British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he is not about to “pitchfork away” offers of Chinese investment despite the concerns of some of his own lawmakers. Decisions to bar Chinese companies from Britain’s fifth-generation communication netw...

The former partner of Zheng Shuang, who has run afoul of Chinese regulators, was fined more than 32 million yuan (US$5 million) on Monday for helping the disgraced actress evade taxes.The Shanghai tax authority said it was fining Zhang Heng because h...

The passage of 10 Chinese and Russian warships through a narrow strait in the north of Japan on Monday did not violate Japan’s territorial waters, but has exploited a loophole that’s set alarm bells ringing in Tokyo, according to analysts.The 10-...

China’s two largest short video-sharing app operators, Douyin and Kuaishou Technology, have each been slapped with a 200,000 yuan (US$31,088) fine by regulators for publishing a controversial micro loan advertisement that encouraged “excessive co...

China is updating its nuclear weapons stockpile to keep up with the United States and ensure that it can maintain a minimum level of deterrence, Chinese observers said.Responding to comments by US officials that China’s missile development was a se...

China has reported its highest daily tally of locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since the end of September, with a northern border city in soft lockdown to contain infections.Out of the nine local cases recorded on Monday, two were found in the nort...

Five current or former Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) students have been jailed for up to 59 months each for rioting and flouting a ban on wearing masks at public gatherings during a violent protest on the campus almost two years ago.Tuesday�...

Myanmar’s military government has freed hundreds of political prisoners from the notorious Insein prison, including Aung San Suu Kyi’s party spokesman and a famous comedian Zarganar, local media reported.Minutes after military ruler Min Aung Hlai...

Despite getting vaccinated against Covid-19, Colin Powell remained vulnerable to the virus because of his advanced age and history of cancer.Powell died at age 84 from Covid-19 complications, his family announced on Monday. A decorated former general...

FWD Group’s initial public offering has hit a potential regulatory roadblock as the Hong Kong-based insurer backed by tycoon Richard Li Tzar-kai seeks to raise as much as US$3 billion in the United States, according to people familiar with the matt...

Hong Kong’s biggest free-to-air television broadcaster, TVB, has filed a police report alleging cyberbullying at the hands of internet users it says launched an online smear campaign against the station, its advertisers and artists.In a statement i...

An obsessed off-duty NYPD officer who laid in wait for her former girlfriend before going on a deadly shooting spree was ordered held without bail on Monday pending an exam to determine if she understands the murder and assault charges against her.Yv...

Hong Kong authorities plan to ramp up the number of designated quarantine hotel rooms in the city by 20 per cent ahead of what is expected to be a busy Christmas holiday season, a key industry player has said.Michael Li Hon-shing, executive director ...

A 60-year-old patient has died in South Korea after being hit in the head by a 60kg oxygen cylinder that was sucked into a magnetic resonance imaging machine, police in the southern city of Gimhae said on Tuesday.The man, who has not been named, was ...

Bowtie Life Insurance, Hong Kong’s first virtual insurer, said it raised US$22.6 million in its second funding round from a group of investors led by Mitsui & Co., getting both the financial backing and strategic advice of one of Japan’s largest ...

A senior official sanctioned by the United States, Britain, the European Union and Canada for his role in China’s far western Xinjiang region has been appointed to the top job in Tibet.Wang Junzheng’s promotion to Communist Party chief of the Tib...

A Chinese student studying in Italy has been hailed by mainland internet users for “saving the concert” of an American diva by taking on the role of a male singer during her encore performance.However, the student said he was just lending a hand ...

North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from off its east coast on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, pulling Japan’s new prime minister off the campaign trail and overshadowing the opening of a major arms fair in Seoul...

Chinese local governments have withdrawn some 206 plots of land from auctions in major cities since last month as buyers tightened their finances after Evergrande’s debt crisis roiled the property market.The plots represented almost one-third of ab...

A pro-Beijing heavyweight’s criticism of Hong Kong’s proposal for sharing a Covid-19 health code system with mainland China has sparked questions about whether a division exists between the pro-establishment bloc and the administration.But Tam Yi...

A Chinese artist’s attempt to alert people to the severe problem of food waste in China instead angered the public when he threw 1,000 grains of “golden rice” into Shanghai’s Huangpu River and other parts of the city.The “golden rice” was...

A real estate bull market in Hong Kong, the world’s most expensive major city for 10 consecutive years until 2019, has trickled over to inflate the prices of even the smallest habitable homes.The average cost of new micro-apartments, or flats small...

A common assumption among political watchers is that housing has been a key failing of Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s administration.But it has emerged that transport has likely been an equally if not more problematic issue out of al...

The People’s Liberation Army is training military nurses using a boat simulator to prepare them for a combat situation involving an island landing.More than 300 nurses from an unspecified military hospital took part in the first round of training f...

Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US envoy whose months of hotel-ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed at preventing a Taliban takeover, resigned on Monday.In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Khalilzad defended ...

