A salesman who pushed an elderly man who later died after their fight over queue-jumping at a Hong Kong ferry pier following a protest has been found not guilty of manslaughter.A High Court jury on Monday acquitted Leung Ching-yin, 28, over the death...

The wife of South Korean presidential hopeful Yoon Seok-youl has sparked outrage for saying that #MeToo scandals occur because the women involved were not “paid” by men.Kim Keon-hee, 49, made the remarks to a reporter from Voice of Seoul, a YouTu...

Tencent Holdings, which runs the world’s biggest video gaming business by revenue and China’s largest social media platform, is reminding its game subscribers aged under 18 to strictly follow their 14-hour playtime limit during the four-week wint...

[Sponsored article] The central government of China has long included energy transition in its five-year plans, but the momentum has picked up since September 2020, when President Xi Jinping pledged to lead the country to carbon neutrality – mea...

Japan will fortify defence capabilities around its southwestern islands near Taiwan amid rising tension with Beijing, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday.In a policy speech to parliament, Kishida said he planned to strengthen Japan’s island...

Credit Suisse Chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio has quit following an internal probe into his personal conduct, including breaches of Covid-19 rules, raising questions over the embattled lender’s new strategy as it tries to recover from a string of sca...

Billionaire Michael Kadoorie is paying almost double the market price to boost his family’s stake in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels that owns the Peninsula hotel in the city. The stock surged by the most in more than two decades.The family has a...

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus could have entered the Chinese capital Beijing via contaminated mail from Canada, the city’s centre for disease control said on Monday.Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention...

Don’t expect to find any lobster in your lobster balls. The hotpot favourite does not necessarily contain any ingredients from lobsters, Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has found, while 75 per cent of meatballs sampled had high levels of sodium and...

The two thieves who brutally robbed 27-year-old Marieke Bayens at gunpoint on a California street were not after her purse – or her. They wanted the little dog at the end of her leash: Merlyn, a French bulldog.From New York to Los Angeles, and from...

The craze has inspired Selfiecoins, Potcoins and UFOCoins, fuelled a failed bid to buy a rare copy of the US Constitution, inspired legions of confusing jargon and prompted dozens of nations to consider creating their own official version.To say the ...

A compensation suit filed by a Tokyo woman against a sperm donor who she claims deceived her has underlined the need for regulation of a health care sector that’s likely to come under increasing scrutiny in ageing Japan, experts say.The woman, whos...

Renewable energy will meet over 70 per cent of China’s additional electricity demand in the next three years as coal’s role in powering the world’s second largest economy continues to decline, according to the International Energy Agency’s la...

Three pedestrians escaped serious injury when an out-of-control Lexus mounted a pavement and hit them as the driver tried to reverse on a busy market street in Hong Kong on Monday.The driver, 68, had pulled over at a lay-by on Shui Wo Street near the...

The United Kingdom is drawing up plans under which people will not be legally bound to self-isolate after catching Covid-19, a report said.Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to permanently revoke emergency coronavirus laws as Britain’s Covid-19 cas...

New Zealand is bracing for the arrival of Omicron, with the highly infectious Covid-19 variant expected to breach the nation’s closed border at any time.“We know that with Omicron it is a case of when, not if,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tol...

The Covid-19 Omicron variant continues to spread in China, with a cross-city infection reported in the southern province of Guangdong.Authorities in the city of Meizhou urged people to stay put after an 11-year-old boy tested positive for the highly ...

Hong Kong has confirmed its first local untraceable Delta case in several weeks, an infection described as “strange” earlier by the city’s health minister, while one expert has suggested the source was likely to be someone infected during quara...

Jonathan Riches has been to 40 Donald Trump rallies and fervently believes the last US presidential election was stolen.Like thousands of others who spent hours in a dusty field in Arizona this weekend to watch the former president speak, that belief...

Whether it is the work-from-home revolution or the Great Resignation, the global workforce has seen plenty of twists and turns in the more than two years since a “novel” coronavirus first hit the headlines.Among the most seismic shifts, however, ...

North Korea fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles from an airport in its capital city of Pyongyang on Monday, South Korea’s military reported, in the fourth test this month.Japan also reported the launch, with chief cabinet secretary H...

Mainland China’s population increased by less than half a million last year, and the number of births also dropped for the fifth consecutive year in 2021, data released on Monday showed.China’s overall population increased by about 480,000 people...

China’s economy slowed in the fourth quarter of last year, prompting the central bank to cut key policy rates for the first time in nearly two years to fend off strong headwinds and uncertainties created by coronavirus outbreaks.The world’s secon...

Australia and New Zealand on Monday sent surveillance flights to assess damage in Tonga, isolated from the rest of the world after the eruption of an underwater volcano that triggered a tsunami and blanketed the Pacific island with ash.Australia’s ...

P is a professional vocalist in Hong Kong, and a single mother raising her two daughters in the most expensive city in the world.Like all musicians, P, who asked that her real name not be used, was hit hard at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemi...

