Philippine former president Benigno Aquino was laid to rest in a Manila cemetery on Saturday beside his parents, two of the Southeast Asian country’s democracy icons. Hundreds of mourners in black and white, some also wearing yellow – the colour...

From sinkholes to concrete-weakening saltwater intrusion, theories abound on what caused a Florida beachside condominium tower to collapse with no warning.The Champlain Towers South building in Surfside that partially went down was in the midst of it...

Period-proof underwear designed to protect women from leaks and keep them feeling dry has become popular in Japan in recent years, and one mother with a young daughter has developed a similar product for girls who are starting to menstruate.Mayumi Mi...

Hong Kong’s vaccination rate against the coronavirus could hit 50 per cent in the coming months, the city’s health minister has said, noting that daily inoculation figures have recently reached new highs.“The numbers have been encouraging,” S...

A laugh is good not only for the soul, but also for business, as many Chinese companies are finding out.Over the past several years, a growing number of businesses have hit on a novel advertising method to reach younger customers and create a buzz ar...

Samorn Anantakul, 75, lives in a sparse room in eastern Thailand, with just a handful of belongings, including a television set, an old clock, and a plastic shelf of ointments and medicines, to keep her company every day.Until last year, it was a hom...

Hong Kong’s new deputy leader John Lee Ka-chiu on Saturday dismissed concerns over his lack of policy experience, citing his cross-departmental work as a veteran security official and insisting he had a “much better” grasp of government operati...

More American opinion leaders view China as the United States’ most important partner in Asia given the countries’ trade relations, but Japan is considered most trustworthy, a survey by the Japanese Foreign Ministry showed.Asked to choose “the ...

Last month a meeting of China’s top leaders discussed ways to communicate the country’s message more effectively and improve its image to the rest of the world.The Politburo also heard from a Shanghai-based professor, Zhang Weiwei, who offered hi...

The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is planning to build a massive quarantine complex for international travellers and local residents from high-risk areas because local hotels cannot cope with highly transmissible Covid-19 mutations such as the D...

A congressman who has denounced alleged wrongdoing in a 1.6 billion reais (US$323 million) Covid-19 vaccine contract signed by Brazil’s government arrived at a Senate commission inquiry on Friday wearing a bulletproof vest for safety.Legislator Lui...

Sydney streets were nearly deserted on Saturday at the start of a beefed-up two-week lockdown to contain the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant sweeping Australia’s largest city.More than 80 Covid-19 cases have been reported so far in an i...

Hong Kong’s sole commercial-scale recycling plant for waste lead acid batteries (WLABs) is running at less than 10 per cent of its capacity nearly two years after it was commissioned, according to the co-founder and chairman of its owner.Illegal ex...

In the third instalment of a five-part series on US-China technology policy, Tracy Qu and Jane Zhang visited a factory in the Jiangxi provincial capital of Nanchang, to see how a recently-blacklisted camera maker for Apple’s smartphones has come to...

Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues surrounding the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July. The Olympics has, in the past, provided an informal setting for national leaders to meet, shake hands in front of the cameras, take in an ev...

Families and friends of the 159 people missing after the collapse of a residential building in a Miami suburb clung to hope on Friday as rescuers sifted through a mountain of debris for signs of life, having found four dead so far.Three more bodies w...

Millions of documents have been removed from China Judgments Online, an official database of rulings run by the Supreme People’s Court, which a public notice said was due to a “migration” process.The notice posted on the website said that proce...

When Ginny Wilmerding joined the board of Hong Kong-listed consumer technology company Techtronic Industries in April, it was an ambition realised after years of waiting.The 52-year-old American, a partner of communications consultancy Finsbury Glove...

A flurry of good news in recent weeks is pointing the way to a post-pandemic landscape – in some parts of the world, at least. In the United States, both New York and California removed most of their pandemic-related restrictions after 70 per cent...

From London to New York and Hong Kong, the Delta coronavirus variant has emerged as a potential wild card that threatens to upend plans for returning to pre-pandemic normality. In Europe and North America, the rapid spread of the highly transmissibl...

Cheng Zhang’s story initially strained the belief of detectives in Irvine in the US state of California. His wife and 12-year-old stepdaughter were missing – kidnapped from their flat, he claimed – and he had waited more than a week to report i...

China has deployed its most advanced stealth fighter jet to air force units monitoring the Taiwan Strait and the East China Sea, state media said, in a move Chinese observers saw as a warning to South Korea and Japan, the US’ allies in the region.T...

The promotion of two hardline law-and-order officials this week to top jobs in the Hong Kong government signalled Beijing’s firm insistence to ensure national security stayed at the top of the city’s agenda, analysts have said.The singular focus ...

One Spanish and two Ethiopian employees of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres have been “brutally murdered” in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region, the organisation said on Friday.The trio “were travelling yesterday afternoon whe...

