China’s first Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform and is roaming the surface of the red planet, China’s space administration said on Saturday. The solar-powered rover touched Martian soil at 10.40am on Saturday, the China Nation...

Phuket remains high on the list for property buyers on the lookout for a second home in a post-pandemic world, but local developers say it could take years before the hospitality and property sectors that largely rely on international visitors and bu...

When Gayle Smith, the US State Department’s global coordinator for Covid-19, spoke to reporters on Wednesday about Washington’s vaccine distribution plans, one question kept coming up: would any of the 80 million doses US President Joe Biden pled...

China’s top economic planning agency has issued a public warning against an impostor claiming to be the head of a regional development office. In a short statement on Friday, the National Development and Reform Commission said the culprit had used...

US President Joe Biden took office in January determined to focus his time and energy on the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn at home and big challenges such as China, Russia and Iran abroad.But after a Gaza conflict that required intensive...

Yuan Longping, China’s “father of hybrid rice”, died on Saturday at the age of 90. The Chinese agronomist was known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and regarded as a national hero for boosting the country’s grain ...

The leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says he wants to review a number of deals struck with foreign mining companies in a move that could have an impact on China’s ambitions to become the world’s leading manufacturer of electric ca...

China will crack down on bitcoin mining, according to an announcement by the government‘s cabinet three days after regulators reiterated their ban of digital tokens in financial transactions, delivering a one-two punch that may further weigh on ...

Two former Brazilian presidents overcame decades of political rivalry on Friday with a public show of common purpose: blocking Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro from gaining a second term next year.Former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lul...

In a cosmopolitan city like Hong Kong, people tend to judge others by how they dress. This perception is fittingly encapsulated by a local saying that goes, “first respect the silky clothes, then the man.”I know some people who can “scan” a p...

An annual intake of up to 300 foreign-trained doctors could help ease Hong Kong’s dire shortfall, a top government adviser has said, describing a latest proposal for the medical sector as “opening a small door”.Executive Council member Dr Lam C...

Hong Kong was on Saturday expecting one coronavirus case that was believed to be imported, involving a domestic helper from Indonesia, potentially marking a straight week with no untraceable local infections.A source said health authorities still had...

Hong Kong’s environmental activists have been warning of a “dark period” to come as the city continues to send millions of tonnes of waste to landfills with no sign of a reduction. Now they see a glimmer of hope, as a long-delayed scheme to ch...

Chinese military officials and their American counterparts have lost an important opportunity for face-to-face engagement after the cancellation of a major regional security forum for a second year running because of the coronavirus. The cancellatio...

In the first of a five-part series on US-China technology policies, Jodi Xu Klein looks at how the strategies and approaches differ among US government departments and agencies towards China. The subsequent parts of the series will run on alternate S...

Nose print recognition technology for pets with a claimed accuracy of more than 99 per cent, is the latest tool in the search for missing pets.The technology has been developed by an algorithm team at Ant Group, with a leading engineer Wang Meng havi...

Two hours after Redge Solley arrived in Hong Kong in September 1969, he sipped his first San Miguel beer at the Cricket Club and stared in wonder at the misty mountains in the distance.It was a far cry from London, where the 20-something worked as an...

Fourth-generation Hongkonger Baljinder Singh, 44, has most of his family in the city but used to make regular visits to Punjab, in India, where they originally came from. The Covid-19 pandemic stopped his trips, but India’s devastating second wave...

Veteran Hong Kong democrat Albert Ho Chun-yan, 69, is struggling to get used to his new pair of plastic black-framed spectacles that lend him an oddly bookish air.Gone are his signature metal-framed glasses. Hong Kong prisons ban personal items with ...

Commercial banks across several Chinese cities have begun raising their mortgage rates, as they increase the cost of buying homes to help the government keep a lid on speculative buying that is fuelling a runaway housing bubble. In southern China’...

China has been hit by two massive earthquakes in its northwest and southwest, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others.A magnitude-6.4 quake hit Yunnan province in southwest China at 9.48pm near the city of Dali, a popular tourist ...

Hong Kong’s rail enthusiasts will be able to get a rare look behind the scenes of the city’s high-speed train fleet this summer, with the MTR Corporation allowing weekend visits to its Shek Kong depot. The embattled rail giant, which has been un...

India’s information technology (IT) ministry has written to all social media companies asking them to take down any content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the coronavirus, according to a letter issued on Friday which was seen by Reuters....

The United States and South Korea on Friday expressed willingness to engage diplomatically with North Korea as they sought the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, while also pledging close cooperation on a number of other strategic fro...

Taiwan’s all-important service sector will shrink and dent gross domestic product (GDP) growth if new restrictions imposed to curb a spike in Covid-19 infections last another month or two, eating into economic expansion that outpaced most of the wo...

Beijing may have picked up on mixed messaging this week as to how German-Chinese ties may evolve following September’s election, as the clock ticks on Angela Merkel’s time in office.On Wednesday, the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) candidate...

