In a makeshift studio inside his public housing flat in Singapore, Shane Soh stands before his smartphone, running his fingers through a towel as he extols its softness to viewers watching his live stream. A ring light illuminates his face while more...

A video showing six schoolgirls puffing on e-cigarettes inside a school toilet cubicle in Hong Kong has gone viral, prompting education authorities to say they are “highly concerned” and contact the school. The 20-second clip, titled “Six peopl...

Less than three weeks before a snap national election that could catapult the far-right to power, millions of Spain’s workers were striking on Wednesday to demand that the government remedy the nation’s housing crisis. They set up picket lines de...

Najib Razak, Malaysia’s corrupt former prime minister, may be back home to serve the rest of his prison sentence, but that does not mean he will be living in comfort with wife Rosmah Mansor and the rest of his family, a member of his party has conf...

Hong Kong is expanding clinical trials of histotripsy, a non-invasive treatment that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumours, as the city seeks to establish a role in developing the technology for kidney cancer. The CUHK Medical Centre, Gleneagles...

Hong Kong’s Construction Industry Council will form a task force to review site operations in an effort to address work quality issues following a spike in discoveries of substandard work on buildings and infrastructure across the city. Secretary f...

Ukraine has captured its first Indonesian prisoner of war, exposing Jakarta’s uphill battle to stop its citizens from being recruited to fight for Russia in the war sparked by Moscow’s 2022 invasion. The 49-year-old contract soldier from Java was...

World leaders began arriving on Wednesday to start formal discussions at the United Nations climate change conference in Turkey, hoping to agree on concrete actions to curb global warming after a year of deadly floods, heatwaves and other climate-rel...

Assets under management in Hong Kong would double with the addition of just a small portion of the money global insurance and pension funds have to invest, according to a member of the Financial Development Services Council (FSDC). Hong Kong should d...

China has overtaken South Korea in monthly orders for liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers for the first time, challenging its rival’s long-standing dominance in a high-value shipbuilding segment where demand is surging. The country secured five of...

A decade ago, when Beijing ended its one-child policy, demographers and economists issued a grim consensus: a rapidly shrinking workforce would cripple China’s manufacturing and export machine. Indeed, the demographic dividend that powered China’...

We have put together stories from our coverage of Jensen Huang’s affair and its potential repercussions. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Could Jensen Huang’s affair become another ‘spy balloon’ ...

In the space of just two months, India’s navy has held joint exercises off the coasts of Britain, France, South Africa, Oman, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan and Russia’s far east. Such a run of exercises signals a bid for a larger maritime r...

One year after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on a Taiwan contingency froze Beijing-Tokyo ties, a Japanese media report has detailed a failed diplomatic mission to turn the table. The episode, revealed by the Yomiuri newspaper on Sunday, o...

US Treasury Secretary Scott ‌Bessent has recently moved from his Washington DC residence to a US military base after Iranian threats against his life, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The New York Times first reported the move. ...

We have put together stories from our coverage on electric and new energy vehicles from the past two weeks to help you stay informed. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. ‘Awfully bleak’: why global carm...

This article was first published on November 12, 2006. End of the line: the last Star Ferry slips its moorings at Central Pier by Norma Connolly and Winnie Yeung The lights of the Star Ferry clock tower and pier in Central went out at midnight last n...

Malaysia is seeking to reassure Taiwanese investors that it remains a reliable destination for hi-tech manufacturing after Taipei suspended bilateral investment talks over Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s remarks on China, raising concerns over the f...

Slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung was killed by her ex-husband, his elder brother has told a court. In a tearful confession in the High Court on Wednesday, Anthony Kwong Kong-kit said he knew his younger brother, Alex Kwong Kong-chi, had f...

The prospect of Gibran Rakabuming Raka stepping down as Indonesia’s vice-president has raised the stakes for President Prabowo Subianto, with analysts warning that his departure could trigger a scramble for power within the governing coalition and ...

Former Hong Kong lawmaker William Wong Kam-fai will be sentenced later this month after pleading guilty to four traffic offences stemming from a hit-and-run incident while driving under the influence of alcohol earlier this year. Wong, who resigned f...

Hong Kong’s Cathay Group has ordered 14 additional Airbus aircraft to support the expansion of its regional services, taking its total investment commitments to more than HK$150 billion (US$19 billion) for the decade to 2035. The group said on Wedn...

The Philippine foreign affairs department’s rare rebuke of officials and agencies over anti-China rhetoric could signal Manila’s bid to rein in tensions ahead of the Asean summit next week – but also internal disagreements over strategy, accord...

Singapore Airlines (SIA) said on Wednesday that the cabin colour palette for its newly unveiled business class seats was “carefully selected” after the reveal drew criticism from some content creators and travel writers, including those who liken...

