At Hong Kong’s award-winning Yung Kee restaurant in Central, a chef picks out a glistening, charcoal-grilled roast goose drumstick from a rack, skilfully chops it up and places it in a cardboard box, separate from the steaming hot rice.He clips the...

The United States will stand with Lithuania against China’s “coercive behaviour” after Beijing’s decision to recall its envoy to the Baltic state, according to US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman.In a phone call with Lithuanian Foreign...

Thousands of foodies and bargain hunters flocked to the five-day Hong Kong Food Expo on Saturday, where exhibitors were busy dishing out freebies to compensate for this year’s ban on taste-testing.The event made its grand comeback two days earlier ...

Xiaomi, the world’s No. 2 smartphone company, has removed a highly-touted feature from the latest version of its flagship smartphone just three days after its launch in the latest case to show the growing complexity and difficulty in navigating Chi...

China may have to come up with a new approach to its changing relationship with Europe, analysts say, though that is not likely to include a softer stand on challenges to its “red lines”.They expect Beijing will keep pushing for more cooperation ...

South Korea on Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the day the first South Korean woman publicly spoke out about her experiences as a “comfort woman” during World War II as it commemorated those who were forced to work in the Japanese militar...

Hong Kong’s position as a shopping paradise will be threatened if neighbouring Shenzhen goes ahead with a mooted duty-free shopping area that would target mainlanders in the Greater Bay Area, analysts and retail industry leaders have warned.Some sa...

As Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte rushes to fulfil his pre-election promise to build a railway for Mindanao island, reality is beginning to bite.Duterte is five years into his six-year term, yet the 83 billion pesos (US$1.64 billion) he claimed...

Hong Kong was expecting to record two new Covid-19 infections on Saturday, according to a medical source, including a domestic helper believed to be carrying a more infectious variant and a high viral load.Health authorities reported late on Friday t...

China has published a new five-year legal development blueprint for the government, as part of a grand national construction plan to become a rule-of-law country by 2035.The new programme, titled “Outline for the Implementation of a Law-Based Gover...

Mainland China’s success in combating the coronavirus pandemic increases the likelihood that free public health care, similar to Hong Kong, will be provided for the nation’s 1.4 billion-strong population, says a leading expert on the country’s ...

Apple is racing to contain a controversy after an attempt to combat child pornography sparked fears that customers will lose privacy in a place that is become sacrosanct: their devices.The tech giant is coaching employees on how to handle questions f...

For several decades, the residents of the Japanese town of Minamata were slowly poisoned in one of the worst documented cases of industrial pollution. A newly released film starring Johnny Depp, set during the city’s public health crisis, has divid...

The strong response to Hong Kong’s consumption voucher scheme could boost the local economy by as much as 6 per cent in the third quarter year on year, with 96 per cent of eligible residents expected to have signed up before registration ends on Sa...

Those Hongkongers who are emigrating to Britain should not see themselves as fleeing the city, but as people who are seeking to put down roots elsewhere and seek a new life.Hongkongers do not chastise expatriates coming to the city to experience a ne...

China has recalled its ambassador to Lithuania in protest against the Baltic state recently allowing Taipei to open a representative office bearing the name “Taiwan”.It has also demanded that Lithuania recall its top envoy to China, to step up pr...

It was an anticlimactic and – to many minds – entirely predictable outcome: on July 30 the Philippines announced it would, after all, retain a long-standing military pact with the United States.During a meeting in Manila with his American counter...

The first sign that Hong Kong home prices have reached new highs has emerged.The closely watched Centa-City Leading Index (CCL) has broken the previous record set two years ago as the economy recovers and coronavirus cases subside.The gauge of lived-...

Organisers of a hiking trip have come under fire after a 16-year-old boy died last month in the desert in northern China, apparently related to a lack of medical support.The boy, surnamed Zheng, died when he and seven other teenaged students were on ...

When a three-year-old boy showed up with fingernail marks all over his swollen legs last month, his kindergarten teacher noticed immediately.A medical examination confirmed her suspicion, that the boy was a victim of child abuse.He has attention defi...

Canada said on Friday it will take in up to 20,000 Afghan refugees, including women leaders, government workers and others facing threats from the Taliban, as insurgents advanced across the country seizing major cities.“The situation in Afghanistan...

The sky over Phuket clears, just in time for sunset. A man hurriedly sets out plastic chairs in the sand on Patong Beach in the hopes that a passing tourist might want to sit and sip a nice cold drink while watching the natural spectacle. But no one...

Afghanistan’s top envoy in China has urged Beijing to step up pressure on the Taliban as the resurgent group takes more Afghan cities, escalating fears of a civil war.In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Javid Ahmad Qaem, Afghanistan�...

China’s online fan club culture is the product of “capital and technology” deployed by internet companies, and Beijing’s crackdown is justified as it is difficult for teenagers to break free from the clubs’ grip, according to Xiang Biao, di...

