China’s first Corgi police dog has made its public debut by displaying excellent bomb-detection skills which made the canine go viral online.

A number of pet shops in China have been taken to task for tricking customers into spending on costly products under the guise of offering no-fee animal adoption.

A physics teacher in Taiwan dropped a cat on his classroom floor to prove a point during a science lesson, sparking a wave of criticism on social media.

Up to 5.5 billion wild animals are being farmed in terrible conditions and exploited for tourism, and for their fur, feathers, meat, or bile in the case of bears, according to a World Animal Protection report.

In this edition of ‘Loving China’, a 15-year-old boy saves a falling kitten, a doting father cooks and sends weekly meals to his adult daughter and a little boy sends messages to his dead aunt.

Campaigners from the Swiss Animal Alliance, which launched the move, on Thursday piled up boxes in the capital Bern, symbolising the certified signatures to trigger a public vote.

The emerging fashion for pet owners in China who want their cats and dogs to have the iconic Disney character’s “cute” ears, must be stopped, advise vets.

Scientists say southern Cameroon is emerging as poaching hotspot for endangered animals whose scales are prized in traditional Chinese medicine.

A circus in China has been closed down by the local authority because it had been conducting “unauthorised performances” by allowing children to ride on a tiger for photos.

A woman in China who saved a Border Collie dog that had been traded for 20kg of pork and was destined to be slaughtered for meat has earned praise on mainland social media.

For years, reptiles that slithered close to humans would be delivered by ‘snake kings’ to authorities and might languish in boxes for days, but newly licensed catchers are putting them back into the wild almost right away.

Drive has sparked online rumours of alleged dog culling, with most respondents in an online survey opposing the move and blaming owners for such attacks.

About 80 per cent agree blanket ban on some exotics such as yellow-crested cockatoos, green iguanas and alligator snapping turtles needed.

Mainland social media is up in arms after video footage emerged of a man’s violent attack on his girlfriend’s pet dog, sparking an online discussion about the lack of pet protection laws in China.

Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, which documented Japan’s brutal dolphin hunting, caused Hong Kong marine biologist Taison Chang Kai-tai to leave the animal captivity industry and instead fight against it.

The Thai royal family gave the animal as a gift to Sri Lanka’s government in 2001, but it has been mistreated and has a long-neglected injury, an activist group says.

Readers discuss the three-month jail sentence given in a case where a child died, political cartoons in a democratic society, the gap in animal protection in mainland China, and the outrage over wild boar kills in Hong Kong.

An advertisement put up by an animal rights group outside a seaside fish and chip shop has ruffled some people’s feathers.

Authorities raided Wu Siyuan’s Yau Ma Tei shop after media reports indicated he was selling cat meat from Kaiping in Guangdong province.

The proposal by a deputy to the National People’s Congress would close a long-standing loophole in animal cruelty laws.

Nguyen Duc Tai transported 10 tonnes of rhino horns, elephant tusks, pangolin scales and lion bones from S Africa and Nigeria to Vietnam in 2021 and 2022.

Staff at Yau Ma Tei store to be prosecuted after raid by officials found cat meat for sale.

China’s controversial zero-Covid policy claims unexpected victims, with one private zoo in the country’s east turning to live streams and animal adoptions to stay afloat.

Growing demand in the US, Asia and Europe is contributing to the decline of turtle and tortoise species; poaching is ‘getting ruthless’, wildlife experts say.