Another brand new Hong Kong flat worth HK$12 million (US$1.5 million) will be put up for grabs if 5 million residents have been vaccinated against the coronavirus by the end of September, but this time only one jab will be required for eligibility.Si...

Cathie Wood’s US$25.5 billion flagship investment fund began 2021 as one of the most enthusiastic and biggest portfolio investors of Chinese technology companies listed in Hong Kong and the United States.As June turned into July, enthusiasm dissipa...

The first Hong Kong resident convicted under the national security law was sentenced on Friday to nine years in prison for driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers last year while flying a flag calling for the city’s “liberation”....

Hong Kong police quietly fanned out in shopping centres across the city on Friday morning as local swimmer Siobhan Haughey went for another medal at the Tokyo Olympics, a move intended to prevent any potential booing of the national anthem during the...

More than 1,000 Hongkongers will set off on Friday night aboard the city’s first-ever “cruise to nowhere”, with one top official hailing the high-seas jaunt as a step towards “bringing back normalcy”.Commerce minister Edward Yau Tang-wah sa...

The new prime minister of Samoa has confirmed she will cancel a China-backed port project, but hasn’t closed the door to the world’s second-largest economy as she navigates a path for the Pacific nation against a backdrop of intensifying regional...

China’s CanSino Biologics may start a clinical trial as early as next month using Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine followed by a shot of its own Covid-19 vaccine, a senior executive said late on Thursday.Combined dosage may help address a global shorta...

The Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) that allows American soldiers to conduct military exercises on Philippine soil is once again in full force after President Rodrigo Duterte “retracted” a previous letter notifying Washington he was terminating i...

Governments around the world were racing to head off a surge in coronavirus cases driven by the Delta variant, with US President Joe Biden offering new incentives to vaccine holdouts and Israel authorising booster shots.The World Health Organization ...

The European Union is considering a review of its strategy towards China in the coming months, with growing cracks in the relationship since the suspension of their landmark investment deal over human rights and accusations of Chinese involvement in ...

Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies’ latest flagship smartphone does not support 5G connections as the company continues to lose relevance in the mobile phone market under Washington’s ban on access to US technologies.T...

With several of China’s tech winners in the crosshairs of regulators, leading to a sharp sell-off of stocks in sectors from property to education earlier this week, market watchers say Southeast Asia is increasingly seen as a safe haven for investo...

A population equivalent to that of Germany – 83 million people – could be killed by 2100 because of rising temperatures caused by greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a new study that might influence how markets price carbon pollution.The resea...

Japanese sentiment toward the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is seeing a shift as competitions and athletes take centre stage and the country inches closer to winning record gold medals.Previously plagued by concerns over the pandemic and a laundry list of scan...

Former Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting will face his charges of illegal conduct during the 2016 Legislative Council polls at the District Court, where the maximum sentence is seven years.Prosecutors on Friday applied to transfer the case t...

The founder and one-time executive chair of Nikola Corp was freed on US$100 million bail after pleading not guilty to charges alleging he lied about the electric and hydrogen-powered truck start-up, duping novice investors including some financially ...

President Joe Biden has selected tech entrepreneur Jonathan Kaplan to be the next US ambassador to Singapore, planning to fill a position in the critical Pacific trade hub that hasn’t had a formal American envoy since the end of the Obama administr...

A former CIA officer accused of spying for China is asking for a mental competency evaluation after telling his lawyer he believes he is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and is having trouble remembering things.Alexander Yuk C...

The US Navy charged a sailor with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch’s worst warship blaze outside of combat in recent memory.The amphibious assault ship burned for mo...

China’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO) said there is scope for Beijing to work with the United States, the European Union and other Western nations on an agreement aimed at curbing the practices at the heart of the still-simmering...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday approved measures to head off a surge in Delta variant cases, and will effectively send more than 13 million people in the national capital region back into lockdown next week.The region will be placed ...

A long-delayed water park at Hong Kong’s Ocean Park will not require visitors to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in a bid to encourage families to visit over the summer holiday, the Post has learned.A source familiar with the matter said the HK$4 bi...

Diplomats, business executives, and former trade and finance officials will discuss China’s role in the post-pandemic world and the tensions with the West at a high-profile conference in Beijing on Friday, organised by Beijing think tank the Centre...

E-payment operator Octopus Cards is banking on Hong Kong’s HK$36 billion consumption voucher scheme to venture into the uncharted waters of high-end brands and services such as Lane Crawford, Grand Hyatt, Joyce Beauty and Michelin-starred restauran...

