Two executives of a Hong Kong-listed company who have been held in Taiwan amid spying allegations since late 2019 have been charged with money laundering as Taiwanese prosecutors continue to investigate whether they had engaged in national security-r...

A port city in eastern China has launched an ambitious plan to build the country’s fifth rocket launch site, under a longer-term goal to ramp up space infrastructure to meet the demands of an expected boom in commercial missions.An engineering comp...

A Hong Kong student accused of possessing a firearm without a licence was charged on Thursday with an additional offence under the national security law.Lui Sai-yu, a 24-year-old engineering student at Polytechnic University, appeared at West Kowloon...

The US Air Force officially rolled out its newest fighter jet on Wednesday at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where the service finally announced its name.The F-15EX will be called the “Eagle II”, following in the naming tradition of the F-15C E...

President Joko Widodo has set a US$200 billion goal for Indonesia’s new wealth fund in the next two to three years, aiming to fund his push for the resource-driven economy to rise up the value chain.That is double the US$100 billion target set ear...

The top Communist Party official of Ruili, the Chinese city bordering Myanmar, has been dismissed from his post over “serious dereliction of duty” after failing to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks in recent months.“Three Covid-19 outbreaks within hal...

One of the countries most vulnerable to climate change has also been revealed as a major contributor of methane, a greenhouse gas that is about 80 times more potent in its first two decades in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The 12 highest meth...

Hong Kong medical experts have called on the government to replace its procurement of AstraZeneca with the jabs developed by Johnson & Johnson amid safety concerns over the possible link between the British-Swedish vaccine and blood clots.Their advic...

US President Joe Biden was set to unveil his administration’s first steps to curb gun violence, including a plan to reduce the proliferation of “ghost guns”, after a slew of mass shootings have put pressure on him to act.The Justice Department ...

Hong Kong police shot a man in the shoulder in Sha Tin on Thursday morning, ending a 5km wild car chase that left three people injured.Officers were chasing the car after finding its licence had expired. But upon stopping it, they found stolen goods ...

The health of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is deteriorating as he keeps up his hunger strike in prison, his lawyers said on Wednesday, with US President Joe Biden’s administration saying it is “disturbed” by the reports.Last Wednesday Presiden...

China has offered to help Mongolia address environmental problems after the two countries were hit by heavy dust storms this spring. “Environmental problems know no borders, and China is ready to cooperate with Mongolia in environmental protection,...

The end of the Easter holiday means even more Hong Kong pupils flocked back to campus this week under new rules allowing two-thirds of students to be present for in-person classes, but some schools say they are ready for more.Nearly one in five prima...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Alex Isenstadt on politico.com on April 7, 2021.The screaming, all-caps texts and emails are returning. The red “Make America Great Again” hats are bac...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has confirmed that a bill will be tabled at the Legislative Council on April 14 to implement Beijing’s drastic overhaul of the city’s electoral system. The chief executive told lawmakers on Thursday th...

Italy’s finance minister said on Wednesday that Group of 20 advanced economies hope by a ministerial meeting in July to have reached an agreement on international taxation, an issue being pressed by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.While internat...

The European Commission hit out after its chief Ursula von der Leyen was left without a chair as Turkey’s president sat down for talks with her male counterpart.Von der Leyen was flummoxed as Recep Tayyip Erdogan and European Council president Char...

China is considering following other countries in banning teachers from dating young students, according to a circular released to solicit public opinions.The draft of School Protection Order for Juveniles was issued by the Ministry of Education on T...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s ruling party suffered a devastating defeat in a special election for key mayoral posts amid political scandals and policy blunders, vote counts showed on Thursday.Millions of South Koreans went to the polls on ...

BioNTech vaccinations have restarted in Hong Kong following a 12-day suspension over packaging defects, putting the city’s Covid-19 inoculation drive back on track for the widespread protection of its population and the ultimate goal of herd immuni...

Hong Kong should aim to be the “control tower” for Asia’s supply chains, and could play a leadership role in advancing the development of China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) as its most advanced and open member city, according to a new policy repo...

Myanmar’s ambassador to London said he was locked out of the embassy on Wednesday, with sources saying his deputy had shut him out of the building and taken charge on behalf of the military.The military seized power in Myanmar in a coup in February...

The British government has launched a £43 million (US$59.6 million) package to support BN(O) families that settle in the country, funding local councils nationwide to help the new arrivals from Hong Kong with housing, education and employment.The s...

Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog was seeking clarifications on Wednesday night from career networking site LinkedIn over residents’ possible exposure from a reported leak of personal data involving 500 million users worldwide.Privacy Commissioner for...

When Australian artist Luke Cornish launched his latest exhibition “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” in Canberra last month, he billed the collection of 54 stencil works as a commentary on authoritarianism, protest and injustice in countries includin...

Australia on Thursday ordered an urgent inquiry into findings from Europe’s drug regulator of a possible link between AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine and blood clotting, but will continue with the vaccine roll-out. Elsewhere in Asia, Philippine he...

In promoting his sweeping US$2.3 trillion infrastructure plan on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden again stressed that the investment was part an ideological competition against China that the United States could not afford to lose. Speaking in Wash...

The reigning Mrs World is facing a police inquiry in Sri Lanka after she allegedly injured the winner of the Mrs Sri Lanka beauty pageant during a weekend dispute about the Sri Lankan winner’s marital status, officials said on Wednesday.Pushpika de...

China’s massive bitcoin mining operation could undermine the nation’s efforts to reduce emissions unless the government steps in, according to a new study.The annual energy consumption of China’s bitcoin miners is expected to peak in 2024 at ab...

Australia’s trade minister has told Australian businesses to “step up to the plate” in repairing ties with China amid the worst bilateral relations between the two countries in decades, as he put forth recommendations on how Australia can bette...

Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled.The tiniest particles aren’t quite doing w...

Tiger Woods was driving at nearly twice the posted speed limit of 45mph (72km/h) before he hit a sharp turn and crashed on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in February, the Los Angeles County Sheriff said on Wednesday in his long-awaited report on the acci...

Jordan’s King Abdullah broke his silence Wednesday to tell his nation that the worst political crisis in decades, sparked by an alleged plot involving his half-brother Prince Hamzeh, was over.The government had accused Hamzeh – a former crown pri...

A joint China-World Health Organization (WHO) study into Covid-19 has provided no credible answers about how the pandemic began, and more rigorous investigations are required – with or without Beijing’s involvement, a group of international scien...

The former head of the Xinjiang education department has been handed a suspended death sentence and five other Uygurs given hefty prison terms for their roles in writing and publishing of a number of school textbooks deemed “problematic” by local...

Hong Kong fugitive and former opposition lawmaker Nathan Law Kwun-chung has been granted political asylum in Britain, more than nine months after he fled for London ahead of the introduction of the national security law. In a post on his Facebook pag...

China’s military confirmed that it had tracked a US warship as it traversed the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a move the US described as a routine freedom of navigation exercise and Beijing denounced as destabilising to the region.It came on the same...

The EU’s medicines regulator on Wednesday said blood clots should be listed as a rare side effect of the AstraZeneca jab but the benefits continue to outweigh risks, as several countries battle fresh virus surges amid vaccine shortfalls.A number of...

Beijing has condemned Turkish politicians over comments about alleged human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region, a potential dilemma for China as it looks to boost economic ties with the country. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Wed...

Indonesia and Britain have agreed to deepen security, defence and trade ties, British foreign secretary Dominic Raab said in Jakarta on Wednesday, as he highlighted a deployment of naval vessels to the Indo-Pacific later this year as a demonstrati...

A Turkish court on Wednesday jailed 32 former soldiers for life in a mass trial involving nearly 500 military defendants implicated in a failed 2016 bid to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.In one of the last mammoth trials stemming from a bloody n...

Europe must make correct judgments about China independently and demonstrate true strategic autonomy, Chinese President Xi Jinping told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday.In a telephone conversation, Xi urged Germany and the European Union ...

A senior mainland Chinese official in Hong Kong has compared the city to a car driving down a dangerous road, and said the drastic overhaul of its electoral system would ensure it returned to a safer route.Tan Tieniu, a deputy director of the central...

China has condemned calls in the United States to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights concerns, saying it is a move to politicise sports that will fail and only harm the athletes. “This so-called boycott politicises the Games...

More young Chinese people are preparing wills than ever before, according to a new report released by China Will Registration Center. Experts say the coronavirus pandemic has prompted more young people to think about death and their assets. From 201...

China’s Tibetan government has issued a set of bans to tighten controls on areas bordering India, weeks after the two countries’ troops disengaged from a disputed part of their frontier following a months-long confrontation.The Tibet autonomous r...

Lawmakers and district councillors could be disqualified immediately after taking their oath of office if their behaviour was deemed “problematic”, Hong Kong’s constitutional affairs minister warned on Wednesday.Secretary for Constitutional and...

China is opening its vaccination programme to people from Hong Kong and Macau who live on the mainland, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in a notice on Tuesday.Hong Kong and Macau residents who join the free and voluntary vaccination program...

NIO, one of three US-listed Chinese electric car makers that compete with Tesla, said its breakneck growth pace may be held back, as the global shortage of computer chips that have hobbled the global automotive industry hits home. The Beijing-based c...

Hong Kong experienced the hottest March on record this year – as well as one of the driest – according to figures released by the Observatory on Wednesday.The data showed that the mean maximum temperature last month was 24.8 degrees Celsius (76.6...