Farah Master

The National Basketball Association has signed a multiyear deal to play pre-season games in Macau from 2025, marking the league's return to the Chinese market after a years-long absence that followed controversy over the 2019 Hong Kong protests.

A former employee working for one of China's state agencies has been given a rare death sentence for leaking "state secrets," the Ministry of State Security said on Wednesday, after he was accused of handing over his USB drive to foreign spy agencies.

Policies like those laid out last week have been helpful in countries such as France and Sweden, but they have not moved the needle in east Asia, most likely due to high gender inequality, according to demographers.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said at a meeting with the Chinese government in Beijing that the U.S. company will increase investment in China and thereby contribute to supply chain development, state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday.

China's state security ministry said foreign spy intelligence agencies have been trying to steal secrets from the country's space programme as the arms race in space intensifies and emerges as a new "battlefield for military struggle".

China's National Health Commission (NHC) is surveying 30,000 people to understand factors influencing their attitudes towards childbearing and the "fear surrounding having children", as authorities struggle to boost a flagging birthrate.

Zoo authorities in Hong Kong are keeping close watch on a monkey that is behaving unusually a day after the ninth death this week of one of the animals, while hastening tests to find out what killed them.

China will provide emergency medical supplies to Lebanon, China's official foreign aid agency, the China International Development Cooperation Agency, said on Tuesday, as Israel-Hezbollah fighting intensified.

Aging populations are a global phenomenon, but the issue is particularly stark in China due to the legacy of its one-child-policy.

China is urging its rapidly ageing population to volunteer for community services, help development efforts in some regions and contribute in areas from education to sports as authorities try to bolster a shrinking workforce.