Shares of Chinese sportswear maker Li Ning Company hit a historic high as sales during the May day holiday soared fivefold amid a nationalistic buying frenzy following the controversy over cotton produced in the Xinjiang region.China Lining, Li Ning�...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives scored an upset victory in an opposition stronghold on Friday, after Britain held its first major electoral test since Brexit and the coronavirus crisis.The “Super Thursday” regional and local electi...

Andrew Li, 38, is looking forward to June. His father, who lives in Hong Kong, is set to visit Singapore if quarantine-free travel between both air hubs begins on May 26 as planned.It will herald a reunion for most of the Li family, who have remained...

Hongkongers visiting Shenzhen will have to quarantine there for 21 days rather than 14 as previously imposed, after the emergence locally of mutated coronavirus strains, dashing hopes of the border with mainland China reopening soon.The Health Commis...

China has reopened Mount Everest’s northern slope to a few dozen mountaineers who will be tested for the coronavirus and must keep their distance while ascending the world’s highest peak.Both Nepal and China closed the mountain to foreign climber...

Australia will not extend a controversial ban on citizens returning from Covid-19-hit India, the prime minister said on Friday following widespread public outrage.Scott Morrison this week barred all travel from India, fearing a large number of Covid-...

A bold US bid to waive patents on much-needed coronavirus vaccines was strongly opposed by Germany, threatening to derail the proposal that requires the consensus of World Trade Organization members to pass.Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla meanwhile said his...

Police have arrested a Hong Kong dim sum restaurant worker accused of indecently assaulting at least 10 teenage schoolgirls over a two-day period in the city’s Sau Mau Ping area.The arrest of the 22-year-old man came on Thursday, about 24 hours aft...

It is a fitting coincidence that the biggest shake-up of Singapore’s news media industry in decades has been announced in the 50th anniversary month of the country’s biggest ever crackdown on press freedom. Thursday’s news that Singapore Press...

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his country would maintain its policy towards Taiwan following appeals by the island’s foreign minister for support against Beijing’s “expansion of authoritarianism”.Asked about Australian supp...

A man who allegedly stabbed two elderly women without warning at a San Francisco bus stop was charged with attempted murder in an attack that follows a number of others against Asian-Americans nationwide.Patrick Thompson, 54, of San Francisco also wa...

About 8,300 miles east of Wall Street, on a stretch of Bangalore’s Outer Ring Road, sits what was once the heart of the global financial industry’s back office.Before the pandemic, this cluster of glass-and-steel towers housed thousands of employ...

This is the second in a two-part series on the potential impacts of presidential elections in the region on relations with China and the United States. Here, Sarah Zheng examines how territorial disputes with Beijing could influence next year’s Phi...

A massive police operation against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela left 25 people dead, turning the impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood into a battlefield and drawing condemnation from rights groups.Media reports said a policeman was amo...

Hong Kong health authorities are expected on Friday afternoon to announce plans to shorten the city’s mandatory three-week quarantine period for fully vaccinated inbound travellers as well as close contacts of Covid-19 patients, the Post has learne...

Hang Seng Bank’s vice-chairman and chief executive officer Louisa Cheang Wai-wan will take a three-month leave of absence as she recovers from a medical condition first disclosed last year, according to a statement by the lender.Margaret Kwan Wing ...

A recovering US economy and the coronavirus crisis in India helped boost China’s trade data in April, but volumes are “probably close to a cyclical peak”, analysts said.China’s exports grew by 32.3 per cent last month from a year earlier to U...

The death toll from a landslide at a hydroelectric dam project on Indonesia’s Sumatra island has risen to 10, an official said on Thursday, as authorities called off a week-long search for victims.A landslide triggered by heavy rains struck the Chi...

Britain and France withdrew boats from the Channel island of Jersey after a row over fishing rights.A spokesperson for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed on Thursday evening that as the French fishing boats had withdrawn from Jersey's...

China’s services sector expanded at the sharpest pace in four months in April, driven by fast growing new businesses, a private survey showed on Friday, although surging costs are likely to weigh on growth over the coming months.The Caixin/Markit s...

The High Court has granted an urgent bail application from the detained former leader of Hong Kong’s biggest opposition party, after prison authorities defended their decision to bar him from attending his father’s funeral.Wu Chi-wai, an ex-lawma...

South Korea on Thursday announced an ambitious plan to build what it calls the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm, a key project needed to achieve its goal of zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. A total of 36 trillion won (US$32 billio...

