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India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country next year, according to a UN report released on the occasion of World Population Day. The World Population Prospects 2022 by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affa...

As the globally prominent BA.5 variant of the coronavirus continues to drive a surge in Covid-19 cases in many countries, a new sub-lineage known as BA.2.75 is also on the rise, particularly in India. Although health experts are not yet sure if the mutati...

Shares in Twitter fell on Monday after Elon Musk announced he was pulling out of a $44bn (£36bn) deal to buy the social media platform.

A welcome ceremony was held in Duisburg, Germany on July 11 to celebrate the arrival of the 10,000th China-Europe Railway Express (Chongqing). The line has become a landmark brand for Sino-German and Sino-European cooperation. #china #germany #railway #ce...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has won the latest parliamentary election by a landslide, securing 76 of the 125 contested upper house seats with its coalition partner. The election came days after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assass...

On July 10, the Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) reported a list of 28 deals that failed to comply with anti-monopoly rules. Giant tech firms Alibaba and Tencent are among those punished.

While picking up orders from a restaurant, a delivery man found that a stray dog was eating marinated meat from a pot in the kitchen in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. The shop was fined 2,550 yuan (US$380) and has been temporarily suspended by local a...

Although China's central and local governments have recently launched various incentives to revive a weakening property market, the precedent of Evergrande Group's default is likely to be repeated.

As Japan grieves, the body of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived at his home in the capital Tokyo, the day after he was assassinated by a lone gunman in Nara. READ MORE: https://str.sg/wbAB

The Hub with Wang Guan reads out Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Bali. Susan A. Thornton, senior fellow and visiting lecturer at the Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School and...

Protesters stormed the president's official residence in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo after clashing with police and breaking through barriers. The march is the country's biggest demonstration after thousands called for the president to resign amid a huge...

Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics recently reported that its manpower in China had decreased dramatically since its peak in 2013.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden, and South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo were among the world leaders paying their condolences to former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated Friday as he was giving...

World leaders have expressed their shock and sadness following the death of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. The 67-year-old was shot during a campaign speech on Friday, in an incident that is rare in the island country.

Wuhu City, the second-largest city in Anhui Province, has reported the city's serious birth population situation and that it may fall into the “low fertility trap.”

The precise moment Shinzo Abe is shot to death. Il preciso istante nel quale Shinzo Abe viene colpito a morte