A man in western China’s Chongqing municipality allegedly killed his two young children by throwing them out of his high-rise apartment so he could start a ‘new family’, legal documents published online on Friday revealed.Zhang Bo, who was deta...

The Chinese provinces of Henan and Yunnan have failed to meet public expectations when it comes to tackling pollution and cleaning up their air, rivers and soil, the environment ministry said after the completion of inspections.The central government...

China is still preparing to host US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in Tianjin later this month, although the two sides are haggling over protocol details and are not yet ready to make an official announcement. Sources said plans for Sherman...

Tokyo entered the final Olympic countdown on Friday, but there was little fanfare with just one week until the opening ceremony, as virus infections surge in the Japanese capital.Dozens of teams are already in Japan – some at training camps dotted ...

It was only 20 months ago that Hong Kong’s opposition camp was celebrating a landslide victory in the district council elections at the height of the 2019 anti-government protests, vowing to push ahead with their democratic agenda via the municipal...

National security police have raided the student union’s office at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) as part of an investigation into a now-withdrawn motion “appreciating the sacrifice” of a man who stabbed an officer before killing himself.Off...

Hundreds of rescuers were battling on Friday to reach 14 construction workers trapped in a flooded tunnel in China, as the search entered its second day.Pump trucks channelled water out of the flooded highway tunnel, which runs under a reservoir, in ...

Since the Myanmar military launched a coup on February 1, the human rights situation across the country has been deteriorating each day, developing from a political crisis to what the United Nations recently described as a “multidimensional human r...

A plan to allow vaccinated residents and workers from extremely high-risk areas to enter Hong Kong could undermine efforts to control the spread of Covid-19, medical experts have warned, with one arguing the “extremely dangerous” move could jeopa...

Seven Chinese central government departments, including the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and the Ministry of State Security, began an on-site cybersecurity inspection of ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing on Friday, two weeks after the count...

Three Hong Kong construction workers were injured when they were struck by lightning at a building site on The Peak on Friday, just hours after the Observatory issued a thunderstorm warning.The men were struck as they monitored a crane lowering a met...

Only months before a series of key elections begins, a top Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has emphasised that city leaders must possess not only administrative ability but a deep understanding of the country and geopolitics, according ...

A babysitter who tossed an eight-month old baby to the ground for refusing a bottle of milk was jailed for six weeks by a Hong Kong court on Friday.Chong Chew-peng, 56, was sentenced at Kwun Tong Court a month after she was filmed abusing the girl in...

German emergency responders were on Friday still searching for hundreds of missing people after the worst floods in living memory killed at least 81 in the country’s west.“I fear that we will only see the full extent of the disaster in the coming...

The world heritage committee of the UN’s cultural agency Unesco on Friday began debating its list of World Heritage Sites, with Australia and Britain furious over looming changes to the status of the Great Barrier Reef and the historic docks in the...

Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi has surpassed Apple for the first time to become the world’s second-largest vendor by handset shipments in the second quarter, lifted by strong sales in Latin America, Africa and Europe, according to the latest numbe...

Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, a former top lieutenant of ex-Malaysian leader Najib Razak, on Friday became the latest political figure in the country to be absolved of corruption charges after an appellate court quashed an earlier conviction.The former...

Racially and religiously aggravated offences recorded by police in England and Wales hit a new high in 2020, with more than a quarter of investigations closed without forces identifying a suspect, analysis shows.The impact of the coronavirus lockdown...

A viral picture that claimed to show the official Chinese uniforms for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics turned out to belong to the national rowing team.A female staff member at the Chinese Rowing Association, who preferred to remain anonymous, told ...

What qualification does one need to process tobacco leaves and roll cigarettes on a factory floor?In central China’s Henan province, the job is being done by people with master‘s degrees.Cigarette manufacturer China Tobacco Henan Industrial Co. h...

A growing number of countries are considering third vaccine shots, but it is still not clear that this is the most effective way to tackle Covid-19 as new variants spread and it remains unknown how long their protection lasts.Scientists say this is a...

Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Saad Hariri stepped down, saying he was unable to form a government, nine months after accepting the challenge and as the country sinks deeper into crisis.International donors remain adamant that a government must...

US President Joe Biden said the United States was considering ways to force open internet access in Cuba, which he called a “failed state” as the communist leadership faces down the biggest protests in memory.In a reversal from his stance as a ca...

Construction has begun in China’s first small modular reactor demonstration project, its operator announced on Tuesday.The project will be the world’s first onshore commercial small modular reactor (SMR) and will use a home-grown design, Linglong...

In mid June, pig farmer Liang Rixiang made the painful decision to downsize the hog farm she had been expanding for the past decade, selling four of her 10 breeding sows, two of them with babies.Liang’s farm of 100 hogs was relatively big for her v...

