Too little is known about melted fuel inside damaged reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to be able to tell if its decommissioning can be finished by 2051 as planned, a UN nuclear agency official said on Friday.“Honestly speaking,...

Hong Kong schools are unlikely to be holding full-day sessions when the new term begins on September 1, as almost none have reached the required 70 per cent threshold of vaccinated students and teachers.Some secondary schools said while most of their...

A Chinese military source has confirmed that the Chinese and US militaries resumed high-level talks last week for the first time since President Joe Biden took office in January.A source close to the People’s Liberation Army told The South China Mo...

Australia reported a record 1,126 coronavirus infectious on Saturday, the vast majority in New South Wales, the epicentre of the Delta-fuelled outbreak.More than half of Australians have been in weeks-long lockdowns as officials in Sydney and Melbour...

For 15 years, Robert F Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole by a California parole board that maintained he did not show adequate remorse or understand the enormity of his crime that rocked the nation and the world in 1968.But on Frid...

Attendees of a film screening hosted at the office of a Hong Kong opposition district councillor are being prosecuted after a Friday night raid by police and undercover health inspectors who deemed the gathering a violation of the city’s Covid-19 s...

The sole Hong Kong hotel designated for quarantining foreign domestic workers is already completely booked, the Post has learned, a situation the city’s labour minister hopes to relieve with the addition of new accommodation by mid-September.Under ...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris’ recent trip to Southeast Asia may signify that the US is changing the way it manages relations with the region, where most countries are wary of picking sides in its escalating rivalry with China, diplomatic observe...

It took the Association of Southeast Asian Nations nearly three months to convene a special meeting to discuss Myanmar’s February 1 coup. Then, a further three months elapsed before the bloc agreed on appointing Brunei’s senior diplomat Erywan Y...

I suspect Nicole Kidman did not, upon touching down in Hong Kong, anticipate her sojourn to film an upcoming Amazon Prime series would cause such a public outcry.The row over the quarantine exemption for the Australian actress has been well reported ...

Acting swiftly on President Joe Biden’s promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the US military said it used a drone strike to kill a member of Islamic State’s Afghanistan affiliate on Saturday.The strike came amid w...

Ho Yau-lin, 79, had no one by her side when she had cataract surgery for her left eye on Wednesday.She did not tell her four children about it, as they all live in mainland China and she did not want them to worry.The Hongkonger has lived alone since...

There are not many grandfathers in the world who are modelling on the runway at the age of 79, or flying a plane at the age of 85.But Wang Deshun did both of those things, and became “China’s coolest grandpa” along the way.The flight, in which ...

A semblance of political normalcy returned to Malaysia this week after a period of relentless elite feuding appeared to subside, having ushered in the country’s third prime minister in the space of 18 months.As his first order of business after tak...

Elite alpine divisions from China and India are gathering on a European snow-capped peak, but instead of fighting each other they are competing to take home medals from international military games.The Elbrus Ring competition is the longest and most ...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with President Joe Biden on Friday, a day after a deadly bomb attack on the US Afghanistan evacuation mission forced a postponement and cast a shadow on an Israeli charm offensive.“My heart goes out, our h...

The Democratic Party remains tight-lipped over whether it will contest coming legislative elections in Hong Kong but has dismissed concerns that the recent disqualification of the sole remaining opposition lawmaker heralds a fresh crackdown.Beijing m...

The deadly attack on Kabul airport has underlined the realpolitik facing Western powers in Afghanistan: engaging with the Taliban may be their best chance to prevent the country sliding into a breeding ground for Islamist militancy.Almost two weeks a...

A few days after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a convoy of militants drove through the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria in cars bearing the group’s white-and-black flags, honking horns and firing their guns in the air.The celebrations by ...

To redress the situation of Hong Kong’s acute home shortage, the government has an ambitious plan: to reclaim at least 1,000 hectares of land east of Lantau for housing. The first step was to commission a feasibility study and, for this purpose, th...

China’s propaganda arms have heralded America’s withdrawal from Kabul as a sign of the US’ decline on the world stage, but Beijing’s foreign-policy makers are much more cautious as they seek to avoid a repeat of Washington’s mistakes.China ...

A passenger boat carrying more than 100 people sank on Friday after colliding with another small boat in a large waterbody, leaving at least 21 people dead and scores missing in eastern Bangladesh, officials said.The accident took place at the Bijoyn...

A widely anticipated US government investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic failed to yield a conclusive assessment, according to a summary of the probe’s findings released on Friday.While dismissing the possibility that Sars-CoV-...

The US Commerce Department has denied any loosening of its trade restrictions on Huawei Technologies – but did not refute reports that the Chinese tech giant has won approval to procure American semiconductors for its automotive parts business.“T...

Scientists last month set foot on a tiny island off the coast of Greenland that they say is the world’s northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice.The discovery comes as a battle is looming among Arctic nations, the United Sta...

