A former champion disabled cyclist who won several world championships for China has found her new track in life by live-streaming to sell seafood.Li Yuanyuan started live-streaming in mid-2019 when her husband lost his job and the family’s debts r...

Western sanctions imposed on Russia for invading Ukraine, which triggered a dive in the value of the rouble, are reverberating across China’s online cross-border merchant community, according to a local trade group.“The Russia and Ukraine markets...

China has called on all parties concerned to ensure the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities, as fears mount over a potential environmental disaster amid an intensifying military offensive by Russia in the former Soviet state.Addressing an emerge...

Police are investigating two suspected arson attacks that took place hours apart and left three cars and two motorcycles seriously damaged in northern Hong Kong before daybreak on Thursday.Firefighters and police officers were called in soon after 4a...

India plans to avoid condemning Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as it needs Russian weapons in its stand-off with China, and officials in New Delhi are confident the US won’t apply much pressure, people familiar with the matter said.Moscow h...

Hong Kong’s local supply of fresh pork and beef is expected to be restored as soon as next Wednesday after a severe Covid-19 outbreak forced the closure of the city’s largest slaughterhouse last week.Hui Wai-kin, head of the Pork Traders General ...

A leading Chinese lawyer and member of the country’s top political advisory body has suggested that “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – a catch-all term routinely used by law enforcement to muzzle dissent – should no longer be a crim...

As many as 500 testing centres will be set up across Hong Kong and families will be able to book time slots together when the government launches its universal coronavirus screening drive later this month, the Post has learned.The new details on Thur...

Singapore will set up a new wing of its armed forces dedicated to digital security with a minister saying the Russia-Ukraine war, which has included cyberattacks, shows the need to build the city state’s own defences against external threats.Addres...

Three Ukrainian musicians working for an orchestra in South Korea have returned to their homeland to fight the Russian invasion, it has emerged.Contrabass player Ziuzkin Dmytro, 47, sent a picture of himself back in Ukraine, rifle in hand and dressed...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine.“I have notified the ICC Presidency a few moments ago of my decision to immediately proceed with active invest...

The shrinking zero-Covid club just lost another member.Western Australia (WA) finally reopened its borders to vaccinated travellers on Thursday, after almost two years of closures that were intended to stamp out the coronavirus. That means the entire...

Two prominent bioethicists have called on the Chinese government to protect the world’s first gene-edited babies – the result of an experiment that was globally condemned – and any future generations.The proposal came from Qiu Renzong, from the...

Russian forces have taken the Black Sea city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, a significant victory for Moscow after a string of military setbacks.The battlefield gain, confirmed by local Ukrainian officials late Wednesday, came as Ukraine’s second ...

Hydro and other power plants are being brought on line to provide electricity to the southern part of Taiwan after a blackout on Thursday caused by a malfunction at the same power generation plant blamed for last year’s cuts.Operator Taipower said ...

At least five superyachts owned by Russian billionaires were anchored or cruising on Wednesday in Maldives, an Indian Ocean island nation that does not have an extradition treaty with the United States, ship tracking data showed.The vessels’ arriva...

As the spectre of a March lockdown looms while Hong Kong battles its most explosive Covid-19 wave, fears over food supply and mobility have sparked panic buying throughout the city.The situation has led to Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor c...

China’s top anti-corruption watchdog is investigating a provincial police chief as part of a crackdown that has snared at least 11 senior law enforcement and judicial figures in the past five years.Wang Dawei, 57, who is a vice-governor of Liaoning...

Activity in China’s services sector in February expanded at the slowest pace in six months, as the sprawling industry reels from the government’s tough containment measures to stop the spread of local coronavirus outbreaks, a survey showed on Thu...

Former Nissan executive Greg Kelly was handed a six-month suspended sentence on Thursday by a Tokyo court over allegations he helped disgraced auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn attempt to conceal income.The 65-year-old American was detained at the same time a...

The United States said on Wednesday it would follow the lead of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) by inviting a non-political representative from military-ruled Myanmar to a summit with the 10-country bloc in Washington this month.Pr...

In 2020, a short video on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, of an elderly man clad in rags and struggling to communicate his desire to buy noodles brought the man, Zheng Zulong, and the noodle store owner Guose Li, instant fame.Misfortune, on the ...

Almost a third of international insurance companies in Hong Kong are considering downsizing their operations because of a shortage of talent exacerbated by the city’s strict Covid-19 policies, according to a survey by the Hong Kong Federation of In...

Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms who recovered at home have said the experience left them feeling helpless and frustrated, with many blaming Hong Kong authorities’ unresponsiveness and lack of support.While Hong Kong theoretically requires Covi...

