Hong Kong confirmed eight new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, but while all were classified as imported, the group includes two patients who were in the community during their incubation period.The pair, a 60-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman, test...

Britain should drop sanctions on Chinese officials, pipe down on human rights, and stop taking its talking points from the Trump wing of the US Republican Party, according to former business secretary Sir Vince Cable, one of a small coterie of politi...

Taliban and opposition forces on Saturday battled to control the Panjsher Valley north of Kabul, the last Afghan province holding out against the militant group, as the top US general warned of a “civil war” if the Islamists failed to consolidate...

If it seems too good to be true, it possibly is: more than 700,000 products, including electric toothbrushes and pillows, going for one Chinese cent each at a fan festival by Chinese influencer Xueli Cherie.But some consumers who snagged more than on...

Hong Kong’s finance chief has apologised for the government’s handling of applications for its HK$5,000 (US$643) digital consumption voucher scheme, after a lengthy queue of residents who failed to successfully navigate the system made headlines ...

The Hong Kong government’s Covid-19 management strategy, based on zero infections and voluntary vaccination, is dead. I want to be clear here – not “struggling” or “under pressure” but dead as the dodo.The numbers are conclusive. Once eff...

Videos of alleged police brutality are going viral on Thai social media, as whistle-blowers seize the opportunity to demand reform of the scandal-ridden force following the arrest last week of a police chief over the alleged extortion and murder of a...

Steve Li has a hectic schedule on Saturdays. He has a 1½ hour swimming class in the morning, followed by 1½ hours of roller-skating training. In the afternoon, he sweats on a badminton court for two hours before ending the day with 30 minutes of ro...

As the highly infectious Delta strain of Covid-19 continues to spread through Australia, some residents have turned to an antiparasitic drug that is not approved for treating the coronavirus in Australia or any other OECD country. Some people are us...

Hong Kong’s police and authorities have warned the alliance behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil of consequences under the national security law after the opposition group openly rejected their demand that it hand over information abou...

In Singapore’s university circles, all the talk this week was on the fait accompli closure of the Yale-NUS College, the city state’s sole comprehensive liberal arts institution.Primarily funded by the Singapore government, the college was hailed ...

When working on a residential project on Stubbs Road, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry came to Hong Kong in 2005 and spoke of our city as a place with not much architecture, as most buildings resemble “products from the same cookie cutt...

Hong Kong’s powerful, revamped Election Committee will be decided this month, but at least 121 candidates have nothing to say as far as manifestos go.They left that section blank when filing their nominations, a move some candidates and pro-establi...

Two atypical cases of mad cow disease have been detected in Brazil, resulting in suspension of its exports of beef to China, the country’s Agriculture Ministry said on Saturday.That temporary step was taken under an existing bilateral protocol betw...

Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay US cabinet member, and his husband on Saturday announced the arrival of their infant daughter and son.A photo published on Twitter and Instagram shows Buttigieg, 39, and his spouse Chasten, 32, sitting in what app...

China has conducted its first trial run of a new overland trade route through Myanmar in a move interpreted as a show of support for its neighbour following a visit by its special envoy.The China-Myanmar corridor, which is designed to link its vast i...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Kelly Hooper on politico.com on September 4, 2021.Leaders of the select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection on Saturday denounced Hou...

US President Joe Biden will visit all three sites of the September 11 hijacking attacks next week to honour the nearly 3,000 people killed and mark the 20th anniversary of the most lethal terrorist assault on US soil, the White House said.On Saturday...

Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban begged the world to not forget the Afghan people and to support its artists, warning on Saturday that a country without culture will eventually lose its identity.The Venice Film Festival organised a panel...

France’s worst coronavirus outbreak is unfolding 12 times zones away from Paris, devastating Tahiti and other idyllic islands of French Polynesia.The South Pacific archipelagos lack enough oxygen, ICU beds and morgue space – and their vaccination...

Facebook has issued an apology after its artificial intelligence (AI) technology mislabelled a video featuring black men in altercations with white police officers and civilians as “about primates”.After social media users finished the clip, publ...

A Sri Lankan man who went on a knife rampage in a New Zealand mall was “brainwashed” by neighbours from the Middle East, his mother said Saturday.Ismail Fareeda spoke to a local TV channel about her son as the Sri Lankan government promised to wo...

Hurricane Ida’s death toll rose on Saturday, nearly a week after making landfall in Louisiana, with two more evacuated nursing home residents among the confirmed dead, authorities said.Northeastern states started the Labour Day holiday weekend digg...

The son of former international football superstar David Beckham has signed his first professional football contract at the age of 19.Romeo Beckham has reportedly signed a deal with Fort Lauderdale CF of USL League One, which is the third tier of Uni...

The United States intends to send Afghanistan evacuees who fail to clear initial screenings to Kosovo, which has agreed to house them for up to a year for additional processing, a US official told Associated Press on Saturday.The US plan is likely to...

