Hong Kong’s High Court has adjourned an application from jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying to restore his voting rights as the major shareholder of Next Digital, ruling that he should first take up the matter with the Security Bureau.The secu...

Emergency workers found a body on Friday in a Hong Kong country park where a former chairman of the Bank of Communications (Hong Kong) went missing while hiking at the weekend.But authorities have not said whether the discovery was connected to the c...

Two of the property magnate Hui Ka-yan’s staunchest allies appear to be bailing out of China Evergrande Group, selling a large chunk of the developer’s stock ahead of a gathering storm and deteriorating credit ratings over US$300 billion in liabi...

The former leader of an umbrella group behind many of Hong Kong’s biggest protests of 2019, already serving jail time for his role in three unauthorised assemblies, will plead guilty to charges related to a fourth, his lawyer has said.Figo Chan Ho-...

When Singapore’s foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan remarked on an opposition politician’s educational background to a party colleague in parliament on Tuesday, he did not expect what he said to go viral.But his asides were caught on microphone...

China and India have stressed the need for troop withdrawals from an area of a deadly confrontation on their border for bilateral relations to progress.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar discussed the ...

North Korea released video of its new system to launch missiles from trains, offering a multitude of camera angles that show its capabilities, and underscoring Kim Jong-un’s push to increase the production value of state propaganda.The video starts...

Three suspected triad members were arrested on Friday after two knife attacks took place in Hong Kong in the space of nine hours.A force insider said a preliminary investigation suggested the two attacks were linked to a dispute over the sale of a pi...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted a tweet that said the United States would “stand with the people of Hong Kong”, a post in which he accused Beijing of weakening the city’s long-term political stability.He posted the message after se...

Despite a slow start plagued by much controversy that still haunts President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s coronavirus vaccination campaign is now one of the fastest-paced and farthest-reaching in the world.While boasting a globally renowned vaccination...

Regulators in Asian hubs like Singapore and Hong Kong have threatened to retaliate against European Union plans to force airlines to start using take-off and landing slots frozen during the coronavirus pandemic, a move that could oblige Europe’s ca...

China has suspended imports of dragon fruit from Vietnam following the detection of coronavirus, temporarily halting a US$1 billion market as Beijing continues its vigorous testing of inbound food shipments for virus risk.Imports of the tropical frui...

China’s returning “space heroes” emerged from their capsule and waved to the waiting cameras after their successful re-entry on Friday after 90 days working aboard the country’s Tiangong space station.Speaking to a CCTV journalist at the land...

Taiwan’s government called on the European Union to quickly begin trade talks after the bloc pledged to seek a trade deal with the tech-heavyweight island, something Taipei has long angled for.The EU included Taiwan on its list of trade partners fo...

Cathay Pacific aircrew will soon be spending longer in quarantine after returning to Hong Kong from countries deemed at high risk of Covid-19 under rules set to be tightened by health officials, the Post has learned.The updated regulations – intend...

Leaders of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-opposition trade unions’ group have begun the process of disbanding the confederation, sources have told the Post.But Joe Wong Nai-yuen, the president of the Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU), would nei...

Hundreds of far-right protesters were expected to attend a “Justice For J6” rally in Washington DC on Saturday in support of people who were arrested after the deadly January 6 Capitol riot.With memories of the January riot by supporters of then-...

The Scott Morrison government has decided it’s best for Australia to accelerate the production of a more capable, integrated, nuclear-powered submarine platform with the US and the UK.This will more tightly enmesh Australia into the US orbit. Techn...

This story has been made freely available to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.Since closing its borders to most international travel last year, China has imposed strict lockdowns, mass testing, large-scale co...

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said a critical meeting on climate change later this year in Scotland is at risk of failure due to mistrust between developed and developing countries and a lack of ambitious goals among some emerging economies.T...

SpaceX’s all-civilian Inspiration4 crew spent their first day in orbit conducting scientific research and talking to children at a paediatric cancer hospital, after blasting off on their pioneering mission from Cape Canaveral the night before.Unlik...

American authorities have launched a massive search for a 22-year-old woman who mysteriously vanished during a road trip with her boyfriend, now declared a “person of interest” in a case gripping the nation.Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito quit her j...

China recorded the largest single-day leap in its rapidly growing Covid-19 outbreak on Thursday, with 61 new symptomatic cases – including one in a previously unaffected city – in the southeastern province of Fujian, as authorities stepped up con...

Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag resigned on Thursday after parliament formally condemned her handling of the Afghanistan evacuation crisis.Lawmakers approved a motion criticising the government for failing to evacuate some Afghans, and for missing...

