An HK$8 million (US$1.03 million) haul of cocaine and cannabis was seized in a raid in northern Hong Kong on Tuesday night that resulted in the arrest of a suspected trafficker.The 26-year-old jobless man was picked up outside a Kwong Fuk Road buildi...

Police were called to an upscale Hong Kong housing estate on Tuesday night after a flat there was robbed of some HK$900,000 (US$115,891) in cash and valuables.The break-in came to light at about 10.17pm on Tuesday when a 58-year-old man and his wife ...

Australians’ trust in China has plummeted to record lows, new polling shows, with nearly two out of three people now viewing Beijing as more of a security threat than an economic partner.In the latest sign of deteriorating Sino-Australian ties, 63 ...

A popular protest chant during Hong Kong’s 2019 anti-government protests had the effect of inciting separatism, as it implied an objective of overthrowing Beijing and recovering the city from “enemy hands”, prosecutors argued on Wednesday as th...

Almost two-thirds of Hong Kong Airlines’ workforce has either been made redundant or opted to take a significant pay cut to keep their jobs, the Post has learned.The ailing airline, backed by the bankrupt HNA Group, started issuing redundancy notic...

In his tracksuit, silver chain and sparkling trainers, MC Tenzin would look like any other rapper if not for the backdrop of towering Himalayan peaks in his videos and rhyme-dropping about karma.The self-described “Godfather” of Tibetan rap is a ...

Georgina Chapman, ex-wife of convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, went red-carpet official over the weekend with actor Adrien Brody, whom she reportedly has been dating for a while.The Marchesa designer and The Pianist Oscar winner did the step-and-rep...

A United States warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait over Beijing’s protests, in the sixth such transit near the self-ruled island under US President Joe Biden’s administration.The USS Curtis Wilbur, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-mi...

Hong Kong’s health authorities are investigating one preliminary-positive Covid-19 case involving a resident in Tai Po, where the coronavirus was detected in sewage samples, the Post has learned, raising concerns a 16-day streak of zero community i...

Canada has escalated its complaint over restrictions placed on its canola seed exports to China, which have been in effect for over two years.China suspended imports of canola seeds from Richardson International and Viterra in March 2019, while also ...

The US government won’t meet its goal of administering one or more doses of a Covid-19 vaccine to 70 per cent of US adults by July 4.But White House Covid-19 response team coordinator Jeffrey Zients said President Joe Biden’s administration had �...

A giant panda at Tokyo’s Ueno zoo gave birth to twins on Wednesday, weeks after news of her pregnancy sent stocks in nearby restaurants soaring.The cubs were born in the early hours of Wednesday, the zoo said in a statement, adding that it had not ...

A Chinese court aborted an online auction of a criminal’s possessions after the public jacked up the highest bid to 87 million yuan (US$13.4 million), likely to get their hands on a highly valuable collectible Yu-Gi-Oh! game card.Collectors believe...

A panel of experts convened by the top US health agency will review data surrounding more than 300 confirmed cases of heart muscle inflammation among adolescents and young adults after receiving mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.The committee, hosted by the Cen...

China’s military deployment along its disputed Himalayan border with India and uncertainty over whether Beijing will fulfil its promise on troop reductions remains a challenge for relations between the two neighbours, India’s foreign minister Sub...

Hong Kong’s embattled Apple Daily is folding its operations earlier than expected and will stop publishing online from midnight, running its last print edition on Thursday, the Post has learned.An official press release issued in the afternoon also...

China’s state reserves administration on Tuesday said it would publicly auction a total of 100,000 tonnes of non-ferrous metals early next month in the first round of a rare and highly anticipated release of its stockpiles.The National Food and Str...

Singapore is reducing the quarantine period for most inbound travellers from 21 days to two weeks after it found that new variants of concern did not have a longer incubation period.The health ministry imposed the three-week isolation period for all ...

Former US presidential candidate Andrew Yang conceded the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday after early results showed him in a distant fourth place among more than a dozen Democrats seeking their party’s nomination.“I am a numbers guy,” Ya...

Four Saudis who took part in the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year under a contract approved by the State Department, The New York Times reported on Tuesda...

This is the seventh in a series about China’s plans to reopen its borders amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Here, Josephine Ma, Cissy Zhou and Jevans Nyabiage look into how China’s trade and diplomacy have been affected by the lack of face-to-face inte...

Searing, unrelenting heat scorches large swathes of the Earth, killing millions who have no means to escape. Shade is useless, and shallow bodies of water are warmer than the blood coursing through people’s veins.This is a scene from a new sci-fi n...

President Xi Jinping congratulated the first astronauts to enter China’s in-progress space station, days after their arrival at its core module.The three Chinese astronauts landed on the core module of the Tiangong space station last Thursday for a...

With just 30 days to go before the Tokyo 2020 Olympics officially open, organisers are confident that nothing can stop the Games from going ahead. But even with the finish line of the opening ceremony in sight, not everyone in Japan agrees.“It’s ...

