An expansion of the eight-year-old Stock Connect scheme will for the first time give mainland traders access to overseas companies listed in Hong Kong, an official said on Friday.

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is seen as the Tory favourite to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister next week.

FDA has authorised emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna boosters that target BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron.

Pinduoduo has a new app called Temu targeting US consumers amid an overseas push following stronger-than-expected second-quarter performance.

India commissioned its first home-built aircraft carrier as it seeks to counter regional rival China’s much larger and growing fleet.

Close contacts of confirmed monkeypox cases and other high-risk groups in Hong Kong will be able to get vaccinated.

The world is bound for more disruption and unrest in the next six months, an intelligence firm said.

A Myanmar junta court sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in jail for electoral fraud. The ruling adds more jail time to the 17 years she is already serving for other offences.

Taiwanese Premier Su Tseng-chang says island had repeatedly issued warnings and ‘asked them not to encroach on our doorstep’.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa has recently been living in a ‘Thai hotel as a virtual prisoner’ after fleeing Sri Lanka in July in the wake of massive protests.

Professor Lau Yu-lung also predicts more transmissible Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants may account for 90 per cent of the city’s caseload.

Residents snap up food, queue for testing and wait for restrictions to lift as lockdown begins in Chinese city of 21 million.

Police say man, 28, intercepted outside his flat in Mong Kok and detained on suspicion of robbery.

Researchers say their promising therapy could help fight the pandemic because its effectiveness against Covid-19 variants does not decline.

Elizabeth Salmon, the UN special rapporteur on the North’s human rights, is making her first visit to South Korea this week.

Argentina’s Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was unharmed when a man with a loaded gun tried to shoot her outside her Buenos Aires home.

Hong Kong stocks stumbled as lockdowns in Shenzhen and Chengdu heightened concerns about production curbs and earnings fallout. BYD slumped 14 per cent for the week on Berkshire’s stake sale.

Australia, which was impacted by Covid-19 border closures, is grappling with skills and labour shortages.

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office revised its position on the Children’s Code, saying it applies to any site ‘likely to be accessed’ by underage users.

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The Hong Kong government will dedicate resources to train local talent and attract expatriates in fintech and ESG sectors by offering cash incentives and an easy immigration channel.

A Chinese father and Ukrainian mother separated from each other and their 2-year-old son by war and Covid decided the only way to reunite their family was they get a divorce in China.

US President Joe Biden took fierce aim at Donald Trump and his ‘extremist’ supporters, labelling them enemies of American democracy in a prime-time address that sought to fire up voters ahead of key midterm elections.

The minimum seven-day quarantine in the city remains a big deterrent, says NGO deputy director.

The panel in charge of the January 6 probe says it has evidence that the former House Speaker had a role in spreading misinformation about the 2020 election.

With Hong Kong facing mounting environmental threats, there are plenty of tried-and-tested policies that could be easily implemented. But to allow for the development of new and green technologies in the city, the mindset of officials first needs to ...

Island is looking to inject considerable talent into its pillar industries in the face of a shrinking labour pool, few births and a population that keeps getting older.

Top American envoy says US will continue working with international community to call on Beijing ‘to release those unjustly detained’ in province.

The ex-president has fought for years to avoid handing the documents over to a committee investigating him for conflicts of interest and foreign financial ties.

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Rafael Grossi, who led a team of inspectors to the Zaporizhzhia site, says ‘I worried, I worry and I will continue to be worried’ about the situation.

A two-legged omnivore, Mbiresaurus raathi walked the planet around 230 million years ago and weighed up to 30kg (66lbs).

Pavel Palazhchenko, the ex-Soviet president’s long-time interpreter, says the former leader was ‘crushed’ by Moscow’s worsening ties with Kyiv in recent years.

The yuan’s depreciation this year is mild compared to other currencies in the Asia-Pacific, but China’s population decline could become more of a factor in the future.

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Key districts in Shenzhen, including Nanshan, where Tencent Holdings is based, has been put under semi-lockdown after Covid-19 cases rose.

Public anger has intensified over lengthy blackouts in the South Asian nation, which is struggling to pay for enough imported diesel and gas to meet electricity demand.

Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil, died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow. Two sources say it was highly unlikely he had committed suicide.

The British government agreed earlier this year to take a special share in the proposed nuclear plant in Suffolk as it seeks to remove funding from China General Nuclear Power.

Once documentation is completed, the Cyberspace Administration of China will conduct a security review that could take up to 45 working days.

Vostok war games take on added significance in view of Ukraine invasion as well as growing Western censure of Moscow and Beijing.

US ban on Nvidia and AMD selling some advanced chips to China is set to crimp the ability of Chinese tech companies in areas such as facial recognition and data centres, say analysts.

Foreign ministry spokesman responds to comments by German defence chief, who said Berlin would send more warships to Indo-Pacific and join drills in the region.

The UN inspection team was delayed several hours by shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Each side accuses other of trying to sabotage the IAEA mission.

Just weeks after China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, suspended climate talks with the US, Beijing’s climate envoy has slammed developed countries for falling short on climate financing.

The World Artificial Intelligence Conference kicked off in Shanghai on Thursday, but the proceedings were under the cloud of new US export restrictions on high-end chips to China.

YouTube radio host admits conspiracy to commit sedition after he used shows to ask West to hit Hong Kong politicians with more sanctions.

Vladimir Putin’s decision not to attend the late former Soviet leader’s funeral reflects the Kremlin’s ambivalence about Mikhail Gorbachev’s legacy.

The Japanese video game publisher is suing six Chinese companies over a mobile game called Pocket Monster Reissue, or Koudaiyaoguai Fuke.

Indian tycoon Gautam Adani is already the third richest man on Earth and his aggressive empire-building spree shows no signs of stopping. But is the Adani Group’s debt-fuelled rise sustainable?