Hong Kong filmmaker Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung will direct the first episode of Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi drama series Three-Body Problem, the streaming platform has announced.Based on the award-winning trilogy of the same name by Chinese author Liu C...

The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan has caused collateral damage to the UK and its ambitions for a “Global Britain”, politicians and analysts say.The UK, like its main ally United States, has been left stunned by the speed in which Tal...

The Japanese government and organisers of the Tokyo Paralympics have cleared 140,000 students from the host city and three surrounding prefectures to attend events, leading to a wave of safety concerns in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.The...

A 15-year-old boy arrested during a controversial 2019 police operation inside Prince Edward railway station will serve up to three years in a Hong Kong correctional training centre after pleading guilty to carrying two firebombs to the premises and ...

The progress by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Myanmar has not been as effective as hoped, Singapore’s foreign minister said in an interview.The United Nations and many countries have urged Asean, whose 10 members include Mya...

Regular Covid-19 testing will no longer be an option for Cathay Pacific staff who have not been vaccinated, the airline announced on Friday, adding all third party contractors would also need to be inoculated.In a crackdown on its unvaccinated employ...

At a cafe in Tokyo, Michio Imai greets a customer – but not in person. He is 800 kilometres away in Japan’s Hiroshima city, operating a robot waiter as part of an experiment in inclusive employment.Imai is one of some 50 employees with physical a...

Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station.The foray, the second spacewalk in two months and relayed on state television, is part of China’s heavily promoted space progr...

China’s legislature has officially passed the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), placing legal restrictions on how personal data can be collected, used and managed after it comes into effect on November 1.The law, one of the world’s toug...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Friday extended a Covid-19 lockdown as the country’s Delta outbreak widened beyond its largest city, Auckland, to the capital, Wellington.Kiwis had been living virus-free until Ardern on Tuesday ordered ...

US-based ride-hailing service Uber has acquired HKTaxi, Hong Kong’s most popular taxi app, in a move that will push it even deeper into the local cab market.The move, announced on Friday, gives Uber – which itself is not considered legal by the c...

More than 20 Asian-American advocacy groups sent a letter to US President Joe Biden on Thursday, urging the administration to pause its China Initiative and review whether the programme unfairly targeted individuals based on their race and ethnicity....

Some children in China are being injected with human growth hormone by their parents hoping to make them taller out of concern that being short might hinder the kid’s future.The trend has emerged due to multiple factors: children growing up in a hy...

Hong Kong’s commerce minister has defended the decision to allow Nicole Kidman to enter the city without being quarantined, saying the government had “struck a balance” between helping the Hollywood star and epidemic control.Secretary for Comme...

China’s regulatory crackdown on the country’s technology sector, which has so far wiped out around US$1.5 trillion of value from tech stocks, is a short-term cost that must be paid to ensure the healthy long-term growth of the digital economy, ar...

Heroin production has boomed in Afghanistan in recent years, helping fund the Taliban, and experts say they will struggle to wean themselves off the profitable trade despite their promise to do so.Speaking at its first press conference since taking p...

The last living member of former Cambodian leader Pol Pot’s inner circle denied complicity in the genocide committed under the brutal Khmer Rouge government, telling an international tribunal hearing his appeal on Thursday that he was being judged ...

China’s top legislative body has unexpectedly postponed a vote to introduce a far-reaching anti-sanctions law into Hong Kong’s mini-constitution that had sparked concerns from the business community over its impact on the city’s status as a fin...

The impoverished Sahel state of Burkina Faso was plunged once more into mourning, as the toll of people killed by suspected jihadists this week climbed from 49 to 80, including 65 civilians.The national flag was lowered to half-mast for three days of...

OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business.Starting in October, the company will prohibit creators from posting material with sexually explicit conduct on its website, which many sex workers use to sell fans explicit content.They’ll still ...

A Hong Kong police officer died on Friday from what colleagues believed to be a self-inflicted wound with his service revolver in the New Territories station where he worked.The constable, part of the Emergency Unit of the New Territories North regio...

In front of a police headquarters defended by water cannons, razor wire and a three-deep line of riot officers, stood a 16-year-old girl from rural Thailand armed with a microphone.Sand should have been studying but she came to Bangkok instead as the...

Almost two dozen ancient Buddha statues were stolen in southwest China in January, and 13 officials were punished thereafter, in an incident first reported in Chinese media on Wednesday.The 23 Buddha statues dated back to the Tang dynasty (618-907) a...

European business leaders in Hong Kong have urged authorities to relax strict quarantine requirements for travellers who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, warning a recent rules tightening presents a threat to the city’s status as an internati...

