Michael Man has five smart devices on the dashboard of his taxi to pick up orders from ride-hailing applications, accept bookings, check uncongested routes and swap information with other cabbies.Earning more than HK$40,000 (US$6,940) a month as a dr...

Senior Taliban officials and US representatives planned to hold talks this weekend about containing extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing the evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country, officials from both sides said.It’s the ...

Lenovo Group has pulled its blockbuster stock-sale application from Shanghai’s Star Market, making the withdrawal merely eight days after it was accepted by an exchange that casts itself as the centre stage for China’s technology champions.The Sh...

Chinese authorities have realised that young people do not want to get married, and have babies that traditionally come with starting a family.Despite a public push to incentivise young adults to start a family – including an overhaul of family pla...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pledge to the United Nations that China will no longer build coal-fired power plants overseas will leave many projects awaiting financial closure at risk of cancellation.Countries that have included significant new co...

Singapore and eight Western nations including the United States and Britain will soon open quarantine-free travel lanes for vaccinated travellers, authorities said on Saturday, marking the country’s most extensive easing of travel restrictions sinc...

Taiwan is to celebrate the revolution that founded the Republic of China this Sunday, but over the years the significance of the “Double Tenth” – so named because it falls on October 10 – has diminished for many islanders, especially the youn...

Parts of Hong Kong’s eastern border with mainland China could be developed as part of a tourism drive, the city’s leader said on Saturday, as she floated fresh ideas to boost the economy of those areas.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor p...

Sunday is the 110th anniversary of the 1991 revolution, also known as the Xinhai revolution, an uprising that began in Hubei province and marked the end of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule and the beginning of a new China.What was the revolutio...

President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that Beijing hoped Taiwan could be reunited peacefully with the Chinese mainland as he warned that those who opposed this would be “judged by history”.“To achieve the reunification of the motherland by peac...

Pop star Coco Lee’s mother had to undergo five hours of surgery for injuries she suffered during a wild boar attack near her Hong Kong home in The Peak neighbourhood, the singer’s elder sister has told the Post.Nancy Lee spoke of the pain and tra...

Australia was bracing for more Covid-19 infections and hospitalisations, officials said on Saturday, even as it moves toward gradually easing pandemic restrictions with the vast majority of its people getting vaccinated against the virus.Sydney, in a...

When President Xi Jinping pledged at the United Nations General Assembly last month that China would no longer build new coal-fired power plants abroad, the announcement was hailed as a significant step amid increasing climate concerns. But it has al...

China has pushed the US to cancel tariffs in a virtual meeting between vice-premier Liu He and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai that Washington characterised as a “test” of whether direct engagement would help address its concerns about Beij...

A Texas ban on most abortions was back in force after a federal appeals court temporarily lifted a judge’s order blocking enforcement of the law.A three-member panel of the New Orleans-based appeals court put a temporary injunction on hold and orde...

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.Hong Kong ground to a halt on Saturday with school classes and public services suspended as Tropical Storm Lio...

Senior officials from two founding members of the European Union expressed fears that a Polish ruling challenging the supremacy of EU laws could trigger the country’s exit from the 27-nation bloc.France’s Europe minister, Clement Beaune, insisted...

For as long as palaeontology has existed, the idea that DNA could be preserved in fossils was thought to be extremely unlikely; the material is simply too fragile to leave remnants that last for hundreds of millions of years.Well, that assumption may...

A former journalist has been detained in the southern island province of Hainan for making “insulting comments” about Chinese soldiers portrayed in a blockbuster movie about the Korean war.Police in the Jiyang district of Sanya identified the 40-...

In debating Singapore’s contentious new foreign interference law this week, the opposition signalled that while they were on the same page as the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) on the scourge of external meddling, they shared little else.With...

Henry* arrived at London’s Heathrow airport on a cold winter’s morning in January to claim asylum, expecting everything to go smoothly as the British government was aware of the political situation in Hong Kong.Instead, immigration staff detained...

The United States will accept the use by international visitors of Covid-19 vaccines authorised by US regulators or the World Health Organization, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said late on Friday.On September 20, the White House ann...

Bars in Brazil’s biggest metropolis, Sao Paulo, are full again for Friday happy hours and lawmakers in the capital have nearly done away with video sessions via Zoom. Rio de Janeiro’s beaches are packed and calls for strict social distancing seem...

As top K-pop bands get ready to go back on stage or live stream new shows after being sidelined by the pandemic, their fans discover the global chip crisis has also caught up with the world of catchy tunes, glitzy outfits and elaborate dance routines...

A Chinese military magazine has urged China to develop unmanned anti-submarine platforms to better counter advanced submarines from rivals the United States and Japan.The magazine, Ordnance Industry Science Technology, published an article this month...

