SCMP Asian News

China is next on the list of applicants to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, having submitted its application just months after the UK in 2021.

Biology major Gibran Huzaifah, 33, who often slept rough and once did not eat for days, co-founded aquaculture success story eFishery.

‘Such records are the predictable consequence … due to mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions’, leading climate scientist Robert Rohde said.

Some diehard fans braved two days of sweltering heat outside post office branches across Singapore, just to be the first few in line to buy concert tickets.

The violence was the latest in a series of deadly clashes between two rival insurgent groups and came hours after the murder of a refugee community leader.

The opposition leader was sentenced to two years in 2019 for comments said to be insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and those sharing his surname, and this verdict leaves him ineligible to stand in next year’s election.

Taiwan’s exports plummeted by 23.4 per cent to US$32.3 billion last month compared to a year earlier, marking the fastest pace of declines since August 2009, data released on Friday showed.

The Oscar-winning actress recalled the singer’s performance at the Academy Awards in 2001.

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin called China’s behaviour towards Philippine boats in the disputed waterway ‘coercive and risky’.

Indonesian tycoon reasserts his support for President Joko Widodo even as he appears set to be a front runner for vice-president in the coming election.

China’s customs agency says the plan to discharge treated nuclear-contaminated water from the 2011 disaster in Fukushima into the sea fails to fully reflect expert opinions, with authorities vowing to take all necessary measures to ensure consumer safety.

Chris Hipkins, who recently met Chinese President Xi Jinping, said Wellington would disagree with Beijing in areas where it challenges his country’s national interests.

From remembering the life of Hong Kong singer Coco Lee to Philippine senators urging a Barbie film ban, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

Some lawmakers want the government to ban the so-called Big Four – PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG – from taking taxpayers’ money.

The studio said the doodle was ‘not intended to make any type of statement’ after Vietnam decided to ban the film over the map.

Doubts remain over whether Japan’s treatment system for the radioactive waste water and its subsequent dilution in our oceans will make it safe. Importantly, we cannot afford to upset our fragile marine ecosystem.

China received at least 5.3 million tonnes of nickel from Indonesia between January 2020 and June 2022, customs data showed.

The incident saw Malaysia’s tourism minister intervening to “rescue” a Chinese woman who was purportedly being extorted by immigration officials.