The Beijing city government is considering banning all education apps targeted at preschool children amid China’s nationwide crackdown on after-school tutoring to ease academic pressure.The new ban will stop those as young as three years old from l...

China’s banks face rising default risks as a result of higher climate-related costs in carbon-intensive sectors like thermal power, steel and cement, Liu Guiping, vice governor of the central bank, said in comments published on Friday.The People’...

Singapore will roll out its long-delayed two-percentage-point increase in sales tax starting next year, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said on Friday.Unveiling the 2022 budget in parliament, Wong said the goods and services tax (GST) hike would take ...

A Chinese national who tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving from Hong Kong is being investigated for illegally crossing the border, authorities in Shanghai said on Friday.The person entered the mainland on Sunday and arrived in Shanghai the ne...

Popular Hong Kong boy band Mirror has been appointed “anti-pandemic ambassador”, while a major property developer has offered the government a site in the New Territories to build a makeshift hospital.The two initiatives were among several put fo...

Facebook parent Meta Platforms’ stark warning of a retreat from Europe may just be the start, as one of the region’s top privacy watchdogs prepares a decision that could paralyse transatlantic data flows and risk billions in revenue for technolog...

By Dong Sun-hwaAnti-China sentiment triggered by recent Winter Olympics controversies has spilled over to K-pop, with internet users quarrelling over whether Chinese K-pop stars should bow like Koreans even though both cultures have different customs...

A suspect tried to climb down the side of a Hong Kong industrial building during one of two police raids on Thursday that led to the arrest of nine men accused of robbing HK$3 million (US$384,585) from a cryptocurrency trader.The arrests forced the t...

Hong Kong’s so-called anti-epidemic taxi drivers, recruited to ferry Covid-19 patients to and from clinics, received more than 300 bookings within 20 minutes of the service’s launch on Friday, though some cabbies complained they were already rece...

The IOC called an immediate meeting with Chinese organisers to remind them to keep politics out of the Beijing Olympics, president Thomas Bach said on Friday, after a local spokeswoman hit back at “lies” about Xinjiang.“This problem we did not ...

In the hinterland of Argentina, Mario Pizarro’s office looks like a shrine to China. There’s the framed photo of a Chinese peasant with Pizarro’s face superimposed beneath the conical farmer hat. There’s the blue-robed smiling Buddha statue. ...

Five American sailors have been charged with violating military law over leaked video showing an F-35 fighter jet crashing on an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea last month, the US Navy said on Thursday.An ensign, three chief petty officers an...

The Chinese embassy in Estonia has lashed out at the Baltic nation’s spy agency after its report offered a scathing evaluation of Beijing’s foreign policy and tactics in targeting critics.The Foreign Intelligence Service of Estonia, in its annual...

Sara Seerat, 27, and Sahar*, 19, are among the most courageous women I’ve ever interviewed. They are from Afghanistan, where the hardline Islamist Taliban took power last August.Seerat, a women’s rights advocate who once worked for the government...

Hong Kong’s deserted Kai Tak Cruise Terminal could soon be converted into another facility for isolating the tens of thousands of Covid-19 patients still waiting to be admitted to hospital, the Post has learned, as the need to free up beds for high...

Chinese companies handling data from more than 1 million users are required to go through a cybersecurity review if they want to list overseas, and that includes Hong Kong, according to an assessment endorsed by China’s cyberspace watchdog.The conc...

Nataliya Poshyvaylo-Towler, an Australian mother-of-two of Ukrainian descent, found out her son had tested positive for Covid-19 at the worst possible moment.Last week, they were preparing to fly from Ukraine to Melbourne, where they live, after rece...

Weddings can be a day to celebrate love, but they can also turn into nightmares that create stress for everyone involved. However, some stories stand apart from the rest.In Henan province in central China, the family of the bride refused to get out o...

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the first shift by a US state to an “endemic” approach to the coronavirus pandemic that emphases prevention and quick reactions to outbreaks over mandates, a milestone nearly two years in the...

A number of potential buyers are lining up for Genting Hong Kong’s Global Dream – the unfinished mega liner set to be the world’s biggest cruise ship by capacity – and a deal needs to be signed by summer when the company’s closed German shi...

China’s “dynamic clearance” strategy aimed at minimising coronavirus infections is boosting the economy, not undermining it, the country’s top anti-corruption body said on Friday in response to concerns about the prospects for growth this yea...

India lodged a diplomatic protest with Singapore over Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s remarks about the number of Indian lawmakers facing criminal charges, potentially testing ties between the two countries that share a key economic partnership.Ne...

Suspected Covid-19 patients forced to wait outside Hong Kong’s public hospitals in the cold for hours for admission would be moved indoors within the day, officials pledged on Friday, after a political heavyweight demanded the government make it a ...

To hear Russian media tell it, the government of Ukraine is run by neo-Nazis waging a genocidal campaign against ethnic Russians in the country’s east, where Moscow-backed authorities regularly uncover mass graves full of the corpses of women and c...

If you buy illegal plants or their by-products in China, you could be jailed for up to seven years. Buying endangered animals could result in life imprisonment or death.But for someone found guilty of buying a trafficked woman or child, the maximum j...

