Hong Kong’s leader has shot down her vocal predecessor’s controversial push to build flats on the fringes of the city’s country parks, and defended the civil service against his claims they lack a sense of urgency in implementing government hou...

Pressure is mounting on South Korean President Moon Jae-in to pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, who is back in prison after his conviction in a massive corruption scandal, even though business has rarely looked better at the country’s largest compa...

Six Hong Kong opposition figures have been remanded in custody ahead of their sentencing next week for organising an unauthorised protest on National Day amid the anti-government movement in 2019.District Judge Amanda Woodcock’s ruling on Tuesday c...

Japan’s economy shrank at an annualised rate of 5.1 per cent in the first quarter, a government report showed on Tuesday, heightening fears of another recession as the country struggles with a slow vaccination roll-out and rising coronavirus cases....

Hong Kong’s first local Covid-19 patient found with a mutated strain of the coronavirus, arrested earlier this month for allegedly lying to health officials about his whereabouts, has been granted temporary release ahead of a court hearing at the e...

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Taiwan recorded 240 new local Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Tuesday as it continues to battle a fresh surge in infections.Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said the new cases were located mostly in the Greater Taipei area, with 106 reported in New T...

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Australia’s prime minister on Tuesday said it was still not safe to allow residents who were fully vaccinated for Covid-19 to travel overseas, as industries hit hard by the pandemic press for a faster reopening of international borders.“I underst...

Hong Kong’s office in Taiwan is being closed from Tuesday in another sign of worsening cross-strait relations.Sources told the Post the decision to close the Hong Kong Economic, Trade and Cultural Office (Taiwan) with immediate effect was made by t...

New Zealand is set to phase out lower-skilled migrants and lure wealthy investors in what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s administration has billed as a “once-in-a-generation reset” of its immigration system.Ardern on Tuesday said reliance on a...

As India crossed the bleak milestone of 25 million coronavirus infections on Tuesday, Bollywood celebrities have stepped in to help out with relief work, organising food for Covid-19 patients, and to amplify the appeals of the needy on social media.F...

The US state of South Carolina has introduced a law requiring death row prisoners to choose between firing squad and electric chair after a lack of lethal injection drugs halted executions for a decade.“This weekend, I signed legislation into law t...

Hong Kong’s benchmark stock index advanced for the third day, amid optimism that two consecutive weeks of zero new local infections of the Covid-19 disease puts the city on track to seek to reopen its northern border with Shenzhen, which would bols...

Hong Kong’s goal of “zero local infections” was finally within reach after a months-long fight against a resurgent coronavirus, the city’s leader said on Tuesday, as just one imported case was confirmed.With the exception of a Saturday case s...

The United States Senate on Monday advanced a bill that would provide billions of dollars in government funding for technology research as part of a broader legislative effort to counter China.The chamber voted 84-11 to move ahead with the Endless Fr...

[Sponsored Article] An exciting new programme for advanced learning at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) presents an enriched curriculum for highly motivated students determined to play leadership roles in tomorrow’s rapidly changing, hi-tech w...

The concentration of Viagra and other drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction in Seoul’s waste water is so high that sewage treatment plants may be unable to adequately filter them out, experts in South Korea have warned.There is a hefty upswing i...

Some global luxury brands are switching to short-term leases and pop-up outlets in Hong Kong, taking advantage of cheaper rental charges amid soaring vacancy rates in what was once the world’s most expensive high street commercial property market.L...

Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying’s increasingly vocal stance on the city’s housing shortage and national security law has sparked speculation he plans to run for the top job again, but even if he is not, his rhetoric is putting pressure on...

President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he would support a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after days of calling for calm but not publicly seeking an end to the conflict, a significant shift in the US approach to the crisis foll...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Betsy Woodruff Swan and Lara Seligman on politico.com on May 17, 2021.In the final months of the Trump administration, then-Defence Secretary Mark Esper qui...

Media around the world are suffering revenue losses and operational difficulties because of the large-scale posting of their news content on internet platforms. Some are now taking steps to address the issue. The passage in February of a law in Austr...

Beijing will not allow Taipei to use its surge in coronavirus cases as leverage in its long-running campaign to join an international health body, according to mainland analysts.And with relations across the Taiwan Strait continuing to languish, ther...

An Arizona woman accused in the grisly slayings of her two children with a meat cleaver made her first court appearance on Monday, where she denied harming them.“I did not kill anybody,” Yui Inoue, 40, said through a Japanese interpreter before a...

Working more than 55 hours a week is a “serious health hazard,” health experts have said after a new study suggested long working hours are leading to an increasing number of deaths from heart disease and stroke.The World Health Organization (WHO...

