With war clouds gathering over Ukraine, international diplomacy goes into overdrive on Monday with the French and Russian presidents to talk in Moscow and the German chancellor heading to the White House to meet US leader Joe Biden.Also on Monday, th...

The only person to have currently thrown a hat into the ring for the Hong Kong chief executive election next month admitted that he did not have any connections with Beijing nor had he received blessings from any top officials.Making his first public...

Iran said on Monday the removal of US sanctions is Tehran’s red line in talks with world powers in Vienna to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman told a news conference, adding that talks will resume on Tuesday.US Secre...

The late Hong Kong tycoon and philanthropist Henry Fok Ying-tung’s feuding family has struck a “substantial” partial agreement to end a court battle over his HK$11.3 billion estate, after settlement talks that lasted for two weeks broke down.In...

Thailand plans to hold travel bubble talks with China and Malaysia this month, days after resuming a quarantine-free visa programme to boost tourist arrivals seen as key to sustaining a nascent economic recovery.Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s g...

The president of the Education University of Hong Kong (EdU) will not seek reappointment when his term ends next year, making him the third head of the city’s tertiary institutions to make such an announcement in as many months.Professor Stephen Ch...

A Chinese city on the border with Vietnam has put 3.6 million residents under strict lockdown after finding dozens of infections during mass testing.Baise, in the southern region of Guangxi, reported one Covid-19 infection on Saturday in a resident w...

Alibaba Group Holding has launched four non-fungible tokens (NFTs) featuring sports at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, expanding the offerings available in China’s closed, non-tradeable NFT world.The virtual badges, in traditional Chinese ink pai...

The US and its allies need to push back harder against China after they “acquiesced and allowed” Beijing to expand its footprint in the South China Sea over the past decade, Australia’s Defence Minister Peter Dutton said.“If we continue on th...

China, the world’s top steel producer, said on Monday that it aims to “significantly increase” mines’ iron ore production and boost utilisation of steel scrap, as part of a plan to develop a higher quality, greener ferrous industry.Making a j...

Every day for the last three months, an average of six or seven families in Myanmar have posted notices in the country’s state-owned newspapers cutting ties with sons, daughters, nieces, nephews and grandchildren who have publicly opposed the rulin...

Day after day, the scene has replayed: Roger Ng, a former Goldman Sachs banker, leaves his Manhattan apartment and, with an electronic monitor strapped to his ankle, heads downtown to build the case that might save him from prison.It’s been nearly ...

Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travellers from February 21 in a further relaxation of pandemic restrictions announced on Monday.Australia imposed some of the world’s toughest travel restrictions on its citiz...

The government’s quarantine camp at Penny’s Bay will start taking in Covid-19 patients with no or mild symptoms from Tuesday as a sharp escalation in the pandemic nearly doubled the number of new cases in Hong Kong within 24 hours, health authori...

Chinese tennis champion Peng Shuai has denied accusing anyone of sexual assault, in an exclusive interview with French sports daily L’Equipe published on Monday.Peng also said she had dinner with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bac...

Barely able to breathe and bleeding profusely on an ambulance stretcher, Hong Kong police constable Wai-ming* thought he was going to die.He was near the end of his shift, patrolling a busy street outside the Sogo department store in Causeway Bay las...

As Kim Jong-un unleashed his biggest-ever barrage of missile tests last month, one place suffered the most: a barren piles of rocks whose name means “No Man’s Land”.Alsom Island, located 18km (11 miles) off North Korea’s northeastern coast, h...

Activity in China’s services sector in January expanded at the slowest pace in five months, as a surge in local coronavirus cases and containment measures hit new business and consumer sentiment while employment fell, a private survey showed on Mon...

Seven years ago, Lia (not her real name) was just months away from sitting for the national examination to get her high school certificate when she found out she was pregnant. The 17-year-old dropped out of school but still sat her final exams, scori...

Hong Kong developers are increasing their investments in London, betting on higher yields as more Hongkongers head to the UK under the British National (Overseas) visa scheme.There has been a surge of Hong Kong money going into the UK’s property ma...

The Hong Kong Housing Society is experimenting with a prefabricated construction method to shorten the time it takes to build new homes for two of its projects.The society, the city’s second-largest public housing provider after the Housing Authori...

Hong Kong student Tang Tsz-wa*, 22, stays at home a lot. He avoids seeing people, no longer plays squash with friends, and is uninterested in dating.He travels from home to classes at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he is a fourth-year histo...

In recent decades, Hong Kong’s competitive advantage has been built upon diverse foundations. Some are obvious and repeated ad nauseam – low and simple tax rates, trusted legal system, unique access to the mainland and so on. But some are noticed...

Vegetable prices in Hong Kong skyrocketed and shelves at some major supermarkets were empty over the weekend, with retailers blaming transport disruptions at the mainland China border due to Covid-19.Dozens of cross-border truck drivers carrying vege...

