Hong Kong’s government said buyers of an unfinished residential complex in Ho Man Tin can terminate their contracts and be entitled to refunds with interest, as local authorities step in to prevent the city’s first half-done project in decades fr...

Former US Pacific Command chief Harry Harris has called on Washington to reassess its long-standing policy of keeping its commitment to Taiwan’s defence ambiguous, warning that Beijing is seeking to “dominate” the self-ruled island.Harris, the ...

South Korean engineer Shaun has big plans to develop the parcels of land he has snapped up for millions of won in recent years into long-term money-spinners.“I’m planning to design my building which is suitable to host K-pop live performances and...

Chinese celebrities are under the microscope unlike any time in recent memory as China’s central government tries to regulate the industry on two fronts: censoring celebrities who behave poorly, and muffling fan bases that often cross lines into un...

Hong Kong customs confiscated more than HK$712 million (US$91.6 million) worth of black-market cigarettes in the first eight months of 2021, making it the largest seizure of its kind in a single year over the past two decades.The latest figures from ...

Hong Kong air authorities will hold a private inquiry in late December into Greater Bay Airlines’ bid to become the city’s newest carrier, two sources have told the Post, a major delay that will derail the fledgling company’s hopes for a 2021 f...

China’s military has protested after a US warship sailed into waters around the disputed Chinese-occupied Mischief Reef in the South China Sea.The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA’s) Southern Theatre Command said the US guided-missile destroye...

Hong Kong opposition activist Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam has withdrawn her bail application while remanded on a subversion charge over an unofficial primary last year, after the court refused to lift reporting restrictions.Ho had earlier announced on Facebo...

A HK$10.8 million (US$1.4 million) Hong Kong flat offered in an unprecedented lucky draw aimed at boosting the city’s sluggish coronavirus vaccination rates has a new owner.The winner of the lottery, identified only by a portion of their Hong Kong ...

Hong Kong’s leader has asked Beijing to establish a dialogue between medical experts from the city and mainland China with the goal of gradually relaxing border restrictions.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor also told lawmakers on Wednesda...

US President Joe Biden on Thursday will present a six-pronged strategy intended to fight the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus Delta variant and increase US Covid-19 vaccinations, the White House said.The United States, which leads the worl...

Chinese President Xi Jinping rallied support for the Beijing Winter Olympics and promised to back Rome’s hosting of the Group of 20 summit later this year, in a phone conversation with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Tuesday night.Xi called ...

For the music lover, it was nearly three hours at gunpoint, wondering if he would become yet another body on the floor of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.For the grieving mother, the night of carnage robbed her of her son and tarnished her view of...

A powerful earthquake struck near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco on Tuesday night, causing buildings to rock and sway in Mexico City nearly 320km (200 miles) away, but officials said there were no reports of serious damage or injuries.The US Geo...

Beijing’s separate new plans to link its two special administrative regions – Hong Kong and Macau – to their neighbouring mainland Chinese cities through the Qianhai and Hengqin zones are far more than an economic blueprint to enhance cross-bor...

Just six years ago, Elizabeth Holmes seemed destined to fulfil her dream of becoming Silicon Valley’s next superstar. She was the subject of business magazine cover stories describing her as the youngest self-made female billionaire in history, for...

Warnings that China’s campaign to cool its property market will go too far are multiplying.Economists at Nomura Holdings are calling the curbs China’s “Volcker Moment” that will hurt the economy. The credit squeeze in the property sector is �...

Afghanistan’s Taliban on Tuesday announced key posts for their new government, after the hardline Islamists seized control of the country and ousted the previous regime last month.Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who is on a UN sanctions list, was na...

A fire killed 41 inmates in an overcrowded prison block in Indonesia’s Banten province, a government minister said on Wednesday, injuring scores more in a blaze that police said may have been caused by an electrical fault.The fire, the country’s ...

After America’s longest war, Taliban commander Mullah Hasnain contemplates all that is left of what was part of the last CIA base – demolished buildings, destroyed vehicles and piles of ammunition.“We let them go peacefully, and look what they�...

It was cold and pitch black when Eiko Kawasaki was last able to speak with her youngest daughter. Terrified that her call might be detected, she stood in the shadow of a tree and spoke quietly as she clutched the mobile phone to her ear. Her daughter...

A university professor’s series of videos about love, in which he urges young people to insist on finding love rather than yielding to social pressure to rush into marriage, has taken Chinese social media by storm.Liang Yongan, a 67-year-old Chines...

Quarantine-free travel and progressively loosened social-distancing relations – those were the incentives Singapore’s authorities promised residents in a bid to shore up vaccination rates.From Wednesday, with 88 per cent of the country’s eligib...

At least four core members of the alliance behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil were arrested early on Wednesday morning, a day after officially refusing to cooperate with a national security investigation.The Hong Kong Alliance in Supp...

Chinese fighter jets dropped missiles, troops brought down drones and ground force howitzers made precision strikes during a high-altitude drill by the Tibet Military District intended as a warning to India, according to military observers.In footage...

