Beyond simply bringing back art forms, India’s royals also focus on keeping the tradition alive for future generations by engaging youth, developing entrepreneurial skills in craftsmen

Assurances over future of ‘one country, two systems’ by Chinese President Xi Jinping follows recent tumultuous relationship between mainland and Hong Kong.

The former Japanese prime minister was a vocal advocate of the island’s security and interests.

Financial Secretary Paul Chan says government will respond to housing crisis ‘with determination and courage, but also wisdom and techniques’.

Two parents in China both donated a kidney to their twin teenage daughters in a bid to save the pair who were suffering from renal failure and required transplants.

Record fertiliser prices sent higher by market turmoil and supply shortfalls amid the war in Ukraine are driving up the cost of farming rice. But the effects will be unequal, analysts say.

The US is trying to discourage developing Southeast Asian countries from entering large-scale infrastructure and development projects with China, unless they are proven economically feasible, structurally sound and environmentally safe.

Secretary for Health Dr Lo Chung-mau says the proposed measure would prevent the freedoms of uninfected residents from being affected by Covid-positive people.

Dehtlet Eco-system treats human waste without water or chemicals and turns it into fertiliser, eliminating greenhouse gases formed in traditional processing.

Shooter also said he “made multiple guns,” according to the sources. Police searched his home in the western city of Nara, confiscating guns similar to the apparently home-made one found at the scene after Abe was shot on Friday.

The Taiwanese defence ministry says the PLA conducted 555 sorties into its air defence zone in the first half of the year.

Once teeming with fish, the river is now filled with forlorn fisherfolk who say they’re lucky to have catch at all, as more hydropower dams are built up and down the river.

Demonstration comes a day after US President Joe Biden signed an executive order intended to preserve access to abortion following last month’s Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

China, the largest rice grower, has warned of a higher incidence of pests and diseases in its crop this year, with some provinces reporting an almost 10 per cent increase in the area affected.

Intense debate is raging in China after the price of ice cream made by the country’s most famous brand of baijiu liquor, Mao-tai, surged on the back of middlemen and supply chain issues.

Fans of Anita Mui, Roman Tam, Leslie Cheung say they’re keeping a slice of Hong Kong culture alive.

Moscow is trying to seize Donbas, made up of Donetsk and Luhansk. So far, Russian troops have taken Luhansk and are now fighting for Donetsk.

A growing number of people and sectors in Thailand have found access to cannabis troublesome since it was legalised on June 9. The health minister even issued a special decree days after it went into effect.

The 25 years after Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty have coincided with a rapid increase in wealth inequality in the city. Addressing the minimum wage and worker protections, improving child care, and boosting workforce skills could help n...

China is eyeing the chance to reduce its reliance on the West for microprocessors used in smart devices through adoption of the open-standard RISC-V chip design architecture.

The Uygur Forced Labour Prevention Act is likely to apply some drag on exports and investment in Xinjiang, but the economy is not export-dependent and is insulated to a degree by central government transfers.

Advancing defence ties with Manila’s treaty ally, but avoiding antagonising its largest trade partner, will be a difficult balancing act for Bongbong Marcos.

The election, which is expected to see Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party increase its majority, has been overshadowed by the murder.

Western democracies are developing weapons that travel at least five times the speed of sound in response to rapid development by China and Russia.

Rybakina rallied from a set down to defeat Tunisia’s Jabeur 3-6 6-2 6-2 on Saturday to become the first player from Kazakhstan to win a grand slam singles title.

One of the parade’s founders, a DJ known as Dr Motte, called for Berlin’s club culture to be listed as intangible heritage by Unesco, the UN’s cultural agency.

The MPs include ex-health and finance minister Sajid Javid, current finance minister Nadhim Zahawi and former health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Transport secretary Grant Shapps also on Saturday joined the race.

In a decree that gave no reason for the move, Volodymyr Zelensky announced the sacking of Ukraine’s ambassadors to Germany, India, Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary.

Rights groups have long claimed they face harassment from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist administration for highlighting rights abuses.

At least nine women were given the drug at the annual invite-only event attended by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and MPs. His SDP party called it a ‘monstrous act which we immediately declared to parliamentary police’.

Both sides described the talks at the G20 in Bali as constructive, but Wang accused the US of not doing enough to build bridges.

Such a strategy risks making the South China Sea issue more complicated, and even escalating tensions in the region, warns expert in Beijing.

More than 20 artillery, mortar and rocket strikes were launched in Ukraine’s east and south overnight, while at the G20 meeting the US saw ‘no signs’ of Russia engaging.

While many social media users expressed sympathy for the former Japanese prime minister, others celebrated his death.

Regulation aimed at state-backed Chinese firms ‘underestimates’ administrative burdens it will place on non-EU companies.

His stint as premier saw Japan deepen the goodwill it had rebuilt in Southeast Asia after painful memories of WWII – his 2007 idea of a ‘broader Asia’ encompassed countries in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions.

Commissioner of Police Raymond Siu says recent ‘recruitment experience and assessment day’ attracted more than 2,460 attendances, compared with an average of 1,463 for the previous three.

The wounded are not in life-threatening condition, and motive of the attacker remains unclear.

‘Megaphone diplomacy’ of little use in solving disputes, China’s special envoy to Europe says in choosing to focus on areas for cooperation.

A morally outraged water park visitor was told not to ‘overthink it’ after claiming shirtless male performers were too ‘sexual’ to be near children.

Suspect’s intentions still under investigation after it was discovered she sent package to clerk known to her.

Chief executive attributes 2019 anti-government protests, which many young people joined, to improper national education.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will step down on Wednesday, the country’s parliamentary speaker said, PM Ranil Wickremesinghe also said he is willing to resign.

New Foreign Minister Penny Wong meets her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at a G20 meeting in Bali,

Abe worked hard to improve China-Japan relations,’ Xi Jinping says in message to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida following assassination of former leader.

Transport and Logistics Bureau revealed the device cap, seat belt and helmet proposals in a paper submitted to the Legislative Council earlier this week.

Tucked next to some of the most iconic artefacts from Chinese civilisation, the Palace Museums in Hong Kong, Beijing and Taipei also feature smaller, but still fascinating, relics.

In 1970, Hilton Cheong-Leen led the first walkout in the history of the Urban Council since it was established in 1883.

Santi Warastuti is one of three plaintiffs that demanded an exclusion of marijuana from type-1 narcotics in Indonesia’s Narcotics Law. The women argued the conditions of their children, who suffer from cerebral palsy, can be relieved by medical mar...

In strongest statement yet on incident, Paul Lam cites President Xi Jinping’s call for city to uphold rule of law and judicial independence.