Singapore will on Friday widen its vaccination policy to include people above the age of 12 and those who have recovered from an earlier infection as the country prepares to relax social-distancing measures in place for the past month.From Monday peo...

Hong Kong children as young as 12 can begin booking Covid-19 vaccination slots from Friday and receiving the jabs as early as Monday, the government has announced. The expansion of the city’s inoculation programme follows health minister Sophia Ch...

China’s top legislative body has passed an anti-sanctions law, providing legal backing for Beijing’s measures to counter foreign sanctions.The legislation was passed on Thursday at the closing session of the National People’s Congress Standing ...

A Taiwanese vaccine developer said it would release phase 2 clinical trial data on Thursday, as the island continues to grapple with an outbreak of the coronavirus. The island’s Central Epidemic Command Centre reported 263 new local cases of Covid...

Guangzhou in southern China has turned to its top laboratories and biological companies to spearhead the world’s most extensive city-run testing programme to arrest a stealthy but simmering spread of coronavirus in the metropolis.The city, which is...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andrew Desiderio on politico.com on June 9, 2021.A top American diplomat told Congress on Wednesday that the Biden administration plans to impose additional...

Hong Kong’s anti-discrimination watchdog has warned certain lawmakers to stop their “stigmatisation” of the upcoming Gay Games, adding that the city’s hosting of the international event has nothing to do with supporting same-sex marriage, as ...

Hong Kong health authorities are exploring different methods of drawing blood via finger pricks for Covid-19 antibody screenings that would be administered at the airport, a government medical adviser has said. The latest update about the screenings...

In the past few months, Wendy Li, a 32-year-old independent online content producer in Shenzhen and her boyfriend, Henry Yi, a 29-year-old photographer and video editor, say that they and many of their friends have been riding the wave of cryptocurre...

Mongolia’s new president-elect Khurelsukh Ukhnaa is a macho character who has been photographed topless on horseback Putin-style, and became known as “Fist” after punching a parliamentarian.The former prime minister won nearly 70 per cent of th...

The US planned to buy 500 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to share internationally as President Joe Biden prepares to join other Group of Seven leaders in a campaign to end the pandemic by distributing shots worldwide.As Biden and oth...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government will ask the World Trade Organization (WTO) to resolve its wine-tariff trade dispute with China.“Barley producers in Australia, winegrowers in Australia, have been targeted with trade san...

The Myanmar junta has hit deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption charges over claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and more than half a million dollars in cash, state media reported on Thursday.The country has been in turmoi...

The world’s largest meat processing company says it paid the equivalent of US$11 million to hackers who broke into its computer system late last month.Brazil-based JBS SA said on May 31 that it was the victim of a ransomware attack, but Wednesday w...

The Group of Seven is set to roll out a green initiative to rival Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative at a summit in Britain this week, as the leaders look towards the post-pandemic recovery with a wary eye on a more assertive China.Leaders from the...

When Olympics organisers shifted the marathon event from Tokyo to the northern city of Sapporo, they did so because of concerns about the intense summer heat in the Japanese capital.Two years later, critics claim organisers have effectively leapt fro...

Hongkongers vaccinated against Covid-19 can travel to Phuket from July 2 without having to quarantine on arrival, but local industry players have said the offer will attract muted enthusiasm amid remaining hurdles.Stakeholders poured cold water on Th...

The government has underestimated the amount of degraded rural land available for redevelopment into housing by nearly 380 hectares – enough to build 95,000 new homes, according to a new study by two Hong Kong advocacy groups.In a joint report, Gre...

A further “candid and pragmatic exchange of views” has taken place between China and the United States, this time between Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and his American counterpart Gina Raimondo.China’s Commerce Ministry confirmed the talks too...

A growing backlash against China’s Confucius Institutes, which offer a form of cultural outreach and Chinese language teaching overseas, has spread to South Korea and Japan as activists and politicians call for the state-backed learning centres to ...

Science is not the only class where children learn about different animal species and other things involving the physical and natural world at Hong Kong’s Christian Alliance P.C. Lau Memorial International School (CAPCL). Grade 1 teachers Angela K...

A 63-year-old Beijing woman who claimed to be Manchurian royalty has been detained for verbally abusing passengers on a bus with “discrimination language”.The behaviour was captured on video by another passenger and showed the woman, identified b...

Hong Kong customs has seized HK$120 million (US$15.4 million) worth of luxury items and endangered species products in a joint operation with mainland authorities against a cross-border smuggling syndicate, marking the largest haul of its kind in mor...

Shun Tak Holdings, one of the flagship companies controlled by the clan that dominates Macau’s gambling industry, has smashed Singapore’s price record for luxury homes with its high-profile entry into the city state’s high-end property market. ...

At the Linshu county headquarters in eastern China, a huge screen covering an entire wall provides round-the-clock information on its 600,000 residents.From there, the magistrate can access any of the 10,838 surveillance cameras installed in the coun...