From allegations about bigamist bankers to bribe-taking sheikhs, former Goldman Sachs employee Roger Ng’s trial in New York over his role in Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal has offered a stream of juicy details since it began on Monday.The US District Co...

Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, the chairman and managing director of tycoon Li Ka-shing’s flagship company, is undergoing tests for Covid-19 after reporting symptoms, according to a statement by CK Asset Holdings.Li, who turns 58 in August, is awaiting test ...

A burning car transport ship was drifting in the mid-Atlantic, carrying thousands of Volkswagen Group vehicles.The 198-metre-long Felicity Ace was on its way from Germany to the US when it caught fire on Wednesday.The Felicity Ace’s 22 crew members...

Sofia Jirau announced a “big secret” on social media: she has become a new type of angel – the first Victoria’s Secret model with Down’s syndrome. The Puerto Rican shared a black and white photo of herself in a Victoria’s Secret bra.Jirau...

An agreement to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit against a Chinese real estate heiress acquitted of murder charges in her ex-boyfriend’s death was delayed by a California judge after her lawyer disputed the amount of lawyers’ fees it included and ...

France announced Thursday that it was withdrawing its troops from Mali after a breakdown in relations with the country’s ruling junta, ending a near 10-year deployment against jihadist groups that pose a growing threat in West Africa.France sent so...

The Indo-Pacific region remains the primary focus of US foreign policy, despite warnings by senior US officials that a war between Ukraine and Russia could “start at any time”. In its long-awaited Indo-Pacific Strategy, revealed last Friday, the ...

Widely available commercial satellite imagery of Russian troop positions bracketing Ukraine provides a bird’s-eye view of an international crisis as it unfolds. But the pictures, while dramatic, have limitations.High-resolution photos from commerci...

South Korea’s new daily Covid-19 cases topped 100,000 for the first time amid an Omicron outbreak, with authorities saying social distancing measures would be only slightly eased ahead of the March 9 presidential election.Authorities announced on F...

One of the Asia-Pacific’s longest-running military drills co-hosted by Thailand and the United States will take place from Sunday to March 5, but in scaled-down fashion given the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant.Some 3,460 personnel, about a ...

Complaints about prolonged waiting time for Covid-19 test results in Hong Kong continued to mount on Thursday, with one resident telling the Post that it had been 12 days since she was screened.Long queues had formed outside testing stations in recen...

On Valentine’s Day, the first day of the new semester in mainland China, an 11-year-old boy left home in the dark at 5am to walk 4km to catch a bus to school, accompanied by his two dogs.His father, who lives 800km away in Shenzhen, watches from hi...

Hong Kong is bracing for more chilly weather as a cold front drifts across the coast of Guangdong, bringing temperatures expected to dip below 10 degrees Celsius.A strong easterly airstream will affect the coast of southern China from Friday, combini...

After a year-long jam, a mammoth Israeli strawberry is entering the record books.Weighing a whopping 289 grams (10.19 ounces, more than half a pound), the titanic berry this week was declared the world’s largest by Guinness World Records.The strawb...

Tencent Holdings and NetEase will stand out in the race to the metaverse, as their large population of users and early investments in related infrastructure bode well for new businesses stemming from the web’s transformation into an immersive, thre...

It has been three years to the day since Beijing announced the ambitious Greater Bay Area Outline Development Plan. In the first of a two-part series, Tony Cheung examines how Hong Kong has integrated with the region so far, and what lies ahead.Hong ...

With his softly-spoken manner and quiet air of calm, it is not hard to picture Ryo Chuh-yeop in his former job as an aerospace researcher for South Korea’s Agency for Defence Development.As someone who has spent most of his professional life studyi...

The Biden administration named six Chinese online and nine bricks-and-mortar markets on Thursday in its latest list of “notorious” sellers of counterfeit goods violating US trademarks and copyright law.Produced by the US Trade Representative’s ...

A US judge ruled Thursday that former president Donald Trump and his eldest children must testify under oath in New York’s civil probe into alleged fraud at his family business.The ruling is the latest legal blow to the 75-year-old Trump as he figh...

People who have survived the acute stage of Covid-19 have a higher chance of experiencing mental health issues within a year, a study by Washington University suggests.Those problems include anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and sleep disturbanc...

On June 29, 2019, a flight from Vancouver, Canada, was greeted on the tarmac at Shenzhen’s Baoan International Airport by police officers.They boarded the Boeing 787 and emerged with a small, gaunt man dressed in a white polo shirt, then paused for...

At least five people were killed as severe storms lashed Europe on Thursday, with winds of up to 181km/h (112mph) causing widespread travel disruption.In Poland, gusts of up to 125km/h seriously damaged more than 500 homes, felled hundreds of trees a...

The US government’s leading advisory panel on China policy was told on Thursday that Washington must devote more resources to countering Chinese cyber espionage and cyberwarfare capabilities and make companies like Microsoft and Google play a more ...

A US military pilot known as the “Candy Bomber” for his candy airdrops during the Berlin Airlift after World War II ended has died.Gail S. Halvorsen was 101 when he died on Wednesday following a brief illness in his home state of Utah, surrounded...

China is progressing in its talks with the members of major trade deals, as Beijing continues to advance its accession bids, which have the potential to reshape the global trade landscape.“China has been reaching out to, and discussing with, member...