The story of a Chinese man who claimed he was imprisoned and used as a “blood slave” that was widely reported last month was a hoax, according to Cambodian police.Cambodian police informed the Chinese embassy on Monday that their investigation re...

Senior Russian officials told their Chinese counterparts on February 4 that Moscow was going to conduct a military operation in Ukraine, according to two sources with ties to the White House who cited US intelligence. They added that China stopped sh...

Chinese scientists said they have developed an antibody therapy to treat and prevent severe Covid-19 which has been shown to be effective in animals.They said the treatment “retains neutralising ability to most Sars-CoV-2 variants of concern, with ...

The US military said on Wednesday it will postpone a scheduled test launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, in a bid to lower soaring tensions after Russia announced it was putting its nuclear forces on high alert.Russian Presid...

Thousands of China’s political elite converge on Beijing each year for the “two sessions”, the country’s biggest annual political meetings. In the first of a series on this year’s agenda, we look at how the Ukraine crisis may loom large.As ...

The United States raised fears that civilians are being targeted by Russia in Ukraine, warning that Moscow is moving cluster munitions and other lethal weaponry into the country in a potentially dangerous new phase of the conflict.One week after Russ...

As International Olympic Committee officials were attacked in recent years over their refusal to weigh in on alleged rights abuses in China, they stuck rigidly to one retort: the IOC is an impartial body and sport must be insulated from politics.“T...

Spanish prosecutors are shelving two investigations into alleged financial wrongdoing in Juan Carlos I’s business dealings that prompted the former monarch to move from Spain to Abu Dhabi.Prosecutors in the Spanish Supreme Court said Wednesday they...

Western sanctions imposed against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, including exclusion from the Swift financial messaging system, could offer new development opportunities for China’s digital currency and its home-grown yuan cross-border p...

Ukraine on Wednesday invited the worried mothers of Russian troops captured on the battlefield to come and collect their sons, in an apparent attempt to embarrass Moscow.“A decision has been taken to hand over captured Russian troops to their mothe...

“War,” argued the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, is “essential”. Born after the Napoleonic Wars, the controversial philosopher maintained, “we know of no other means to imbue exhausted peoples, as strongly and surely as every great...

From wars in Chechnya to Syria, Vladimir Putin has overseen military campaigns that have inflicted vast and often indiscriminate damage on civilian infrastructure, raising fears he might repeat the tactics in Ukraine, observers say.With his latest in...

The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, with China abstaining from the vote and again refusing to denounce President Vladimir Putin’s military action.“We are facing a tr...

The United Nations approved a landmark agreement to create the world’s first ever global plastic pollution treaty on Wednesday, describing it as the most significant environmental deal since the 2015 Paris climate accord.Member states held talks fo...

The German approach of dealing with Russia, with its perilous naivety of relying on dialogue, appeasement and cooperation, has failed. Two previous chancellors, Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel, were not inclined to face the reality that Vladimir ...

A 40,000-year-old site in northern China may have revealed the earliest evidence of ochre processing in eastern Asia, and even the first colonisation of an indigenous culture.The find indicates innovative behaviours with the mineral pigment, although...

[Sponsored Article] As part of its mission to train future primary and secondary school teachers, the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) aims to provide a good balance of theory and practical experience.  The key is to introduce students to...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that he believed Russia’s actions in Ukraine constitute a “war crime” and threatened to further “tighten the vice” on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime.During the weekly prime...

Several top Myanmar celebrities who were detained for criticising the army’s seizure of power were released from prison Wednesday under pardons issued by the military government, state-run television reported.The celebrities released from Insein Pr...

Civilian buildings in major Ukrainian cities collapsed and went up in flames after Russian forces bombarded urban centres on Wednesday, as Moscow’s invasion entered a seventh day.After meeting strong resistance from Ukrainian troops and citizens, a...

Private hospitals would risk a system collapse if they took in Covid-19 patients, a sector leader said on Wednesday, adding that such facilities were also facing staff shortages amid Hong Kong’s worst coronavirus outbreak.Dr William Ho Shiu-wei, ch...

Singapore aims to fill a shortage of overseas workers within the next few months as it progressively eases border restrictions, according to Finance Minister Lawrence Wong.Priority will be given to workers in the construction, marine and process sect...

The air travel industry is set to take another hit following on from the Covid-19 pandemic, as more countries move to ban Russian planes from their airspace in response to the invasion of Ukraine.“The sanctions and airspace bans [on Russia] will on...

At least 5.2 million children and adolescents worldwide have lost a parent or guardian as a result of the pandemic, according to a study factoring deaths up to autumn 2021.The number of affected children thereby exceeds the 5 million coronavirus deat...