Imprisoned Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung has won an appeal to reduce his 10-month jail term by one-fifth for his role in a banned Tiananmen Square vigil two years ago.The Court of Appeal on Wednesday also ordered that two months ...

JD.com, China’s second-largest e-commerce services provider, has teamed up with Canadian internet retail giant Shopify to expand their cross-border operations, as online consumer spending on physical goods slowed in the world’s most populous econ...

Japan and France are expected to discuss a defence cooperation agreement amid shared concerns about China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific, when their foreign and defence ministers hold a “2 plus 2” virtual meeting on Thursday.Kyodo News...

China, Russia and Iran are planning a joint naval exercise, Russia’s Pacific Fleet has said, amid speculation that the three countries are teaming up in the face of pressure from the US.The Pacific Fleet said that a naval group including a missile ...

The Hong Kong government has threatened to take further legal action against Cathay Pacific and its staff if sufficient evidence arose in its current investigation into whether the airline abused a quarantine exemption policy by allowing aircrew to r...

Hong Kong hamsters owners have begun heeding the government’s call to surrender their pets for a massive cull sparked by suspicions of a possible animal-to-human transmission of Covid-19.The announcement of the cull was met with widespread oppositi...

Taiwan will send its deputy leader to the inauguration of Honduran president-elect Xiomara Castro, as the self-ruled island seeks to strengthen ties with its remaining diplomatic allies.Castro had pledged to switch official recognition to Beijing dur...

A human rights lawyer has been detained in China on suspicion of “inciting state subversion”, according to an official notice obtained by his wife weeks after he spoke out for a hospitalised teacher.Xie Yang – who has previously defended Christ...

After a woman was pushed to her death in front of a New York City subway train beneath Times Square over the weekend, mayor Eric Adams acknowledged to reporters on Tuesday that even he didn’t feel entirely safe riding the rails.The Democrat recount...

Hong Kong customs has arrested a logistics worker and seized HK$86 million (US$11.03 million) worth of contraband cigarettes in a nine-day operation against the black market trade ahead of Lunar New Year.The haul of 31 million cigarettes brought the ...

A number of Chinese provinces have lowered gross domestic product (GDP) growth targets for 2022, as well as expectations for consumption and trade, in the latest sign that Beijing may resort to its old playbook of state-led investment to maintain eco...

The smartphone market in China rebounded last year after a pandemic-induced slump in 2020, although total sales have yet to reach 2019 levels, according to the latest data from a state-backed think tank. China, the largest smartphone market in the w...

[Sponsored article] On a sunny day in 1978, Sandra Tsang arrived at what was then Hong Kong’s airport, Kai Tak, nervous and eager. It was the first time the 21-year-old would fly, but her anticipation was heightened all the more because she and ni...

Housewife Maira Tayyab has considered begging for money to feed her family in inflation-hit Pakistan, while shop owner Mohammad Hanif finds his thoughts turning to crime.They’re too proud and honest to act on the impulse, but their woes are shared ...

China has pledged to deliver relief supplies to Tonga as soon as air traffic resumes following the devastating volcano eruption.Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the Pacific nation had requested drinking water, food, personal protective equ...

The risk of animals reinfecting humans with Covid-19 remains low, the World Health Organization has said, while asserting that it is “constantly looking” into pre-empting such a scenario.This comes as the WHO carries out research with its scienti...

Police seized about 300kg of fireworks hidden in a shipping container on a remote hillside in northern Hong Kong on Tuesday night.The haul had an estimated street value of HK$350,000 (US$44,915), with officers investigating whether the goods were int...

Two New Zealand navy vessels carrying water and other supplies will arrive in Tonga on Friday, the first international aid to reach the Pacific island nation reeling from a volcanic eruption and tsunami.Hundreds of homes in Tonga’s smaller outer is...

Genting Hong Kong has filed a winding-up petition in Bermuda, after the bankruptcy of its shipyard in Germany triggered US$2.78 billion of debt and forced Asia’s largest operator of sea cruises to be liquidated.The owner of Dream Cruise Holding app...

Hong Kong’s health minister has pledged to improve the management of the government’s quarantine facility at Penny’s Bay and to make better use of new technologies to streamline procedures and boost efficiency.Secretary for Food and Health Soph...

A citywide hunt is under way in Hong Kong for the driver of a car that knocked down a cyclist, travelled for another 2km before slamming into a central divider and flipping over in Tseung Kwan O in the early hours of Wednesday.The 19-year-old cyclist...

People with mild Covid-19 who do not suffer any other traditional “long Covid” symptoms can still exhibit deteriorated attention and memory six to nine months after infection, a study by Britain’s Oxford University has found.Cognitive issues im...

Company executive Yang Jie, 36, is leaving Beijing for Sanya on the southern Chinese resort island of Hainan on Friday.Yang is undeterred by the rigorous Covid-19 checks required by various parties for the Lunar New Year travel season, which gets und...

The Maggi brand of instant noodles has changed the dynamics of Indian cooking, especially for working women since its launch four decades ago.For a country that prided itself on slow cooking, the Nestle-owned ready-to-use food product gave mothers th...

