Unexpected moves by China’s central bank to reduce liquidity in the banking system do not represent an “abrupt” and long-lasting policy change, but are in fact an effort to protect against property and financial speculation by drawing a “red ...

Hong Kong’s leader had a virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday, the Post has learned.An official source from mainland China said Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor met Xi and Li in the morning...

Japan is expected to play a prominent role in the new US administration’s efforts to rally its allies in the Indo-Pacific region – including the South China Sea – in an attempt to counter China’s rise, according to observers.In a move that wi...

A Philippine province has cancelled its award of a US$10 billion airport deal south of the capital, among the biggest projects involving a Chinese firm under President Rodrigo Duterte who has pursued warmer ties with Beijing since taking office in 20...

Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates says he has been taken aback by the volume of “crazy” and “evil” conspiracy theories about him spreading on social media during the Covid-19 pandemic, but said on Wednesday he would like t...

A Hong Kong policeman who confessed to sexually assaulting five underage girls and possessing nude pictures of another was jailed for nearly four years on Wednesday.The District Court sentenced Yu Chun-hing to 46 months behind bars after a psychologi...

A police manhunt is under way after the gates and doors of three houses belonging to a Hong Kong village head and his family were doused with paint on Wednesday.Three cars owned by To Siu-lam, the village representative for Tuen Mun San Tsuen in the ...

Indian police imposed heavy security and closed several main roads around New Delhi on Wednesday, a day after farmers went on the rampage in the capital, leaving one person dead and dozens injured.The violence marked a dramatic escalation in a stand-...

A new law that allows China’s coastguard to fire on ships in disputed waters is a “virtual declaration of war”, according to the head of a Philippine fishers’ association, while a security analyst says it will stoke Filipinos’ “hatred of ...

US President Joe Biden was planning to announce new bans on oil and gas drilling on federal lands Wednesday as part of a raft of actions that take aim at climate change, according to reports and a White House memo.The administration has drafted an or...

A huge pile up of fish cargoes at a Chinese port risks impacting shipments of frozen food across the country and beyond.Hundreds of containers are being held up in Dalian, a major port for seafood imports, as local authorities test the fish for the c...

Chen Feng, the founder of China’s largest private airline, has been excluded from the key decision-making body of the HNA Group, in a dramatic development that signals his loss of control of one of the country’s largest conglomerates over five sh...

Hong Kong’s home prices narrowly avoided their first annual decline in 12 years as the fourth wave of coronavirus dealt a less savage blow than expected to December’s data.The price index for lived-in homes in December fell 0.4 per cent to 379.3,...

US President Joe Biden reaffirmed US commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, setting the stage for renewed transatlantic ties after his predecessor Donald Trump accused European members of not paying enough for the Western defence allia...

Singapore’s LGBT rights groups on Wednesday urged introspection from authorities after police arrested three people for staging a brief peaceful protest against transphobia in the education system.The rare protest in the city state was held amid an...

Hong Kong’s leader on Wednesday defended the effectiveness of an “ambush-style” lockdown that uncovered just a single Covid-19 infection in a working-class neighbourhood the night before, as the city confirmed 60 new cases.The bustling section ...

Dressed plainly in a T-shirt and wearing no make-up in a coffee shop in Beijing, 28-year-old Che Xuanqiao is as far as can be from how Netflix series Bling Empire has led us to think an heiress to a multibillion-dollar business empire should look.Des...

US President Joe Biden has banned references to Covid-19 by geographical location, after labels like “China virus” and “Wuhan virus” led to a racist backlash.“Inflammatory and xenophobic rhetoric has put Asian-American and Pacific Islander ...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo received his second dosage of the Covid-19 vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech, one day after the country registered more than 1 million infections.Nearly 250,000 health care workers have been given the first shot since t...

Foreigners snapping up private apartments in Singapore declined to a 17-year low in 2020 as travel restrictions and lockdowns in various countries deterred them from coming to the city state.Purchases of units fell to 742 last year, according to Sing...

Profits at China’s industrial firms grew for the eighth straight month in December, suggesting a sustained recovery as the manufacturing sector rapidly emerged from its coronavirus slump.Profits surged 20.1 per cent year on year in December to 707....

Every day, Nguyen Thi Nham Thin sits at a busy traffic intersection in the Vietnamese capital. She is one of thousands of vendors selling food and drinks who make up Hanoi’s bustling street life. But this constant exposure to the fumes comes at a c...

From this weekend, Britain will start accepting applications from people with British National (Overseas) status for a new visa that would earn them a pathway to citizenship. In the second of a three-part series on the BN(O) visa, we meet families st...

