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- Hong Kong government sues mask supplier over HK$100 million paid after finding products not all from Japan as agreed
- Wirecard executive fled by private jet to Belarus as firm collapsed
- Hong Kong lockdown: was it worth it? A look at whether city’s harshest coronavirus measure was effective
- ‘Chimney effect’ may be spreading Covid-19 at large private housing estate in Hong Kong, health expert says
- China gold mine blast: 10 confirmed dead and one still missing a day after 11 survivors rescued
- US rejects Hong Kong request for WTO panel over ‘Made in China’ labelling row
- Hong Kong population decline warning, as provisional census figures show more deaths than births in city for first time
- Oxford pub once frequented by JRR Tolkien to shut after 450 years
- Malaysian musician Choo Hao Ren slammed for music video featuring Instagram influencer Qiu Wen in brownface
- ‘Bored’ Dutch youths hunt down paedophiles amid rise in vigilantism
- Share of Hong Kong sports associations with anti-sexual harassment policies has increased, but some are still inadequate, watchdog says
- Shanghai’s legislative advisers urge city’s financial exchanges to merge and list to open the world’s second-largest market place
- Hong Kong protests: ‘joint enterprise’ doctrine urged by prosecutors could implicate those not at scene of illegal gathering, riot
- Chinese Covid-19 lockdowns: Jilin residents vent anger over food shortages
- China’s vegetable prices hit record highs ahead of Lunar New Year due to cold winter, coronavirus lockdowns
- Singapore activists appeal court ruling on gay sex ban
- China’s state-led growth model to intensify in 2021 as ambitious provinces lay out growth targets
- Hong Kong fourth wave: coronavirus-linked slump will continue through first half of 2021, retail body predicts
- A year after its first coronavirus case, Malaysia’s contact-tracing efforts are falling dangerously short
- Hong Kong authorities seize HK$29 million worth of illicit cigarettes, the fourth major bust so far this month
- Can China encourage its people to have more babies? New local government proposal attempts to address demographic fears
- Hong Kong pro-establishment district councillors seek to ensure opposition rivals disqualified if oaths violated
- Cathay Pacific warns new Covid-19 quarantine for aircrew could force it to slash passenger flights by two-thirds and cost company HK$400 million a month
- Coronavirus: Taiwan to quarantine thousands in effort to curb latest outbreak
- Israel extradites woman facing 74 child sex abuse charges in Australia
- Indian army reveals ‘minor’ border clash with Chinese troops
- Coronavirus: a Wuhan dissident’s lockdown has lasted nearly 400 days and counting
- South Korean pro-equality party chief sacked for sexual harassment
- US leads world on artificial intelligence but China is catching up: study
- Hong Kong police searching for driver of bloodied car thought to have hit and killed elderly woman in Tuen Mun
- Hong Kong health experts question if weekend Covid-19 lockdown was worth the cost as city expects more than 70 new cases
- Hong Kong teen found guilty of vandalising shop that had drawn protesters’ ire
- China-US tensions: new American defence chief calls on Japan and South Korea to team up in Indo-Pacific
- Kuaishou aims to sell shares at up to HK$115 each, as world’s second-largest video sharing app kicks off bumper Hong Kong IPO
- US lawmakers threatened as Republicans signal resistance to Trump impeachment trial
- Studying in a WORLD-CLASS British international school is never too far
- What happens next for Donald Trump’s impeachment trial?
- Coronavirus: Australia approves Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine; New Zealand confirms new case; Japan mulls longer state of emergency
- China largest recipient of FDI in 2020, but ‘effects of coronavirus on investment will linger’
- Hong Kong university suspends student leaders over banned memorial for undergraduate who fell to his death near site of protest
- Portugal’s President Rebelo de Sousa re-elected, pledges coronavirus fight ‘first priority’
- Mask acne, Zoom face: how coronavirus gave a nip and tuck to Singapore’s cosmetic surgery industry
- Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has Covid-19
- US president Joe Biden speaks to France’s Emmanuel Macron vowing ‘close coordination’
- Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam can avoid policy U-turns by welcoming views outside tight circle of experts, observers say
- Four players, president of Brazilian football club Palmas killed in plane crash
- Coronavirus boom for Malaysia’s rubber glove industry loses shine amid worker rights abuses
- Most Hong Kong firms plan to boost pay by 3 per cent but pace of hiring set to slow, survey finds
- Joe Biden to reinstate US coronavirus travel restrictions, adding South Africa to banned list
- Joe Biden set to repeal Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people joining the US military
- Coronavirus: Israel bans international flights to curb virus spread amid lockdown clashes
- Chinese Covid-19 vaccines in demand, but will efficacy data affect its diplomacy goals?
