Warplanes from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and the United States gathered southwest of Taiwan at the same time this week as a US warship transited nearby, adding more tension to the region.The encounter started on Wednesday morning when a US Air For...

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin on Sunday arrived in Israel on the first visit by a senior representative of President Joe Biden administration, whose stance on Iran has worried Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.Austin was due to ...

India’s big industrialist families usually make the news for their billion-dollar deals and high-profile acquisitions, but every now and then they grab the headlines for an entirely different reason: the battles over their billions.Last month saw t...

Hundreds of Pakistani Hazara women are learning how to deliver side kicks and elbow blows as martial arts booms within the marginalised community.Hazaras, who are mainly Shia Muslims, have faced decades of sectarian violence in the southwestern city ...

China’s record fine on one of the largest home-grown corporate champions sets an example for the country’s technology behemoths and aspiring unicorns, showing them that the antitrust regulator is increasingly competent in applying market rules to...

It’s hard to imagine it was only in 2014 that Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor asked students leaders demanding universal suffrage to hold out hope, saying: “We can still improve the system for 2022.” She was chief secretary at the time and leading a...

Tokyo Olympic organisers plan to prepare 300 hotel rooms for athletes who test positive for the coronavirus at this summer’s Games but show no or minor symptoms of Covid-19, Kyodo news agency said on Sunday.Japan’s government is placing Tokyo und...

Taiwanese entrepreneur Andy Chen and his family have packed their belongings to leave Myanmar. The 35-year-old first visited the country in 2013 as a volunteer and now owns an engineering service firm, but life in Yangon has become too difficult sinc...

Hong Kong has enough doses of Covid-19 vaccine and does not need to rush to secure a third type, according to a government pandemic adviser who also warned against a further easing of social-distancing rules.Respiratory medicine specialist Professor ...

Rescuers were working on Sunday to reach 21 workers trapped in a coal mine in west China’s Xinjiang region after flooding cut power underground and disrupted communications, state media reported.The accident happened at the Fengyuan coal mine in Hu...

China and the United States are poised to compete fiercely on communications and network technologies in the developing world, which will play a growing role in global networks in the next decade, experts say – and Belt and Road Initiative countrie...

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland won this year’s top Hollywood directing award on Saturday – the final major guild ceremony before the Oscars, and an important late bellwether in Tinseltown’s pandemic-delayed and mainly virtual award season.Zhao spen...

Former US President Donald Trump vowed at a donor retreat on Saturday to help Republicans win seats in Congress in 2022 elections but lashed out at two top party figures, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and former Vice-President Mike Pence.At ...

Four electronic payment service providers – AlipayHK, Octopus, Tap & Go and WeChat Pay HK – have been chosen to operate Hong Kong’s HK$5,000 (US$643) voucher scheme, which officials plan to launch this summer to boost local spending and acceler...

Shenzhen was nothing more than a fishing village four decades ago, before China carved out its first special economic zone to experiment with market capitalism.Well-heeled people from neighbouring Hong Kong flocked across the border for holidays, o...

Hong Kong cabbies wooed by ride-hailing company Uber say it gave them a lifeline as their earnings slumped through the Covid-19 pandemic, but the city’s taxi operators are unhappy.The Hong Kong Taxi Council, an alliance of 42 taxi groups, warned c...

A super power grid connecting all the countries of northeast Asia would make renewable energy as cheap and available as coal, according to a new study by Chinese scientists.As a region, northeast Asia, which comprises China, Russia, Mongolia, South K...

A documentary about the challenges that migrant domestic workers face when bringing cases against their former employers in Hong Kong will be screened on Wednesday at the University of Hong Kong. The film follows the plight of four Filipino women and...

Australian property stylist Ali Waight thought she had a mosquito bite when a red welt appeared on her left leg in early 2018. But within days, the mark had “developed into a massive hole”. What followed was almost a year of fatigue and misery fo...

Cuba on Saturday published a new animal-welfare law, the country’s first, providing fines in cases of abuse but not banning cockfights or animal sacrifices during religious rites.The legislation is considered a victory for Cuba’s civil society, o...

Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed three soldiers for “high treason”, the defence ministry said, in a rare public announcement that accused the soldiers of colluding with an unspecified enemy.The executions come as a Saudi-led military campaign in...

Paris police said on Saturday they had fined more than 100 diners at an underground restaurant flouting coronavirus restrictions and arrested its organiser, after a week of allegations that ministers attended similar rule-breaking events.“Guests fi...

People who ignored an initial warning to evacuate the area closest to a volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent raced to get clear on Saturday, a day after it erupted with an explosion that shook the ground, spewed ash skyward and blank...

Four dead grey whales washed ashore on San Francisco Bay area beaches in nine days, with experts announcing that two of the giant aquatic mammals died from ship strikes. An investigation was ongoing on Saturday into what happened to the other two.Bio...

The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa can “break through” Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is low and the research has not been peer re...

