The World Health Organization has called for a “spirit of partnership” in the search for the origins of Covid-19, as China, the US and others exchange heated rhetoric over the investigation.The global health body said the next steps to find the o...

London locals say the city’s famed Chinatown is bouncing back, 18 months after the Covid-19 pandemic dealt a huge blow to businesses in the iconic West End district. A wetter than usual summer aside, foot traffic has steadily risen ahead of the an...

A 13-year-old Hong Kong schoolboy was among three alleged teenage gangsters arrested on Thursday night over the abduction of a suspected triad member just minutes earlier outside a 7-Eleven in the busy Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district.A citywide manhu...

The death toll from flooding in central China has risen, with authorities saying on Friday that another 21 people had been killed and another four were missing.Floodwaters rose to 3.5 metres (11.4 feet) in Hubei province’s Liulin township following...

Hongkongers do not need to worry about catching Covid-19 from frozen fish or at fishmongers, a medical expert said, after a batch of pomfret imported from Indonesia tested positive for the coronavirus.Health authorities also reported five new Covid-1...

Malaysia’s decision to significantly raise the income criteria for its migration scheme for wealthy foreigners may lead Hongkongers to look elsewhere, according to visa agents, who said applicants were also wary of the Southeast Asian country’s p...

The Philippines will extend a ban on travellers from India and nine other countries to the end of August because of concerns posed by the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, the presidential spokesperson said on Friday.Authorities in ...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday ordered an investigation into the apparent suicide of a navy sergeant who had reported being sexually harassed by her supervisor, the second such case involving the military in recent months.“I don’t k...

Two Chinese activists were sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday for archiving censored internet materials during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a family member.The Beijing Chaoyang District People’s Court handed down th...

Malaysia’s biggest opposition faction has urged rival groups opposing Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to back Anwar Ibrahim as the country’s next leader instead of allowing the embattled ruling alliance to trigger fresh elections.The latest call ...

A Malaysian serviceman shot dead three fellow air force personnel at a military base on Friday before killing himself, police said, a rare case of gun violence in the Southeast Asian nation.He opened fire at around 7.30 at a guard post at the air for...

The Australian government is seriously concerned about the detention and welfare of an Australian journalist who has been held in Beijing for one year, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Thursday.Cheng Lei, who worked as a television anchor for Ch...

China has revised its guidelines for mask wearing in crowded venues, including outdoor areas, as it continues to battle the spread of the coronavirus.“The public has become less aware of Covid-19 prevention as the pandemic drags on. Some think they...

The senior Hong Kong prosecutor leading the case against 47 opposition figures charged under the national security law has been appointed head of the justice department’s prosecutorial branch.Maggie Yang Mei-kei, formerly principal government couns...

Twice a week, Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Quang Tuyen would ship 2,000kg of cantaloupe from his farm to the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City during harvest season. But a lockdown since early June to stem surging Covid-19 cases has seen transpo...

On Tuesday, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported that President Xi Jinping had sent a letter to the Global Young Leaders Dialogue to congratulate it on its first forum to promote youth leadership and cooperation.There was nothing unusual ab...

The jailed de facto leader of the giant Samsung group on Friday walked free on parole, providing the latest example of South Korea’s long tradition of freeing business leaders imprisoned for corruption or tax evasion on economic grounds.Lee Jae-yon...

Criminals conned 100 Hongkongers out of HK$31.5 million (US$4 million) in low-interest loan scams in the first seven months of this year, prompting police to urge the public to be wary of getting duped.The con artists usually posed as employees of lo...

Four warships from the Eastern Fleet of the Indian Navy are set to be deployed to Southeast Asia, the South China Sea and the greater Western Pacific for over two months. The deployment will include a series of significant activities including naval ...

Thailand’s combustible politics are ramping up on the streets, online, and in parliament, piling pressure on Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha as he struggles to manage the pandemic as well as a once-in-a-generation economic wipeout. But experts war...

Hundreds of Chinese trawlers are expected to head out into the South China Sea on Monday with the start of a new fishing season in waters hotly contested by Beijing and its neighbours.More than 400 boats were docked in the southern city of Sanya wait...

Six people, including the suspected gunman, died on Thursday during or shortly after a “serious firearms incident” in the southwestern English city of Plymouth, police said.Devon and Cornwall Police declared a “critical incident” in the Keyha...

In the last of a three-part series on Hong Kong’s housing crisis, the Post looks at the city’s property developers and their role in the dire situation. Read part one here and part two here.Thousands of new high-rise homes have come on the market...

The Central Intelligence Agency is weighing proposals to create an independent “Mission Centre for China” in an escalation of its efforts to gain greater insight into the United States’ top strategic rival, according to people familiar with the...

