Hong Kong’s property buyers turned out in droves, defying the city’s worst one-day explosion of new Covid-19 cases to snap up apartments at the first new housing project to be launched in 2022.Henderson Land Development sold 126 flats, or 93 per ...

More than 200 people from Malaysian civil society groups and opposition parties on Saturday staged a protest on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur demanding that the country’s under-fire graft chief step down, defying a massive police presence and warni...

Confusing testing arrangements and poor communication over food deliveries were some of the complaints made by residents enduring an unprecedented lockdown at a coronavirus-hit public housing estate in Hong Kong on Saturday.Money Lo, 33, was among th...

A team of scientists in China and Britain have made what they say is a breakthrough in the quest to use sunlight to produce hydrogen, which can be used as a power source or in industry.In a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communic...

Do masks still protect us? The hot-button issue has once again surfaced in Hong Kong after three people passing through a railway station nine seconds apart led to the transmission of the Omicron variant to a kindergarten teacher.Two infectious disea...

Primary schools in Hong Kong are offering online tours for pupils to travel to Japan from the comfort of their screens at home as an alternative way to broaden their horizons during the pandemic.A school notice by S.K.H. Ho Chak Wan Primary School in...

Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from a Hong Kong railway station on Saturday after a fire broke out on a platform, with train services between Tiu Keng Leng and Kwun Tong suspended.A police source said a minor fire was reported at Yau Tong stat...

Germany will send a field hospital to Ukraine, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Saturday, a day after the US started supplying Kyiv with weapons as fears of a Russian invasion grow.Berlin has already delivered respirators to Ukraine and s...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is caught between a rock and a hard place on a proposal to register a former gold mine on the island of Sado as a cultural Unesco World Heritage site, with former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe now adding his politica...

Friends and former classmates of the Pakistan-born surgeon behind the world’s first pig-to-human heart transplant say they earmarked him for greatness from his medical school days.Karachi-born Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin made headlines last week as ...

Hong Kong authorities have uncovered at least 130 preliminary-positive Covid-19 cases at a coronavirus-stricken public housing estate, with officials meeting to decide whether to lock down more housing blocks, the Post has learned.Infections had been...

To Russian international relations scholar Artyom Lukin, it’s only a matter of time before Aukus – the military partnership between Australia, Britain and the United States – grows to include US security ally Japan and becomes Jaukus.The emerge...

An Irish man on a Delta Airlines flight from Dublin to New York refused to wear a mask, threw a can that hit another passenger, and pulled down his pants and exposed his buttocks to a flight attendant, according to a federal complaint unsealed on Fri...

A lacklustre market debut for the first two blank-cheque companies to list in Singapore is raising some questions whether the excitement seen for such vehicles in the US early last year will prevail in Asia.Vertex Technology Acquisition, sponsored by...

The streets of a public housing estate in Hong Kong echoed with the sounds of a drum and cymbals as 14 children learned how to perform a lion dance.The children, aged six to 14, were taught how to move the lion’s head and operate its mouth, eyes an...

Nick Lau, a 23-year-old Hongkonger, grew up finding himself on the periphery of his immediate social circles – at Harrow, a traditional English boarding school, he took photography classes and started a skatewear brand; at New York-based Parsons Sc...

In the final instalment of a six-part series on Hong Kong’s novice lawmakers, the Post meets Erik Yim Kong, the first legislator elected to the commercial (third) functional constituency, which was newly created to represent mainland Chinese enterp...

As the world’s governments and corporations face up to sustainability risks amid extreme weather patterns under the Earth’s changing climate, regulators are inching towards creating a common standard out of an alphabet soup of regulations.The wor...

Australia will allow international air travellers to enter the country if they provide results from a rapid antigen test (RAT) taken within 24 hours of departure.A RAT must be undertaken by or under the supervision of a medical practitioner that incl...

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra’s fairy tale romance is adding a new character.The Jonas Brother member, 29, and the Indian actress, 39, shared on Friday they have a new bundle of joy joining their family with an announcement on Instagram.“We are ...

In the first of a two-part series on Hong Kong’s battle with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Post looks at the successes and failures of the past 12 months, and how residents have been coping with the physical and emotional toll of the health emergency....

Taiwan has launched an online archive of written records on the late Chiang Ching-kuo, who was the self-ruled island’s president during the volatile era when Washington switched diplomatic ties to Beijing.Chiang – the eldest son of the late forme...

For decades, Peninsular Malaysia’s east coast has had more than its fair share of floods during the November to February monsoon season.But as the country now counts the cost of the latest flooding – described by officials as a “once-in-a-centu...

Flanked by port and trade union executives from Massachusetts, China’s top diplomat in Washington denounced the US-China trade war on Friday, the latest effort to enlist the US business and trade community – and even some state governments – as...

The fiancé of Gabby Petito, a social media influencer whose disappearance and death gripped America last year, confessed to her killing in writing before taking his life, the FBI said Friday.Brian Laundrie killed himself amid suspicion about his pos...

