Hong Kong police seized nearly 1.8 tonnes of cocaine and ketamine in the first five months of this year – about 60 times of the total seizure made over the same period last year, a senior official has said.Acting chief superintendent Ng Wing-sze of...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying will stand trial in the High Court, where the maximum sentence is life in prison, for allegedly breaching the national security law by colluding with foreign forces.Chief Magistrate Victor So Wai-tak on Tues...

Businesses may need less office space as Hong Kong companies stick to a combination of having employees work remotely and in the office, even as the coronavirus pandemic subsides, panellists told the Post’s China Conference on Tuesday.They said com...

In India’s capital, Delhi, thousands of commuters on Tuesday crowded into underground train stations and shopping malls, prompting some doctors to warn it could lead to a resurgence in Covid-19 infections.Major Indian cities have begun lifting stri...

Taiwan’s home-grown Covid-19 vaccines could be restricted to use on the island, if the US Food and Drug Administration follows through on a plan to stop reviewing and processing new emergency use authorisation (EUA) requests.Worse still, the local ...

Hong Kong’s leader has accused several pro-establishment lawmakers of dividing society and inciting hatred, after one called next year’s Gay Games “disgraceful” and the revenue it would bring to the city “dirty money”.Chief Executive Carr...

China vowed on Tuesday to take action against Nato after the group said Beijing presented “systemic challenges”.In statement after a summit on Monday, the alliance described for the first time the rise of China as posing challenges to Atlantic se...

A Singaporean academic who had previously been jailed in the United States on charges of spying for China has been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) since January, the city state’s government has said, stressing that it took a “very ...

Hong Kong is considering plans to relax some coronavirus quarantine measures for international travel and further loosen rules for the fully vaccinated at local businesses, the city’s commerce chief has said.Speaking on Tuesday at the Post’s annu...

A United States aircraft carrier group conducted exercises in the South China Sea on Monday, ahead of defence talks this week with Southeast Asian nations and China, when tensions in the disputed waters will be high on the agenda.The USS Ronald Reaga...

Australia’s biggest exporting state urged Canberra on Tuesday to stop antagonising China, the country’s top trade partner, in remarks that came amid escalating criticism of Beijing led by the United States, Australia’s main ally.“This isn’t...

A Hong Kong-run hospital in Shenzhen will increase its daily vaccination slots soon amid complaints by residents living across the border who say they have had difficulty securing bookings, its director has said, dismissing calls for the local govern...

When Paul Noritaka Tange won the rights to design the Aquatics Centre for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, one of the first things he did was to visit the grave of his father, Kenzo Tange, the revolutionary Pritzker-winning architect. “I wanted to tell hi...

Thirteen candidates, and no clear favourite: one week before the Democratic primary to select the mayor of post-pandemic New York City, progressives and moderates face off in a race made all the more uncertain by a new system of voting that has muddi...

An Australian mother has denied a media report her teenage son was forced to wear a women’s swimsuit as punishment by a coach amid scrutiny of the country’s elite swimming culture in the leadup to the Olympics.The mother of Soren Zwolsman, whose ...

Hong Kong martial arts actor Donnie Yen Ji-dan still remembers the whoosh of air when a punch from former professional boxer Mike Tyson whistled past his head and landed on a sandbag. Tyson played Yen’s opponent in Ip Man 3 (2015) and Yen says he w...

US President Joe Biden said he would lay down “red lines” to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at their upcoming meeting, after rallying Nato allies to face up to challenges from Moscow and Beijing.Speaking after his first Nato summit since ...

Hong Kong’s leader has conceded that new guidelines authorising the banning of films believed to breach the Beijing-imposed national security law have sparked concerns within the sector, while insisting that “freedom of expression is not without ...

The profitability of Hong Kong’s banking sector, including such big lenders as HSBC and Standard Chartered remains under pressure in 2021, weighed down by historically low interest rates and the ongoing economic uncertainty tied to the coronavirus ...

The harsh reality facing female sex workers in Hong Kong, and the world over, is they are often marginalised by society even though most have been forced into their profession by economic circumstances beyond their control.For women and young girls n...

It was supposed to be another sign of Joe Biden bringing together US allies left adrift under four years of Donald Trump: the leaders of Japan and South Korea sitting down for a meeting at the weekend’s G7 summit.Yet Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihi...

This is the second in a series about China’s plans to reopen its borders to the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic.China’s practice of quickly clamping down on even the smallest coronavirus outbreaks – by imposing aggressive restrictions on m...

A wheelchair climber who fears no walls or odds stacked against him and a volunteer team that provides psychological support for people affected by disasters are among 18 finalists nominated for this year’s Spirit of Hong Kong Awards. Over the nex...

The G7 nations failed to go far enough at their weekend summit to halt the use of coal, but a pledge to phase out international funding for new coal power this year could help shift Asia’s policy on the dirty fuel, analysts said.At a meeting in Bri...

