Two people have been charged with incitement by Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency for allegedly sharing a social media post by fugitive ex-lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung calling on voters to cast blank ballots in Sunday’s Legislative Council election.The ...

China and Russia have pledged to speed up their efforts to set up an independent trade network to reduce their reliance on the US-led international financial system.Wednesday’s video call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counter...

SenseTime Group may resume taking subscription orders from retail investors for its initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong as early as Monday, less than a week after postponing the US$767 million sale because of US sanctions, according to sources...

China’s first high-temperature gas-cooled reactor will be the world’s only one in commercial operation when it is connected to the country’s power grid this month.It remains to be seen how the facility – at the Shidaowan nuclear power plant i...

China’s southern province of Guangdong on Thursday reported six local Covid-19 cases in Dongguan, a manufacturing city where millions of residents have been told to get tested.Three of the infections were close contacts of other cases, two were pre...

Hong Kong’s unemployment rate eased further to 4.1 per cent in the rolling three-month period between September and November, down 0.2 percentage points from August to October, as the job market continued to recover from the effects of the coronavi...

The prices of Hong Kong’s lived-in homes may decline in 2022, reversing 13 years of gains, as a plunge in the stock market has created a “negative wealth effect” on investors and speculators, Morgan Stanley said.Overall prices may fall by 2 per...

Intel Corp is spending US$7.1 billion on new chip packaging facilities in Malaysia, a major investment to ramp up its global footprint and address a crippling global chip shortage it expects to persist until 2023.The company is earmarking more than 3...

Thousands of people in the Philippines fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Super Typhoon Rai slammed into the country on Thursday, with a charity warning the storm could hit coastal communities “like a freight train”.Rai was packing maximu...

Beijing Winter Olympics organisers say measures to prevent cross-infections between athletes and the outside world are being extended to holding their rubbish inside the Games “bubble”.Officials said on Thursday that a team of special workers wou...

The cancellation of a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Thailand on Thursday was a “missed opportunity” for the security allies to review areas of cooperation, analysts said. But Bangkok and Washington should now work more closely ...

Four young children were killed and several others were seriously injured when a gust of wind blew their bouncy castle into the air at an end-of-term party in Australia on Thursday.Police said the pupils at a primary school in northern Tasmania were ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded a successful state visit to India last week in conjunction with the first “two-plus-two” dialogue involving the defence and foreign ministers of the two states. The visit was of no trivial significance o...

As many as 3,000 Hong Kong residents a day could be allowed to travel to mainland China under a much-anticipated quarantine-free scheme, the Post has learned, considerably higher than the 1,000-person quota initially predicted.Sources said the final ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday he has no plans to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at the moment, taking what appeared to be a softer tone than Western allies who have declared a diplomatic boycott while suggesting he i...

A court in Beijing has rejected a lawsuit seeking monetary damages from a blockchain firm after its client failed to make money on bitcoin mining, in a case that suggests China’s judicial system has no intention of recognising and protecting crypto...

A Hong Kong police sergeant has been suspended from duty after being arrested on suspicion of narcotics possession and driving under the influence of an illegal drug.The arrest of the 46-year-old man came on Wednesday afternoon when narcotics bureau ...

US military commanders in the Pacific have built a software tool to predict how the Chinese government will react to US actions in the region, such as military sales, US-backed military activity and even congressional visits to hotspots such as Taiwa...

India has approved a US$10 billion incentive plan to attract semiconductor and display manufacturers, its technology minister said on Wednesday, as part of a deepening push to establish the country as a global electronics production hub.Under the pla...

In just three weeks since the world became aware of a new variant of the coronavirus which causes Covid-19, Omicron has demonstrated a stunning pace of growth.The World Health Organization warned member states on Sunday that Omicron appears to have a...

Taipei is hopeful trade talks with the European Union will get under way next year when France takes over the bloc’s presidency.Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen told visiting French lawmakers on Thursday that she hoped for progress on the talks, an...

Germany announced it is expelling two Russian diplomats after a German court concluded that Moscow was behind the killing of a Chechen man in Berlin two years ago.Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday called the state-ordered killing a “g...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday named Caroline Kennedy as the US ambassador to Australia, giving a new public role to the once reticent scion of the celebrated political dynasty.He also nominated Michelle Kwan to be US ambassador to Belize, the bigg...

The youngest candidate in Hong Kong’s coming legislative poll has pledged to support measures to help young people convicted of protest-related crimes integrate back into society if elected, despite his pro-Beijing party’s heavy condemnation of t...

