Many restaurants have chosen not to join Hong Kong’s new “vaccine bubble” to avoid burdening staff and customers, amid confusion over the rules and the post-launch release of official documents and tools underpinning the system.On the Covid-19 ...

The Philippines is extending an already month-long lockdown by two weeks as the country’s worst coronavirus infection spike since the start of the pandemic starts to ease but remains alarming.President Rodrigo Duterte said in televised remarks on W...

The children of celebrities enjoy a silver-spoon upbringing, yet endure incessant media attention from the moment they are born – and the constant risk of living in their famous parents’ shadows.They have to work extra hard to make people recogni...

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman has rejected calls for him to remove a cartoon on his Twitter account taking aim at Japan’s decision to release contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.Instead of taking down the...

China’s population continued to grow last year, authorities said on Thursday, refuting an earlier media report that suggested it could fall for the first time in nearly 60 years.The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a short statement tha...

The 1990s are widely recognised as the time when red-carpet dressing for women in Hollywood went into overdrive.It was a development largely attributed to the rise of the celebrity stylist and the eagerness of fashion designers to leverage the brand ...

A Hong Kong domestic worker did not contract the city’s third known Covid-19 variant from neighbouring guests in her quarantine hotel as initially suspected, a researcher has revealed to the Post, raising concerns over how exactly she came to be in...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Sarah Ferris and Burgess Everett on politico.com on April 28, 2021.US President Joe Biden’s first joint address to Congress couldn’t have looked any mo...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he will not withdraw navy and coastguard vessels patrolling the disputed South China Sea, insisting the country’s sovereignty over the waters is not negotiable.Tensions over the sea – which China clai...

New pictures of Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge were released to mark the 10th anniversary of their royal wedding on Thursday.The two portraits, taken this week at Kensington Palace by photographer Chris Floyd, show the couple in cuddly ...

India set another global record in new virus cases on Thursday, with an additional 379,257 people infected, as the country gears up to open its vaccination roll-out to all adults on Saturday.It came as the millions-strong Indian expatriate community ...

Work on China’s Tiangong Space Station began in earnest on Thursday, with the first of several modules sent into near-Earth orbit aboard a Long March 5 heavy rocket.The module Tianhe – which means “heavenly harmony” – was blasted off from t...

China’s rapid development of a digital version of the yuan will not push the Federal Reserve to rush its own digital currency project, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday, adding that China’s approach would not work in the Unite...

China as expected blocked Australia’s first request to establish a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel to investigate Beijing’s anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed on imports of Australian barley.It imposed an 80.5 per cent tariff on ...

US President Joe Biden used his prime-time address to the joint sessions of Congress – his highest-profile platform yet – to cast the US-China relationship as a battle in century-defining technologies and a litmus test of the merits of democracy ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nick Niedzwiadek on politico.com on April 28, 2021.US President Joe Biden outlined an optimistic vision after a year wracked by a deadly virus and incalcula...

When US President Joe Biden delivered his debut speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday, history was made behind him, with two powerful women taking their places on the rostrum for the first time.Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been in ...

The Hong Kong Maritime Museum will be expanded to focus on marine and environmental issues while continuing its mission of showcasing the city’s history as a navigation hub, its new director has said.Dutch professor Joost Schokkenbroek, who took on...

Taiwan’s government on Wednesday accused China of waging economic warfare against the Chinese-claimed island’s tech sector by stealing technology and enticing away engineers, as parliament considers strengthening legislation to prevent this.Taiwa...

Police officers conducting stop-and-search checks on Hong Kong’s streets from next Wednesday will be able to quickly inspect residents’ ID cards using a new app, a tool that could reduce the verification process from five minutes to just 15 secon...

Like durian in some Asian countries, the smelly food in China that people love or hate is luosifen, or “river snail rice noodles” in English. This controversial dish is in the spotlight on Chinese social media after President Xi Jinping inspecte...

Trade between China and Africa rose by 26.9 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with 2020, helped by the recovery of economies after the devastating coronavirus pandemic.Two-way China-Africa trade totalled US$52.1 billion in the first...

US President Joe Biden gave his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday (Thursday morning Hong Kong time), a prime time speech on the eve of his 100th day in office. Biden used the speech to talk about what he’s accomplished in th...

Bar-trade players have warned that Hong Kong’s “vaccine bubble” will get off to a chaotic start on Thursday, with a lack of documents and tools leaving many struggling business operators worried about whether they can even reopen without breach...

Zhang Yiming, the 38-year-old founder of TikTok owner ByteDance, has topped a list of Chinese business leaders younger than 40 for the third consecutive year.Zhang took the top spot in the 2021 list of the 40 most successful business leaders in China...

