The Covid-19 pandemic has left most working adults in Hongkong fearing for their financial position and readiness for retirement, according to a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit commissioned by HSBC Life Insurance.Some 98 per cent of Hongkon...

Millions of people in Zhengzhou just discovered how reliant they had become on the internet after major flooding killed service, as well as electricity, across the city.The floods in the provincial capital of the central Chinese province Henan killed...

The ancient Chinese port city of Quanzhou – once the starting point for the trading route known as the Maritime Silk Road – has been added to Unesco’s World Heritage List.Quanzhou, described by the UN body as the “emporium of the world” in ...

Sydney’s daily Covid-19 cases climbed and are expected to keep rising after thousands took to the streets over the weekend in defiance of the lockdown restrictions sweeping parts of Australia.The city of almost 6 million people recorded 145 new cas...

Hong Kong has confirmed no new Covid-19 cases for the fifth time this month, while medical sources say a Saudi Arabian consulate employee’s 13-year-old daughter – in a critical condition after contracting the coronavirus – is showing signs of i...

The board of China Gas Holdings has announced it will give up nearly half of its members’ earnings to compensate victims and their families after a deadly gas explosion in Hubei province last month caused by the rupturing of corroded gas pipes.The ...

In his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) five years ago, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced a unilateral ceasefire with communist rebels who had been waging a decades-old armed insurgency.Jubilant militant leftist groups reciprocat...

A Hong Kong hiker was bitten by a wild boar on Monday while taking photos in one of the city’s country parks on Monday.The 62-year-old woman set off on her journey to Tai Tam Country Park shortly before 8am at the junction of Mount Parker Road and ...

For China, the road ahead is clear.In the country’s most detailed comments on the issue yet, six of the country’s top health experts and officials said on Thursday that the next step in the search for the origins of Covid-19 should extend to coun...

China’s internet ministry has launched a new nationwide campaign to purge what it deems problems in the internet industry, which has been battered for months in an almost continuous crackdown from different government bodies.The Ministry of Industr...

A Hong Kong teenager has been sentenced to serve time in a training centre for hurling a petrol bomb at a police station in hopes of killing officers there during the social unrest of 2019, and for joining 11 others in a thwarted attempt to flee to T...

Malaysia’s parliament, sitting for the first time in eight months, descended into chaos on Monday as opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin of royal insult for disallowing a debate during the special five-day session.The sitti...

Former Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting has been charged with illegally incurring election expenses via the purchase of newspaper adverts to promote a strategic voting scheme ahead of the 2016 Legislative Council polls.  The Occupy moveme...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she has agreed to a request from Turkish authorities to accept the return of a New Zealand citizen accused of having links to Islamic State.The woman and her two young children have been in immigration det...

Follow our live coverage of day three of the Tokyo Olympics here.Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games organisers on Monday reported 16 more coronavirus cases, including three infections among athletes, as a poll found support for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihid...

China has for the first time given the US a list of red lines and remedial action it must take to repair relations, including lifting sanctions and dropping its extradition request for Huawei financial chief Meng Wanzhou.Chinese foreign vice-minister...

From a writer aspiring to ignite youth interest in Chinese classical literature to a group providing a safe haven for sex workers, unsung heroes across Hong Kong are making positive differences every day to people’s lives.Now, these community champ...

Half of Malaysia’s 900,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which employ about 50 per cent of the country’s 15.9 million workers, could fold if the current Covid-19 national lockdown is extended beyond September, an industry group has w...

A pilot scheme to find 800 rooms at hotels and guest houses to use as transitional accommodation for residents waiting for public flats in Hong Kong has tripped over red tape, according to a partnering non-profit organisation.The programme is intende...

This is the fourth in a series of articles based on a wide-ranging Post interview with Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po. Read part one here, part two here and part three here.Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po has given mainland Chinese...

Malaysia’s parliament will sit for the first time this year on Monday, providing lawmakers an opportunity to grill Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin over his government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the economy.The five-day sitting will s...

Pakistan’s ruling party of Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared to be winning in a tight race to elect the regional assembly in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where two poll workers from Khan’s party were killed on Sunday, officials said.Khan’s p...

This is the first in a series of stories on China’s job market, looking at its history, the role of migrant workers, inequality and the future for its graduates entering the workforce.China has always placed a high priority on support for the job m...

When the coronavirus pandemic began to batter economies around the world early last year, G20 members – including China – came up with a debt relief scheme to help the most vulnerable countries.The Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) launch...

A Hong Kong scientist has developed a route-planning mobile app with a difference – it directs users through areas with the lowest levels of air pollution.Dr Alexis Lau Kai-hon of the University of Science and Technology (HKUST) hopes it will help ...

