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A 58-year-old female patient with heart failure was given a heart from a person with an incompatible blood type during a transplant operation at Queen Mary Hospital, its officials said o...

ROME (AP) — Judge in Italy orders trial for captain over shipwreck of Costa Concordia, which killed 32.

EU leaders tackle tax fraud said to cost a trillion euros a year at a summit on Wednesday in the hope that tightening up the rules will help restore faith in European integration and rai...

Syria’s main opposition group is urging rebels to come from around the country to reinforce Qusair, a western town under attack by Syrian troops and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group....

Members of the Hong Kong government’s Pay Trend Survey Committee met on Wednesday afternoon to discuss whether or not to recognise a survey released last week that recommends civil serva...

AirAsia, Asia's largest low-cost carrier by fleet size, said first quarter net profit fell 39 percent year-on-year due to a foreign exchange loss on...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped Forbes list of the world's most powerful women for the third consecutive year, followed by Brazil's Dilma Rou...

A new French online game is allowing players to step into the shoes of an ArcelorMittal worker by fighting police and a robot version of Indian stee...

The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will go on trial from July 9 for manslaughter over the January 2012 disaster in which 32 people lost ...

An Indian activist group says the government has frozen its bank account as part of a broader crackdown on rights groups that receive foreign funding ...

The Financial Services & the Treasury Bureau and the Monetary Authority are seeking views on a proposal to enhance the regulatory regime for stored value facilities and retail payment sy...

The Overall Comprehensive Social Security Assistance caseload stood at 267,206 in April, with a total of 412,889 recipients, the Social Welfare Department announced today.   Compared to ...

Chief Executive CY Leung today expressed his sadness at the passing of former Chief Justice Sir Denys Roberts.   Sir Denys was appointed Attorney General in 1966 and Colonial Secretary (...

The Home Affairs Bureau has advised all private recreational leaseholders that the Government will conduct a comprehensive review of the private recreational leases policy, and that less...

The first phase of the proposed Central Oasis project to revitalise the former Central Market is expected to be completed by 2017-18, while the whole project will be completed by 2019-20...

Premier Li Keqiang has vowed to strengthen his country's partnership with Pakistan as he began an official visit less than a fortnight after the country's general election. The long-time ...

Indian police have been accused of trying to tarnish the reputation of an Indian cricketer who's alleged to have accepted money for spot-fixing. The accusation was made by lawyer Rebecca ...

The Health Secretary, Ko Wing-man, says he expects the Hospital Authority to conduct a detailed investigation into a bungled heart-transplant operation at Queen Mary Hospital yesterday, w...

Local stocks have slipped further from a three-and-a-half month high despite a strong lead from Wall Street. Trading in the local market was cancelled in the morning because of a severe r...

Six people in Chongqing have been charged with extortion for having blackmailed government officials. Investigators say the group "lured" officials into having sex with women and secretly...

Space-starved Hong Kong has long been plagued by high rents and steep hotel rates, vexing university students and tourists alike. But help may be at hand, thanks to one Hong Kong firm: t...

Earlier this month, security staff at Dolce & Gabbana's Hong Kong boutique reportedly barred Hong Kong natives from taking photos of the store — while not enforcing similar rules on tour...

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has published a list of frequently asked questions on its website to help investors understand the key features and risks specific to ...

Hong Kong is now the top tourist destination worldwide trumping London, which held the leading seat in previous rankings, according to Euromonitor International's latest Top 100 City Des...

Hong Kong will help London develop as the next offshore yuan trading centre, shrugging off traditional competition between the two cities as part of a broader plan to boost international...

Last week's column about the long-lasting image of the racist excesses of the fictional character Dr Fu Manchu - now reincarnated in the guise of The Mandarin in the warped Hollywood bloc...

The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese Manufacturers' Association, in separate public announcements on Monday through local newspapers, slammed the "Occupy Central" campa...

Richard Hughes's Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time: Hong Kong and Its Many Faces must be one of the most mentioned books among the city's intelligentsia.

The court convictions against radical legislators Raymond Wong Yuk-man and Albert Chan Wai-yip for unlawful assembly have not only reaffirmed one of Hong Kong's core values - rule of law ...

The "Occupy Central" campaign the opposition camp try to incite does nothing to advance the implementation of universal suffrage because it is not on the legal track of Hong Kong's consti...

