Hong Kong slipped to 77th place on a liveability ranking as a combination of ongoing Covid-19 restrictions and reduced press freedom made the city a less attractive destination for expats to relocate, according to a report.The findings by research da...

China’s largest city will restrict medical beauty procedures and ban tattooing for minors starting Tuesday as both are gaining increased popularity among young Chinese people.The Shanghai government said people under 18 years old will be prohibited...

The European Union will hold a summit with China next month to discuss sanctions they have imposed on each other and address the crisis in Ukraine, showing both are keen to open lines of communication despite growing tensions.European Commission Vice...

Singapore will lose one of the two ships offering cruise-to-nowhere trips from the city, after Genting Hong Kong Ltd’s Dream Cruises said it no longer has the financial capacity to keep the service going, The Straits Times reported.World Dream will...

Networking equipment maker Zyxel Communications Corp has stopped shipping from China to Europe by rail, as the war in Ukraine threatens to snarl a key land route at the heart of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative.Zyxel, a maker...

China’s Ministry of Education, which last summer banned off-campus tutoring firms from making a profit, released figures that showed the number of these bricks-and-mortar classrooms has plunged 92 per cent since the crackdown.The number of companie...

Paul Harris, the former chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, has met national security police to assist with an investigation, the Post has learned.The senior counsel arrived at police headquarters in Wan Chai at about 11am on Tuesday and was a...

Hong Kong’s coronavirus case total has surpassed double that of the mainland, with the city under pressure from a runaway fifth wave of infections.Hong Kong reported 32,597 cases on Tuesday afternoon, pushing the total number of cases up to 238,377...

China’s smaller banks could come under greater scrutiny over financing to Russia as the nation’s biggest lenders are already showing signs of complying with US and European sanctions in a bid to protect their large international footprints.Within...

China plans to raise its equity output of iron ore in overseas mines to 220 million tonnes by 2025, as well as increase domestic raw material supplies, state-backed China Metallurgical News said on Tuesday.China aims to “fundamentally” solve the ...

Joint statements by foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian (Asean) on important regional and international issues are measures of the bloc’s unity and credibility. They also demonstrate how cohesive Asean is internally and how far ...

Malaysian authorities have frozen about US$10 million worth of assets as it investigates ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Tim Leissner’s claim that his former lover blackmailed him over his role in the 1MDB scandal.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption C...

The European Union is seeking to ramp up its maritime security influence in the Indo-Pacific by offering access to a web-based platform that enables member countries’ navies and coastguards to communicate in real-time.Trials of the Indo-Pacific Reg...

The former head of Hong Kong’s de facto central bank has formed a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) with two family members of the city’s former chief executive, as they look to bank on their credentials to raise funds for their blank ch...

Hong Kong police arrested a bus driver on suspicion of dangerous driving after his vehicle hit a 74-year-old man in the New Territories on Tuesday, leaving him with serious injuries.The accident occurred shortly before 6am when the Kowloon Motor Bus ...

Military helicopters airlifted stranded people from rooftops of flooded neighbourhoods in eastern Australia and a tenth victim was found on Tuesday following days of torrential rain as the wild weather slowly shifts south toward Sydney.The death toll...

Hong Kong rail giant the MTR Corporation has further reduced operations after logging a record 227 Covid-19 infections among its employees in a single day, taking the total number of cases at the company to more than 1,100.The rail operator said on T...

Lee Jae-hong would have had no trouble buying a home in the suburb of Ilsan on the outskirts of Seoul back in 2018. With a strong credit score and a job at a blue chip company, borrowing enough for an average flat in the city costing about US$562,000...

Hong Kong is hiring 1,000 temporary care workers from mainland China and waiving local recruitment rules amid a shortage of staff at elderly care homes, as more than half of such facilities in the city have reported Covid-19 infections.Secretary for ...

The “madman” theory is a long-standing political trope, redolent of Cold War-era rivalries. The idea is to throw opponents off balance by making them believe you are so volatile, so hostile and so irrational that there’s simply no telling what ...

Care worker Lau had tried in vain to get her elderly father’s residential home to vaccinate him against Covid-19 as soon as possible even before Hong Kong’s fifth and deadliest wave of coronavirus cases struck.But the care home did not arrange th...

Australia has committed A$70 million (US$50 million) to fund lethal defensive weapons for Ukraine, including missiles and ammunition, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday.Australia now joins the US and Germany in offering military support to...

The state-owned China Post Group Corporation has further tightened regulations on overseas mail after 15 out of the country’s 34 provinces and municipalities reported new Covid-19 cases last week.In a notice released on its official WeChat account ...

China’s state broadcaster briefly shared an online plea from the Ukrainian embassy in China asking for donations to its military before deleting the post, as Beijing tries to walk a fine line on the war between Russia and Ukraine.The embassy’s po...

The war in Ukraine entered a sixth day on Tuesday as Russia faced deepening global isolation after invading its former Soviet neighbour.During a rare emergency special session of the UN General Assembly on Monday, ambassadors from dozens of countries...

