Sleeping for 10 hours a day is the number one tip from Eileen Gu’s mother for parents hoping to raise a high-achiever.After Gu, an 18-year-old California-born athlete, won a gold medal for China in the freeski big air competition at Beijing Winter ...

Chinese microblogging service Weibo has removed more than 41,000 posts related to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, while banning 850 accounts, as the popular social media platform encouraged internet users to stay calm as they watched the games.Some...

About 15 per cent of cross-border vegetable truck drivers plan to quit because of stringent Covid-19 testing requirements, which Hong Kong industry leaders and lawmakers warn will put pressure on supply and food prices for consumers.The government sh...

China’s current lukewarm approach towards Myanmar’s junta is encouraging but Beijing and other major regional players must urgently step up their pressure on the generals to prevent a prolonged armed conflict, the coup-ravaged country’s paralle...

The Chinese embassy in South Korea has denied accusations of cultural appropriation after a performer at the Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony was condemned for wearing the hanbok, a traditional Korean dress.“The Korean people of China and t...

China’s zero-Covid restrictions may heap pressure on the global economy by prolonging supply-chain disruptions and intensifying the impact of inflation, a Bank of Japan (BOJ) policymaker said on Wednesday.The remark follows a warning last month by ...

A gang of suspected Hong Kong triad members was fined HK$5,000 (US$641) each for breaching social-distancing rules during a dinner at a restaurant on Tuesday night to celebrate Lunar New Year.The dinner, reportedly hosted by an alleged 14K triad fact...

Leading Indian Chef Ranveer Brar has ignited a national discussion on making coriander India’s “national herb” soon after posting a photo of himself holding up a placard on his Instagram account where he has 1.7 million followers. ‘Petition t...

A former student leader has been detained ahead of sentencing after a judge convicted him of two charges in relation to the purchase of 10 laser pointers at a Hong Kong flea market during the 2019 social unrest.The District Court on Wednesday cleared...

South Korean presidential candidates have accused China of cultural imperialism and “stealing” medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics in a move that appears calculated to appeal to the youth vote ahead of the March 9 election.Chief among their com...

China’s development banks provided US$23 billion in financing for infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2007 to 2020, more than double the amount from similar lenders in the United States, Germany, Japan and France combined, a new stud...

French video games giant Ubisoft has teamed up with the The Sandbox metaverse platform in the latest sign of the fusion between game development and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based blockchain company behind The Sandbox,...

Australia is not looking at renaming Taiwan’s de facto embassy in the country and remains committed to its one-China policy, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Wednesday, amid strain in diplomatic ties with Beijing.Payne said she had not held an...

Members of Japan’s Beijing Winter Olympics delegation will have their mobile devices inspected upon their return amid fears the compulsory Covid-19 app could pose a security risk.The Japan Sports Agency said on Tuesday that experts will screen the ...

Hongkongers braved long queues, with some even taking the day off, as they scrambled to get haircuts on Wednesday before salons were forced to close for two weeks under newly tightened social-distancing measures.Queues first spotted outside barber sh...

All 31 of China’s provincial-level jurisdictions have released their economic growth targets for 2022, most of which are conservatively low.They do offer a clue about the national outlook with China expected to set its gross domestic product (GDP) ...

Debt-repayment demand notes and “hell money” were scattered outside the luxury residence of Hong Kong businessman and former Birmingham City Football Club owner Carson Yeung Ka-sing at The Peak on Wednesday, prompting a police manhunt for three s...

Six Russian amphibious assault ships are sailing into the Black Sea to take part in naval exercises, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defence. The move delivers more Russian military power closer to Ukraine as tensions persist.The Russian ships ar...

Fears are growing that southern China’s Omicron outbreak in Baise, on its border with Vietnam, could spread to other cities, with 72 new cases recorded on Tuesday.There have now been 180 cases in the city, part of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, ...

China will target more countries with “economic coercion” unless “like-minded” nations resist, Lithuania’s foreign minister warned on Wednesday during a trip to Canberra to open the country’s first embassy in Australia.Joking that the two...

Royal Caribbean International has cancelled all of its local “cruises to nowhere” and is moving its Spectrum of the Seas vessel to Singapore over Hong Kong’s tough anti-pandemic measures.In a letter addressed to its guests, Royal Caribbean said...

China’s recent crackdowns on overseas listings have thrown a wrench in the works of start-ups looking to go public, driving them to pursue investors in Asia’s rapidly growing private capital markets.JPMorgan Chase & Co. estimates the fundraising ...

Violent clashes have erupted across the southern Indian state of Karnataka after weeks of building tensions over a ban on Muslim students wearing the hijab.All schools and colleges in the state have been closed until Friday after clashes broke out be...

A protest movement by Canadian truckers angered over Covid-19 vaccine rules has become a rallying point for opponents of pandemic restrictions, firing up crowds from New York to New Zealand.In New York, dozens of municipal workers facing dismissal un...