Police in Alameda, California, are under fire over the death of a Latino man who was pinned to the ground face down for more than five minutes on the same day a jury in Minneapolis began deliberating in the George Floyd case.Autopsy findings have not...

Companies in Hong Kong will remain conservative in hiring new employees while salaries will mostly stay frozen even as the city’s economy is likely to recover from the coronavirus pandemic-induced recession this year, according to KPMG.“Most key ...

As experts warn that climate change could threaten the future of coffee bean production, London researchers say they have found a future-proof way to make it.Stenophylla coffee, a rare wild species from upper West Africa, has been found to tolerate ...

As India battles a resurgence in coronavirus cases, China is shoring up ties with South Asia through cooperation on the pandemic.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterparts from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh agreed...

On April 16, a District Court sentenced nine prominent “activists” to imprisonment, with some sentences suspended, for organising and taking part in an unlawful assembly, under the Public Order Ordinance. This is a long-standing statute dating ba...

A new government video showing a local labour official working a 12-hour shift as a Meituan employee has been making the rounds on Chinese social media, two days after the on-demand delivery giant became the latest target of China’s sweeping campai...

A fully vaccinated nurse was one of the three community Covid-19 cases reported in Singapore on Wednesday.Following the detection of her case, Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) locked down the affected ward, and preliminary tests found four more persons ...

Threats of defamation suits against academics and journalists by an Australian federal government worker. Calls for the firing of a prominent China scholar. An online hate campaign against a think tank analyst who has researched alleged forced labour...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday defended the measures that his predecessor Mike Pompeo took against the American operations of Chinese media outlets, calling them out for “undermining democracy”.The US and China began restrictin...

Apple Inc on Wednesday posted sales and profits far ahead of Wall Street expectations and announced a US$90 billion share buy-back as customers continued to upgrade to 5G iPhones and snapped up new Mac models with Apple’s house-designed processor c...

A Chinese businessman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to US charges that he smuggled marine technology out of the United States for the benefit of a Chinese military university involved in developing underwater drones.Qin Shuren, a marine biologist and f...

Dozens of Brussels lawmakers have criticised China’s efforts to “gag” European critics through sanctions and vowed to block the EU-China investment deal while the measures remain in place. At a debate in the European Parliament on Wednesday, m...

The path forward in Meng Wanzhou’s extradition battle remained murky as lawyers continued to grapple with a three-month delay in the final phase of the Huawei Technologies Co. executive’s marathon case in a Vancouver court.Lawyers for Meng and th...

Major Chinese investors are in talks to buy a stake in Saudi Aramco, several sources told Reuters on Wednesday, as Saudi Arabia’s state oil firm prepares to sell another slice of its business to international investors.Saudi Arabia was in discussio...

Chinese and Russian media are systematically seeking to sow mistrust in Western Covid-19 vaccines in their latest disinformation campaigns aimed at dividing the West, a European Union report said on Wednesday.From December to April, the two countries...

Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31 per cent more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world’s mountain glaciers.Scientists blame human-caused climate change.Using...

American astronaut Michael Collins, who as pilot of the Apollo 11 command module stayed behind on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin travelled to the lunar surface to become the first humans to walk on the moon, died on Wednesday at ...

US federal agents raided Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office on Wednesday, seizing computers and mobile phones in a major escalation of the Justice Department’s investigation into the business dealings of former president Donald Trump’s p...

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said the kingdom is in talks to sell a 1 per cent stake in state oil giant Saudi Aramco to a “leading global energy company” as he forecast an economic rebound after the coronavirus pandemic.The kingdom is looking at...

Myanmar authorities have filed several lawsuits against one of the main activists of the campaign against military rule, including cases related to murder and treason, the state broadcaster announced on Wednesday.Wai Moe Naing was arrested on April 1...

Ten years after they found and killed Osama bin Laden, US Navy Seals are undergoing a major transition to improve leadership and expand their commando capabilities to better battle threats from global powers like China and Russia.The new plan cuts th...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor heaped praise on an overhaul of the city’s electoral system on Wednesday as she hosted a television talk show to explain the Beijing-imposed changes.The programme Get to Know the Election Committee Subsec...

The Hong Kong government collected just HK$88.7 billion (US$11.4 billion) last year in land premium revenue, the least it has received in five years, new figures show.The revenue – which mostly comes from the sale of government land, modifications ...

China said it was willing to resume a travel exchange with the United States following an announcement by the US it was easing some coronavirus travel bans.The US has announced it will allow students and professionals in various categories and from v...