Hong Kong should restructure its government with the goal of increasing the supply of public and subsidised housing by 50 per cent in the next nine years, the city’s largest pro-establishment party has said, firing a shot across the current adminis...

On August 23, 2008, thousands stood up to sing March of the Volunteers, the country’s national anthem, as three Chinese flags fluttered in the breeze at the Peking University Gymnasium.As soon as the song ended, they clapped and cheered for Ma Lin,...

Hong Kong recorded eight imported coronavirus infections on Sunday, while the city’s deputy leader led a delegation to Shenzhen for talks on reopening the border with mainland Chinese officials.The newest infections involved arrivals from the Phili...

Hong Kong’s security chief has stopped short of saying whether residents commemorating the Tiananmen Square crackdown in future will be in trouble, after city authorities were quoted to have adopted Beijing’s labelling of the 1989 student-led mov...

What is really behind the recent stock market volatility in Hong Kong, especially the plunge in property share prices?It could be a perfect storm, coming at a time when Beijing has reportedly had enough of the city’s housing shortage and a clampdow...

September in Hong Kong this year is shaping up to be one of the hottest on record, with the city experiencing 16 very hot days before the month has even ended, which is already six more than the previous high 12 years ago.Leung Wing-mo, the former as...

The rise and fall of the Tibetan empire could be closely linked to sun cycles, according to an international study.Unusually weak solar activity around 600AD brought more rain and snow to the Tibetan plateau, found the researchers, with the wetter cl...

China reported nine locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Saturday, the lowest number since the latest outbreak started about two weeks ago, as the country stepped up disease control measures ahead of the week-long National Day holiday.Five of the lo...

It’s just after 6.30pm on September 17, and the first deafening bangs of the night are reverberating under the bridge at the Din Daeng intersection in Bangkok as tear gas is fired. Young protesters in motorcycle helmets are flitting through the smo...

Hong Kong’s finance and justice ministers have told the United States to respect China’s sovereignty and stop meddling in the city’s affairs, as they lauded the central government’s lengthy list of what it said was Washington’s attempts at ...

The risk of military conflict between China and the US remains relatively low despite the two powers’ disagreements over the South China Sea and broader rivalry, a military think tank has concluded.Defence and maritime experts also said extensive i...

In the three months since 62-year-old Native American rug weaver Ella Mae Begay vanished, the haunting unanswered questions sometimes threaten to overwhelm her niece.Seraphine Warren has organised searches of the vast Navajo Nation landscape near her...

Hong Kong’s 82-year-old Central Market reopened last month as the city’s latest revitalised heritage spot, but history buffs are disappointed that too little has been done to reflect events there during World War II.Although there are galleries o...

When a distant aunt talked to Philimon Basumatary in Saralpara, a village in the Indian state of Assam, about a job that might save the family from Covid-related financial distress earlier this year, the 21-year-old wasn’t sure he wanted it.The pro...

Sea, the Singapore-based tech company created by China-born entrepreneur Forrest Li in 2009, has enjoyed a stellar 2021.The company’s stock has jumped 70 per cent in New York, buoyed by strong revenue at e-commerce service Shopee and hit game Free ...

Recently, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor indicated that she intends to set up new bureaus for housing and culture. At the same time, Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong has urged Hong Kong to expand its international reach in arts and...

The writing was on the wall for decades, but when members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China decided on Saturday to dissolve, it was painful for many.The emergency general meeting endorsed a recommendation...

In 2017, Brandan Chan and his girlfriend thought they had the perfect plan: buy a Built-To-Order (BTO) flat constructed by Singapore’s Housing and Development Board (HDB) and get the keys to their new home within three to four years. Marriage and a...

The PLA air force’s recent exercises in the South China Sea were designed to enhance its ability to prevent other militaries from coming to Taiwan’s aid in the event of an attack, according to the latest issue of mainland magazine Naval and Merch...

North Korea is willing to consider another inter-Korean summit if mutual respect between the rivals can be assured, state news agency KCNA reported on Saturday, citing Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.The comment comes just ...

Britain will issue up to 10,500 temporary work visas to lorry drivers and poultry workers to ease chronic staff shortages, the government announced Saturday, in a U-turn on post-Brexit immigration policy.The short-term visas, to run from next month u...

The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma shut down on Saturday because of an ash cloud spewing out of a volcano that has been erupting for a week, and scientists said another volcanic vent opened up, exposing islanders to possible new dangers.Th...

The United States, China, Russia and Pakistan are working together to ensure that Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers keep their promises, especially to form a genuinely representative government and prevent extremism from spreading, Russia’s foreig...

Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries, but the Eternal City is now grappling with a rampaging force of an entirely different sort: rubbish-seeking wild boars.Entire families of wild boars have become a daily sight i...