Ethiopia’s military launched air strikes on the capital of the war-battered Tigray region on Monday, a dramatic escalation in the year-long conflict.The government initially dismissed reports about the bombardments on Mekele as an “absolute lie�...

Former US president Donald Trump on Monday sought to block the release of documents related to the January 6 Capitol insurrection to a House committee investigating the attack, challenging President Joe Biden’s initial decision to waive executive p...

Australian tea company owner Lisa Song had been planning to launch tea blends and infusers for the first time in China last year, but despite being armed with a business plan and a distribution channel, she decided that a delay was inevitable.Her com...

Fully vaccinated travellers from eight countries can enter Singapore without quarantine from Tuesday, as the business hub eases restrictions and gears up to live with the coronavirus.The city state initially fought the pandemic by shutting borders, l...

China’s top leaders will hold a key meeting in Beijing early next month, when they are expected to adopt a resolution on the Communist Party’s achievements over the past 100 years.The Politburo on Monday decided to hold the sixth plenary session ...

Haitians on Monday mounted a nationwide strike to protest a growing wave of kidnappings, days after the abduction of a group of missionaries prompted FBI involvement and fuelled international concerns over gang violence in the crisis-stricken Caribbe...

China is deviating from its minimal nuclear deterrence strategy, the US State Department charged on Monday, after a report that Beijing had recently tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile.“We are deeply concerned about the rapid expansion of t...

Russia said it was suspending its mission to Nato and closing the alliance’s offices in Moscow, as relations with the Western military bloc plunged to new depths.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the moves after Nato expelled several members...

Health problems were preventing Czech President Milos Zeman from carrying out his duties, an official said Monday.The speaker of the Czech Senate, Milos Vystrcil, said that a letter he received from the Prague military hospital where Zeman is being t...

The Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) is rechristening its three industrial estates in Yuen Long, Tai Po and Tseung Kwan O “InnoParks” – part of a “repositioning exercise” aimed at coaxing new and old industries ali...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor left Queen Mary Hospital at about 9am on Tuesday after suffering an elbow fracture in a fall at her official residence.A government source said Lam had fallen down the stairs at Government House around dinn...

A worse-than-expected third quarter economic performance for China has indicated there could be more pain ahead in the final three months of the year, while stoking fears of “stagflation”, analysts say.On Monday, new data from the National Bureau...

China faces a chronic shortage of scientific and engineering talent that may hamper its efforts to become a semiconductor superpower and reduce its reliance on imported chips, according to industry figures.The problem is becoming more acute as the fl...

Indonesia and Malaysia share strong reservations over Australia’s decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, even though nuclear weapons were not part of the plan, Malaysia’s foreign minister said on Monday.Referring to Aukus, a trilateral s...

Hong Kong’s largest ever transitional housing project will deliver nearly 2,000 flats for low-income families within a new Yuen Long neighbourhood equipped with medical services, community facilities and technology centres.Kong Ha Wai Village, a...

China has denied reports that it recently tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, saying it was only carrying out routine test flights in a bid to recycle spacecraft to reduce exploration costs.“This was a routine test of a space vehicle to ve...

An executive at Chinese video streaming platform iQiyi, majority-owned by Baidu, said there will not be a Chinese version of the hit South Korean drama Squid Game because the show is too dark and its ideology does not fit the country’s mainstream v...

Beijing has appointed a Guangdong veteran and two Uygur cadres with significant security and development experience to the Xinjiang Communist Party committee, Xinjiang Daily reported.He Zhongyou, 55, worked for over three decades in the prosperous Gu...

Philippine police on Monday killed four Chinese nationals during an anti-drugs operation that lead to the confiscation of more than 262 million pesos (US$5.24 million) worth of crystal meth.The suspects, from Fujian and Shanxi in China, were “known...

Hong Kong’s education chief has revealed that tertiary institutions will also have to hold national flag-raising ceremonies in line with new guidelines issued to primary and secondary schools.Universities will have to fly the national flag every da...

Chanting certain words of support for Hong Kong residents or calling the government “tyrannical” could be seditious, a pro-government historian has argued in the first trial under the city’s colonial-era sedition law since 1997.Lingnan Universi...

A transgender businesswoman who fled Malaysia after being accused of insulting Islam by cross-dressing has been granted asylum.Cosmetics millionaire Nur Sajat, 36, has been on the run for months since being summoned to appear at a sharia court on a b...

Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants who became a war hero in the United States and the first black secretary of state but saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, died on Monday of Covid-19 complications. He wa...

A Shanghai court sentenced Guo Meiling, a Chinese influencer better known as Guo Meimei, to two-and-a-half years in prison and fined her 200,000 yuan (US$31,080) for “selling poisonous and harmful food” on Monday.Her accomplice, Wang Zouya, was s...

Hong Kong Disneyland has raised its annual pass prices by up to 12 per cent, counting on local families to pay more as it struggles with six years of consecutive losses compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.This was the sixth price increase since th...