There may be no choice but to put part of the much-anticipated railway between China and Nepal through the main protected area of the Himalayan mountains, according to a senior engineer involved in the project.The US$8 billion railway would be likely...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is not expecting to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during the Group of 20 meeting in Italy next week, a department official said on Friday.“There is no meeting planned between Secretary Blinken and t...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he has urged Pope Francis to come to Canada to apologise for church-run boarding schools where hundreds of unmarked graves have been found, and he said Canadians are “horrified and ashamed” by...

A major US government report on UFOs released on Friday said defence and intelligence analysts lack sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by military pilots including whether they are advanced earthly technolog...

The People’s Liberation Army has conducted more than 100 joint exercises so far this year and has stepped up its training along the disputed border with India, the Chinese defence ministry has said.Military spokesman Ren Guoqiang told a regular pre...

This is the 12th in the South China Morning Post’s series of explainers about China’s Communist Party in the lead-up to the party’s centenary in July. Here, William Zheng identifies some of the high-flying officials born in the 1970s who could ...

China’s decision to lodge a complaint against Australia’s anti-dumping duties at the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a shift from Beijing’s “usual strategy” – a sign that the move is likely to be politically motivated, according to inte...

A Minnesota judge sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin to 22-1/2 years in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020 on a Minneapolis pavement, video of which sparked global protests.A jury found Chauvin, 45...

President Joe Biden celebrated Pride Month at the White House on Friday, a reflection of the growing stature of the LGBT community at the highest level of government.“Pride Month represents so much,” Biden said. “It stands for courage. The cour...

Several people were killed and others injured on Friday in the southern German city of Wuerzburg, police said, with media reporting a knife attack.“The attacker was overpowered after the police used firearms. There are several injured as well as fa...

China announced that it has achieved a key milestone, with 630 million people inoculated against Covid-19 by Thursday, as the country reached its target of vaccinating 40 per cent of the population by the end of June.The country administered 24.7 mil...

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock apologised on Friday for breaching coronavirus social distancing guidelines after pictures appeared of him embracing his top aide, and the prime minister said he believed the matter was now closed.Photographs pub...

The din of caged animals, the smell of gladiators’ fear and the thunder of tens of thousands of cheering spectators above have all evaporated with the passage of time.But walking through the bowels of the Colosseum, the subterranean ruins of ancien...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Betsy Woodruff Swan and Zach Montellaro on politico.com on June 25, 2021.The Justice Department is suing the state of Georgia over its controversial voting ...

A wave of chip foundry investment is sweeping across Asia, propelled by China and Taiwan and with Japan and Singapore also seeking to benefit from strong demand for chips, while the US continues to build up semiconductor manufacturing on American soi...

Scientists announced Friday that a skull discovered in northeast China represents a newly discovered human species they have named Homo longi, or “Dragon Man” – and they say the lineage should replace Neanderthals as our closest relatives.The H...

Hong Kong and mainland China may be able to reopen their border for quarantine-free travel next month if conditions to do so safely are met, according to top respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan.Zhong said Hong Kong had done well in preventing community ...

China has hit out at the Western “colonial mindset” as it restated its support for Argentina’s claim over the British-ruled Falkland Islands at the United Nations.Its statement comes at a time of heightened tensions between Beijing and London, ...

Does a night trip over Victoria Harbour with a laser and light show flashing across Hong Kong’s spectacular cityscape float your boat?From next month, punters can beat the coronavirus blues by taking a “water taxi” between Hung Hom, Tsim Sha Ts...

The Biden administration has focused more on ideological competition with China than its predecessor, but Beijing has no intention of competing with Washington on that front, according to a leading expert on China’s foreign policy.Yan Xuetong, dean...

China on Friday hit out at a “bandit-like” US government after Washington banned imports of solar panel materials from a Chinese company and placed trade restrictions on four others for alleged use of forced labour in Xinjiang.The White House sai...

Hong Kong’s new police chief faces the daunting tasks of recruiting new blood and repairing a frayed relationship with overseas law enforcement agencies, insiders say.Described by colleagues as low profile and thoughtful, Raymond Siu Chak-yee, 55, ...

The Chinese Communist Party has hailed its political system as a major contributor to humanity as it prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary next week.A white paper published by the United Front Work Department, the body responsible for relations...

The first person charged under Hong Kong’s national security law and accused of ramming his motorcycle into police at a protest last year had done so unintentionally, according to his lawyer.A senior counsel for Tong Ying-kit suggested at the High ...

Beijing’s foreign ministry has accused President Joe Biden of “interfering in Hong Kong affairs on the pretext of press freedom”, after the US leader blamed it for the closure of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper.On Thursday, the city’s res...

Vietnam has agreed to give Chinese nationals in the country priority for its latest shipment of Covid-19 jabs after a complaint from China, according to its embassy in Hanoi.It comes after China donated 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to its s...