The whereabouts of wanted fugitive Andy Li Yu-hin remain unknown, nine days after he was sent back to Hong Kong from mainland China.According to prosecutors, Li, who faces three charges under the national security law, including ­colluding with fore...

Hong Kong’s controversial liberal studies subject is expected to be renamed “citizenship and social development” with the revamped programme rolling out in September at the earliest, the Post has learned.Education authorities were expected to a...

The United States, European Union, Britain and Japan have slammed Beijing’s drastic shake-up of Hong Kong’s electoral system, with some accusing the central government of breaching the “one country, two systems” principle by undermining the c...

The new chief convenor of the Election Committee – a role created under Beijing’s drastic overhaul of Hong Kong’s electoral system – will have a more “transcendent” status than Hong Kong’s leader, and can represent the central governmen...

Embattled Swedish fashion chain H&M said it wanted to regain the trust of customers in China – a week into a backlash in mainland China for its refusal to use Xinjiang cotton.In a statement on Wednesday, the company stressed the importance of the C...

The China-US trade war is pushing Beijing to step up its efforts to steal technology and poach talent from Taiwan to boost its semiconductor industry’s self-sufficiency, the government of the tech-powerhouse island said on Wednesday.Washington has ...

Tens of thousands of subdivided flats, home to some of Hong Kong’s poorest people, should be subject to rent controls tied to an existing index that reflects the general market, with raises capped at no more than 15 per cent, a government-appointed...

Visitors to a zoo in southwestern China were left shocked and confused when they saw a golden retriever in a cage intended to accommodate an African lion. In a video clip that circulated widely on social media this week, a man only identified by hi...

Divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in January, and Indonesia’s air accident investigator on Wednesday said it could take up to a week to be able to listen to the recording.The CV...

China’s advanced manufacturing “can continue to outperform” traditional manufacturing, driven by heavy policy support from Beijing, after the sector led a key monthly indicator of economic activities in March. Beijing introduced a comprehensive...

China closed the main bridge linking the country with Myanmar on Tuesday and started a one-week lockdown of the border city Ruili after six local Covid-19 infections were reported. The health commission of Yunnan province in southwestern China said i...

US authorities searching for a man who viciously attacked an Asian-American woman near New York City’s Times Square are asking the public for help – not only in locating the suspect, but also in doing its part to disrupt further assaults.Police o...

Hong Kong’s Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine roll-out is likely to resume by early next week, according to two sources.Distribution of the German-made vaccine was abruptly put on hold last Wednesday on the advice of its supplier after the scheme’s frontli...

An area of pristine rainforest the size of the Netherlands was burned or hacked down last year, as the destruction of the planet’s tropical forests accelerated despite a global economic slowdown, according to research Wednesday.The worst losses wer...

Australia on Wednesday announced it would begin building its own guided missiles in close collaboration with the United States as it seeks to boost its defence capabilities.The news comes amid growing unease in the Pacific region about China’s incr...

When 33-year-old Indian audiologist Zenia Irani and her partner were granted permanent residency in Ontario, Canada in 2019, they jumped at the chance for a higher quality of life, cleaner air and better job prospects. The Mumbai-based couple “zero...

[Sponsored article] With the Covid-19 pandemic creating new changes and challenges in daily life, it has become essential to find innovative solutions to help everyone live in a more connected, efficient and sustainable way. Hong Kong is a prime p...

Nepal was set to restart Covid-19 inoculations after receiving a donation of doses from China, resuming a campaign that was put on hold because India slowed vaccine exports.India and China have sought to use vaccine diplomacy to extend influence arou...

China’s loans to developing countries commonly involve contracts allowing it to terminate or speed up repayments if recipients’ actions are against Chinese interests, a report has found. Such actions include ending diplomatic relations with Beiji...

Australian Olympians became embroiled in the global row over Chinese forced-labour cotton Wednesday as the country revealed its uniforms for the upcoming Tokyo Games.The Australian Olympic committee faced criticism as it rolled out ASICS-branded spor...

Indian authorities have blocked at least two of ByteDance’s bank accounts for alleged tax evasion, prompting it to ask a court to quash the directive that it fears will hit its operations, two sources with direct knowledge told Reuters.ByteDance in...

Hong Kong’s desire to reboot its coronavirus-ravaged tourism sector by forming air travel bubbles with seven overseas destinations could prove difficult to get off the ground, with control of the pandemic, the pace of vaccination and the choice of ...

G. Gordon Liddy, the former FBI agent and White House staffer imprisoned for organising the 1972 Watergate burglary that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon, has died. He was 90.He died March 30 at his daughter’s home in Mount Vern...

China is taking a “huge risk” by signing a 25-year cooperation deal with Iran, a government adviser and diplomatic observers have warned.Both sides hailed the deal, signed last week by Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad...

The significance of Hong Kong’s sweeping electoral overhaul goes deeper than merely raising the barriers for opposition hopefuls to enter polls, analysts who have followed the city’s political development for decades say.Some key moves, they argu...

