Poor old Kylian Mbappe (well, not so poor, he’s worth some £200 million). Having just been pipped at the post for the Ballon d’Or by our own Harry Kane, he discovered he had been heavily criticised by the Chinese government over comments he had made about…

Ten people, including six members of the same family, were killed in a fire at a beach resort in Bangladesh.

Sanrio, the Japanese company behind the popular character Hello Kitty, apologised on Thursday over its tie-up with a TV spy drama criticised as anti-China, cancelling a merchandise collaboration wi…

Former residents of the fire-hit Wang Fuk Court housing estate have criticised Hong Kong leader John Lee and top officials for their apology, saying the gesture — coming nearly a year after a blaze…

Evidence presented to an independent committee investigating last year’s deadly Wang Fuk Court fire has shown insufficient proof that a local politician was involved in bid-rigging at the Tai…

Incident took place at festival in Kolkata, in India's West Bengal state, amid large crowds and rainfall, police say.

Hong Kong’s development chief has likened herself to a sailor who must put her captain’s orders over her “personal wishes,” when asked by a reporter about calls for her to r…

Around 300 civil servants at a government inspection unit will be transferred to a new regulatory body set up to replace the unit, authorities have said, after an independent investigation blamed i…

A wall of the temple collapsed under the impact of the collision, they said, adding that two to four of the injured people were in a critical condition

Two Chinese men who admitted trying to recruit US military service members to spy for Beijing were imprisoned in California on Friday. Chen with his wife, “Associate #1”, and Navy Emplo…

Beijing dismissed as “groundless speculation” on Friday a report that said Jensen Huang, head of US chip giant Nvidia, was the target of a Chinese spy plot. Nvidia founder and CEO Jense…

Chinese state television did not air on Saturday the first La Liga games since Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappe caused anger with a joke about the country’s former leader Mao Zedong. Kylian Mba…

A trend among China’s youth of fleeing the rat race and doing the bare minimum has prompted concern in Beijing. But most young Chinese do want to work.

Government data shows that more than 10,000 people have contracted the rare virus.

Government ministers, academics, and business leaders gathered at a Hong Kong auditorium for a two-day summit last week to discuss an ambitious project: building three universities towns in a spraw…

From an anthropological point of view, the government reaction to the Wang Fuk Court fire inquiry report makes for interesting reading. It criticised four arms of the government, after 168 people w…

The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) has scrapped a controversial lighting project on The Peak following complaints from residents and trail users that it would ruin the natural environment. Light in…

Hong Kong has sweltered through its hottest October since records began nearly a century and a half ago, figures from the Hong Kong Observatory have revealed File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The mean dai…

A task force on last year’s deadly Tai Po fire under the professional body for Hong Kong barristers has backed a move to criminalise bid-rigging and proposed 50 legal reforms, including a strengthe…