Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for stronger policy coordination between major economies to stabilise the global financial system and supply chain.“China’s economy has deeply integrated into the world economy, and the door to opening up wil...

Officials from Myanmar’s ruling junta have once again sought to suggest normalcy will return to the violence-wracked country following Monday’s conviction of the former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, saying her case – deemed a “sham trial” by cri...

The Indian government is facing increasing pressure to introduce booster vaccinations as the spread of the Omicron variant raises fears of a devastating new wave of Covid-19.While New Delhi has so far resisted demands for booster shots, maintaining t...

Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa will fly to Oslo to collect the award in person, after a third court approved her application to attend Friday’s ceremony.Ressa, an outspoken critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, and Russia...

Hong Kong police have arrested a 39-year-old man accused of impersonating a plain-clothes officer and stealing more than HK$2,200 (US$282) during bogus stop-and-search operations conducted in Mong Kok.The suspect was picked up at his public housing f...

Taiwan and the US have agreed during high-level talks to set up a new trade framework as the two sides forge closer ties.US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo held a videoconference with Taiwanese Economics Minister Wang Mei-hua on Tuesday to discus...

While travel stopped and the world locked down, in the dazzling blue waters of Thailand’s idyllic Phi Phi islands, a gentle renaissance was under way.Mass tourism had brought the archipelago, immortalised in Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Beach, to th...

The story of modern China attests to the Communist Party’s commitment to democracy and shows China to be deserving of the name of a people’s democracy.From the days of “bean voting” in Yanan, where Chinese people voted with beans in place of ...

About 18,000 Hong Kong residents living in mainland China have signed up to vote under a special arrangement for the Legislative Council election on December 19, far fewer than the 100,000 the government’s scheme can accommodate.With registration s...

Former US president Donald Trump’s blood oxygen level plunged to a dangerous low when he had Covid-19 last year.Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, revealed the detail in his new book titled The Chief’s Chief.It comes in stark contra...

A major British study into mixing Covid-19 vaccines has found that people had a better immune response when they received a first dose of AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech shots followed by Moderna nine weeks later, according to the results on Monday.�...

Myanmar’s military-appointed foreign minister, Wunna Maung Lwin, held talks in Cambodia on Tuesday, a day after the junta drew global condemnation for sentencing deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to jail for incitement and breaching Covid-19 rules.Wu...

A vaccine passport that would bar unjabbed residents from numerous Hong Kong venues will remain in the government’s toolkit should its Covid-19 inoculation campaign need a boost, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has said, but the city has...

Sixty-four people tested positive for the Omicron variant after a Christmas lunch attended by 150 people in Denmark.It means that more than a third of attendees came away with the recently-discovered variant after the event on November 27.More than a...

Germany’s parliament will elect Olaf Scholz as the country’s next chancellor on Wednesday, bringing the curtain down on Angela Merkel’s 16-year reign, ushering in a new political era with the centre-left in charge.Scholz led his Social Democrat...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned against “mutual exhaustion” with neighbouring India and agreed there was a “silver lining” in bilateral ties, despite the arrival of India’s first delivery of long-range missiles from Russia.Wang was ...

AIA Group has sold almost US$10 billion of investments in coal mining and coal-fired power businesses as pressure grows on financial firms to cut ties with the sector.The insurer completed the entire sale of directly-managed equity and fixed income p...

Rohingya refugees sued Facebook on Monday for US$150 billion over claims the social network is failing to stem hate speech on its platform, exacerbating violence against the vulnerable minority.The complaint, lodged in a California court, says the al...

China’s export growth slowed but remained robust in November, while surging coal and energy purchases fuelled surprisingly stronger imports amid a tight domestic power system and the expiring interim trade deal with the United States.Exports grew b...

Two London police officers were on Monday each jailed for nearly three years after they admitted to sharing crime scene photographs on WhatsApp of two murdered sisters.The case, which came after another serving officer was jailed for life for the kid...

After a hiatus last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Swedish consulate is back to bringing winter magic to the needy in Hong Kong through its annual Christmas event.The Swedish Winter 2021, held on November 26 and 27 at Tai Kwun – Centre f...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the country’s military education system must redouble efforts to turn out officers who “remain absolutely loyal” to the country’s ruling party, state media reported on Tuesday.Kim made the remarks at the E...

The British Chamber of Commerce in China has called on the country to engage in greater reform and cultivate a more predictable business environment, in another call by a foreign business community for the country to speed up the pace of market openi...

Chinese oil refiner Sinopec has started building the world’s biggest green hydrogen plant in the country’s far western region of Xinjiang.The operation, expected to be up and running in 2023, will be entirely solar powered and supply hydrogen for...

