Warning of a potential new cold war, the head of the United Nations implored China and the United States to repair their “completely dysfunctional” relationship before problems between the two large and deeply influential countries spill over eve...

All Hongkongers will be able to get a Covid-19 vaccine at most community inoculation centres without booking from Wednesday, a move designed to encourage more people to get the jabs.The measure was announced on Monday as the city confirmed five new C...

Canadians are voting in an election that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called two years early, seeking to turn public approval for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic into a fresh, four-year mandate.Voting across Canada’s six time zones was sched...

ByteDance’s short video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, is limiting users under the age of 14 years old to just 40 minutes of use per day, tightening technology restrictions on China’s youth as Beijing seeks to further crack down on �...

A university student has been spared jail for disrupting a 2018 Hong Kong forum held to express opposition to a government plan to build huge settlements on artificial islands off Lantau Island.Chinese University undergraduate Hui Ka-kin was given a ...

China launched a cargo spaceship on Monday to deliver supplies to its Tiangong space station and prepare for a second crewed mission planned for next month.The Tianzhou 3 lifted off aboard a Long March 7 Y4 rocket at 3.10pm from Hainan’s Wenchang s...

Hong Kong’s graft busters scored a victory in their attempt to prosecute one of the city’s biggest financial fraud cases in recent decades, when a court declared three former executives of Convoy Global Holdings and a broker guilty of conspiracy ...

More than 50 district councillors will have to pledge allegiance to Hong Kong on Friday.Sources told the Post that the oath-taking ceremonies would cover a total of 56 members from five Kowloon district councils – Sham Shui Po, Yau Tsim Mong, Kowlo...

A new Japanese law permits private companies to claim ownership of resources from outer space, the latest development in an international space race fuelled as much by national pride as the growing need to harvest resources from beyond Earth’s atmo...

A judge denied bail to an opposition activist charged with subversion after learning he had “persistently reiterated his stance against the Hong Kong government, the police and the national security law”.Madam Justice Esther Toh Lye-ping, of the ...

Hong Kong’s first Election Committee with newly amassed powers was formally created hours after landmark elections ended on Sunday. The conclusion of the city’s first electoral race under a Beijing-decreed system overhaul set the city on an unpre...

The United States’ reported death toll from Covid-19 will this week surpass the number of dead from the Spanish flu, according to the side-by-side numbers – though a direct comparison between the raw numbers doesn’t give the whole story, medica...

Since 2010 Chinese architecture website archcy.com has been holding an annual vote for the “Top 10 Ugliest Buildings” in China. The website said that the goal is to: “spark discussion about the beauty and ugliness of architecture and promote ar...

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific has sharply downgraded expectations for how many flights it will operate before the end of the year, blaming operational and travel restrictions for what constitutes a major setback to its post-pandemic recovery hopes.In ...

The Crown swept the drama awards at the Emmys on Sunday to finally coronate Netflix with a top prize on television’s biggest night, as the streaming giant also claimed best limited series honours for The Queen’s Gambit.Netflix has transformed the...

Singapore’s leaders are closely watching the city state’s intensive care capacity to make sure its hospital system will not be overwhelmed, as reported Covid-19 cases breached the 1,000 mark for a second consecutive day, cabinet ministers said.Th...

World leaders are returning to the United Nations in New York this week with a focus on boosting efforts to fight both climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, which last year forced them to send video statements for the annual gathering.As the coro...

Former Malaysian squash champion Choong Wai Li and her husband, Irish national Ronan Collins, were over the moon when their first child was born in Hong Kong seven years ago.They had decided their son would take his mother’s nationality, and immedi...

Hong Kong’s powerful new Election Committee was established on Monday morning after a delayed vote count that took nearly 14 hours, in the first polls since Beijing’s drastic overhaul of the city’s political system to ensure only those deemed �...

The US flew Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland on Sunday and tried blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of force that signalled the beginning of what could be one of America’s swiftest, l...

The September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, in which the financial and political capitals of the US were gutted by non-state actors, changed the contours of the international security landscape.The Philippines, Washington’s oldes...

Israel’s former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested in a Facebook video posted on Sunday that US President Joe Biden had fallen asleep when meeting the new Israeli leader Naftali Bennett last month.A Reuters fact check previously debunked t...

Hong Kong national security police arrested three student members of an opposition political group on Monday morning.A police source confirmed the arrests of the Student Politicism members – convenor Wong Yat-chin, 20, secretary Chan Chi-sum, 19, a...

US law enforcement said a body found in a US national forest in Wyoming, where a search was under way for Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, matches the description of the missing woman, whose disappearance has gripped the country.American authorities lau...

There are hopeful signs that community transmission of Covid-19 may be easing in Fujian, with the Chinese coastal province reporting 28 cases on Sunday, its lowest number of new cases in seven days.This compared to 43 new cases a day earlier in the p...

