Russia said on Monday it had carried out another successful test of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, a new addition to an arsenal of weapons called “invincible” by President Vladimir Putin.Moscow has in recent years touted the development of...

Taiwan’s government on Monday approved the use and production of Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate, a major step in the island’s plans to develop its own vaccines to protect against the coronavirus.Taiwan-based Medigen...

A 50-year-old Singapore man was on Monday charged with providing about S$1,000 (US$740) to a member of Islamic State (Isis) to facilitate terrorist operations in Syria.Mohamed Kazali Sallehm was arrested by Malaysian Special Branch officers in Decemb...

An off-duty veteran police officer died in what appeared to be an accidental fall from his flat in government housing in northern Hong Kong on Monday.Inspector Michael Yiu, of the police public relations branch, fell from his 16th-floor flat at the T...

A Polytechnic University graduate was jailed for nearly four years on Monday for rioting during violent clashes with police near the Kowloon campus at the height of Hong Kong’s social unrest in 2019.District Judge Frankie Yiu Fun-che said the 45-mo...

Hong Kong health experts have expressed concerns that fully inoculated arrivals from overseas could seek extra Covid-19 jabs in the city, with one infectious disease specialist urging the government to consider requiring people to declare previous sh...

When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, founder Jeff Bezos will be on board. No test pilots or flight engineers for Tuesday’s debut flight from West Texas, just Bezos, his brother, an 82-year-old aviation pioneer and a teena...

China’s benchmark loan rate will be in the spotlight on Tuesday, with market participants divided over the need for more easing to support growth.The loan prime rate (LPR) could be lowered for the first time since early last year as a sign of furth...

A Japan court on Monday sentenced an American father-son duo who helped former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn flee the country to between 20 months and two years in prison.The sentence is the first handed down in Japan in the Nissan saga, which began with...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by David M. Herszenhorn on politico.eu on July 19, 2021.Nato allies are scouring their ranks – in search of a successor to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg...

A senior executive of real estate giant China Evergrande has appeared in court charged with attempting to rape a woman in a case linked to a hotpot dinner that was attended by three senior Hong Kong officials and violated Covid-19 rules.Chen Fen is a...

The South China Morning Post, founded in Hong Kong in 1903, has become the first news organisation in Asia to champion a new blockchain standard where historical and archival items can be connected, discovered and collected.The standard, called ARTIF...

The Chinese navy has made a distinct change in course in the last few years, doing fewer drills in distant waters to focus on one core issue: Taiwan.An assessment of Chinese naval drills in the past decade by the South China Morning Post indicates th...

As he considered a new job offer, Mauricio Javier Romero asked his wife what she thought – but provided few details about the mission.“It’s your decision, but you can count on my support,” she told him, according to the Colombian publication ...

South Korea’s military has recorded in biggest cluster of Covid-19 infections to date, with more than 80 per cent of personnel aboard a destroyer on anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden testing positive.While the 247 cases are not directly linked...

Last week marked a watershed for technology start-ups in India, as a record bout of fundraising shifted attention to the world’s second-most populous market, just as investors were becoming spooked by a crackdown on internet companies in China.Food...

Russian aircraft makers say they will present a prospective new fighter jet at a Moscow air show that opens this week.The new warplane hidden under tarpaulin was photographed being towed to a parking spot across an airfield in Zhukovsky, outside Mosc...

More than a year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 outbreak a public health emergency, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) – a region with a combined GDP of US$9.34 trillion and a population of more than...

London clubbers on Monday flocked to one of the first rule-free live music events since the pandemic began last year, dancing through the night and rejoicing in human interaction as England lifted most Covid-19 restrictions at midnight.Britain, which...

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressed doubts about last year’s trade deal with China, the first clear statement from the Biden administration detailing its thinking about the future of the agreement between the world’s two largest economie...

Stanley Sy Ming-yiu fears not treading his own path. Just when many scientists remained wary of a new technique for testing blood samples to detect cancer at an early stage, he decided to take the plunge.Under his leadership, a team at Sanomics has i...

Mary Schaus remembers how angry she was the day an attendant refused to unlock a toilet for the disabled, and her eight-year-old autistic son wet himself.But that incident not only sparked her desire to raise awareness about people with special needs...

Malaysia’s Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz spoke to the South China Morning Post on a wide range of issues concerning the National Recovery Plan, a four-phase road map for the country to progressively reopen its economy by the end of the ...

Although some people have queried the renewed talk of enacting the national security laws required by the Basic Law (Article 23), the reason is there for all to see. The national security law, enacted last year, requires Hong Kong to “complete, as ...

Malaysia’s government, already under fire for its handling of the Covid-19 crisis, will cooperate more closely with the opposition as it implements a new road map for a progressive reopening of the economy, Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz...

