Hong Kong customs officers posing as karaoke parlour clients have raided 30 party rooms suspected of using pirated copies of music videos, with 12 people arrested and HK$700,000 worth of…
Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine appear to have given 70 per cent protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact…
In our imaginations, the collapse of human civilisation is typically attributed to invading forces, economic collapse or governmental rot; but a team of scientists recently suggested that we are missing…
Singaporean academic Dickson Yeo, who has been detained under the Internal Security Act since last year for acting as a paid agent of a foreign state, was released on Tuesday.The…
Hong Kong’s leader has defended her government’s approach of leaving schools to exercise professional judgment when teaching dark chapters of history, after some pupils were left distraught by graphic footage…
Singapore on Tuesday said it would tighten its rules governing unvaccinated residents, with officials describing the measure as a pre-emptive step to guard against a “potentially big” wave of infections.As…
The Chinese government has offered its condolences and humanitarian aid to the United States, after a wave of deadly tornadoes hit the country’s South and Midwest over the weekend.No details…
Austria’s leader said no high-ranking politicians from his country will attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, but he insisted that the decision is entirely because of coronavirus restrictions in China and…
Oppo, one of the largest smartphone brands in China, has unveiled its first in-house image processor, which is dedicated to enhancing imaging performance on handsets, joining rivals like Huawei Technologies…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew his candidacy for a senate seat, the election commission’s spokesperson said.Duterte’s six-year term will end in June, 2022, and he is banned by…