Hong Kong’s business community has called for concrete measures to speed up cross-border collaboration and a clear timeline for implementing them if the city wants to reap the benefits of a major planned expansion of Shenzhen’s Qianhai economic z...

Rewind to the start of 2021, and pop star Kris Wu had become Bulgari’s most important brand ambassador in China, Louis Vuitton was making headlines for signing South Korean boy band BTS as global brand ambassadors, and Chinese actress Zheng Shuang ...

The newly elected president of Hong Kong’s Law Society has pledged to listen to a diversity of viewpoints in his capacity as leader, while urging people not to judge him by his work with a pro-establishment think tank.Chan Chak-ming – formerly a ...

Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday that penalising abortion is unconstitutional, a major victory for advocates of women’s health and human rights, just as parts of the United States enact tougher laws against the practice.The rul...

A Japanese court has summoned Kim Jong-un to face demands for compensation by several ethnic Korean residents of Japan who say they suffered human rights abuses in North Korea after joining a resettlement programme in the hermit state that promised a...

China, both a producer and major consumer of aluminium, could turn to Australia for more supplies of the key raw material bauxite after a coup in Guinea threatened to disrupt global supply, analysts said.Guinea and Australia are two of the world’s ...

During the time an Islamic State-inspired extremist was imprisoned in New Zealand, he was moved to a maximum-security facility after punching officers and repeatedly throwing faeces and urine at them, corrections officials said on Tuesday.Ahamed Sams...

Two Canadians have now been detained in China for over 1,000 days for allegedly breaching national security laws. Both have been tried and one, Michael Spavor, has been found guilty and faces 11 years in prison.It did not have to end this way. A solu...

El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday, but the roll-out stumbled in its first hours and President Nayib Bukele said the digital wallet used for transactions was not functioning.For part of the morning, El Sa...

China has developed a prototype Mars drone to improve its ability to photograph and analyse the landscape on future missions to the red planet.The project’s chief scientist has said that the helicopter drone would serve as a navigator for a rover a...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro slammed the country‘s Supreme Court and cast doubt on the integrity of next year’s elections on Tuesday as his supporters rallied in major cities at a time of heightened tensions in Latin America’s largest dem...

Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said Credit Suisse told him it was closing his foundation’s bank account in Switzerland earlier this year citing his “criminal record” in China, despite the activist never being convicted of a crime.On...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Meredith McGraw and Marc Caputo on politico.com on September 7, 2021.Boots on the ground in Iowa. Accelerated fundraising. More national media interviews. A...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he will not alter how he campaigns after he and others were hit by gravel thrown by an anti-vaccine protester during the campaign this week.Trudeau has faced increasingly hostile protests by what he...

The deadly terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, prompted an outcry from around the world: “We are all Americans.” Washington’s policies realigned around fighting terrorism and bilateral relationships strengthened o...

A little over a week ago, Magnachip Semiconductor was notified by the US Treasury Department that it had identified national security risks in the Delaware chip company’s proposed US$1.4 billion sale to Chinese private equity firm Wise Road Capital...

The Taliban announced its government in Afghanistan on Tuesday, with a UN-blacklisted veteran of the hardline movement in the top role, weeks after they swept to power and toppled the US-backed president.But as the Taliban transitions from militant f...

China has fully inoculated two-thirds of its population with coronavirus vaccines as the country races to build an immunity barrier.The National Health Commission’s disease control bureau said that by Monday, 960 million people, or 67 per cent of t...

A fight for flights and quarantine hotel rooms, and confusion over new entry documents, are among the issues still facing stranded Hongkongers in coronavirus hotspots, a day after the government announced it would recognise vaccination records from f...

Hollywood star Nicole Kidman, who caused an outcry when she was exempted from quarantine upon arriving in Hong Kong for a shoot last month, has returned to the United States, her publicist has said.“Nicole left Hong Kong when she finished shooting ...

China has introduced an initiative to prohibit the misuse of biotechnology, as the country seeks to play a bigger role in global biosecurity governance amid sustained tensions with the US on the issue – especially over the origins of Covid-19.The T...

A giant panda has given birth to twin cubs at a zoo in Madrid, Spain, in what officials hailed was a “great contribution” to the conservation of the vulnerable species.Madrid Zoo said in a statement that mother panda Hua Zui Ba gave birth to the ...

WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging super app operated by Tencent Holdings, is asking users to choose between mainland China and overseas accounts, a move analysts say the social media giant is taking to comply with the country’s increasingly stringen...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has promoted five more military officers to the rank of general, expanding the pool of young professional soldiers in the armed forces’ senior echelon.Xi presented the new generals with their orders at a ceremony at the...

Hong Kong’s security minister has vowed to take “swift and efficient” action against the organiser of the annual Tiananmen Square vigil for refusing to cooperate with a national security investigation, as the group sought to challenge the legal...