CCTV came under fire in China this week after a reporter asked the Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold-medal-winning shot-putter Gong Lijiao when she will “return to being a woman” amid a series of questions about her femininity.The reporter, Lu You, also sa...

Hong Kong’s largest teachers’ union has withdrawn from a Europe-based federation of 380 educators’ groups worldwide after city authorities cut ties with the local body, slamming it for being too “political”.The pro-opposition Professional T...

The High Court has granted bail to the vice-chairwoman of the organiser of Hong Kong’s annual June 4 Tiananmen Square vigil before she goes on trial for alleged incitement later this year.Barrister Chow Hang-tung, one of the leaders of the Hong Kon...

Three secondary school students who admitted to possessing knives they planned to use to threaten two supporters of Hong Kong’s national security law last year have been sentenced to up to six months of hard labour.Judge Stanley Chan Kwong-chi of t...

One would think that for an athlete’s outfit, the sole consideration should be comfort. This is the case – except when the athlete happens to be a woman.These double standards came under the spotlight in mid-July when the Norwegian women’s beac...

Hong Kong police have arrested two plumbers on suspicion of fraud and criminal intimidation after they were accused of exaggerating how badly drains were clogged and threatening disaster for customers who failed to pay expensive repair fees.The Tuesd...

China reported another 62 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Thursday as the highly transmissible Delta variant continues to spread and tens of millions of people are tested across the country.While the transmission rate remains relatively low, au...

Hong Kong pop singer Anthony Wong Yiu-ming has been spared a criminal record after the city’s graft-buster agreed to end its prosecution of his alleged inducement of others to vote for a Legislative Council candidate three years ago in favour of a ...

China’s live-streaming video market will need tougher regulation to stop the spread of vulgar content and low-level entertainment, according to a commentary published on Thursday by the Economic Daily, sending a fresh signal that Beijing could tigh...

Despite China’s pledge to not restrict water flows from its Jinghong hydropower dam on the Mekong River until the end of this month, water levels in downstream Southeast Asian countries have decreased over the past week, according to the Mekong Riv...

“The blood of Jesus is my vaccine” read one of the signs at a recent protest against lockdown regulations in the Australian city of Sydney. While our tendency might be to roll our eyes at such ridiculous anti-science views, these sentiments have ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned against efforts to bypass Asean with new regional cooperation channels, in a veiled swipe at the United States and its allies.Wang also took aim at what he said was “groundless” criticism and “platitu...

Hong Kong police say they have seized a large quantity of child pornography from a 24-year-old man accused of taking illicit photos of a 14-year-old girl in the lavatory of a local shopping mall.Officers arrested the suspect at the Oi Man Plaza shopp...

Residents returning to Hong Kong from mainland Chinese cities with Covid-19 outbreaks should be isolated in hotels – not their homes – health experts said on Thursday, while a pro-establishment lawmaker questioned if those arrivals were being giv...

Bill Gates discussed his marriage to Melinda French Gates, his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and Microsoft's alleged toxic workplace culture in his first public appearance since his divorce was finalised earlier this week.Gates appeared in ...

If the British aircraft carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth – which conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea earlier this week – were to be fired upon by Chinese forces for intruding into what China claims as...

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has resumed new user registrations for its ubiquitous superapp WeChat after it suspended new sign-ups last week while it conducted a “security upgrade”, a move which had raised concerns over the intensity and d...

Some 3,000 taxi drivers are threatening industrial action next week in an effort to pressure the government into giving the green light to a long-sought fare increase of over 20 per cent, an association representing the city’s cabbies has said.Chau...

South Korea’s national badminton body is filing a complaint with the Badminton World Federation (BWF) over Chinese player Chen Qingchen, who was heard repeatedly yelling profanities during matches against South Korean players at the Tokyo 2020 Olym...

The European Union promised help for Greece where fire crews fought to keep flames away from the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games as the country sweltered under a record heatwave.Temperatures in Greece reached 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenhei...

A joint study by researchers from China and Australia has developed a new treatment that could prevent hundreds of millions of people from losing their eyesight – without the need for ongoing injections into their eyes.In the short term, the study�...

A Hong Kong man has been jailed for life for committing what a judge described as “a most abominable and heinous crime” – stabbing his father to death to steal just over HK$200,000 (US$25,700) so he could repay loan sharks.Insurance agent Lai K...

China’s gaming industry needs to be taxed just like any other traditional industry, according to an op-ed from one of the country’s influential state newspapers, joining the growing debate on how video games should be viewed and regulated.“The ...

Insiders have said a University of Hong Kong decision to ban a number of student leaders from campus sidestepped normal disciplinary procedure, a move that has provoked concern among some and led to a member of the school’s governing body resigning...