A World Health Organization team will finish a two-week quarantine in China on Thursday, starting work on the ground to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan, the city where the disease was first identified in late 2019.The challenges for the ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andrew Desiderio on politico.com on January 26, 2021.Nearly every Senate Republican declared Tuesday that putting a former president on trial for impeachmen...

Kuaishou co-founders Su Hua and Cheng Yixiao are set to become two of China’s richest millennials following a US$5 billion initial public offering of their video-sharing app in Hong Kong, joining the ranks of young entrepreneurs who have gained mas...

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has surpassed 100 million, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed.The milestone was reached on Tuesday, almost exactly one year after the United States confirmed its first case of the cor...

US President Joe Biden took action on Tuesday to disavow another aspect of his predecessor’s legacy – racial animus toward Asian-Americans, which rose sharply during a pandemic that President Donald Trump blamed on “the China virus”.Biden’s...

A Chinese corruption charge that the mother of Canadian music star Wanting Qu embezzled more than 350 million yuan (US$54 million) in her position as a Harbin housing official has been withdrawn, according to a social media post shared by Qu about th...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ben Leonard on politico.com on January 26, 2021.US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin, expressing US objections to a variety of Kre...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nahal Toosi on politico.com on January 26, 2021.Antony Blinken was confirmed as US secretary of state on Tuesday, taking the reins of US foreign policy amid...

HSBC is fully committed to its businesses in Hong Kong and helping residents “recover from challenges” despite being caught up in recent political rows, its boss has told British lawmakers, while dismissing suggestions the banking giant should pu...

US President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the country’s Commerce Department told senators on Tuesday that she would use punitive tariffs and export restrictions against China, but stopped short of a specific commitment to keep existing sanctions a...

More than 100,000 people have died in Britain after contracting the coronavirus, a year into Europe’s deadliest outbreak, figures from the government showed on Tuesday.Britain is the fifth country in the world to record 100,000 virus-related deaths...

The Netherlands faced its worst civil unrest in four decades after a third night of rioting against a government curfew aimed at curbing the pandemic, just weeks before a national election.Police arrested 184 people after incidents in Amsterdam, Rott...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed on Tuesday to “promote high-level exchanges” between the two countries in a development likely to be greatly scrutinised by Western powers seeking to draw Seoul into an �...

A relative of a coronavirus victim in China is demanding to meet a visiting World Health Organization (WHO) expert team, saying it should speak with affected families who allege they are being muffled by the Chinese government.China approved the visi...

Facebook has rolled out the Facebook News feature for users across the United Kingdom, the only destination outside the United States to get the feature.Facebook News comes as a tab in the Android or iOS version of the Facebook app that will feature ...

China could offer to transfer technology and give financial help to poor countries in a joint effort to fight climate change with the US, Chinese observers have said.Newly inaugurated President Joe Biden has made the fight against climate change one ...

Beijing’s state-run media has hit out at the new head of the Hong Kong Bar Association for a second day in a row, accusing him of having “lost professionalism and rationality” over remarks suggesting he would seek changes to the city’s nation...

A group of Chinese human rights lawyers have revived a campaign to honour the Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang, who was disciplined for warning colleagues about the Covid-19 outbreak before dying of the disease.The group, a loosely organised online chat grou...

Vietnam’s secretive, twice-a-decade political transition began on Tuesday, with the Communist Party poised to select its future leaders who will have to contend with an increasingly assertive China and ramped-up trade tensions with the United State...

Beijing has transferred Guangdong province’s anti-corruption chief to take a similar role in its top office overseeing Hong Kong and Macau affairs.Shi Kehui will take up the role following the retirement of Pan Shengzhou, who reached the official r...

The G7 summit scheduled this year in Britain, which the British government has expanded and presented as a summit between 10 leading democracies, will not be a coalition against Beijing, the European Union’s ambassador to China Nicholas Chapuis has...

Provincial authorities on Tuesday rejected claims that a forest in China’s arid northwest has been razed to make way for vineyards, after an investigation prompted by media reports and a public outcry.But environmental group the China Biodiversity ...

Bank of East Asia, Hong Kong’s biggest family-run bank, has appointed its head of retail lending, Christine Lo, to lead its Greater Bay Area (GBA) office, as the bank looks to forge closer collaboration across its operations in the region to captur...

A Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine is effective against coronavirus variants, including the mutated strain found in Britain, the chairman of China National Biotec Group has told state media Xinhua after vaccine developers Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna also s...

Hong Kong police have arrested a man accused of placing a fake ticket on his illegally parked car to mislead officers into thinking the vehicle had already been booked.The case came to light when an officer on patrol found a Suzuki that was parked il...