Hong Kong police have arrested 14 people in a crackdown on a money-laundering syndicate that used 60 local bank accounts to wash more than HK$380 million (US$48.77 million) in illegal proceeds over 18 months.The amount included HK$25 million connecte...

Two government schools will embark on a multi-year merger starting in 2022 as authorities seek to consolidate campuses amid a decline in Hong Kong’s student population.The Education Bureau on Tuesday said the 51-year-old Lung Cheung Government Seco...

When Vo Van Hieu* paid over US$2,000 to a Vietnamese recruitment agency to work in Europe, he expected to be employed by a German furniture factory.Instead, he’s spent the month working outdoors to build a factory for China’s Shandong Linglong Ti...

Kuaishou Technology, operator of China’s second-largest short video platform, announced a 33.4 per cent year-on-year rise in revenue for the third quarter, beating expectations as it grapples with Beijing’s crackdown on internet content this year...

A coroner has called for medical workers in Hong Kong to show better judgment and be more alert after ruling that the death of a baby girl nearly six years ago was an unexpected result of a labour-inducing procedure.The Coroner’s Court on Tuesday r...

Chinese state media have seized on polarisation in the United States over the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict as a sign of “decline” and “disintegration” of American democracy and governance.Fierce debates about race, gun rights, and self-defence er...

The South China Morning Post is joining Dapper Lab, the creator of the popular non-fungible token (NFT) series NBA Top Shot, to release a number of NFT trading cards commemorating the history of Hong Kong, with the first drop expected to cover 1997 d...

A student activist who advocated Hong Kong’s independence and raised HK$136,000 (US$17,450) through crowdfunding to further his political agenda has been jailed for 43 months, in the third sentence handed down under the national security law.Tony C...

For years, India’s Mukesh Ambani has studied the ways in which billionaire families, from the Waltons to the Kochs, passed on what they had built to the next generation.Recently, that process has intensified, with Asia’s richest man eyeing a blue...

Philippine presidential hopeful Manny Pacquiao says he was “naive” and ignorant of the law when he took crystal methamphetamine in his youth, but argues offenders today know drugs are illegal and should be punished.Pacquiao, a retired world champ...

Taiwan will respect the outcome of the Honduras election but the country should be aware of getting sucked in by mainland China’s “false” promises, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday ahead of a vote which could see Taipei lose a steadfast all...

A plan to let mainland China-based Hongkongers vote at border polling stations in December’s Legislative Council elections has been finalised, the city’s leader has revealed, though it will be done exclusively at checkpoints not currently in use....

Beijing has been urged to set a clear definition and scope for its enforcement of data security and transfer laws as it is vital for the operation of foreign businesses as well as China’s innovation strategy, the British Chamber of Commerce in Chin...

A US warship again sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, barely a month after a joint transit with Canada.It was part of what the US military calls routine activity but such moves always rile Beijing, as it believes Washington is try...

The founder of video download and streaming website Renren Yingshi was on Monday sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison and fined 1.5 million yuan (US$230,000) for pirating more than 30,000 Chinese and foreign television programmes and films.L...

A former CIA officer spied on top football officials for years while working for Qatar, the tiny Arab country hosting next year’s World Cup tournament, according to an Associated Press investigation.Qatar sought an edge in securing hosting rights f...

Mourning fans of beloved Indian film star Puneeth Rajkumar are pledging to give up their eyes after the actor’s untimely death brought his postmortem organ donation into focus.The “Powerstar” – so named for his boisterous action roles – die...

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey and his production companies must pay the studio behind TV series House of Cards more than US$30 million because of losses brought on by his firing for sexual misconduct, according to an arbitration decision made final Mo...

Nearly 30 of China’s Tokyo Olympians, including table tennis great Ma Long and sprinter Su Bingtian, will tour Hong Kong for three days next month in a victory lap the city leader has said will excite local enthusiasm for sports.However, 14-year-ol...

This is the first in a three-part series looking at the potential impact of China’s proposed property tax law.Timing, we are told, is everything. The success of something is often related to when it happens.And after China announced plans to roll o...

US government investigators have interviewed workers at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co’s Malaysian factory about their working conditions, employees told Reuters, intensifying scrutiny of potential labour abuses by the tyre maker in the country.The ques...

Empire Group Holdings, founded by the late Hong Kong tycoon Walter Kwok Ping-sheung, is pushing on with its HK$6 billion (US$770 million) luxury hotel project in Tsim Sha Tsui, betting that tourism in the city will rebound from one of its worst patch...

Sniffer dogs are able to distinguish the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus from 15 other viral respiratory pathogens with high accuracy, according to a new study.Research from an international team of researchers led by the German University of Veterinary Medic...

A four-day inspection of Hong Kong’s coronavirus control efforts by mainland-Chinese officials has helped pave the way for the next top-level meeting on a long-awaited reopening of the border, the city’s leader has said.Chief Secretary John Lee K...