During the Olympic Games, video footage and photographs play a major role in capturing sporting history – and at this year’s coronavirus-delayed event in Tokyo, with no live spectators, they are all the more significant.But a picture of a Chinese...

This is the fifth 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.A gruelling two-month stretch awaits Adam Xu later this year, an...

A bipartisan US congressional commission has called on Hilton Worldwide not to allow its name to be associated with a hotel project on the site of a mosque bulldozed by authorities in China’s Xinjiang region, where Washington says minority Muslims ...

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin is working to shore up American relations with the Philippines that have stagnated in part over the precarious state of an agreement governing the presence of US troops in the country as he wraps up a two-day visit o...

China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen, picked by Beijing to become a model socialist city, is drafting the country’s first detailed rules that would guarantee access to kindergarten, offering a peek at the future of preschool education amid a cra...

A group of Republican lawmakers added pressure on America’s securities regulator to investigate Chinese companies listed on US exchanges, citing losses sustained by Didi shareholders as a result of a probe launched by Beijing, while a bipartisan bi...

On April 15, a young man walked into a BMW dealership in Markham, Ontario, and signed a lease on a new X7 SUV, taking delivery of the C$140,000 (US$112,000) vehicle the next month.Within days, the luxury car was heading west on a 4,000km (2,500 miles...

Malta should take responsibility for the 2017 murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia as it created “an atmosphere of impunity” that risked her life, a public inquiry concluded.The October 2017 car-bomb killing of Caruana Galizi...

The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, Nasa officials said.The sev...

Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over its decision to release superhero movie Black Widow on streaming at the same time as in cinemas, alleging a breach of contract which cost the star millions of dollars.Johansson, one of Hollywood’s biggest and...

Israel’s prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated.The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel the first country to offer a third dose of the Pfiz...

Hong Kong police are investigating the booing of China’s national anthem at a mall showing a live broadcast of local fencer Edgar Cheung Ka-long receiving his gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.Hundreds of Hongkongers had gathered on different levels...

Beijing’s top official overseeing public security has tasked Hong Kong authorities with enacting more legislation and pushing forward with judicial reform to ensure the city does a better job in safeguarding national security and its own social sta...

China’s Covid-19 control measures are under intense pressure after an airport cluster in Jiangsu province’s Nanjing is believed to have led to infections in 15 cities across the country in just over a week.The spread is being fuelled by the highl...

Militant groups Islamic State (Isis), al-Qaeda and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) – which China has referred to as a direct threat to its interests – remain present in Afghanistan, where security is fragile and predicted to deteriorat...

The detention of a Uygur man in Morocco on an Interpol red notice issued by Beijing threatens to spark another row over international extradition rules.Yidiresi Aishan, 33, who has been based in Turkey since 2012, was detained on arrival in Casablanc...

China’s top court has made a key judgment related to facial recognition technology, empowering individuals to reject unauthorised facial recognition data collection by commercial entities such as hotels, banks and nightclubs.The decision, which is ...

Apple’s virtual assistant Siri felt the wrath of Chinese social media users this week after the artificial intelligence system was unable to read out China’s tally of gold medal wins at the Tokyo Olympics due to an apparent technical glitch.Users...

American teenager Sunisa Lee won the women’s gymnastics all-around Olympic gold on Thursday then immediately video called her parents, saying “I told them ‘I did it!’ and then we all started crying.”Lee, 18, succeeded defending champion Sim...

Olympic gold medallist Hidilyn Diaz once wore a T-shirt saying “West Philippine Sea” in both Chinese and English “because I wanted to say that what’s ours is ours”.Speaking a day after her triumphant return home from the Tokyo Olympics, Dia...

More than 10,000 troops from China and Russia will stage a drill together in a further tightening of their defence partnership.Chinese defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian said on Thursday that the exercise in China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region wo...

Beijing has assured Chinese companies that the government remains open to and supportive of public listing overseas, according to a commentary by the official Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday, as authorities move to ease fears of rattled investors ami...

Beijing will make it easier for scientists to access research funding from the central government as it tries to drive innovation and catch up with the US on technology.China’s cabinet on Wednesday said it would streamline the application process a...

Hong Kong police have arrested a Form Six pupil for posting online messages in an alleged attempt to get people to boycott more than 100 businesses that advertised with free-to-air broadcaster TVB.Without naming the station, police said on Thursday t...

A cooling paint for buildings to increase the efficiency of air conditioners and an app which allows people to pay gym fees on a minute-by-minute-basis are among innovative projects approved under a HK$500 million (US$64.3 million) scheme to support ...