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Storm hit overnight as business, transport and schools suspended in Hong Kong and GuangdongTyphoon Saola has made landfall in southern China after nearly 900,000 people were moved to safety and most of Hong Kong and other parts of coastal southern Chi…
Fears that China’s crackdown on dissidents is expanding into cultural sphere after linguistic group closes over a fictional essay about erosion of libertiesA Cantonese language group has shut down after Hong Kong national security police raided the fou…
‘Duty to consult’ commitment means three countries will contact each other in event of security crisis or threat in the PacificThe United States, Japan and South Korea have agreed to a new security pledge committing the three countries to consult with …
Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee, Margaret Ng and four others had their convictions for organising an unauthorised assembly overturned Seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy advocates have had part of their convictions quashed by Hong Kong’s court of a…
Government deploys 1,000 buses to move young people but insists programmes will continue elsewhereTens of thousands of scouts began arriving at university dormitories, training centres and hotels around Seoul and other inland cities on Tuesday afternoo…
‘Chasing Dreams’, an eight-part series aired on state TV, features testimony from dozens of soldiersChina-Taiwan relations in 30 secondsChina has released a new documentary about the army’s preparations to attack Taiwan, showcasing soldiers pledging to…
Thirty people reported dead and more than 90 injured after Rawalpindi-bound express overturnsA train has derailed in southern Pakistan, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90.Ten carriages of a Rawalpindi-bound train derailed and some overturned, …
Court suspends Move Forward’s Pita Limjaroenrat from parliament as rivals vote against him taking officeThe leader of Thailand’s pro-reform party has had his final attempt to become prime minister blocked by military royalist opponents, as a court susp…
Chandrayaan-3 launches from island in southern India in follow-up to failed effort four years agoAn Indian spacecraft has blazed its way towards the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover …
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of Kim Jong-un, has claimed North Korean planes repelled a US spy planeThe powerful sister of the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, has claimed that Pyongyang’s warplanes repelled a US spy plane flying over nearby waters on Monda…
Arrests comes days after Hong Kong issued warrants for eight overseas-based dissidentsHong Kong police have arrested a fifth person accused of supporting overseas activists who allegedly endangered national security, in a further expansion of a governm…
Airport expresses ‘deepest condolences’ after 57-year-old gets caught and has left leg removed from above the kneeA woman’s leg has been amputated in a Thai airport after it became trapped by a movable walkway on Thursday, officials said.The 57-year-ol…
Kim Jong-un attended the conference to review defence strategies and the country’s struggling economyNorth Korea opened a key political conference with leader Kim Jong-un in attendance to discuss improving its struggling economy and reviewing defence s…
Over 13,000 people already evacuated but many more may have to leave if eruption turns violent The Philippines’ most active volcano was spewing lava down its slopes on Monday, prompting officials to warn tens of thousands of villagers to be prepared to…
Liu Fang tells how her family lived privately in the US for eight years, until two men turned up at their door in first US trial arising from China’s ‘Operation Fox Hunt’The wife of a Chinese former official has described in court the moment their life…