- Coronavirus: Egypt launches programme using China’s Sinopharm vaccine
- Israel opens embassy in United Arab Emirates in historic move between Jewish state and Gulf
- Scotland’s leader Nicola Sturgeon vows to push for second independence vote
- Two arrested for burning effigy of Denmark’s premier Mette Frederiksen at coronavirus protest
- Israeli cabinet approves signing deal to upgrade ties with Morocco
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- Self-exiled former Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui gives evidence to British parliament related to freezing of his HSBC accounts
- The JL-3: the new missile ‘raising the cost’ of a US fight with China
- Indonesia seizes Iranian, Panamanian tankers for illegal oil transfer, other violations
- Hong Kong lockdown: officers help residents understand need for Covid-19 testing as they break down language barriers
- Philippines universities deny becoming breeding ground for communist rebels
- China’s export hub Guangdong remains cautious on economic outlook after tough 2020
- Fighting Covid-19 ‘like trying to catch rats in a china shop without breaking the plates’, says Chinese expert
- Hong Kong lockdown: residents given food they either cannot eat, or cannot open
- US-China relations: Washington urges Beijing to stop pressuring Taiwan after reports of airspace incursion
- Coronavirus: France scrambles to avoid fresh lockdown; UK health minister warns over new variants’ vaccine resistance
- Hong Kong finance chief hopes support for innovative technology will be key to city’s economic recovery
- Chinese environmentalists up in arms over forest destroyed to make way for vineyards
- Indonesia deports Russian social media star for partying in breach of pandemic restrictions
- China’s provinces set confident economic growth targets for 2021
- Hong Kong lockdown: expert proposes fresh round of Covid-19 testing in Yau Tsim Mong’s restricted area, warns second confinement zone may be needed around nearby market
- Some 132,000 Filipinos call Japan home, years after arriving to work at pubs
- What does Beijing’s current silence over Britain’s citizenship offer to Hongkongers mean for the fate of BN(O)?
- Meet the Malaysian on a mission to make Hokkien great again, amid Mandarin’s rising popularity in Southeast Asia
- China-India border dispute: satellite images reveal new Chinese village in conflict zone
- China’s military ‘prepares for war’ with joint operations, cross-training
- New Zealand records first coronavirus community case in months
- Hong Kong lockdown on course to lift early on Monday after nearly 7,000 tested; over 70 new Covid-19 cases due
- US, Japan defence chiefs vow closer ties amid China’s activities in South, East China seas
- Indonesia’s clean energy dream: a victim of coronavirus, or politics?
