A Chinese navy vessel directed a laser at an Australian aircraft in flight over the country’s northern approaches, illuminating the plane and potentially endangering lives, Canberra’s defence department said on Saturday.A P-8A Poseidon – a mari...

The southern province of Guangdong is preparing to send more than 1,000 doctors and nurses to neighbouring Hong Kong to help tackle the city’s surge in coronavirus cases, according to a provincial health official.The official, who declined to be na...

Hong Kong civil servants from various departments will be deployed as part of the government’s lockdown and isolation arrangements to combat the worsening coronavirus pandemic, the Post has learned.The assignment would last for three months and the...

South Korea reported 102,211 coronavirus cases on Saturday, topping the 100,000 mark for a second-straight day, though down slightly from the record level reported on Friday.Infections have spiked as the Omicron variant ravages the country. Cases hav...

Armed customs officers in Hong Kong have carried out secret missions to escort and bury illegal cigarettes in landfills, destroying HK$700 million (US$89.73 million) worth of contraband last year, the Post has learned.To make sure nobody tried to une...

Britain and France have signed a deal to jointly develop new cruise and anti-ship missiles, their defence procurement agencies and manufacturer MDBA said Friday, after months of cross-Channel defence tensions over a submarine deal with Australia.Pari...

Delhi is home to 253 bird species, and almost all of them are at risk. Rapid industrialisation, construction, shrinking wetlands and human practices such as kite flying are the main reasons. But hope remains. Three men in India’s capital city work ...

Zhenro Properties has asked holders of its US$200 million perpetual note to forgive any potential default that could arise from its failure to redeem the securities due in March, citing short-term funding issues amid a market downturn.The Shanghai-ba...

US President Joe Biden has pledged to tackle racism in the United States, as the nation marks 80 years since the signing of a presidential order that led to the incarceration of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.Upholding the US gov...

When Yuji Takei (name changed to protect his identity) confessed his feelings to a fellow classmate in the spring of 2015, the promising law student from one of Japan’s top universities didn’t know what to expect.But the last thing he anticipated...

Suspected Covid-19 patients forced to wait outside public hospitals for admission over the past few days had now been moved indoors, health officials said, as Hong Kong confirmed 6,063 coronavirus infections and reported another 7,400 preliminary-pos...

Soaring petrol prices are fanning inflation and causing a headache for governments and central banks worldwide. In countries across Asia with elections coming up, they are an extra headwind for the incumbents.Voting is already under way in Indian sta...

A court action by the South African government against telecommunications giant Huawei has thrown a spotlight on one of the many accusations levelled at Chinese companies in the continent – their failure to give jobs to local people.In a legal firs...

The decision by Hong Kong’s leader to postpone next month’s chief executive race to focus on combating the worsening Covid-19 crisis could lead to a number of political “firsts” for the city, analysts have said.Beijing could simply extend the...

Hong Kong rail giant the MTR Corporation may reduce operations after 100 employees, including 17 drivers, tested positive for Covid-19 over the past week, with its union warning of a looming service crisis.The operator on Friday said it had recorded ...

The second major storm in three days smashed through northern Europe on Friday, killing at least nine people as high winds felled trees, cancelled train services and ripped sections off the roof of London’s O2 Arena.The UK weather service said a gu...

As Stacie Yang drew up plans to celebrate her 30th birthday due at the end of February, her options were quickly vanishing with Hong Kong’s explosive growth in Covid-19 cases.Spa sessions, a karaoke rendezvous, and manicures were out, as city autho...

Hundreds of Pakistani youths flew kites from rooftops in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday, celebrating an ancient colourful festival despite a ban imposed by authorities in 2007 following a spate of accidents.Enthusiasts have in the past use...

A teenage student has accused a private boarding school of shaming and abusing students, excessive testing and treating students like “test machines”, prompting local authorities to investigate.An official from Taocheng District Education Bureau ...

In two days, Hong Kong’s private sector and the patriotic camp took out advertisements pledging support, and then offered money, facilities, land and even popular idols under their charge to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic ravagi...

Running a distribution business is a juggling act at the best of times, but when the pandemic arrived Singapore-based Yeap Medical Supplies found itself with a lot more balls in the air.Across Asia, businesses have had to rethink how they operate and...

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announced on Friday that he and his young family have Covid-19 despite their best efforts to avoid infection by getting vaccinated and taking other precautions.Writing on Twitter, America’s doctor said, “When you�...

It has been three years since Beijing announced the ambitious Greater Bay Area Outline Development Plan. In the second of a two-part series, Natalie Wong looks at the plans to encourage young Hongkongers to seize opportunities across the border.Hong ...

China has unveiled new rules to ensure the People’s Liberation Army has a direct say on the design, testing and assessment of weapons systems, according to military experts.The changes, announced last weekend and endorsed by Central Military Commis...

New York’s leaders pledged on Friday to clear homeless people from the city’s subway following a spike in violence on the underground transit system, including the recent shoving death of a 40-year-old Asian-American woman.Mayor Eric Adams said h...