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised last week‘s parliamentary elections as “free and fair” on Saturday, while hundreds of people gathered in Moscow to protest against the results of the polls that were overshadowed by massive accusations o...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited the United Nations in New York on Saturday to meet UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed during the 193-member world body’s annual gathering of leaders.“It was a lovely meeting,” Markle told reporters...

Hong Kong’s Olympians have expressed hopes that more people will be able to watch live broadcasts of coming major sports events and that extra attention can also be placed on athletes locally.In response, the city’s sports commissioner on Saturda...

Afghanistan is at risk of “imminent hunger” with winter approaching and services disrupted by the return to power of the Taliban, a UN official warned in an interview with Agence France-Presse.Natalia Kanem, director of the United Nations Populat...

Four teenagers have been charged with a plot to attack a Pennsylvania high school in 2024, on the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School, authorities said.A 15-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy are charged as adults an...

Meng Wanzhou’s chartered homecoming flight was the most tracked plane in the sky on Saturday, as a jubilant Chinese public watched the years-long, multilateral legal battle over the Huawei Technologies financial chief’s business dealings finally ...

Beijing’s lengthy list cataloguing US attempts to interfere in Hong Kong affairs will help residents clearly grasp Washington’s “hegemonic acts”, the city’s leader has said.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Saturday voiced her s...

The release of Huawei’s finance chief Meng Wanzhou has removed one of the most contentious issues bedevilling China-US relations, but Chinese analysts warned tensions were likely to continue in other areas.Meng, the daughter of Huawei Technologies ...

Two Canadians, freed from years of detention in China as part of a three-way deal involving the US, arrived in their country on Saturday and were greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.TV footage aired by CTV showed Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavo...

Huawei Technologies’ executive Meng Wanzhou landed in China on Saturday evening, after nearly three years under house arrest in Canada, to a hero’s welcome cheered by supporters in a homecoming state media portrayed as a sign of a strong country ...

The Aukus defence pact between the US, UK and Australia is likely to drive China to step up its efforts to enhance its anti-submarine capabilities, military analysts have said.The three-nation alliance will give Australia access to nuclear-powered su...

Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang party picked former leader Eric Chu Lin-luan as its new chairman in an election on Saturday to help steer the century-old group back to power in 2024.Ex-vice-premier Chu, 60, beat his top rival and mainland-centr...

Immigration officials in Hong Kong have denied work visas to dozens of overseas Cathay Pacific pilots seeking to relocate to the city, the Post has learned, prompting the airline to terminate their employment.Several dozen Cathay pilots had attempted...

The average monthly rent per square foot for subdivided flats in Hong Kong is “shockingly” higher than that for private housing across the city, a survey has found.The survey, released on Saturday, was conducted by Chinese University researchers ...

The release of two Canadians after nearly three years in what was widely seen as “arbitrary detention” in China was greeted with relief and celebration on Saturday.Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were freed after Huawei Technologies executive M...

China reported 10 Covid-19 cases on Friday, the lowest number since the latest outbreak started about two weeks ago.Eight were in Harbin, in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, with the other two in Fujian in the southeast – in Xiamen and Pu...

Hong Kong’s security chief on Saturday warned that the coming Legislative Council poll was at higher risk for violence than the recent one for the powerful Election Committee.Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung cited the much larger pool o...

The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, a witness said on Saturday, in a gruesome display that signalled a return to some of the group’s methods of the past.Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs ...

Quarantine is widely considered boring, if not downright oppressive, but more than 100 guests in isolation at a hotel in Aberdeen have found a creative way of puncturing the monotony, sending out some good vibes to the people of Hong Kong – and get...

In his first run for chancellor, Christian Democrat Armin Laschet risks losing the office that Angela Merkel held tight for conservatives for 16 years.So a day before Germany’s most competitive election in almost two decades, Merkel joined him on t...

Hong Kong’s major coffee chains say they are not raising prices yet despite an increase in the cost of coffee beans worldwide.Pacific Coffee, The Coffee Academics and NOC told the Post they have not passed higher costs on to consumers, although Sta...

The Bank of China has said it will no longer provide financing for new coal mining and coal-fired power projects overseas from next month.It is the first of the four Chinese state-owned commercial banks to make such a commitment after President Xi Ji...

Japan’s Princess Mako is set to forego a one-off million-dollar payment for giving up her royal status to wed a college classmate, media said on Saturday, clearing the way for a marriage delayed for years by controversy over her fiancé.The 29-year...

Somewhere high above the Arctic, as darkness descended on Friday evening, Meng Wanzhou began to type.Her day had started with a video appearance in a Brooklyn court. It was ending with a flight back to China, after almost three years trapped in the e...

When the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced his decision, a former American diplomat was quick to offer support.J. Peter Pham, a former US special envoy to the Great Lakes and Sahel regions, endorsed Congolese President Felix...

The beleaguered organiser of Hong Kong’s annual vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has voted to cease operating immediately after coming under increasing scrutiny by authorities in recent months, with an overwhelming majority passing...