The financial services arm of China’s second-largest e-commerce company JD.com will stop operating a student mode within its app next month, in the latest sign of retreat in China’s fintech industry amid tightening regulations.The youth version o...

Hong Kong has “primarily secured” 10,000 hotel rooms to act as Covid-19 isolation facilities, with at least 1,000 retired officers from the disciplined services hired to help manage the sites, according to sources.The Post learned on Thursday tha...

China’s top economic planning agency said on Thursday the nation’s growth is still well behind developed countries and local governments should not be overambitious when it comes to implementing “common prosperity”.The National Development an...

Taiwan is tightening control of its hi-tech know-how, with “economic spies” stealing or leaking such secrets to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau to face up to 12 years in jail and fines of up to NT$100 million (US$3.59 million).This came as Ta...

When bank worker Angelica Lim caught Covid-19 over the Lunar New Year, she was told to isolate for three days and then do a rapid antigen test using a home kit.Under Singapore’s rules, anyone who gets Covid-19 and has no symptoms can leave self-iso...

Chinese authorities have detained a Japanese man in his 50s in Shanghai, although details of the detention and the reason for it remain unknown, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.Since 2015, some 16 Japanese citizens have been detained i...

Multiple teams in China are studying how to improve the country’s anti-pandemic policies, as economic pressure from its zero-Covid approach intensifies, according to one of the nation’s most prominent epidemiologists.Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologi...

Hong Kong reported a record of more than 6,100 confirmed coronavirus cases and over 6,300 suspected infections on Thursday, as officials relaxed discharge criteria for patients to relieve pressure on the health care system amid the worsening fifth wa...

China accused India of “suppressing” Chinese companies after Indian tax authorities raided the offices of Huawei Technologies Co, which said it would seek more information on the case and “fully cooperate” with local authorities.In a statemen...

Beijing is the only city in the world to host a Summer and Winter Olympics, thanks to its ancient geological terrain making it suitable for sports of all seasons.Geologists in the city said the natural features of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou area, includ...

Rio de Janeiro state’s government has confirmed 94 deaths from floods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the city of Petropolis. But even as families prepared to bury their dead, it was unclear on Thursday how many bodies remained trap...

Two years after she went missing, a six-year-old girl has been found alive and in good health in a makeshift room underneath a staircase in a house in New York state, according to police who said they suspected she was abducted by her biological non-...

Southeast Asian nations held talks in Cambodia on Thursday, amid divisions in the bloc over how to restore stability in Myanmar after a military coup a year ago and with the junta’s representative barred from attending the meeting.Cambodia is the c...

Hong Kong national security officers have written to four former members of what was the city’s biggest opposition-leaning trade union asking for information from the disbanded group, including on its past operations and financial details, the Post...

The central and local governments should consider putting off Hong Kong’s chief executive election now that Chinese President Xi Jinping has identified the city’s ballooning coronavirus outbreak as officials’ “overriding priority”, a pro-Be...

Japan is set to announce on Thursday that it will ease border controls put in place to counter the spread of the coronavirus, measures that are the strictest among wealthy nations and have been slammed by business leaders and educators.About 150,000 ...

Hong Kong singer and outspoken supporter of the anti-government movement Tommy Yuen Man-on will appear in West Kowloon Court on Thursday afternoon to face a charge of attempting to commit a seditious act, according to police.The 41-year-old singer an...

Some countries have resorted to dropping mask mandates, opening borders and schools as the Omicron variant sweeps across the globe, but China is standing firm on its zero-Covid policy – in place since the pandemic first broke out.China’s two year...

“Wars in Europe rarely start on a Wednesday”.That’s how a top Russian diplomat brushed off speculation in the West that Russia could invade neighbouring Ukraine as soon as Wednesday, February 16.As the US and other Nato members warn of the pote...

-Singapore reaffirmed its 2022 economic growth forecast, and raised its reading for last year, as its recovery from the pandemic stabilises and it seeks to ease virus restrictions.Gross domestic product is projected to expand 3 per cent to 5 per cent...

The UK is set to scrap the so-called golden visa programme that gives foreign nationals a path to residence if they invest more than £2 million (US$2.7 million) as the government looks to curb the influence of Russian money.The abolition of the Tier...

Bali began a tentative reopening to foreign tourists on February 16, with the first international passenger flight to the Indonesian holiday island in nearly two years.The resumption of flights comes as the Southeast Asian archipelago loosens quarant...

Hong Kong was once proud of its achievements in containing Covid-19, managing to keep infection rates among the lowest in the world. But with caseloads growing exponentially this month, the public health care system is on the brink of collapse, patie...

The first batch of mainland Chinese supplies to support Hong Kong’s fight against a surge in coronavirus cases arrived in the city on Thursday, a day after a top Beijing official ordered authorities there to speed up their efforts.The meeting on We...

Australia’s bid to acquire nuclear-powered submarines is making “significant progress”, the country said on Thursday in a joint statement with Britain after a virtual summit between their leaders.US and British experts are now in Australia to a...