A primary school teacher in central China has been arrested for allegedly pulling the hair of a nine-year-old boy so hard the child’s skull was partially scalped and left him with severe internal bleeding and swelling.The teacher, surnamed Chang, v...

Official Chinese social media accounts recently published, then deleted, a series of inflammatory and offensive posts making light of India’s current coronavirus crisis.On Sina Weibo, one post by the Communist Party’s Central Political and Legal ...

Nearly 40,000 domestic workers in Hong Kong still need to arrange Covid-19 screenings if they are to meet the Sunday deadline for mandatory testing, though some have called for flexibility on the part of authorities as they scramble to comply with th...

A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher, authorities said.The three victims were shot in their limbs and expected to survive, officials said at a ne...

G. Balachandran turned 80 this spring – a milestone of a birthday in India, where he lives. If not for the coronavirus pandemic, he would have been surrounded by family members who gathered to celebrate with him.But with the virus ravaging his home...

Japan is ramping up its commitment to developing cutting-edge new capabilities in outer space, cyberspace and the electromagnetic domain – which includes communications and data collection and analysis – as a result of security challenges that ha...

Hundreds of thousands of Thai students and young professionals dissatisfied with the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the slow pace of vaccinations have formed an online group to discuss ways to quit the country for good.The Fa...

China will be watching closely for any changes to America’s policy on Taiwan after the White House’s top Asia official rejected calls for the US to issue a clear statement of willingness to defend Taiwan in the event of the island coming under at...

Twitter suspended several accounts this week that were set up to share statements from a new part of former US President Donald Trump’s website, saying they broke its rules against evading an account ban.Trump was banned from Twitter, where he had ...

The Biden administration is likely to maintain pressure on China by preserving limits on US investments in certain Chinese companies imposed under former president Donald Trump, six people familiar with the matter said, bucking entreaties from Wall S...

Raffaele Esposito, the 19th century Neapolitan credited with inventing Italy’s most famous type of pizza, may be turning in his grave: Rome has a new vending machine which slides out freshly cooked pizzas in just three minutes.Buyers using the flam...

China may step up efforts to reduce steel demand as authorities and industry groups grow increasingly uneasy about high iron ore prices amid a trade dispute with its biggest supplier Australia, according to analysts.China’s state-dominated steel se...

A group of US Republican senators has called on the Department of Justice not to proceed with a plan to offer amnesty to researchers who come forward about previously undisclosed foreign funding, saying it would undercut efforts to protect “long-te...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused nearly 6.9 million deaths across the world, more than double the number officially recorded, a new analysis from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimated.Deaths go ...

Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with Covid-19, a finding they said could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds.To train the bees, scientists in the bio-veteri...

Hong Kong authorities have said they will repair the oldest post office in service after a double-decker bus ran into the historic building following a collision with a motorcyclist on Wednesday.The entrance and part of the facade of the 84-year-old ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday Washington could increase security assistance for Ukraine after what he called Russia’s “reckless and aggressive” actions in massing troops near its border.During a visit to Kiev intended to...

China’s tourism industry may have returned to pre-pandemic levels during the May Day holiday, but tourists have once again been called out for bad behaviour. Tourist attractions across mainland China saw various boorish behaviours including cli...

The European Union and India are set to make big-ticket announcements in their first Leaders’ Meeting on Saturday, including the resumption of long-stalled free-trade talks, infrastructure projects and activities in the Indo-Pacific region.All 27 h...

China says it hopes to see its investment agreement with the European Union ratified soon amid intense speculation that the EU may abandon the deal.An EU spokeswoman on Tuesday denied reports it had suspended efforts to ratify the deal signed with Ch...

Hong Kong prosecutors have asked for a judge designated for national security law cases to try media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying on fraud allegations stemming from the use of his office space.But the application was put on hold as the defence revealed...

A rapid roll-out of Covid-19 vaccinations among elderly Brazilians may have significantly reduced deaths even though a new variant of the virus was spreading, new research has found.The vaccines may have prevented 14,000 deaths among over-80s, accord...

Health officials in Russia approved a single-dose version of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the developers of the shot said on Thursday.The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which helped finance the vaccine, said in a statement that Sputnik ...

The history paper of the Hong Kong university entrance test held on Thursday did not touch on the contentious issue of Sino-Japanese relations after a controversial question on the topic last year ended in its withdrawal.Students sitting this year’...