Authorities in western China have raided an illegal entrance exam for a top school where students were charged 9,000 yuan (US$1,412) per person for successful admission, as a national educational crackdown continues to sweep the country.A total of 45...

The UN climate change conference (COP26) that concluded last month needed to be a game changer in the pace and scale of climate action. However, commitments fell short of those required to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius and achieve ne...

A consortium led by WeLab has raised US$240 million to buy an Indonesian bank and grow its digital banking operation, marking the second foray by Hong Kong’s home-grown fintech unicorn into Asia’s virtual financial services industry.The WeLab Sky...

Hong Kong is set to hold its Legislative Council election on December 19, the first citywide poll since Beijing revamped the electoral system to ensure only “patriots” hold political power. In the second of a four-part election series, Cannix Yau...

As the Omicron coronavirus variant spreads in southern Africa and pops up in countries all around the world, scientists are anxiously watching a battle play out that could determine the future of the pandemic. Can the latest competitor to the world-d...

A British woman testified on Monday that Ghislaine Maxwell pressured her into giving Jeffrey Epstein sexual massages when she was still a teenager, assuring her she would have “fun” with him.The woman – testifying at Maxwell’s sex-abuse trial...

US President Joe Biden will warn Russian President Vladimir Putin of severe economic consequences should Russia go ahead with an invasion of Ukraine, a senior US administration official said on Monday.Biden and Putin are to hold a video call on Tuesd...

Microsoft announced on Monday that it had disrupted the cyberspying of a state-backed Chinese hacking group by seizing websites it used to gather intelligence from foreign ministries, think tanks and human rights organisations in the US and 28 other ...

The European Union is set to unveil a powerful new trade weapon that could result in China and other countries accused of economic bullying being shut out of lucrative parts of the EU market.The anti-coercion instrument will target states that try to...

Israel laid down the law Monday on the use by foreign governments of its cyber exports, after the private Israeli developer of Pegasus spyware became engulfed in scandal abroad.The defence ministry-linked agency for military exports, in a statement, ...

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Spain’s former king Juan Carlos I is seeking immunity from the English courts after his ex-lover accused him of spying on and harassing her, a London court was told on Monday.Danish businesswoman Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn is seeking civil p...

The United States will conduct a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday, a move almost certain to fray a badly damaged US-China relationship even further.“The Biden administration ...

Canadian ambassador to China Dominic Barton is resigning, just months after working to secure Beijing’s release of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, a task he described as “the honour of a lifetime”.Barton said in an exit statement o...

Hong Kong’s restaurant industry has warned takings could nosedive by 20 per cent if a Covid-19 vaccine passport plan goes ahead, while some residents say they will wait to see the scheme’s impact before deciding whether to get inoculated.The Post...

[Sponsored Article] On a sunny weekend in October, secondary school students and working youth were invited to ride on the world’s largest double-decker trams, an icon of Hong Kong, between Whitty Street Deport to Causeway Bay. The journey was par...

Early reports that patients infected by the Omicron variant of Covid-19 had mild symptoms raised hopes that the virus will become less virulent in future.That seems to fit with a commonly held belief that pathogens will cause fewer deaths or serious ...

The coronavirus pandemic has derailed the global campaign against malaria, increasing deaths from the mosquito-borne disease for the first time in three years.The number of malaria cases and deaths in 2020 were at least 40 per cent higher than the Wo...

About 70 Hong Kong secondary schools have highlighted their approach to teaching national education in their latest pitches to parents, with educators saying the subject is no longer regarded as taboo following the imposition of the national security...

Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded India as “a great power” on Monday as the traditional allies bolstered their military and energy ties, despite Washington’s increasing courtship of the world’s largest democracy.India confirmed that Rus...

Chinese arms manufacturers again notched up the second highest global sales after US firms in 2020, as the industry remained largely unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic.That is according to the latest report on the world’s top 100 arms companies by...

The Chinese authorities are ready to rapidly identify the new coronavirus variant Omicron if it reaches Beijing, a health official said on Monday.“We have established the testing capacity for mutant strains to prevent and control Omicron,” said Y...

Hong Kong prosecutors have challenged the claim of a former student leader on trial for possessing laser pointers during the 2019 protests that he was planning to use the devices for stargazing.Keith Fong Chung-yin, then president of Baptist Universi...

The long-standing bond between mainland China, the world’s second-largest economy, and semiconductor powerhouse Taiwan faces its stiffest challenge in decades amid increased cross-strait tensions and growing friction between Beijing and Washington....

The incumbent Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition is likely to retain control of Sarawak in state elections to be held on December 18, analysts believe, in what would be a boost for Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.The coalition is an ...

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, a veteran of the fight against apartheid who spent years imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, died on Monday aged 84, South Africa’s ruling party announced.Ebrahim died at his Johannesburg home after a long ...