Chinese President Xi Jinping will join global leaders next week at a virtual meeting organised by the World Economic Forum that will focus on the economic, environmental, social and technological challenges facing the world amid the coronavirus pande...

Singapore, which is mulling additional measures to ensure its Covid-19 infection numbers remain under control, is preparing to ramp up its vaccination programme by appointing a vendor to set up 36 vaccination centres that can cater to at least 2,000 ...

Hong Kong unemployment hit a new 16-year high of 6.6 per cent in the final quarter of last year, with the city deep in its struggle against a fourth wave of coronavirus infections which has ravaged the economy and so far showed no signs of easing....

China’s very first carmaker is entering the fray to assemble electric cars, as it joins the shift towards electrification in the world’s largest automotive industry, where one in every five vehicles will be powered by electricity by 2025.FAW Grou...

Nearly a year after the lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan to contain the initial coronavirus outbreak, millions in China are again under stay-at-home orders as the country faces its highest number of new cases in months, this time in several prov...

The evolution of the global coronavirus pandemic and geopolitical tensions between the United States and China will continue to reverberate throughout the world for some time, even after the virus is brought under control and bilateral tensions ease,...

Hong Kong authorities have made their biggest ever seizure of counterfeit surgical masks, a consignment worth HK$8.5 million that was intercepted in the city on its way overseas.The record haul of about 330,000 bogus 3M-brand N95 respirators was conf...

Outgoing US President Donald Trump will be far from the first to boycott his successor Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday – but his absence will be the first since 1869.In fact, many past inaugurations were conducted in a febrile atmosphere, w...

Hong Kong’s leader has distanced herself from her predecessor’s suggestion the city’s next chief executive could be selected without an electoral process.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday said elections were important becaus...

Pressure is mounting on an heir to Singapore’s biggest family fortune as he seeks to salvage the troubled property investment at the centre of an ambitious expansion into China.In the past month, Sherman Kwek, the 45-year-old chief executive office...

Over the four years of the Trump presidency, social media platforms generally took a soft line in enforcing their policies against threats and misinformation, allowing most borderline speech, including the US president’s, to stand.In the wake of a ...

Fresh questions have been raised over the risks of catching the coronavirus from food after traces were found in at least five samples of ice cream made in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin.Last Thursday, authorities in Tianjin, neighbouring Beiji...

Taiwan staged a military drill on Tuesday using tanks, mortars and small arms intended to repel an attack from the mainland which has stepped up its threats to reclaim the island.Major General Chen Chong-ji, director of the department of political wa...

Pakistan’s prime minister reacted angrily on Monday to media reports of a text exchange between an Indian TV anchor and a former media industry executive that suggested a 2019 Indian air strike inside Pakistan was designed to boost Indian Prime Min...

Jeanne Pouchain has an unusual problem. She’s officially dead. She has been trying for three years to prove that she is alive.The 58-year-old French woman says she lives in constant fear, not daring to leave her house in the village of Saint Joseph...

The Tracker Fund, the largest exchange-traded-fund (ETF) in Hong Kong, was in the spotlight last week after its manager State Street Global Advisors Asia made a dramatic U-turn over whether it should comply with US sanctions against Chinese stocks in...

Guatemalan security forces on Monday broke up a caravan of some 4,000 Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States on a journey of thousands of kilometres through Central America on foot.Police advanced on the group in a coordinated move, stri...

Carmakers in Japan, where almost 30 per cent of the population is 65 or older, are taking the lead on adapting cars so the nation’s legions of elderly drivers can feel more confident – and be safer – behind the wheel.A run of accidents involvin...

Hong Kong will extend social-distancing measures for at least another week and expand mandatory Covid-19 screening in part of the Yau Tsim Mong district to cover even buildings that had not recorded any infections in a bid to contain a worsening outb...

Yung and her family went to get checked for the coronavirus on Monday morning after learning that their block of flats in Yau Tsim Mong district – which has been hit by an escalating Covid-19 outbreak – was subject to mandatory testing.But, like ...

China has added a new giant buoy to a marine surveillance network used partly to strengthen the country’s territorial claims in the disputed East China Sea – dubbed a “buoys’ graveyard” after several were lost or damaged through accidents a...

Today’s world is witnessing historic changes. Asia may play a prominent role in the development of the world’s civilisation as it once did a few centuries ago. And recently China has set out clear development objectives. By 2035, it will achieve ...

Unemployment in Hong Kong is poised to hit new highs amid the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, with various industry leaders predicting a gloomier economic outlook for the year and the city’s catering sector bracing for its jobless rate to reac...

Car manufacturers, clothing firms and electronics makers – including heavyweights Nissan and Olympus – were among the 45 Japanese companies that withdrew from the South Korean market in the financial year ending March last year, with analysts ant...

US President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration rejected a move by President Donald Trump to rescind coronavirus-related travel bans for non-American citizens arriving from the European Union, the UK and Brazil, which means the curbs will st...

