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The police officer thought to have ended Hong Kong’s weeks-long streak of zero untraceable Covid-19 cases was not infected after all, meaning the city has gone 40 days without transmissions from an unknown origin.A medical source told the Post on W...

Zhao, a Chinese national who has lived in Singapore for four years, has been looking forward to receiving the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine since a shipment of 200,000 doses arrived in the city state in February.The 27-year-old IT worker, who only wish...

Hong Kong’s leader has conceded a review of the city’s Legal Aid Department may be necessary amid mounting pressure from pro-establishment figures who say the publicly funded body has been abused by protesters.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yue...

The largest ship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank on Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semi-official news agencies reported.The Fars and Tasnim news agencies said efforts failed to save the support ship Kharg, n...

Police have raided the largest indoor marijuana farm found in Hong Kong in a decade, seizing HK$45 million (US$5.8 million) worth of cannabis and arresting three men.Two of the suspects entered the city illegally from mainland China and had been hire...

A senior Hong Kong police constable accused of standing on his motorcycle’s foot pegs and mimicking the motions of a bicycle rider during a weekend patrol has been suspended from driving duties, according to the force.A police insider said the offi...

Bookings for Hong Kong’s “cruises to nowhere” have been brisk, with the ships emerging as an alternative venue for wedding receptions and corporate activities, and the public desperate for a summer holiday during the Covid-19 pandemic, accordin...

Taiwan will step up vaccinating its people with 2 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines due to arrive before the end of this month as it fights a worsening outbreak which saw 549 new infections and 12 deaths on Wednesday.Health Minister Chen Shih-chung,...

The United States will announce in the next two weeks how it plans to distribute 80 million Covid-19 vaccine doses it has pledged globally, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.Speaking at a joint news conference with Costa Rican President Carlo...

Hong Kong parents unhappy with their children’s Primary One allocations for the coming school year – despite less competition than usual – are making a last-ditch effort to secure placements at their preferred choices.Some principals believed a...

Greece, Germany and five other European Union nations introduced a vaccination certificate system for travellers on Tuesday, weeks ahead of the July 1 roll-out of the programme across the 27-nation bloc.The other countries starting early were Bulgari...

A herd of 15 Asian elephants that has travelled nearly 500km north in southwest China’s Yunnan province is closing in on its capital Kunming and may enter the city’s periphery this afternoon.The herd was spotted just 3km away from Kunming on T...

China has postponed an international aviation and aerospace expo in Shanghai following a surge of Covid-19 infections in the southern province of Guangdong, highlighting ongoing challenges for businesses operating during the pandemic.“Due to the re...

Chinese and Hong Kong fishing companies are among a growing number of firms involved in forced labour practices towards Indonesian migrant workers, a new report by environmental group Greenpeace reveals, underlining the challenges in eradicating mode...

A major Hong Kong sports club has warned staff they will miss out on pay rises, bonuses and promotions if they do not get vaccinated against the coronavirus, in the toughest local example yet of an employer pushing its workforce to take the jabs.In a...

Being a celebrity lookalike can come with certain perks, not least that you can profit from it. But for Chen Xinling, who bears an uncanny resemblance to international Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing, it became a legal liability.In September 2020, the...

A burnt-out container ship that has already caused Sri Lanka’s worst maritime environmental disaster was sinking on Wednesday with several hundred tonnes of oil still in its fuel tanks, the navy said.The MV X-Press Pearl, carrying hundreds of tonne...

Hong Kong children as young as 12 could soon be getting vaccinated against the coronavirus after a government advisory panel unanimously backed expanding the city’s inoculation programme.A source said all 12 members of the Advisory Panel on Covid-1...

Hong Kong-based flexible workspace provider The Executive Centre has been acquired by private-equity firm KKR and Tiga Investments for an undisclosed amount, the company announced on Tuesday.It marks the latest consolidation in an industry that has b...

Chinese and Vietnamese navy chiefs have agreed to set up a hotline in a move seen as part of efforts to manage the risk of conflict over their competing claims in the South China Sea.They also vowed to improve information sharing on issues of mutual ...

A piece of space debris has punched a hole in one of the International Space Station’s robotic arms.Nasa and the Canadian Space Agency announced on Friday that they found a 5mm puncture during a routine inspection of Canadarm2, Canada’s autonomou...

Thousands of Australian meat workers had no work for a second day on Tuesday after a cyberattack crippled the world’s largest meat processing company. A government minister said it might be days before production resumes.JBS is also Australia’s l...

A bipartisan US congressional body ratcheted up pressure on NBA players on Tuesday to end any endorsement deals they have with Li Ning and other Chinese brands, over allegations of forced labour in the country’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.Sen...

Organisers of Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen vigil have shut down their June 4 museum commemorating the 1989 crackdown, a day after the government launched an investigation following a licensing complaint.“The management committee of the June 4 mus...

