Hong Kong’s police chief has said the force will enhance its cyber-intelligence capabilities to detect anyone committing seditious acts, as he warned of the potential for violent elements of the anti-government movement to shift their operations un...

China’s consulate in Los Angeles has warned Chinese students of security risks at United States borders after a number were “interrogated repeatedly” at the city’s airport.“The consulate general in Los Angeles reminds students studying abro...

Hong Kong’s leader has brushed aside suggestions that Beijing’s officials in the city were forming a “second governing team”, after the liaison office vowed to make its public outreach campaign regular.Instead, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Chen...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, a controversial figure revered as the “father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb”, has died at 85, authorities said on Sunday, having been hospitalised with Covid-19.The atomic scientist was hailed as a national hero for transforming...

Taiwan’s authorities have been warned some military bases are at greater risk of attack after the People’s Liberation Army sent a record number of warplanes to test the island’s air defences earlier this month.Analysing the recent spike in PLA ...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has said the island and the mainland should not be “subordinate to each other” in an apparent rebuff of a call by Chinese President Xi Jinping for peaceful cross-strait reunification.In a speech to mark the 110th ...

Days after the leaders of the Quad alliance agreed at a recent summit to form a supply chain initiative aimed at countering Chinese chip-making, India is taking steps to become the next semiconductor manufacturing hub.Semiconductors, also known as ch...

In mid-September, the United States, Britain and Australia announced a “historic” security pact to strengthen military capabilities in the Pacific, allowing them to share advanced defence technologies and giving Australian forces nuclear submarin...

The Taliban has ruled out cooperation with the United States to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan, staking out an uncompromising position on a key issue ahead of the first direct talks between the former foes since America withdrew from the cou...

Police have arrested the son of a junior minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government as a suspect days after nine people were killed in a deadly escalation of year-long demonstrations by tens of thousands of farmers against contentious ag...

Away from the buzz of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay shopping district, Foo Tak Building sits along a quiet street, providing budding artists low-priced space in the city.The Art and Culture Outreach (ACO) centre, which occupies 20 units in the building,...

An Afghan militant group’s unusual decision to identify one of its suicide bombers as a member of the Uygur ethnic group could be an attempt to gain international attention and put pressure on China over its policy in Xinjiang, analysts said.Islami...

High concentrations of the drug paracetamol have been found in the waters off the northern part of Indonesia’s capital, according to a recent study, raising concerns about risks to the environment from improper waste management.The study, which inv...

China has had five leaders since the founding of the People’s Republic, each of them distinctive and each with their own path to power.In his new book China’s Leaders: From Mao to Now , American political science professor and leading China schol...

Hong Kong’s men rugby sevens team was granted a rare compulsory quarantine exemption upon arrival from their World Rugby Sevens Series campaign in Canada last month, the Post has learned.The squad of 13 plus coaching and backroom staff returned to ...

Some time during the 4th century BC, two young men set out to seek fame and fortune in a chaotic China. They were close friends and had studied together, and together they waved their master goodbye.Their names were Su Qin and Zhang Yi. And this was ...

Lin Shiyong has seen the changes for himself.As the 51-year-old fishes from a river near the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, several egrets wade in the shallows searching for fish.Nearby, uniformed workers row boats out to scoop up floating rub...

Sunny Chan* spent the Mid-Autumn Festival in a London park last month having dinner with a friend from Hong Kong.It was his 50-something friend’s first time in Britain, and Chan, 57, who had arrived earlier, was happy to share tips on settling down...

Lebanon has no centrally generated electricity after fuel shortages forced its two largest power stations to shut down, a government official said on Saturday.“The Lebanese power network completely stopped working at noon today, and it is unlikely ...

High-speed rail could be hurting rather than helping local economies in western China, with some cities becoming darker at night after a station comes to town, according to new research.In a study published in the peer-reviewed domestic journal Geogr...

The International Monetary Fund’s executive board will meet again on Sunday with Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and the law firm that says she pressured World Bank staff to change data to benefit China while serving as the bank’s CEO, acc...

Thousands of protesters including members of far-right groups demonstrated in central Rome on Saturday against the extension of the Covid-19 health pass system to all workplaces.There were scuffles with police as the demonstrators took aim at the hea...

A Colombian nun who was kidnapped in 2017 by Islamist militants in Mali has been freed, Mali’s presidency said on Saturday.Gloria Cecilia Narvaez was kidnapped by the Macina Liberation Front, an al Qaeda-linked group, in February 2017 near the bord...

A Florida veterinary surgeon has been sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for sexually abusing dogs, posting bestiality videos online and collecting child pornography.Court documents show Prentiss K Madden, whose practice was in Aventura, Flori...

