A domestic worker in Hong Kong has been arrested and accused of being paid HK$3,000 to help a gang collect HK$210,000 from two elderly women swindled in a phone scam, police said on Tuesday.Chief Inspector Mok Tsz-wai said it was the first time polic...

Most of the world’s airlines have backed the industry’s new target to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050, despite mainland Chinese carriers joining forces to call for a delay to the timetable.Mainland airlines urged the International Air Trans...

Macau’s latest Covid-19 cluster continued to grow on Tuesday, as the government told civil servants to stay away from the office for three days to reduce transmission risks.A 42-year-old Vietnamese woman was confirmed as the fourth case of a new co...

Hong Kong’s leader has distanced herself from the controversy over whether a sculpture that pays tribute to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown can remain at the city’s top university, saying she is not involved in such decision-making...

On Monday, as three flights from the UK arrived in New Delhi carrying 500 passengers, 162 British nationals were singled out and asked to form a separate queue for a mandatory 10-day quarantine, at home or a place of their choosing – even though th...

Singapore on October 4 passed legislation to counter foreign interference in the internet-era, becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to enact such a law amid growing global concern about states utilising digital tools and campaigns to covertly...

A Mumbai court sent the 23-year-old son of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan to three days’ custody on Monday, a lawyer said, after he was arrested in a drugs investigation that has captivated India’s broadcast media.Aryan Khan was arrested on Saturd...

China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi will hold talks with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Switzerland this week, according to sources familiar with details of the meeting.The talks between the pair – said to be most likely to take place...

International tourists will not be welcomed back to Australia until next year, with the return of skilled migrants and students given higher priority, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday.Australia was also expected to reach the vaccination ...

Measures to fix Hong Kong’s deep-seated housing problems will take centre stage at Wednesday’s policy address, but there will be no new pandemic-related relief initiatives, the city’s leader has revealed.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ng...

China has fallen short of meeting its stated reform goals and is not on track to become a market economy, a report assessing China’s development has concluded.As a result, the United States and other market economies must develop commercial rules t...

Amid the scandals that Malaysia’s anti-corruption agency has grappled with this year, two notable figures stand out: fugitive Malaysian businessman Nicky Liow Soon Hee and ex-Macau crime boss Wan Kuok-koi, also known as Broken Tooth.Liow is the vic...

The lack of communication between Beijing and Taipei risks further escalation of tension across the Taiwan Strait, a mainland Chinese defence expert has warned.Former People’s Liberation Army researcher Zhang Tuosheng said that while dialogue chann...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Monday its board of directors has been briefed by lawyers from the law firm whose investigation found that current managing director Kristalina Georgieva and other officials pressured World Bank employees to...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Daniel Lippman on politico.com on October 4, 2021.Seven foreign journalists working for the US Agency for Global Media who were fired by the Trump administr...

Fantasia Holdings Group, the Shenzhen-based property developer founded by the niece of a former Chinese vice-president, has failed to repay US$205 million of debt due on Monday.The default will add to fears about the financial health of the Chinese p...

On one Saturday afternoon, Shenzhen resident Liu Jie encountered a murderer in a green military uniform. He didn’t see the body itself, but in the dim lighting, he saw the bags it came in.Three hours later, he had completely shifted his view of the...

Housing rents in Hong Kong are expected to recoup all the losses caused by the social unrest and the Covid-19 pandemic, with analysts predicting a record in the coming months as the economic outlook brightens.Rents climbed for a sixth month in August...

China’s three major mobile network operators are expected to soon roll out a nationwide 5G messaging service, integrating video, audio and electronic payment functions, that could potentially compete with Tencent Holdings’ ubiquitous, multipurpos...

Hong Kong’s flatlining number of registered voters is evidence of growing disillusionment with the city’s politics, but Beijing is unlikely to blame the pro-establishment camp for the trend, observers have said.The number of registered voters in ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will “prepare for my defence” against an International Criminal Court probe into his deadly drug war, after previously insisting he would not cooperate.This came as an initial government investigation ...

The race for nominations in South Korea’s presidential election has taken a weird turn, with rival candidates within the conservative opposition party accusing each other of taking advice from a soothsayer for a better chance at securing a nod to r...

Washington will continue its “carrot and stick” approach to trade with China, analysts said after a top US trade official unveiled the White House’s long-awaited policy on the issue.US trade representative Katherine Tai formally laid out the Wh...

The Czech prime minister, the king of Jordan and the chairman of a well-known Indian conglomerate were among global figures denying wrongdoing on Monday after the leak of what major news outlets called a secret trove of documents about offshore finan...