A New York man is facing hate crime charges after police said he made threats and anti-Asian American remarks – to an undercover officer assigned to a hate crimes task force.Juvian Rodriguez, 35, was arrested on Friday afternoon after the alleged c...

Britain’s Prince Charles paid a personal tribute on Saturday to his “dear papa” Prince Philip, saying the royal family missed him enormously and that the 99-year-old would have been amazed at the touching reaction across the world to his death....

Iran said on Saturday it has begun mechanical tests on its newest advanced nuclear centrifuge, even as the five world powers that remain in a foundering 2015 nuclear deal with Iran attempt to bring the United States back into the agreement.Iran’s I...

Egypt’s best-known archaeologist on Saturday revealed further details on a Pharaonic city recently found in the southern province of Luxor.Zahi Hawass said that archaeologists found brick houses, artefacts, and tools from pharaonic times at the sit...

Rachael Blackmore broke down one of the biggest gender barriers in sports by becoming the first female jockey to win the gruelling Grand National horse race.Blackmore, a 31-year-old Irish national, rode Minella Times to victory at odds of 11-1 at Ain...

Buckingham Palace officials say Prince Philip’s funeral will take place on Saturday at Windsor Castle in a family service that will be closed to the public.The palace said the Duke of Edinburgh took part in planning his funeral and the focus on fam...

As New Yorkers get back on their feet after a year of the pandemic, so are the rats that survived a once-in-a-generation food shock.The number of rodent complaints to a city hotline in March surged by 80 per cent to 2,906 from last March, when calls ...

China is exploring the option of mixing different Covid-19 vaccines as a solution to the relatively low efficacy of its existing jabs, the head of the country’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said.Gao Fu told a conference in Chengdu ...

US drug giant Johnson & Johnson, whose Covid-19 vaccine has been touted by some local health experts as a promising replacement for the AstraZeneca jab, has no plans to supply Hong Kong this year, the Post has learned.While officials are pinning thei...

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin warned against a “spiral back” into sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland on Saturday, after a week-long streak of unrest continued with 14 police injured in the latest night of clashes.Disorder sparked in poc...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, joined the worldwide tributes to Prince Philip by sending a message of condolence to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth following his death. Xi and Peng “expressed their deep condolences” and exte...

As many as 60 countries, including some of the world’s poorest, might be stalled at the first shots of their coronavirus vaccinations because nearly all deliveries through the global programme intended to help them are blocked until as late as June...

Chinese Communist Party officials should not become over-reliant on big data but be mindful of the “human factors” in their decision-making on matters involving grass-roots members, according to a Chinese academic.While big data has played a pivo...

India protested to the United States for a navy vessel conducting a transit through its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) without consent, the foreign ministry said on Friday, in a rare row between the friendly navies of the two countries.The USS John Pa...

Gun salutes were fired across Britain on Saturday to mark the death of Prince Philip as tributes flooded in for a man who was a pillar of strength for Queen Elizabeth during her record-breaking reign.Members of the public laid flowers outside royal r...

Hong Kong police are investigating a former opposition lawmaker who has fled to Canada for possible misconduct in public office when he presided over meetings of a key committee in the legislature, the Post has learned. The probe into Dennis Kwok ca...

Throughout China, people are celebrating the arrival of spring. I, too, am excited about what flowers I may see or smells I might savour this spring, my first as the UN resident coordinator. As the days go by, temperatures will rise, frozen lakes wil...

A man shot in the shoulder following a wild car chase in Hong Kong’s Sha Tin two days ago is believed to be linked to a burglary ring that targeted smartphone vendors, police have revealed.A total of three men and two women, aged 37 to 46 – in ad...

The deepening row between Manila and Beijing over the weeks-long presence of Chinese vessels at a disputed reef in the South China Sea could escalate as anger grows in the Philippines and the US signals its support for its Southeast Asian ally, analy...

Two subcontractors accused of giving false evidence in an inquiry into tainted drinking water in Hong Kong public housing estates in 2015 have been acquitted after a judge accepted they may not have known the difference between leaded and lead-free s...

Fifteen people were detained last month in coordinated raids across China on criminal gangs accused of smuggling 1 billion yuan (US$152.4 million) worth of baby milk formula into the country over the past two years, according to state media reports.T...

Hong Kong’s class of 2021 will graduate this summer amid a relatively bleak job market under the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, latest statistics show, with analysts and insiders predicting the trend will not improve until next ...

“Don’t force us to choose” has been a common refrain in Southeast Asia as Washington and Beijing clash over trade, technology and the South China Sea. But to political science professor Khong Yuen Foong, the 10 member states of the Association ...

Taiwan is planning to stage live-fire drills on the Dongsha Islands in the South China Sea later this month in preparation for a possible attack by mainland Chinese forces, amid reports the PLA has sent drones to gather intelligence about the Taipei-...

More than 400 Hong Kong district councillors will soon have to take a new oath of office pledging allegiance to the city and swearing to uphold the Basic Law, a move already causing ripples across the opposition camp. The councillors could find them...