Hong Kong’s new chief justice on Monday warned against a rising tide of public criticism, doxxing attacks and even threats of violence faced by colleagues, noting its adverse effect on the city’s judicial independence, while urging his judges to ...

A Hong Kong student has been arrested for assault and disorderly conduct after unknown powder was thrown at security guards during a scuffle at Chinese University’s main entrance.Police and firefighters were called to at least four people charging ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has moved to brand Yemen’s Iranian-linked Houthi rebels as terrorists, a last-minute move in defiance of aid groups who fear it will worsen a humanitarian crisis.Unless Congress blocks the decision, the Houthis wil...

Police in South Korea have launched a hunt for a Malaysian employee after a huge sum of cash mysteriously disappeared from a Hong Kong-backed casino in the southern resort island of Jeju.Jeju Shinhwa World, one of South Korea’s largest integrated r...

After protests at the US Capitol, a majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump should be removed from office before his term ends on January 20, according to a new poll.The poll, published on Sunday by ABC News/Ipsos, found that 56 per cent...

Singapore is tightening restrictions on intra-corporate transferees, one category of workers brought from overseas offices of multinational corporations, the Straits Times reported.Intra-corporate transferees are a common feature of free-trade agreem...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sunday solidified his power with a new title of general secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party, in an election that prompted questions about the future of his high-profile sister and saw the promotion of a long-ti...

Health experts have called for crowd-control measures at Hong Kong attractions to accelerate the reduction in new Covid-19 cases, as the city expects 40 more infections on Monday.Respiratory medicine specialist Dr Leung Chi-chiu suggested capacity li...

The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of Covid-19 will land in China on Thursday, Beijing announced on Monday, after days of delay and confusion.The National Health Commission said in a brief statement that the WHO team would w...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the five permanent members of the Security Council on Sunday that he would like to stay on for a second term, according to two diplomats familiar with the matter.Guterres, a former Portuguese pri...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi continued his charm offensive on Monday with his first tour of Asia for the year, starting with an official visit to Myanmar, ahead of an expected policy shift from Washington towards the region under president-elect ...

Growing up in Hong Kong, Yusuf Mohideen witnessed his parents struggle with a lack of racial inclusion in the workforce and language barriers, just some of the obstacles facing members of ethnic minorities in the city.“A lot of us think that, be...

Indonesia’s food and drug agency on Monday granted emergency use approval to a Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech, as it became the first country outside China to give the regulatory green light to the vaccine.The authorisation...

China’s headline consumer inflation recovered in December after dropping into negative territory in the previous month for the first time in 11 years, data released on Monday showed.China’s official consumer price index (CPI) rose to 0.2 per cent...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday the House will proceed with legislation to impeach US President Donald Trump as she pushes the vice-president and cabinet to invoke constitutional authority to force him out, warning that Trump is a threat to...

A century-old aqueduct at Hong Kong’s oldest reservoir has survived to this day, but only a small section of it has been declared a historic building, leaving most of the structure unprotected.Now conservation and heritage experts want the governme...

Kuaishou Technology and Bilibili executives will become the internet stars of their own online videos when they digitally market their video-sharing apps’ Hong Kong share sales in the coming months.Kuaishou is readying a US$4 billion to US$5 billio...

For most of his adult life, Tsang King has lived and worked on southern Hong Kong Island, where jungle-covered hills fall sharply down to waters that fishing boats have plied for more than a thousand years.Less than a 30-minute drive from the downtow...

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled his latest vision for Saudi Arabia’s future beyond oil: a city with no cars, roads or carbon emissions.The 170km-long (106 mile-long) development called “The Line” will be part of the US$500 billion pro...

Chinese leaders have urged law enforcement officials to tighten their hold to ensure social stability as the world enters a “turbulent period” and the global pandemic causes “chaos in the West”.At the annual meeting of the Communist Party bod...

Andrew Cheung Kui-nung takes over as Hong Kong’s chief justice on Monday, and few have lavished more praise on him than his predecessor, Geoffrey Ma Tao-li.Ma, who retired after 10 years as the city’s top judge, described Cheung as an able jurist...

Recent commentaries suggesting that Russia and China are teaming up for a power play in the Indian Ocean have drawn mixed reactions from regional analysts, with some suggesting that Moscow and Beijing are keen to flex their muscles beyond their own s...

Hong Kong officials have a real knack of making us do a double take. A recent “I beg your pardon” moment came last week when Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung announced that the suspension of face-to-face classes will continue until th...

A police officer is being hailed for his role steering an angry crowd away from the Senate chamber in Wednesday’s deadly storming of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman, identified by CNN rep...

Coronavirus infections have now surpassed 90 million confirmed cases, as more countries braced for wider spread of more virulent strains of a disease that has now killed nearly 2 million worldwide.The number of infections worldwide has doubled in jus...

