Actor Daniel Craig will be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, it has been announced.The James Bond star, 53, will be the latest entertainment figure to be immortalised on the Los Angeles tourist attraction.Craig's star – the 2,704t...

Taiwan’s new Kuomintang (KMT) leader Eric Chu Li-luan will have just one year to prove whether he has the ability to help steer the main opposition party back to power in 2024, analysts said.The 60-year-old former vice-premier and mayor beat his to...

Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée on Friday questioned US President Joe Biden’s commitment to hold the kingdom accountable three years after the writer’s brutal murder.Marking the anniversary, Hatice Cengiz travelled to Washington for ...

Hong Kong and China Gas (Towngas) will begin producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in small batches by the end of this year in a step towards meeting growing demand from airlines keen to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Production will be done at ...

Hong Kong’s security chief has said authorities are determining whether members of the city’s disciplined services suspended last week for mocking the death of an inspector may also have broken criminal laws.Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping...

Buoyed by increasing public willingness to call out ‘chikan’, the gropers who prey on women on the nation’s famously crowded public transport system, Japanese police have launched a crackdown on another variety of sex pest – the growing numbe...

As Beijing’s Universal Studios opened to sell-out crowds last week, another global theme park franchise was preparing to make its China debut.Following in the footsteps of Universal and Shanghai Disney Resort, Legoland – in the southeastern tech ...

Former Chinese justice minister Fu Zhenghua has been detained for an investigation into “serious violations” of party discipline, the Communist Party’s anti-corruption watchdog announced on Saturday.State media did not give details of the reaso...

The new security partnership to help Australia acquire its first fleet of nuclear-powered submarines will add risks of military conflicts in waters close to China including the disputed South China Sea, an expert warned.Australia will bolster its nav...

Former US president Donald Trump asked a federal judge to force Twitter to temporarily reinstate his account while he sues to permanently return to the social media network.Trump’s request for a preliminary injunction against Twitter was filed late...

New Zealand officials reported 27 new cases of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant in Auckland on Saturday as protesters took to the streets to rally against an almost two-month lockdown in the country’s biggest city.Auckland’s 1.7 mi...

From activists to United Nations officials, the world’s watchdogs have been warning about the human rights abuses taking place in Myanmar as the military cracks down on anti-junta forces and protesters.In the latest of these warnings, the UN secret...

Demi Cao walks an extra 10 minutes to buy groceries each day because she became tired of the market vendors in her neighbourhood telling her to go back to mainland China.Over five years living in the city, she has been rejected for jobs because she i...

A Hong Kong-Thai start-up is using blockchain to help three Thai developers sell down their stakes in a portfolio of Phuket beach resorts and downtown condominiums, slicing up the US$462 million hard assets and selling them for less than the cost of ...

For people fully immunised with Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine, adding a Pfizer/BioNTech booster shot may yield greater protection than a third Sinovac dose, new research from Turkey suggests.Health care workers who received a booster shot of t...

Sixty-five-year-old Dai Jianye, with a shock of white hair and speaking in a broad Hubei accent, stands in front of the camera, looking slightly uncomfortable and wondering where to look.“All my classes have been delivered in the classroom and this...

Deftly parrying her son with a bamboo cane, Meenakshi Amma belies her 78 years with her prowess at kalari, thought to be India’s oldest martial art.The great-grandmother in Kerala, southern India, has been a driving force in the revival of kalaripa...

The United States reached its latest heartbreaking pandemic milestone on Friday, eclipsing 700,000 deaths from Covid-19 just as the surge from the Delta variant is starting to slow down and give overwhelmed hospitals some relief.It took 3 ½ months f...

Four Chinese women targeted in media reports attacking them for wearing make-up during hospital stays and for selling products have responded and said they were unfairly smeared by the reports.Their response came after the Health Times, a publication...

A visit to He Zhihui’s office is like a scavenger hunt. The Antebao Group team leader dwells behind a glass door in a nondescript part of town, tucked away in an industrial estate not 2km (1.2 miles) from the gates of Apple’s main assembly comple...

Hong Kong has been through a tough two years and while people may have unique reasons for wanting to leave the city, it is time to focus on healing and coming together as a family and putting aside differences, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po has...

The Post has launched the first episode of a new video talk show that will be a flagship platform for concise and incisive interviews with local, regional and global newsmakers.Each 20-minute episode of Talking Post, to be released every two weeks in...

More than 10,000 Chinese nationals who entered Myanmar illegally are now stuck in the country due to Covid-19 controls as the authorities warn their border defences are facing unprecedented pressures.The Covid-19 command centre in Ruili, a city on th...

With Singapore imposing fresh Covid-19 restrictions in recent days amid surging new cases, the vaccine pacesetter’s stuttering approach to adhering to its once-vaunted “living with the virus” blueprint has been the talk of the town.In all likel...