On the morning of January 7, a sound truck cruised the streets of one middle-class district in Manila’s Quezon City to alert residents of the rising number of Covid-19 cases and where they could get vaccinated.The announcer concluded by saying, “...

Four in five newly elected lawmakers in Hong Kong are property owners, a proportion significantly higher than the city’s average and that of the previous Legislative Council, the Post has found.Nearly half the owners had homes, investment property ...

US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet virtually Friday to discuss bilateral ties as well as security in the Pacific region, the White House said.On the agenda will be fighting Covid-19, climate change and explorin...

Donald Trump falsely declared in a weekend rally that US public health authorities are denying the Covid-19 vaccine to white people because of their race.The former president seeded racial resentments in remarks that twisted the facts on public-healt...

There has been quite a lot of talk on the political circuit about the next chief executive. It is quite natural, of course, since there are only less than three months to go before the chief executive election.The incumbent chief executive has been t...

Morocco led the way in North Africa earlier this month when it became the first in the region to sign on to an implementation plan for China’s massive infrastructure programme, the Belt and Road Initiative.Four other North African countries – Egy...

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings may opt for more divestments and pursue fewer acquisitions this year, according to analysts, in the wake of Beijing’s tightened regulation of the country’s Big Tech companies.Tencent founder, chairman and c...

On a trip to the United Arab Emirates, the president of South Korea on Sunday reportedly reached a preliminary multibillion-dollar deal to sell Seoul’s surface-to-air missiles to Abu Dhabi and pledged deeper cooperation with the Gulf Arab federatio...

Ukraine said it had evidence that Russia was behind a massive cyberattack that knocked out key government websites this past week, as Microsoft warned the hack could be far worse than first thought.Tensions are at an all-time high between Ukraine and...

The man who held four people hostage at a Texas synagogue was identified by US authorities as a British citizen Sunday while UK police later arrested two teens over an attack that President Joe Biden called an “act of terror”.The captor, who died...

Two women drowned on a beach in northern Peru due to “anomalous waves” registered after the volcanic eruption in Tonga, more than 10,000 kilometres away, local emergency services said on Sunday.The two women drowned on Saturday in the Lambayeque ...

Ireland on Sunday marked 100 years since the handover of Dublin Castle by British forces, in a ceremony attended by Irish and UK dignitaries.The deeply symbolic event recognised the transfer of power in Dublin Castle, the seat of British power in Ire...

The “signs are encouraging” for lifting Covid-19 restrictions in England at the end of the month, a British Cabinet minister has said.Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden made the comment as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to review th...

Taiwan will spend close to NT$240 billion (US$8.71 billion) on eight types of weapons to help boost its defences in the face of growing military threats from Beijing.Military observers said the weapons, to be built by the self-ruled island, included ...

Serbia’s premier on Sunday denounced as “scandalous” Australia’s decision to deport tennis superstar Novak Djokovic over his decision not to be vaccinated against Covid-19, and the Serbian president said he would always be welcome in his home...

A senior official in China’s top law enforcement body singled out pressure from external forces as a major threat to the country on Sunday, saying it complicated the country’s political and legal activities.Wrapping up a two-day annual meeting in...

Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “indispensable” in restoring democracy to the military-ruled country and must be included in any peace talks, regardless of her conviction, the Philippines’ foreign secretary said on Sunday.In a strong...

China’s talks with Middle Eastern countries last week brought progress in economic cooperation, but little in other areas despite Beijing’s desire to play a greater role in the region.Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted a series of meetings with his ...

A former senior Chinese security official has given a televised confession in which he admitted taking bribes and cultivating a “political clique”.The admission by Sun Lijun, a former public security vice-minister, featured in the first episode o...

Avoid typhoon in the Philippines. Check. Steer clear of massive California wildfires. Check.Keep away from test missiles in North Korea. What? Wait.As teenage pilot Zara Rutherford flew ever onwards in a record-challenging global odyssey, she met lit...

Chinese mining companies are facing calls to take a more responsible approach and pull out their investment from Myanmar, amid an increase in human rights abuses and civilian deaths since the military took power about a year ago.The push from experts...

Hongkongers left jobless or underemployed by the recent reimposition of strict social-distancing rules should be singled out for special financial assistance in the upcoming government budget, an advocacy group has said.The Society for Community Orga...

There is no “power vacuum” in the Middle East and the region does not need an “external patriarch”, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on the weekend, capping a flurry of talks with envoys to strengthen ties with the region.In a statement ...

Vaccinating children against the coronavirus will enable Hong Kong to exit its tough zero-Covid policy, medical experts have said, even as parents raised concerns about giving the German-made BioNTech jab to children as young as five.Government medic...

When China unveils its 2021 birth totals on Monday, the revelation will cast the spotlight on the impact of the three-child policy in its debut year – a year that featured widespread and high-level discussions over how the nation must address its w...