Beijing is set to roll back tax incentives for software companies in favour of hard tech research and development, a policy change that may cast a shadow over the earnings prospects of companies such as e-commerce titan Alibaba Group Holding and inte...

Britney Spears’ father agreed Thursday to step down from the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 13 years, according to reports.Several outlets including celebrity website TMZ and CNN reported that Jamie Spears filed legal do...

Wan Long, the founder of WH Group, the world’s largest pork producer, has stepped down as the company’s chief executive, leaving his empire in the hands of non-family members after his son was unceremoniously booted out two months ago.The Hong Ko...

With China intent on sticking to a zero-tolerance Covid-19 elimination strategy, debate is swirling over the long-term economic impact of sealing the country off from the outside world and imposing severe domestic restrictions.China believes its hand...

The former long-time military ruler of Myanmar, Than Shwe, has been diagnosed with Covid-19 and is expected to remain hospitalised for two weeks, an official said on Thursday.Than Shwe, 88, was admitted along with his wife to the Thaik Chaung militar...

New US census data released on Thursday show the white population declined for the first time in history last decade, with significant increases among people who identify as multiracial, Asian and Hispanic driving much of the population growth betwee...

Senior diplomats from the US, Japan, India and Australia held another round of talks on Thursday, the latest sign that the burgeoning alliance known as the Quad continues to grow closer in the face of an increasingly assertive Beijing.The officials f...

US-based China researchers battled new restraints as interest became narrowly focused on security issues while China became increasingly inaccessible to them, according to an advisory organisation.US demand for China research increased as the country...

A global diplomatic storm is swirling outside Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case in the Supreme Court of British Columbia – but inside, the Huawei Technologies executive’s fate may instead hinge partly on arcane Canadian case law, including a frau...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning a snap election for September 20 to seek voter approval for the government’s costly plans to combat Covid-19, four sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.Trudeau is set to make the annou...

Earlier this summer, the powerful US government agency that oversees America’s borders and ports sent out a call for help: it wanted to stop goods made with forced labour from entering the country, but needed better technology to track them down.�...

A Japanese mayor apologised on Thursday for biting the Olympic gold medal belonging to a softball player who had paid a courtesy visit after Japan beat the United States in the final.Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura had praised pitcher Miu Goto during t...

A Russian court on Thursday ordered a 73-year-old leading specialist in hypersonic technology to be held in custody for two months on suspicion of state treason, the latest in a series of such cases.Security officers arrested the suspect, Alexander K...

A bus blast last month that killed 13 people, including nine Chinese workers, was a suicide bombing by Islamist militants backed by the Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Thursday.The mini...

More than 75 per cent of the 1,500 seats on Hong Kong’s ultra-powerful Election Committee are set to be filled uncontested after nominations ended on Thursday, reflecting the impact of Beijing’s overhaul of the system to curb opposition influence...

Indonesia’s army has stopped imposing so-called “virginity tests” on female recruits, its chief said on Thursday, following calls from rights groups to ban the invasive vaginal exams.The military had long defended the unscientific “two-finger...

The No 2 US diplomat met with Beijing’s new envoy in Washington on Thursday as the two sides reviewed a recent meeting and discussed future contacts.The meeting between US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and China’s new ambassador Qin Gan...

SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, one of the biggest venture capitalists supporting China’s technology start-ups, has stirred uneasiness among other investors and tech executives after he said he might pause new deals in the country for a yea...

A court in the Philippines has dismissed a libel case against Maria Ressa, one of several lawsuits filed against the journalist who says she has been targeted because of her news site’s critical reports on President Rodrigo Duterte.The plight of Re...

Inspired by Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-fat’s plan to donate his entire fortune, a Shanghai woman has encouraged her mother to donate a 10 million yuan (US$1.5 million) apartment to the government upon their deaths.The mother surnamed Lv and the daugh...

The Taliban captured two major Afghan cities, the country’s second- and third-largest after Kabul, and a strategic provincial capital on Thursday, further squeezing the embattled government just weeks before the end of the American military mission...

Alibaba Group Holding, which is under public scrutiny over its workplace culture after a female employee accused her direct supervisor of rape, said it has created an all-female committee to root out sexual harassment from its workplace.According to ...

Nearly 90,000 residents have left Hong Kong amid a wave of emigration in the year after the national security law was imposed, leading to a significant 1.2 per cent drop in the city’s population.The decline to 7.39 million people is the biggest sin...

China plans to strengthen the management of smart vehicles’ automated driving functions and the control of the vast troves of data generated by these cars, according to proposed new regulations announced on Wednesday by the Ministry of Industry and...

The first railway bridge between China and Russia is about to go through its first test run, according to Chinese media, as the neighbours, both under pressure from the West, step up efforts to boost trade.The 2.2km (1.4-mile) bridge will connect the...