- China hopes for a miracle as rescuers try to reach trapped miners
- Cold cases, warm leads? In Singapore, the unsolved murders of Lim Shiow Rong and Felicia Teo have gripped the nation
- As Philippines seeks Covid-19 vaccines, ghost of Dengvaxia controversy lingers
- Dutch police arrest Chinese-Canadian man described as Asia’s ‘El Chapo’
- US Senator Bernie Sanders’ mittens memes go viral, giving schoolteacher 15 minutes of fame
- An airport named after Donald Trump? South Florida county says ‘no’ to that suggestion
- Huawei moves into smart vehicles as US sanctions stymie 5G and semiconductor ambitions
- Covid-19 leaves Japan’s ski resorts deserted amid perfect conditions for famed Japow powder snow
- Coronavirus: why Covid-19 vaccination campaign is not a quick cure for Hong Kong’s ills
- Joe Biden speaks to Boris Johnson in first presidential call to a European leader
- Coronavirus: Spain’s defence chief resigns over vaccine row after skipping priority queue
- Joe Biden’s US presidency seen as a likely boon for Africa
- France will tighten legislation on incest, says President Emmanuel Macron after controversial book published
- How to help your child cope amid the coronavirus pandemic: spend more time with them, use social media less – and find ways to laugh every day
- Donald Trump shuns ‘ex-presidents club’ – and the feeling among members is mutual
- United States condemns Russia’s arrests of more than 1,800 protesters supporting Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny
- Brazil’s indigenous leaders move to sue President Jair Bolsonaro for ‘crimes against humanity’
- Coronavirus vaccine woes rise for Europe amid new delays
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- How US$145 million in ‘dark money’ donations helped Joe Biden win the presidency
- Legendary US television host Larry King dies at 87
- US-China tension: preventing war ‘relies on conversations between their militaries’
- Hong Kong might have to ‘swallow bitter fruit’, ex-leader says as he pushes for choosing chief executive by consultation
- Hong Kong fourth wave: food supplied to residents locked down for Covid-19 testing slammed as inadequate
- Chinese embassy in US denies asking for talks about Biden-Xi summit
- Coronavirus: Japan death toll tops 5,000; Malaysia cases hit new daily high
- China gives coastguards power to fire on foreign ships in disputed waters
- Coronavirus: Wuhan’s clubbers back in business a year after lockdown
- Taiwan reports large incursion by mainland Chinese air force
- Author still dealing with backlash over Wuhan Diary on city’s fight against Covid-19
- China, Kenya agree repayment holiday on US$245 million worth of debt
- When President Biden gets tough on China, can US count on Vietnam?
- Coronavirus: Portugal enters ranks of most cases per capita amid infection surge in Europe
- US ban on China firms could affect US$60bn of bonds, says JPMorgan
- Hong Kong’s homebuyers pile back into real estate market, snapping up Nan Fung’s LP10 flats in Tseung Kwan O
- Sri Lankan health minister who took ‘magic potion’ tests positive for Covid-19
- Chinese President Xi Jinping says corruption remains biggest threat to Communist Party
- Donald Trump turns to ethics lawyer Butch Bowers to defend him in impeachment trial
- Bleak outlook for Hong Kong film industry as Covid-19 keeps cinemas shut and fewer movies are made
- Sham marriages and divorces are common in China to beat limits on home and vehicle ownership – no wonder Shanghai has cracked down
- Hong Kong fourth wave: city on verge of grim Covid-19 milestone, with 80 new cases expected to push total above 10,000
- Alexei Navalny’s supporters vow protests despite looming crackdown in Russia
- China grants detained Canadian national Michael Kovrig online consular access
- Who’s who of mainland financiers in Hong Kong as Mandarin becomes the common tongue for Central’s investment bankers
- Ships continue to transport coal to China, despite ban on Australian imports
- ‘More painful than death’: a year on from coronavirus lockdown chaos in Wuhan
- Why are Chinese car makers setting up shop in Pakistan?
- Hong Kong hiking: the domestic helpers scaling new heights to tackle countryside litter scourge
- Joe Biden makes first calls to Canada, Mexico amid strained US ties with North American neighbours
- How a US woman’s ‘elevated lifestyle’ tweet showed what Bali really thinks of privileged Western tourists
- South Korea orders Japan to pay damages to group of former ‘comfort women’ over treatment in military brothels
- Vietnam beat coronavirus. With its economy booming, can it face up to China?
