Police on Sunday intercepted a fleet of 45 luxury sports cars including Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches over suspected illegal racing on Hong Kong Island.Officers said one of the vehicles pulled over was towed away during the 7am operation, code-...

A demand by the Philippine government that the United States quadruple its aid to Manila in exchange for allowing US troops to operate in the country may have shocked Washington, but some experts think the country’s strategic position in the South ...

Investors from the Chinese mainland bought US$40.1 billion in shares through the Hong Kong stock connect trading scheme last month, cashing in on government relaxation of outflows.The January total released by the State Administration of Foreign Exch...

Tens of thousands of opponents of Myanmar’s February 1 military coup gathered on Sunday in towns from north to south, undeterred by the bloodiest episode of their campaign the previous day when security forces opened fire on protesters, killing two...

It was the evening of the second day of Lunar New Year, and at the only Chinese school in Kolkata, the sound of drumming filled the air. Soon, the heady beat was joined by crashing cymbals and a gong, as costumed performers leapt from pole to pole in...

Days before a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and 17 countries in Central and Eastern Europe earlier this month, nearly 90 Chinese investors gathered in a grand ballroom in a Beijing hotel to listen to an appeal from President Milo Djukan...

American security contractor Erik Prince, a close ally of former US President Donald Trump, violated the United Nations arms embargo against Libya along with three United Arab Emirates-based companies and their top managers during an operation to hel...

Two recent decisions by the government suggest to me that Bible study is still prevalent among the top echelon. The first was the move by the government, with regard to the findings of the Minimum Wage Commission, to freeze the statutory minimum wage...

A Chinese doctor with more than 2 million followers online has apologised for inhaling an anaesthetic to support her claim that the drug could make people faint instantly.The doctor, who works in a major hospital in Wuxi in the eastern province of Ji...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison received his first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday, marking the start of the nation’s vaccination programme and what he called a “massive step” towards a return to normality.Up to 4 million Australi...

E-commerce firm Shopee’s rise in Southeast Asia over the past five years has been rapid, to say the least.The mobile commerce platform, owned by Singapore-based tech behemoth Sea Group, had the most-downloaded shopping app last year in the region�...

China must “deepen reforms” to ensure “high standards” of self-sufficiency and economic independence, President Xi Jinping has told a high-level committee ahead of the country’s biggest legislative meeting of the year. The country’s lead...

Daily coronavirus infections rose for the third day in a row in Hong Kong on Sunday, with 20 cases recorded, as senior officials hinted at the possibility of reopening the city’s borders if enough people were vaccinated.The rising caseloads, from a...

Almost 100,000 subdivided flats, home to some of Hong Kong’s poorest people, could become subject to a rent control mechanism to safeguard tenants from exploitation by landlords.The mechanism would take into account various factors, such as inflati...

The founder of China’s first and only free public high school for girls – in a poor, mountainous region in the country’s southwest – has been honoured as an inspirational role model in this year’s Touching China awards.Zhang Guimei, 63, was...

Amy Heung Tak-yuen has lost count of the number of people who slammed down the phone, shouted at her, lied, or just stayed silent when she called.It is all part of a day’s work for the senior customs officer, who volunteered to help track down peop...

The hottest social-networking app on the block – Clubhouse – is making waves in Malaysia as politicians, celebrities, top businesspeople and ordinary folks alike mingle on the audio-chat app.While Tesla founder Elon Musk and hip-hop artist Kanye ...

Provinces throughout China have set growth targets of up to 10 per cent this year as the country’s top legislature prepares to meet next month.All of the 31 provincial-level jurisdictions are aiming for over 6 per cent economic growth for 2021, wit...

Richard Liu Qiangdong, the billionaire founder of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, has emerged as one of the biggest winners in China’s tech sector, with two successful public listings in Hong Kong and another in the pipeline, in what analysts are ...

Laos will hold its general election on Sunday to select members of the national assembly and provincial parliaments, and while no surprises are expected in the one-party communist state, analysts said authorities in the Southeast Asian country are in...

There is no evidence China aims to deliberately push poor countries into debt as a way of seizing their assets or gaining a greater say in their internal affairs, researchers and analysts said – countering Washington’s narrative that China was en...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Alex Isenstadt on politico.com on February 20, 2021.Former President Donald Trump is expected to speak at next week’s Conservative Political Action Confer...

Environment Minister Wong Kam-sing knows that Hong Kong is unable to meet the key targets of the Blueprint for Sustainable Use of Resources 2013-2022. So, on February 8, he unveiled another policy, the Waste Blueprint for Hong Kong 2035, describing t...

Floods inundated parts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta and its surrounding towns on Saturday following heavy rain overnight, displacing thousands of people.In the capital, some homes were submerged under two metres of water and vehicles were swept...