Japan’s environment minister has strongly protested to United States forces based in Okinawa Prefecture for dumping treated water containing dangerous chemicals into the local sewage system.“It is extremely regrettable that [US Marines] unilatera...

United Nations human rights investigators have asked North Korea to clarify whether it has ordered troops to shoot on sight any trespassers who cross its northern border in violation of the country’s pandemic closure.They were referring to a report...

In the second part of a series exploring China’s recent moves against the technology industry, Coco Feng and Jane Zhang look at the surprise crackdown on edtech.Huang Yu, a mother of two in Shenzhen, spends about 80,000 yuan (US$12,350) per year on...

Two of Britain’s top judges have given a strong vote of confidence to Hong Kong’s judicial independence, announcing that they will continue serving at the city’s highest court.British Supreme Court president Robert Reed on Friday said he and hi...

China and Russia are gearing up for anti-terror and peacekeeping drills next month amid rising security concerns over Afghanistan that received a deadly boost from Thursday’s suicide attacks in Kabul, in a spiralling crisis that will push Beijing a...

Hong Kong’s security chief has issued a strong warning against a fund supporting the city’s anti-government movement, questioning whether it was trying to “make underhanded profit” from a final donation drive before its imminent disbandment.S...

Hong Kong confirmed a double-digit number of Covid-19 cases for the first time in two months on Friday, all imported with most on a coronavirus-hit cargo ship that arrived from Indonesia.Health experts said they believed the ship cluster was a one-of...

China’s US$1.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund cut its holding of overseas equities and bonds last year while raising the proportion of alternative assets and cash, in light of the fast-changing external environment, according to its annual report r...

As the Taliban took over Afghanistan in the wake of the US departure, China made it clear to the Islamic group that it saw stability along their short and mountainous shared border as a top priority.Where is the Afghan-China border?Afghanistan and Ch...

A boy sobbed in the back of a car in Kabul on Friday, squeezed beside the coffin of a relative killed in the devastating blasts that quickly overwhelmed the city’s hospitals.He was among a crowd of people who gathered at the capital’s Emergency H...

Beijing has recommended Covid-19 booster shots for high-risk and vulnerable groups, but said further study is needed before extra jabs are considered for the general public.The recommendation comes as China races to inoculate its vast population to r...

In their first security dialogue, the ruling parties of Taiwan and Japan have agreed to push for cooperation between their coastguards, including holding joint drills.In the landmark online meeting on Friday, representatives from Taiwan’s Democrati...

Evacuation flights from Afghanistan resumed with new urgency on Friday, a day after two suicide bombings targeted the thousands of desperate people fleeing the Taliban takeover and left more than 100 dead. The US said further attempted attacks were e...

China’s internet watchdog has drafted new rules to rein in the algorithms that technology companies like ByteDance and Tencent Holdings use to recommend videos and popular apps, in a widespread crackdown that set off the unintended consequence of s...

A large-scale study in Brazil has found the AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines – both widely used in low- and middle-income countries – to be effective in reducing hospitalisations, severe illness and deaths from Covid-19.But the researchers said t...

A former senior executive of a Hong Kong-listed company was one of two men arrested on Friday in a joint operation by police and the city’s stock market regulator in connection with a HK$450 million (US$57.8 million) corporate fraud case.The two me...

China’s billionaire actress Zhao Wei appears to have been blacklisted by the government, and her entire internet presence was scrubbed for unknown reasons on Thursday evening.Zhao’s name was removed from all television series, films, short videos...

Covid-19 restrictions caused spring to arrive in China eight days earlier in 2020 than predicted, according to a peer-reviewed study that shows short-term reductions in human activity can have a rapid impact on the environment.The country was 17 per ...

Women in France have greater liberties than most when it comes to how much clothes they wear, or so a common generalisation about the country’s culture at the beach goes.But France’s permissive culture of topless sunbathing appears to be coming t...

China’s embassy in Hanoi hit back at US Vice-President Kamala Harris’s criticism of Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea, accusing Washington of acting as the “black hand” behind the tensions in the disputed waters.The statement c...

The Hong Kong Sports Institute’s proposed HK$986.6 million (US$126.5 million) expansion won the initial backing of lawmakers on Friday, with the project clearing its first hurdle after being brought forward following the city’s best-ever Olympic ...

People who recovered from a bout of Covid-19 during one of the earlier waves of the pandemic appear to have a lower risk of contracting the Delta variant than those who got two doses of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.The largest real-world anal...

Thousands of people living near the Chinese border with Myanmar have been evacuated as the authorities try to stop the spread of Covid-19, according to government sources and residents.This move will create a temporary “no man’s land” zone behi...

China’s top court and labour ministry issued a warning about violations of the country’s labour law that signals potential trouble for Big Tech firms relying on the excessive overwork culture known as 996.The Supreme People’s Court and the Mini...

Five Chinese workers at a nickel smelter on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island are facing up to five years in prison after they killed a crocodile and prepared it as soup, according to a local conservation authority.Their acts were captured in photographs...