A Hong Kong internet service provider says it has blocked access to pro-democracy website compliance with a national security law imposed by Beijing on Hong Kong last June.In a statement on Thursday, ...

A popular South Korean artificial intelligence-driven chatbot was taken down from Facebook this week, after it was accused of spewing hate speech against minorities.Lee Luda, a chatbot designed by Kor ...

The Chinese city of Wuhan is where Covid-19 was first detected, but there are fears that Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries. The global team’s visit was approved by President Xi Jin ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest known animal cave painting of a wild pig in Indonesia, believed to have been drawn 45,500 years ago, providing evidence of the earliest settlement of ...

A two-month-old girl died after she thrown from a moving car by her American mother, police in Bali have alleged. Nicole Stasio, 32, then jumped from vehicle in an apparent suicide attempt at a juncti ...

The vaccine against coronavirus developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac has proved to be only 50.4 per cent effective in late-stage trials in Brazil, considerably less efficacious than pre ...

A police department in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh has provoked a mixture of amusement and alarm for digitally adding face masks onto a photograph showing a man’s arrest.The Gorakhpur ...

The mammoth congress of North Korea’s ruling party came to an end on Tuesday with leader Kim Jong-un adopting a resolution to bolster his country’s “nuclear deterrent”. Establishing a nuclear for ...

Japan has been hit by severe winter storms, with eight dead and hundreds injured as a result of the heavy snow.  The west coast was particularly affected with regions of Niigata, Ishikawa, Fukui ...