Chinese animal activists in a southern Chinese city intercepted a truck last week filled with 68 dogs crammed into rusty wired cages headed for a slaughterhouse, likely to be eaten during the notorious dog meat festival.According to the Humane Societ...

A triad-controlled Hong Kong bookmaking syndicate that took in more than HK$3.4 billion (US$438 million) in illegal bets on horse racing and football matches in the first four months of this year was broken up in a series of raids on Sunday.Police on...

Sung Kim, the US special representative for North Korea – speaking after discussions in Seoul with his South Korean counterpart Noh Kyu-duk and Japan’s nuclear envoy Takehiro Funakoshi – said the Biden administration’s policy called for “a ...

In a law enforcement first, a 57-year-old Japanese man was on Monday arrested on suspicion of damaging the reputation of a female athlete by posting a video he secretly took of her in a sexualised context on a porn site, police said.It is the first t...

The major manufacturing hub of Dongguan in China’s most populous province of Guangdong launched mass testing on Monday for the coronavirus and cordoned off communities after detecting its first infections in the current outbreak.The Delta variant o...

Tourism is booming in Tibet as more Chinese travel in-country because of the coronavirus pandemic, posing risks to the region’s fragile environment and historic sites.The number of visitors is limited to 5,000 per day at the Potala Palace, the form...

The US Navy has started a series of tests on its newest and most advanced aircraft carrier by detonating powerful explosions to determine whether the ship is ready for war.The first of the tests, which are known as Full Ship Shock Trials, occurred Fr...

China’s ongoing bitcoin mining crackdown has sent the price of graphics cards plummeting, making the critical component in mining operations much more affordable in the country but leaving miners with fewer places to set up shop.The Nvidia Quadro P...

India opened up free vaccinations to all adults in an attempt to bolster its inoculation drive on Monday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off a muted International Yoga Day hailing the practice’s “protective” properties against the virus...

Former US president Donald Trump took the opportunity on Father’s Day this year to hit out at his critics, penning a scathing message insulting his political opponents.“Happy Father’s Day to all, including the Radical Left, RINOs, and other Los...

The mandatory quarantine period for fully vaccinated Hong Kong residents testing positive for coronavirus antibodies on their return from lower-risk countries could be halved from 14 to seven days, the Post has learned.Details of the latest arrangeme...

China’s unemployment rate has steadily dropped from last year’s pandemic peak, though a lack of jobs for graduates and a shortage of skilled manufacturing workers point to underlying problems in the labour market.The urban jobless rate fell to a ...

Beijing has warned Chinese nationals to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible, amid a rapid rise in violence in the country as the Taliban recaptures territories ahead of the complete withdrawal of US and Nato troops.China’s embassy in Afghanistan ...

Afghanistan’s former president said the United States came to his country to fight extremism and bring stability to his war-tortured nation and is leaving nearly 20 years later having failed at both.In an interview with Associated Press just weeks ...

Nine children and an adult were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on an Alabama highway as heavy storms lashed the southeastern US, authorities said Sunday.Saturday’s crash on an interstate highway near the city of Greenville involved at least ...

Hong Kong’s first Covid-19 patient found locally with a mutated strain of the coronavirus pleaded guilty on Monday to six counts of providing false information to officials tasked with tracing related infections.Syed Mohamed Rizvi’s co-defendant ...

When hundreds of protesters gathered outside Japan’s embassy in Yangon during the height of nationwide anti-coup protests in February, ambassador Ichiro Maruyama emerged from the gates with a firm warning for the junta, urging them to release the d...

Wong Yiu-kwan believes ideas for great inventions often come from everyday life. The veteran educator, who teaches STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – always encourages his students to pay attention to their surroundings.“...

In a bid to boost government coffers decimated by the coronavirus pandemic, Indonesia is considering a sweeping tax overhaul that would add VAT to foodstuffs, education and health care, hike rates for high-net-worth individuals and put major carbon e...

Regular passengers waiting for trains at many stations of the MTR’s Island line in Hong Kong are familiar with the distinctive Chinese calligraphic script in signage and designs on walls.The vigorous running scripts known as xingshu have individual...

Hong Kong police plan to upgrade the computer system for their new anti-money-laundering squad to speed up the screening of a huge number of suspicious financial activities, which surged 10 per cent last year to more than 57,000 reports.Chief Superin...

Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues surrounding the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July.In the Tokyo 2020 Games this summer, the Olympics is hoping to shake off its outdated image and please younger viewers by ushering in new sp...

New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was confirmed as the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Olympic Games on Monday when Kiwi officials named her in the squad for Tokyo next month.New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) chief Kereyn ...

This is the fifth in a series about China’s plans to reopen its borders to the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Here, Zhuang Pinghui explores how the goal of inoculating 560 million people by the end of this month has come within reach.When coro...

China will risk international isolation if it fails to allow a “real” investigation on its territory into the origins of the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.Sullivan’s comments ...