The top US trade official announced on Monday that the White House would begin a process to exempt some Chinese goods from Trump-era tariffs, but declined to give details on a schedule or which specific industries the change would affect.In remarks a...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Matthew Choi on politico.com on October 4, 2021.Asian-American Republicans have been disproportionate critics of former US president Donald Trump, and a new...

In a historic first, Russia is set to launch an actor and a film director into space to make a feature film in orbit – a project the nation’s space chief has hailed as a chance to raise the prestige of Russia’s space programme.Actress Yulia Per...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nick Niedzwiadek on politico.com on October 4, 2021.US President Joe Biden said on Monday that he could not guarantee that the federal government will not d...

Facebook blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.The company i...

For the second time this year, Malaysia has summoned the Chinese envoy in the country to protest Beijing’s activities in the disputed South China Sea, where the Southeast Asian nation has considerable oil and gas fields.In a four-paragraph statemen...

China’s Supreme Court has made a civil ruling in favour of a consumer versus the China subsidiary of Apple, in a legal development lawyers say could open the gates for more consumers in the country to file similar complaints against the iPhone make...

Melissa Qian kept pressing the refresh buttons on two plane ticket sites.She was desperate for seats for her seven travelling companions and herself on a flight out of Yining, a city in the Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in China’s far western re...

Blue Origin on Monday confirmed that William Shatner, who starred as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek series, will fly to space October 12 aboard the company’s crewed rocket, becoming the oldest ever astronaut.“I’ve heard about s...

The licence holder of the Scouts Association clubhouse in Hong Kong has been prosecuted for violating Covid-19 social-distancing rules by hosting a banquet for more than 100 people – five times the legal limit.The Office of the Licensing Authority ...

Three local Covid-19 infections involving construction workers have once again plunged Macau into citywide compulsory testing, with thousands of commuters also left stranded at its border with Zhuhai after a quarantine-free travel scheme was suspende...

Taiwan’s defence ministry said 52 mainland Chinese fighter jets flew to the self-ruled island’s southwest air defence identification zone on Monday, a record number that has raised concerns of unintended incidents between the armed forces.The isl...

A senior American diplomat in Beijing has called for the US and China to look for areas where they can cooperate – like climate change and Afghanistan – as a way to build trust before moving on to more challenging issues.David Meale, chargé d’...

Investigators commissioned by the United Nations’ top human rights body to examine possible abuses in Libya said on Monday they have turned up evidence of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the restive North African country.The firs...

Wang Yuan paced in front of the empty fireplace at his home in a village in the Chinese city of Tianjin, wondering where he was going to find wood and coal for the winter.He has not had to worry about buying fuel since 2017, when the government repla...

Hong Kong’s leader plans to create an urban affairs department under the Home Affairs Bureau to oversee street-cleaning services, as part of government restructuring to be unveiled in her policy address, the Post has learned.A government insider sa...

Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying has warned against the “flames of irresponsible journalism” as he hit back at a news outlet that raised questions about his public financial disclosures based on the Pandora Papers, the biggest leak yet of ...

When Yoshihide Suga was elected prime minister of Japan a year ago, China was quick to voice hope that it represented an opportunity for the Asian arch rivals to mend ties. And Chinese leader Xi Jinping reached out to convey the message, in a phone c...

Lung cancer has overtaken colorectal cancer as the most common form of the disease among new patients in Hong Kong, with one expert attributing the shift to little understood genetic mutations seen in about half of the cases.Data from the Hong Kong C...

A recently unveiled plan by Guangdong authorities to link neighbouring Shenzhen to the mega bridge connecting Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai will spur growth in the Greater Bay Area and in the local logistics sector rather than spark rivalry, indust...

China’s latest efforts to retain certain technology data within its borders have raised questions over how private businesses should categorise their information to comply with the new guidelines.The country’s Ministry of Industry and Information...

The restoration of a hotline between North and South Korea is a step in the right direction and could lead to warmer relations, according to analysts.South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said officials from the two countries spoke on the phone on ...

Hong Kong has failed to meet most of the global biodiversity targets set by a United Nations convention, with a local green group urging the government to adopt a conservation focus in its development policy going forward.The Hong Kong Bird Watching ...

Another 16 opposition district councillors have had their allegiance to Hong Kong called into question following the latest oath-taking ceremony for the municipal-level office holders.A total of 52 councillors were invited to take the oaths of allegi...

Oil and gas giant China Petroleum & Chemical (Sinopec), which has the biggest network of fuel stations in Hong Kong, is seeking opportunities to introduce hydrogen fuel to the city’s commercial transport market to help the government achieve its go...

Singapore’s parliament on Monday approved a controversial bill to counter foreign interference, after nearly 11 hours of heated debate that saw Law and Home Affairs minister K. Shanmugam cross swords with opposition lawmakers who flagged concerns a...