Hong Kong schools have begun teaching “citizenship and social development” in place of the controversial liberal studies subject, with some teachers saying they will draw on the 2019 anti-government protests during lessons.Education authorities s...

China is one of the world’s mega-diverse countries with varied environments ranging from desert to tropical forest, but after decades of economic development and population growth, hundreds of its animals and plants have been pushed to the edge of ...

Only one of two opposition-leaning candidates running in Hong Kong’s Election Committee polls won on Sunday – by a narrow margin and with a little luck – after earlier expressing optimism that alternative views would still be represented under ...

Despite the economic devastation wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, Indonesia is still focused on quality over quantity when it comes to its tourist destinations – as evinced by a senior official’s recent remark that backpackers would be banned fr...

North Korea’s foreign ministry on Monday said a new US alliance in the Asia-Pacific and recent US submarine contract with Australia could trigger a “nuclear arms race” in the region.Last week the United States announced a new three-way security...

A Dutch National Holocaust Memorial was officially opened in Amsterdam on Sunday, after years of legal dispute.King Willem-Alexander unveiled the monument that was created by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee and designed by architect Daniel Liebeskind.I...

Chinese lenders may not be willing to throw good money after bad and have reportedly declined to approve a further freeze on debt repayment for some countries.China, the largest bilateral lender in Africa, has said its commercial lenders should not b...

Pope Francis on Sunday opened a Vatican conference on child sex abuse by the clergy in Central and Eastern Europe by urging participants to brainstorm “concrete pathways of reform”.The multi-day event – a joint initiative of the Pontifical Comm...

Canadian elections headed for a photo finish on Monday with liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is seeking a third term, threatened by a strong challenge from rookie conservative leader Erin O’Toole.Trudeau called the snap election hoping to...

President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party was set to win a decisive victory in legislative polls, authorities said, although discontent eroded support in some regions and opponents alleged widespread fraud.United Russia was on track to maintain its m...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by David Cohen on politico.com on September 19, 2021.Michael Mullen, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Sunday said there was nothing abnormal about...

A swarm of bees has killed 63 endangered African penguins on a beach outside Cape Town, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds said on Sunday.“After tests, we found bee stings around the penguins’ eyes,” said the ...

Algeria on Sunday buried Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the North African country’s longest-serving president, at a cemetery for its independence heroes, but without the honours accorded to his predecessors.Bouteflika died on Friday aged 84, after a career ...

All six Palestinian militants who escaped an Israeli high-security jail through a tunnel dug under a sink are back in custody, after the army said on Sunday it had recaptured the last two.The inmates, who were being held for attacks against the Jewis...

A volcano on Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted on Sunday after a week-long build-up of seismic activity, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands as lava flows destroyed isolated houses and threatened to reach the coast. New erup...

Hong Kong’s first critical election under the Beijing-decreed electoral overhaul on Sunday hit a major snag as a delay in vote counting overnight prompted candidates to demand answers on why it took over 10 hours for the full results when only 4,38...

Hundreds of protesters drove through Bangkok’s streets on Sunday to mark the 15th anniversary of a military coup that ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.The billionaire ex-premier – now living in self-exile – has remained a prominent figu...

Chinese aviation engineers say they have worked out some critical performance constraints of a stealth combat drone still under development in the United States.Their estimates are based on some photos, openly available information and reverse-engine...

Hong Kong health authorities will update the city’s Covid-19 vaccination records in a bid to bring them in line with new entry rules recently announced by the British government.British authorities have said that the rules governing international t...

Mainland China has banned imports of sugar apples and wax apples from Taiwan from Monday, citing biosafety fears over plant pests.It follows a similar measure earlier this year to ban imports of pineapples from Taiwan amid ongoing cross-strait tensio...

Ten people died and five were reported missing after an overloaded river ferry in China’s southern Guizhou province capsized in bad weather on Saturday afternoon.The ferry was the main mode of transport across the Zangke river for students from the...

A bakery worker narrowly escaped serious injury due to a chance trip to the restroom just moments before a man attacked her colleagues with a knife in a Cheung Sha Wan shopping centre on Sunday.The woman, who works at Mr Bakery in the Hoi Lai Shoppin...

Investing in mining projects in Afghanistan now entails weighing up security risks, poor infrastructure and potential sanctions against the Taliban.Despite the lure of the country’s considerable mineral reserves, the threats and obstacles may cool ...

Last week, when the newly appointed Taliban foreign minister called the ministry staffers for a briefing, a female desk officer hoped she would be able to retain her job and return to work. The desk officer, who did not want to be named, had served ...

Boxing star Manny Pacquiao on Sunday said he will run for president of the Philippines next year, after railing against corruption in government and what he calls President Rodrigo Duterte’s cosy relationship with China.Pacquiao accepted the nomina...