A Chinese shipbuilder has begun work on an unmanned scientific ship that could be a “game changer” for the country’s marine research, according to a trade publication.The vessel – said to be the first of its type – will carry drones and be ...

Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets of Sydney and other cities in Australia to protest Covid-19 lockdown restrictions amid another surge in cases, and police made several arrests after crowds broke through barriers and threw plastic b...

The Tokyo Olympics, already struggling with an outbreak of Covid-19 among athletes, may face another kind of disaster – a tropical storm.Tropical Storm Nepartak, with gusts up to 90 kilometres per hour, was still about 1,800km south of Tokyo on Sat...

Eleven-year-old Nathan Chang Lok-hang ranked among the top 15 per cent of students sitting maths in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams this year, despite being one of the youngest candidates in the qualification’s history.But the Primary Six p...

Hong Kong health authorities will as early as next week begin handing out 200 passes a day at the city’s Covid-19 vaccination centres allowing walk-ins by residents aged 70 and above, the civil service minister has said, a bid to boost flagging tak...

Devastating floods in central China this week have highlighted how vulnerable cities can be to extreme rainfall, as the world faces more such weather events due to climate change.Water and engineering experts say long-term urban planning, including b...

Some of Singapore’s top chefs are fed up with the government’s on-again, off-again measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, which include a temporary shutdown of in-person dining.Faced with a surge of cases from clusters related to karaoke lounge...

Saying that Malaysian politics has been turbulent over the past three years is something of an understatement. But on July 8, when the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) – which commands the largest bloc of parliamentary seats in Prime Mini...

Germany has reportedly joined China in a complaint about the size of table tennis playing areas at the Tokyo Olympics.Liu Guoliang, the Chinese coach of the national team and the president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, told Chinese state n...

A South Korean television network has apologised after using inappropriate images and captions to describe countries during the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony on Friday.The broadcaster, MBC, used images of pizza to describe Italy, an upheaval for Haiti,...

In a blow to travellers and airlines, Hong Kong has decided to delay by two weeks a plan to offer shorter quarantine periods to vaccinated arrivals who clear a coronavirus antibody test at the airport, the Post has learned.The tests will not be intro...

When more than 7,000 athletes and officials from around the world arrived in Tokyo for the 1964 Olympics, the endeavour to feed them nutritious and tasty meals involved procuring as much as 15 tonnes of meat, six tonnes of vegetables and 29,000 eggs ...

Work to clear a flooded road tunnel where dozens are feared to have drowned in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou continued on Saturday.The authorities have not released a final death toll, but many people have posted on social media that they are searchi...

Tencent Holdings has been ordered to end its exclusive music licensing deals with global record labels within 30 days and has been fined 500,000 yuan (US$77,143) by China’s antitrust authorities, as the country’s most valuable technology company ...

Henry Huang Qihao learned a lesson in Form One that he never forgot: beware of strangers you befriend online.A gamer he met over the internet tricked him into sharing his game account and password, then locked him out and demanded a HK$500 (US$64) ra...

Wang Fengbao was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s five years ago. The 77-year-old, admitted to a nursing home in Shanghai’s Jinshan district, displays telltale signs of the disease – difficulty remembering things that just happened and completing fam...

Thanapon Songput, a worker at the non-profit Mirror Foundation, has been arranging to provide oxygen tanks for Covid-19 patients around Thailand’s capital in the past month.The group allocates up to 90 tanks for about 15 patients a day, but the ove...

Hong Kong has enough land for development but planning processes need to be simplified to prevent abuse and speed up the release of supply to tackle the city’s housing crisis, according to Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po.He also advocated a ret...

Summing up the cold-blooded maxim of 19th-century Europe, a French officer declared, “There is no judge more equitable than cannons. They go directly to the goal...” Here in the 21st century, a resurgent Russia is following the same logic, using ...

Roy Tomizawa’s association with the 1964 Tokyo Olympics goes back before he can remember. On October 10 that year, as the Games began, he was celebrating his first birthday in the New York City borough of Queens, while his father was working with t...

Zhang Wen was sitting on the roof of his house, holding his two children. The waters had engulfed the whole village. He decided to swim out.Residents in the Weihui county village of Xiayuan were desperate for rescue. Days of heavy rainfall have cause...

Vaccinated individuals accounted for three-quarters of Singapore’s Covid-19 infections in the last four weeks, but they were not falling seriously ill, government data showed, as a rapid ramp-up in inoculations leaves fewer people unvaccinated.Whil...

Chinese government officials have found 140 potential fire hazards at 60 cultural heritage sites across the country, including open flames, damaged electrical wires and improper incense burning.“For cultural relics and museum units that have major ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel next week to India, an important partner in Washington’s efforts to counter China and in vaccine diplomacy that is hobbled by its own Covid-19 crisis.It will be Blinken’s first visit to the world�...

The United States is considering cracking down on Iranian oil sales to China as it braces for the possibility that Tehran may not return to nuclear talks or may adopt a harder line whenever it does, an official said.Washington told Beijing earlier th...