Iran said on Sunday that South Korea should avoid politicising the seizure of its vessel by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Gulf, Iranian state media reported, while pressing Seoul to release US$7 billion in funds frozen amid US sanctions.South K...

Arnold Schwarzenegger likened the siege of the US Capitol to Nazi attacks on Jews in Europe ahead of World War II, in a scathing video in which the former California governor also called President Donald Trump “the worst president ever”.In a sep...

US lawmakers may have been exposed to someone testing positive for Covid-19 while they sheltered at an undisclosed location during the Capitol siege by protesters loyal to President Donald Trump.The Capitol’s attending doctor notified all lawmakers...

Banned from social media and abandoned by some staff after inciting an attack at the US Capitol, President Donald Trump and a dwindling circle of advisers plan a defiant final week in office, according to people familiar with the matter.Trump is conf...

I had the great privilege of spending over 47 years of my career at the US Library of Congress, a research centre for members of Congress. These decades made me intimately familiar with the Capitol complex and the dedicated public servants who made i...

A second Republican US senator called for President Donald Trump to resign on Sunday, saying the Republican president could face criminal liability after the deadly storming of the US Capitol by his supporters.The remarks by Senator Pat Toomey, a con...

Nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov won a landslide victory on Sunday in Kyrgyzstan’s snap presidential election, which was triggered by the collapse of the previous government.Japarov has won almost 80 per cent of the vote in the Central Asian na...

When Rion Yogatama, 30, left his home in Pangkal Pinang, the capital of the Bangka-Belitung tin mining region, on Saturday morning, his family expected him to fly to the Indonesian capital Jakarta for a short transit, before continuing to Pontianak i...

Beijing should remain calm in the face of a “final act of desperation” from the Trump administration, Chinese observers said after Mike Pompeo removed restrictions on official US interactions with Taiwan.The US Secretary of State issued a stateme...

The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles began vaccinating its population against the coronavirus on Sunday, the first African nation to do so.The country’s president, Wavel Ramkalawan, was the first to receive the jab, an event broadcast on ...

Most patients who received hospital treatment for Covid-19 developed long-term health problems, according to a large-scale study from China.Researchers found that 76 per cent of those discharged from one hospital in Wuhan, the city at the centre of t...

A veteran employee at Hong Kong’s exam authority who stepped down last year following an outcry over a question on Sino-Japanese relations has said he will stop commenting on the saga to protect his family’s safety.In a personal statement release...

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi used his recent visit to Africa to signal that Beijing was still willing to fund infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road Initiative despite fears that the multibillion-dollar scheme faces budget cuts.During ...

Every adult in Britain will have been offered a coronavirus vaccination by the autumn, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Sunday, in the country’s biggest ever inoculation campaign.Hancock said public health officials are currently vaccinating 200,...

Several prominent Chinese dissidents have doubled down on their support for US President Donald Trump, comparing those who stormed Capitol Hill in Washington last week to the Tiananmen Square student protesters in 1989.Some also repeated unsubstantia...

Hong Kong’s former security chief has called on Beijing to effectively forbid obtaining dual nationality by revoking the right to live and vote in the city for any resident who acquired foreign citizenship after a “specified cut-off date”.Pro-e...

The US-China trade war weakened demand for automation on Chinese assembly lines from 2018-19, but a shortage of manpower during the pandemic reversed that trend last year, and analysts expect manufacturers to further embrace robots in 2021.“The imp...

Four years ago, China seized a United States underwater vehicle suspected of spying in the disputed South China Sea and criticised the US for “close-up reconnaissance activities against China”.Now, the tide has turned. China’s neighbour Indones...

Hong Kong’s financial chief has revealed he plans to maintain or even increase levels of public spending in the forthcoming budget to protect livelihoods during the economic downturn, despite the heavy strain on government funds.Paul Chan Mo-po sai...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Heather Caygle, Sarah Ferris and Kyle Cheney on politico.com on January 9, 2021.Speaker Nancy Pelosi and senior Democrats are still weighing whether to impe...

China’s premier warned officials against any attempt to cover up or under-report the spread of the coronavirus as a northern province went into “wartime mode” for one of the toughest lockdowns since Wuhan early last year.Premier Li Keqiang told...

A Chinese technology company is trialling a performance-monitoring scheme with an unusual method of boosting the bottom line – data gathered via “smart” cushions given to workers to place on their office chairs.But the trial has backfired, afte...

Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases said on Sunday authorities had found a new strain of the coronavirus in four passengers arriving from Brazil.The new variant has similarities to strains found in Britain and South Africa, the NIID s...

US federal prosecutors have filed motions saying that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez took bribes from drug traffickers and had the country’s armed forces protect a cocaine laboratory and shipments to the United States.The documents quote...

Ten babies were killed in a maternity unit in the Indian state of Maharashtra early Saturday when fire tore through a major hospital, a doctor said.Staff rescued seven of the newborn infants at the Bhandara district hospital but were beaten back befo...