Apple Inc and Google warned US lawmakers Tuesday that bipartisan antitrust legislation aimed at curbing the power of big technology companies will threaten the privacy and security of users.Escalating its opposition to the legislation, Apple sent a l...

Hong Kong film producer and kung fu master Checkley Sin Kwok-lam has become the first person to throw his hat into the ring for the chief executive election in March.Speaking on his YouTube channel on Wednesday morning, Sin said he was confident he c...

A group of more than 100 billionaires and millionaires has issued a plea to political and business leaders convening virtually for the World Economic Forum: make us pay more tax.The group calling itself the “Patriotic Millionaires” said that the ...

India reported new coronavirus infections at an eight-month high on Wednesday and a government scientist warned it will take weeks before data on hospitalisations and deaths will show how severe the latest wave driven by the Omicron variant will be.T...

Cannabis was a staple part of the diet in the ancient Chinese Tang dynasty (618-907), according to a new archaeological study in central China.It is widely known that ancient Chinese cultivated and also consumed cannabis seeds in a kind of porridge. ...

A woman who was trapped for a month at the home of a blind date during a Covid-19 lockdown has announced the pair are getting engaged.The engagement plan was announced following a similar lockdown encounter of another woman, who shot to fame in China...

Hong Kong may see a record amount of new retail space come to the market in 2023 as landlords try to time the opening of their shopping malls to coincide with the return of tourists after the city’s borders reopen.With several large projects in the...

A month after the opening of the Boten-Vientiane high-speed railway in Laos, businesses in Thailand are growing anxious over an influx of Chinese goods and agricultural produce.At Thailand’s largest fresh market Talaad Thai in a Bangkok suburb, sel...

Covid-19 restrictions have pushed over half of the members of an influential American business group to consider leaving Hong Kong on personal grounds, with about one-third being forced to delay new investments, according to its poll.In a recent surv...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on the brink of facing a leadership challenge, according to reports, after an angry backlash over claims parties were held at his residence during coronavirus lockdowns.After Johnson denied an accusation by his...

In the third of a six-part series on Hong Kong’s novice lawmakers, the Post meets Dr David Lam Tzit-yuen, sole representative of the medical and health services sector. Part two can be found here.Dr David Lam Tzit-yuen imagines a day when Hong Kong...

A phone app athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics are required to use contains security flaws that make it vulnerable to privacy breaches of personal and medical information, a cybersecurity watchdog group said on Tuesday.The app – built by the G...

The congressional committee probing the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol issued subpoenas on Tuesday to three lawyers who joined former president Donald Trump’s unsuccessful attempt to overturn his election defeat: Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Po...

A top veterinary scholar in Hong Kong has called the government’s decision to cull 2,000 hamsters to prevent animal-to-human transmission of Covid-19 “super harsh” and expressed fears it could lead to mass abandonment of animals.In an exclusive...

The Chinese government is expected to keep a wary eye on the country’s mushrooming blockchain-backed “digital collectibles”, but it is unlikely to impose an outright ban on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as it has done with cryptocurrencies, analys...

Hong Kong activist Edward Leung Tin-kei, once the face of the city’s pro-independence movement, was released from prison early on Wednesday under special – if not unprecedented – security arrangements after serving a six-year jail term that was...

“I just read that Australians are calling that idiot Novax Djocovid,” read the WhatsApp message from my friend. Yes, indeed they were. Watching the international news coverage of the Djokovic drama in my former hometown has been a salient lesson ...

Hong Kong-listed stocks are likely to scale the charts in the Year of the Tiger, making amends for a dodgy past 12 months. Luck will smile on investors born in the years of the horse, rabbit, goat and pig, according to the annual Feng Shui Index comp...

Kazakhstan’s leader-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev made his first public appearance since deadly protests in early January led to a purge of his allies as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev sought to reassert control in the central Asian nation.“Ther...

China has agreed to grant visas to 46 US officials for next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, and reiterated its call for Washington to stop politicising the event, a source said.The South China Morning Post reported last month that the US govern...

The fast-moving Omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but Covid-19 deaths in the US are climbing and modellers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March.The seven-day rolling av...

Major international airlines rushed on Tuesday to rejig or cancel flights to the United States on the eve of a 5G wireless roll-out that triggered safety concerns, despite two wireless carriers saying they will delay parts of the deployment.The Feder...

The huge volcanic eruption in the Pacific island nation of Tonga on the weekend may not have been big enough to affect global climate but volcanic eruptions are an underestimated natural cause of climate variability, scientists said.The massive under...

Russia is a sending an unspecified number of troops from the country’s far east to Belarus for major war games, officials said on Tuesday, a deployment that will further beef up Russian military assets near Ukraine amid Western fears of a planned i...

The US has been secretly tracking a group of Chinese users of the popular messaging service WhatsApp since November, possibly in an effort to halt illegal opioid sales, Forbes has reported.The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ordered WhatsApp...

More than 11,000 people have signed a petition calling on authorities to stop a cull of hamsters launched after evidence emerged of the first possible animal-to-human transmission of Covid-19 in Hong Kong.The surprise announcement on Tuesday also lef...