[Sponsored article] Hong Kong’s rapidly developing innovation and technology (I&T) ecosystem is creating many exciting career opportunities for young talent. Demand for technology talent is growing at an average annual rate of 4.3 per cent, wit...

Hong Kong officials are pushing forward a host of measures to answer the president’s call to step up the fight against Covid-19 and have won the cooperation of hotel operators to provide rooms for patients, identified potential sites for makeshift ...

Alumni of top universities in China have publicly called on the government to thoroughly investigate the case of a woman found in a hut chained by her neck and later revealed to have been trafficked.A hundred alumni of the prestigious Peking Universi...

The Democratic Party has expelled two members who broke ranks to endorse a middle-of-the-road candidate in December’s Legislative Council election in a disciplinary action that highlights a rift within the main player in Hong Kong’s opposition ca...

A non-fungible token project launched by Hong Kong actor Edison Chen kicked off its sales in chaos, as buyers complained about missed deliveries hours after paying for the digital assets. The project, named Red NVLPE and consisting of 8,888 NFTs acr...

A Chinese woman in a kimono was refused entry to a tourist area in China by staff offended by her traditional Japanese outfit in an incident caught on video.The case has reignited public debate over the wearing of kimonos in China where many retain m...

For weeks, the intensifying backbiting within Malaysia’s Pakatan Harapan opposition alliance ahead of an impending state poll in Johor had supporters and analysts alike wondering if the event would mark the beginning of the end for the bloc.On soci...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding said it introduced a cloud-based transmission technology for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, enabling broadcasters to live-stream the games to billions of viewers around the world.Powered by Alibaba Cl...

The United States warned on Wednesday that Russia could use false claims about the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbass region, including reports of mass graves and allegations of chemical weapons production, to justify an invasion of the former Soviet re...

If the Hong Kong government assumed help from mainland China to fight the raging coronavirus pandemic would be unconditional, being sternly instructed by President Xi Jinping to shoulder the “main responsibility” was a rude awakening, insiders an...

Taking the pooch out for its regular walk is one of the great joys and chores of dog ownership. But does it apply if the dog is a robot?This seemingly futuristic question may no longer be a thing of the past, as robot dogs have started to appear on s...

Handcuffed and shackled, former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez arrived at his first extradition hearing on Wednesday, where he was met by dozens of boisterous fans as well as emboldened critics who assailed what they called his narco-dicta...

The Northern Metropolis, a planned development near the mainland border, is not only key to integrating Hong Kong into the Greater Bay Area, but an ideal place to implement sustainable low-carbon living, focusing in particular on transport.In recent ...

A former Goldman Sachs partner testified on Wednesday that he and a colleague became “heroes” at the bank for bringing in billions in business from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund, deals he said were cemented through bribes and kickbacks....

Einstein’s theory of general relativity holds that a massive body like the Earth curves space-time, causing time to slow as you approach the object – so a person on top of a mountain ages a tiny bit faster than someone at sea level.US scientists ...

Chinese scientists say they may have found a coating material to improve the performance of future hypersonic weapons: carbon foam.The team at the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre said their testing – carried out in a wind tunnel ...

The billionaire Chinese fugitive Guo Wengui declared bankruptcy this week, claiming in a court filing that his net worth had dried up to less than US$100,000 while owing hundreds of millions of dollars to dozens of creditors.It came after a federal j...

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a diplomatic resolution to the Ukraine crisis on Wednesday, in a rare public comment concerning what has become the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint.“All parties concerned should stick to the ...

David Kent was initially in disbelief when a trade war between China and the United States broke out in March 2018, leading to the world’s top economic powers slapping tariffs on each other.When Chinese tariffs hit US wines early that year, the ind...

Europe looks to be gradually leaving the pandemic behind, with Germany becoming the latest in the region to unwind restrictions that have disrupted life for two years.Most of Germany’s Covid-19 curbs will be rolled back in three stages by March 20,...

German vaccine maker BioNTech, which developed the first widely approved shot against Covid-19 together with Pfizer, unveiled plans on Wednesday to establish manufacturing facilities in Africa that would boost the availability of much-needed medicine...

An “anti-epidemic” taxi service for coronavirus patients will begin on Friday under a plan aimed at easing the strain on Hong Kong’s public health care system, with about 300 vehicles mobilised and drivers set to earn HK$3,000 (US$384) a day.Th...

[Sponsored Article] The three-year JD (Juris Doctor) programme offered by the School of Law at City University of Hong Kong is a leading choice for graduates with a first degree in a non-law discipline who have now set their sights on a career as a ...

Russian leader President Vladimir Putin welcomed “constructive” talks on Wednesday with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was on his first official trip to Moscow, defying US concerns amid the Ukraine crisis.Bolsonaro was hosted at the Krem...

An Omicron breakthrough infection after vaccination could offer protection against other strains – but that protection was not observed in unvaccinated people, a study in South Africa, has suggested.Meanwhile, another study, in the US, found that i...