- Hong Kong maids need a break, but Covid-19 fears make it harder for them to gather on days off
- Mass Covid-19 screening in Beijing after two cases of strain found in Britain
- Coronavirus hits and misses in roller-coaster year for Hong Kong: horror cruise, rules fatigue and a call the health minister will never forget
- China’s retailers must expand online presence in wake of coronavirus to survive future ‘black swans’, says Chinese lifestyle goods chain Miniso
- China to boost pay for PLA forces after years of sweeping reforms
- Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei calls for decentralisation, focus on profits to survive US trade sanctions
- US president Joe Biden orders review of domestic violent extremism threat after Capitol insurgency
- Privacy fears as Indian city Lucknow readies facial recognition to spot harassed women
- For mainland Chinese migrants in Australia, adapting to new home made worse by coronavirus, racism and isolation
- Hong Kong lockdown: police cordon off about 200 buildings in bid to beat spreading coronavirus outbreak
- Sex abuse inquiry identifies 81 children and 37 adult victims of Jesuit priests in Spain
- United States Senate confirms retired general Lloyd Austin as first Black chief of Pentagon
- Top US medical adviser Fauci says Trump’s coronavirus approach ‘very likely’ cost lives
- Iran calls on Joe Biden to ‘unconditionally’ lift nuclear sanctions imposed by Donald Trump
- Coronavirus: new variant found in Britain might be more deadly than original, says Boris Johnson
- Nancy Pelosi to send Donald Trump impeachment article on Monday, says Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer
- In the wake of Capitol riots and Trump’s exit, who will galvanise America’s alt-right?
- Retaliation for British BN(O) visa scheme, Hong Kong election overhaul discussed on sidelines of meeting of top legislative body: source
- Four people smugglers jailed for decades over deaths of 39 Vietnamese found in UK truck
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- Chinese city boss fired after slapping subordinate in public
- US sign-up for Covax a ‘shot in the arm’ for WHO vaccine scheme
- Chinese police shoot dead hostage taker in school siege
- Italy opens probe into TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ death of 10-year-old girl
- Coronavirus mutations pose challenge to vaccine makers
- RTHK terminates long-term contact of journalist known for hard-nosed approach, union says
- Coronavirus: anger in Switzerland after South African tycoon Johann Rupert jumps vaccine queue
- Arrest of Hong Kong opposition figures a ‘fairly obvious’ abuse of law, says new head of city’s Bar Association
- Hong Kong lockdown: anger, confusion but also a move that’s ‘better than nothing’ – residents mixed over looming Covid-19 restrictions
- Coronavirus: Hong Kong anti-racism watchdog speaks out against Deliveroo, Foodpanda customer requests for non-South Asian delivery drivers
- Why China’s central bank leads antitrust drive and how this may affect Alipay, WeChat Pay
- Coronavirus: no evidence Norway elderly deaths caused by Pfizer’s vaccine, WHO says
- ‘It can be eaten’: Malaysian woman says she’s no odd fish, despite reaction to her koi soup
- Iran goes after bitcoin farms as power blackouts intensify
- Hong Kong judge overturns police officers’ convictions for making false statements
- Shanghai changes rules to stop couples from faking divorces as they vie for less up-front money to buy residential property
- NetEase Beijing employee tests positive for Covid-19, company orders staff to work from home: local media
- Coronavirus: Singapore says it’s given 60,000 vaccine shots, as it tightens social distancing curbs ahead of Lunar New Year
- China’s hi-tech hub Guangdong sees higher education investments boom in bid to rival Silicon Valley with home-grown talent
- Ultra-Orthodox Jews attack Israeli police, trigger riot over coronavirus lockdown
- China’s space programme plans to launch first mission to the sun next year
- Hong Kong lockdown: what tens of thousands of residents trapped inside stay-at-home zone can and cannot do after Covid-19 spike