A former Florida official central to the federal probe on whether US congressman Matt Gaetz trafficked a minor for sex pleaded guilty on Monday and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, which may spell trouble for the Republican congressman.Joel Gree...

US President Joe Biden billed a plan to distribute some 80 million Covid-19 vaccine doses worldwide as part of efforts to counter China and Russia, and boasted of quantities distributed overseas that exceed what the two countries have contributed.“...

Mexico’s president presented an apology Monday for a 1911 massacre in which over 300 Chinese people were slaughtered by revolutionary troops in the northern city of Torreón.The apology is the latest in a series of ceremonies in which President And...

It was quite a good romp. There in square five was Elliott, who helped run the college student newspaper way back then, now a professional psychotherapist. A few zoom squares away was lifelong friend, author and noted screenwriter Aaron. Then there w...

An airport ground worker has been jailed for nearly three years for stealing more than HK$3 million (US$384,600) from a primary school friend who paid her to buy surgical masks at the start of the coronavirus epidemic in Hong Kong last year.Sit Man-y...

Taiwan launched island-wide power cuts on Monday evening following a spike in demand amid a heatwave and drought and failure at a power plant, the second such outage in the global tech hub in a week.Phased blackouts hit the self-ruled island, which m...

International pressure against China over its Xinjiang policies has gained traction in recent months, with China criticised over the treatment of Uygur Muslims in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. China has denied allegations of forced labour and det...

The Shangri-La Dialogue planned for early June in Singapore is still planning to go ahead, after the World Economic Forum announced it would cancel this year’s event citing “tragic circumstances unfolding across geographies” and an uncertain tr...

Some 400 American soldiers and defence contractors deployed in the southern Philippines could be pulled out within months if Washington and Manila do not sign a new Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) by then.So heard an international conference titled �...

Taiwan has been praised for its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, but health experts say a low vaccination rate could put its earlier success at risk as the island faces its worst outbreak so far.In the last three days, 719 locally transmitted cases...

A national missing children alert system has managed to find 4,707 children five years after its roll-out, China’s public security authority has said.The system called Tuan Yuan, or Reunion, has sent out alerts relating to 4,801 missing children si...

China has thrown its weight behind a call from developing countries to waive intellectual property protections of Covid-19 vaccines, saying it is in favour of all efforts for fair vaccine access.“China fully understands and is supportive of the dev...

A cosmic ray research facility on the Tibetan Plateau has detected the brightest yet of a type of light particle so strong that no law of physics can explain it.The light particle – or photon – carried an unprecedented amount of energy, at 1.4 pe...

China faces a growing problem of far more young men than women, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).Last week, China released the results of its seventh national population census conducted at the end of last year. There were 34.9 m...

Britain took a big step towards normal life on Monday with more easing of coronavirus restrictions, as a campaign to deliver Covid-19 vaccines to vast parts of the world grapples with a significant supply shortage – leaving many nations vulnerable ...

A driver accused of steering a double-decker bus dangerously during an anti-government protest in Hong Kong last year has denied honking the horn at police officers to intimidate them, saying he did so out of concern for their safety after seeing the...

As Moore’s Law, which refers to a prediction by Intel’s co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double roughly every two years, potentially approaches its physical limit, analysts are divided on wheth...

Southeast Asian Muslim-majority nations’ loud condemnation of the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza could prove to be the vital nudge needed to stop world powers from sitting on their hands over the worst violence between Israel and Palestinians in ye...

Calls have increased for China to immediately adjust policies concerning birth control, its pension system and elderly care after last week’s population census confirmed the demographic threats facing the country’s growth and stability.Official m...

Fresh Covid-19 outbreaks show the virus will spread once the world is less vigilant about the pandemic, while slow global vaccine roll-outs risk more variants emerging, a Chinese infectious disease specialist has warned.“Most of the world has not y...

China has developed a standard raft of measures to curb local coronavirus outbreaks. Along with mass testing, community lockdowns and strict contract tracing, holding local officials accountable for new infections has become routine, as evidenced by ...

A Hong Kong taxi driver has been jailed for four years for transporting 40 petrol bombs in his car boot amid anti-government protests in 2019.Tsang Wai-lung, 32, was stopped by police while driving an urban taxi along Lo Fai Road, near Education Univ...

Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying has piled the pressure on the city’s current chief executive, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, urging her administration to speed up tackling the housing shortage, and revive his idea of creating a new bureau to c...

Hong Kong’s civil service chief has said government vacancies remain attractive for jobseekers, even though nearly 2,000 public servants resigned over the past 12 months, the most in at least 15 years.Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak...