The dissolution of a civil servants’ union formed during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong is likely to be an isolated incident but various public sector employee groups will become more cautious as a result of the government’s oath-...

Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday, a history-making event in which the first Black, South Asian and female vice-president will take her oath of office from the first Latina justi...

Hong Kong’s finance chief has warned unemployment will reach a record high in official figures laying bare the full-year impact of the coronavirus pandemic, as he predicted worse could be in store for the economy.Paul Chan Mo-po’s grave assess...

Two of India’s richest men have landed in an unlikely controversy over farming laws, becoming targets of protesters who allege the tycoons have benefited from their close links to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.For weeks, tens of thousands of farmers...

Hassan Ahmad, an aspiring young filmmaker from New Delhi, had no idea of the difficulties he would face when he decided to leave behind his middle-class life in the Indian capital to chase his “American dream” in the United States. The protagoni...

Nasa has conducted a test firing of the engines for its giant Space Launch System (SLS) lunar rocket, although the tests were shut down earlier than planned, the space agency said.The “hot-fire” test on Saturday at the Stennis Space Centre in Mis...

Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early morning ambush in the country’s capital on Sunday, officials said, as a wave of assassinations continues to rattle the nation.Violence has surged across Afghanis...

Hong Kong could raise the flat-rate fare of a discounted public transport scheme benefiting elderly and disabled people to reduce the government’s financial burden, the city’s welfare chief has said.The fare concession scheme currently allows tho...

Donald Trump shot to prominence with a business empire that bears his name, but after four years of political tumult capped by his supporters’ violent attack on the Capitol, the US president’s brand stands tarnished, threatening his businesses, e...

It was around 3am when Antonious Remigius Abi, an ethics professor at the Faculty of Law at Santo Thomas Catholic University in Medan, North Sumatra, was awoken by frantic knocking on his front door. When he opened it, he found six young women carryi...

Guatemala on Saturday escalated efforts to stop thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, travelling in a migrant caravan bound for the United States just as a new administration is about to enter the White House.Up to 9,000 migran...

A feared coronavirus rebound could be under way in Hong Kong, as health officials confirmed 55 new infections with more than 80 pending confirmation.The development came as a top government adviser called for Hong Kong’s Covid-19 vaccination campai...

The death toll from a powerful earthquake on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has jumped to 60, authorities said on Sunday, with thousands left homeless as rescuers raced to find anyone still alive under mountains of rubble.Hospitals were overrun with h...

Joe Biden’s top aide said on Saturday the incoming US president would sign about a dozen executive orders on his first day in office, as police fearing violence from Donald Trump supporters staged a nationwide security operation ahead of the inaugu...

Tim Yang was driving with his girlfriend on a highway in Indiana when she received a text message saying a Chinese doctoral student at the University of Chicago, 30-year-old Fan Yiran, was among those killed in a shooting rampage in the city the day ...

In December, South Africa dispatched fresh shipments of thermal coal to China for the first time since 2014, with word in the industry that more was on the way.A month earlier, Chinese buyers also snapped up coal from Colombia, which has never been a...

In the 1920s, a young Cheng Ni-tiang made several trips from his native Hainan Island to what was then Siam, eventually bringing his family – including firstborn son Hok Seng – to settle in the kingdom.In 1927, he opened a sundries shop in suburb...

Hong Kong-based TAL Apparel, which has diversified into the production of highly protective washable masks for the United States, is setting its sights on growth in the city and globally.The city faces a glut of disposable masks and TAL’s face cove...

Singapore has tightened its border restrictions in response to new Covid-19 variants and the worsening global pandemic situation.All travellers, including Singapore citizens and permanent residents, will have to take a Covid-19 Polymerase Chain React...

More than a thousand struggling businesses say red tape is keeping them in limbo after months of waiting for critical anti-pandemic financial aid from the Hong Kong government.Estimates from industry groups and government departments show that 1,464 ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s decision this week to suspend democracy for the first time in over half a century may have forced a timeout of the furious, months-long efforts by his rivals to topple him by hook or by crook – but by n...

Beijing is seeking to deepen engagement with its Southeast Asian neighbours ahead of a possible policy shift by the incoming US administration in the strategically important region.Just days before the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden, Chine...

The Chinese pride themselves on being hardworking, but the “996” culture of working from 9am to 9pm, six days a week, is simply inhuman. Sadly, such a practice is all too common in many Chinese technology companies. The latest victim of this reg...

Advocates and lawyers have hailed the decision by Hong Kong’s Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) to provide legal support in the court battle of Baby Jane Allas – a domestic worker from the Philippines who lost her job in 2019 after being diagn...

