The Hong Kong domestic helper whose infection sparked a debate over lowered quarantine times for the fully vaccinated is believed to have been infected after the virus travelled between rooms during her seven-day quarantine at a hotel in Wan Chai. G...

Hong Kong’s quarantine hotels were struggling to accommodate customers’ bookings after the government announced plans to tighten isolation rules, with the city’s tourism lawmaker calling for more rooms to be made available.Travellers also vente...

Chinese-Canadian rapper and singer Kris Wu Yifan is awaiting prosecution and if convicted could serve three to 10 years or more in prison.Wu was formally arrested and charged with rape, prosecutors in Beijing announced on Monday night.The 30-year-old...

For years, safeguarding China’s expanding national interests – especially its core concerns – has been something of a catchphrase for Chinese leaders and diplomats. But Beijing’s decade-old definition of what constitutes its core interests an...

The Taliban announced on Tuesday an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to calm nerves across a nervous capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport as people tried to flee their rule.The ...

China must strive to contain its current wave of coronavirus infections by the end of August, its health minister told the state-run Xinhua news agency, as students prepare to return to schools and universities in September.“Back-to-school season w...

Hong Kong police have arrested a 57-year-old man wanted in connection with the rape of a teenage girl in the city more than 38 years ago.The suspect, Wong Chun-chuen, was located by police in Tsuen Wan at about 5pm on Sunday, according to the force.�...

Australia will not be able to help all Afghans who worked with its military, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday, as it prepares its evacuation plan after the Taliban seized control of the country.Australia said on Monday it would send 250 ...

Beijing officials will host their first seminar at Hong Kong’s Legislative Council next Monday when they brief city lawmakers on the country’s 14th five-year plan, sources have said.The delegation, led by Huang Liuquan, a deputy director of the S...

As the Pacific Ocean’s strategic rivalries intensify, a new multilateral grouping has emerged in the Indian Ocean, and its ripples are likely to be felt in the South China Sea. The Colombo Security Conclave – including India, Sri Lanka and the M...

Hong Kong will “err on the side of caution” in dropping a plan to use airport antibody tests to shorten quarantine times for visitors from “medium-risk” destinations, the city’s leader has said, a reality that could soon extend to residents...

A Hong Kong couple has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice by sending their daughter away to mainland China just days before she was set to testify against her father on sexual assault charges.The 44-year-old father was also found g...

The operator of the Canadian doughnut-and-coffee chain Tim Hortons will list its China joint venture in New York via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), as the so-called blank cheque companies become the latest route to the ca...

US experts were expected to recommend Covid-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the coronavirus as the Delta variant spreads ac...

China is staging an extensive air and sea military exercise near Taiwan in response to “provocations” by Taiwan independence forces, which it described as the biggest source of security risks across the Taiwan Strait.Shi Yi, a colonel and spokesm...

Authorities may cut ties with Hong Kong’s largest body for lawyers if it becomes politicised, the city’s leader has warned.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor cautioned on Tuesday that the Law Society risked the same fate as the recently d...

Maki Kaji, a puzzle enthusiast and publisher who was known as the “Godfather of Sudoku” – the number puzzle played daily by millions around the world – has died, his company said. He was 69.A university dropout who worked in a printing compan...

The earthquake that ravaged Haiti on Saturday has revived anger over international aid agencies’ response to a devastating quake there 11 years ago, stirring calls to ensure donations do a better job of reaching the people who need them most.Haitia...

New Zealand will go into a hard lockdown within hours as it deals with its first community case of Covid-19 in almost six months.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said a case had been detected in Auckland on Tuesday.As a result, the entire country will b...

The Chinese government’s unprecedented probes into Didi-Chuxing, also involving public security investigators, have gummed up business operations at the platform that dominated 90 per cent of the country’s ride-hailing industry, according to seve...

Humanity’s need to tackle climate change is more pressing than ever, with the United Nations warning last week that the pace of global warming would accelerate at a faster-than-expected pace over the next 20 years. In this four-part series, the Pos...

The Russian embassy in Kabul alleged Monday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled from Kabul with four cars and helicopter full of cash, Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti reported.The report quoted embassy spokesman Nikita Ishchenko as sayin...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken picked up the phone on Monday to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for a discussion on how the two countries could work together to achieve a “soft landing” for Afghanistan. He was told Beijing was willing, but...

Thousands of people in Afghanistan fled to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Monday in a last-ditch effort to flee the country after the Taliban overtook the region at a record pace.Previous photos and videos showed large numbers of ...

China pledged to prioritise employment with its fiscal and monetary policies as the labour market remains under pressure, the country’s cabinet said on Monday.China still faces relatively large employment pressure during the 14th five-year-plan per...