A Hong Kong primary school plans to set up a HK$4 million (US$513,400) fencing centre on campus to encourage more pupils to pick up the sport, following athlete Edgar Cheung Ka-long’s historic victory at the Tokyo Olympics.The training and competit...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris will look to bolster economic and military cooperation in China’s backyard as she visits Singapore and Vietnam starting this weekend in the Biden administration’s most high-profile trip yet to Asia.The White House ...

Hong Kong authorities will work on a local draft of the national anti-sanctions law until at least next year before sending it to legislators as time is needed to gauge the concerns of the business community, the Post has learned.While Beijing is exp...

Childish squabbles over the origins of Covid-19 are distracting the public and researchers from more urgent work, a scientist said, as a peer called for answers to lingering questions about the virus research carried out at a laboratory at the centre...

The Taliban is intensifying a search for people who worked with US and Nato forces, a confidential United Nations document says, despite the militants vowing no revenge against opponents.The report – provided by the UN’s threat-assessment consult...

A key prosecution witness against R. Kelly at his sex abuse trial testified on Thursday that the R&B singer videotaped their sexual activity when she was 16 and insisted she dress like a Girl Scout.Jerhonda Pace, 28, appeared for her second day on th...

US officials stressed on Thursday that Washington’s policy towards Taiwan had not changed, after President Joe Biden said in an interview that his administration would “respond” if the island were invaded.Biden’s comment, in an interview with...

Nepalese Gurkha military veterans on Thursday ended their “fast until death” after the British government agreed to discuss their long-standing grievances over pension rights.Troops with a reputation for fierce fighting, thousands of Gurkhas have...

Japanese actor Shinichi Chiba, known abroad as Sonny Chiba, who dazzled action movie fans in Japan and overseas with karate and other martial arts techniques, died Thursday at a hospital near Tokyo due to pneumonia associated with Covid-19, his offic...

A man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the Capitol surrendered to law enforcement after an hours-long stand-off on Thursday that prompted a massive police response and the evacuations of government buildings and businesses in the are...

One of Italy’s most wanted international drug barons has been arrested in Dubai, police said on Thursday, following five years on the run.Raffale Imperiale, considered one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives, was a top operative from the organise...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is planning to hold its first-ever security dialogue with its Taiwanese counterpart, in a move welcomed by the foreign ministry in Taipei but expected to rile Beijing amid rising tensions in the Taiwan Strait...

China’s Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday released draft regulations for the live-streaming industry, declaring that items such as sex toys, medicines, spy devices and foreign newspapers can no longer be sold in these sessions, as Beijing tightens ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered a mint in central China that they say may have been the place where the world’s first coins were produced.Excavations suggest that the mint’s operations began sometime between 640 and 550BC – up to a cent...

Hong Kong researchers have started giving Covid-19 booster shots to fully inoculated Sinovac vaccine recipients who have low antibody levels in the hope of shedding light on the need for the wider population to get a third jab.The project, the first ...

A Chinese human rights activist facing imminent deportation from Germany to China has won a stay, after authorities granted him an appeal against a rejected application for political asylum.Liu Bing was set to be deported to China next Thursday, wher...

The Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan has redrawn South Asia’s geopolitical map, opening a path for China and Russia to exert influence but leaving a major power, India, seemingly out in the cold.New Delhi strongly supported and provided aid to th...

Hong Kong revealed on Thursday that a joint decision with Singapore to drop all plans for a much-anticipated travel bubble was based on their differing approaches to the Covid-19 pandemic, a development that tourism figures said reflected the incr...

One of the most senior Russian security officials questioned Washington’s commitment to Ukraine in light of its rushed exit from Afghanistan, forecasting on Thursday that it would one day abandon its Ukrainian allies in a similarly abrupt fashion.T...

The race between Beijing and Washington to develop advanced weapons is set to intensify with the American air force pledging to seek more funding for technologies that could threaten adversaries including China.Frank Kendall, the new secretary of the...

No foreign entity has the right to criticise China over Tibet, a senior official said on Thursday as the region attracts greater international attention.“No one outside China has the right to point fingers at us when it comes to Tibetan affairs. An...

Chinese authorities are continuing their scrutiny of mobile apps, calling out privacy flaws in an array of popular apps and removing several products used by pop star fans, mostly teenagers, who want to connect with their idols.The Ministry of Indust...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has said an investigation into last month’s devastating floods in the province of Henan that killed 302 people must give a proper account of what happened.On Wednesday afternoon, Li visited a subway tunnel that flooded in...

A political appointee to the Hong Kong government resigned on Thursday, the fourth to quit since Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor took office in July 2017.Kenneth Ng King-tsun, the political assistant to the Secretary for Constitutional and...

A war of words has broken out among owners of NIO cars after a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles sparked a fierce online debate about the safety of its driver-assistant system.The outcry could create a stumbling block for the rise of Chinese ...