‘We conduct our exercises with the attitude of reacting to threats according to terrain and being able to fight everywhere,’ defence ministry spokesman says.

During an economic forum in Vladivostok, President Vladimir Putin said Russia will emerge stronger from his invasion of Ukraine, saying that the West was failing while Asia was the future.

After a failed prediction of the end of humanity on August 30, most of the 20,000 supporters at Veasna’s farmhouse left but some parents continue to await their children’s return and have urged the government to intervene.

Messages in the channel included posts teaching protesters how to use ‘fire magic’, referring to petrol bombs.

Ronson Chan, chairman of Hong Kong Journalist Association, taken into custody after officers stopped him to conduct stop and search, sources say.

City official assures child care professionals proposed legislation will protect their identities when they report suspected child abuse.

One suspect was intercepted outside a flat in Ngau Tau Kok while the other was picked up in North Point.

And it’s not just China. The World Bank estimates Japan accounts for US$3.5 billion and India US$1 billion of Sri Lanka’s US$63 billion external debt. Beijing’s lending adds up to an estimated US$7 billion.

Citizens aged 60 or over account for more than a fifth of residents in 13 of China’s 31 provincial-level jurisdictions, highlighting the challenges ahead for the country’s pension system.

The Shenzhen government has passed China’s first local regulation dedicated to boosting AI development, to go into effect in November.

A senior adviser to Ukraine’s president said the counteroffensives were against Russian positions in eastern and southern Ukraine, giving no further detail.

The blaze engulfed the second and third floors of the building in Thuan An, trapping customers and staff members as dense smoke filled the staircase and blocked the emergency exit.

Deng Zhonghua, former deputy director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, says city should bank on its unique advantages.

The ‘robust and free-flowering’ hybrid orchid with ‘a captivating violet lip’ was named Dendrobium Ferdinand Louise Marcos, Singapore Botanic Gardens said.

Beijing and Moscow suspected of combining to echo messaging on Ukraine, Taiwan and other global crises.

Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss has appointed a foreign secretary aligned with her world view.

Ching Wai-ming, an HKID holder living in neighbouring Shenzhen, accused of being among group of nearly 100 that stormed MTR station on the night of July 21.

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With Liz Truss as the new British prime minister, the ‘special relationship’ with the United States is potentially on course for redefinition.

Some 1,400 subsidised flats set to be built on site for population of 4,000, with a 2025 completion date.

Police say one of the wheels broke off from the van and also hit a passing car.

The Filipino mother of two was moments away from facing the firing squad in 2015 when President Joko Widodo granted a reprieve. Her supporters claim an international drugs syndicate duped her into trafficking heroin.

China’s exports and imports in August both missed expectations, data released on Wednesday showed, with the weak figures further dragging down the yuan’s exchange rate against the US dollar.

A senior American diplomat in Tokyo has accused China of threatening ‘the safety of our waterways’, as the US seeks to strengthen maritime security ties with Japan and the Philippines.

Google, Apple, Amazon.com, Meta Platforms and their trade groups have poured almost US$95 million into lobbying since 2021.

Chinese president expected to travel overseas next week for the first time in more than two years.

One of the classified documents seized by the FBI at former US president Donald Trump’s Florida residence described the nuclear capabilities and military defences of a foreign power.

Albanese signals he is open to high-level talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia in November.

A divided US appeals court said HSBC was not liable to the families of two American contractors killed in a 2009 al-Qaeda suicide bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan.

Trump Media & Technology Group stands to lose out on US$1.3 billion after Digital World Acquisition Corp failed to get 65 per cent of shareholders to agree to an extension to complete the merger.

US prosecutors said Cary Yan and Gina Zhou had, among other things, tried to bribe officials in an attempt to establish a semi-autonomous region akin to Hong Kong in the Marshall Islands, a former US territory in the Pacific Ocean.

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A young professional couple in China give up renting an expensive apartment to live in a camper van, ignoring attacks by people who can’t accept the idea and starting cost of living debate.

As South Korea and Japan prepare to hold their first defence talks in six years, Seoul and Tokyo are under pressure to pursue a mutual understanding as they face common concerns over China’s assertiveness.

But scholars also predict Britain’s leader will not launch any new measures targeting Hong Kong or its ministers, with UK to focus on domestic front.

Officers surrounded a house with guns drawn, but authorities later said it was a false alarm.

Monday’s 6.8-magnitude quake has already claimed 66 lives, with serious economic loss also forecast.

Most of the country’s leadership has avoided travel abroad since the start of the pandemic two years ago.

Recipients of US$52 billion in funding can only expand operations in China that make older and cheaper generation of chips, commerce secretary says.

The US president’s travel plans have not been confirmed, though Indonesia’s Widodo has said that both Xi and Russia’s Putin will attend the summit.

Englishman Alan Garner, 87, was shortlisted for Treacle Walker; other finalists include Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo and Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka.

The White House says such a designation would be counterproductive, and could hamper aid delivery and affect a UN-backed grain export deal.

Kwasi Kwarteng and James Cleverly have been appointed the UK’s first black finance and foreign ministers; Suella Braverman, whose parents hail from Kenya and Mauritius, is home secretary.

Stanley Johnson, an author and journalist, had been in China to start a documentary series endorsed by Beijing, but left because Covid-19 protocols made travel difficult.

The prime minister also named members of her new cabinet – and for the first time, none of the 4 top posts is going to a white man.

Survey finds ethnic minority youngsters who need special education struggle with Chinese language teaching; call for more classes in English.

There was no independent confirmation of Kyiv’s figures, and Russia has not given any information on its casualties for a long time.

It can be used in an arid environment where relative humidity is as low as 4 per cent – meaning liquid water isn’t needed for the process, according to international team.

Organisers of a state-sponsored trade fair in Beijing inexplicably cancelled a forum promoting cooperation between Ukraine and China on Monday. Ukrainian diplomats were looking to encourage Chinese investment.

Hollywood superhero gadgets such as augmented reality glasses could be developed to give police an edge in battle against crime.