Austria’s Sebastian Kurz on Saturday announced he was stepping down as chancellor following pressure on him to resign after he was implicated in a corruption scandal.In a televised media statement, Kurz said he wanted to “make space to prevent ch...

A new lava flow belched on Saturday from the La Palma volcano, threatening to spread more destruction on the Atlantic Ocean island, where more than 1,000 buildings have already been engulfed or badly damaged by streams of molten rock.The partial coll...

Russian authorities said on Saturday 29 people had died from alcohol poisoning this week in a region near Kazakhstan after consuming locally produced spirits that contained methanol.Investigators looking into the production and sale of the illegal sp...

Rescuers combing through the rubble of a block of flats in the Georgian city of Batumi on the Black Sea Coast have pulled out a man still alive more than a full day after it collapsed.Nine people are known to have died when a section of the five-stor...

Haiti has denounced what it said were “racist” remarks from former US president Donald Trump that migrants from the island nation entering the United States would put Americans at risk of contracting Aids.“So we have hundreds of thousands of pe...

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis won a general election on Saturday but will struggle to put together a parliamentary majority, meaning any new government could be weeks or even months away.Preliminary results showed the populist billionaire’s ANO...

Environmental campaigners urged Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and other royals on Saturday to commit to rewilding their vast estates – from planting more trees to going organic – as Scotland prepares to host the COP26 global climate conference.Chri...

A top British government official is backing a phone company’s proposal for a new tracking service to help protect women walking alone, an idea pitched amid ongoing outrage over the slayings of two young women who were targeted near their homes in ...

This is the sixth and final part in a series of stories looking at China’s Xinjiang province and how the far-western region is coping economically under a series of US sanctions over alleged human rights violations and the widespread use of forced ...

The herbal substance kratom, or “legal heroin”, remained largely unnoticed in Hong Kong until it was banned in August. Weeks later, customs officers seized 2.5 tonnes of the psychotropic substance, with an estimated street value of HK$6.67 millio...

China has not only revised and upgraded its strategic nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) to increase their stealth power and reduce noise, but is also using deceptive tactics to hide their identification numbers, according to both...

Flashing lights, booming speakers, sprawling stages and a Ferris wheel have transformed Tesla’s car factory near Berlin into a county fair for a one-day festival on Saturday to be hosted by CEO Elon Musk.The festival, expected to attract tens of th...

In a new draft document reiterating China’s ban on private enterprise in news organisations, the country’s top economic planner has prohibited for the first time the involvement of “non-public capital” in “hosting news forums or presenting ...

A Danish artist has threatened to seek redress from Hong Kong’s top university if his sculpture paying tribute to the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown is damaged should management remove it from campus next week.The eight-metre-high Pillar...

China Evergrande Group, under siege from creditors, investors and suppliers has taken action against half a dozen company insiders for front-running their wealth management customers, bowing to pressure from furious clients and local authorities acro...

Dozens of employees of a private hospital in southwestern China have been arrested, accused of defrauding a public medical insurance scheme of more than 10 million yuan (US$1.55 million), according to Chinese media.In all, 47 employees, including the...

Some independent bookshops in Hong Kong are feeling the chilling effect of the national security law, with one announcing it will shut down, and others taking more care with the titles on their shelves.Bleak House Books, a popular independent store i...

China is expected to show leadership on biodiversity when it hosts a major international environmental conference for the first time next week.The southwestern city of Kunming is hosting the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on...

Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Abolhassan Banisadr, died in a Paris hospital on Saturday aged 88, the official news agency IRNA said.“After a long illness, Abolhassan Banisadr died on Saturday at the (Pitie-) Salpetrier...

Heavy wind and rain under a No 8 typhoon warning halted clean-up operations on Saturday at a high-rise Hong Kong estate where the collapse of massive scaffolding during the onslaught of Tropical Storm Lionrock killed a construction worker.Management ...

The origin of Hong Kong’s first locally detected Covid-19 infection in more than 50 days continues to baffle officials, although researchers have found similarities with other Delta variant cases found recently in Britain.Genome-sequencing testing ...

A day after Rappler CEO and co-founder Maria Ressa won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, there was silence from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, his spokesman and political allies.But many of the country’s journalists, who have been under relentless...

When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled a new partnership with the OECD in Paris this week, the overt goal was to combat corruption and promote “high-quality” infrastructure.But the partnership is also part of a broader effort to provi...

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...

Taliban representatives asked the United States to lift a ban on Afghan central bank reserves at a meeting with American counterparts in Doha, Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister said on Saturday in remarks reported by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera tele...

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...