A Chinese man who set his ex-wife on fire as she livestreamed to her online followers was sentenced to death on Thursday, concluding a murder case that received nationwide notoriety, CNN reported on Friday quoting Chinese media.
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Nine people have been killed in the Philippines and 11 were missing on Tuesday due to floods and landslides caused by heavy rain from tropical cyclone Kompasu, the national disaster agency said.
Kompasu, with maximum sustained winds of 100 (...)
Two American siblings banned from leaving China for the last three years have been allowed to go home, BBC reported on Tuesday.
Cynthia and Victor Liu, along with their mother, were accused of "economic crimes" while on a visit to China.
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Comic and animation fans in China were in for a nasty shock this weekend as authorities turned their crackdown on the entertainment industry to yet another target, CNN reports.
The National Radio and Television Administration, the country's (...)
SPARK and Hutchison Ports are pleased to announce the signing of a shareholders' agreement for the formation of a joint venture to manage and operate the dry port and bonded logistics zone in the SPARK energy industrial city.
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China's spiraling Delta variant outbreak has reached Wuhan, the original epicenter of the pandemic, prompting citywide coronavirus testing as authorities scramble to contain the city's first reported local infections in more than a year.
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India is sending a task force of four warships into the South China Sea on a two-month deployment that will include exercises with Quad partners the United States, Japan and Australia, India's Defense Ministry announced on Monday.
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A pro-democracy protester in Hong Kong has been sentenced to nine years in prison, after being the first person to be convicted under new national security law.
The law and the crackdown against pro-democracy activists are both seen as part of the (...)
The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in (...)
Apple Daily, Hong Kong's sole remaining pro-democracy newspaper, said on Wednesday that it was closing after five editors and executives were arrested and its assets were frozen.
The paper will publish its last edition on Thursday due to "the (...)
The first person to stand trial under Hong Kong's national security law pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the allegation he was inciting secession by driving a motorcycle into police officers while carrying a protest flag.
Tong Ying-kit was arrested (...)
China successfully launched its first crewed space mission in five years on Thursday, sending three military pilots rocketing to a new orbiting station.
The astronauts are due to stay for three months in the station's main living module, named (...)
Satya Nadella is now even more powerful at Microsoft.
The tech giant's CEO was named chairman of the board Wednesday, elevating his current role atop one of the world's most valuable companies.
Nadella, who has served as chief executive since 2014, (...)
China unveiled new photos of its Mars rover exploring the surface of the red planet on Friday, with state media hailing it as a sign of the mission's "complete success."
The Zhurong rover, named after a god of fire in Chinese mythology, landed on (...)
Chinese researchers said on Thursday they had found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats including one that may be the second-closest yet, genetically, to the COVID-19 virus.
According to the researchers, their discoveries in a single, small region (...)
The Chinese government will allow couples to have three children, according to state-run news agency Xinhua, the latest easing of strict family planning policies as the country tries to avert a demographic crisis.
The Chinese Communist Party's top (...)
Back-to-back tornadoes have killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured, authorities said on Saturday.
Eight people died in the inland city of Wuhan on Friday night and four others in the town of Shengze, (...)
China's population grew at its slowest rate in decades in the 10 years prior to 2020, according to census data released on Tuesday — a trend that could pose serious issues for the world's second-largest economy.
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China condemned on Thursday a joint statement by Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations that expressed support for Chinese-claimed Taiwan and cast Beijing as a bully, saying it was gross interference in China's internal affairs.
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A Hong Kong court has sentenced Joshua Wong and three other activists to between four and 10 months in prison for participating in an unauthorized rally last year to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
This is the first time prominent (...)
The largest naval flotilla assembled by Britain in recent years will set sail in May on a months' long voyage through the Pacific, the country's Defense Ministry said on Monday.
"When our Carrier Strike Group (CSG) sets sail next month, it will be (...)
The Australian government has canceled a Belt and Road agreement signed by China and the state government of Victoria, escalating trade and diplomatic tensions between Beijing and Canberra.
Victoria — the country's second-largest and wealthiest (...)
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for global cooperation in the face of a growing anti-China front led by the United States, warning that an "open world economy" is essential to recovering from the pandemic.
"Attempts to erect walls or (...)
Hong Kong has decided to ban flights from India, Pakistan, and the Philippines for 14 days beginning on Tuesday (April 20) after a rise in COVID-19 cases in those countries.
"India, Pakistan, and the Philippines all had a seven-day cumulative number (...)
Military activity in the South China Sea spiked over the weekend as a Chinese aircraft carrier entered the region and a US Navy expeditionary strike group wrapped up exercises.
Meanwhile, the US and Philippines were preparing for joint drills as the (...)
