Indian regional cinema and its Telugu, Tamil films accounted for some 47 per cent of the country’s film revenue in 2019.

Former leader Leung Chun-ying, ex-delegate Rita Fan review Hong Kong’s relationship with Beijing ahead of 25th anniversary of city’s return to Chinese rule.

The Indonesian president will meet the leaders of Ukraine and Russia during next week’s peace-building mission to the warring countries.

Normally practised by young city dwellers, yoga has made an unlikely appearance among a group of seniors in a rural Chinese village 200 kilometres from Beijing.

Privacy groups worried that social media posts or information on apps could be used by authorities to build cases.

It is believed to be the first asylum award for a Hongkonger in the EU to explicitly cite the national security law.

Tea is deeply entrenched across gender and social classes in Pakistan, even as the country explores non-import alternatives like herbal and green tea.

Given her qualifications in the political arena and personal experience in overcoming setbacks, she is more than capable of shaping the terrain of Hong Kong’s political landscape.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman recently called Israel a ‘potential ally’, while Saudis have taken to social media to express their support for normalisation.

Higher airfares will continue as long as oil prices remain high, head of industry body says.

With token prices plummeting and customers unable to transfer money to their accounts, major exchanges like WazirX and Unocoin are feeling the squeeze.

Essential workers in Hong Kong still waiting on Covid-19 emergency payments.

Journalist Wei Xing started up China Fact Check two years ago to push back against the flood of misinformation about the coronavirus.

China has been accused of running a forced-labour programme in Xinjiang targeting Uygurs and crackdowns in Hong Kong.

Waiting to be resettled to a third country after fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, they hope PM Albanese’s new government may ease Australia’s strict refugee policies

Kyrylo Budanov said Moscow using reservists in a covert mobilisation to replenish its ranks in eastern Ukraine.

Having languished for decades and losing out to Mandopop and K-pop, Canto-pop’s new generation of stars are relevant, collaborative and current.

Conservancy Association calls for Urban Renewal Authority to avoid transplanting 12-metre-tall Chinese banyan, says efforts could harm its ability to absorb nutrients.

The British socialite was removed from the general population of inmates at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre and placed in solitary confinement.

Paul Ho, CEO of I Automobile Group, says new measure ‘has stifled many young people’s dreams’, suggests modification and speeding rules be tightened instead.

A man who left his watermelon stall unmanned with a QR-code for self-service received 100,000 yuan (US$15,000) from strangers to help pay for his three-year-old granddaughter’s treatment.

The city has tightened its Global Investor Programme rules over the years, such as requiring applicants to manage firms with revenues of S$200 million, but interest continues to be strong.

At least nine provincial party chiefs have written long articles in party publications extolling China’s president and pledging loyalty to him.

Shenzhen’s ‘Made in China, sold on Amazon’ community is focusing on regulatory compliance and brand building as it bids farewell to the days of rapid growth amid a tough market environment full of uncertainty.

The British prime minister would become the country’s longest continuously serving leader in 200 years – if he remains in power.

Putin made the remarks at a meeting with Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko in St Petersburg.

Speaking at the UK music festival, the 19-year-old activist told the crowd she feels there is still hope for the world to choose a path which is ‘sustainable’.

The FBI seized the paintings with a warrant based on ‘false information related to the alleged prior ownership of the paintings,’ The New York Times reported.

France was one of several US allies to condemn America’s decision to revoke the country’s recent nationwide legal protection for abortion.

Protesters in Germany on Saturday called on G7 leaders to take action to fight poverty, climate change and hunger, and end dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

America woke up to a new level of division: between states that will now or soon deny the right to abortion, enshrined for 50 years, and those that still allow it.

President Biden called the legislation the most significant of its kind in decades; measures include restricting gun access for youngest buyers and bolstering mental health support.

Summit preceded by tougher China rhetoric from Nato chief, not long after survey across member states shows uptick in views of Beijing as a security threat.

Liaison office held series of closed-door individual meetings with city’s major foreign business chambers to ‘directly’ gauge their views on issues, sources say.

Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk said ‘unfortunately, they have almost left the city’, the biggest reversal for Ukraine since losing the port of Mariupol in May.

China’s exports to India grew to US$27.1 billion in the first quarter of 2022, but India is concerned by its ballooning trade deficit with its neighbour amid strained ties two years after the deadly Galwan Valley clash.

The China Major Bridge Engineering Company Ltd built the structure, said to later feature a rail network connecting to Belt and Road projects.

As Asian envoys press for more students to be allowed to return, the way forward of those from the West remains unclear.

The city endured a lengthy lockdown as it tackled China’s worst outbreak since the early days of the pandemic.

Hong Kong’s biggest mortgage lenders kept their prime rates unchanged immediately after the monetary authority’s June 16 move, giving homebuyers the opening to get ahead of higher borrowing costs.

Video images of apparent aftermath of mass crossing attempt of 2,000 into Spanish enclave Melilla showed bleeding and motionless people.

Former chairman of Hospital Authority Employees Alliance confirms group voted to disband after special general meeting.

‘Women died getting abortions......we were trying to protect women’s rights, women’s lives, and now they’ve taken all that away from us’.

Two men, aged 27 and 29, detained for manufacture of explosives and inciting others to cause grievous bodily harm.

Xiaoxuan is a plucky eight-year-old Chinese boy who has been fighting cancer despite four years of pain and endless rounds of surgery and treatment.

The early-hours tragedy on Saturday happened shortly before the capital city’s LGBT community was due to hold its annual Pride event; a man with ‘mental health difficulties’, aged 42 and ‘on radar since 2015’, has been arrested.

Number of new cases remains in the four-digit range for the 11th day straight.

Zhang led defence team in historic 1980 trials of ‘counter-revolutionary’ Gang of Four and those close to disgraced Mao protégé Lin Biao.

Living the expatriate life or struggling to make ends meet, immigrants find reasons to belong.

The vessel, which went down during a second world war battle with Japan, was located 6,895m below sea level off the Philippines.