The countries behind a United Nations agreement on weapons have been meeting this week on the thorny issue of lethal autonomous weapons systems, colloquially known as “killer robots”, which advocacy groups want to strictly limit or ban.The latest...

Beijing has made another change to the diplomatic line-up handling its relations with the US, sending a former aide to top diplomat Yang Jiechi to help its relatively new ambassador in Washington.Jing Quan, a former fellow at the Brookings Institutio...

South China Morning Post managing editor Brian Rhoads recently flew home to the United States to attend a memorial service for his late father. After he had already left, the Hong Kong government moved the US into a new high-risk category, meaning he...

With the soundtrack of the Japanese basketball anime Slam Dunk blaring in the background, two corporate teams at Dah Sing Bank went head to head in an annual fundraising game in Hong Kong.The basketball showdown on December 11 at the Dah Sing Charity...

South Korea said on Thursday it will reinstate stricter social distancing rules a month-and-a-half after easing them under a ‘living with Covid-19’ policy, as the number of new infections and serious cases spirals.Curbs will return from Saturday ...

Dozens of nations including China, the United States and Japan this week agreed to cooperate on digital trade in the post-coronavirus era, although India’s absence in the initiative continued to stand out.Australia, Japan and Singapore, the co-conv...

China will raise import tariffs on most pork products next year after the world’s top producer rapidly expanded domestic production and reduced its needs for imports.Tariffs for most favoured nations will return to 12 per cent on January 1, from 8 ...

A woman in China has sought a restraining order against her husband whom she alleged forces their children aged five and seven to attempt secondary and university level study by beating and verbally abusing them.In a judgment released on WeChat on Tu...

Hong Kong’s tough new rule requiring arrivals from Omicron-hit countries to spend their first week of quarantine in a government camp will not be sustainable for much longer, health experts have warned, as the heavily mutated coronavirus variant co...

Lu Kang, a rising star in the new generation of Chinese diplomats, is slated to become China’s ambassador to Indonesia, according to sources familiar with the situation.The former foreign ministry spokesman recently stepped down as head of the mini...

US authorities released thousands of pages of secret documents Wednesday on president John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a case that still fuels conspiracy theories despite the official conclusion he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.The CIA and FBI file...

Chinese state television has warned citizens against taking part in blockchain-based, play-to-earn online games such as Farmers World, in the latest sign of Beijing’s aversion to anything cryptocurrency-related.China Central Television (CCTV) fired...

On the first day of the federal criminal trial of Harvard professor Charles Lieber on Wednesday, his defence lawyers rejected charges that the nanotechnology expert had hidden his participation in a Chinese talent programme, arguing that the prosecut...

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Chinese painkiller makers as it vowed to step up action to curb the addiction epidemic that killed a record 100,000 Americans last year.With people who are dealing with addiction increasingly turnin...

England’s chief medical officer warned people not to mix with others unless they have to in the run-up to Christmas after Britain recorded its most daily coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.With a new highly transmissible Omicron vari...

Severe storms battered the American Midwest, hours after US President Joe Biden pledged increased federal assistance to Kentucky, where scores were killed and towns levelled by recent tornadoes.The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of an “extre...

Booster doses of currently available Covid-19 vaccines work against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus and there appears to be no need for variant-specific boosters, top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday.“Our booster ...

A majority of the US Senate on Wednesday backed the National Defence Authorisation Act, or NDAA, sending the US$770 billion bill to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature.The vote was 88-11, with strong support from both Democrats and Republi...

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a federal court to charges he violated George Floyd’s civil rights, likely extending his prison sentence after his earlier conviction for the black man’s murder.Chauvi...

Nearly 1,300 people were evacuated from a skyscraper that caught fire in downtown Hong Kong on Wednesday, sending hundreds fleeing to the rooftop as others struggled through dense smoke in search of an exit from the “maze-like” building.Firefight...

Apple has stopped showing mainland Chinese users certain geographic information on the latest version of its Compass app, a move that some users speculate could be linked to Beijing’s stricter approach to data privacy.iPhone and Apple Watch users i...

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to support Russian efforts to protect its long-term security amid rising international pressure over Moscow’s attitude to Ukraine.In a video call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Xi also...

Hong Kong lawyers handling arbitration cases should be allowed to receive up to half of the money awarded to their clients, an independent law reform commission has suggested, saying doing so would help maintain the city’s status as an internationa...

Hong Kong has retained its title as the world’s most expensive city for expats to live in for the second year running, with the firm behind the rankings attributing the result to rising inflation.Trailing Hong Kong in the cost-of-living survey, rel...