Tiny government-subsidised flats as small as 186 sq ft have drawn the interest of aspiring homeowners after applications launched on Friday, with some saying it was better to buy small in Hong Kong than own nothing in the world’s most expensive pro...

Chinese experts say Russia’s rapid tactics in Ukraine are likely to be replicated in any PLA attack on Taiwan.There has been international speculation that Beijing could seize the opportunity to take the self-ruled island while the attention of the...

The southern Chinese province of Guangdong has tightened its Covid-19 controls to prevent imported cases from neighbouring Hong Kong.The city is battling its worst outbreak yet fuelled by the Omicron variant, prompting the Guangdong authorities to ha...

A new public opinion poll shows more than 70 per cent of Japanese people are open to legal changes that would permit a female member of the imperial family to sit on the nation’s Chrysanthemum Throne.Conducted by the Mainichi newspaper and the Soci...

A legal precedent finding plastic zip ties to be “instruments fit for unlawful purposes” will be scrutinised by Hong Kong’s top court after the first person jailed for possessing the everyday item at a 2019 protest asked for one last chance to ...

Health authorities have only identified a third of the Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong, a top microbiologist has warned, as officials revealed that close to 22,000 infections were reported in a single day.For the first time, the city also confirmed a fiv...

Tesla plans to build a new factory in Shanghai that would double its capacity to at least a million cars a year as demand soars in the world’s largest automotive market, according to sources.The US carmaker will soon begin construction of a new pla...

Two Goldman Sachs bankers concocted a scheme involving their wives to conceal kickbacks they received for helping to loot Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund, one of the bankers testified on Thursday at the corruption trial of the other, Roger Ng...

Cryptocurrency fundraising is now a criminal offence in China, the country’s top court said in a new interpretation of national law.Penalties for such fundraising depend in part on the value of the amount raised, according to the interpretation by ...

The UK government is coming under pressure to crack down on company registrations amid concerns Britain has become a hub for shell businesses that can be set up cheaply by people whose identity isn’t clear.The UK has a reputation as a hub for money...

Hong Kong police arrested 22 people for gambling offences and issued them fines totalling HK$110,000 (US$14,000) for breaching social-distancing rules in a raid on an illegal mahjong parlour on Thursday night.The six men and 16 women, aged 30 to 64, ...

A Chinese father’s support for his four-year-old daughter’s ambition to become a cleaner has been hailed by internet users as “a textbook for parents”.The man, surnamed Chen, paused for a second when the girl who was reading picture books tol...

A study of imported Covid-19 cases in China has found that 5 per cent of people tested positive after they completed 14 days in quarantine, according to researchers with the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.That included dozens of pe...

Gunfire was heard near the government quarter of Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday as Russian forces pressed on with their advance.Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar added that Ukrainian army units were defending positions on four fronts despite bei...

Operation Santa Claus, the annual Christmas charity drive co-organised by the Post and public broadcaster RTHK, racked up HK$19.5 million (US$2.5 million) for various good causes in 2021, handily surpassing the HK$16.7 million raised in 2020.The 34th...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po announced his HK$170 billion (US$21.8 billion) budget package on Wednesday, earmarking billions to ease the hardship of Hongkongers struggling amid the city’s fifth wave of Covid-19 infections.Man and Alex Au, a ...

Australia and Japan imposed more sanctions on Friday against Russia, and Canberra said it was “unacceptable” that China was easing trade restrictions with Moscow at a time when it invaded Ukraine.“We will work along with our partners for a roll...

As we patiently wait for the chief executive election, potential candidates now have more time to offer the Election Committee and the general public their vision of Hong Kong’s rebirth.The most pressing issue on any policy platform is to rebuild s...

The punishment of 17 officials in China’s eastern Jiangsu province over a woman found chained up in a hut in Xuzhou city has failed to quell public anger over the handling of the case.“Although the latest government statement was very long and de...

A Shanghai woman has claimed online that a hotpot chain has been secretly keeping private customer information in its database including spending habits and notes on physical appearance. The woman who used the profile name Naliyouzhimiao, claimed on ...

It is well and good that Twitter recently suspended hundreds of suspected state-sponsored accounts used to spread pro-China propaganda during the Beijing Winter Olympics.They reportedly depicted a rosy vision of the Games that glossed over controvers...

Hong Kong’s planned moratorium on commercial rents is likely to be effective in helping small businesses survive the pandemic if similar relief measures in the UK and Singapore are any guide, according to property experts.Small and medium-sized ent...

After 11 years of calling Hong Kong home, real estate business owner Jack Smith* is making plans to leave the city as soon as he can get a flight out.The 29-year-old Briton said he felt fatigued after three years which saw the city go through anti-go...

