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Event founded in 2009 is world’s biggest online shopping festAlibaba plans to sell $15bn of shares in Hong Kong this monthThe Chinese retailer Alibaba Group said on Monday that sales for its annual Singles’ Day shopping blitz have crossed the $30bn mar…
Public outcry after TV show exposes businesses imposing ban on female staffJapanese women on social media are demanding the right to wear glasses to work, after reports that employers were imposing bans.In the latest protest against rigid rules over wo…
Beijing voices anger over ‘gross interference’ after 23 countries criticise arbitrary detentions in XinjiangChina’s UN envoy has sounded a warning note over trade talks with Washington after the US joined 22 other countries at the UN in criticising Bei…
Financial secretary calls fall in tourism an ‘emergency’ and says it will be extremely difficult for city to achieve any annual growthHong Kong’s financial secretary has said the region is in recession after more than five months of anti-government pro…
Pyongyang’s top nuclear negotiator says there are no ‘permanent friends’ and US should heed calls for a new approachNorth Korea has warned that there has been no progress in relations with the US, and that hostilities that could lead to an exchange of …
Mudslides hit waterlogged areas in Chiba and Fukushima prefectures recovering from Typhoon HagibisThe death toll from torrential rains that caused flooding and mudslides in eastern Japan rose to 10, with a further four missing, public broadcaster NHK r…
Move comes seven months after 51 people were killed at two mosques in the country’s worst peacetime shootingNew Zealand officials have said armed police will patrol parts of the country in a trial project following heightened security concerns after th…
President sends warning to ‘external forces’ as country faces criticism over Hong Kong and repression in Xinjiang Chinese president Xi Jinping has warned that any attempt to divide China will be crushed, as Beijing faces political challenges in months-…
Warning follows another night of violent skirmishes between police and protesters in cityViolent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have escalated to a “life-threatening level”, police have said, after a small bomb exploded and a police officer was st…
Vessel was not permitted to carry people on open ocean and soon broke apart in heavy seas, official report saysAn overloaded ferry that sank near the Pacific island archipelago of Kiribati last year, killing 95 people, was not allowed to carry passenge…
Xinjiang Police College and video surveillance company Hikvision among those blacklisted for implications in human rights violationsThe US Commerce Department said on Monday it was putting 28 Chinese public security bureaus and companies – including vi…
Washington says resumed negotiations in Sweden were ‘good’ and 70 years of hostility ‘could not be overcome in a day’North Korea’s lead negotiator has said that working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington have …
Two 13-year-olds arrested after authorities condemn ‘radicals’ and vow to restore order across cityHong Kong riot police have fired teargas, sponge rounds and arrested a number of protesters, including two 13-year-olds, as peaceful demonstrations in se…
Letter from North Korean leader comes as talks between the men have stalledNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un invited US president Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday, citing diplomatic s…
Second attack near diplomatic area underlines warnings US-Taliban deal is moving too quicklyA Taliban suicide car bombing in Kabul has killed a US service member, a Romanian soldier and at least 10 Afghan civilians in a busy diplomatic area that includ…