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has backed legislation that would repeal congressional authorisations for past US wars with Iraq, a significant step in lawmakers’ effort to wrest back the power to declare war from the White House.The vote...

China has launched a new campaign to crack down on “fake news” in Beijing’s latest effort to clean up online content, placing additional pressure on the country’s social media platforms to screen out unsanctioned information, likely impacting...

A top scientist who led China’s team during the WHO investigation into the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan said the same experts should be involved in the next phase of the study and the host country should have a say in who takes part.Liang Wannian w...

Malaysia will no longer use the number of recorded daily Covid-19 infections as a metric to ease curbs for states once they enter the second phase of the national recovery plan, Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz has said.The government will i...

Donald Trump wants his supporters to carry “Trump Cards”.The Trump camp sent two emails on August 4 asking supporters to get on board with carrying the red and gold cards, which look like credit cards and bear the former president's signature.“...

A tuna fishing boat based in the Pacific island nation of Fiji that has been accused of essentially enslaving its crew was blocked Wednesday from importing seafood into the United States, part of an increasing effort to keep goods produced with force...

Global funds accelerated the purchases of Chinese government debt, the best-performing bonds in the world this year, as expectations of policy easing put China ahead of other nations that are moving toward withdrawing the stimulus deployed in the pan...

A Boeing 737 MAX jet departed the United States for China on Wednesday to conduct a flight test as part of efforts to gain approval in the vital travel market following two fatal crashes, people familiar with the matter said.Flight-tracking site Flig...

Police in eastern China are investigating a man for “disturbing public order” after widespread conspiracy theories forced them to reinvestigate and reject the claims surrounding one of the country’s most famous criminal cases from the past five...

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has scored again. Despite all the excitement in the opposition ranks – including another claim that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim had the numbers to take over as premier; a youth demonstration; a march by MPs to de...

As Hong Kong begins the process of selecting its leader for the sixth time since returning to the motherland, it is also time for the city to find new growth models in response to a changing world.Hong Kong has been fortunate in its opportunities to ...

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, owned by billionaire Richard Liu Qiangdong, is on track to become the country’s first e-commerce player with its own air cargo fleet.The East China bureau of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), the au...

Hong Kong will not immediately enact mainland China’s anti-sanctions law after its adoption is approved later in August as it will still require local legislation to adapt it to suit the city’s needs, the Post has learned.Sources familiar with th...

When Australian diver Sam Fricker arrived in Tokyo for the Olympic Games, he had more than 600,000 followers and 20.4 million likes on TikTok.Little more than a week later and his already sizeable following had almost doubled thanks to the photogenic...

The Biden administration is developing a plan to require nearly all foreign visitors to the United States to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as part of eventually lifting travel restrictions that bar much of the world from entering the United St...

Former US national security advisers warned lawmakers on Wednesday that American investors, businesses and graduate schools must do more to protect the US against the Chinese government’s pervasive influence operations.“The United States and othe...

Mexico sued several gun makers in a US federal court on Wednesday, accusing them of reckless business practices that supplied what it called a “torrent” of illegal arms to violent Mexican drug cartels, leading to thousands of deaths.The lawsuit a...

Officials across China have been told to make it their top priority to stop the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19.Vice-premier Sun Chunlan told a pandemic prevention and control meeting in Beijing on Wednesday that the situation remained fluid,...

Huawei Technologies Co plans to crack the top ranks of cloud services providers in the Asia-Pacific region, as the company pivots into a growing market amid the struggles of its smartphone and network equipment businesses under US trade sanctions.“...

The US State Department notified Congress on Wednesday of a proposal to sell some US$750 million of weapons to Taiwan, all but finalising what will be the first arms sale to the self-governed island by US President Joe Biden’s administration.Includ...

A US Senate panel approved a bill Wednesday to restrict the sale of telecommunications equipment by Chinese companies considered threats to national security.Passed by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Secure Equipmen...

China and the US have been at loggerheads on almost all fronts, but with tensions continuing into the Joe Biden presidency, where is the relationship heading? After US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman’s visit to Tianjin last week, and the Wa...

Coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 200 million on Wednesday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, as the more infectious Delta variant threatens areas with low vaccination rates and strains health care systems.The global surge in case...

After Deng Xiaoping initiated the open-door policy in 1978, he encouraged the rapid development of private enterprises, welcomed foreign investments and attempted to organise the retreat of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from non-essential an...

Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya landed in Poland on Wednesday, where she is to take refuge after saying she feared for her life if forced to return home.The 24-year-old sprinter has been at the centre of a diplomatic drama in the ...

US authorities’ attempts to mislead in the extradition case of Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou “must be denounced” by halting the entire process, thus setting her free, her lawyer said, as the final scheduled hearings in the marathon...