Britain will host a G7 summit in June, the government said on Friday, announcing what will be the first face-to-face meeting of the group since the start of Joe Biden’s US presidency.Outgoing US President Donald Trump was forced to cancel last year...

The recent public spat between Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings and telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co has highlighted a shift in the balance of power between game developers and distribution channels, as players increas...

From Zimbabwe’s US$140 million six-storey parliament building to the US$200 million African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, grandiose symbols of China’s financial aid are popping up across Africa.As well as paying for soccer stadiums and gover...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Tanya Snyder and Stephanie Beasley on politico.com on January 16, 2021.Airlines are banning guns and suspending alcohol service. Amtrak is strengthening its...

All federal prisons in the United States have been placed on lockdown, with officials aiming to quell any potential violence that could arise behind bars as law enforcement prepares for potentially violent protests across the country in the run-up to...

Prince William says he is concerned about the mental health of UK ambulance drivers, police officers and other first responders who are being exposed to extraordinary levels of trauma and death as coronavirus cases soar.William, a former search and r...

A civil servants’ union formed during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong has become the first to disband since it became a requirement for public sector workers to pledge allegiance to the city and its mini-constitution.Union for New Ci...

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said Riyadh will reopen its embassy in Qatar as part of a deal to normalise ties with its neighbour and end a three-year rift.The kingdom will restore full diplomatic ties with Qatar as part of the deal struck...

Germany has given transcripts of interviews with Alexei Navalny to Russia as part of Moscow’s investigation into the poisoning of the Kremlin critic, a Justice Ministry spokesman said, demanding a thorough investigation into the crime.The ministry ...

Iran’s armed forces tested medium-range missiles on Saturday during a large-scale sea manoeuvre in the Gulf, as Germany, France and Britain pressed it to back off the latest planned violation of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, saying that ...

Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java, spewed hot clouds as far away as 4.5 kilometres (nearly 3 miles) on Saturday.There were no immediate evacuations, but the National Disaster Mitigation Agency wa...

Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term in office, extending his 35-year rule after an election which took place under heavy security and an internet blackout, and which his main rival said was marred by fraud and violence.The 76-year-old lea...

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi came to Manila bearing gifts, promising half a million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, US$1.34 billion in loan pledges for infrastructure projects and US$77 million (500 million yuan) in grants, underlining Beijing’s ...

The Chinese embassy in Washington has issued a safety warning to Chinese citizens and organisations in the US, highlighting the recent attack on the Capitol in Washington, the murder of a PhD student in Chicago and the continued spread of Covid-19.�...

Beijing’s retaliation plans against London offering Hongkongers holding British National (Overseas) passports a pathway to the right of abode boil down to making public officers with such documents prove their loyalty, analysts have said.Civil serv...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron’s role in sealing a landmark investment deal between the European Union and China has raised questions in some other member states about whether their interests are being addresse...

Five Hong Kong fugitives who reportedly fled to Taiwan and were intercepted by the self-ruled island’s coastguard in July last year are now seeking asylum in the United States, according to an activist group.Without naming the individuals, US-based...

At the beginning of this millennium, experts and analysts had written reams about how the balance of power and trade was shifting from the West to the East. China and India were seen as propelling this, and the two countries were spoken in the same b...

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party on Saturday picked her ally Armin Laschet as its next leader, in a vote that kicks off the race for Germany’s top job as a deadly pandemic roils Europe’s biggest economy.In the close race, Lasch...

Hong Kong police are investigating after viral videos emerged showing two men having sex and masturbating on an MTR train.In one 45-second clip, the naked pair are seen cavorting in an empty train carriage on the Tung Chung line. Clothes are strewn o...

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi wrapped up his latest trip to Southeast Asia on Saturday, during which he sought to stabilise relations in the region ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president. But of the 10 member states of the Associ...

Lockdowns in three cities in north China’s Hebei province that have been at the centre of the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak have been extended, after 90 new cases were reported in the area on Friday.In the provincial capital Shijiazhuang ...

Recent police crackdowns on illegal racing in Hong Kong found two sports cars equipped with devices apparently meant to avoid being caught by detectors, the Post has learned, as complaints of speeding surged by 40 per cent for most of last year.One v...

In the first week of January, Tibetan refugees across the globe, from New York to the freezing heights of Ladakh along the India-China border, cast their votes to elect a new political leader and members of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile – with th...

Taiwan-US relations warmed to an unprecedented degree during Donald Trump’s presidency despite Beijing’s repeated protests, but it remains to be seen if this can be maintained under Joe Biden.The first shift in Taipei’s favour happened even bef...

Amid a worldwide backlash against recently announced changes to its privacy terms, instant messaging giant WhatsApp on Saturday announced it would give users until May – rather than early next month – to decide whether they consented to the new a...