Early results in Armenia’s snap parliamentary elections show the party of the acting prime minister far ahead of rivals.The country’s elections commission said on Sunday that with votes counted from about eight per cent of Armenia’s 2008 precin...

France’s far right performed worse than predicted in Sunday’s regional elections, exit polls showed, leaving victory in the southern battleground of Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur and a platform for the 2022 presidential election in the balance.Mar...

The United States is preparing fresh sanctions against Russia over the near-fatal poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, a top White House adviser warned on Sunday.Jailed opposition leader Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opp...

Iran’s sole nuclear power plant has undergone an unexplained temporary emergency shutdown, state television reported on Sunday.An official from state electric company Tavanir, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shut...

Authorities were trying to determine why a 35-year-old man driving a pickup truck ploughed into cyclists during a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring six riders.The suspect, whose name has not been released, was hospitalised in critic...

Myanmar’s junta leader has flown out of the country to attend a conference in Moscow, state media reported on Sunday, his second trip abroad since seizing power in February.Senior General Min Aung Hlaing will attend the Moscow Conference on Interna...

“Once you have tried it, you will know how good it is,” the Chinese live stream host said repeatedly, as she promoted Bulgarian rose tea, Hungarian dessert wine and Latvian body scrubs to tens of thousands of customers in China watching on an e-c...

Hong Kong’s opposition Civic Party lost about two-thirds of its remaining district councillors on Sunday in a new round of resignations ahead of a requirement to pledge allegiance to the city and its mini-constitution or face disqualification.Eleve...

A body found on Sunday in eastern Belgium is probably that of a soldier suspected of extreme-right views who went missing after stealing arms from a military base and threatening public figures, prosecutors said.“According to the first elements of ...

Aviation giant Emirates said on Sunday it will resume flights from India from next week, after Dubai lifted a ban imposed when coronavirus cases spiked.The United Arab Emirates, which includes Dubai, suspended all flights from India – including for...

Passengers flying over Changyao Mountain in Yunnan province will see a huge construction site sprawling across what was a lush green landscape a little over a decade ago.The hillside on the east banks of Dianchi Lake, the largest expanse of fresh wat...

Pope Francis threw his weight on Sunday behind an appeal from bishops in Myanmar to the nation’s military leaders to allow aid to reach thousands of displaced people dying of hunger.“I join my voice to that of the Bishops of Myanmar, who last wee...

A Hong Kong group known for organising some of the city’s largest protests will not seek to hold its annual July 1 march for the first time in 19 years, citing the recent jailing of its leader and an ongoing police investigation into its legality.C...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday opened his first cabinet meeting since swearing in his new coalition government last week with a condemnation of the new Iranian president. He said Iran’s presidential election was a sign for world p...

The number of people fleeing wars, violence, persecution and human rights violations rose for the ninth year in 2020 despite the pandemic, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency. About 20.7 million people are considered refugees under the ...

A challenging arrangement under Hong Kong’s “vaccine bubble” that allows restaurants to boost operations provided staff and customers have received Covid-19 jabs finally showed signs of a breakthrough ahead of Father’s Day, nearly two months ...

The UN representative in Sri Lanka said the sinking of a container ship that caught fire while transporting chemicals off the capital Colombo caused “significant damage to the planet” by releasing hazardous substances into the ecosystem.The Singa...

Group of 7 (G7) leaders agreed in early June to set a minimum global corporate tax rate of at least 15 per cent.Years in the making, the deal means global businesses such as Google, Apple and Amazon will pay more tax in the markets they sell goods an...

Japan’s defence minister has urged European nations to have a stronger military involvement in the Asia-Pacific as Tokyo tries to put “tremendous pressure” on Beijing to counter China’s influence in the region.In his first speech to the Europ...

While the United States and Europe waged a 17-year trade battle over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus, China poured money into its own commercial aircraft to take on the Western aviation duopoly.It took a common threat for the US and Europe to finally ...

The government affiliations of Hong Kong’s film censors have sparked concerns in the industry that they may take an overzealous approach in enforcing new national security guidelines, banning previously unobjectionable material in an effort to avoi...

Taiwan is considering widening its coronavirus vaccination programme after the United States increased its donation to the island to 2.5 million doses.The island registered 107 new local infections on Sunday, 11 deaths, and two imported cases. This w...

In a small, book-strewn flat in Beijing’s outskirts lives one of the last Chinese academics who refuses to be silenced by the ruling Communist Party’s relentless crackdown on intellectuals.Wu Qiang, 50, once had an enviable career as a political ...

The Apple Daily tabloid is likely to ask Hong Kong’s Security Bureau to release some of the HK$18 million (US$2.32 million) worth of assets frozen during a police crackdown on the paper’s top leadership on Thursday so it can pay the wages of it...

The southern Chinese province of Guangdong reported no new confirmed local cases of Covid-19 for Saturday but preventive measures have been stepped up in the Pearl River Delta cities of Zhaoqing, Shenzhen and Dongguan.Guangdong’s health commission ...