China’s national security office warns against using fire tragedy to ‘plunge Hong Kong back into chaos’ of 2019, when the city saw massive street protests

Sri Lankan leader says island battling ‘largest and most challenging natural disaster in our history’

Dhaka court finds Siddiq guilty of corruptly influencing her aunt – the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina – to help her mother acquire a piece of land in suburbs of Bangladeshi capital

Chinese city’s deadliest fire in nearly 80 years raises questions over use of bamboo scaffolding

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in nearly 80 years has raised major questions over the use of bamboo scaffolding by the construction industry

City authorities and friends pay tribute to Ho Wai Ho’s ‘selfless devotion to duty’

Attacked National Guard members in critical condition as Trump halts processing Afghan immigration requests

China has imposed sweeping funeral reforms to phase out ground burial

Cho Jung-tai insists Taiwan is ‘a fully sovereign and independent country’

Danylo Yavhusishyn says the victory is ‘just the beginning’

Suicide bomber detonates explosives at entrance of constabulary

First Israeli attack on Beirut since June kills five people and injures 25