Nigeria‘s top-ranking army commander Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and other officers were killed on Friday when their plane crashed in bad weather in the country’s north, officials said.Chief of Army Staff Attahiru was only appointed by Pr...

Two previously undisclosed Covid-19 outbreaks in Vancouver, including one at a retirement facility in which 12 people were infected and two residents died, have been exposed as a result of an investigation by the South China Morning Post.Provincial H...

China’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports from Australia hit a record high in April, bolstered by robust industrial demand and Beijing’s climate change pledges, and analysts expect they will remain strong despite souring relations between the t...

As the pandemic starkly illustrates, the world must overhaul its relationship with nature, reverse destructive economic practices and protect fragile ecosystems, officials said Friday in advance of a China-hosted United Nations meeting on biodiversit...

Apple’s online marketplace would become a “toxic” mess if the iPhone maker were forced to allow third-party apps without reviewing them, chief executive Tim Cook said in testimony at a high-stakes trial challenging the company’s tight control...

A letter written by Albert Einstein in which he writes out his famous E = mc² equation has sold at auction for more than US$1.2 million, about three times more than it was expected to get, Boston-based RR Auction said Friday.Archivists at the Einste...

Wyoming state Senator Anthony Bouchard, a Republican trying to unseat US congresswoman Liz Cheney next year, disclosed that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, describing the relationship as “like the Romeo and Juliet story” and say...

The world’s seven largest advanced economies agreed on Friday to stop international financing of coal projects that emit carbon by the end of this year, and phase out such support for all fossil fuels, to meet globally agreed climate change targets...

Rich nation leaders and big drug makers promised on Friday to do more to bridge the startling divide in fighting Covid-19, with an increased flow of badly-needed vaccines to poorer regions.Lavishly-funded mass inoculation campaigns are helping many w...

Hong Kong’s biggest international school group has appointed the head of a self-financed tertiary institution as its governing board’s new chairman.Kim Mak Kin-wah, president of the Caritas Institute of Higher Education and Caritas Bianchi Colleg...

The first operational deployment of Britain’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to Asia will show countries such as China that London believes in the international law of the sea, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday.Johnson said...

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged US$3 billion to developing countries at the virtual G20 Global Health Summit in Rome on Friday, as the world looks to leading economies for concrete commitments to fund and distribute Covid-19 vaccines equitably.X...

The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who’ve got their coronavirus shots.The Biden administration said on Friday it’s teaming up with dating apps to showcase the benefits of g...

Hong Kong’s border with mainland China could reopen for quarantine-free travel as early as next month, sources have told the Post, starting with the launch of a proposed bubble with Guangdong for businesspeople.However, mainland authorities remain ...

A high-ranking Beijing official has briefed visiting Hong Kong judges on President Xi Jinping’s thinking on the rule of law, and urged them to exercise their “vital judicial function” in safeguarding the city’s future.Yang Zhenwu, secretary g...

Hong Kong’s iconic cable car attraction on Lantau Island carried about 260,000 visitors in 2020, down 82 per cent year on year, with the venue starved of tourists amid the coronavirus pandemic.The Ngong Ping 360 cable car, which takes visitors on a...

Merlin Bingham Swire, a sixth-generation descendant of the Swire group’s founder, will step down as chairman of Swire Pacific and Swire Properties, after the giant Hong Kong conglomerate reported its first ever loss in history.Guy Bradley, currentl...

The Chinese air force has put an upgraded version of one of its most advanced air-defence missile systems to an extreme test in unfamiliar terrain, according to state media.Observers said the exercise involving the upgraded HQ-9 system was meant to s...

After huddling at home during Israel’s 11-day bombardment of Gaza, the shock of seeing houses and other buildings destroyed after yet another conflict tempered Palestinian joy that this round of fighting was over.“It’s like a tsunami,” said A...

Beijing accused Tokyo of stoking military tensions in the region after Japan’s defence chief said the country might scrap its 1 per cent GDP cap on military spending to counter China’s armed forces.In an interview with Nikkei newspaper on Wednesd...

The new boss of Hong Kong’s stock exchange, Nicolas Aguzin, will become the highest paid regulator in the city with a total pay package of at least HK$106.05 million (US$13.67 million) when he takes office on Monday.Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing...

Investment deals involving European countries that have separate bilateral investment agreements with China will be unaffected by the European Parliament’s decision this week to suspend the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), with the move...

Up to three times more people have died due to the pandemic than indicated by the officially reported Covid-19 deaths, the World Health Organization said on Friday.So far, more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide have officially been attributed to Covi...

Chinese-born Australian novelist Yang Hengjun, who has been detained for more than two years in Beijing, will be tried behind closed doors on Thursday on charges of espionage, his friend said on Friday.“Yang’s lawyers have had access to him but h...