One of the passengers of the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship has tested positive for the illness after returning to Hong Kong, sources have told RTHK. The patient, who had been in quarantine since flying back from Japan, is being treated…

A Buddhist temple in North Point on Saturday found itself at the centre of a coronavirus scare, after a second visitor to the site was confirmed as having caught the illness. Health officials say the latest patient is a 96-year-old woman who went to the Fook…

The government announced on Saturday that a third charter flight it had arranged would leave Japan overnight, to evacuate dozens of the remaining Hong Kong passengers on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship which has been hit by a coronavirus outbreak.…

Italy reported its first death from the new virus from China early on Saturday and the number of people infected more than quadrupled due to a cluster of cases that prompted officials to order schools, restaurants and businesses to close. State-run RAI television…

Authorities in northern Italy have ordered the closure of schools, bars and other public spaces in 10 towns following a flurry of new coronavirus cases. Five doctors and 10 other people tested positive for the virus in Lombardy, after apparently frequenting…

Italy is banning travel to and from an area of about 50,000 people southeast of Milan and canceling top-flight soccer games to combat the spread of the coronavirus, while safeguarding Europe’s internal open-borders pact.

Foreign Affairs Symposium hosts Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, two of the founders of the 2014 Umbrella Protests, for a conversation on activism and political autonomy

The Hong Kong protests are caused by deep-rooted economic frustrations… This argument has been all too common in the discourse surrounding Hong Kong’s months-long struggle against authoritarianism.…

Since Hong Kong recorded its first coronavirus case in late January, the city has been battling to curb the spread of the SARS-like virus, which has caused two deaths and infected dozens more. Standing on the front line in this critical fight are medical…

Xi's absence from ground zero could be an attempt to protect the top leadership from the potential fallout of the health-care crisis, experts say.

“We should not criticise the Chinese government for what is, essentially, an unfathomable act of God,” said my priest in a video message on WeChat, the app that rules all inside the People’s Republic of China. He had to go onto social media to announce that…

China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.

A hypothetical situation is slowly becoming more tangible

Coronavirus brings into focus the Chinese Communist Party’s history of obfuscating the facts during public health crises

A memoir and fervent call to arms from a key leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, written with Jason Y Ng

Health officials called the surge in reported infections “very worrisome,” as cases soared in South Korea. Europe and North America reported a big uptick in infections.