Technologies like cloud computing and robotic vehicles contributed to reducing the environmental impact of the world’s biggest shopping festival, Hangzhou-based e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding said on Tuesday, even though sales growth for Si...

Pernod Ricard is upping the ante in its 1 billion yuan (US$150 million) investment to convert China’s drinkers from baijiu rice liquor to malt whisky, as it gets ahead of its larger rival Diageo in the world’s biggest market for alcohol beverages...

Some 1,700 Hong Kong schools are eligible for up to HK$300,000 (US$38,000) each in government funding to strengthen their national education curriculums, with some principals suggesting the money could be spent on teacher training seminars, and even ...

Tougher penalties could be imposed on people who feed wild boars, Hong Kong’s leader has said, as she defended a new policy of culling the pigs when they entered urban areas.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said wildlife authorities could...

It’s official: teachers in the Indian state of Kerala no longer have to wear a sari to work.The state’s higher education minister, R. Bindu, has issued a notice to schools informing them that women teachers can wear whatever they feel comfortable...

There is no such thing as coincidence in diplomacy, especially in planning a summit. The timing of the first virtual meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Joe Biden on Tuesday is a good example.Both leaders face cru...

Hong Kong police have arrested a suspected triad member, accused of reversing his car into an officer’s motorbike and then speeding away, during a raid on his home in Kwai Chung.The 37-year-old registered car owner, believed to be a Wo Shing Wo tri...

Hong Kong’s jobless rate fell further between August and October to 4.3 per cent as the city’s economic recovery picked up steam.The Census and Statistics Department revealed on Tuesday that 171,800 people were out of work during the period, comp...

Myanmar’s military government is hoping that an imminent reopening of international borders will further spur what it believes are signs of returning business confidence following the February 1 coup, a senior official has said.Maung Maung Ohn, the...

The release on Monday of US journalist Danny Fenster from a Myanmar prison was the latest in US-diplomat-turned-freelance-fixer Bill Richardson’s long career of dealing with notorious dictators.Fenster – handed an 11-year sentence last week for i...

Bomb disposal officers were called to two separate Hong Kong court buildings on Tuesday over suspicious letters addressed to judges, triggering a second evacuation in less than a week after one of the envelopes was found to contain white powder.More ...

The Czech Republic and Germany were considering curbs for the unvaccinated, as western Europe once again finds itself at the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic.Austria on Monday became the first country in the European Union to impose a lockdown on the u...

Hong Kong is looking at prioritising Covid-19 vaccination for young people aged 12 to 17 under a plan to extend the Sinovac jabs programme to minors, the Post has learned.An official source said the government was considering only offering the vaccin...

The Ivy League-educated son of a prominent Philippine congresswoman wants to build the largest solar power plant in Southeast Asia using proceeds from an initial public offering next month.Leandro Leviste, 28, will seek to raise as much as 2.7 billio...

Hong Kong’s leader has signalled there are no further plans to tighten Covid-19 rules for aircrew despite concerns over three infections involving cargo pilots exempted from quarantine, stressing the need to strike a balance between pandemic safegu...

The Chinese border city of Ruili has said it will make mass coronavirus testing a routine monthly measure as local governments show signs of committing even further to the country’s much-debated zero-Covid approach.Authorities in the southwest prov...

TikTok owner ByteDance is expected to boost its 2021 gross revenue by 60 per cent to 400 billion yuan (US$63 billion), according to a report by The Information on Tuesday.The growth in gross revenue – total sales before payouts to ad agencies are d...

Singapore’s art lovers can heave a sigh of relief – they’ve been allowed to see a massive inflatable clownish artwork by the US artist Kaws.An injunction against the exhibition of the 42-metre long inflatable, Companion, was lifted in the islan...

Cuban authorities appeared to have largely shut down anti-government protests Monday, squashing opposition hopes of building on the massive demonstrations that roiled the island in July. Human rights groups said protest leaders were being intimidate...

With 85 per cent of its population fully inoculated, Singapore is trying to tread a path of reopening to rebuild its status as an international hub while keeping a tight lid of infections that may overwhelm its health care system.Passenger traffic at...

Relentless rain battered Canada’s Pacific coast on Monday, forcing a town’s evacuation and trapping motorists as mudslides, rocks and debris were washed across major highways.Some 275 people, according to local media, were stuck overnight in thei...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a new city being built near the border with China and a sacred mountain revered by his family, state media reported on Tuesday, in his first public appearance in more than a month.The northern alpine town of Sa...

A travel blogger has been jailed for seven months after posting pictures of himself in “disrespectful poses” at a cemetery for Chinese soldiers in Xinjiang, according to state media.Li Qixian – who was blogging under the name Xiao Xian Jayson �...

With her two-year-old son George sitting on her lap, a former Indonesian domestic helper, who asked to be identified as Seli, recalled how puzzled and afraid she was during her pregnancy in 2019.Her work visa long expired and wholly dependent financi...

The Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, nearly tripled its holdings of US-listed stocks to US$43.45 billion in the third quarter, adding shares of Alibaba Group Holding, Walmart and Pinterest.Its US-listed stock hold...

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for Beijing and Washington to “find the right way to get along” in his first virtual summit with Joe Biden, urging his counterpart to return US policy on China to a rational track and saying their actions would...

An orange farmer in southeastern China saw his online orders jump 150 times after he donated a few boxes of the fruit to a Zhejiang University student for experiments, because he wished to “make contributions for the country”.Chen Kai, a farmer i...

More Chinese cities have watered down tougher cooling measures in a bid to shore up faltering property market sentiment, but analysts say the wind-back efforts are small and in line with the central government’s mantra that “housing is for living...

Is it acceptable for people living in high-rise buildings to barbecue meat indoors?That is the burning question sparking a social media buzz in South Korea, after a woman had the police called to her flat by a neighbour who did not like the smell of ...

China Telecom’s US subsidiary on Monday asked a US appeal court to block the decision of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revoke the telecommunication company’s authorisation to operate in the United States.China Telecom Americas...

Long waiting times at restaurants, being unable to reject orders and changes to their pay were high on a list of grievances that prompted couriers under Hong Kong online delivery platform Foodpanda to launch a weekend strike.Waqas Fida, a 27-year-old...

President Joe Biden signed into law a US$1 trillion infrastructure bill at a White House ceremony on Monday that drew Democrats and Republicans who pushed the legislation through a deeply divided US Congress.The measure is designed to create jobs acr...

Hong Kong’s ambition to become a regional data and innovation hub is threatened by an increasingly complicated web of security data rules and outdated local ones that complicate the flow of data between the two territories, according to experts.In ...

British police have identified the suspect behind an explosion which engulfed a taxi in flames outside a hospital in Liverpool on Sunday, a blast the authorities have declared a terrorist incident.Police say 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen, who was kil...

Two people were found dead on Monday aboard a boat of migrants drifting off Spain’s Gran Canaria island, the Spanish coastguard said.Having left the Western Sahara, the vessel was carrying 42 people of North African origin, including a woman, and w...

China has proposed an overhaul of regulations governing genetically modified (GM) crops, in a move that is likely to strengthen the nation’s seed industry amid heightened food security concerns.Beijing last year called for a breakthrough in biotech...

The United States denounced Russia for conducting a “dangerous and irresponsible” missile strike on Monday that blew up one of its own satellites, creating a debris cloud that forced the International Space Station’s crew to take evasive action...

Nato is monitoring closely increasing Russian troop numbers stationed near the Ukrainian border, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday.“In recent weeks, we have seen large and unusual concentrations of Russian forces close to Ukraine’s ...

The European Union and the United States vowed to press ahead with fresh sanctions against the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, as migrants massed at the Polish border despite Minsk claiming it was trying to repatriate them.In Brusse...

United States Climate Envoy John Kerry said on Monday that the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow had opened a new phase of “accountability” in the world’s battle against climate change.Nearly 200 nations on Saturday signed a deal to try to halt r...

Trump ally Steve Bannon appeared before a judge on Monday to face criminal contempt charges for defying a subpoena from Congress’ January 6 committee, then declared combatively outside court that he was “taking on the Biden regime” in fighting ...

Cathay Pacific will require all aircrew exempted from Hong Kong’s strict quarantine arrangements to self-isolate and avoid gatherings upon returning to the city, even as it prepares a drastic contingency plan to base pilots overseas for months at a...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday ended months of speculation about his political plans by filing his candidacy for a senate seat in next year’s elections.However, he kept up the political intrigue by saying he would not support the pr...

China is on track to approve its first drug for Covid-19, possibly within weeks.This comes as Chinese scientists race to find an effective treatment for the disease, crucial for the country with a zero-tolerance strategy before it can consider reopen...

China’s economy showed signs of stabilising in October as retail sales and industrial production bounced back from the previous month and beat expectations, but officials and experts are warning of a bleak outlook in the recovery due to pandemic un...

Beijing-based ByteDance extended its global influence last month, with TikTok and its Chinese sister Douyin retaining their position as the most downloaded non-gaming apps amid a stalled initial public offering, a business reorganisation, and the ret...

Hong Kong’s leader has compared a US move to ban her from American soil with the visa rejection of an Australian journalist in the city, stressing each government’s autonomy over immigration rules.The comments by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng ...

China has pushed for a breakthrough in a South China Sea code of conduct and offered a continued supply of Covid-19 vaccines for Asean countries, in the lead-up to a summit meeting this month.In talks in Beijing on Sunday with top diplomats from the ...

Austrian police have been ordered to stop and check individuals on the streets to enforce a lockdown on people who have refused a Covid-19 vaccine.Starting on November 15, people who cannot show proof of vaccination and are caught going into cinemas,...

China has named female agricultural scientist Gan Lin as the new chief of its antitrust bureau within the market regulation agency, as the expanding government body takes on an increasingly elevated role in Beijing’s push to keep Big Tech in check....