- China’s small businesses in ‘urgent need’ of support to protect jobs and boost domestic demand, State Council says
- Sanctions on China to remain even with Sino-US tensions set to ease under President Joe Biden, says Hong Kong’s American Chamber of Commerce
- Hong Kong upstart Greater Bay Airlines formally applies for rights to operate more than 100 routes
- China’s trade with US failed to meet phase-one deal targets last year, and 2021 is not expected to yield more success
- Tokyo seeks US vow of support in East China Sea, as dispute with Beijing heats up
- ‘Useless Edison’, DIY video star, sorry for making torture device replica after outcry from women on social media
- Coronavirus in China: new film praises Wuhan ahead of lockdown anniversary
- Germany’s coronavirus death toll tops 50,000 as EU discourages travel
- A surprise star on Inauguration Day, a surrogacy scandal and more
- Suicides in Japan up for first time in 11 years, as coronavirus stress hits women harder
- Hit back at China, US Republicans tell Joe Biden after Beijing hits American officials with sanctions
- Isis support in Indonesia drops, but warnings of ‘pop up’ terror cells
- China gold mine blast: rescue of 21 people trapped will take at least two more weeks, official says
- Taiwan negotiator confident of free-trade deal with US – eventually
- Inside Joe Biden’s Oval Office: new rug, chair and no more Trump ‘Diet Coke button’
- South Korea jails former Olympic coach for sexual assault, but case ‘tip of the iceberg’: academic
- Taiwan’s exclusion from global forums must end: outgoing US envoy Kelly Craft
- Coronavirus: Japan to toughen restrictions; India expands vaccine exports
- Hong Kong’s pro-establishment lawmakers make case for surveillance cameras in classroom to monitor teachers’ speech
- Hong Kong refuse worker dies after ‘falling 35 floors down rubbish chute’ in Tuen Mun residential tower
- Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, wears his faith on his sleeve
- Donald Trump returns to a business empire ravaged by coronavirus pandemic
- Coronavirus: Hong Kong to place tens of thousands in lockdown in bid to contain outbreak; residents must show negative test to exit certain neighbourhoods
- Human trafficking in Thailand drops as coronavirus restrictions hinder networks
- As Covid-19 rages on, is Singapore risking too much to host the World Economic Forum?
- Coronavirus: Hongkongers stranded overseas fear travellers from Britain who returned via Dubai and tested positive for Covid-19 could make getting home harder
- US charges Indonesian extremist Hambali in 2002 Bali bombings
- Hong Kong homebuyers defy broken economy, surging unemployment, snapping up flats at Wheelock’s Monaco project in Kai Tak
- China’s top anti-corruption body gathers to map out strategy in Beijing
- Stripping British National (Overseas) passport holders of Hong Kong residency could spark another crisis
- Bribes, fake factories and forged documents: the buccaneering consultants pervading China’s factory audits
- Coronavirus: Chile approves CoronaVac as Chinese manufacturer continues to defend its test results
- Canada’s Governor General Julie Payette quits amid bullying scandal
- Xi Jinping steps out in US$700 parka, giving Chinese sportswear company’s shares a boost
- Indian iron ore exports to China surged in 2020, but India’s own needs keep it from being a key supplier
- Joe Biden to seek full 5-year extension of New Start nuclear pact with Russia
- Nancy Pelosi says she’ll send Donald Trump impeachment article ‘soon’ with trial in limbo
- Can Joe Biden ensure America’s inevitable decline will be peaceful?
- German scientists help paralysed mice walk again
- EU Parliament condemns China deal over Hong Kong crackdown
- Newborn girl’s heart stopped beating in suspected blunder at Hong Kong Children’s Hospital
- New head of top Hong Kong legal body wants government to amend national security law so countries will reinstate extradition agreements
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- Will Joe Biden meet Xi Jinping? China awaits clues to future of US relations
- At least 32 killed as twin suicide bombings rock Iraqi capital of Baghdad