Two former Cathay Pacific flight attendants were granted bail on Wednesday after they were charged with flouting medical surveillance rules late last year around the start of Hong Kong’s ongoing coronavirus outbreak.Wong Yoon-loong, 45, and Nilsson...

Alibaba Group Holding’s recent registration of additional American Depositary Shares (ADS) is not tied to any specific future transaction by SoftBank Group Corp, a spokesman for the Japanese conglomerate said on Wednesday. “The registration of t...

The attendance of Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, at London’s Chinatown’s Lunar New Year festivities last week was a high profile boost for the district as it recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic.There had ...

Visual effects giant Digital Domain, a Hong Kong-listed company behind the hologram version of late singer Teresa Teng, is betting that its ability to produce “virtual humans” will give it a foothold in a metaverse future.The company, which has w...

The front-runner in Colombia’s May presidential election apologised on Tuesday for a speech he gave the day before while under the influence of alcohol, which drew criticism and jeers from his opponents.Gustavo Petro admitted he had been tired and ...

Hong Kong confirmed 1,161 new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, marking the first time the daily case count has surpassed 1,000 since the pandemic began, while two chronically ill patients became the disease’s first fatalities in roughly six months...

A World Trade Organization panel has upheld many of South Korea’s claims against the United States in a Trump-era dispute involving US “safeguard measures” on washing machine imports and asked Washington to bring those measures into line with g...

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.The Hong Kong government announced on Tuesday the toughest social-distancing rules since the start of the Covi...

China “bought none” of the additional US$200 billion of exports promised under the phase-one trade deal with the United States, a new report looking at the performance of the two-year deal signed under the Trump administration said.The US and Chi...

Pro-Kashmir social media posts by KFC, Hyundai and other global brands have sparked uproar in India, with diplomats saying that the controversy had prompted an apology from a foreign government.Control of Kashmir has been contested between India and ...

Caixuan “Summer” Qin and her now-deceased husband once stood accused by the Canadian government of running an underground bank that allegedly laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for transnational organised crime groups, catering to wealthy ...

Hong Kong biotech start-up Phase Scientific International (PSI) aims to raise its production capacity for Covid-19 rapid test kits fivefold by midyear, as record infections drive huge demand for early detection.The biggest customer in the near term i...

Hong Kong’s developers and operators of major shopping centres have been left baffled by how the government’s new vaccine pass scheme can be enforced without denying access to unjabbed residents passing through such premises on their way to work ...

Mixed signals from the Malaysian government over its plans to reopen borders and minimise restrictions amid an increase in Omicron cases has led the public and some experts to question whether it is prioritising the economy over public health.Muhyidd...

The World Health Organization lamented on Tuesday that half a million Covid-19 deaths had been recorded since the Omicron variant was discovered, calling the toll “beyond tragic”.The WHO’s incident manager Abdi Mahamud said that 130 million cas...

The era of nano flats in Hong Kong is likely to end soon. The availability of such flats is set to peak this year, after the government put a cap on the minimum size of homes late last year, say market observers.A total of 2,015 nano flats, with a sa...

North Korea boasted on Tuesday that it is one of only a handful of countries in the world to field nuclear weapons and advanced missiles and the only one standing up to the United States by “shaking the world” with missile tests.International ten...

In the last two months, staff at subway stations in the Chinese capital Beijing and the neighbouring city of Tianjin have been on a mission.Signs and route maps with English names at the stations have come down and been replaced with ones with pinyin...

For well over a year, we existed in an almost Covid-19-free bubble while the pandemic ravaged the world beyond our borders. With Omicron, that has all changed.Now we wait each afternoon for the government to update us on the latest in Hong Kong’s b...

The discovery of the Omicron variant in white-tailed deer in New York has raised concerns that the species, numbering 30 million in the United States, could become hosts of a new coronavirus strain, a lead researcher said on Tuesday.Blood and some na...

The United States, Britain, Japan and 18 other countries have condemned the governments of Hong Kong and mainland China for undermining press freedom in the semi-autonomous city and former British colony.Citing the recent closures of Hong Kong’s St...

US Secret Service agents rushed Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice-President Kamala Harris, to safety on Tuesday while students and administrators evacuated after a bomb threat to a Washington school celebrating a Black History Month event, official...

The US trade-in-goods deficit with its global trading partners expanded last year to a record US$1.1 trillion, with China accounting for about one-third of that amount despite a long-standing dispute aimed at closing the gap, data from Washington sho...

Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist whose foundation has focused on efforts to fight the coronavirus, is planning a May 3 release for a book on how to ensure that the Covid-19 pandemic is the last great global plague.“Whenever I see the suff...

The busiest land crossing from the United States to Canada remained shut on Tuesday after Canadian truckers blocked lanes on Monday to protest their government’s pandemic control measures.While traffic in both directions was initially blocked, US-b...

The Australian opposition Labor party’s conclusion that there was no Chinese foreign interference in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s WeChat social media account has sparked criticism from analysts that the government is making a mockery of the na...