A computer technician who was among a group of protesters that set fire to the gate of a government office during a demonstration in 2019 has been jailed for more than three years for rioting.Cheng Chi-chung pleaded guilty earlier this month in Distr...

A group of scientists have uncovered a new chapter of the “human story” in Southeast Asia thanks to a partially preserved skeleton found in Indonesia that dates back some 7,200 years.A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature analy...

After becoming the source of public scorn for her role in a surrogacy scandal earlier this year, controversial actress Zheng Shuang now must pay a 299 million yuan (US$46.1 million) fine for tax evasion in a case that drew immediate comparisons to th...

A former senior inspector at China’s top anti-corruption agency has been charged with accepting 460 million yuan (US$71 million) in bribes.Dong Hong, who until 2018 was deputy leader of the central inspection team of the Central Commission for Disc...

Hong Kong’s home prices rose in July, approaching an all-time high, as property buyers gained confidence from signs of economic revival in the financial hub while the government stepped up efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.Prices of lived...

Asia-Pacific leaders from Japan to New Zealand on Friday condemned an explosion in Afghanistan that killed at least 85 people, including 13 US soldiers, and left some 140 others injured in an attack believed to include suicide bombers.The blasts, cla...

China’s education ministry publicly released the names and offences of people, schools and companies who had violated the rules and regulations directed at the private tutoring industry this summer.In a post published on the official government web...

Hong Kong police have arrested two suspected drug traffickers and confiscated HK$72 million (US$9.2 million) worth of cocaine in the New Territories in their second major narcotics seizure in as many days.The 21-year-old man and 29-year-old woman wer...

Hong Kong police have arrested nine people in a crackdown on a bookmaking and money-laundering syndicate that washed an estimated HK$30 million ($3.85 million) in criminal proceeds over a 10-month period.The five men and four women, arrested during a...

Malaysia’s prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has named a cabinet featuring much-criticised personalities from his ousted predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin’s administration, drawing immediate criticism from observers who said the composition was unlik...

Earnings at China’s industrial firms in July slowed for the fifth straight month, adding to growing evidence of a loss of momentum in the world’s second-biggest economy and bolstering the case for maintaining policy support for a while longer.Ele...

Employers in Hong Kong are urging authorities to relax stringent rules for incoming domestic workers less than 24 hours after the unveiling of a new scheme that will open the city’s doors to helpers vaccinated in the Philippines and Indonesia – t...

Rabia Samet, a computer science major at a university in Seoul, fears the day the South Korean government will say she must return to Afghanistan.“Taliban kill women like me,” said Samet, who came to South Korea to study in 2017.As a woman who ch...

China called for protection of foreign nationals’ safety in Afghanistan following the suicide bombings at Kabul’s airport, which Chinese security analysts said were an attempt by Islamic State to reassert itself and warn the Taliban against re...

A university student leader accused of promoting terrorism by praising the “sacrifice” of a man who stabbed a Hong Kong police officer last month has been released on bail, after a High Court judge snubbed prosecutors’ request to rescind a prev...

Global concern has grown over Islamic State Khorasan (Isis-K), the Isis affiliate in Afghanistan, amid reports the group is believed to be behind the August 26 blasts outside Kabul airport.Despite years of military efforts by the US-led coalition, Is...

Microsoft on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world’s largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases, according to a copy of the email an...

A US woman, who was convicted in Indonesia of assisting her then-boyfriend to kill her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase, will be released from prison in October, her Indonesian lawyer and a government official said.Heather Mack was 18 when ...

China and the United States – the world’s top two carbon polluters – are expected to seek solid progress in the fight against climate change during John Kerry’s expected visit next month, according to sources familiar with the matter.It will ...

Hong Kong has been lagging more than two decades behind its neighbours in implementing a waste-charging scheme long touted as a leading policy to reduce rubbish and increase recycling rates.On Thursday, the city’s legislature passed the scheme, and...

For almost two months, Sang Luu has been impatiently working at home earning half his previous salary, counting the days until it is safe for Vietnam’s economy to reopen.The 32-year-old, who lives in the southern province of Binh Duong, sells plast...

An online row between the fan bases of two famous Chinese actors triggered the suspension of thousands of Weibo accounts and forced one celebrity to apologise.Fans of actress Zanilia Zhao Liying attacked the fans of actor Wang Yibo on social media b...

Broad powers allowing Hong Kong’s national security police to demand private information from groups they accuse of having foreign ties have raised fears among some lawyers and activists over how they will be used.The application of that power agai...

Malaysia is now Southeast Asia’s Covid-19 hotspot, reporting a record 24,599 new cases on Thursday, eclipsing Indonesia and Thailand where daily infections have ebbed.The surge, driven by the highly contagious delta variant, poses a risk to Malaysi...

Britain’s Foreign Office said it rescued three Afghan families whose contact details had been in documents left behind at its embassy in Kabul and seized by the Taliban.The documents identifying seven Afghans were found by reporters of The Times on...

