Chinese navy sends flotilla led by its largest destroyer to conduct live-fire drills as part of the Vostok 2022 war games.

PBOC set firmer-than-expected official guidance, and market watchers speculated that there was an official effort to rein in excess yuan weakness.

Visitors from the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and Taipei allies will not need a visa from next Monday.

The Communist Party is set to hold its 20th national congress in mid-October, a gathering that will usher in a new line-up of the party’s leadership. This three-part series explores the rules of the personnel reshuffle.

Mo Li has stable vital signs but his condition remains serious, according to latest hospital updates.

Ships deployed under an ‘international assistance force’ pact between the three countries are exempt, PM Manesseh Sogavare told parliament, as are foreign military vessels responding to requests for help.

Denis Wong, 59, initially faced a colonial-era sedition charge after a raid on his home also found an arsenal of weapons, including swords and crossbows.

Epicentre of quake about 260km from provincial capital Chengdu, with nearby provinces also reporting tremors.

‘It’s a massive typhoon with a 400km radius, which is big enough to cover Seoul to Busan’, South Korea’s chief forecaster said on Monday, as he urged resident to remain indoors.

From the coming-of-age show Never Have I Ever to Bollywood’s biographical drama Gangubai Kathiawadi, Indian films and TV shows have featured in Netflix’s top 10 spots this year, boosting South Asian representation on screen at a time when it matt...

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Less than two weeks after being sent to prison for 12 years for corruption, Najib Razak has applied for a royal pardon. He will remain a lawmaker until a decision on the petition has been made, the parliament speaker said.

One of the boys, 14, claimed to be a triad member while another is accused of stealing HK$70 from the victim.

Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights received more than 1,600 messages over weekend from parents worrying about restricted access citywide for young ones.

A story about a young girl in China complaining that she looks too much like her father and not enough like her mother has lit up mainland social media.

Visitor arrivals continue to accelerate amid eased Covid restrictions, as the city state seeks to position itself as Asia’s premier tourism and business destination with a slew of high-profile events.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has underscored the importance of mobilising civilians when under attack and highlighted Taiwan’s weaknesses on that front.

China’s largest refiner aims to have an installed capacity to produce 120,000 tonnes of green hydrogen a year by end 2025. Increasing production and use of the clean fuel is a key plank of the nation’s strategy to fight climate change.

The UK will learn on Monday who will be its next prime minister, with Liz Truss the favourite take charge as the country battles a spiralling cost-of-living crisis.

Magistrate adjourns case until late November as police need more time for investigation, with aunt of victim also arrested on suspicion of neglect.

Nine of the poorest countries on the continent will not pay duties on 98 per cent of their exports to China as a result of the measure.

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Gustavo Arnal died days after the struggling US retailer announced it was closing stores and laying off workers.

Johnny, Rocky and Rambo were rescued from a tiny resort hotel pool. They had spent years performing in a travelling circus before being rehabilitated and released into the wild.

Drought in China, low rainfall in India and massive monsoon floods in Pakistan are threatening global rice supplies, risking shortages for more than 2 billion people in Asia that depend on it as a staple food.

Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will be named as Britain’s new prime minister on Monday. Here’s what to expect.

The vote was meant to be the culmination of a movement that started with mass protests against inequality in late 2019. Instead, it’s the campaign’s first major defeat and a blow to President Gabriel Boric.

Cathy Jim has created patented products that purify the air by turning pollutants into water and carbon dioxide.

China’s Caixin/Markit services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 55 in August from 55.5 in July, data released on Monday showed.

India has broken into the United States’ top five suppliers of Christmas decorative items, gaining a clear lead over the Philippines as buyers diversify supply sources in the face of rising labour costs and disruptions from China’s zero-Covid pol...

A dog owner in China is devastated after the man she trusted to adopt her pet turned out to be a scammer who tried to extort money from her by threatening to have the animal killed.

Umar Patek says he is “sorry” for his role in the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 11 Hong Kong residents. The Indonesian is now eligible for parole, but authorities have yet to decide on his status.

After Phoenix TV quoted Weibo comments, a whole crowd turned up complaining to city leader about landfill stench.

Cambodia’s Metta forest has been devastated by deforestation as the government continues to give away land to the elite, with villagers’ protests quashed with violence.

Police launched a manhunt for two suspects after a series of stabbing attacks across multiple locations in Canada’s Saskatchewan province.

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke after an aide posted a photo of soldiers taking back a southern village from Russian forces.

Xi Jinping is on course to become party leader for a third term – the first to do so since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 – but 11 of the 24 other Politburo members are likely to retire.

Co-founder Jerry Huang said Stepn is being encouraged to ‘help Hong Kong create a Web3 start-up environment’ as other crypto firms retreat from the city.

A private aircraft en route from Spain to the German city of Cologne flew way off course and ended up far over the Baltic Sea before crashed into the water off the coast of Latvia.

Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the documentary series, Our Great National Parks. He previously won Grammy awards for his audiobook readings of two of his memoirs.

John Sullivan’s departure comes in the midst of an increasingly serious crisis over Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as disputes over detained Americans in Russia.

‘The death sentence was carried out against two condemned over collaboration with the occupation (Israel), and three others in criminal cases,’ Hamas said.

Lebanon and Israel, which have been officially at war since the latter’s creation in 1948, both claim an area of some 860 square km of the Mediterranean Sea.

The entrance to the circus tent, where a show with about 900 visitors was in progress, was about 50 metres from the site of the accident in the western German city of Duisburg.

The visit is a sign of thawing relations between the two countries over Germany’s initial stuttering response on providing military support to Ukraine.

Diplomatic observers say Beijing may be reluctant to deepen the military relationship with Moscow at the risk of further antagonising the US.

‘Laurel Tree’ lunar base is currently at the design phase, Chinese space architect tells the national science assembly.

One inoculation centre says about 1,600 children received jabs on Saturday, compared with 600 to 700 on typical weekdays.

Sweden will provide Nordic, Baltic utilities up to US$23.2 billion in credit guarantees while Finland aims to offer US$9.95 billion, to prevent a financial crisis after Russia ‘s Gazprom shut the Nord stream 1 gas pipeline