Singapore officials on Monday sought to assuage parents’ concerns about children aged 5 to 11 years getting Covid-19 vaccines, by highlighting the absence of serious adverse events since the exercise began two weeks ago.A high child vaccination rat...

WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging super app operated by Tencent Holdings, is rolling out an update that includes a detailed list of the personal information that it collects, the latest move from the company to comply with strict new laws and regulati...

Yili Group and Huawei Technologies have been ranked top among Chinese companies for their commitment to hitting United Nations sustainable development goals, as the country increasingly shifts its focus towards environment, social and governance (ESG...

Kazakhstan said on Monday that foreign-trained Islamist radicals were among those who had attacked government buildings and security forces last week and that police had now detained almost 8,000 people to bring the situation under control.Government...

Hong Kong will provide 150 more hotel rooms for arriving domestic helpers to serve out their quarantine starting next month, a concession that labour-strapped local employment agencies have characterised as “better than nothing”.The Labour Depart...

A doctor at a Hong Kong public hospital, a banker and a designer were among five men arrested on suspicion of having sexual intercourse with girls aged under 16 at a brothel in Tsim Sha Tsui which was shut down by police last week, according to force...

A Myanmar junta court on Monday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader.The Nobel laureate has been detained since February 1 las...

Sales of railway tickets from Tianjin to nearby Beijing have been suspended as the northern Chinese port city battles the country’s largest Omicron outbreak, casting a shadow over the Spring Festival travel rush.There were 21 local symptomatic Covi...

On the front lines of eastern Ukraine where Kyiv’s army has been fighting a prolonged war with pro-Kremlin separatists, Ukrainian soldiers are doubtful that upcoming Russia-US talks will bring forward change.Since 2014 – the year Russia annexed C...

Hong Kong’s stock market is leaving behind a choppy first week of the new year. As China’s securities watchdog on Friday vowed to ensure stability, investors have regained confidence amid cheap valuations to send the tech benchmark to its best ru...

An intellectually disabled delivery worker has been jailed for 13 months for taking part in an illegal protest against Hong Kong’s national security law in 2020, the heaviest punishment received by any participant so far.Jacky Su Ho-kit was sentenc...

Twenty members of Hong Kong’s legislature appear set to miss the first meeting of its new term after the body’s president asked them to stay home until they returned three more negative coronavirus tests following a potential brush with the coron...

South Korea’s conservative politicians, including presidential candidate Yoon Seok-youl, are backing a billionaire’s online anti-communism campaign using a slogan harking back to the Korean war.The word myulgong, which means “crush commies” o...

The Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood’s so-called biggest party that regularly drew 18 million television viewers, was reduced to a live-blog for its 79th edition.The embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) proceeded with its film awards ...

Hong Kong has shortened its lengthiest quarantine period for close contacts of Covid-19 patients from 21 days to 14 to ease the strain on existing facilities amid a widening outbreak of the Omicron variant, following calls from the government’s pan...

“You need it!” Building to a high-pitched tone, China’s top streamer, the “Lipstick King” Austin Li Jiaqi, is trying to convince his online followers to buy a range of products from tissues to towels and toothpaste.“Oh my god, it’s just...

Australia’s Jetstar Group, which has offshoots in Singapore and Japan, and Vietnam’s VietJet have been listed among the world’s top 10 safest low-cost airlines by a safety and product review website.Australia-based AirlineRatings.com publishes ...

A Cypriot scientist defended his assertion that a new strain of Covid-19 exists that combines characteristics of the Delta and Omicron variants.Other scientists have speculated that Leonidos Kostrikis’s findings are a result of laboratory contamina...

The Beijing city authorities have told residents to avoid all contact with Olympic vehicles, not even trying to help after a road accident, as the Chinese capital tightened its Covid-19 rules ahead of next month’s Winter Games.The city’s traffic ...

Hong Kong’s director of social welfare, Gordon Leung Chung-tai, has pledged to review and strengthen the supervision of child support institutions in the wake of a scandal over the alleged abuse of at least 26 toddlers at a residential home.Fourtee...

Bob Saget, the US comedian who delighted millions as the star of television’s Full House in the 1980s and 1990s, has been found dead in a Florida hotel room.Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office sa...

Britain will celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne with a military parade, neighbourhood parties and a competition to create a new dessert for the Platinum Jubilee, Buckingham Palace said on Monday.Elizabeth will become on February 6 t...

An increasing number of Hongkongers received financial and food assistance last year as the Covid-19 pandemic slashed incomes and left many jobless, which drove up welfare spending, the social welfare director has revealed.But Gordon Leung Chung-tai ...

China is proposing a grand infrastructure plan for the Horn of Africa that would involve expanding the two major railroads and developing ports on the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.Under the proposals, announced during last week’s visit by China’s...