The military-to-military relationship between South Korea and China is now “back on the right track”, according to South Korea’s vice-defence minister, who on Thursday confirmed Seoul would return the remains of 109 Chinese soldiers killed duri...

Nearly half of about 1,200 recovered Covid-19 patients in Wuhan still had symptoms a year after they fell ill, according to a new study that highlights the need for long-term support.Chinese researchers from hospitals in Beijing and Wuhan focused on ...

The lead investigator into Beirut’s massive port explosion subpoenaed Lebanon’s caretaker premier for interrogation next month after he failed to show up for questioning on Thursday, a judicial source said.Judge Tareq Bitar ordered the security f...

Despite vowing to support its ally, Australia, and take a stand against China for perceived economic coercion, the United States has done little to advance its commitment amid a lack of formal mechanisms and international trade rules to facilitate th...

Washington state eradicated its first Asian giant hornet nest of the year by vacuuming out 113 worker hornets and removing bark and decayed wood near the nest, Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) officials said on Thursday.The so-called...

The European Union’s former chief negotiator on Brexit, Michel Barnier, announced on Thursday he plans to stand as a right-wing candidate against centrist President Emmanuel Macron in next year’s presidential elections, saying that limiting immig...

The administration of US President Joe Biden will soon decide whether to extend tariff exemptions for Chinese-made masks, gloves and other goods needed to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a notice set to be published on Friday by the US Trad...

British regulators on Thursday fined a Chinese state-owned broadcaster, which has already had its licence revoked, £200,000 (US$274,000) for failing to comply with fairness and privacy rules.Media regulator Ofcom said it had fined Star China Media L...

Seven US Capitol Police officers filed a lawsuit against former US president Donald Trump and members of right-wing extremist groups on Thursday, accusing them of being directly responsible for the January 6 attack on Congress.The lawsuit is one of s...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Meredith McGraw on politico.com on August 26, 2021.While the chaotic drawdown of the war in Afghanistan has taken a toll on President Joe Biden’s standing...

An inmate who accused prison staff of wrongly putting him in a psychiatric facility hit a wall with his legal bid on Thursday after the Hong Kong Small Claims Tribunal ruled it did not have jurisdiction to deal with his complaint.Kashif Nazir, who is...

China’s campaign to clamp down on industries ranging from steel to education to property has roiled financial markets and curbed the outlook for growth in the world’s second-largest economy. Beijing has signalled there is more regulation for bus...

As world leaders debate how or whether to engage with the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan, Russia has sought to assure its long-time partner India that New Delhi’s views matter. On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Indian Prime ...

This is the first part of a series exploring China’s recent moves against the technology industry.When Communist Party mouthpieces People’s Daily and Xinhua News Agency published eight articles in one week in 2017 comparing Tencent Holdings’...

Hong Kong has been named as one of the co-hosts of the National Games of China along with Macau and Guangdong province.The 2025 games will be the first time the two former colonies host a major national sporting event.The announcement on the State Co...

US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks on Friday after an Islamic State (Isis) suicide bomber killed 85 people, including 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport.The two bombs were deton...

The US Space Force has said it is on track to start setting up its next-generation missile watching system within four years.Colonel Brian Denaro, from the Space Development Corps, told the 2021 Space Symposium trade show on Wednesday that a critical...

Beijing is trying to rush through a code of conduct for the South China Sea because it wants to undermine an international court’s rejection of its territorial claims in the disputed waterway.That was the claim made by the former foreign secretary ...

While China’s newly-enacted Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) contains many of the elements of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in terms of protecting private data from prying eyes, it goes a step further by guarding it...

China’s ambassador to Canada has urged the country to rectify its “serious mistake” in the handling of the US extradition request for Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou during a phone conversation with Meng on Wednesday.The phone call came we...

Taiwan has unveiled a record NT$471.7 billion (US$16.8 billion) defence budget for next year, as the democratic island comes under growing pressure and military intimidation from Beijing.The spending boost “to strengthen our national security” in...

The approach is filled with danger. The conditions on the ground are chaotic, but precise organisation and timing are needed. And the passengers are exhausted and tense.For pilots in charge of the planes evacuating foreign nationals and Afghans from ...

With record high shipping rates and insufficient transport capacity set to “plague” companies in China into next year, Beijing is set to study targeted measures to help exporters.Surging prices and gridlocks are wreaking havoc on global supply ch...

Around 64,900 Hongkongers applied for a new pathway to British citizenship in the first five months of the scheme, with 47,300 approved, continuing a wave of emigration after the introduction of the national security law.Some 71 per cent of those app...

A recent joint operation drill in which the People’s Liberation Army in Tibet deployed more than 10 combat units to seize a battlefield from their “enemy” on a peak in the Himalayas was designed to send a warning to India, experts said.The Tibe...