A US company selling pre-packaged congee has apologised to the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community after receiving public backlash over its claims to have “improved congee”.The Oregon-based company, named Breakfast Cure, was fo...

India’s doctors and judges are fighting a lonely battle to prevent a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic from sweeping the country, as Kerala became the latest state this week to loosen restrictions for a religious festival despite reporting ris...

China has accused Japan of grossly interfering in its internal affairs after Tokyo for the first time raised concerns about the stability over Taiwan in an annual defence paper.“The Taiwan issue is entirely China’s internal affair and external fo...

Hong Kong police are looking into whether foul play was involved after a man was found dead with cuts on his neck and limbs in a Yau Ma Tei hotel room.At around 12.15pm on Wednesday, an employee discovered the body of the 28-year-old man beside the b...

Hong Kong’s quarantine exemptions for diplomats and others deemed to have crucial jobs are in need of review, health experts have said after a consulate employee’s two children tested positive for Covid-19 during their home isolation period.The c...

Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, was the most generous Chinese entrepreneur last year, according to the latest Forbes China list published on Tuesday.Ma, who retired as Alibaba’s chairman in 2019, has largely faded from p...

For those trapped in submerged underground trains as Tuesday’s horror unfolded in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, it was a life-and-death matter of keeping their heads above water in the hope that help would arrive.The rare torrential rain t...

Foreign flows to China’s local currency government bond market could balloon to US$400 billion annually, an analysis from the Institute of International Finance (IIF) showed.Central banks were behind 60 per cent of the flows to local currency Chine...

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Wednesday said Washington, Tokyo and Seoul had sent a clear message that they were on the same page regarding their policy towards North Korea despite some recent friction between the two Asian allies.“...

China’s largest tech companies, including Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, are rushing to announce donations amounting to almost 1 billion yuan (US$154 million) to flood relief efforts in central Henan province where heavy rains have kil...

Rodzon Enriquez’s skeletal remains are pulled out of a coffin-sized tomb in Manila and placed in a body bag. Five years after the 21-year-old was killed in the Philippines’ drug war, the lease on his grave is expiring.Activists estimate tens of t...

Blue Origin rocketed its first passengers to the edge of space on Tuesday. Roughly 10 minutes later, the crew returned to the West Texas desert after spending just three minutes in zero gravity.“I loved every minute of it,” Wally Funk, an 82-year...

The Pakistani Taliban could be responsible for last week’s bus attack in the country that killed 13 people including nine Chinese nationals, security analysts said.Both Pakistan and China have classified the explosion in the northwestern Khyber Pak...

As pro-democracy protests in Thailand roll on through a second year of military crackdowns and stifled dissent, Thai artists are using visual imagery to challenge censorship and question the nation’s power structures.Artists have been among the man...

Republican Senator Rand Paul and senior US government scientist Anthony Fauci angrily assailed each other in a heated exchange on Capitol Hill, as President Joe Biden’s political opponents continue to challenge the administration over the origins o...

A former Goldman Sachs banker charged in connection with a multibillion-dollar scandal at Malaysia’s state investment fund 1MDB won a Brooklyn judge’s permission to replace his ankle monitor with a smaller one so he can jog more comfortably.Feder...

The United States has reached a preliminary agreement with Germany over a controversial Russia-to-Europe gas pipeline that is vehemently opposed by Ukraine and Poland as well as both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.Congressional aides briefed o...

The high cost of starting a business in Hong Kong is unlikely to deter foreign firms from expanding into the city, because it serves as a gateway to the mainland Chinese and Asian markets, according to industry experts.A number of overseas companies ...

From his dusty Bangkok pawnshop, where gold deposits are still recorded in heavy wooden ledgers, Danai Tangvatanangkoon has had a ringside seat to decades of Thai economic crises.But since opening his business in 1989, nothing compares to the current...

The Hubble Space Telescope has returned to operational status after a nearly month-long mysterious glitch put Nasa scientists in a frenzy.Nasa said engineers successfully switched the spacecraft to backup hardware, a process that started July 15 afte...

National security police in Hong Kong arrested Lam Man-chung, executive editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, on Wednesday morning.Lam is the eighth senior company executive to be arrested since police last month mounted a sweepin...

Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goita survived an assassination attempt at a mosque in Bamako in the latest blow to stability in a country reeling from two military coups in less than a year.An assailant wielding a knife attacked Goita after prayers ...

Singapore is facing the greatest competition yet to its status as the dominant marine fuel supplier in Asia, with China luring more ships to its shores following a rapid expansion of its port and refining facilities.China’s marine fuel sales – kn...

French President Emmanuel Macron leads a list of 14 current or former heads of state who may have been targeted for hacking by clients of the notorious Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, Amnesty International said.“The unprecedented revelation … sho...

Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues and athletes in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July. This is the second of three stories on the use of technology and innovation at the Games.Long before the world had ever hea...

Britain on Tuesday said it would permanently deploy two warships in Asian waters after its Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and escort ships sail to Japan in September through seas where China is vying for influence with the United States and Japan.P...

The death toll from central China’s massive rainfalls and flooding continued to rise on Wednesday. An estimated 200,000 people have been displaced and at least 18 people have died.An overflowing dam in provincial capital Zhengzhou added to the grow...

A police suspect who pretended to be unconscious for three days and endured a series of medical tests eventually “woke up” because he could not resist the smell of beef curry.The man was arrested by police in Xiaogan of Hubei earlier this month o...

The seven perfect grades in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams this year came from students at six secondary schools, it was revealed on Wednesday, including four that produced their first-ever top scorers.The first students from their respectiv...

The end of a stamp duty holiday and surging home prices are unlikely to deter Hongkongers from continuing to buy properties in the UK as they move there under the British National (Overseas) scheme, according to analysts.Since the beginning of this m...

Twenty months after losing the district council seat he held for eight years, Hong Kong pro-establishment politician Lau Chee-sing is back, and riding high.Not only has he been made chairman of the new Area Committee in Tai Po North, but the appointm...

The Pentagon’s watchdog said on Tuesday it would evaluate the safety protocols surrounding the president’s “nuclear football” – containing codes needed for a strike – after one such briefcase nearly came within range of rioters storming t...

As the countdown to the 2020 Olympic Games enters its final days, many Chinese athletes have arrived in Tokyo wearing masks and protective goggles and are busy training for the international sporting event.In addition to delaying the Games for a year...

Hong Kong’s New Territories, the area south of the city’s border with China, is no longer as inaccessible as in decades past, as new transport links closed the distance with Kowloon and the rest of the city.The price gap between such New Territor...

More than a quarter of Covid-19 patients in Hong Kong this month had been vaccinated, most of them imported cases according to a Post review, raising concerns over the government’s scheme of halving quarantine periods for most arrivals from around ...

China’s gig economy workers employed by online platforms, including deliverymen and ride hailing drivers, should be encouraged to form unions to boost their negotiating power with Big Tech, the country’s government-backed union said.The All-China...

The EU on Tuesday said it will set up a stand-alone agency to crack down on money laundering across Europe where major banks have been hit by a wave of dirty money scandals.Many cases have involved northern countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Finla...

France and the United Kingdom have agreed to deploy more police and invest in detection technology on the French coast to try to stop boats carrying illegal migrants from reaching British shores, they said in a joint statement on Tuesday.France will ...

China’s requirement for a cybersecurity review of virtually all foreign initial public offerings (IPOs) could drastically accelerate the decoupling between American capital and Chinese technology, as the proven path for venture capitalists and priv...

The US State Department suggested on Tuesday that a trip to China by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman remained possible during her current tour of Asia if officials determine that a meeting between Sherman and her Chinese counterparts would be...

Each time Covid-19 has flared up, Australia’s major cities have used strict lockdowns to battle cases back down to zero. As the pandemic wreaked havoc elsewhere, the country’s “zero Covid” approach prevented deaths and major disruption to eve...

Tom Barrack, the founder of private equity from Colony Capital and a former top fundraiser for Donald Trump, has been arrested on charges of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.Barrack, 74, was arrested in California on Tuesday, a...

A research team in western China has unveiled a drone capable of travelling through air and underwater.Although it is not the first “transmedium” drone the world has seen, the Chinese prototype uses a design with improved underwater mobility.Wate...

Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been serving a 23-year prison sentence for sexual assault in New York since last year, was on his way to Los Angeles on Tuesday for a second trial in which he will face new charges.The once all-powerf...

Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has launched new attacks on the British prime minister, accusing him of taking coronavirus lightly and revealing he held conversations about ousting him.In a BBC interview broadcast on Tuesday, the ma...

US climate envoy John Kerry called on China to join America in urgently cutting greenhouse gas emissions and described the international alliances that rebuilt Europe after the Second World War as a model for fighting against climate change.Kerry cha...

Simone Biles arrived at the Tokyo Olympics – having not lost an all-around competition in nine years – poised to add to her status as the greatest gymnast of all time.The general consensus is the only gymnast capable of beating Biles is Biles her...

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to visit the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam this weekend on his first trip to Southeast Asia, in a bid to reinforce Washington’s presence in the region – but while experts say this will be a tough sell...

Red Cross volunteers and emergency services in Germany deployed emergency standpipes and mobile vaccination vans to flood-devastated regions on Tuesday, attempting to avert a public health emergency.Last week’s freak floods killed more than 160 peo...

Female researchers will be given priority for talent recruitment and research funding grants, provided they are just as good as their male counterparts, according to a recent policy statement by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MST).Age ...