Spotify has ignored calls to kick Joe Rogan off its platform, but dozens of the controversial podcaster’s episodes have vanished from the platform.At least 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience have been pulled from Spotify over the weekend, incl...

Despite working in a hospital, surgical nurse Sophie Li found getting protected against the human papillomavirus (HPV) a “difficult victory”.Three years ago, just before hitting the national cut-off age of 26 to receive a wide-spectrum HPV vaccin...

Iraq’s Supreme Court on Sunday suspended a former foreign minister’s presidential bid over corruption allegations and many politicians said they would boycott a Monday vote for a new head of state, prolonging a political stand-off.The court said ...

Tunisia’s president has announced a plan to dissolve the national judiciary body on suspicion of corruption and mishandling of sensitive political cases, according to local media reports on Sunday.The decision by President Kais Saied to disband the...

The Beijing Winter Olympics that opened on Friday got off to a discordant start with major democracies choosing a diplomatic boycott of the event to protest against China’s human rights abuses. Within the Asian context, this has been exacerbated by...

Israel’s prime minister on Sunday congratulated President Joe Biden for last week’s deadly raid in Syria that killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of Islamic State, the Israeli premier’s office announced.In a phone call with th...

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that Russia could invade Ukraine “any day,” launching a conflict that would come at an “enormous human cost.”The senior adviser to President Joe Biden offered another stark wa...

Israeli police allegedly used sophisticated spyware against a key witness in the corruption trial of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli media reported, jolting the trial and shining a light on a contentious Israeli-developed su...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz signalled on Sunday he was open to deploying more troops to Lithuania to bolster Nato’s eastern flank in response to a build-up of Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine.The United States has already ordered about ...

Last month, the US Senate Judiciary Committee approved the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill which aims to prevent Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft from giving their own products preferential treatment on their platforms....

Cyclone Batsirai killed at least 10 people and displaced nearly 48,000 when it struck Madagascar overnight, the national disaster management agency said on Sunday.Cyclone Batsirai weakened overnight but not before wreaking havoc in the poor Indian Oc...

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on Sunday declared a state of emergency to help deal with an unprecedented 10-day occupation by protesting truckers that has shut down much of the core of the Canadian capital.“(This) reflects the serious danger and threat t...

China and Pakistan reaffirmed their commitment to a centrepiece of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative on Sunday, following a series of insurgent attacks in Balochistan province, where Chinese investment has stoked anger.The commitment to the China-...

Recovering Covid-19 patients have complained about being stuck at a treatment facility in Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo despite being clinically ready to be discharged, with some also criticising hygiene conditions at the venue.Speaking to the Post on...

Britain’s Prince Charles has paid tribute to his “darling wife” the duchess of Cornwall – and future queen consort – for her “steadfast support” as he congratulated his mother the Queen on her “remarkable” platinum jubilee.Heir-to-t...

In Beijing, the atmosphere is collegial. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met on Friday in the strongest show of China-Russia ties in seven decades, with Putin hailing “unprecedented” close ties between the ...

Engineers for SpaceX, owned by the world’s richest man Elon Musk, are reportedly in Fiji with plans to help restore internet to the Kingdom of Tonga.The devastating eruption in mid-January damaged an undersea telecommunications cable, which experts...

North Korea has continued to develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes including its capability to produce nuclear fissile materials in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, UN experts said in a new report.In a summary of the repor...

What is China’s population? Mainland China’s population increased by less than half a million last year, while the number of births also dropped for the fifth consecutive year. China’s overall population increased by around 480,000 people –...

The vice-chairman of the Central and Western District Council, one of just dozens of pan-democratic councillors remaining in the municipal-level bodies in Hong Kong, has quit the opposition Democratic Party after being a member for 22 years.Victor Ye...

China’s internet giant Tencent Holdings has restored the original ending of the popular dark satire Fight Club on its video streaming service after censorship of the final scene sparked widespread backlash online.Last month, Tencent Video started s...

With less than two weeks to go until the sixth EU-African Union summit, European Union members remain split on how to come up with a financial package able to rival China’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative.EU plans for the February 17-1...

More than two-thirds of underprivileged Hongkongers already struggling under the poverty line have said that at least one family member had lost a job because of the effects of Covid-19 on the economy, according to a survey released on Sunday.The Soc...

The United Nations chief said he expects China to allow the global body’s human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to make a “credible visit” to the country, including Xinjiang.This came as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres met Chinese Presiden...

China reported 10 new Covid-19 cases within the Winter Olympics bubble on Sunday, less than a quarter of the 45 infections a day earlier.Among the cases, six were athletes and team officials and the rest were found among other “stakeholders”, a c...

China and the World Health Organization have discussed the need for “stronger collaboration” on tracing the origins of Covid-19, amid tensions over the WHO’s plans to further investigate the theory that the virus could have leaked from a Wuhan ...