Hong Kong’s financial-market regulators informed the city’s bankers, stock brokers, fund managers, insurers, and the directors of 500 listed companies last week of a plan to spare thousands of senior executives from compulsory quarantine.The exem...

Last week, Member of Parliament Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman was summoned by Malaysian police over a tweet in which he questioned why an official was wearing a face shield without a face mask.Syed Saddiq, 28, had pointed out that doing so was a viol...

The chair and secretary general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plan to travel to Myanmar this week even as the 10-nation bloc remains divided on how to respond to the military coup there, four diplomatic sources said.Asean, a grouping ...

A large state-owned port company in southern China was responsible for extensive destruction of wetland mangroves and repeatedly ignored orders from local government to rectify it, according to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.A port construct...

The Secret Service is spending US$34,140 to rent portable toilets in Bedminster, New Jersey, where former president Donald Trump is staying over the summer, according to federal data obtained by The Daily Beast.The expense report reviewed by the news...

China’s economic tsar Liu He held a virtual meeting with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday morning, days after Liu’s first conversation on trade issues with US trade representative Katherine Tai, in a sign observers said indicated t...

Hong Kong’s street shop landscape has transformed dramatically following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, reflecting the changing fortunes of investors and industries amid the unprecedented dislocation it has caused.Some investors, includi...

Britain reported zero daily deaths from Covid-19 for the first time since last July, despite a recent rise in cases linked to the Delta variant.According to the latest government figures, 127,782 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positiv...

A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) shop in eastern China may soon find itself as high-profile characters in the next bestselling mystery novel, although the clinic probably hopes that fate does not come to pass.Ningbo Renyitang TCM Hospital, in Nin...

Police plan to have more than 3,000 anti-riot officers in reserve to stop any possible unauthorised gatherings on Friday, force insiders have warned, following the banning of Hong Kong’s annual June 4 vigil.Organisers of the annual candlelight vigi...

When Reoun Sreyneang received notice she would be let go from her job tending hotel rooms for US$300 a month at Phnom Penh’s gold-tinted NagaWorld casino complex, she decided to accept the news without a fight.“I don’t believe I can win against...

No one wants to name their baby girl Karen any more.The name has tanked in popularity over the past year, according to figures released by the Social Security Administration.Throughout 2020 the name Karen fell a whopping 171 spots on the popularity l...

The cities of Cambridge and Manchester may offer better value than London to Hongkongers looking to find a home in Britain as they emigrate under the British National (Overseas) visas scheme, according to analysts.Average home prices in Cambridge in ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Myah Ward on politico.com on June 1, 2021.US President Joe Biden on Tuesday took part in a remembrance of one of the nation’s darkest and largely forgotte...

China should play down its ideological differences with the West as much as possible and instead highlight competition in the fields of technology and economics to ensure a favourable international environment for the nation’s development, a key Ch...

On May 28, District Court Judge Amanda Woodcock sentenced 10 defendants to terms of imprisonment ranging from 14 to 18 months. The defendants, who included Next Media founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, activist Figo Chan Ho-wun and former lawmaker Leung Kw...

China’s president has called for better international communication to repair the country’s coronavirus-hit image and win a battle of narratives with the US and its allies.Xi Jinping’s remarks at a study session of the Politburo, the ruling Com...

An FBI agent has been charged with attempted murder in the off-duty shooting of another man on a Metro subway train last year in a Maryland suburb, according to court records unsealed on Tuesday.During a hearing, Montgomery County prosecutors outline...

A San Francisco police officer responding to a call about a man making threats to people in Chinatown was attacked by the suspect, who was later arrested on assault and hate crime charges, authorities said.Surveillance video showed the female officer...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Shia Kapos on politico.com on June 1, 2021.Illinois is poised to become the first US state to require Asian-American history be taught in public schools aft...

Pope Francis updated the Catholic Church’s criminal code on Tuesday, reinforcing penalties for priests who sexually abuse minors, measures long sought by activists against paedophilia.The most comprehensive revision of the Code of Canon Law in near...

The US government has failed to provide clarity on what critical technologies American businesses should be restricted in selling to China to protect US national security, a congressional report said on Tuesday.In the report published by the US-China...

China’s once-in-a-decade census report, released in mid-May, shows a further slowdown in the country’s population growth. Between 2010 and 2020, the population grew at an average of 0.53 per cent annually, the slowest rate in any decade since Chi...

A Belarusian political activist stabbed himself in the neck on the first day of his trial and was rushed to hospital, a rights group said.Viasna, an independent rights group monitoring the trial of Stepan Latypov, said it believed the activist had tr...

Samples from a study suggesting the coronavirus was circulating outside China by October 2019 have been retested at the World Health Organization’s (WTO) request, two scientists who led the Italian research said.There is growing international press...

The most senior US official to visit Cambodia in years expressed concern on Tuesday about China’s military presence there and sought clarification on the demolition of US-funded buildings, the State Department said.US Deputy Secretary of State Wend...