Beijing Winter Olympics organisers faced “great pressure” because of Covid-19, they said on Monday as China ramps up its preparations with a series of test events.February’s Games could be the most restricted mass sporting event since the pande...

A former Hong Kong police officer previously jailed for taking an upskirt photo of his then colleague has been locked up again for committing the same offence against five other women.Ng Sai-ping was on Monday sentenced to four months behind bars at ...

Singapore is looking to launch new vaccinated travel lanes by the end of the year and is in negotiations with several countries including those in Europe and also the US, Trade Minister Gan Kim Yong said on Monday, signalling continued caution even a...

When Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao recently filed his certificate of candidacy to run for president in next year’s election, overseas Filipino workers (OFW) were watching closely.Regarded as a national hero, Pacquiao earned enormous suppo...

It is shocking to hear the government of Anhui, a rural province in central China that is traditionally a key source of migrant workers for coastal areas, acknowledge its birth rate is “falling off a cliff”. The province, which has a population ...

A doctor was jailed for six years on Monday for manslaughter over a fatal liposuction procedure at a Hong Kong beauty centre in 2014.Dr Vanessa Kwan Hau-chi, 38, is the third doctor in five years to go to prison for manslaughter by gross negligence r...

Russia said on Monday it had successfully test launched a Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile from a submarine for the first time, a weapon President Vladimir Putin has lauded as part of a new generation of unrivalled arms systems.The defence ...

Hong Kong authorities have revealed they made their first seizure of a potentially addictive herbal substance just weeks after it was banned.Customs officers discovered 2.5 tonnes of kratom being shipped from Banten in Indonesia to a trading company ...

Hong Kong’s biggest pay-TV operator, i-Cable Communications, is set to announce a takeover deal, according to a stock exchange filing on Monday.i-Cable’s shares were suspended from trading in the morning before the market opened, pending an annou...

An unprecedented leak of financial records known as the Pandora Papers has revealed the offshore financial assets of dozens of current and former world leaders and hundreds of politicians from Asia and the Middle East to Latin America.The Internation...

A corruption investigator who went missing while snorkelling, sparking a full-scale search over the weekend, was found dead in the sea near a Hong Kong beach on Monday.An elderly swimmer found the body of Shek Wing-hang, 43, floating about 15 yards o...

All 200 extra quarantine rooms made available for Hong Kong’s inbound domestic helpers were snapped up within minutes of bookings reopening on Monday, leaving many employers disappointed once again amid citywide shortages of the workers.Employer ag...

China should only remove all its border restrictions once there were few infections in other countries and the vast majority of the Chinese population was vaccinated against the coronavirus, the country’s leading respiratory diseases expert said on...

Covid-19 vaccine pioneers, media watchdogs, climate activists and Belarus opposition leaders are just some of those tipped for Nobel glory when the latest prize recipients are announced from Monday against the background of the pandemic.The medicine ...

Japan’s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, exchanged fist bumps with lawmakers after he was formally elected by parliament on Monday, as public broadcaster NHK said he was set to dissolve the body next week and call an election for October 31.The ...

Authorities in California’s beachfront Orange County cities were scrambling to mitigate the fallout from a major oil spill off the coast described as an “environmental catastrophe”.As of Sunday, the oil plume from the 480,000-litre spill of pos...

Hong Kong has been unable to make progress on its attempt to reopen its border with mainland China despite not having recorded a local Covid-19 case for more than 40 days.In a high-level meeting between officials and experts from both sides of the bo...

The Hong Kong Housing Society is planning to build more homes with features such as sliding doors, sinks that move up or down and room for people to move about easily in wheelchairs.The city’s second-largest public housing provider after the Housin...

Oh Sang-hoon, an executive of a South Korean company that manufactures television parts, is gearing up for an impending energy crunch.Even though electricity bills only account for a fraction of costs for the firm, which supplies parts to electronics...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s annual policy address this week is likely to focus on the city’s “deep-rooted” social issues now that authorities have tightened their grip on politics, but she could also seize on another area of...

Countries around the world are considering or already rolling out Covid-19 vaccine booster shots amid reports of waning immunity and breakthrough infections.As debate rages over boosters, some are asking why they might be necessary so soon after vacc...

This week in quirky China stories: A popular Netflix show becomes a moneymaking opportunity in China, even though it’s not available in the country.Plus, a man was detained for intentionally blocking a fire engine on its way to put out a fire, and ...

Red-hot lava exploded high into the air from La Palma’s volcano on Sunday night as the eruption gathered force, hours after Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Spain would help rebuild the island, adding that it was safe for tourists to visit.Local m...

Beijing has given Hong Kong the nod to lead the development of a health technology hub in the Greater Bay Area, a move which promises to unleash the sector’s multibillion-dollar potential, the Post has learned.The new role will build on research an...

