By Robin Millard Asia was the world’s most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, with floods and storms the chief cause of casualties an...
By Martina Igini FKJ is to release two new albums – including a live record featuring a track recorded at Hong Kong’s Clockenflap festival last March – the French multi-instrumentalist has ...
Hong Kong’s new homegrown national security law will “unduly limit” human rights and freedom in the city, six UN experts have said as they urged authorities to review and reconsider the leg...
The Argentina Football Association (AFA) said Thursday the national team will play two friendlies in the United States in March after China cancelled matches in a spat over a Lionel Messi no-show...
Gaza is unlike other war zones across the world and the wounded from the ongoing Israel-Hamas war – now approaching its fifth month – are mostly civilian women and children, a Hong Kong docto...
Around 3.5 million British citizens living overseas have been given lifelong voting rights in UK’s parliamentary elections. “As of Tuesday 16th January 2024, the arbitrary 15-year limit on vo...
In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan — and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest — is being revived. But as the...
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The US has imposed fresh sanctions on nine companies and five individuals over allegedly assisting Russia in procuring electronic devices for weapons programmes, including one Hong Kong-based com...
Washington, United States Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the ...
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Seawater samples taken following the release of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor showed radioactivity levels well within safe limits, operator TEPCO said on Friday. The star...
By Natsuko Fukue Japan will release water from the stricken Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean from Thursday, 12 years after one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. China, which h...
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Singapore authorities have seized assets worth nearly US$750 million in sweeping raids against a suspected international money laundering ring, police said Wednesday. During the operation, which ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin visited Australia Friday on the final leg of a Pacific tour designed to reinforce Washington’s standing in the region. The U...
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Olivia Chow won election Monday to become the first Chinese-Canadian mayor of Toronto, vowing to pursue a more progressive approach in Canada’s largest city after ending more than a decade of c...
Vigils to remember those who died during the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown have been held in cities across the world, as the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese diaspora marked the 34th anniversary of the ...
Thailand’s Move Forward Party was never supposed to win. But on Sunday night the upstart opposition rode a dramatic wave of support to take the lead position in national polls and upend decades...
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Charles III on Saturday finally met his date with destiny after a lifetime as heir to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II, as he was officially crowned king in the first coronation in Britain sinc...
Australia said Tuesday it will ban TikTok on government devices, joining a growing list of Western nations cracking down on the Chinese-owned app due to national security fears. Attorney-General ...
Comedic adventure flick Everything Everywhere All at Once has won seven Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards in the US, including Best Picture. Michelle Yeoh won Best Lead Actress – the first Asia...
The White House on Tuesday welcomed a bill that would allow the United States to ban Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement. The bi...
By Moisés Ávila With his hat, big belt buckle and cowboy boots, Ly looks the part of a Texan and even speaks with a twang. He’s served in the US Navy but on Saturday, he was doing battle on a...
A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object drifting high over Alaska on Friday, the White House said, just six days after the downing of an alleged Chinese spy balloon sparked a fresh dipl...
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by W.G. Dunlop/Allison Jackson The United States and the Philippines announced a deal Thursday to give US troops access to another four bases in the Southeast Asian nation, as the longtime alli...
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By Mikhail Flores Philippine Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa was on Wednesday acquitted of tax evasion, among a slew of charges she has long maintained are politically motivated, calling the verdi...
https://hongkongfp.com/2023/01/18/philippine-nobel-laureate-maria-ressa-acquitted-of-tax-evasion/
Danish politicians have donned necklaces featuring 6,500 miniature skulls to raise awareness of Qatar’s migrant worker death toll in the decade-long lead-up to the World Cup. Government data an...
By Kelly Macnamara, Marlowe Hood and Laurent Thomet A fraught UN summit wrapped up Sunday with a landmark deal on funding to help vulnerable countries cope with devastating climate impacts — bu...
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By Laurent Thomet and Kelly Macnamara The UN’s chief warned Monday that nations must cooperate or face “collective suicide” in the fight against climate change, at a summit where developing...
By Peter Wuetherich German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told President Xi Jinping on Friday he wished to deepen economic cooperation, on a trip to Beijing that has prompted criticism over Berlin’s he...
China said Wednesday it has lodged a formal complaint with Britain over an altercation between its diplomats and a Hong Kong protester on the grounds of its Manchester consulate. British police h...
China on Tuesday accused demonstrators of “illegally entering” Beijing’s consulate in the British city of Manchester, after footage of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester being assaulted on...