Two men who paralysed a major thoroughfare near Hong Kong Polytechnic University as police laid siege to anti-government protesters occupying the campus two years ago have pleaded guilty to rioting.Construction worker Sze Ying-ho and clerk Man Tsz-ke...

Hong Kong customs officers have made a rare bust involving the dried fins of guitarfish – a protected, sharklike species of ray – seizing 3.3 tonnes worth an estimated HK$4.6 million (US$593,000) from a shipping container arriving from Africa.A l...

Customs officers arrested three men – including a suspected Sun Yee On triad member – in a series of raids around Hong Kong on Monday that netted some HK$8.7 million (US$1.1 million) worth of marijuana.Authorities are now investigating whether th...

A top executive of a Hong Kong-listed apparel company has been revealed as the buyer of a parking spot at the exclusive Mount Nicholson development on The Peak, which set a world record last month at HK$11.9 million (US$1.53 million) each.Poon Ho-tak...

Hong Kong’s leader has thrown her support behind a new anti-sanctions law to be passed by Beijing, citing her own first-hand experience and arguing for the need to give foreign governments “a taste of their own medicine”.During her weekly press...

Some 293,000 workers at three major science parks in Taiwan will be vaccinated to cut the risk of tech production worth billions of US dollars being affected by the worsening Covid-19 outbreak.The decision came as the island’s Central Epidemic Comm...

Former dengue patients who contract Covid-19 could experience more severe symptoms, a small study has suggested, raising concerns that countries in Asia, where mosquito-borne diseases are endemic, could face a “double burden” at a time health sys...

The outlook for China’s equities are uncertain in the second half, as securities analysts and strategists are divided on how stock prices will be affected by a range of factors from macroeconomic policies to the pace of inflation and the value of t...

Joe Biden will fight what he calls a “defining” battle for democracy on his first foreign presidential trip, meeting top US allies in Europe ahead of a tricky summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.The busy agenda – with G7, Nato and European Un...

One of Brussels’ top two leaders has defended the European Union’s efforts to reach an investment agreement with China, ahead of summit meetings with US President Joe Biden.The president of the European Council, Charles Michel, will meet Biden at...

China is moving to step up influence in Southeast Asia by elevating its ties with Asean to Beijing’s highest level of diplomatic recognition for regional groups, in an effort to counter the US in the region.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announce...

A top World Health Organization official estimated that Covid-19 vaccination coverage of at least 80 per cent was needed to significantly lower the chance that an imported coronavirus case could generate new cases or spawn a wider outbreak.Dr Michael...

Hong Kong is expected to extend a civil servant pay freeze for another year, with the administration citing an economy that has yet to fully recover from the coronavirus pandemic.The offer, made on Tuesday by the Executive Council, city leader Carrie...

A woman died after a former security guard at a Pakistani hospital posed as a doctor and performed surgery on her, police have confirmed.Shameema Begum, aged 80, died on Sunday, two weeks after Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat her back wound a...

The government of Hong Kong, regrettably, has been its own worst enemy with regards to land production. Reclamations dropped dramatically from 4,000 hectares (9,884 acres) generated between 1976 and 1996, to some 1,000 ha created since then. At the ...

An unmanned tanker aircraft has successfully refuelled a US Navy carrier-based fighter jet for the first time, the US Navy announced.A Boeing MQ-25 T1 Stingray test drone refuelled an F/A-18 Super Hornet on Friday near MidAmerica Airport in Mascoutah...

The jury trial has begun in the US against a Tennessee professor who denies defrauding Nasa by hiding his relationship with a Chinese university.Hu Anming was an associate professor in the University of Tennessee’s department of mechanical, aerospa...

Hong Kong may begin requiring inbound travellers to undergo coronavirus antibody tests in a bid to better guard against dangerous new variants and a possible fifth wave of infections, the city’s leader has said.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet...

Melco International Development, the owner of the iconic Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurants, is seeking to sell an eight-storey car park in Hong Kong, as renewed speculative interest in vehicle parking bays amid record prices created a second chance ...

New York is planning to host a major concert in Central Park in August as a way to celebrate the city’s “rebirth” following the Covid-19 pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced.No programme details were revealed, but De Blasio has asked vetera...

China risks a loss of foreign talent because of strict Covid-19 border restrictions, and it could harm growth, according to a survey by a major European business group.Entry restrictions topped the list of challenges cited by respondents in attractin...

“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing,” French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord once reportedly lamented in response to the House of Bourbon’s inability to learn from even recent history. Soon, France was gripped by an...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte should legislate the “gains” of the country’s 2016 arbitral win over its South China Sea claims to end the “impasse” between Beijing and Manila, three legal experts said, weeks ahead of the fifth anniver...

Dr Zhang Wenhong is a household name in China.Unlike Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Zhang is not the chief medical expert in his country’s fight against Covid-19. Nor did he ever confront...