Thousands of demonstrators protested in Switzerland on Saturday for the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the Alpine country.The protests came ahead of a national referendum on September 26 on the legalisation of gay marriage, which has already be...

The world’s sharks and rays have seen declines in their populations since 2014 and more are now threatened with extinction, according to a new red list released Saturday at a global conference aimed at protecting dwindling species.The Komodo dragon...

The challenges to security emerging from the upheaval in Afghanistan should be a “wake-up call” for the European Union, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday, urging the EU to be more ambitious on defence and on global leadershi...

Beneath a rainbow-coloured umbrella, tour guide Michael Tsang Chi-fai addresses a rapt audience about a four-hour walk ahead.“We’re going to visit different places you may have never been to, but they’re each significant to the LGBT community,�...

Hong Kong’s medical specialist training institution has hit out at the government for not consulting it ahead of further rule relaxations of a hiring scheme aimed at tackling the city’s shortage of doctors.The Hong Kong Academy of Medicine said i...

It’s a drizzly afternoon in late August, and a group of political hopefuls are rolling giant dice across a life-size board game just off Koenig-Heinrich-Platz, the main square in the German city of Duisburg.As the die is cast, they move counters ac...

A Brunei diplomat appointed by Southeast Asia’s regional bloc as its special envoy to Myanmar on Saturday said he was still negotiating with the military on the terms of a visit to the country and that he had sought access to ousted leader Aung ...

British aircraft carrier the Queen Elizabeth made its first port call in Japan on Saturday, aiming to showcase the two countries’ defence cooperation in a region where China’s military has been growing increasingly assertive.Taking part in a join...

Overseas workers are struggling to get to Hong Kong as constantly changing Covid-19 rules make it difficult to travel to the city, despite a need for specialists, particularly in the technology sector.A 28-year-old technology worker from the Philippi...

Efforts by China to make its aviation industry more self-reliant will increase in the next five years, with plans in place to manufacture key parts for commercial engines in Shanghai by 2025.China has also already started to produce a new wide-bodied...

When the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit is held in Dakar, Senegal later this year, East Africa will be hoping Beijing will help revive the dream of building a modern regional railway.China has cumulatively committed US$120 billion i...

Hong Kong’s homebuyers returned to the city’s largest weekend property sales in almost a year, snapping up almost 92 per cent of the flats on offer, as sentiments were lifted by an improving economy and easy financing amid low interest rates.As m...

Malaysia has appointed former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin as chairman of a council that will focus on economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, the government chief secretary said on Saturday.The cabinet had on Wednesday agreed to the mini...

More than a dozen people were killed in northeastern China early on Saturday when the tractor they were riding on was rammed by an articulated truck on a highway, according to mainland Chinese media reports.In all, 15 people died and one person was i...

The government has just proposed more changes to the Medical Registration Ordinance. These amendments, if passed before the end of the current legislative session in October, would open the door wider for non-locally trained doctors to work in Hong K...

Having defied enemies and allies alike by forcibly seizing power, the Taliban must persuade them to keep the government it is forming afloat to avert the impending collapse of Afghanistan’s economy as well as a large-scale humanitarian crisis.Parad...

Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha won a no-confidence vote in parliament on Saturday as pro-democracy protesters vowed to swamp Bangkok’s streets to demand his resignation.Prayuth, who has run the country since seizing power a...

Philippine Airlines Inc has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York with a lender-supported plan that helps the Southeast Asian country’s flag carrier recover after the Covid-19 pandemic devastated global travel.The company aims to cut US$2 bil...

Lithuania’s foreign minister has called on European nations to cut their reliance on China as tensions simmer between Vilnius and Beijing over Taiwan.In a discussion on Friday on the European Union’s relations with China, Gabrielius Landsbergis s...

China aims to work with Iran in the reconstruction of their mutual neighbour Afghanistan, China’s foreign minister told his Iranian counterpart in a phone call on Friday.In the call to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries...

India’s joint drills with the Quad and nations in South China Sea disputes with China reflects its growing wariness of Beijing, observers said.Four Indian warships were sent to the Indo-Pacific last month on a two-month deployment, with two of t...

Hong Kong has “stringent measures” in place to prevent the spread of a new Covid-19 variant that could be more vaccine resistant, the health secretary has said.Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan Siu-chee was being questioned as to why the ...

China’s zero-tolerance Covid-19 strategy will not change until the authorities are confident that its vaccination campaign has been effective enough to ease restrictions, a senior health official said on Friday.Zheng Zhongwei, head of medical scien...

New Zealand on Saturday unveiled the name of an Islamic State sympathiser who stabbed and wounded seven people in a supermarket, as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed to tighten counterterrorism laws by the end of this month.Police shot dead Ahamed ...

Hong Kong’s largest teachers’ union will hold a special meeting next Saturday to vote on a motion to disband and begin winding-up procedures, the Post has learned.The embattled Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU) has already agreed to sell a pro...