- Senior lands official takes legal action against boss after waiting eight years for approval to build houses in Hong Kong
- Tencent-backed video sharing app Kuaishou kicks off Hong Kong IPO targeting US$5 billion
- Hong Kong woman facing firearms charge after being arrested carrying stun gun shaped like cigarette lighter
- Do fintech giants Alipay and WeChat Pay have monopoly power? China’s new regulation leaves experts guessing
- China-US relations: angels can triumph over evil and get ties back on track, Beijing says
- Coronavirus: Chinese travellers chafe at tough rural Lunar New Year restrictions
- Biden stirs ‘optimism and hope’ in Asia, with Korean and Singaporean leaders singing his praises
- National security law: Hong Kong district councillors will be required to pledge allegiance to city, top official reveals
- Coronavirus: fire hits world’s biggest vaccine maker in India; Japan’s Tokyo sees more than 30,000 cases in a month
- US Capitol riot: how the internet exposes the weak links in American democracy
- Japan weighs in on South China Sea dispute, adding to pressure on Beijing
- Funding body to issue HK$165 million in grants for Hong Kong universities to develop better online teaching methods
- China’s weak consumer spending requires its leaders to upgrade policy toolkit, Beijing adviser says
- After months of US pandemic turmoil under Trump, Biden unveils ambitious Covid-19 strategy
- Partner in Hong Kong law firm issues legal challenge against regulator’s decision to shut his practice down
- Pet food: Malaysia woman’s koi soup raises eyebrows after she makes meal out of dead fish
- As Biden takes office, US still viewed as ‘grey rhino’ risk for Chinese economy
- Hong Kong police arrest man in connection with 62kg of ketamine discovered in tins of skin cream
- WhatsApp-obsessed Indonesia and India struggle to forsake app amid privacy policy confusion
- Vanishing snow, sinking Tokyo Sky Tree: sobering forecast for Japan if climate change goes unchecked
- Hong Kong police arrest three for stealing credit cards from lockers at Happy Valley sports facility, spending HK$500,000
- China doubles new renewable capacity in 2020 and raises thermal plants base to five-year high
- China’s Xinjiang more than doubled its US exports in 2020, despite Trump’s sanctions and bans
- Scientists test if vaccines can beat Covid-19 mutations
- Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s annual Lunar New Year night parade to be replaced by online shopping platform
- Hong Kong fourth wave: airline sector braces for impact as city mulls 14-day quarantine for aircrew amid coronavirus pandemic
- Japan, South Korea exports boosted by China demand
- Purge on Joe Biden’s first day as president
- Joe Biden seeks to bring normalcy back to White House after tumultuous 4 years
- Nora Quoirin’s family to challenge Malaysian inquest ruling
- One worker confirmed dead in Chinese gold mine blast
- Celebrating America, A-listers bring star power to Joe Biden inauguration
- World powers hopeful for reset with US under Joe Biden
- Coronavirus: is China ready for the mRNA vaccine revolution?
- Nepal to transform Mount Everest trash into art to raise environmental awareness
- Hong Kong fourth wave: city shifts testing of sewage samples to coronavirus-hit Yau Tsim Mong district
- Sriwijaya Air crash: Indonesian investigators look at faulty automatic throttle
- 15 million people given Covid-19 vaccines in China as Spring Festival nears
- Biden recalls telling China’s Xi Jinping the US is about ‘possibilities’ before swearing in appointees
- Departing US FCC chair says Chinese telecoms threats are top national security issue
- Coronavirus: how close is Hong Kong to rolling out its Covid-19 vaccination scheme?
- China-Australia relations: what drove Chinese initial public offerings to stay away from Down Under since 2017?
- Coronavirus: Peru doctors go on hunger strike over pandemic working conditions
- Tokyo Olympics still in boxer Rex Tso’s dreams – ‘I’m not going to quit … I’ll keep going’
- ‘No South Korean culture’: North Korea cracks down on foreign media, speaking styles, porn
- Can TikTok owner ByteDance break the mobile payments duopoly of Alipay, WeChat Pay?
