Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and its strike group did not sail near Beijing’s artificial islands when it was in the South China Sea, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.In doing so, Britain has avoided joining the United S...

In the eastern Chinese city of Weifang, there was a company, seemingly above board, that was advertising itself as a reproductive health business. The paperwork was in order, it had a storefront and looked like any other business.The entire enterpris...

Tencent Holdings, which runs the world’s largest video gaming business by revenue, has significantly cut down playing time for minors under 18 on its flagship game Honour of Kings in a bid to appease Beijing’s concerns about gaming addiction amo...

Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has received 42 complaints so far about the city’s newly launched HK$5,000 (US$643) consumption voucher scheme, and warned of unscrupulous tactics hidden in the myriad discounts being provided by merchants hoping to ...

A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who had a public feud with officials from her team at the Tokyo Games said Tuesday that they “made it clear” she would face punishment if she returned home to an autocratic government that has relentlessly stifled an...

First, the entire village is shooed indoors, its power supply is cut and finally bananas and other elephant treats are dumped on the opposite side of town to coax the uninvited guests to pass through.So goes the routine welcome ceremony for China’s...

A virtual museum featuring a detailed history and rare artefacts of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown launched on Wednesday, two months after a physical exhibition dedicated to the subject in Hong Kong was forced to close over a licensing row.The �...

The spread of the Delta coronavirus variant has pushed the threshold for herd immunity to well over 80 per cent and potentially approaching 90 per cent, according to an Infectious Diseases Society of America briefing.That represents a “much higher�...

China reported 71 new local coronavirus cases on Wednesday, a leap from 61 a day earlier, according to National Health Commission figures, raising pressure for health authorities and local officials who face dismissal or reprimand for mishandled case...

China’s state-backed gaming industry association broke its silence on Tuesday night, following a market rout earlier in the day, saying online games are not “fierce floods or savage beasts” and emphasising that Beijing’s regulation of the ind...

Malaysia’s embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, under intense pressure to resign, on Wednesday insisted he retained the support of a majority of lawmakers and said he would accede to a no-confidence vote in parliament when the legislature nex...

China and the Asean nations have agreed on part of the text of the long-waited code of conduct for the South China Sea, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in an address in which he described the US as “the biggest troublemaker” in the disputed...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says in a new report that the threat to international peace and security from Islamic State is rising, pointing to an “alarming” expansion of its affiliates in Africa and its focus on a comeback i...

With Chinese investors facing rules restricting their participation in Indian companies, players in India’s flourishing tech scene have turned to Japanese conglomerate Softbank and other Western investors to fill the void.The value of venture deals...

Hong Kong health authorities are investigating the coronavirus infection of a 43-year-old local man who tested negative at hospital after returning a preliminary-positive result on Tuesday, a government source had said.The source said the man was a c...

A year after the cataclysmic Beirut port blast, Shady Rizk’s doctors are still plucking glass from his body. The latest extraction was a centimetre-long sliver above his knee pit.“Almost every month, I find a new piece … the glass is still stuc...

For the second week in a row, the recovery in global air traffic has taken a step back.Airline seat capacity declined about a quarter of a percentage point to 68 per cent of the amount offered in the same week of 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic di...

The technological level of China’s exports increased through the trade war with the United States, according to a new ranking, which predicts the Chinese economy will grow faster than India’s over the next decade.China ranked 16th globally when j...

Growth in China’s services sector accelerated in July, a private survey showed on Wednesday, although the spread of the Delta variant across the country threatens to undercut the recovery in the world’s second-biggest economy.The Caixin/Markit se...

Vann Thoeurn, his wife and their teenage son had been surviving on a construction site in Thailand for months despite having no work or salary.They had been working for six years on different developments in Bangkok but when work slowed after the out...

Esquel Group, one of the world’s biggest shirtmakers, won a rare victory in its effort to get one of its subsidiaries removed from a United States government blacklist over allegations of ties to forced labour in western China.The End-User Review C...

Hong Kong’s Education Bureau dropped a bombshell by revealing it was severing official ties with the city’s biggest teachers’ union, a 95,000-strong body widely seen as the last power base within the embattled opposition camp.Saturday’s move ...

A 58-year-old table tennis player representing Luxembourg at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been dubbed the “Shanghai auntie” by the Chinese internet.Ni Xialian was born and raised in Shanghai and is the oldest athlete to compete in table tenni...

In the past few days, as Hong Kong’s malls erupted in joy at our Olympic victories, there has been not only pride and solidarity, but also temporary relief. It was only very recently that the same venues were the stage for discontent, anger and vio...

American diving legend Greg Louganis remembers the first time he met Jordan Windle, the 22-year-old who is the first diver of Cambodian descent to compete in an Olympic Games.It was at a sushi restaurantin Ford Lauderdale, Florida, recalled Louganis,...