Hong Kong will become the first city in Asia to conduct clinical trials of a non-invasive treatment for kidney tumours, extending the technology beyond liver and pancreatic cancers, with tycoon Li Ka-shing funding places for 30 patients across three ...

Hong Kong is pivoting to an offshore hub of Beijing’s tightly controlled financial framework, according to a report that examines the city’s evolving role under China’s national development strategy. The study, published this week by Enodo Econ...

A mysterious, jellyfish-shaped light spotted in the skies over Sabah was from a Chinese rocket launch, not aliens, according to the Malaysian Space Agency. The glowing trail linked to the Long March 12 rocket, launched from southern China’s Hainan ...

New light shows replacing Hong Kong’s long-running “A Symphony of Lights” should help nearby shops and restaurants attract business, rather than simply drawing spectators who leave after the performance, tourism representatives have said. Lawma...

Two researchers in Hong Kong are using advanced data-driven computation and artificial intelligence (AI) alongside traditional scientific principles to better understand the mechanisms of the human brain and tackle the growing urban threat posed by e...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a more balanced trade relationship with China, with the objective to “de-risk, not decouple”, as Chinese ambassador Xie Feng spoke of adhering to “red lines” at an event in New York on Tuesday. �...

China has established an institute dedicated to preserving rare and endangered historical disciplines, advancing Beijing’s push to elevate traditional culture as a pillar of its soft power and national narrative. The institute was inaugurated at th...

Japan is considering including a commitment to strengthening its “capabilities to deny” an adversary’s aggression in coordination with the United States in a major defence policy document to be revised later this year, government sources said o...

During a video call on Friday, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng to uphold China’s previous commitments on agricultural goods and rare earth exports. A day earlier, Beij...

Thousands of Indian soldiers who would otherwise have left the military after four years will now be kept on, in a major rethink of the controversial Agnipath recruitment model, as analysts say New Delhi is grappling with persistent manpower shortage...

A father in southern China used artificial intelligence (AI) to modify his home TV system and tackle his son’s TV addiction. The system requires the boy to answer academic questions every 10 minutes to continue watching. His method has gone viral o...

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Hong Kong became the first overseas base for the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in its 100-year history, advancing efforts to harmonise...

Talks between China, the US and Russia could yield a commitment to control AI in nuclear arsenals as part of a broader agenda on global governance, sources told the South China Morning Post. The three nations have engaged in weeks of back-and-forth d...

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] A table tennis rally can turn in an instant. A change of spin, a sharply angled return or a moment’s hesitation can decide the point. At the highest level, players must rea...

With eight companies vying for licences to provide ride-hailing services in Hong Kong under the new regulatory regime, industry observers expect a price war that will initially benefit passengers through lower fares. But some warned that competition ...

China’s growing naval presence in the waters between Japan and South Korea could give the two neighbours a new incentive to overcome long-standing historical tensions and strengthen security cooperation, according to analysts. A reported sharp incr...

The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced charges against three men it described as “Iranian operatives”, including one already in jail, over their role in an alleged terrorist plot at Britain’s RAF Fairford airbase. Mohammad Baqer Saad Da...

It has been quite a birthday celebration. Ahead of the fifth anniversary of M+ on November 12, the directors of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Paris’ Centre Pompidou touched down in Hong Kong to finalise a tripartite alliance with the...

On tote bags distributed by Asian-owned businesses in the US state of Georgia, three Asian-American women appeared in a design inspired by the Three Ladies rice brand. The bags were part of a campaign that put a voting twist on the online “Asian ba...

A leading cybersecurity scientist in the Chinese military, Guo Shize, has been removed from the website of the country’s top national research institute. Guo, 57, a researcher at the Information Technology Security Research Centre of the People’s...

On November 22, 2021, President Xi Jinping and the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) jointly announced the establishment of a China-Asean Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, marking a new milestone in the history of this ...

China’s embassy in Santo Domingo accused the United States on Monday evening of “sinister intentions” and mocked Washington for “congratulating” the Dominican Republic on closing a Chinese-run cardboard factory. The rebuke came hours after ...

The 82-year-old estranged father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, was ordered to jail Tuesday because he removed an electronic monitoring device from his ankle, just days after he was charged with possession of child sexual abuse material. Thomas Ma...

US House Republicans on Tuesday elected the congressman Jim Jordan as their new leader, turning to an outspoken conservative to steer the party after a crushing midterm defeat that handed Democrats control of the chamber. Jordan, 62, defeated outgoin...

⁠A senior US ⁠Army soldier was arrested in ⁠Britain on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence, British police said on Tuesday, after the US removed aircraft from British military bases over a separate apparent threat from Iran. FBI Directo...

China dismissed concerns on Wednesday that it interferes in Canadian affairs, after Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would raise the issue with President Xi Jinping when the two meet at a summit next week. A Canadian public inquiry last year into a...