China Shipbuilding & Offshore International was meant to secure German engines in the US$379m deal, but this fell through and they offered an alternative.
Indian army officer confirms joint drill will take place in October, with the announcement coming just days after Chinese media report PLA’s Tibet Military District had conducted live-fire air defence drill.
General Ferdy Sambo is named as suspect in killing of his aide and attempting a cover up with a fake shoot-out involving another officer. President Widodo orders a ‘quick, transparent, accountable’ investigation.
Joint venture Unity China, which is valued at US$1 billion, will initially build customised local versions of the US software firm’s core products for domestic video game developers.
The redevelopment of Hutchison House will add 550,000 square feet of prime office space – about the size of 10 football fields – in Hong Kong’s main business zone of Central.
Raymond Briggs drew Father Christmas as an irascible old man who hates the snow, and even his joyous creation The Snowman has a melancholy ending. But the illustrator’s grumpiness ‘concealed a great heart’.
Japan on Wednesday reported a record high 250,403 new daily coronavirus cases. Twenty prefectures also reported nigh numbers. The Tokyo metropolitan government on Wednesday reported 34,243 new coronavirus…
Makayla Cox, a high school student in the U.S. state of Virginia, thought she was taking medication that her friend had procured to treat pain and anxiety. Instead,…
Authorities said the 800-kilogram cetacean, which was lifted from the river by a net and crane, had to be euthanised during transfer to a saltwater pen.
Governments in the YRD have promised to give market forces free rein in building infrastructure and creating unified public services as mainland China’s most affluent region seeks to develop in synergy under Beijing’s blueprint.
Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has launched a fresh round of legal action in a bid to block police from inspection of his mobile phones on national security grounds.
A Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan executive accused Kishida of trying to divert the public's attention from questionable ties between some LDP lawmakers and the ...
PM Fumio Kishida has culled several high-profile cabinet members with ties to the Unification Church, including Nobuo Kishi, brother of the late Shinzo Abe.
Although environmental risks are a major cause of childhood illness and death in Asia, many governments lack ready access to comparable data. Developing children’s environmental health indicators is one way to assess existing conditions...
Seventeen new deaths linked to the virus were reported in the capital, while the number of severely ill patients remained unchanged from Tuesday at 40.
A former Indian diplomat said New Delhi recognised the need to curb Beijing’s ‘ambitions’ after 75 years of relentless competition with Pakistan over Kashmir – and decades of believing China did not represent a military threat.
The descendants of Japanese soldiers and civilians on the island province of Palawan in the western Philippines are launching a local branch of an organisation to help press their efforts to acquire Japanese citizenship.
Beijing’s probe into corruption in the semiconductor industry widened on Tuesday, with three more executives from the state-backed chip industry investment fund under investigation.
The nuclear plant, which is under Russian control, has been shelled several times in recent days, sparking international concern about the safety of the facilities. Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the attacks.
Powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea and sent towering clouds of smoke over the landscape Tuesday in what may mark an escalation of the war…
Despite some contact between ministers, ‘we have not yet come to the stage to discuss about how to solve … political issues, trade issues’, Chinese ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian said on Wednesday.
China on Wednesday reaffirmed its threat to use military force to bring self-governing Taiwan under its control, amid threatening Chinese military exercises that have raised tensions between the…
Japan's population declined to 125.93 million as of Jan 1, down by 726,342 in its biggest drop since comparable data became available in 2013, as deaths again outnumbered…
The UK Health Security Agency extended its level three heat health alert covering southern and central England from noon on Tuesday until 11pm on Sunday.
For much of the year, small cracks in Donald Trump's political support have been growing. Dissatisfied Republican primary voters began to consider new presidential prospects. GOP donors grappled…
At least nine people were killed and six went missing after two days of record downpours in the Seoul metropolitan region, and southern parts of the capital suffered billions of won in flood damage as homes and cars were submerged. The...
In a sign of solidarity between global pariahs, North Korea is discussing the dispatch of laborers to the Donetsk People's Republic, founded by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, to rebuild infrastructure there.Denis Pushilin,...