Angelina Jolie scored a win in her legal battle with Brad Pitt on Friday as the private judge overseeing their divorce and custody matters was disqualified from the case.Superstars Pitt and Jolie, who have six children and were once Hollywood’s hig...

South African language tutor Debbie Odumuko has already survived a shoot-out in a grocery store since fighting between rival taxi drivers resurfaced in Cape Town in early July.But walking alone at night alongside the highway to get home now that most...

Washington said punitive actions levelled by China on Friday against six individuals and an entity in the US are the latest in a string of “baseless” sanctions that demonstrate how Beijing punishes non-official players and shows its isolation fro...

Haiti bid a rowdy farewell to assassinated president Jovenel Moise on Friday as his funeral was roiled by nearby gunfire and protests, prompting a high-level US delegation to leave abruptly and other dignitaries to duck into vehicles for safety.The s...

A man accused of perverting the course of justice when he was due to stand trial for sexually assaulting his daughter was recorded instructing his wife “not to come back” on the day she left Hong Kong with the children, a court heard.Prosecutors ...

Landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains hit parts of western India, killing at least 47 people and leading to the rescue of more than 1,000 other people trapped by floodwaters, officials said on Friday.The dead were killed in three landslides in ...

As China redoubles efforts to help the central province of Henan recover from floods that have left at least 56 dead, the typhoon that largely contributed to the deluge is fast approaching other parts of the country.Over the past several days, the he...

China deployed drones to aid emergency communications and conduct damage assessment in areas affected by this week’s floods, mainland media reported.It represented the first disaster relief deployment for the Wing Loong 2H emergency relief unmanned...

Australia on Friday avoided having the Great Barrier Reef listed as an endangered World Heritage Site by Unesco, despite concerns about climate change-fuelled damage to the ecosystem’s corals.At a World Heritage Committee meeting chaired by China, ...

All countries have a responsibility to work together to uncover the origins of Covid-19, the World Health Organization said on Friday, a day after China flatly rejected a proposal for further research into how the pandemic started.Asked about China�...

Most of the cases in China’s latest Covid-19 cluster – at an airport in the eastern city of Nanjing – had been vaccinated, according to a doctor treating the patients.These so-called breakthrough infections among people who have been fully vacc...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and another opposition figure have indicated they will contest incitement charges stemming from a banned June 4 vigil last year marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, while 10 others have...

A medical graduate who saved over a dozen people in a flooded subway station during major flooding in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Tuesday was officially hired by a local hospital.Zhengzhou People’s Hospital detailed the actions of Yu Y...

Central China’s worst flood in recent memory could put Apple’s primary supplier Foxconn under increasing pressure to meet production targets as the company extends workers’ leave into the third day.Record rainfall in Henan, which lead to the d...

Israeli Avi Zinger said the ice cream he makes usually brings joy, but Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling in occupied Palestinian territory has cast his factory into a political storm.“We will continue to sell anywhere related to Israel,” a...

China’s government is cracking down on the country’s booming off-campus tutoring industry, in one of the biggest overhauls of the education sector that sent dozens of publicly listed stocks tumbling in Shanghai and Hong Kong.Local authorities wil...

Voting hours for the first Hong Kong polls since Beijing drastically reformed the city’s electoral system will be reduced following a fall in the number of people eligible to cast ballots.Special arrangements allowing voters with a fever to attend ...

Taiwan will ease its soft coronavirus lockdown from next week, with the number of daily reported Covid-19 infections falling in the past few weeks.The decision to lower the alert from three to two in the four-tier scale from Tuesday was expected to h...

The disparities in provincial growth across China widened further during the past six months, with the economies in coastal regions surging ahead on the back of increased exports while northern and inland provinces continued lagging behind due to the...

Beijing has apparently not sent any senior Chinese officials to attend what is expected to be a subdued opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday night.Asked directly on Thursday if China was sending any leaders to Tokyo, foreign ministry spok...

Air pollution in many parts of Hong Kong reached serious levels on Friday afternoon under the influence of Tropical Cyclone In-fa, the city’s environmental authority warned, with the situation expected to worsen over the weekend.Readings were at th...

China’s market watchdog is showing the country’s online businesses just how serious it is about reining in the shady conduct that “destroys market order” with its latest crackdown on market behaviour.In the first six months of the year, the S...

After the Covid-19 pandemic shut offices and put Mumbai’s renowned lunchbox deliverymen out of work, the 130-year-old dabbawala network has tied up with a trendy restaurant chain to take on India’s billion-dollar start-ups.For two decades, neithe...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for Portugal’s support in opposing “politicising” the search for the coronavirus’ origins, as Beijing faces increasing pressure from the West to allow further investigation into how the pandemic began.�...

A medium-sized residential site in one of the least developed areas of Hong Kong has generated a strong response from developers vying to get their hands on some of the limited land available in the world’s most expensive property market.Twelve bid...