Many residents of a Hong Kong public housing estate at the centre of a snowballing outbreak of the highly infectious Omicron coronavirus variant spent the first of their five-day lockdown on Friday in anxiety and frustration.Residents struggling to m...

Dredgers have been spotted off Cambodia’s Ream naval base, where China is funding construction work and deeper port facilities would be necessary for the docking of larger military ships, a US think tank said on Friday.The United States, which has ...

Inside a Kansas City courtroom, Peter Zeidenberg is growing frustrated. The wiry, grey-haired American lawyer isn’t making much headway persuading a judge to throw out evidence obtained as a result of what he calls misconduct by the Federal Bureau ...

Taiwan needs an innovative strategy to counter the YJ-12, mainland China’s most powerful supersonic cruise missile, a Taiwanese navy magazine has said.The missile had been deployed to the coast of mainland China and to artificial islands in the Sou...

The Biden administration on Friday announced policy changes to attract international students specialising in science, technology, engineering and maths – part of the broader US effort to compete against China.The State Department will let eligible...

US President Joe Biden will travel to Japan this spring for an in-person summit of Quad alliance members, the White House said after Biden spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday.Details on the timing of the meeting of the Quad –...

The US government said on Friday it would suspend 44 China-bound flights from the United States by four Chinese carriers in response to the Chinese government’s decision to suspend some US carrier flights over Covid-19 concerns.The suspensions will...

At least 70 people were killed in an air strike on a prison and at least three children died in a separate bombardment as Yemen’s long-running conflict suffered a dramatic escalation of violence on Friday.The Houthi rebels released gruesome video f...

A booster shot of the German-made BioNTech coronavirus vaccine provides sufficient protection from the highly infectious Omicron variant, university researchers in Hong Kong have found.A study by a medical team from the University of Hong Kong and Ch...

An “immersive” Princess Diana documentary offering an “origin story” for the British royal family’s latest woes was among the opening night films at the online Sundance film festival Thursday.Sundance, which celebrates independent cinema, w...

The US central bank has voiced concerns that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could weaken America’s dominance in the global financial system, while calling for more research and public support.Its worries came as strategic rival China has a...

The number of students who quit their studies at Hong Kong’s eight government-funded universities in the last academic year jumped by a record 24 per cent over the year before, official figures show.The exodus broadly aligns with a larger pattern o...

Twitter said on Friday it had suspended hundreds of accounts that were promoting Philippines presidential election candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, which it said had violated rules on spam and manipulation.Veteran politician Marcos, 64, the son of the...

Veterinary surgeons in Hong Kong are urging the government to stop culling hamsters and quarantine them instead, but an author of the study they cited to back their call has said the findings are not totally applicable in the real-world setting.The r...

South Korean tech giant Samsung has pulled an online advert in Singapore that featured a hijab-wearing Muslim woman hugging her drag queen son after it sparked a backlash from socially conservative corners.LGBTQ rights remain a sensitive topic in the...

The Winter Olympic organisers announced the torch relay would be held within a closed bubble as officials in the Chinese capital warned it faced a “severe” battle against the Delta and Omicron strains of Covid-19.By Friday afternoon the city had ...

Thousands of Balinese braved pandemic restrictions and flooded the streets of the resort island’s capital on Friday to send off the king in a lavish cremation ceremony.The extensive ritual for Anak Agung Ngurah Manik Parasara, who died in late Dece...

The Communist Party chief of the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou has been demoted for mishandling devastating floods that killed hundreds of people last summer.Xu Liyi was also given a serious warning about his “responsibility for the disaster”...

A city of just over 3 million people in China’s eastern province of Anhui is facing a “win or die” situation after the former fishing village reported no economic growth in 2021 despite a strong push to transform its economy.Bengbu city had set...

Trade between China and Africa reached an all-time high in 2021 of US254 billion – a 35 per cent year-on-year increase surpassing pre-Covid-19 numbers, according to the latest Chinese customs data.China exported US$148 billion in goods to Africa, u...

Moscow said Friday it wanted troops from Nato member states to leave Romania and Bulgaria as part of security demands it is seeking from the US-led alliance.Russia wants the “withdrawal of foreign forces, hardware and arms” from countries that we...

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the US promised to deliver written responses next week to Russian demands for security guarantees as he dismissed Western “hysteria” over Ukraine and repeated that Moscow has no plans to attack its neighbour.US...

China hit out at the United States and Japan on Friday after the two nations sounded alarm over China’s growing nuclear capabilities.In a statement on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons on Thursday, the two countries called on C...

Newborn Town, a little-known mainland Chinese company focused on social apps for markets outside China, wants to help people hook up in the metaverse. After launching beta testing last November, the Hong Kong-listed company released more details on ...

China, Iran and Russia have carried out three days of joint naval drills in the Gulf of Oman, their second such exercise since 2019.“China sent the guided-missile destroyer Urumqi, the comprehensive supply ship Taihu, ship-borne helicopters and 40 ...