Lebanon’s wealthy businessman and former premier Najib Mikati is poised to be designated prime minister on Monday after winning the support of most major parties to form a new government facing a crippling financial crisis, political sources said.E...

In an Australia increasingly wary of China’s influence in its backyard, claims a Chinese state-run firm was angling to purchase the South Pacific’s No. 1 phone carrier set off immediate alarm bells.In Australian media, unnamed government sources ...

A bus swerved off a motorway and crashed in Croatia early on Sunday after the driver apparently fell asleep, killing 10 people and injuring at least 44 others – some of them seriously, authorities said.The crash happened about 6am near the town of ...

The death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in India climbed to 159, officials said on Sunday, with rescuers searching for dozens more missing.The country’s western coast has been inundated by torrential rains since...

Ethiopia’s Amhara state on Sunday called on “all young people” to take up arms against Tigrayan fighters who are battling the federal government military and forces from all of Ethiopia’s other nine regions.The call for mass mobilisation agai...

Tunisia’s president dismissed the government and froze parliament on Sunday in a dramatic escalation of a political crisis that his opponents labelled a coup, calling their own supporters to come onto the streets in protest.President Kais Saied sai...

Fires raged Sunday on Italy’s Mediterranean island of Sardinia, where nearly 400 people were evacuated overnight. No deaths or injuries have been reported.Firefighters said several homes were damaged in the island’s western interior region. Civil...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Phelim Kine, Carmen Paun and Ryan Heath on politico.com on July 25, 2021.  Leading US infectious disease experts are warning that China's rejection of a Wo...

Britain’s Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Sunday apologised after he tweeted that the country need not “cower” in the face of coronavirus, having himself recovered from a bout of Covid-19.Javid, who replaced Matt Hancock as health minister last...

Five years ago, Beijing blithely dismissed an international tribunal’s landmark ruling that found its sweeping claims in the South China Sea had no legal basis.Liu Zhenmin, China’s then foreign vice-minister, said the decision handed down at The ...

China and Pakistan have pledged to strengthen counterterrorism cooperation and upgrade security measures to better protect Chinese workers and investment in the South Asian country in the wake of what Beijing has called the biggest ever terrorism att...

A sale of new flats in the west of Hong Kong’s New Territories failed to hit the spot with buyers on Sunday, with only half of the 79 small units available being snapped up.But property agents said the modest sales at K&K Property’s project SkyeH...

The eastern Chinese city of Nanjing reported two more coronavirus cases on the weekend, taking the total in the country’s latest cluster to 57 as the city wrapped up its first round of mass testing.Yang Dasuo, deputy director of the Nanjing Health ...

China’s old northeastern rust-belt province of Jilin is looking for a bit of inspiration in the US city of Pittsburgh – the one-time steel capital that gradually transformed into a hub for advanced technology companies. This type of economic tra...

Thousands of Hongkongers – some of them in costume – were left queuing for hours under the hot sun as they waited to be admitted to an annual anime fair on Sunday, with the organiser blaming the delays on an abrupt reduction in the capacity of th...

Four people are dead, five are injured and 25,000 have been displaced following heavy monsoon rains and strong winds in the Philippines, officials said on Sunday.Floods and landslides amid days of continuous torrential rains since last week have uptu...

A leading Hong Kong taxi alliance is working towards introducing a safety system in all cabs to fix drivers’ bad habits, prevent accidents and, hopefully, bring down skyrocketing insurance premiums.The Hong Kong Taxi Council is testing different ty...

India will be keen to buy a newly unveiled Russian stealth fighter to help counter China’s forces along their disputed border, according to military analysts.Earlier this week the Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi unveiled a prototype of its new “Che...

Diplomatic negotiation is about showing your hand to bargain for the maximum interest. And when neither side accepts that the other is in any position of strength, showing up at the bargaining table is already the best result.That is what US deputy s...

The love stories of gay men are rarely featured on Hong Kong television, but the recent popularity of a romantic comedy airing on a major channel suggests a shift in public attitudes to same-sex relationships.The 15-episode series Ossan’s Love – ...

When US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met her Japanese and South Korean counterparts last week in Tokyo, the message they delivered was one of solidarity and agreement when it came to keeping the peace in the Indo-Pacific. Sherman told rep...

The European Union’s imports from Xinjiang more than doubled over the first half of this year, despite concerns over the use of forced labour in the western Chinese region.Shipments to the EU rose by 131 per cent year on year in the first six month...

Hong Kong customs officers have seized more than HK$230 million (US$29.6 million) worth of drugs hidden in various shipments of imported food in three separate busts, two of which were the largest of their kind in 20 years.Four men and one woman were...

Malaysia on Sunday reported its highest ever daily rise in Covid-19 cases, with the cumulative number of infections topping 1 million for the first time.Health authorities recorded 17,045 new infections, bringing the total to 1.01 million with 7,994 ...