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A global community with a shared future is central to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s idea and vision for the world. In the last half decade or thereabout the philosophical concept of…

Taipei, TaiwanCNN — For married Taiwanese men Alan Hung and Danny Huang, the process of having a biological child together was never easy. The couple dreamed of starting a family soon after…

Hong Kong police have offered rewards of HK$1m (£100,400; $128,000) for information leading to the arrests of five pro-democracy activists. They include Simon Cheng, a former UK consulate employee detained in…

Activists say up to 600 North Korean defectors, believed to be mostly women, have not been heard from since their deportation from China. In October, China carried out the largest…

Hong Kong is now a “place full of fear”, pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow, who recently jumped bail, said. Ms Chow was under investigation for “collusion with foreign forces”, but had…

Leading Iranian human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh has been violently arrested at a funeral of a teenage girl who died after an alleged altercation with morality police, her husband says.…

Furore revolves around a scene involving one of Hinduism’s holiest scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita A sex scene in Oppenheimer involving Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh has sparked controversy among Hindu right-wing groups in India. During the scene, Pugh’s character Jean…

BANGKOK — A Thai court Thursday found four national park officers not guilty of abducting and murdering an Indigenous rights activist who disappeared nine years ago while aiding a lawsuit against…

On Thursday, Hoang Thi Minh Hong, an acclaimed climate activist and former World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) employee, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $4,100 after…

Not many companies whose profits have in essence flatlined over the past decade have seen their share price more than triple. By that measure Fujitec, a Japanese lift manufacturer, is a…