Vietnam has rescinded a recent endorsement of 12 traditional medicines as effective treatment against COVID-19 after promotion of the herbal remedies by the country’s health ministry caused an outcry among experts.
Nguyen Truong Son, the deputy health …

Hong Kong celebrated its first gold Olympic gold medal in a quarter of a century on Monday, amid a political row over a black shirt worn by another Olympian.
Edgar Cheung, 24, took gold in the individual men’s foil fencing competition, beating Daniele …

A Beijing-appointed Tibetan Buddhist leader sent by China to attend a conference in Sichuan this month was ignored by ordinary Tibetans who had been told by authorities to turn out to greet him, with only hand-picked officials present to show him respe…

Manila’s 2016 victory against Beijing in an arbitration case over the South China Sea was final but the Philippines has not shut the door on diplomacy to settle territorial disputes, President Rodrigo Duterte said in his last State of the Nation speech…

Foreign journalists covering disastrous flooding following record rainfall in the central Chinese province of Henan have been intercepted by unidentified people who recorded them and angrily protested that they were ‘smearing’ China, they reported via …

Hong Kong’s anti-graft body has brought fresh charges against jailed activist and former law professor Benny Tai for proposing an election strategy aimed at winning more seats in the city’s legislature for pro-democracy candidates in 2016.
Tai’s Thunde…