After advertising tech firm manager Lukas Ng kept telling his friends he wanted to “catch Covid-19”, one of them wrote a song about it. A line in the lyrics of the song, that friends of the 32-year-old have been circulating among themselves goes:...

Three former Minneapolis police officers were found guilty on Thursday of depriving George Floyd of his rights by failing to give aid to the handcuffed black man pinned beneath a colleague’s knee.The jury also found that the conduct of officers Tou...

Hong Kong residents infected with Covid-19 and stuck in their homes for over two weeks have been left feeling anxious and frustrated by the government’s handling of rising case numbers.Based on government statistics, the Post calculated that about ...

A US judge on Thursday will question a juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case who failed to disclose having been sexually abused as a child.US District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan also denied Maxwell’s bid for a new trial, at leas...

With the more contagious Omicron variant sweeping across the world, governments have been ramping up efforts to address the new challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Since early this year, Hong Kong has been hard hit by the Omicron wave, and the...

China’s hypersonic weapons programme aims to glide into the future with an “air-breathing” magnetic fluid engine that could make it commercially viable to travel anywhere on Earth within an hour.According to a lead scientist with the programme,...

Police on Thursday detained more than 1,600 Russians who protested against Russia’s multipronged military operation in Ukraine, while authorities threatened to block media reports that contain what Moscow described as “false information”.In act...

In response to the invasion of Ukraine, US President Joe Biden pledged on Thursday to freeze all Russian assets held in the United States, starve the Russian economy of vital Western technologies and pile on sanctions against Russian President Vladim...

China’s embassy in Ukraine has announced the organisation of charter flights to evacuate those Chinese nationals who wish to leave the country under attack from Russia, even as Beijing says it understands Moscow’s “reasonable” security concer...

Recent remarks by US President Joe Biden about countering China’s dominance in the supply chain of lithium and rare earths serve as an attempt to win over opposition to new American mines, according to Chinese experts.During a virtual event this we...

The United States has expelled Russia’s second-highest ranking diplomat in Washington in retaliation for the Russian expulsion of the No 2 US diplomat in Moscow earlier this month, a senior State Department official said on Thursday.The expulsion i...

An exclusion from Swift, a very discreet but important cog in the machinery of international finance, is one of the most disruptive of the possible sanctions that the West could deploy against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.Ukrainian President Vo...

Russian forces captured the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine announced on Thursday, after a “fierce” battle on the first day of the Kremlin’s invasion of its ex-Soviet neighbour.“After the absolutely senseless attack of the Russians in ...

Should athletes stay away from politics and controversy? Or do they need to use their platform to speak out for issues they believe in? Some believe athletes should stick to the “purity” of sport and competition, while others say they should use ...

Taiwan’s air force scrambled again on Thursday to warn away nine Chinese aircraft that entered its air defence zone, Taiwan’s defence ministry said, on the same day that Russia invaded Ukraine, a crisis being watched closely in Taipei.Taiwan, whi...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po’s explanation for how Hong Kong turned an anticipated budget deficit into a surplus amounted to a “distortion” of public accounts that helped the government justify its tax policies and boost investors’ con...

A Thai court on Thursday freed a prominent pro-democracy protest leader on bail after almost 200 days in detention.Student-led demonstrations in 2020, calling for Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s resignation and making unprecedented calls for ref...

The UK government has announced plans to extend the British National (Overseas) visa scheme to allow young Hongkongers born on or after July 1, 1997 who have at least one parent with BN(O) status to apply independently to settle in the country.The U-...

Myanmar’s deployed ground troops and launched air and artillery strikes against rebel forces in the country’s east, witnesses, local media and an aid group said on Thursday, prompting thousands of people to flee.Bombardments were carried out for ...

China has announced it is fully open to Russian wheat imports, in the latest sign of their strengthening bilateral ties as the Ukraine crisis is unfolding before a global audience and in the wake of fresh sanctions being imposed on Moscow.The announc...

Russia has defended its “military operation” in eastern Ukraine, accusing the West of turning a blind eye to what it called “genocide” carried out by the Ukrainian military against civilians in two regions.In a statement released on Thursday,...

Microsoft is adding new employees in China to help Chinese video game studios and publishers expand overseas through its Xbox, according to an executive at the US software giant’s gaming unit. The new team will help game developers in China “rea...

A Pakistan court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death Thursday, for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over the brutalising of women in the deeply patriarchal nation.Pakistani-American Zah...

China needs to consider its “strategic bottom line” in its relationship with the United States and be prepared for challenges, a prominent international relations expert says.“We must see the internal and external changes as we seek to safeguar...

Hong Kong national security police have arrested two owners of a Taiwanese drinks shop on suspicion of committing acts with seditious intention after they posted messages online asking people not to get vaccinated against Covid-19.The two women, aged...