When looking solely at natural disasters and the impact of earthquakes and typhoons on economies, populations and infrastructure, Tokyo and Osaka were listed as high-risk.
With COVID-19 having dashed many students' hopes of experiencing other cultures, attending universities virtually has allowed them to continue with their studies.
Taiwan is expected to roll out locally developed Covid-19 vaccines by the end of July, an announcement made as the island grapples with an outbreak of cases.President Tsai Ing-wen told reporters on Thursday night that phase 2 clinical...
China plans to have a fully operational facility capable of extracting uranium from the ocean in about a decade’s time, according to the country’s nuclear authorities.Construction work could start as early as 2026, and once completed the...
An internet radio personality facing sedition and money-laundering charges failed to secure bail after a judge found he posed an “extremely high” risk of absconding given his connections in Taiwan, Hong Kong’s judiciary has revealed.In a...
Chinese inflation is likely to rise moderately in the immediate future, but avoid an unexpected spike like that seen last month in the United States, analysts said.Still, a sharp rise in raw material prices recently will put pressure on...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was “anxious” about a rise in the UK of the coronavirus variant first identified in India, after a closely-monitored study of infections in England found the strain is becoming...
China’s foreign ministry has rejected the focus of a recent survey that found an increasing number of members of an influential American business group were considering leaving Hong Kong, saying it was a positive sign that more than half...
Hong Kong police must be more transparent in investigating their No 2 national security officer after he was caught at an unlicensed massage parlour during a raid, legal experts have said, stressing the public deserved to know whether...
Three-quarters of Hong Kong’s more than 1,000 kindergartens plan to freeze tuition fees next year despite the Covid-19 crisis driving up pupil withdrawals, while about 250 have applied to the government to raise the charges.“Under the...
Despite diplomatic efforts to ease the crisis, which U.S. President Joe Biden said he hoped would end "sooner than later," hundreds of rockets flew across ...
Mixing doses of different Covid-19 vaccines could help tackle supply shortages, but more trials are needed to find the best combinations and dose intervals, experts say.The latest study, led by the University of Oxford, suggested that a...
To analysts on South Asia, China’s warning to Bangladesh earlier this week against joining the four-member Quad alliance was surprising because Dhaka could hardly be considered a consequential player in Indo-Pacific security.Kanwal...
A Hong Kong caterer who supplied a government quarantine facility could face prosecution after health authorities confirmed a sample of one of their meals was tainted with bacteria following multiple complaints of food poisoning from...
China has described the military exercises in southern Japan involving troops and hardware from France, Japan, the United States and Australia as a waste of fuel, but observers say they may signal a tightening of the US alliance in the...
Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano will be the next tourists to travel to the International Space Station (ISS), Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday.Maezawa and Hirano will travel...
An official with China’s top economic planning agency has told American company executives that they are “a quintessential part” of the country’s development, amid escalating tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Gao Jian,...
A Hong Kong university has said it will refuse to provide accommodation to unvaccinated students who do not undergo regular Covid-19 screening.Chinese University said on Thursday that dormitory residents who had not been inoculated must...
Hong Kong’s international schools can apply for permission to resume full-time, on-campus learning this month, drawing complaints from their local counterparts which will only be allowed to operate on a half-day basis.The Education...
Japanese communities planning to welcome athletes from around the world – including Hong Kong – before the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics remain unsure whether the “host town” programme will proceed due to disruption caused by the...
Covid-19 vaccine developers are making ever bolder assertions that the world will need yearly booster shots, or new vaccines to tackle concerning coronavirus variants, but some scientists question when, or whether, such shots will be...
Municipalities accepting reservations on a first-come, first-served basis have seen booking hotlines overwhelmed and booking websites taken down as applications poured in.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order intended to strengthen cybersecurity by improving information sharing about attacks with the private sector and ...
The all-English Champions League final will be held in Porto with 12,000 fans from Chelsea and Manchester City, UEFA confirmed today (Thursday). The May 29 showpiece was moved from Istanbul to the 50,000-capacity Estádio do Dragão due to...
While the UAE and Bahrain are unlikely to tear up their normalization deals, experts say the recent violence will complicate efforts to translate them into ...
China’s state media has released more details of the suspected suicide of a 17-year-old student at his school in southwest China’s Chengdu city, following calls for greater transparency of the police investigation of his death on...
More than 80 per cent of residents are willing to return plastic bottles for recycling if they receive HK$1 (12 US cents) for each container but only about 20 per cent will make the effort for the 10 cents the Hong Kong government...
Nearly two-thirds of Hong Kong’s 80,000 lifts and escalators do not meet the latest safety guidelines, according to the ombudsman, who has accused government engineers of lax supervision and urged them to increase the frequency of random...
This is the fifth in a series of stories about China’s once-a-decade census conducted in 2020. The world’s most populous nation released its national demographic data on Tuesday, and the figures will have far-reaching social policy and...
Singapore confirmed 24 locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the largest daily jump since July last year, with infections linked to a cluster at Changi Airport ballooning to 42.Six of the 24 cases could not be traced as of...
Tech powerhouse Taiwan resumed power early in the evening on Thursday following several hours of phased blackouts island-wide, a problem that briefly impacted major semiconductor firm TSMC.Around 4 million homes were affected on the...
A former assistant to the chairwoman of Hong Kong’s largest pro-establishment party has been found guilty of bribing people to vote for its candidate in a Legislative Council by-election three years ago.A West Kowloon Court magistrate...
The Tokyo metropolitan government on Thursday reported 1,010 new coronavirus cases, up 41 from Wednesday. The average for Tokyo over the past seven days stands at 934. People…