Taiwan said on Thursday it planned to issue “stimulus coupons” again to boost consumer spending by NT$200 billion (US$7.22 billion) and support its coronavirus-hit economy, as the island worked to counter an outbreak of the Delta variant.While a ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to further develop ties with North Korea in a message congratulating top leader Kim Jong-un on the 73rd anniversary of the country’s foundation. As a friend, China was “sincerely glad” to see that North Korea...

A Hong Kong judge has dismissed a detained activist’s critique of bail hearings as “closed door”, calling the assertion “inaccurate and unfounded” given that members of the public were allowed in court in spite of restrictions on media repo...

Taiwan’s navy has commissioned its first stealth missile corvette to boost its deterrence capability and defend the island amid growing military threats from Beijing.The multi-mission corvette Ta Jiang (PGG-619), dubbed carrier killer, was commissi...

Health officials are set to reveal new measures to boost Covid-19 vaccination among Hong Kong’s elderly, with at least eight community inoculation centres expected to be closed after October, the Post has learned.The latest approach, which will be ...

Several Malaysian mothers won a legal battle on Thursday for the right to pass their nationality to their children born abroad, a landmark court decision hailed by activists as a giant step toward gender equality.Malaysia is one of 25 countries that ...

Two hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan are set to depart the war-ravaged country on charter flights from Kabul on Thursday after the new Taliban government agreed to their evacuation, a US official said.The departures wi...

The Chinese government has temporarily suspended approval for all new online games in the country, dealing a fresh blow to the video gaming businesses of industry giants Tencent Holdings and NetEase, as Beijing steps up measures to tackle gaming addi...

Senior Beijing officials and representatives from across the Greater Bay Area held a rare joint press conference on Thursday touting the central government’s latest plan to vastly expand the Qianhai economic zone in neighbouring Shenzhen, paving th...

Hongkongers are being urged to rediscover the city’s hidden gems as part of a tourism drive officials hope will boost the struggling travel industry.More than 50 attractions and shops in Yau Ma Tei, Jordan and the West Kowloon Cultural District are...

The story of a five-year-old boy who has been fighting leukaemia for nearly two years and undergone 17 chemotherapies told his mother to have another child just like him if he dies, has gripped Chinese social media.“I want to live for 1,000 years,�...

It remains unclear why top Chinese actress Zhao Wei was obliterated from China’s cyberspace overnight in August, but her legacy – as both a talented artist and shrewd businesswoman – lives on.Zhao was one of the most influential Chinese actress...

Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has called for a comprehensive review of his country’s alliance with the United States, complaining Manila benefits less from its relationship with Washington than non-treaty allies despite growing pres...

Hong Kong national security police on Thursday searched a June 4 museum run by an opposition group behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil as part of an investigation into the organisation’s activities.Leung Kam-wai – one of four core m...

Worried his appearance would detract from opportunities in China’s competitive society, Xia Shurong decided to go under the surgeon’s knife to reshape his nose – one of millions of young men in the country turning to cosmetic surgery.The 27-yea...

Britain must use every possible tactic to halt the “vile trade” of traffickers bringing record numbers of migrants across the Channel, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.Asked by a Conservative MP when Britain would take direct action...

A Congolese man had died in police custody in the southern Indian state of Bengaluru, and his fellow students could not rest until they found out what had happened. So they gathered, two dozen of them, on August 2 at a police station in the JC Nagar ...

Six members of the group behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen vigil have been convicted of unauthorised assembly offences after pleading guilty over last year’s banned event.Albert Ho Chun-yan, vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of...

China and the US are working on separate plans for how to deal with Afghanistan’s new interim government, with Beijing warning that terrorist groups were already crossing the borders into neighbouring countries.While US Secretary of State Antony Bl...

Former media executive Nirav Haji hails from Singapore, but the place he calls “home” is Johor, Malaysia.Haji is one of 57,000 foreigners to have been granted a 10-year visa under the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme since 2002 and has be...

The resumption of travel between Hong Kong and mainland China looks to be making positive progress, after Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced on Tuesday that two quarantine-free schemes would open doors for visitors on both sides of ...

Factory-gate price inflation in China remained high in August, rising to the highest level in 13 years, data released on Thursday showed.The producer price index (PPI), which reflects the prices that factories charge wholesalers for their products, r...

A Taiwanese government body has released plans to transform the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall – one of Taipei’s most prominent landmarks – by removing all symbols associated with the late Kuomintang party leader in what it described as a reflec...

A school principal in central China revealed this week that he has been eating students’ leftovers from the school cafeteria to warn them against food waste.The stunt by Wang Yongxin, the head of a private secondary school in Qiyang, Hunan province...