- Coronavirus: Hong Kong set to approve BioNTech jab before end of week as deep-freeze storage facility selected
- Chinese capital Beijing sets sights on building ‘trillion yuan’ hi-tech manufacturing clusters
- Thailand ramps up use of royal insult law, further stoking dissent among activists
- America bids farewell to Trump, but Trumpism lives on
- Indian village cheers for Kamala Harris during swearing-in as US vice-president
- Biden inauguration: new US president pledges to unify a tense, divided nation while fighting a pandemic
- Proud Boys organiser arrested in Florida over siege at Capitol building in Washington, DC
- Critic of Chinese President Xi Jinping, fellow activist set to face stiffer charge, sources say
- Bodybuilder with one leg sets up disability centre to help and inspire China’s 85 million disabled people
- Elton John and Ed Sheeran among musicians slamming UK’s ‘shameful’ failure on EU touring rules
- Coronavirus: European Union moves to bloc-wide recognition of antigen tests
- Beijing sanctions a slew of Donald Trump administration officials
- French Muslim groups deal blow to Emmanuel Macron’s anti-extremism charter
- Dead whale, one of Mediterranean’s largest, found off Italy’s coast
- Poet Amanda Gorman, 22, captures ‘bruised, but whole’ US at inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
- Germany to be first country to end mass culling of male chicks
- China-Australia relations: Beijing raises wool import quota, but move not seen as sign of warming ties
- Inside the ugly transition at the Pentagon
- Chile approves China’s coronavirus vaccine, CoronaVac, with 10 million doses expected
- Roadside bomb kills four Pakistani soldiers and wounds five in Balochistan province
- Newspaper group calls for full trial in case of publishing Meghan Markle’s letter to father
- Covid-19 market bubbles, a creation of the distorted global economy, cannot last
- Coronavirus: UK hospitals left looking like ‘war zones’ after infection surge, says top science adviser
- Donald Trump leaves parting Oval Office letter for Joe Biden
- British government blasts Beijing over threat to stop recognising Hong Kong BN(O) passports
- At least two people dead after explosion brings down building in central Madrid
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- Hong Kong florists have until Friday to decide whether they want to join Lunar New Year flower fairs
- Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration: live updates as new US leader replaces Donald Trump
- How Mike Pompeo’s ‘genocide’ label for China over Xinjiang may set tone for Joe Biden
- China’s central bank defines monopoly for the first time in antitrust curb of world’s largest online payment services market
- Donald Trump leaves White House, snubbing Joe Biden’s inauguration
- Indian state of Gujarat renames dragon fruit to spite China, gets roasted online
- Wuhan mayor to step down, a year after he came under fire over coronavirus response
- China says it wants to get relations with US ‘back on the right track’
- Coronavirus in China: residents of five Beijing neighbourhoods told to stay home
- Coronavirus: China calls for revisions to reports at WHO, defends early response
- Kimchi wars: South Korean academic takes spat with China to new level with tart ad in New York Times
- Joe Biden plans immediate executive actions as Donald Trump era ends
- Chinese firms catch up with US companies in value added to Singapore’s economy, fixed-asset investments hit 10-year high
- Coronavirus: China grapples with ‘mini Wuhan’ as cases rise in the north
- China’s Chang’e 5 orbiter en route to solar observation point
- Row between Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and ex-chief CY Leung deepens as top adviser weighs in on issue of elections
- Suspected ketamine worth about HK$12 million airmailed into Hong Kong as milk powder from the Netherlands
- Hong Kong fourth wave: city’s pro-Beijing politicians to get mainland Covid-19 jab this week, ahead of major political gatherings in the capital
- Pelosi says Trump could be accessory to murder after Capitol riot
- China’s belt and road: what’s holding up the trains from Pakistan to Turkey via Iran?