“We’ll see,” the Zen master kept saying in a revealing tale shared towards the end of the 2007 Cold War movie Charlie Wilson’s War. In the film, as Americans celebrated their victory over the Soviets in Afghanistan, a US intelligence officer ...

The debate surrounding a recently released Chinese animated film has become yet another test case for the challenges businesses face when navigating the growing importance of nationalism in China.The film, I Am What I Am, is a coming-of-age fantasy t...

When an Indonesian politician, several civil servants and a senior Muslim cleric were in 2020 arrested for alleged ties to the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah group, Indonesians were shocked.It revealed how some alleged members of the militant group,...

Beijing has asked Hong Kong’s leader to “take swift action” against officials who attended a big birthday party in the midst of an outbreak of Covid-19 cases, the Post has learned.Observers echoed the need for a prompt response to resolve the c...

Britain’s education secretary said the country is “on a path towards transitioning from pandemic to endemic” as the government drafts plans to live with Covid-19.Becoming the first cabinet minister to back moves to cut the self-isolation period...

In this series, we answer frequently asked questions about China’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19, including entry restrictions, the length of quarantine and testing requirements for travellers. Is there a question you want us to tackle? Send ...

When the government announced tighter Covid-19 measures last Wednesday, brought on by a community Omicron outbreak after aircrew blatantly flouted three-day home isolation rules, I witnessed a man next to me throw a full-blown tantrum.He doesn’t wo...

As unprecedented snowfall thawed at a popular Pakistan mountain resort on Sunday, rescued tourists were found reckoning with the deaths of 22 fellow travellers in a frozen traffic jam.“We didn’t get any type of alert from society, from the govern...

Foreign ministers from the Gulf states will start a five-day visit to Beijing on Monday in with energy expected to top the agenda.China is worried about supply security following the turmoil in Kazakhstan, one of its key suppliers while the members o...

At least 19 people, including nine children, died in a fire on Sunday at a Bronx block of flats, the deadliest blaze in New York City in more than three decades.Stefan Ringel, a senior adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, confirmed the death toll. He said th...

Bosnia’s Serb entity on Sunday celebrated its 30th anniversary with a parade showcasing its police forces against the backdrop of new stirrings of secessionist ambition.Around 800 members of the Republika Srpska (RS) police were among the 2,700 mar...

Washington said on Sunday it refused to be threatened by Iran’s weekend sanctioning of some 50 Americans including senior officials, warning that Tehran would face “severe consequences” if it attacked any US nationals.“Make no mistake: the Un...

Iraq’s new parliament held a heated inaugural session on Sunday, three months after legislative elections won by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the likely kingmaker of the next government.Sadr, 47, who once led an anti-US militia and who has a larg...

A prominent Afghan university professor and open critic of the Taliban’s hardline regime has been arrested in Kabul, with his daughter on Sunday saying she now fears for his safety.Professor Faizullah Jalal was arrested by the Taliban on Saturday a...

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin said on Saturday that any suggestion he is not complying with the investigation into last autumn’s deadly shooting on a New Mexico film set is a lie.At issue is a search warrant for Baldwin’s mobile phone, which autho...

Thousands of people were left homeless after a fire gutted parts of a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, police said on Sunday.About 850,000 of the persecuted Muslim minority, many of whom escaped a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that UN invest...

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Saudi women, in a first for the conservative kingdom, have paraded their camels in a beauty pageant for the prized ‘ships of the desert’.“I hope today to reach a certain social standing, inshallah (God willing),” said Lamia al-Rashidi, 27, wh...

Jason Zhao has been wrestling with a dilemma millions of other Chinese workers who moved to the big cities have been agonising over: whether to travel home for the upcoming Lunar New Year.Zhao, who works for a state-owned enterprise in Beijing, knows...

Reducing the self-isolation period for people who test positive for Covid-19 from seven days to five would help British employers that have been hard hit by absences, education minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday.The Omicron variant is still spread...

US President Joe Biden will have to walk a fine strategic line when he unveils his administration’s nuclear policy.The policy, known as the nuclear posture review, is expected to be released this month and will have to balance the two competing aim...

Three new photographs of the British royal Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, have been released by Kensington Palace to mark her 40th birthday.The soft-focus portraits by veteran Italian fashion photographer Paolo Roversi will go on tour around Britain thi...

A total of 164 people, including two children, were killed in violent unrest in Kazakhstan over the last week, Russia’s Sputnik news agency cited the health ministry as saying on Sunday.The figures reported on the state news channel Khabar-24 are a...

China blamed imported Covid-19 cases for the latest outbreak in its southern tech hub of Shenzhen, as city authorities tightened control measures after reporting a third case in two days.Neighbouring cities in the Pearl River Delta also imposed stric...

Tanya Marwaha was barely a teenager when she first began struggling with her mental health, affected by one bereavement after another over a six-year period, through accidents as well as natural causes. That time is still so raw that she struggles to...