US president-elect Joe Biden’s expected move to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline prompted Canada’s main oil-producing province of Alberta on Monday to threaten to seek damages as Ottawa made efforts to save the troubled project.Scrapping the proje...

A group of Indian sailors stranded off the Chinese coast for seven months, caught up in a trade dispute between China and Australia, have been allowed to leave for Japan, union officials said on Monday.The sailors had been stuck outside the Chinese p...

Recent deaths among elderly people in Norway who received a Covid-19 vaccine should be treated with caution because they were all high-risk individuals, public health experts have said. “All reports of safety issues must be taken seriously, but th...

Brazil accelerated plans to start vaccinating against the coronavirus after an early start by the state of Sao Paulo added pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro to move faster and stem an incipient loss of popularity.The government distributed on Mond...

A South Korean internet star who live-streams herself binge-eating various foods – a phenomenon known as mukbang – is in hot water amid an online dispute over whether kimchi is Korean or Chinese.The YouTuber, who goes by the name Hamzy, found her...

An independent panel said on Monday that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial Covid-19 outbreak, and criticised the World Health Organization (WHO) for not declaring an internation...

Belarus has been stripped of the right to co-host this year’s ice hockey world championship due to safety concerns over political unrest and the Covid-19 pandemic there, the sport’s governing body said on Monday, in a blow to President Alexander ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Kyle Cheney on politico.com on January 18, 2021.The FBI is investigating evidence that a woman who entered the US Capitol on January 6 stole a laptop or har...

The United States called on China on Monday to allow an expert team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to interview “care givers, former patients and lab workers” in the central city of Wuhan, and ensure its access to medical data and sampl...

Hypersonic missiles are overrated in terms of speed and can be spotted by early warning systems, according to a report by US security experts that suggested their performance is roughly comparable to conventional ballistic missiles.China, Russia and ...

“Picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, the catch-all charge often invoked by the authorities in Beijing to stifle dissent, was used against citizen journalist Zhang Zhan last month, sending her to prison for four years for her reporting on the...

Hong Kong police are hunting for a gang of thieves who lured a female cryptocurrency trader to an office for a deal and robbed her of HK$3.5 million (US$448,700) in cash at knifepoint on Monday afternoon.The robbery – the second such hold-up in two...

British foreign secretary Dominic Raab owed a prominent Queen’s Counsel an apology for calling him “mercenary” and claiming he was giving Beijing a “PR coup” by trying nine Hong Kong opposition figures, the city’s former top prosecutor sa...

India on Monday stepped up efforts to bolster trust in coronavirus vaccines after it was revealed that nearly a third of those invited to get jabs at the launch of a nationwide drive failed to turn up.The government has launched one of the world’s ...

Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biontech will sell its Covid-19 vaccine to the Philippines at “Best Friends Forever prices”, Philippine officials have claimed as they denied allegations by senators that corruption in the procurement process w...

On January 6, when President Donald Trump’s supporters forced their way into the US Capitol building, killed a police officer and tried to stop the formal certification of the president’s re-election loss, one man stood among the Trump flags wavi...

China’s success in combating the coronavirus is a sign that it has already caught up with the United States and other Western nations in some areas of innovation, including public health policy, according to Paul Romer, co-recipient of the 2018 Nob...

A Russian judge remanded Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in pre-trial detention for 30 days on Monday for violating the terms of a suspended jail sentence, ignoring calls from Western countries to free the opposition politician immediately.The ruling, ...

Eighty per cent of recovered Covid-19 patients in Hong Kong continue to experience at least one of the disease’s symptoms six months later and nearly a third report suffering from more than three, researchers have found.The study by a Chinese Unive...

Around 2,000 people have been infected in the latest cluster outbreaks of coronavirus in northern China this winter, increasing concern about whether forceful government intervention can effectively stop the spread of Covid-19.China reported 109 new ...

More than 1,000 opponents of plans to build a dam on China’s biggest freshwater lake have signed a petition calling for the project to be abandoned, saying it will take a huge toll on endangered migratory birds and the rare Yangtze finless porpoise...

A Hong Kong judge on Monday opened a trial related to 2019’s anti-government protests with a warning against any displays of political statements, suggesting they were inappropriate in such a solemn context as criminal proceedings in a court of law...

Cryptocurrencies have become a convenient medium for the movement of funds due to the high degree of anonymity offered by blockchain-diffused ledgers, and the operational ease of fund transfers across continents – both of which have been exploited ...

China’s economy roared back to pre-pandemic growth rates in the fourth quarter of last year as its ­industrial engines fired up to meet surging demand for exports, pushing the full-year expansion beyond estimates and propelling its global advance....

Police in Thailand said on Monday that they were investigating a complaint by a political activist who claimed he had been abducted by a group of unknown men and then questioned inside a van for 12 hours before being dumped on the street.Mongkol Sant...