Canada is pressing terrorism charges against a man accused of mowing down a Muslim family with a pickup truck, prosecutors said Monday, in an attack denounced as “terrorist” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Four members of the Afzaal family – a...

Malaysia’s sultans may have limited constitutional powers, but what they say after a special Conference of Rulers on Wednesday could determine whether the government looks to extend a state of emergency that dates back to January, analysts say.Alon...

A man who had 39 wives and 94 children and was said to be the head of the world’s largest family has died in northeast India, the chief minister of his home state said.Ziona Chana, 76, the head of a local Christian sect that allows polygamy, died o...

One year has passed since a deadly brawl between Chinese and Indian troops in the Galwan Valley in the China-Indian border areas, which resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese troops. The aftermath is still being felt today.�...

Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying has warned the city is in danger of losing its mainland Chinese business partners for good, as they have been using substitutes over more than a year of pandemic-induced border closures, and the window of oppor...

The British government in 1989 dismissed calls from then Hong Kong governor David Wilson to push back against a proposed constitutional requirement that high-ranking judges and top government advisers be Chinese citizens after the city’s handover.W...

History often has several versions of events, depending on which side is telling the story. Two years on, the protests that for months brought Hong Kong to a standstill are portrayed by Beijing and its supporters as being a violent “colour revoluti...

The Han population in China’s western region of Xinjiang grew faster than the ethnic minority Uygur population over the last decade, according to the results of the 2020 national census.Compared with the previous census in 2010, the Han population ...

Lawyers for Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou have told a Canadian court that she is “contractually bound” to seek a publication ban on evidence in her extradition case that has been provided by HSBC, to protect the bank’s privacy and ...

Under former president Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan had a friendly relationship with Beijing but his successor Tsai Ing-wen has taken a harder line against the mainland since she stepped up in 2016.Tsai, from the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive P...

Veteran war correspondent and news anchor Christiane Amanpour on Monday announced that she has recently undergone “major surgery” for ovarian cancer, and faced months of chemotherapy treatment.“Like millions of women around the world, I’ve be...

Richmond, Canada’s most Chinese city, has impressed since the start of the pandemic with its low rate of Covid-19 infection, making it the best performing local health area in the Metro Vancouver region.But data now shows that the city also has ano...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed on Monday that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed by four weeks, until July 19, as a result of the spread of the delta variant.In a media briefing, Johnson...

Ahead of his first meeting with Joe Biden as US president in Geneva this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told US television network NBC that jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny would be treated in prison like any other inmate.“He will n...

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor sought a full investigation on Monday into crimes against humanity during the Philippines’ war on drugs, in one of her last acts before stepping down this week.Fatou Bensouda is asking judges at...

For the first time in its 72-year history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has branded China as presenting “systemic challenges”, in a statement that vowed to counter Beijing’s rise. At the first meeting of Nato’s 30 national leaders ...

Ties between the United States and Cambodia, already strained over possible privileges given to China at a naval base in the Southeast Asian nation, have grown more tense after officials in Phnom Penh accused Washington of interference during a visit...

The G7 took its most forceful stand in decades to call out China on human rights and trade issues, as Beijing faces pushback for leveraging differences in how far countries are willing to go to confront it, analysts say.There was a “spectrum” of ...

China’s space exploration ambitions are picking up speed with a mission to reach Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, in 2029, according to the China National Space Administration.The CNSA also said that over the next few years the coun...

The Philippines has for the third time suspended a decision to scrap a two-decade-old Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States, its foreign minister said on Monday, amid a territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea.Foreign Affairs ...

Social and e-commerce platforms in China will face “severe” punishment if they fail to purge spy camera tutorials, hidden-camera videos and cheap, easily-compromised cameras from their platforms amid the central government’s push to tighten enf...

A French company responsible for maintenance at a nuclear power plant in southern China said the facility was operating safely, amid reports of a “radiological threat” at the plant.Framatome, a French designer and supplier of nuclear reactors, sa...

Just weeks after the end of a five-month, government-imposed shutdown for local bars and nightclubs, life is returning to the once deserted streets of Hong Kong’s famed Lan Kwai Fong party district.The Central nightlife hub, just minutes from Hong ...

Hong Kong police have detained more than 180 people, including 17 students, and seized over HK$50 million worth of illegal drugs during a pre-summer holiday operation.As part of the two-week operation by the narcotics bureau and six police regions, o...

Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has called for the transatlantic security alliance to strengthen its collective policy on China ahead of talks in Brussels on Monday.The alliance is expected to brand China as a security risk for the first time...

A 33-year-old car driver at the centre of a fatal traffic accident in Hong Kong’s Sha Tin district on Sunday has been given bail pending further police investigations.The woman, who was behind the wheel of a white Audi, was arrested for dangerous d...