China’s economic recovery continued in March, powered by a better-than-expected surge in the service sector, data released on Wednesday showed. China’s non-manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) – a gauge of sentiment in the service a...

The United States on Wednesday ordered the departure of non-essential diplomats from Myanmar, amid growing violence following the military coup to oust civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.Daily protests demanding the restoration of the elected governmen...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host his counterpart from Seoul, Chung Eui-yong, for talks this week as China tries to woo South Korea and break US containment in the region. Chung, who became South Korea’s minister of foreign affairs in Febr...

Fosun Pharma, the agent distributing BioNTech vaccines in Hong Kong and Macau, said that a new batch of doses is ready to be shipped, pending the results of the investigation into packaging defects which had halted the cities’ roll-out of the Germa...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has dismissed suggestions there is a conflict of interest in her chairing the city’s committee for safeguarding national security, now tasked with helping vet aspiring election candidates.And Lam moved t...

  Unrest in coup-hit Myanmar has thrown the spotlight on some of the country’s armed ethnic groups, after three of them threatened the junta with retaliation for its deadly crackdown on protests. Some analysts are warning the crisis could spiral...

One cannot explain art. Art is not a mathematical problem that can be broken down into black and white answers. The moment we rationalise and justify art, it loses its meaning.Art is supposed to provoke emotions. An artist’s objective is to conn...

China is not facing a shortage in energy supply this year despite an ongoing ban on Australian coal, a key source of power for the world’s second largest economy, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Tuesday.“No matter what the situat...

A man has been charged over online abuse directed at a Japanese star of Netflix reality show Terrace House who took her own life last year, prosecutors said Tuesday.A spokesman for the Tokyo Prosecutors’ Office said a “summary indictment against ...

The role Hong Kong plays in China’s drive to become a global technological power remains vital as the city boasts world-class universities and an open environment for scientific research, according to a panel of economic planners and experts. The ...

US President Joe Biden plans to allow a pandemic-related ban on visas for certain temporary workers, enacted by former president Donald Trump, to expire on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter.The moratorium, which affected H-1B vi...

Chinese hackers have stolen videos from tens of thousands of security cameras in private properties across the country and are selling the video clips online as “home video packages,” the Chinese outlet Henan Television reported.The video footage...

Germany will from Wednesday limit the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to people aged 60 and above as well as high-priority groups following further reports of a rare brain blood disorder.“We have to be able trust the vaccines,” Chancellor...

Onlookers grew increasingly angry as they begged Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin to take his knee off George Floyd’s neck, but Chauvin would not let up, and another officer forced back members of the crowd who tried to intervene, witnesses testif...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticised China on Tuesday for a catalogue of alleged human rights abuses over the past year, even as he pledged that the US would address its own human rights failings as part of a broader global promotion of ci...

For as long as there have been pop stars, there have been overzealous fans – but no genre seems to attract the fanaticism of K-pop. Take Blackpink, arguably the biggest girl group in the world today, with millions upon millions of singles sold and...

Nearly 9,000 litres of red wine from a vineyard owned by renowned Australian pearling company Paspaley Group were detained in south China last month, as Beijing’s block on Australian wine continues amid a protracted dispute between the two countrie...

Chinese writer Can Xue and Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, both long-favoured contenders for the Nobel Prize for literature, are among nominees for the International Booker Prize for fiction.Can Xue’s I Live in the Slums and Ngugi’s The Perfec...

The United States was engaged in a “power grab” that breached international law by trying to regulate Meng Wanzhou’s conduct in Hong Kong, the Huawei Technologies executive’s lawyer told her extradition hearing on Tuesday.Lawyer Gib van Er...

US President Joe Biden took new actions on Tuesday to push back against a recent wave of violent, racist attacks on Asian-Americans, according to the White House.“Across our nation, an outpouring of grief and outrage continues at the horrific viole...

A French air strike killed 19 civilians in Mali in January, a UN report said on Tuesday, prompting a strong denial from France.The French air force struck near the remote village of Bounti on January 3, in circumstances that sparked controversy in th...

President Jair Bolsonaro will replace all three commanders of Brazil’s armed forces, his government said on Tuesday, the latest upheaval in Brasilia as the far-right leader braces against mounting criticism over an explosion of Covid-19 deaths.The ...

SpaceX’s fourth test flight of its biggest rocket ended again in a mishap, sending smoking debris across the launch site and raising the prospect of more development hurdles for a vehicle designed to put humans on the moon and Mars.The Starship SN-...

China’s top legislative body has approved fundamental changes to Hong Kong’s political system, slashing the number of directly elected seats and ensuring more pro-Beijing representation in the city’s legislature, creating a powerful new post to...

Retailers such as H&M and Nike are facing fury and boycotts from China after expressing concerns over the use of forced labour in Xinjiang’s cotton fields. As of last Friday, the hashtag #ISupportXinjiangCotton has received 4.5 billion views and 28...