Environmental groups incensed at Japan’s decision to release more than a million tons of contaminated water from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean are accusing the government of downplaying the true scale of the danger the...

The Hong Kong government has set out three dates for coming polls, starting on September 19 with the contest for seats on the powerful Election Committee, which controls all key races.The Legislative Council elections, which had earlier been postpone...

Hong Kong has confirmed 13 new coronavirus cases, while the city’s BioNTech vaccination programme has been boosted by the arrival of 300,000 more doses.Three of Tuesday’s Covid-19 cases were locally transmitted, one of which was untraceable, and ...

Jailed Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung has been handed another prison sentence, this time for four months, for joining an unauthorised rally and flouting a government-imposed mask ban over a year ago.Eastern Court on Tuesday senten...

One Hong Kong police officer drew his gun and another used pepper spray to subdue a 45-year-old man accused of attacking a fellow officer with a hammer at one of the force’s precincts in the early hours of Tuesday.Two officers suffered minor injuri...

A Hong Kong couple has been found guilty of murdering their five-year-old daughter three years ago in one of the city’s most horrifying cases of child abuse.The girl’s 56-year-old step-grandmother was also convicted of two out of four counts of c...

Hong Kong will not regulate the casting of blank ballots in the laws it is drafting to implement Beijing’s radical overhaul of the city’s electoral system, but the new legislation could make organising or inciting others to do so illegal, the ci...

A struggling 261-year-old UK toy store chain is seeking a new lease of life in the hands of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, who’s looking to India where about one-fifth of the world’s babies are born to fuel its revival. Hamleys, a British retail i...

Beijing warned that it might take action in response to Tokyo’s decision to dump radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, adding to already strained ties between the two East Asian neighbours. China’s foreign mini...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Seligman and Natasha Bertrand on politico.com on April 12, 2021.As Russia amasses the highest number of troops on Ukraine’s border since 2014, the qu...

Confirmation in Singapore of a migrant worker who contracted Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated may have caused some alarm, but infectious disease experts said that this is an expected development and there is little cause for concern.On Sunday,...

A court in China has upheld a suspended death sentence for a man who abducted a person with Down’s syndrome so his body could be sold and substituted for another body due to be cremated to circumvent a government ban on burials. The convicted man,...

An old bicycle shed filled with rust-stained equipment, built decades ago from scrap metal, is home to one of Beijing’s longest surviving gyms. Up to eight men, mostly in their 60s, gather there each afternoon without fail, ready to pump iron. Many...

China’s imports and exports continued their strong rebound in March, data released on Tuesday showed. Exports grew by 30.6 per cent last month from a year earlier to US$241.13 billion, down from the 60.6 per cent seen in January and February, and b...

Authorities are investigating alleged violations of coronavirus social-distancing rules at the headquarters of the Scout Association of Hong Kong in Kowloon, where a banquet of more than 100 people was held – five times greater than the legal limit...

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will decline to name China as a currency manipulator in her first semi-annual foreign exchange report, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that allows the United States to sidestep a fresh clash wit...

Hong Kong officials will seek to leave nothing to chance by laying out on Tuesday a “watertight” set of amendments to local laws to implement a Beijing-led overhaul of the city’s electoral system, sources told the Post. A redrawing of geograph...

Five children of Suharto, the late Indonesian dictator, are being sued for the second time by a Singapore-based company involved in a project to modernise a Jakarta tourist attraction seen as a legacy of the country’s authoritarian era – the Tama...

China’s military has introduced guidelines to prevent troops serving on the Tibetan plateau from getting altitude sickness, a move seen as boosting combat readiness as the country remains locked in a border dispute with India.“Altitude sickness i...

A Facebook post by the Hong Kong government’s publicity arm about arrangements for the community Covid-19 testing programme last summer has emerged as its most read message in 2020, with a reach of 863,404, authorities have revealed.The second and ...

The Japanese government decided on Tuesday to release treated radioactive water accumulating at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, having assessed there will be no negative impact on human health or the environment despi...

Prosecutors’ case against former Officer Derek Chauvin drew towards a close on Monday with tender memories from George Floyd’s younger brother and damaging testimony from a police use-of-force expert who said no “reasonable” officer would hav...

Restaurant and bar owners in Hong Kong have reacted with anger and disappointment to the government’s requirements for easing the coronavirus restrictions on their businesses.New conditions announced by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on...

Taiwan is making arrangements for former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo to visit the island later this year -a move that is likely to anger Beijing. Pompeo, known for his strong support of the island during his time as the US secretary of state, ...

Police shot and killed a Knoxville, Tennessee, high school student on Monday after they said he opened fire on them in a campus bathroom, wounding an officer.The gunfire, which erupted at about 3.15pm at Austin-East Magnet High School on the east sid...