US President Joe Biden pledged on Friday on Congress’ home ground to “get it done” as Democrats strained to rescue a scaled-back version of his US$3.5 trillion government-overhaul plan and salvage a related public works bill after days of frant...

Patriotic films will dominate China’s cinema screens during the National Day Holiday, which started on Friday, with three out of the 10 new releases marking the Communist Party’s centenary.Top on the list is The Battle at Lake Changjin, an epic p...

Britain will from Monday deploy military tanker drivers to deliver fuel to petrol stations, many of which were still dry on Friday after a chaotic week that has seen panic buying, fights at the pumps and drivers hoarding petrol in water bottles.With ...

Ecuador is planning to pardon up to 2,000 inmates to relieve overcrowding at its detention centres after 118 inmates died and a further 79 were injured in the country’s worst-ever prison riot earlier this week, an official said on Friday.Bolivar Ga...

China will postpone the launch of its next mission to the Tiangong space station until later this month.Two sources familiar with China’s manned space programme said the launch date of Shenzhou 13 spacecraft, initially scheduled for Sunday, had now...

New York health officials have revoked the medical licence of a doctor with the cultlike group NXIVM who branded 17 women with the initials of the group’s leader, Keith Raniere.A health department hearing committee sustained multiple of counts of p...

California will become the first US state to mandate statewide Covid-19 vaccinations for schoolchildren as early as January, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Friday.But first the US Food and Drug Administration must fully approve inoculations for their ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with French officials in Paris next week while chairing an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conference, the latest step aimed at repairing a key bilateral relationship that fr...

A two-part version of Banksy’s Girl With Balloon painting is seen fetching up to $4.75 million when it goes under the hammer for the first time at a Christie’s auction in London later this month.The rare edition, one of 25 created by the elusive ...

Drug maker Merck said on Friday that its experimental Covid-19 pill reduced hospitalisations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus, potentially a leap forward in the global fight against the pandemic.The company said it ...

Beijing has unveiled more measures allowing young Hongkongers to take advantage of the Greater Bay Area, providing entrepreneurship training and permitting them to join support programmes in poor villages.The measures were revealed on National Day in...

A Lingnan University academic known for his social commentary and for joining a class boycott during the 2014 Occupy movement said on Friday that he had been terminated, with no reason given.The adjunct professor of cultural studies, Law Wing-sang, c...

India is buying Australian coal that has been stranded inside China for months, according to people who have made the purchases, spotlighting how geopolitics is complicating Beijing’s battle against an energy supply crisis.The fuel is being bought ...

Russia on Friday held its first royal wedding since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution toppled the Romanov monarchy, with aristocrats travelling from across Europe for the lavish ceremony.Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov, 40, and his Italian fiancé...

Hong Kong and Guangdong police will ramp up cooperation on combating cross-border smuggling activities and set up a new task force to investigate the death of a local officer who was killed during a maritime operation last week.The initiatives came o...

India on Friday said British nationals arriving in the country would be subjected to Covid-19 curbs, in response to the same measures imposed on Indians visiting the UK.New Delhi has been demanding that Britain revoke what it called a “discriminato...

The former head of one of China’s largest weapon manufacturers has been expelled from the Communist Party and will face corruption charges, the country’s top anti-graft body has announced, barely eight months after his predecessor was indicted on...

Hong Kong’s top financial official has said there is no timetable to incorporate China’s anti-sanctions law into the local legislative framework, in the strongest assurance yet to the business community that such a contentious move will not be ru...

Philippine Senator Manny Pacquiao, newly retired from the boxing ring, has filed his certificate of candidacy to run for president in next year’s election – when more than 18,000 positions in the Southeast Asian nation, from the top job to town h...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has drawn up new regulation that will prevent crucial industrial and telecommunications data from leaving the country, a move that could significantly impact how multinational corporati...

A total of 38 People’s Liberation Army planes entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Friday in two separate sorties, the defence ministry in Taipei said.The flights saw 25 planes entering the area in the daytime, followed by 13 at ni...

China has backed North Korea’s calls for the US to revise its sanctions to break the stalemate in denuclearisation talks.Pyongyang resumed its missile tests last month after a six-month lull, the latest being a new hypersonic missile fired on Tuesd...

A troubled British private school in Hong Kong has announced plans to suspend operations at one of its campuses from mid-October after failing to settle an eviction order issued by its landlord last month.In an email to parents on Thursday night, the...

A leading Singapore-based infectious diseases modelling expert has suggested the country’s Covid-19 cases could reach 10,000 a day in two weeks if the current pace of infections continues, while questions mount over whether mass testing of asymptom...

Two defence lawyers and their client’s son have escaped the broadly defined charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in China’s northeastern Liaoning province after local prosecutors denied a request on Thursday to formally arrest t...

When Huawei Technologies Co chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was released and returned home this month after a nearly three-year court battle in Canada, the mood among the tech giant’s rank and file workers – and the country – was ebullient...