The 15 boxes of White House records that were stored at former US president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence contained items marked as classified national security information, the National Archives and Records Administration said Friday.The age...

The United States has finally released its long-awaited Indo-Pacific Strategy document. Southeast Asia and its regional organisation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, figure prominently. But its agenda for these countries and Asean is base...

US President Joe Biden said on Friday that Russia President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, and that he continues to spread false information to try to build a pretext for a military strike that could happen in days.“As of this moment...

Brigitte Macron, France’s first lady, has filed a lawsuit against two women who claimed she was transgender, sparking a wave of online rumour-mongering weeks ahead of her husband’s expected re-election campaign, a legal source said Friday.A first...

With China currently the only country capable of unseating America as the leading global power, many in Washington may wish that US president Richard Nixon had never made his historic trip to China 50 years ago this month.In their revisionist narrati...

Lawyers for Prince Harry told a court hearing on Friday that the British royal is unwilling to bring his children to his homeland because it is not safe.Harry has launched a legal challenge to the UK government’s refusal to let him personally pay f...

Malaysian prosecutors may reconsider a murder charge made against a teenage girl accused of killing her newborn son, pending the outcome of a probe into allegations the baby was conceived of rape, the attorney general’s office said on Friday.The 15...

As the economic policies between the United States and China continue to diverge, Beijing has an arsenal of tools at its disposal to cope with subsequent shocks, according to experts.Among the concerns that could pose a risk to China’s economy, the...

Police arrested scores of demonstrators and towed away vehicles on Friday in Canada’s besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure, raising authorities’ hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country...

The European Union made a play to rival China in Africa on Friday, announcing a €150 billion (US$170.5 billion) financing package for projects and development on the continent after a two-day summit with the African Union in Brussels.The funding wi...

An Atlantic storm battered Britain and Ireland on Friday, killing at least one person, as record winds of up to 122 miles per hour knocked out power for tens of thousands of people, forced planes to abort landings, and shredded the roof of London’s...

Local governments in China have been banned from imposing unauthorised lockdown measures, in the latest attempt to fine-tune the country’s coronavirus policies and offer a boost to the “in difficulty” services sector.The National Development an...

China’s financial services watchdog on Friday warned the public to stay alert to illegal fundraising schemes and scams related to the metaverse, as authorities amplify the potential risks involved in what some consider to be the next phase of the i...

Hong Kong’s monetary authority has instructed the city’s banks to allow only vaccinated employees to enter their branches and offices, as it enforces the government’s vaccine pass policy amid a surge on Covid-19 cases.The de facto central bank ...

Lawyers have expressed concern over disrupted schedules and an inability to take instructions from clients after all of Hong Kong’s 23 prisons and correctional institutions were placed under lockdown to conduct rapid Covid-19 tests on more than 7,0...

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday it will publicise in April the findings of its mission to review the Japanese government’s plan to discharge treated low-level radioactive water into the sea from the crippled Fukushima nuclear pla...

[Sponsored article] The willingness of Hong Kong residents to follow the government’s coordinated Covid-19 efforts will be the key to tackling the spread of the coronavirus disease, says Executive Council convenor Bernard Chan. He commented on th...

Beijing’s mandated cybersecurity review for overseas listings aims to address a perceived danger stemming from US access to “sensitive” data from public Chinese tech firms, according to a Chinese expert whose opinions were endorsed and publishe...

At least 10 foreign domestic workers were forced to sleep on the streets or denied treatment after testing positive for the coronavirus amid a surge in infections in Hong Kong, several migrant workers rights groups warned on Friday.Charities and righ...

A People’s Liberation Army Ka-28 anti-submarine helicopter was spotted entering Taiwan’s air defence zone this week for the first time, according to the island’s defence ministry.The helicopter, which can track and destroy submarines, was takin...

Southeast Asian fast-food chains are being hit by a shortage of French fries as supply-chain snarls slow shipments of the frozen product.Signs at some of Yum Brands Inc’s KFC outlets in Singapore informed customers that the company would replace si...

Tesla will use its over-the-air (OTA) patch to update the software on more than 26,000 Shanghai-made electric vehicles to repair a glitch that could cause heat pump compressors to stop working.The carmaker will deliver a software patch to fix 12,003 ...

As a former Indian diplomat accustomed to dulcet exchanges, Gopalaswami Parthasarathy was taken aback at Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s apparent suggestion that the country’s parliamentary standards had declined since the time of Indi...

China will expand government spending to offset economic pressures, but the deficit ratio needs to be set at an “appropriate” level, finance minister Liu Kun said on Friday.Beijing must “shoulder the responsibility” for stabilising the econom...

Thousands of frontline police officers must undergo daily coronavirus tests before reporting for duty amid Hong Kong’s worsening fifth wave of infections, force insiders said on Friday.The new measure would come into effect on Friday night and offi...