Cathay Pacific flight attendant Irish Geronimo, 29, was panic-stricken when her bank sent a text message saying about HK$83,000 (US$10,640) of her hard-earned savings had been transferred to a stranger.The bad news arrived hours after she clicked on ...

The Chinese government had never said no to a merger deal in the country’s technology sector until last Saturday when the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) blocked Tencent Holdings’ plan to merge Douyu and Huya, two video game liv...

An investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data provides further evidence that military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire outfit, is being used to spy on journalists, h...

A team of government researchers in China have unveiled the design for a commercial nuclear reactor that is expected to be the first in the world that does not need water for cooling, allowing the systems to be built in remote desert regions to provi...

The latest talks between the Afghan government and Taliban in Doha ended without significant progress on Sunday even after the insurgents’ supreme leader said he “strenuously favours” a political settlement to the conflict.Senior representative...

Lewis Hamilton won his home British Grand Prix for a record eighth time on Sunday after battling back from a 10-second penalty imposed for a first-lap collision that halted the race and left Red Bull rival Max Verstappen in hospital.The Mercedes driv...

At least 34 people were killed after several homes were crushed by a collapsed wall and a landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains in India’s financial capital Mumbai, authorities said on Sunday.Rainwater also inundated a water purification compl...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel surveyed what she called a “surreal, ghostly” scene in a devastated village on Sunday, pledging quick financial aid and a redoubled political focus on curbing climate change as the death toll from floods in western...

Afghanistan has withdrawn its ambassador and diplomats from Pakistan’s capital following the kidnapping of the ambassador’s daughter, the Afghan foreign ministry said on Sunday, a new blow to relations at a sensitive time for the Afghan peace pro...

Vaccinated Muslim pilgrims living in Saudi Arabia started their haj pilgrimage on Sunday, an annual event strictly curtailed for the second consecutive year over Covid-19 concerns.This year, only 60,000 Saudis and foreigners already living in the oi...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa joined post-riot clean-up efforts on Sunday as his government warned against vigilantism and sought to avert racial conflict following the unrest.The country was gripped by more than a week of chaos that claime...

The education sector, followed by area, fight crime and fire safety committees, has emerged as the biggest group among about 7,900 voters eligible to cast ballots for seats on Hong Kong’s revamped Election Committee in September.Provisional figures...

A 30-year-old Uzbek man was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of raping a woman in the National Stadium last week, just days before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games begin, according to police and media reports.The man, a university student, allegedly sexua...

The UK government was thrown into turmoil on Sunday by its own rules on Covid-19 self-isolation just as it controversially prepares to ditch pandemic curbs in England.Prime Minister Boris Johnson and finance minister Rishi Sunak will be working remot...

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.The Hong Kong Observatory issued the No 3 typhoon signal at 4.10pm on Monday as Tropical Storm Cempaka edged c...

Hong Kong could inoculate 70 per cent of its population with at least one shot of a Covid-19 vaccine by October under the current daily rate of 30,000 doses, but this alone would not be enough to return the city to normalcy or allow it to reopen its ...

To mitigate “financial risks”, China needs to weigh the pros and cons of loosening its strict capital controls using a central bank digital currency, according to the director of digital finance at China’s prestigious Peking University.The so-c...

Singapore’s health ministry reported 88 new locally-transmitted coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest daily toll since August last year, driven by growing clusters of infections linked to karaoke bars and a fishery port.The outbreak at karaoke o...

Trade between China and North Korea hit a record low in the first half of the year as the coronavirus pandemic and food shortages took their toll.China’s exports to North Korea fell by 85.2 per cent year on year to US$56.77 million in the first six...

When Kishwar Chowdhury appeared on the finale of MasterChef Australia last week, the 38-year-old Melbourne native delighted Indian and Bangladeshi social media users with her entry: a reimagining of a centuries-old rustic dish made from cooked rice f...

Thai police on Sunday fired rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas at a crowd of over 1,000 people protesting against Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and his government’s handling of a fresh wave of Covid-19 infections. Thailand is experienci...

China opposes any attempt to promote regime change in Syria and will step up cooperation with Damascus on Belt and Road Initiative projects and combating terrorism, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday.Wang made the remarks in a meeting ...

A top Chinese official said Sunday that political tensions between Beijing and Australia were not behind a Unesco recommendation to place the Great Barrier Reef on its endangered list.Deputy education minister Tian Xuejun is chairing this year’s me...

Hong Kong’s All the Crows in the World soared triumphantly and swooped on the award for best short film at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival at the weekend.Collecting her prize in the French city, director Tang Yi spelled out her wish following ...

More than 400 Hong Kong university graduates have started working in mainland China under a government scheme that encourages young people to pursue careers in the Greater Bay Area, according to the city’s labour minister, who promised to go all ou...