More than 17,000 looted ancient items recovered from the United States and other countries have been handed over to Iraq’s Culture Ministry, a restitution described by the government as the largest in the country’s history.Most of the artefacts d...

The new Delta variant outbreak that started in China’s Nanjing could heap further downward pressure on the nation’s slowing retail spending and may worsen factory activity, possibly exacerbating an anticipated economic slowdown in the latter part...

More first-time buyers have been piling in to Hong Kong’s property market, driving up the prices of mid-sized flats in out-of-town locations, according to analysts.Homes measuring between 431 sq ft and 752 sq ft soared to record-breaking prices in ...

The suspected hijacking of a ship in the Gulf of Oman ended and the vessel was safe, a UK maritime security agency said on Wednesday, hours after armed men boarded the Panama-flagged tanker.“Boarders have left the vessel. Vessel is safe. Incident c...

Hong Kong’s justice minister has sought to ease anxiety over the implications for financial institutions when the city adopts Beijing’s anti-sanctions law, saying the legislation will be used only in retaliation for punitive actions taken by fore...

The process of counting the death toll from last month’s catastrophic flooding in central China has been delayed by bureaucracy and the slow pace of recovery, a flood management specialist has said.Professor Yin Jie was speaking after provincial au...

Physical interactions are a key part of diplomacy, especially in the age of superpower rivalry. Former US President George HW Bush once paraphrased Woody Allen, saying: “Ninety per cent of life is just showing up.”That’s why we are seeing a fie...

As Turkish fire crews pressed ahead on Tuesday with their week-long battle against fires tearing through forests and villages on the country’s southern coast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government faced increased criticism over its apparent...

China protested against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over its reporting on the recent flooding in Henan province and its statement on how foreign journalists were treated, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.The Chinese ministry in a s...

Four people were killed and 20 wounded in a coordinated bomb and gun attack targeting the Afghan defence minister and several lawmakers in the country’s capital Tuesday, not far from the heavily fortified Green Zone.The wave of blasts, which Washin...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris will focus on defending international rules in the South China Sea, strengthening US regional leadership and expanding security cooperation during her trip to Vietnam and Singapore this month, a senior White House offi...

 On May 27, 2020, a Boeing 777 sat on the tarmac of Vancouver International Airport, ready to take off on a non-stop flight to China.The jet had been chartered but was so large it could not use the south side of the terminal that is reserved for pri...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Erin Durkin on politico.com on August 3, 2021.US President Joe Biden called on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign on Tuesday following the release of ...

At the beginning of 2021, the trillion-dollar club almost added a new member: Tencent Holdings. However, the social media and gaming giant saw its momentum flag as China’s government ramped up the pressure on the country’s entire technology secto...

A police officer was killed at the Pentagon’s mass transit terminal on Tuesday in an incident that forced the lockdown of the US military headquarters.Employees in the Pentagon building in Arlington, a suburb of Washington, were ordered to shelter ...

China and India have agreed to pull back troops from another friction point along their disputed Himalayan border after a weekend meeting of top military commanders from both sides, according to senior Indian officials with knowledge of the matter.So...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched a formal investigation into the case of Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Timanovskaya, with a number of sports bodies calling on Belarus to be severely sanctioned.The organisation must establish all...

Huawei Technologies Co has earmarked US$100 million to encourage start-ups in Asia-Pacific to use its cloud software as the Chinese telecoms giant accelerates a move to bolster revenue from software services after US sanctions crippled its smartphone...

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong again warned the United States and China to de-escalate their tensions, saying both powers presumed incorrectly they would win in any conflict.“The reality is, neither side can put the other one down,” Lee...

More than 4,500 military personnel from Indonesia and the United States are taking part in a two-week joint drill that analysts say underscores the countries’ determination to enhance their already strong defence ties, even as Covid-19 rages in the...

China’s antitrust watchdog has launched an investigation into car chip distributors suspected of hoarding critical semiconductors to intentionally drive up prices amid a global chip shortage that has already led to rising prices.The State Administr...

This is the first part in a series of stories looking at China’s economic outlook in the second half of 2021 as it continues its recovery from a coronavirus-hit 2020.As US-China relations continue to deteriorate, Beijing is making a major policy sh...

Australian athletes damaged their Tokyo Olympics athletes’ village rooms before departing, the Australian Olympic Committee said on Tuesday, while other teammates showed “unacceptable behaviour” on their flight home.Australian media reported th...

Chinese cyberespionage groups have been targeting major telecoms providers across Southeast Asia, according to a new report, following accusations from the US and other countries that China hacked into Microsoft Exchange email servers.Boston-based se...

A blanket of thick brown froth has covered an increasing number of Hong Kong’s coastal areas in the past week with rising temperatures and rainy weather seen as a possible factor in the growth of red tides.There have been at least 28 reports since ...