Travellers hoping to enter Hong Kong have been thrown for a loop after the city elevated 15 countries to its “high-risk” category for Covid-19, meaning significantly tougher entry requirements and longer quarantine periods for anyone arriving fro...

This week in China, a man has gone viral for turning his motorbike into an ad hoc shower room, “space roses” fly off the shelves, and a woman is criticised for letting her dog lick the plate at a restaurant.A shower … to goA motorcyclist in Nan...

Hong Kong’s anti-sanctions law will allow “ambiguity” ensuring flexibility in how penalties are imposed and keep any disruption to the city’s operations as a global financial hub to a minimum, government insiders have told the Post.While lawy...

The final hurdle standing in the way of plans to redevelop three dilapidated buildings in the heart of Causeway Bay may soon be cleared.Two families have decided to auction off their 20 per cent stake in the plot in one of the Hong Kong’s busiest c...

Bob Dylan has been sued in a New York court by a woman who says the US rock and folk legend sexually abused her almost 60 years ago when she was 12.The lawsuit filed on Friday alleges that Dylan abused the plaintiff, referred to in court documents as...

Japan is developing a maritime surveillance system that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced satellite technologies to identify and track foreign ships operating suspiciously close to its waters or that intrude into its territory. The ...

Rescuers in Haiti used heavy equipment and their bare hands on Monday to hunt for survivors under buildings flattened two days ago by a massive earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people, while an approaching storm threatened more suffering.Flash ...

China plans to send a cargo spacecraft to dock at its new space station next month, to be followed by the Shenzhou-13 in October, which will take three astronauts into orbit and return with the current crew, according to a source.The person familiar ...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has opened a new online market for digital assets traded over a blockchain backed by the Sichuan provincial government, marking another foray into blockchain technology by China’s Big Tech companies.Th...

Built and trained at a two-decade cost of US$83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely – in some cases without a shot fired – that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliban. They...

A new anti-sanctions law planned for Hong Kong could put some of the city’s biggest financial institutions squarely in the middle of a rapidly escalating rivalry between Beijing and Washington – one that threatens a potentially lucrative windfall...

US President Joe Biden acknowledged the unfolding humanitarian and political crisis in Afghanistan on Monday but justified his decision to order a rapid military withdrawal while warning the Taliban not to interfere with the evacuation.“I do not re...

World leaders were adjusting to the new political reality in Afghanistan on Monday, the downbeat mood in the West leavened by a more pragmatic approach from some other powers.German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the return of the Taliban to powe...

With more than a third of days marred by fog all year round, Chongqing city in southwestern China is not the ideal place for a solar power plant. But soon it will have the nation’s first experimental facility to test a revolutionary technology allo...

The US case against Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou “turned fraud law on its head”, failing to show that she lied to HSBC, thought the bank was being put at financial risk by her statements, or had caused any actual deprivation, her la...

Poland on Monday recalled its ambassador to Israel two days after Jerusalem did the same over a Polish law curbing World War II-era property claims, which the Israelis have condemned as anti-Semitic.President Andrzej Duda on Saturday approved legisla...

Now that Kabul has fallen, there is a growing narrative about Afghanistan that China is siding with the Taliban in some sort of nightmarish new alignment. The truth is that Beijing has been engaging with the Taliban in the same way that everyone has....

Zakia Khudadadi would have been the first woman to represent Afghanistan at a Paralympic Games when they start in Tokyo this month, but her dream has been shattered amid the country’s turmoil.The Afghanistan Paralympic Committee’s London-based Ch...

Lithuania’s decision over a de facto Taiwan embassy is part of a broader strategy to disrupt the substance of the European Union’s China policy as well as the very power structures that undergird relations between the two. Lithuanian Foreign Mini...

The United States spent more than US$8 billion over 15 years on efforts to deprive the Taliban of their profits from Afghanistan’s opium and heroin trade, from poppy eradication to air strikes and raids on suspected labs.That strategy failed.As the...

A doctoral student at Hong Kong Polytechnic University has been arrested for cruelty to animals after he was accused of killing snails by covering them with salt.Police launched an investigation earlier this month following reports of a man holding a...

While many countries are scrambling to empty their embassies and remove their staff from Afghanistan, Russia is staying put – it has long prepared for the arrival of the Taliban in Kabul.Despite the hardline Islamist group tracing its origins back ...

Google and Facebook on Monday unveiled plans for a new undersea internet cable connecting Guam, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia and Singapore.The cable project, dubbed Apricot, would be some 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) and be operationa...

Chinese-Canadian rapper and singer Kris Wu Yifan has been formally arrested and charged with rape, prosecutors in Beijing said.The 30-year-old, one of China’s most influential young celebrities, had been accused of date rape by teenage beauty influ...