Malaysia reported its biggest single-day increase in Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began, adding pressure on the government to do more after imposing nationwide curbs on movement this month.The country had 6,075 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, w...

India’s central government on Wednesday sharply rebuked New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and distanced itself from his false claim on social media that a new strain of Covid-19 had been found in Singapore.The response from Prime Minister Na...

China has made progress in recovering Indonesia’s sunken submarine, state media said.After the Indonesian Navy’s KRI Nanggala 402 submarine sank in an accident near the coast of Bali on April 21, the Chinese military sent two naval vessels and a ...

Suzy Ishkontana hardly speaks or eats. It’s been two days since the 7-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble of what was once her family’s home, destroyed amid a barrage of Israeli air strikes. She spent hours buried in the wreckage as her sibl...

The South China Morning Post has won a coveted Webby Award for its documentary on the Hong Kong protests of 2019.China’s Rebel City – The Hong Kong Protests , a four-part film series chronicling the city’s biggest political and social crisis si...

Police have raided Hong Kong’s largest prostitution listing website, go141.com, and arrested 12 men, one of whom allegedly masterminded the operation from his prison cell.In an operation code-named Lakemirror, officers from the organised crime and ...

When Indonesian researcher Ais last year came across a trove of retro LGBTQ zines in Bali, he was taken by the significance of the find.One of the covers, which featured two men embracing, would be considered more than risqué for Indonesia, where al...

Hong Kong should begin offering those aged 12 to 15 the BioNTech coronavirus vaccine before the next school year, health experts said on Wednesday ahead of an anticipated update to the city’s inoculation programme in the afternoon.The call follows ...

Israel’s embassy in China is protesting against what it describes as “blatant anti-Semitism” on a programme run by the overseas channel of state broadcaster CCTV discussing the violence in Gaza and elsewhere.“We have hoped that the times of t...

A type of bacteria from the same family of pathogens as that which causes plague has been detected by South Korean food regulators in kimchi imported from China, a move that is likely to fuel further social media clashes over the origins of the popul...

Taiwan reported 267 domestic Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, prompting the government to raise the alert for the entire island to level three in a four-tier system and call for fair access to vaccines to cope with its shortage.Of the new cases, 70 were ...

Illegal logging is behind the loss of some 4.5 million hectares of forest – an area the size of Denmark – on average each year in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, according to a study by a US non-profit group.Nearly 70 per cent of tropic...

On Sunday, Kunming resident Bao Jing posted on Weibo a picture of a shiny new Louis Vuitton handbag with the words: “I received the gift for Valentine’s Day in advance. I feel so happy with this year’s 520.”In China, May 20 or 520, which when...

China’s chief justice has told Hong Kong’s top judge he is being counted on to fully implement the national security law and help ensure only patriots govern the city during the two men’s first meeting in Beijing.Zhou Qiang, president of the Su...

Brazilian senators on Tuesday accused the country’s former foreign minister of undermining efforts to obtain Covid-19 vaccines after he used anti-China rhetoric during the pandemic.In a parliamentary inquiry into far-right President Jair Bolsonaro�...

Pressure on the Biden administration to shun the Beijing-hosted Winter Olympics mounted on Tuesday as lawmakers and activists rallied behind boycott measures and calls on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to seek an alternative host city, in ...

During the Cold War, Russia’s Nagurskoye airbase was little more than a runway, a weather station and a communications outpost in the Franz Josef Land archipelago.It was a remote and desolate home mostly for polar bears, where temperatures plunge i...

The release on Tuesday of a US government list labelling 17 Central American politicians as corrupt prompted El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to praise China, and its congress to ratify a 2019 cooperation agreement with the country.The office o...

Investment between the United States and China last year fell to the lowest level since 2009 amid the Covid-19 pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions.The investment between the two countries dropped to US$15.9 billion in 2020, falling to less than...

Sri Lanka’s top court has ruled that some provisions of a bill to set up a powerful economic commission in a Chinese-built port city violate the constitution and require approval by a public referendum to become law.At the centre of the dispute are...

China has smashed its Covid-19 vaccination records, with more than 15 million doses administered on Monday in response to local outbreaks of the disease which were traced to the port city of Yingkou in the northeastern province of Liaoning.It was als...

India’s Serum Institute will suspend all coronavirus vaccine exports until around the end of the year amid the country health crisis, dealing a major blow to the global initiative to share jabs with poorer nations.The Covax Facility, a World Health...

The New York attorney general’s office said on Tuesday it has now opened a criminal investigation into former president Donald Trump’s company, increasing the legal risk for Trump and his family.Attorney General Letitia James has been investigati...

Taiwan’s government pledged to try to keep the world supplied with chips even as Covid-19 cases escalate, while anticipating a limited impact from its worst outbreak so far.If only domestic consumption is hit, and the outbreak ends by June 30, gros...

The FBI has revealed that it is investigating the 2017 death of an Asian-American teenager in Colorado as a possible hate crime, a grisly case in which local authorities said she was purposefully set on fire and burned alive in her family’s mountai...