Step aside, New York City Fashion Week. Auf Wiedersehen, Berlin Premium. A “fashion show” featuring rural Chinese women strutting in dresses made out of leaves and carrying produce has turned into a feel-good internet story in mainland China.The ...

The life satisfaction and health levels of Hong Kong schoolchildren are far below international levels, local researchers have found, pointing to difficulties pupils face in communicating with their parents and a lack of exercise as key factors affec...

Vice-President Kamala Harris warned Central Americans not to migrate to the US and said the Biden administration would intensify efforts to combat corruption in the region, after meeting Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Monday.“Do not c...

Naw Say Say was shocked and saddened when she woke to news on February 1 that the Myanmar military had overthrown the civilian government and declared a state of emergency.“I was so worried and wanted to cry for my people and my country,” says Na...

A man accused in a rampage at three Baltimore liquor stores owned by Asian-American families last month is now facing hate crime charges, prosecutors announced on Monday.Daryl Doles, 50, was already charged with robbery and assault for the attacks, b...

Standing outside Nanya Technology’s vast manufacturing complex in Taiwan, it could be mistaken for Lunar New Year, when workers leave en masse.On a recent Friday, just a trickle of light delivery trucks stopped by the complex’s Art Deco-style rec...

India’s federal government will provide free coronavirus shots to any adult starting later this month and take back control of the country’s vaccination drive, marred by delays and shortages.The changes reverse a policy launched in April which ta...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday dodged questions about what measures Washington would take if Beijing does not cooperate on efforts to determine whether the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory, suggesting...

After a long day on the back of his electric bike, Cui Xuedong can be found singing nostalgic 90s love songs from a karaoke stall he built himself, complete with microphone and amplifier.“I get worn out during the day and this is my way of relaxing...

The Justice Department on Monday recovered some US$2.3 million in cryptocurrency ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline, cracking down on hackers who launched the most disruptive US cyberattack on record.Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said investigato...

A driver ploughed a pickup truck into a family of five, killing four of them and seriously injuring the other in an attack that targeted the victims because they were Muslims, Canadian police said on Monday.Authorities said a young man was arrested i...

China’s Canadian embassy has denied that Beijing harasses opponents there, saying that it was “not in our genes” to conduct foreign interference, and that such claims in a report to Canada’s parliament are a “smear” meant to poison bilate...

Hong Kong’s national security police have detained and charged two people with alleged conspiracy to print or give out seditious publications.Officers from the force’s National Security Department arrested a 17-year-old boy and a 45-year-old woma...

The United States on Monday approved a drug called Aduhelm to treat patients with Alzheimer’s, the first new medicine against the disease in almost two decades and the first to address cognitive decline linked to the condition.The decision was high...

China’s top legislative body is set to pass a new anti-sanction law on Thursday, giving substantive legal backing and protection to the country’s retaliatory measures against punitive actions by Western governments on Chinese officials and compan...

Dutch judges said on Monday they wanted relatives of victims to finally have “clarity” about the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine as the trial of four suspects entered a key phase.Some relatives were in court for the start of...

Malaysia’s claims that 16 Chinese aircraft came close to violating its sovereign airspace last week in a rare incident which Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein condemned as an “intrusion” has been given tacit backing by the US Pacific Air Fo...

An experienced diplomat seasoned in Sino-British relations and international terrorism has been named as London’s new envoy in Hong Kong.In a statement issued on Monday, the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said Brian Davidson h...

Asean leaders on Monday insisted that the five-point consensus plan forged in April to de-escalate Myanmar’s post-coup violence needed to be implemented without delay, with Indonesia saying it would appreciate China’s help to “follow up” on t...

China has equipped its Long March 3B rocket with a new parachute system aimed at giving more control over where boosters land.The new system was used on a rocket carrying a meteorological satellite into orbit on Friday, the state-run China Academy of...

China was expected to seek closer ties with the 10 Asean members during talks on Monday, including pledges to boost cooperation on economic recovery from the pandemic and on Covid-19 vaccine distribution.Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign...

Westerners aged 18 to 24 hold more positive attitudes towards China than their elders, standing out from a generally negative perception of the world’s second largest economy, a survey has found.American think tanks the Bertelsmann Foundation and t...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced on Monday he will fly into space next month on the first human flight launched by his Blue Origin rocket firm.“Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of travelling to space. On July 20th, I will take tha...

China has been urged to join a push by the United States for a global minimum tax rate, with experts saying it is an opportunity for Beijing to participate in international economic governance and create a common ground with Washington as high-level ...

Hong Kong’s top court will examine the use of a legal principle that allows prosecutors to indict those not physically present at a riot or unlawful assembly with the same charges as actual participants.The Court of Appeal on Monday granted a reque...

RTHK has the right to freedom of expression, according to lawyers challenging the communications watchdog’s decision to warn the public broadcaster about its portrayal of the Hong Kong police in a controversial satire last year.Honorary senior coun...