Droves of overseas students returning to Hong Kong have driven up occupancy rates at hotels designated for mandatory Covid-19 quarantine to as high as 90 per cent, even after the government raised supply, the Post has learned.The Food and Health Bure...

A court in Moscow on Wednesday branded the political organisations of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as “extremist” and barred them from working in Russia, a further blow to the embattled opposition ahead of parliamentary elections.The ruli...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden will on Thursday agree a new version of the “Atlantic Charter” aimed at leading the world’s pandemic recovery and bolstering ties.The agreement comes as the leaders hold their firs...

Following the initial reading of the Medical Registration Amendment Bill in the Legislative Council, public discussion of Hong Kong’s doctor shortage crisis has returned in full force. The bill’s arrival is not without cause.Latest government pro...

China speeded up plans for an anti-sanctions law after Joe Biden dashed Beijing’s hopes that he would adopt a softer policy stance towards China, sources and observers have said.They said discussions about the law started last year during Donald Tr...

After months of uncertainty whether it could take place during the coronavirus pandemic, the Berlinale film festival finally opened to the greater public on Wednesday.Artistic director Carlo Chatrian told broadcasters ahead of the ceremony: “It is ...

An advisory body to the US Department of Defence established to make recommendations for ways to improve how the department carries out its China-related military strategy has wound up its business, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.Many of the task for...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Sliegman, Andrew Desiderio, Betsy Woodruff Swan and Nahal Toosi on politico.com on June 9, 2021.The Biden administration is urging Venezuela and Cuba t...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Anita Kumar on politico.com on June 9, 2021.In his first remarks as president overseas, Joe Biden attempted to send a message to the rest of the world: Amer...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have clashed with the BBC over the version of events that led to the naming of their daughter.Harry and Meghan's lawyers have written to the corporation after a BBC story claimed the queen had not been asked about namin...

A cemetery in southern Tunisia for migrants who drowned crossing the Mediterranean in the hope of a better life in Europe is already half full – even before it is formally opened.Jardin d’Afrique, French for “Garden of Africa”, is for those w...

Chinese President Xi Jinping ended a three-day tour of the northwestern province of Qinghai on Wednesday by stressing its importance for maintaining order in neighbouring Xinjiang and Tibet.He said the province, where around a quarter of the populati...

Former Baywatch television star David Hasselhoff is appearing in a video released by the German health ministry calling on people to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.The video makes a play on Hasselhoff’s 1989 “Looking for Freedom” album, ...

A boy from one of Hong Kong’s most expensive private schools has been arrested for allegedly taking a female pupil to a campus toilet and sexually abusing her.The student from the Independent Schools Foundation (ISF) Academy was said to have forced...

Hong Kong’s justice minister is lobbying for her department’s legal officers to qualify for promotion to the rank of senior counsel under a proposal that has raised concerns about the wider potential for the city’s solicitors to eventually join...

More than a dozen Indonesian McDonald’s outlets were temporarily closed on Wednesday over virus fears as the chain’s new BTS meal deal sparked frenzied buying from fans in the K-pop mad country.Jakarta and several other cities slapped closure sti...

Tensions between China and the US may worsen with Beijing expected to pass a new law on Thursday that experts say will enable Chinese companies subject to Western sanctions to retaliate against foreign business partners in mainland courts.The anti-sa...

A lawmaker has urged the Hong Kong government to throw more support to the organiser of the coming Gay Games, noting that they are having difficulty in finding venues to hold the events.At a Legislative Council meeting on Wednesday, Regina Ip Lau Suk...

The Delta coronavirus variant of concern, first identified in India, is believed to be 60 per cent more transmissible than the Alpha variant which was previously dominant in Britain, a prominent UK epidemiologist said on Wednesday.British Prime Minis...

Thousands of wild animals were sold in markets in the Chinese city of Wuhan ahead of the Covid-19 outbreak, new research has found.The study by British and Chinese researchers shines a spotlight on the active animal trade in the city, which has long ...

Former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying on Wednesday said the city would still have many political and social problems to fix in the years to come as he asked the public to reflect on what kind of leadership they required for the task.Tough ...

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked executive orders seeking to ban Chinese social-media apps TikTok and WeChat by former president Donald Trump, and issued a new order to review security concerns posed by these apps.The new executive order d...

The UK government has criticised graduate students at the University of Oxford who removed a portrait of Queen Elizabeth, claiming it represented a colonial past that many found offensive.The move comes as students across the country have played a le...

The establishment of a high-level dialogue between Indonesia and China will bring the two countries closer together, but the South China Sea will remain a stumbling block in their relationship, foreign policy experts have said.China’s foreign minis...

Despite hitting its highest point since the 2008 global financial crisis, the inflation rate in China’s factory prices looks to be nearing its peak, according to economists who cite the nation’s attempts to curb skyrocketing raw material prices.S...