A higher Covid-19 vaccination rate and a sustained zero-infection streak are believed to be among the prerequisites for Hong Kong resuming quarantine-free travel with mainland China, experts and a pro-Beijing heavyweight say, but an official across t...

The international community has expressed alarm over the declaration of a “people’s defensive war” by Myanmar’s anti-junta forces, even as interviews with citizens weary of the military’s brutality suggest there is support on the ground for...

China has launched a pilot trading scheme for renewable electricity to allow carbon dioxide emitters to partly offset their footprint through direct purchases of green power from generators, with blockchain technology likely to be deployed.The initia...

Chinese are showing renewed enthusiasm to travel over the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, with tour bookings surging as restrictions on interprovincial movement begin to be lifted following containment of recent coronavirus outbreaks, data from...

If your life currently feels dull – if you’re fed up with Netflix, video games, NFTs and bitcoin – there’s a place in Hong Kong where you can watch actual humans dicing with death. It’s in Sheung Wan, on the footbridge behind the Wing On de...

The Connecticut Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with whether a US$20 million bond set for a former researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accused of killing a Yale graduate student is unconstitutionally high and how state judges ...

North Korea put tractors and fire engines on show rather than the more usual tanks and missiles at a parade in Pyongyang early on Thursday, the nuclear-armed nation’s third procession in less than a year.Pyongyang has continued to pursue its nuclea...

Researchers at Beihang University in Beijing have made headway in developing “air-breathing” satellites that could last longer in space, finding that there are ways to reduce the negative impact of shock waves they said could destabilise such sat...

A Chinese businessman was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison after admitting that he illegally exported marine technology with uses in anti-submarine warfare from the United States for the benefit of a Chinese military university.Qin Shure...

A former nurse who co-founded and once ran the cultlike NXIVM group, where prosecutors say women were brainwashed, branded like animals and coerced into sex, was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in prison but will not be locked up until January.Nancy...

Prosecutors and defence lawyers sketched duelling portraits of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes as her trial got under way on Wednesday, alternatively portraying her as a greedy villain who faked her way to the top and a passionate underdo...

Beijing has stepped up efforts to source more coal from neighbouring Mongolia amid an ongoing supply shortage, raising more questions about how long a ban on Australian coal can last.China is suffering from a spike in coal prices amid declining suppl...

The Hong Kong government has violated a pledge not to apply the city’s national security law to alleged crimes committed before its enactment last summer, pro-democracy advocates and legal experts told a US congressional panel on Wednesday.As China...

The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) has called for an overhaul of the country’s “archaic” access-to-information system after Canada’s tax agency took five years to provide the South China Morning Post with a secret study linking mil...

After being completely shut out from the Taliban‘s new government, women kept up the pressure on Afghanistan‘s new rulers with a number of protests Wednesday, at least one of which was violently broken up by Taliban fighters who whipped some of t...

A year ago, scores of countries committed to the Covax Facility, a programme set up to deliver Covid-19 vaccines equitably to every corner of the planet. Now the initiative is falling short of its goals.Facing a 25 per cent cut to Covax’s supply fo...

Punitive actions taken by the US for the sale of sensitive technology to China have soared this year as agencies policing such transactions have expanded their reach, a Commerce Department official said on Wednesday, in a hearing where the department...

The IOC is punishing North Korea’s Tokyo Games no-show by suspending its National Olympic Committee until the end of 2022, Olympic chief Thomas Bach announced on Wednesday.The suspension covers the coming Beijing Winter Olympics.“The NOC of the P...

A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as workers hoisted one of the nation’s largest Confederate monuments off a pedestal where the figure of General Robert E. Lee towered over Virginia’s capital city for more than a century.The statue was...

Cathay Pacific has fired a “small number” of aircrew for failing to get Covid-19 jabs without a valid medical reason, following through on an ultimatum to review the employment of pilots and flight attendants still unvaccinated by August 31.“To...

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...

The main suspect in a jihadist rampage that killed 130 people across Paris described himself defiantly as “an Islamic State soldier” on Wednesday, upsetting some survivors who took it as a threat at the start of the trial into the 2015 attacks.Sa...

As the biggest names in China’s technology sector continue to retreat from the front lines of running their companies, speculation remains about their true motives and how much power they are really relinquishing.This week, JD.com founder Richard L...

Chinese gaming giants Tencent Holdings and NetEase were called in to meet with Chinese authorities on Wednesday to discuss how they will implement Beijing’s new restrictions on video gaming for minors, as the government seeks to avoid lax enforceme...

A 42-year-old Singapore man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to four charges under the country’s Animals and Birds Act of cruelly torturing an animal. In several video clips either filmed by himself or his cousin, Clement Chia Tian Xiang was seen repea...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has promised that China will become a pillar of “an open world economy” and help to fight global public health crises while upholding peace and stability, in a speech that reaffirmed the country’s commitment to a multil...