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By Kelly MACNAMARA Climate change is on track to ramp up the annual cost of US flood damage more than 25 percent by 2050, according to new research Monday that warns disadvantaged communities will likely bear the brunt of the financial burden.The study published in the journal Nature Climate Change used new flood models to map […]

India expects to lead the world in economic growth this year in a post-pandemic bounceback, government forecasts showed Monday, but with expansion slowing despite widespread vaccine coverage and recovering exports. Covid pummelled Asia’s third-largest economy, which suffered its worst recession since independence in 1947 after a drastic lockdown brought factories and consumer spending to a […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday apologised in parliament for a series of lockdown-breaching parties identified in an official inquiry, but vowed to fight on in office. Fending off new opposition calls to resign following senior civil servant Sue Gray’s report, he vowed administrative changes to his Downing Street operation. “I’m sorry for the […]

Trade relations between Washington and Beijing are at a “difficult” stage but President Biden’s administration is committed to protecting the US economy from negative impacts of China’s policies, the top American trade official said Monday. United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai said her team will “engage robustly” with China in ongoing talks over Beijing’s commitments […]

    Singapore — The messy divorce saga of Taiwanese-American Mandopop star Wang Leehom and former wife Lee Jinglei dragged others into the fray last month, and it seems that the fights aren’t over quite yet, despite Ms Lee publicly stating that she wanted to end the drama. Singaporean Yumi Bai, who forms the singing […]

Myanmar’s junta has charged Aung San Suu Kyi with influencing election officials during 2020 polls, a source said on Monday, a year after it staged a coup alleging massive voter fraud. Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the February 1 coup last year that triggered mass protests and a bloody crackdown on dissent with […]

Hong Kong’s courts jailed two people for publishing seditious content on Monday, the first time the colonial-era law has been used to secure a conviction for printed content since the city’s 1997 handover to China. Sedition is a throwback to Hong Kong’s British colonial past but has been dusted off as authorities carry out a […]

A US rights monitor raised the alarm Monday over athletes’ safety at China’s upcoming Winter Olympics, after the host authorities threatened “punishment” for anti-Beijing comments. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China — a group of Washington lawmakers and White House officials — asked US Olympics authorities for an “urgent effort” to protect their sports stars’ free […]

A Hong Kong cabinet minister resigned on Monday for attending a birthday party alongside dozens of officials and lawmakers just days after the city’s government had called on people to avoid large gatherings to fight a coronavirus outbreak. “I have today tendered my resignation to the Chief Executive and intend to leave the post today,” […]

Taiwan will not send an official delegation to the opening or closing of the Beijing Winter Olympics due to China’s strict pandemic controls and flight disruptions, the self-ruled island’s governing body for sport said. The decision comes at a time when relations between Beijing and Taipei are at their lowest in decades with China ramping […]

By Dan Martin China warns almost daily against “politicising” this week’s Beijing Olympics, but for its rulers, hosting the Games has always been about far more than sport and the medal count.Even under the shadow of a pandemic, Western accusations of genocide against Muslim minorities and diplomatic boycotts, staging the Olympics is about global prestige […]

The United States is paying athletes to “create disturbances” during the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese state media reported Saturday. The accusations come just a week before the start of the most politicised Games in recent memory and immediately drew a denial from the US embassy in China. China Daily newspaper, citing “sources familiar with the […]

Activists handed out 1,000 “Where is Peng Shuai?” T-shirts to spectators ahead of the Australian Open women’s final Saturday to highlight concern for the Chinese tennis star. More than a week after security staff ordered activists inside the precinct to remove the shirts, the protesters returned with a thousand more to give to those arriving […]

Hong Kong’s oldest university covered up one of the last public tributes to the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on Saturday, as Beijing continues to muzzle dissent in the financial hub. Hong Kong was the only place in China where mass remembrance of Tiananmen was tolerated, but authorities have driven such activities underground after imposing […]

Hong Kong actor Lin Gengxin has been in the limelight for his weight gain of late with fans criticizing him saying that he had become an oily middle-aged man. The star who is currently filming a historical drama titled The Legend of Shenli with Zanilia Zhao Liying took the criticism positively and it motivated him […]