In a little over three years, Kellie Yuen Ka-lam has transformed from a plucky university student eager to help her community into a seasoned organiser and advocate for people with disabilities and mental health conditions. Now a 21-year-old social ...

Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, Indonesia’s Minister of Religious Affairs, has a tough job on his hands. It’s not just, as analysts point out, that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated extremism online and offline. Yaqut is six months into his position at...

A woman in southeastern China has reportedly been swindled out of 6,500 yuan (US$1,000) buying “amnesia water” from an online shop.Surnamed Qian, the woman who lives in Suzhou in Jiangsu province, said she was interested in the product after she ...

A Covid-19 antibody test will be a determining factor for whether fully vaccinated travellers have their mandatory quarantine period in Hong Kong halved to seven days starting later this month.But scientists still cannot conclusively agree on whether...

Russian President Vladimir Putin last week offered a philosophical take on today’s world affairs, which in a sense aptly summed up the problems we are facing.“There’s no happiness in life, only a mirage of it on the horizon. Cherish them,” he...

An influx of mainland Chinese buyers into Hong Kong’s super-deluxe developments since early this year could further fuel home prices in the world’s most expensive property market, and the trend will become more obvious once the border open.Buyers...

When Elizabeth Peters* was invited by a close friend to attend a Christian workshop at a London cafe she was hoping to explore her religious views in a relaxed, informal setting with no strings attached.Little could she have known it would be the sta...

Spurred by supply chain interruptions, US lawmakers appeared open on Tuesday to engaging with allies in Asia on a multilateral trade agreement after Washington’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership four years ago.Senator Tom Carper, the D...

Days after Joe Biden’s first presidential trip abroad, Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed back to Europe Tuesday to keep up the work of building Western unity against a rising China.Blinken left Washington late on Tuesday afternoon for Berlin...

Xu Yuanchong, a translator who helped bridge Chinese and Western cultures by translating Chinese classics into English and French, and vice versa, died last week at the age of 100.Xu was well known for translating poetry from Mao Zedong, poems from t...

Whether it is China’s rover on Mars, its space station orbiting the Earth or its moon probe bringing back lunar samples, one little-known system is behind them all.The core of the Kylin computer operating system has been guarded as a national secre...

The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences” of the institutions, which over the decades forced hundreds o...

Belarus prsident Alexander Lukashenko Tuesday accused modern Germany of Nazism on the 80th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of the USSR and a day after coordinated Western sanctions on his country.The EU, US, British and Canadian sanctions were a r...

The US Justice Department seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities or violent organisations, taking them offline for violating US sanctions.Several of the sites were back online within hours on ...

The Union of European Football Associations (Uefa) has ruled that Munich’s stadium cannot be illuminated in rainbow colours for Wednesday's Euro 2020 match between Germany and Hungary, a decision dismissed as “shameful” by the city's mayor.Uef...

Myanmar’s junta chief on Tuesday thanked Russia, a major weapons supplier to the troubled Southeast Asian country, for strengthening the army which seized power in a coup earlier this year.Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military overthrew ci...

A woman in Thailand made a startling discovery when she heard loud noises coming from her kitchen and discovered an elephant that appeared to be looking for snacks.The incident occurred in Hua Hin in southern Thailand on Saturday. The kitchen belonge...

How do astronauts do laundry in space? The simple answer is, they do not.They wear their underwear, gym clothes and everything else until they cannot take the filth and stink any more, then throw them out.Nasa wants to change that – if not at the I...

A Swedish court has upheld a ban on Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies selling 5G equipment in the country.Sweden’s regulator, the Post and Telecom Authority, banned the company along with Chinese counterpart ZTE from the network in Octobe...

Fenghua International Transportation, a Guangzhou-based logistics company which ships tons of goods round the world for clients including chilli sauce, is getting ready to airlift 3 metric tonnes of bitcoin mining equipment as China continues to push...

This is the sixth in a series about China’s plans to reopen its borders amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Here, Simone McCarthy and Zhuang Pinghui look into the problems in pinning down when “herd immunity” can be achieved.Herd immunity – when enou...

HSBC customers were left confused and angry on Tuesday after being told they might not be able to use online banking services outside Hong Kong under updated terms sent out by the firm, prompting it to later issue an apology.In a statement on Tuesday...

Taiwan reported only six new Covid-19 deaths and 79 infections on Tuesday, the lowest since its latest outbreak peaked about a month ago.But overall, its case fatality rate is more than 4 per cent – much higher than the global average of 2.16 per c...

The USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group is expected to monitor the Chinese Navy in the Indo-Pacific later this summer, filling the void left by the Ronald Reagan strike group as it heads to the Middle East to support the US military during its withd...

Industry leaders have urged Hong Kong officials to relaunch cross-border business activities in the city by expanding the Covid-19 quarantine exemptions for financial executives to cover more sectors, arguing that antibody testing allows for a wid...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged Finland to play a “unique” role in its relations with the European Union, following the US President Joe Biden’s Europe tour in which he rallied support to confront China.“It is of vital importance for C...