Singapore’s biggest banks are restricting trade financing for Russian raw materials, as the war in Ukraine spurs lenders in Asia’s largest energy and commodities trading hub to reduce exposure to the sanction-hit country.The limits include a halt...

President Xi Jinping has pledged to promote China’s own path in human rights development in an assertive response to criticism from the West.In an address to the Communist Party’s inner circle on Friday, Xi said China had blazed a path of human r...

President Joe Biden will play host to a special summit of the United States and leaders of Southeast Asian leaders on March 28 and 29 in Washington, the White House announced on Monday.The White House summit, part of US efforts to step up engagement ...

The Hong Kong government is expected to impose a “large-scale lockdown” as part of its universal Covid-19 testing drive in the second half of the month, according to sources, as officials confirmed more than 32,500 new infections on Tuesday.Five ...

China’s manufacturing activity and new orders expanded last month despite the interruptions caused by the Lunar New Year holiday and Winter Olympics, but analysts have warned of lingering supply shortages, inflation and disruptions to services sect...

Hong Kong’s industry leaders have ramped up their appeal for the government to roll out a fresh emergency round of a multibillion-dollar wage subsidy scheme to help devastated businesses avoid bankruptcies amid the explosive fifth wave of Covid-19....

Chinese anti-corruption police detained more than 5,000 people accused of paying bribes last year, according to figures from the anti-corruption watchdog.In 2021, anti-corruption agencies in the country detained 5,006 people for giving bribes and tra...

After a supermarket in Shanghai’s Baoshan District reported to police that 2,000 yuan (US$317) of cash was missing, officers arrived at the site, only to discover that the money had been stolen by mice.A video shared by police showed an officer ret...

There are no easy options for Hong Kong confronting this pernicious, mutating virus. As much of the rest of the world emerges into de facto Covid-19 acceptance, Hong Kong’s approach stands out. Elsewhere, there is an acceptance we will be living (a...

A fifth of the companies in China’s southern manufacturing hub suffered more than a 40 per cent reduction in production capacity at the height of an energy crisis last year, according to a new survey from the American Chamber of Commerce in South C...

US President Joe Biden said on Monday Americans should not worry about a nuclear war after Moscow put its nuclear deterrent on high alert amid a barrage of Western reprisals over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.In response to a question about whether ...

Hong Kong residents are waiting up to 39 hours for an ambulance as the health care system struggles to keep up with an escalating wave of Covid-19 cases, with the delay up by as much as 50 per cent in just two days.However, the overall percentage on ...

University students in China are just as eager to learn more about death as sex, according to a new study by Chinese researchers.More than 56 per cent of students surveyed said they needed death education, the same proportion as sought sexual educati...

The worsening fifth wave of Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong has dashed hopes that the city’s border with the mainland would reopen any time soon. The outbreak is also likely to prevent China from easing its border restrictions for foreign visitors...

Finnish MPs will debate how to handle a petition calling for a vote on Nato membership on Tuesday as a poll showed a historic change in attitude in the traditionally non-aligned country after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Prime Minister Sanna Marin ...

Russia is not deploying all of its troops against Ukraine, opting instead to use limited force to push Kyiv to negotiate, Chinese military experts said.As talks started on Monday near the Belarus border, the Ukrainian armed forces said they had succe...

South Koreans are watching the Russian invasion of Ukraine with growing concern, amid fears of the economic fallout and North Korea’s future course of action, as presidential hopefuls seek to take advantage of the crisis ahead of next month’s ele...

Nasa is exploring ways to keep the International Space Station in orbit without Russian help, but does not see any immediate signs Moscow is withdrawing from the collaboration following the invasion of Ukraine, a senior official said on Monday.Kathy ...

Sunflowers have taken on a new, defiant meaning as Ukraine continues to fight against Russia’s invasion.Sunflowers were already Ukraine’s national flower, but they emerged as a symbol of resistance after a widely shared video clip appeared to sho...

Security researchers with US cybersecurity firm Symantec said they have discovered a “highly sophisticated” Chinese hacking tool that has been able to escape public attention for more than a decade.The discovery was shared with the US government ...

Fifty years ago last week, President Nixon made a landmark visit to Beijing that thawed tensions with China and reshaped the geopolitics of the Cold War. After the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s had effectively turned a bipolar world order into a “...

Japan will slap sanctions on Belarus over its “clear involvement” in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, zeroing in on President Alexander Lukashenko and other Belarusian individuals, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday just as talks between Ky...

Douyin, operator of the Chinese version of hit short video-sharing app TikTok, said it has taken down more than 3,500 videos and 12,100 comments related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as the war has become a hot topic online in the world’s larg...

The crisis in Ukraine cast a shadow over Chinese efforts to mark the 50th anniversary of an important milestone in its relationship with the United States as a former American official warned that ties would worsen if Beijing maintains its current po...

US President Joe Biden is dispatching a delegation of five former high-level military and national security officials to Taiwan to demonstrate his administration’s “rock-solid” support for the self-governed island, an administration official sa...