- US-China relations: prepare for ‘greater uncertainty’ in bilateral ties, observers say
- Coronavirus: Japan official denies pre-Olympics mass jab roll-out schedule; Singapore Airlines trials pre-departure testing service
- China jobs market still seen as weak, unstable even as unemployment rate returns to pre-coronavirus level
- China reckons US democracy is imploding but could be missing the point
- Backlash to Chinese actress Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal: ‘definitely not innocent’, authorities say, while brands distance themselves
- In Vietnam, world’s largest cave still attracting tourists – but only locals
- China revamps trade negotiation team ahead of possible fresh talks with Biden administration
- Brazil may face shortages of China’s Covid-19 vaccine amid strained ties
- Hong Kong authorities seize HK$46 million worth of illicit cigarettes, arrest five in New Territories raid
- China-India border dispute: new village near Tibet sparks talk of eastern front as neighbours face off
- Hong Kong lawmakers call on city’s leader to do more in coronavirus fight and help struggling residents at hearing on policy address
- Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal echoes in US as Jho Low associate is pardoned by Trump
- Coronavirus: WHO says UK strain in over 60 countries as US death toll passes 400,000
- Hong Kong protests: ousted opposition lawmaker found guilty of assaulting police loses appeal against conviction
- China’s iron ore imports from India rose nearly 90 per cent in 2020, with purchases from Australia and Brazil also up
- Police arrest seven Hong Kong bankers in HK$6.3 billion money-laundering bust – the biggest case in nearly a decade
- Indonesia to deport US ‘digital nomad’ who tweeted that Bali is LGBT friendly
- Thailand’s king works to bolster his image as protests set to continue
- China FDI rose to record level in 2020 despite coronavirus, fastest growth rate in five years
- Hong Kong fourth wave: more than 70 new coronavirus cases expected, tougher testing could keep numbers high
- South Korea’s Moon names new foreign minister as he looks to revive stalled peace talks with Pyongyang
- Europeans believe China will overtake US in a decade, despite Biden presidency
- Donald Trump expected to pardon Steve Bannon, reports say
- ‘Mike Pompeo was the best ever’: China’s Wolf Warriors are tweeting again
- Joe Biden to give ‘most important inaugural speech since Lincoln’
- Biden administration to fully review North Korea approach: Blinken
- Hong Kong protests: Queen’s Counsel hired to prosecute Jimmy Lai, eight others steps down amid withering criticism in Britain
- Main events of Joe Biden’s inauguration day
- Alibaba founder Jack Ma delivers video speech to China’s rural teachers in first public appearance in three months
- India to start exporting coronavirus vaccines, as its own inoculation drive fails to meet targets
- Hedge fund Elliott Management to shift operations to London and Tokyo as it closes its Hong Kong office
- Hong Kong’s outgoing Bar Association chair calls for renewing of contacts – ‘even on a modest level’ – amid chilly relationship with Beijing
- China increased US debt holdings for first time in six months in November despite overall decline
- China keeps benchmark loan rate steady for ninth straight month with ‘inaction not surprising’
- Coronavirus: Chinese local authorities step up efforts to convince migrant workers to stay put over Lunar New Year
- Coronavirus: could Singapore’s vaccine drive become a victim of the city’s own success?
- Coronavirus pandemic could be WHO’s ‘Chernobyl moment’ for reform, review panel says
- In farewell video, Donald Trump says he’ll pray for Joe Biden, but won’t say his name
- Can a flashy, action-packed PR video by Hong Kong police win them new supporters?
- China’s Communist Party warns cadres it’s on the corruption warpath
- Blackstone, Carlyle, Bain among suitors fine-tuning bids for Asian distributor of Fancl’s beauty products ahead of Friday deadline
- Joe Biden inauguration: Donald Trump trashes tradition as tense Washington prepares for new president to swear in
- Britain’s Boris Johnson fights off Tory revolt over China genocide ruling
- Italy’s Giuseppe Conte survives crucial confidence vote, keeping fragile government afloat
- Kenya seeks debt relief from China as railway loan deadline looms
- Coronavirus pandemic reveals Japan’s hidden poverty, with women hit especially hard
- Why is Suga so insistent on the Tokyo Olympics? It’s partly the threat of losing face to China
- Antony Blinken, US secretary of state nominee, says Trump’s tough approach to China was right but tactics were wrong
- Hong Kong developers Wharf, CK Asset gear up to launch luxury projects as surging stock market creates vast new wealth
- Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny releases investigation into ‘Putin’s palace’
- Chinese actress Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal rocks social media, prompting fresh debate over China’s ban of the practice
- US coronavirus deaths top 400,000 as Donald Trump leaves office
- Joe Biden taps Asia expert Ely Ratner as top Pentagon adviser on China
- Top Republican Mitch McConnell says Donald Trump ‘provoked’ US Capitol attackers
- Two National Guard members pulled from Joe Biden’s inauguration over right-wing ties
- US declares China has committed ‘genocide’ in treatment of Uygurs in Xinjiang
- US poised to get first openly transgender federal official after Joe Biden taps Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary
- Tencent super app WeChat celebrates a decade of influence in China’s online world, but are its best years behind?