Darwin’s Arch, a famed natural rock formation in the Galapagos Islands that is popular with divers, photographers and cruise-ship tourists, has collapsed from erosion, Ecuadorean environmental officials said.Photographs posted on social media by Ec...

Beijing has appointed veteran diplomat Liu Guangyuan to head the foreign ministry’s Hong Kong office.Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday morning reported the central government had appointed Liu – most recently ambassador to Poland – as Commissione...

China’s cyber police have accused “foreign hostile forces” of stoking protests after the suspected suicide of a 17-year-old student in the country’s southwest, warning Chinese internet users to stay away from such “attempts at colour revolu...

Three Chinese state-backed financial associations have jointly issued a warning about the risks stemming from volatile cryptocurrencies, in the latest step by Chinese authorities to tamp down on speculative trading and draw a clear distinction with t...

A new survey found that foreigners in China were mixed about living in the mainland during the Covid-19 pandemic, reporting a lower quality of life but more satisfaction with career opportunities and the state of the economy.InterNations, a networkin...

Hong Kong has found a new sense of optimism about the border with mainland China reopening as the city has succeeded in driving down its Covid-19 caseload, with leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor saying the goal of “zero local infections” is now w...

Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has refuted news reports in India claiming of a “Singapore variant” of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, adding that “there is no truth whatsoever in the assertions found within the reports”.“There...

Academics at a new campus in mainland China run by a leading Hong Kong university must abide by the law when researching sensitive topics such as Beijing’s treatment of Uygurs in far-western Xinjiang, the head of the new branch has said.Professor L...

Mai Le in Boston does not know when her parents will be able to get vaccinated. The Vietnamese Americans went to Vietnam last January to visit family members and have been stuck there since.With Vietnam now struggling with a fourth wave of Covid-19 t...

The Joe Biden administration extended the deadline to ban American investors from certain Chinese companies by two weeks as his team tries to clarify the scope of policies made under the Trump administration.In an announcement on Tuesday, the Treasur...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Stuart Lau on politico.com on May 18, 2021.The European Parliament is expected to pass a motion on Thursday pushing to formally freeze the EU’s investment...

Chinese ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou on Tuesday criticised the Quad grouping comprising the United States, Japan, India and Australia as representing a “cold war mentality” and “100 per cent outdated.”In an interview with Kyodo, Kong urge...

Heavy air strikes and rocket fire in the Israel-Gaza conflict claimed more lives on Tuesday as tensions flared in Palestinian “day of anger” protests in Jerusalem and the West Bank.Calls for a ceasefire intensified, but Prime Minister Benjamin Ne...

As chief executive of JD Logistics, 38-year-old Yu Rui is poised to emerge as one of the most influential figures in China’s vast logistics services industry, as the company moves forward with the second multibillion-dollar initial public offering ...

Congress approved legislation on Tuesday intended to curtail a striking rise in hate crimes against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, sending US President Joe Biden a bipartisan denunciation of the spate of brutal attacks that have proliferated ...

US exports to China of wine, cotton, log timber and wood have increased over the past year amid a block by Beijing on the same products from Australia, trade data shows.Exports of American coal have also risen since February after Australian shipment...

Aside from action star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s hit movies, Hollywood’s most popular films have rarely featured Asians or Pacific Islanders in leading roles on the big screen, according to an academic study released on Tuesday.The findings...

British Columbia’s handling of Covid-19 in long-term care homes has come under fire in the Canadian province’s legislative assembly, in the wake of a South China Morning Post investigation that revealed at least 192 residents had died in homes w...

The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday it will offer a third shot to recipients of the Chinese state-backed Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine six months after their initial two-dose regimen. The move appears to make the UAE the first country world...

Animal lovers in Berlin got a shock on Tuesday when it was revealed that the parents of beloved polar bear Hertha are actually brother and sister.The young Hertha – named after the local football team – was born in the Tierpark zoo in east Berlin...

A sudden influx of migrants swimming into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in northern Africa is a serious crisis for Europe, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday, vowing to re-establish order promptly amid heightened diplomatic tensions with Mor...

Brazil, the world’s biggest exporter of coffee, sugar and orange juice, just had a rainy season that brought hardly any rain.Soils are parched and river levels are low in the nation’s Centre-South region, a powerhouse of agricultural output. The ...

A video of Malaysian militants celebrating “impending martyrdom” during Eid in Syria is circulating on social media in Indonesia, in what security sources say is an attempt to encourage jihadis to travel to Gaza to fight against Israel. The video...

A nurse who looked after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a hospital intensive care ward as he battled Covid-19 is leaving her job, with a newspaper saying she had become fed up with his government’s treatment of health care workers.Jenny Mc...

A bus driver arrested for honking his horn at police during an anti-government protest last year may face a driving ban, after he was convicted of careless driving for swerving a double-decker towards officers while raising a middle finger.In Tuesday...