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David Sheff speaks with Ai Weiwei in a wide-ranging interview for Playboy Magazine, in which the dissident artist discusses imprisonment, free speech and the internet, as well as his time...

The White House announced Monday that U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet in California next month for the first time since Xi’s promotion as Chin...

The recent death of a graduate student at China’s prestigious Fudan University, allegedly poisoned by a jealous roommate, evoked memories of the 1995 Zhu Ling case, reignited online...

In 2011, Guo Meimei scandalized the name of the Red Cross Society of China at a time when many were already suspicious about the humanitarian NGO’s management of funds. After the de...

With its inaugural fair in Asia, the Art Basel Group has not strayed from its original goal of staging an event with an Asian focus.

The Hong Kong securities regulator announced on Tuesday that it had discovered possible financial irregularities at the just-shuttered Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange and said it referred t...

The first Art Basel fair to be hosted by Hong Kong boasts a prestigious array of international art, highlighting the city's new role as a global arts hub amid an explosion of personal wea...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong stocks overcame tentative early trade to edge higher Wednesday, with property developers and Chinese banks rising in the wake of strong global and reg...

The Hong Kong securities regulator announced on Tuesday that it had discovered possible financial irregularities at the just-shuttered Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange and said it referred t...

Iran's roster of would-be presidents has been whittled down to eight from nearly 700, courtesy vetting by the Guardian Council. Two potential big draws are ruled out - former president Al...

Myanmar President Thein Sein's welcome in the White House this week is due in large part to his government pushing through important reforms and the growth of civil society. Yet he will n...

China is losing patience with North Korean leader Kim Jong-eun, slowly but surely moving into the US orbit to deal with his threats and blackmail. As Beijing will sooner than later reach ...

Sanctions Taiwan has imposed following the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard, including a hiring freeze on Filipino workers and banning tourism to the ...

Harrowing survivors' tales from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh recount an ordeal of darkness and screams, with many recalling how bosses threatened them with dismissal for question...

One of the world’s hotbeds of biodiversity, the forestland of Southeast Asia, is being sacrificed on the altar of development and global capitalism. A spate of all but unrestrained develo...

BEIJING (AP) — A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesda...

MASINLOC, Philippines (AP) — Along the northwestern Philippine coast, poor children with claw hammers clamber aboard an abandoned fishing vessel to pry loose and steal rusty nails from it...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan left the hospital Wednesday, more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at ...

A conference on Media Development in Myanmar/Burma was held at Kandawgyi Palace Hotel in Yangon on 20-21 May. It was the second conference with an address by Union Minister for Informatio...

We reveal the results of our annual poll to find Asia's top companies. Today, China and the Philippines.

A selection of photos from the FinanceAsia Japan Achievement Awards celebration held in Tokyo last week.

Vietnam is attracting more FDI as investors take advantage of opportunities, but they also need to be cautious.

Morgan Stanley’s global macro and emerging-market equity chief Ruchir Sharma says investors must avoid the big Bric markets in favour of smaller markets such as Thailand.

The personal hygiene products company prices an enlarged deal with a 35% premium. It is the biggest CB and the highest premium in the region in two years.

The firm has been given a HK$1.6 million penalty for breaching a stock position limit on one of its client's accounts.

The deal represents the US fund house's first foray into the Asia-Pacific private real estate market.

Park Min Ho, previously head of KTPF's investment strategy team, is mulling more aggressive allocations in alternatives and looks to diversify assets globally as CIO.

AsianInvestor carried out a webcast with three executives from Northern Trust to learn more about the alternative indexing process.

Finance’s finest fighters are getting set to take their competitive battles to the ring at Hedge Fund Fight Nite.

Property trusts across the Asia-Pacific have performed impressively in recent months, led by a surge in the value of Japanese real estate investment trusts (Reits). Reits in Japan gained ...

China's bid to facilitate the Israel-Palestine negotiations is being regarded in some quarters as a quixotic quest, as even the United States has found itself exhausted after fruitless me...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-Jamaat led 18-party alliance patronised the Hefajat-e Islam’s May 5 rally in Bangladesh with the aim of toppling the government. Junaid Babunagari...

Two climbers have died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest on Monday night, officials confirmed. The climbers have been identified as Mohammad Khalid Hussain of Bangladesh a...

Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is scheduled to address the Sri Lankan parliament on May 31. Prime Minister Shinawatra is scheduled to arrive in the country on May 30 on a...

Under pressure from activist investor Dan Loeb to take part of its entertainment business public, Sony said it plans to discuss the proposal with its board.image

Samsung is stepping up investments to beef up its mobile business, this time taking a 10% stake in local handset maker Pantech.

A successful Chinese restaurant chain featuring waiters who swing 10-foot-long noodles around tables tries to make the jump to the U.S.image

China Galaxy Securities Co., a brokerage that raised more than a billion dollars in Hong Kong's biggest initial public offering so far this year staged a buoyant debut.

Japan ran its 10th straight monthly trade deficit in April, the longest stretch of red ink since 1980, a sign that a weaker yen isn't yet a panacea for the export-led economy.image

Chief executive Kazuo Hirai says no timetable has been set for a response to suggestions the Japanese group is to sell off part of its film and music arm

Japan’s central bank decides against fresh monetary easing, judging measures already taken to stimulate growth enough to revive the economy

Tim Cook, Apple chief executive, defended the technology group’s tax practices and denied it was engaged in massive tax avoidance schemes

Rioting in Sweden’s capital spreads to as many as a dozen suburbs as a third night of unrest reopens debate about integration

Japan stocks lead rally, with investors waiting for Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony before Congress later in the day

MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights picked through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of prim...

AMMAN (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday Iran and its militant Shi'ite Lebanese ally Hezbollah were "propping up" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and g...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signed a new constitution into law on Wednesday, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule and...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels fighting for control of the Syrian town of Qusair called for reinforcements on Wednesday to repel forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in a civil war which ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is not expected to hint at a pending policy change when he testifies before the U.S. Congress on Wednesday despite some speculat...

A girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago said Friday she broke down in tears this week after tracking down her parents, who had long lost hope of finding her...

If North Korea's new leader is looking for advice on how to carry on his family's dynasty, he could turn to Rahul Gandhi, who is on a quest to become the fourth generation of h...

Protesters gathered Saturday outside a town hall in southern China to appeal for the release of people detained during demonstrations over a planned power plant expansion, a witness said.

A new survey shows people in poorer countries send text messages more often than those in wealthier countries. Men in Spain and Germany access the Internet on their phones twice as much ...

The National Center on Family Homelessness said 1.6 million children were living on the streets of the United States in 2010 or in shelters, motels and doubled-up with other families. Th...

CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with President Thein Sein of Myanmar in an exclusive interview.

Christiane Amanpour speaks with street artist "JR" about the democratic power of street art.

Women are less ready to compromise their ethics in pursuit of success at work, a recent study has suggested.

"The name's Bond, Commander Bond." Words uttered by the world's most famous secret agent who is adored by his country, feared by the bad guys and trained by Britain's Royal Navy.

The global talent war is heating up as baby boomers begin their mass exodus from the workforce. But a new report reveals employers are not prepared for the new generation of emotionally i...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a special envoy to Beijing, state media announces, amid cooling relations after weeks of tension.

Japan's parliament votes to adopt an international treaty on cross-border child custody disputes, after years of pressure from the West.

Indian fast bowler S Sreesanth, arrested last week over allegations of spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League, insists he is innocent.

Pakistani politician Imran Khan is discharged from hospital two weeks after falling from a platform at an election campaign rally.

Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside British troops are set to be given the right to live in the UK, in an apparent climbdown by ministers.

Saying cricket can explain India is a tired literary cliché. But this year's Indian Premier League scandal says a lot about modern Indian society.

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has sought to dispel talk that he find a way to stay in power beyond his constitutionally mandated two terms.

A series of images capture a recent Indian expedition to the Everest.

Kim Jong-un sent a top official to China as ties between the two countries remained strained over Pyongyang’s nuclear program.

Investigators will be appointed by the Indonesian government and the American company running the mine.

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, i...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — China's premier began a two-day visit to Pakistan on Wednesday by praising the relationship between the two Asian powers in glowing terms.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan left a hospital Wednesday, more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at a...

The price of oil was little changed above $96 a barrel Wednesday as investors waited confirmation of a rise in U.S. crude stocks and the Federal Reserve's latest views on the U.S. economy.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islami...