Francisco charity Glide.

Chance of an armed conflict is higher than five years ago as PLA ‘will soon be equipped with the tools needed’ to attack the island, analyst says.

Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, used a body camera to record her team’s efforts to save the wounded and was held captive for three months. President Zelensky said ‘we will keep working to free everyone’.

British PM says Ukraine, winner of this year’s contest, ‘can have it’, ‘should have it’ in 2023. European Broadcasting Union has ruled the event cannot take place in the war-torn country, but its public broadcaster wants more negotiations.

Rivalry between China and the US in the region is ‘greatly affecting capital flows’, but demand for projects under the Belt and Road Initiative remains, analysts say.

Plastic bottles, bottle lids and buoys top three types of rubbish commonly found on seashore, while cigarettes, tissue paper and food packaging dot hiking trails, green group Ecobus says.

The Zhengzhou commission for discipline inspection says it has started a probe into why angry depositors found their health codes had suddenly turned red.

The 12-month pilot scheme involves electronically tagging some people arriving on small boats or in the back of lorries. On Tuesday the European Court of Human Rights granted an injunction preventing the departure of a UK-chartered aircraft carrying ...

Nearly one-fourth of money victims lost was swindled through email fraud, while phone scammers pocketed HK$280 million.

After two years of Covid postponements, LGBT event returns, with excitement that archaic colonial-era Section 377A Penal Code law criminalising sex between men will soon be repealed.

HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of China (Hong Kong) and Hang Seng Bank kept their prime rates unchanged this week, even after the city’s de facto central bank raised its base rate by 75 basis points.

Xi address to the St Petersburg International Economic Forum also included warnings against decoupling and the use of sanctions.

Chinese social media falls in love with an elderly couple who battled together to overcome a terrible medical condition

Floods are a regular menace in low-lying Bangladesh, but experts say climate change is increasing frequency, ferocity, unpredictability.

Modern brides are doing away with practices such as looking sad as they leave their families, and changing their surnames after marriage.

China a notable absentee from 13 inaugural members of Global Methane Pledge Energy Pathway agreed upon at the forum.

Finance chief Paul Chan says Hong Kong must formulate different defence strategies to counter impact of worsening US-China ties.