As the world’s two biggest naval fleets engage in the Indo-Pacific region, China’s People’s Liberation Army can observe and learn from the United States Navy in adapting future tactical combined operations, according to defence analysts. They s...

Pakistan police used tear gas and water cannon on Monday on thousands of supporters of an Islamist anti-blasphemy party after the arrest of their leader, who has called for the expulsion of the French ambassador.Anti-French sentiment has been simmeri...

US President Joe Biden used a virtual meeting with corporate leaders about a global shortage of semiconductors to push on Monday for his US$2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, telling them that the US should be the world’s computer chip leader.“We ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged governments on Monday to consider imposing a “solidarity or wealth tax” on the rich – who made money during the coronavirus pandemic – in a bid to cut extreme inequality.“We must make ...

Fresh protests broke out in Minneapolis despite a curfew implemented after a police officer fatally shot a young black man when she confused her handgun with her taser, fuelling tensions in a US city already on edge because of the George Floyd murder...

An unidentified gunman shot dead a man and badly injured a woman outside a Paris hospital on Monday before fleeing the scene on a motorbike, police said.Officials ruled out a terrorist attack, with witness statements appearing to point to a targeted ...

Confusion and complacency in addressing Covid-19 means the pandemic is a long way from over, but it can be brought under control in months with proven public health measures, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said ...

China’s People Liberation Army flew 25 warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Monday, its largest incursion yet as tension in the Taiwan Strait continues to escalate. According to Taiwan’s defence ministry, the PLA wa...

Russian prison officials are threatening to start force-feeding jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, his team said on Monday, after he lost 8kg (18lbs) since starting a hunger strike. “Seeing the seriousness of the hunger strike, the administrati...

As the Philippines experiences an unprecedented surge in Covid-19 cases that is overwhelming all Metro Manila hospitals, anger is rising at the government’s handling of the crisis and President Rodrigo Duterte’s absence from public view over the ...

The European Union says it will not pay off Montenegro’s near-US$1 billion debts to China, rejecting the tiny Balkan nation’s repeated pleas for help.A spokesman for the EU told the South China Morning Post that it “does not repay loans of part...

[Sponsored Article] The fourth academic year at Stamford American School Hong is full of excitement as the Year of the Ox ushers in significant development milestone, including a large-scale campus expansion and receipt of the internationally-recogn...

China has given new US Senate legislation designed to contain its tech rise a relatively muted response, despite a warning from some analysts that the move represents a paradigm shift in relations.The US Strategic Competition Act of 2021, presented t...

A month after their leaders were among the participants in the first-ever Quad summit, a naval operation is threatening to drive a wedge between the United States and India.Feathers were ruffled in New Delhi after the US Navy on Wednesday sent a wars...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to attend a two-day virtual summit on climate change hosted by his US counterpart Joe Biden next week.Xi’s participation in the Earth Day summit on April 22 and 23 will put the focus on whether the two bigge...

Hong Kong residents stranded in Britain have largely welcomed a government decision to lift the city’s coronavirus-related ban on arrivals from the country that began in May, though some have criticised what they see as poor coordination.Chief Exec...

China’s former ambassador to Britain will help coordinate Beijing’s policy on North Korea, after an earlier stint as envoy in the reclusive nation reportedly ended on a sour note.Liu Xiaoming, Beijing’s top diplomat in Britain from 2010 until J...

Improved global demand and a favourable base effect are likely to have kept China’s exports buoyant in March, while higher oil prices will have boosted its imports, a Reuters poll showed on Monday.China’s trade surplus is expected to be US$52.05 ...

A court in Xinjiang will hear a defamation case against a German researcher who has accused Beijing of large-scale human rights abuses against Muslims in the far-western region.A court in Kashgar, the biggest city in southern Xinjiang, accepted the c...

Britons on Monday toasted a significant easing of coronavirus restrictions, with early morning pints – and much-needed haircuts – as the country took a tentative step towards the resumption of normal life.Some pubs wasted no time and opened on th...

Guo Meiling, a Chinese influencer better known as Guo Meimei, was among 75 people arrested by Shanghai police for selling diet food that contains banned substances, news portal The Paper reported on Monday.The Pudong district police in Shanghai issue...

Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was hit with a fresh criminal charge on Monday, as the junta’s tough crackdown on dissent rolls on.The 75-year-old Nobel laureate has not been seen in public since being detained in the early hour...

Tensions continue to simmer along the disputed border between India and China after the latest round of talks ended with no sign of progress.The latest negotiations between the two militaries took place at the Mordor/Chushule meeting point on the Ind...

Pro-Beijing heavyweights and Hong Kong’s justice minister have called on lawyers in the city to make use of their strengths to take part in China’s grand development blueprint in the coming few years, better known as the 14th five-year plan.Speak...

Ant Group, controlled by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, said on Monday it will apply in its entirety to become a regulated financial holding company after China’s top regulators publicly mapped out a blueprint for overhauling the planet’s largest f...