Hong Kong’s adolescents will now only need one dose of the German-made BioNTech vaccine, after scientific committees under the Centre for Health Protection said on Wednesday that such a move would help reduce the risks of myopericarditis – an inf...

It is understandable that Myanmar’s anti-junta forces are sick and tired of the international community’s procrastination when it comes to bringing forth concrete plans to end the military’s brutality since the February 1 putsch.The members of ...

Beijing resident Mo Ying was looking forward to Mid-Autumn Festival; it would have been the first time she left Beijing in two years.“I have not left the city since the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2019. I have been either staying home or staying a...

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Friday he had received a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot and urged other elderly people to come forward to get a shot amid a new wave of infections across the city state.“Cases are increasing rapidly. ...

A high-ranking Philippine government official who has repeatedly mocked the United Nations is facing criticism as he seeks a position within the international organisation.Harry Roque, spokesman of President Rodrigo Duterte and a cabinet member, trav...

Australia said on Thursday that more US troops will rotate through the island nation and that the allies will cooperate on missile development, the latest joint steps amid shared concerns over a rising China.Australia announced a three-way alliance w...

The long-awaited southbound leg of the Bond Connect between mainland China and Hong Kong will encourage more bond offerings in the city, and prove to be a “game changer” that boosts its credentials as a green bonds and dim sum bonds centre, analy...

In the final instalment of our three-part series on the Election Committee polls this Sunday, the Post explores Beijing’s rare move to order Hong Kong tycoons and loyalists onto the streets to meet the people, with insiders noting it was equal part...

Hong Kong banks are becoming more cautious in their mortgage lending, particularly for incomplete projects built by smaller developers.HSBC, Bank of China (Hong Kong), Hang Seng Bank, Bank of East Asia (BEA) and Standard Chartered are among lenders t...

The number of international, private and semi-private schools in Hong Kong given permission to raise tuition fees this academic year has nearly doubled, with 87 institutions increasing rates by an average of about 3 per cent.At least 88 subsidised ki...

A US-backed Uygur photo exhibit of dozens of people who are missing or alleged to be held in camps in Xinjiang, China, opened in Switzerland on Thursday, prompting Beijing to issue a furious statement accusing Washington of “low political tricks”...

Beijing said other countries’ patrols in the South China Sea were “provoking incidents” and “creating contradictions” as it rejected a German warship’s port call request.In response to the German foreign ministry’s announcement that the...

China’s gaming industry regulator has created a special website that encourages the public to report companies for any violation of state regulations designed to protect kids from video gaming addiction.The website, officially named “reporting pl...

Multiple forest fires on Thursday were threatening groves of gigantic sequoias in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains that are home to some of the world’s largest trees.Flames would likely reach the famous Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park, ...

Russians in the Far East began voting in a three-day parliamentary election in which vocal Kremlin critics have been barred from running following a historic crackdown on the opposition.Parliamentary and local polls in the world’s largest country s...

A spate of inmate deaths. Cellblocks unguarded. Staggering staffing shortages caused by AWOL guards. Detainees deprived of food and medical care.New York’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex, troubled by years of neglect, has spiralled into turmo...

A newly discovered Vincent van Gogh drawing that has been hidden in a private collection for more than a century went on display for the first time at an Amsterdam museum on Thursday.“Study for ‘Worn Out’”, which depicts an old man sitting in...

The will of Prince Philip, the late husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, will be sealed and remain private for at least 90 years to preserve the monarch’s dignity, a judge at London’s High Court has ruled.Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who had...

A trip to Hong Kong tourist attraction Ocean Park led scientists to propose a way to prevent mobile phones overheating and detect counterfeit goods – by overturning 200 years of conventional wisdom.Researchers at City University of Hong Kong began ...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva was called out on Thursday by the World Bank, her previous employer, for applying pressure to boost China’s position in a ranking of economies.Georgieva said she disagreed with the ...

The European Union announced details of its long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy on Thursday, at an event that was completely overshadowed by a new US-backed security alliance aimed at countering China.The strategy calls for the EU to increase its nava...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is expected to announce the construction of a rail link connecting the northern New Territories and Shenzhen’s burgeoning Qianhai economic zone in her policy address next month, the Post has learned.The r...

China announced on Thursday that it has formally applied to join a Pacific Rim trade pact abandoned four years ago by the US, a move that is likely to bring Washington and its allies into more contention with Beijing.Beijing’s new trade minister Wa...