Two parents accused of cheating to get their children into elite US universities were found guilty of all charges, in the first trial stemming from a national college admissions scandal that ensnared dozens of families.Former Wynn Resorts executive G...

Facebook on Friday said it will stop allowing the sale of land in Amazon rainforest conservation areas at marketplaces on the social network or its Instagram and WhatsApp services.The announcement came as Facebook defends itself against accusations t...

Nearly 140 countries have agreed on a tentative deal that would make sweeping changes to how big multinational companies are taxed and deter them from stashing profits in offshore havens where they pay little or no tax.Under the agreement announced F...

Former US president Donald Trump’s showcase hotel in Washington – a popular gathering spot for supporters and foreign dignitaries – bled millions of dollars during his time in office even as he concealed payments from foreign governments, a US ...

The race to the Malacañang Palace is on. Friday, October 8, was officially the last day for candidates to enter the Philippine presidential election and, while there may be some surprises yet, the public now has a fairly good idea of who will battle...

Facebook’s recent service outage and allegations by a whistle-blower that the US social media giant puts “astronomical profits before people” have seen some tech commentators praise Beijing’s tighter grip on the internet, including its ban on...

A set of laws related to town planning, reclamation and roadworks will be amended to speed up land and housing supply and do away with “unreasonable” arrangements, while reducing avenues for the public to raise objections, Hong Kong development o...

China has demanded further explanation from the United States over a collision involving a US Navy nuclear submarine in the South China Sea last week, slamming the lack of information as “irresponsible” and expressing serious concerns about any �...

Reports that American troops are helping to train the Taiwanese military will make Beijing more vigilant towards the United States and prompt the Chinese military to step up its preparations for combat, according to mainland observers.Citing US offic...

Senior Beijing officials have urged Hongkongers from all walks of life to play a more active role in supporting the city’s integration with mainland China and instilling a sense of national identity among the younger generation.Lu Xinning, a deputy...

Hong Kong will increase the share of wind, waste-to-energy and solar power in its electricity generation sources as it moves towards a 2050 carbon neutrality target, the environment minister has said.The city will also explore importing hydrogen for ...

The municipal government of Wuxi, a city in eastern Jiangsu province, has partnered with South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix to develop the China-Korea Integrated Circuit Industrial Park amid Beijing’s push to develop an advanced and self-suffi...

An unemployed Hong Kong man accused of concealing his sex in order to rape a woman he met on a lesbian forum has been cleared of all charges.A High Court jury on Friday acquitted Tsang Tsz-ho, 30, after four hours of closed-door deliberations in the ...

Beijing released a biodiversity white paper pledging to protect nature and work with other countries on Friday, ahead of a United Nations summit in southwest China next week.“China will uphold the idea of a shared future for humanity and nature, tr...

National security police seized a handgun, 92 rounds of ammunition and three empty magazines while arresting a married couple during a raid on their home in northern Hong Kong on Friday.Officers also found respirators, a knuckle duster, a folding kni...

An suicide bomb attack on worshippers at a Shia mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz killed at least 55 people Friday, in the bloodiest assault since US forces left the country.Scores more victims from the minority community were wounded in the blast,...

Close to 90 per cent of Hong Kong’s 340,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stand to benefit from new government subsidies aimed at doing away with a controversial loophole that allows employers to raid workers’ pensions to pay their se...

Travel and holiday spending during China’s just-ended “golden week” national holiday fell against prior years, not just due to travel restrictions triggered by recent coronavirus outbreaks, but because of what industry insiders say is a dwindli...

Taiwan wants to prevent military conflict but will “spare no effort” to defend itself, said Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, as the island strives to develop a long-range missile capable of striking Beijing.On Friday, days after the People’s L...

Nearly two dozen cryptocurrency companies, almost all backed by Chinese industry veterans, have exited the mainland since Beijing unleashed a second sweeping crackdown on unsanctioned digital currencies this year.Binance and Huobi, the world’s lead...

Hong Kong could require property companies to build flats measuring at least 200 sq ft, the development minister has said, but even that size is much smaller than the bare minimum recommended by a government adviser and a ­research group.Secretary f...

Hong Kong’s top university had demanded that a sculpture paying tribute to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown be removed from its campus by next Wednesday.The now defunct Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements o...

A private hospital in northern China was told to suspend its business following an allegation that a 17-year-old girl was tricked into having cervical surgery and coerced to write an IOU for the bill.Xingan Hospital in Ankang, Shaanxi, central China,...

Giant panda twins born at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo in June got their names on Friday – Lei Lei for the female cub, and Xiao Xiao for her brother. They were chosen from hundreds of thousands of suggestions sent from fans around Japan.The twin cubs, which ...

An Indian street vendor unwittingly sparked a heated Twitter discussion this week after a user shared a video of him preparing an innovative version of dosa, one of the nation’s most beloved dishes.Originating from South India, dosa is a thin panca...