US embassy staff in Kabul have been told to start destroying sensitive material, underscoring that the Biden administration is preparing for the possibility that the embassy will be overrun by the Taliban despite public assurances that the building r...

Lawyers for the Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou called the US fraud case against her implausible, unprecedented and fatally flawed, as they argued in the final stage of her extradition hearing on Friday that she must be released.The US acc...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government said it will make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for airline and rail passengers, transport workers and federal employees, in one of its final announcements before the start of a Canadian election campaign.Go...

Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc have asked the US government for approval to operate a new undersea data cable between the Philippines and California after China Mobile agreed to exit the plan, a government agency said Friday.The two companies told t...

A military base in the US capital was locked down for about an hour and a half on Friday, after an armed man ran onto the grounds during a local police investigation of gunshots on the streets surrounding the base.Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling posted ...

Japan plans to revise its Medium Term Defence Programme earlier than originally scheduled as it looks to boost spending to counter China’s growing assertiveness in surrounding waters and prepare for contingencies in the Taiwan Strait, government so...

Officials have confirmed the first sighting of a live “murder hornet” in Washington this year.A Whatcom County resident submitted a reported sighting to the Washington State Department of Agriculture, and entomologists were able to confirm it as ...

A student from a top university in Hong Kong has been arrested for exaggerating her academic achievements in promotional material for a popular tutorial centre where she worked.The 21-year-old from the University of Hong Kong was detained by customs ...

China and the US could face their most serious diplomatic crisis in decades if the White House invites Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to a democracy summit in December, mainland Chinese observers warn.The White House announced on Wednesday that US ...

Russia has told a BBC journalist working in Moscow to leave the country by the end of this month in retaliation for what it called London’s discrimination against Russian journalists working in Britain, state TV reported late on Thursday.In an unus...

The week-long exercise between the Chinese and Russian armies in northwestern China shows they are pushing for Nato-level interoperability – opening up the possibility for joint military campaigns to counter their common rival the US, military obse...

A new draft version of China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), a much-anticipated piece of legislation as Beijing tightens regulation of Big Tech on numerous fronts, proposes “targeted” restrictions on how mobile apps handle persona...

Sanctions-hit Iran has claimed that it is on the verge of full membership of a China-led security grouping, with the country’s new security chief saying it is now only a question of formalities.Diplomatic analysts said if that were the case it woul...

Officers working for Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner could search an electronic device without a court warrant in certain circumstances under a proposed doxxing bill, the watchdog’s chief said on Friday.Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada...

For some, Beijing’s tensions with Washington on the technology front might be a new trend of the past year, but according to a recently released Communist Party document, Beijing was alert to specific cybersecurity concerns back in 2017.The documen...

Local governments in China are pouring resources into the country’s aviation industry to deliver on Beijing’s goal of self-sufficiency, as competition with the United States heats up.The number of industrial estates dedicated to aviation surged t...

Russia on Friday recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll for a second day running, even as the country’s outbreak epicentre Moscow lifted some restrictions.A government tally showed 815 Covid-19 fatalities over the past 24 hours and 22,27...

Asha, 9, left her tiny, second-floor illegally constructed flat in Old Delhi’s Nangal Village on August 1 to find drinking water. She never returned.Her mother found Asha’s bruised corpse in the grounds of a crematorium. “Her eyes were open but...

Shanghai, the commercial and financial capital of mainland China, plans to build 220,000 rental homes by 2025 as city officials go all out to meet burgeoning demand and tame soaring house prices.The figure represents an increase of more than 45 per c...

Hong Kong’s securities regulator in a joint operation with the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), has arrested five individuals from a listed company for alleged corruption under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, it announced on F...

A study by researchers in Australia has found inconclusive evidence that China has undue economic influence over Southeast Asian countries, because it is not the region’s dominant investor despite widespread perceptions that it is.The EU bloc, Japa...

Britain’s shadow minister for Asia Stephen Kinnock has criticised Boris Johnson’s government’s roll-out of a visa scheme for Hongkongers with British National (Overseas) passports as “slow” and “inefficient”, six months after the applic...

Malaysia’s disparate opposition groups, including the former ruling alliance Pakatan Harapan, on Friday uniformly rejected Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s offer of sweeping concessions and fresh polls by next July in exchange for support in an ...

The fate of Marvel Studios’ three biggest superhero films in 2021 remains uncertain in mainland China as the country relaunched strict control measures to battle its widest Covid-19 outbreak since Wuhan.There has been no sign of release yet for Bla...

Taliban insurgents tightened their grip on Afghanistan on Friday, wresting control of its second and third biggest cities while Western embassies prepared to send in troops to help evacuate staff from the capital, Kabul.The capture of the second-bigg...

The umbrella group behind many of Hong Kong’s largest protests has decided to disband, the Post has learned.But the dissolution of the Civil Human Rights Front will not stop police swooping on it, according to a source familiar with the central gov...