Residents of Malaysia were recently given a week’s notice of the opening of the country’s first domestic travel bubble, which is allowing tourists back to the archipelago of Langkawi amid the coronavirus pandemic.To take advantage of the opportun...

North and South Korea have restored their cross-border communication, with officials exchanging their first phone call on Monday after dropping them in August.The restoration comes just days after Pyongyang sparked international concern with a string...

Hong Kong Metropolitan University – previously the Open University – is the latest higher education institution to introduce a compulsory course covering the national security law imposed by Beijing last year.From November, students will have to ...

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful younger sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, solidified her position as the country’s de facto No 2 when she was promoted to the country’s top government decision-making body last week.The 34-year-old was electe...

A professed workaholic who seems to pride herself on being sleep-deprived, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is no doubt still working on her policy address. This will either be her swansong address, a piece of the legacy she is leaving for ...

A London police officer based in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command was charged with rape on Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.David Carrick, aged 46, was charged by police in Hertfordshire, where he was off-duty at...

Facebook on Sunday dismissed as “ludicrous” suggestions it contributed to the US Capitol riot on January 6, a charge the social media giant expects will be levelled in an upcoming whistle-blower interview.Facebook’s vice-president of policy and...

More than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya and the Czech Republic, have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a far-reaching new investigation by the ICIJ me...

An independent commission examining church sex abuse in France believes that 3,000 child abusers – two-thirds of them priests – have worked in the church over the past 70 years.The estimate was given by the commission president, Jean-Marc Sauve, ...

At least nine people were killed in Oman and Iran on Sunday as Tropical Cyclone Shaheen pummelled parts of their coastlines, authorities said.In Oman, two people died in a landslide and a child died in flash flooding, officials said.Rescue teams pull...

A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and their son, and all five others aboard, Italian media reported.The single-engine Pilatus PC-12 had take...

Taliban forces raided an Islamic State affiliate’s hideout in the Afghan capital and killed several insurgents, hours after a deadly bombing outside a mosque in Kabul, the Taliban said on Monday.Sunday’s bombing outside the Eid Gah mosque killed ...

Fighter aircraft, missiles and space exploration displays were among the exhibits showcased in China’s biggest air show that wrapped up on Sunday.The China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in the southern city of Zhuhai attracted 120...

Germany will be an important partner for China no matter which parties are in power and both countries should set aside their ideological differences to deepen cooperation, the country’s ambassador to Berlin has said as talks on the formation of th...

Chinese health experts have called for intensive monitoring of the coronavirus in wild animals, warning that its spread between different species risks further dangerous variants.A number of animals have been found to be susceptible to Covid-19, and ...

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has revealed that president Xiang Zhang will stay on for another term stretching through 2028, announcing the extension nearly two years before his current appointment is set to end.In a letter to staff, students and...

French business magnate, actor and former politician Bernard Tapie, whose swagger and made-for-headlines career made him one of the country’s best-known celebrities, died on Sunday four years after being diagnosed with stomach cancer. He was 78.“...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter will run for president in next year’s election and her father’s long-time aide, who filed his vice presidential candidacy, will be her running mate, broadcasting firm ABS-CBN news reported late on...

Hong Kong’s biggest opposition trade union has voted by an overwhelming majority to disband, citing “obvious” political risks after previously expressing fears that members could be targeted under the national security law.The Confederation of ...

New tactical and training approaches against drone attacks featured at the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) counterterrorism military drills for the first time, amid persisting concerns over security risks relating to Afghanistan.The...

India’s army chief has said China is sending troops to their disputed border in “considerable numbers”, prompting a matching deployment by New Delhi in a development he called a “concern”.Tensions have been high between the nuclear-armed ne...

An advocacy group representing residents of subdivided flats has urged Hong Kong’s leader to introduce stricter rent controls and other innovative measures ahead of her policy address on Wednesday, as pressure mounts from both Beijing and the pro-e...

Saddled with billions of dollars of debt and a junk credit rating, Sri Lanka is caught in a perfect economic storm, with near-empty foreign exchange coffers; a sliding currency; shortages of food, medicine and cooking gas; as well as Covid-19 cases h...

Reopening Hong Kong’s border with mainland China will take at least four to five months of negotiations, according to a Covid-19 adviser to the local government, which is also stepping up work on developing a health code for residents that must mee...

During her many trips to China as German chancellor, Angela Merkel frequently took the time to meet liberals and hear voices critical of Beijing.He Weifang, a law professor at Peking University, was at one of those meetings, back in 2010.“She liste...

A century-old building originally used as a laundry by Chinese workers at Yosemite’s iconic Wawona Hotel has been restored and turned into a visitor’s attraction, recognising Chinese Americans’ contributions to the early history of the famed US...