Former US president Donald Trump insisted that he wouldn’t have used the military to illegally seize control of the government after his election loss. But he suggested that if he had tried to carry out a coup, it wouldn’t have been with his top ...

Southeast Asia is emerging as a battlefield for one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks, fuelled by the fast-spreading Delta variant amid a slow roll-out of vaccines.The momentum of the region’s outbreak has now eclipsed previously hard-hit p...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ryan Health on politico.com on July 15, 2021.Don’t call it a farewell tour. But also don’t ask any hard questions about Russia or China.Angela Merkel ca...

Health authorities paused vaccine roll-outs and told younger people to avoid certain jabs over extremely rare side effects. Experts warned of soaring Covid-19 cases in even highly vaccinated countries such as Britain and Israel. Studies sounded the a...

Two leading epidemiologists have backed Hong Kong’s plan to lift the entry ban on vaccinated domestic helpers from Indonesia and the Philippines, but one suggested allowing them to take the Covid-19 jabs on arrival to avoid diverting resources away...

It was Temasek’s 24.5 per cent one-year shareholder return – the Singaporean state investor’s best performance in a decade – that predictably grabbed headlines upon the release of its annual report this week.Temasek’s performance for the ye...

Rent control is a contentious issue and perhaps nowhere more so than in capitalist and laissez-faire Hong Kong. The city holds the unenviable crown of being the world’s most expensive for renters, according to a 2019 Deutsche Bank report on the glo...

Chinese online travel services giant Trip.com has been ordered by a mainland court to make an exception in the application of its privacy policy after finding that the Shanghai-based company engaged in price discrimination, potentially opening the co...

A former top prosecutor seeking a shot at South Korea’s presidency next year has slammed the government of Moon Jae-in for its approach to balancing ties with both the United States and China, saying Seoul should instead pursue a stronger alliance ...

The first online television series directed by award-winning Chinese movie director Feng Xiaogang has been met with widespread criticism, mirroring the disdain that has greeted several disastrous forays onto the small screen by A-listers in the past ...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to be interviewed on Saturday by investigators with the state attorney general’s office who are looking into sexual harassment allegations as the investigation nears its conclusion.The timing of the interv...

A newly formed special task force is on the hunt in China for unscrupulous traders who have been driving up the prices of commodities through speculative reselling, which hurts manufacturers and risks slowing the nation’s economic recovery.The acti...

US President Joe Biden on Thursday confirmed his plan to issue a new advisory this week warning American companies about the risks of doing business in Hong Kong.“Let me talk about the business advisory,” Biden said at a joint press conference wi...

A new Hong Kong study has found that recipients of the BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine have 10 times more antibodies than those who took Sinovac, with the latter generating levels of the virus-targeting proteins that were “similar or lower” than the na...

China’s spending on research and development is on track to exceed the United States by 2025, according to new research.Meanwhile, the US has greatly underinvested in science and innovation, possibly impairing people’s standards of living, health...

Dutch Queen Maxima teamed up with a small robot Thursday to unveil a steel 3D-printed pedestrian bridge over a canal in the heart of Amsterdam’s red light district.Maxima pushed a green button that set the robot’s arm in motion to cut a ribbon ac...

The World Trade Organization chief voiced optimism that a ministerial meeting on Thursday would pave the way for successful negotiations towards a long elusive deal banning subsidies that favour overfishing, but gaps remain.“It’s been a successfu...

Two men apparently killed themselves, police said, in a suite at the Miami Beach hotel that Gianni Versace turned into his mansion, nearly 24 years to the day after the fashion designer died on the building’s front steps.Their bodies were found by ...

A key US House committee approved a sweeping bill targeting Beijing on a range of fronts on Thursday, moving Congress closer than ever to banning all goods from China’s Xinjiang region from entering the US.The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted ...

Blue Origin said on Thursday an 18-year-old paying customer will fly to space on the company’s maiden crewed space flight on July 20, becoming the world’s youngest astronaut.Oliver Daemen, who graduated from high school last year and holds a priv...

Facebook said on Thursday it had taken down about 200 accounts run by a group of hackers in Iran as part of a cyber-spying operation that targeted mostly US military personnel and people working at defence and aerospace companies.The social media gia...

Bitcoin, the world’s first and most popular blockchain-based cryptocurrency, has seen a wild year. After investment fervour pushed prices past US$63,000 in April, its value then plummeted by more than 40 per cent. Beijing, concerned by the volatil...

The Taliban have offered a three-month ceasefire in exchange for the release of thousands of insurgent prisoners, a top Afghan government negotiator said on Thursday, as Pakistan confirmed the group had seized control of a key border crossing.Nader N...

As the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan reaches the eleventh hour, the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan seems a mere formality. Given that the Taliban was ostensibly the reason the US undertook the invasion of Afghanistan in 200...