Children with special educational needs who are members of Hong Kong’s ethnic minorities are often overlooked by their families and schools, a charity dedicated to helping them said.The Zubin Foundation is in the process of opening a centre to help...

Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, whose iron-fisted rule of the country following a 1979 military coup sparked massive democracy protests, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, the Yonhap news agency said.Chun had multiple myeloma, a blood can...

A Chinese woman has become the latest victim of online rumour after a man wrongly claimed she had married an ageing tycoon based on a picture that actually turned out to be of the woman with her grandpa.The post was made last week but deleted after p...

China’s live-fire drills near its Himalayan border with India, revealed on Sunday by state media, showed the PLA had set up comprehensive training standards specifically designed for high-altitude artillery operations, according to military analyst...

When Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden held their first video talk last week, Xi, through an interpreter, referred to Biden as “lao peng you”, or “old friend”.Biden responded with a “thank you” but did not resp...

Weibo’s plan to sell shares in Hong Kong is clouded by uncertainties stemming from Beijing’s tough new data regulations, says the Chinese social media platform with 250 million daily active users in its listing prospectus, putting a spotlight on ...

The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol subpoenaed five more aides and supporters of former president Donald Trump, including long-time Trump friend and political adviser Roger Stone and radio host and conspirac...

US President Joe Biden intends to run for re-election in 2024, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday.Biden, 79, has suffered a dip in his job approval ratings in recent months, leading some Democrats to wonder whether he might no...

On a November afternoon, some 750 people logged into a webinar by the Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, eager for answers to a perplexing question: how to study China when border controls prevent researchers from entering the...

Travel operators in Japan are preparing for the anticipated return of international visitors to the country with a small-scale “test run” of group tours for foreigners that industry insiders say will resemble “a trip to North Korea”.Japan wel...

China’s demographic situation is worsening at an alarming rate, spelling trouble for the country’s economic prospects for decades to come.While an ageing population and falling fertility rates are not unique to China, the country’s demographic ...

Germans faced the stark warning Monday that they would be “vaccinated, cured or dead” from Covid-19 by the end of winter, while Austria returned to a partial lockdown as Europe battles an upsurge in the pandemic.Belgium and the Netherlands are st...

Authorities will charge a 39-year-old man with multiple counts of homicide for driving into a crowded Christmas parade in Wisconsin, killing five, as he fled the scene of an earlier domestic disturbance, police said on Monday.Police in Waukesha, a sm...

Ethiopia’s prime minister says he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” beginning Tuesday, a dramatic new step by the Nobel Peace Prize-winner in a devastating year-long war.“This is a time when leading a country with martyrdo...

Greenland said on Monday it has stripped a Chinese mining company of its licence to an iron ore deposit near the capital Nuuk, dealing a blow to attempts by Chinese companies to gain a foothold on the resource-rich Arctic island.General Nice, a Chine...

China’s test of a globe-circling hypersonic weapon in July included the unprecedented launch of a separate missile from the ultra-high-speed vehicle, according to the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.The test showed China’s development...

In a bid to help stabilise soaring international crude oil prices, the United States has asked China to tap into its crude oil reserves.The issue came up during a virtual meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden in Novemb...

Governments are not moving fast enough to end the pandemic or to prevent another one, warned the former heads of an independent body tasked with grading the world on its response to Covid-19.“Waves of disease and death continue – as people in the...

Health officials confirmed on Monday a cross infection between two guests on the same floor of the Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong after they both tested positive for Covid-19 within a week of each other.One of the guests had chosen to wear a reusable ...

An Israeli state inquiry into a crush that killed 45 people at a Jewish pilgrimage site in April has recommended that future admissions be capped and ceremonies streamlined to prevent overcrowding.The panel, headed by a former Supreme Court chief jus...

China wants even faster bullet trains, and a team of scientists in the southwest of the country have suggested a way to do it: add wings.Their study found that adding five pairs of small wings on each train carriage would generate additional lift and...

Hong Kong’s leader has urged local delegates to the nation’s top political advisory body to do more to connect the city with mainland China and uncover further opportunities for development and integration.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ng...

The number of Chinese newborns dropped by 45 per cent in the last two months of 2020 compared to the final year of the notorious one-child policy five years earlier, according to a new research paper, as the coronavirus particularly dampened the will...

Chile faces its most divisive election since the return of democracy in 1990 after conservative Jose Antonio Kast and leftist Gabriel Boric made it through to next month’s presidential run-off.With almost 100 per cent of ballots counted, Kast had 2...

Lithuania should not entangle itself in great power rivalries, Beijing said, a day after announcing a downgrade in diplomatic relations over Taipei’s representation in the Baltic state.Lithuania had been “instigated by some great power”, a C...

US-blacklisted Huawei Technologies Co is now selling refurbished smartphones and licensing its handset designs to partners amid the company’s ongoing struggles to access advanced semiconductors for manufacturing its various devices.Shenzhen-based H...