The Italian coastguard were searching for survivors Saturday after a vessel carrying dozens of migrants capsized off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa overnight.In a statement released on Saturday evening, the coastguard said that “at this stag...

It was the kind of broadside that might be expected between bitter adversaries, not close friends and allies.“New Zealand, frankly, is tired of having Australia exporting its problems,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, as she took her country�...

Protesters threw bottles at police, set fire to containers and smashed up shops in Barcelona on Saturday in the fifth night of clashes after a rapper was jailed for glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty in his songs.The nine-month sentence of Pa...

US President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration for Texas on Saturday as the state struggles with the fallout from a winter storm that killed at least two dozen people and caused widespread blackouts and water shortages.Millions of resid...

Three workers died and three more were injured on Saturday during repair works at a processing plant owned by Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel, the company said.In the early hours of Saturday an ore-reloading facility and the adjacent walkway coll...

The use of lethal weapons in Myanmar against unarmed civilians is “inexcusable”, Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Saturday after reports of two deaths in the city of Mandalay.“We are dismayed by the reports of civilian ca...

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, on Saturday visited the hospital where his father Prince Philip is being kept as a precaution after feeling ill, a Reuters photographer at the hospital said.Charles arrived at the back of the London hospita...

A former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived in the United States for over 60 years returned to Germany on Saturday after being expelled, a police spokesman said.The 95-year-old man faces questioning by local police after arriving at Frankfurt ai...

Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A (H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, sai...

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny lost his appeal on Saturday against what he said was a politically motivated decision to jail him for nearly three years, but said his faith in God and belief in the rightness of his cause was sustaining him.Navalny, Pre...

Restaurant takings in Hong Kong surged as much as 40 per cent this week over the previous one amid the loosening of social-distancing measures, but response to the government’s Covid-19 risk-exposure app has remained lukewarm.Food lovers enjoyed th...

City residents in northern China who have spent more than 40 days in lockdown have expressed growing frustration at the restrictions they face despite the number of Covid-19 cases falling.Gaocheng, a district of Shijiazhuang city, went into lockdown ...

China has raised this year’s production quotas for rare earths in an apparent goodwill message to the United States.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Natural Resources announced on Friday that first-half output...

A list of Thai police officers who allegedly vaulted up the ranks of seniority has gone viral after an opposition lawmaker revealed it during the four-day debate on a no-confidence motion against the army-aligned administration of Prime Minister Pray...

Hong Kong commuters had a narrow escape after a false ceiling collapsed in Central MTR station on Saturday evening.Pictures circulating online showed large pieces of cement lying in front of an escalator in the station, leaving a big hole in the ceil...

Hong Kong is preparing a “sports bubble” to host two international football tournaments in April and May that could allow 300 overseas players and officials into the city without undergoing quarantine.Government sources told the Post that the Hom...

Hong Kong’s homebuyers made a tentative return to the market, giving their collective cold shoulder to older projects but picking up flats at a new launch to give a mixed response to the city’s first property sales in the Year of the Ox. In Tuen...

Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro – known as the “Trump of the Tropics” for his hardline China policies – does not look set to follow his US counterpart into a one-term exit in elections next year.While much could happen between now and Bra...

Hong Kong police are hunting for a suspect over a horrific case of animal cruelty in which a Labrador bled to death after its neck was slashed.According to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), a resident living in Tin Sum Tsue...

New Zealand started its official roll-out of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine on Saturday, in what the health director general said marked a “small but important step in a long journey” to fight the pandemic.A small group of medical professio...

Police in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing have detained a popular blogger over social media posts that authorities say demeaned military casualties of a border clash with India.The Nanjing Bureau of Public Security said on Saturday that Qiu Zimin...

A month after Joe Biden assumed the US presidency, Pakistan is increasingly concerned that the direction of its future relationship with the United States could be determined by Washington’s competition with China and the role that neighbouring nem...

Hong Kong and Singapore are in discussion again over the postponed travel bubble, with both cities mulling extra safeguards amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Post has learned.A government source said authorities on both sides were in talks over the ...

Russia on Saturday approved a third coronavirus vaccine for domestic use, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on state TV, though large-scale clinical trials of the shot, labelled CoviVac and produced by the Chumakov Centre, have yet to begin.Russi...

Chinese food delivery giant Ele.me has apologised after its couriers accused the platform of setting impossible targets for holiday bonus pay.The company had tried to incentivise its couriers to stay put and continue working over Lunar New Year as th...

Eight members of a dance troupe preparing for a contemporary performance quit the show before its opening last December over fears it might contravene Hong Kong’s national security law, the Post has learned.They were uncomfortable that Matches, a p...