Turkmenistan established a political dynasty Tuesday, as authorities said the son of the Central Asian country’s leader won its presidential election after an unusual vote-counting delay.Serdar Berdymukhamedov, 40, was the overwhelming favourite in...

Guangzhou R&F Properties has agreed to sell a plot of mixed-use land in London at a loss to Far East Consortium International, in a move that underscores its haste to raise cash to pare its debts.The Vauxhall Square parcel in Vauxhall has been sold f...

Beijing has been going its “own way” to foster peace talks on the war in Ukraine, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday as his Spanish counterpart became the latest European diplomat to lobby for China to mediate.“From the first day o...

More than 75 per cent of stress-relieving toys designed for young children have failed to meet safety standards when tested for the presence of harmful chemicals and choking hazards, according to Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog.Twenty-two out of the ...

Facebook owner Meta Platforms will help train Australian political candidates on aspects of cybersecurity and coach influencers to stop the spread of misinformation in a bid to boost the integrity of an upcoming election, it said on Tuesday.Australia...

The South China Morning Post’s first collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), featuring its news archives from Hong Kong’s pivotal year of 1997, sold out in two hours on Monday, as the newspaper works towards building an “ecosystem of historic...

China held off on an anticipated cut to its policy interest rates on Tuesday as headline economic data beat expectations, but it is “only a matter of time” before policymakers take action to support the cooling economy, analysts said.The People�...

Hong Kong police have arrested one suspect and are still searching for two others wanted in connection with a predawn knife attack on a bakery employee in the New Territories.The 58-year-old employee, surnamed Wong, was attacked inside the ground-flo...

China is undergoing the highest number of Covid-19 cases since Wuhan in 2020, with daily cases nearing peak levels, despite no new deaths being recorded, according to national coronavirus figures.In the northeastern province of Jilin, the new epicent...

The fate of hundreds of planes leased by Russian airlines from foreign companies grew murkier after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law letting the airlines register those planes and continue flying them.Russian state media said the law wil...

Mobile phone addiction is responsible for up to 30 per cent of failed marriages in China, claim some marriage counsellors.“Playing with mobile phones has occupied a great deal of people’s time which should be used to communicate with partners, pe...

Myanmar will start accepting the Thai baht currency for settling border trade transactions and is also looking at a similar plan to use the Indian rupee for such trade, the ministries of information and investment said on Tuesday.Myanmar’s military...

Mainland Chinese health professionals empowered by an emergency law to practise in Hong Kong’s makeshift coronavirus hospitals without a licence will only make major medical decisions in consultation with local doctors, a public union representativ...

The lingering injuries from being shot nine times did not stop Temel Atacocugu from completing a two-week walk and bike ride for peace on Tuesday, the third anniversary of a gunman’s slaughter of 51 Muslim worshippers.Temel set out to retrace the g...

Vietnam is poised to welcome international travellers on Tuesday but a lack of clarity on the rules of a wider reopening while the coronavirus is still rampaging is causing confusion.It remains unclear what kind of quarantine and testing rules the So...

The stuttering progress of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown an unwanted spotlight on the Russian intelligence services, who observers say failed to prepare the Kremlin for the realities of the assault.Several reports have suggested that a sh...

A dissident legal scholar who was jailed for two years in China after taking part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement was killed on Monday in his law firm’s office in New York, where he had settled after seeking asylum in the US, po...

Iranian state television reported that the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard arrested members of a “network” working for Israel that planned to sabotage Iran’s major underground nuclear facility at Fordo.The TV claimed that the “Zionist regime...

Former commerce minister Frederick Ma Si-hang has urged the Hong Kong government to reflect and improve on its “many shortcomings” exposed by the city’s surging fifth wave of coronavirus infections.Ma, who was a senior official from 2002 to 200...

Global leaders around the world have condemned Russia’s President Vladimir Putin over his decision to invade Ukraine, but Elon Musk is taking it one step further in challenging the Russian leader to a one-on-one fight.“I hereby challenge Vladimir...

An anti-war protester interrupted a live news bulletin on Russia’s state TV Channel One on Monday, holding up a sign behind the studio presenter and shouting slogans denouncing the war in Ukraine.The sign, in English and Russian, read: “NO WAR. S...

Fugitive financier Jho Low, the alleged mastermind of the 1MDB scandal, stole US$1.42 billion from three bond transactions that Goldman Sachs Inc arranged for the Malaysian wealth fund, an FBI agent who traced the funds testified.US Federal Bureau of...

If there’s been one big winner from bristling India-China border tensions, it has been India’s army of app developers.In June 2020, two weeks after the worst fighting in half a century along their shared border, New Delhi took aim at leading Chin...

US President Joe Biden is expected to travel to Brussels next week to meet with Nato leaders to discuss Russia’s war in Ukraine, US and foreign sources familiar with the situation said.The plan, which is still being finalised, calls for Biden to me...

Chinese tech stock rout deepened, slashing billions of dollars from the likes of Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings in Hong Kong, on heightened concerns about an industry crackdown, Covid-19 outbreaks, and China’s position on the Ukraine co...

China’s economy made a “better-than-expected” start to 2022 as headline indicators beat expectations, but the recovery is set to be challenged by the worst coronavirus outbreak in two yeas and the protracted Ukraine crisis.Retail sales grew by ...

A Boeing 737 MAX jet that took off from Seattle on Monday is en route to the manufacturer’s completion plant in China, an industry source said, in a sign the model is closer to returning to commercial flights after a three-year grounding.Flight tra...

An Australian court on Tuesday ruled that the country’s environment minister does not have a duty to protect children from the harms of climate change, overturning a landmark ruling.A group of high school students had argued Australia’s environme...

For the past two years Shanghai’s policies on Covid-19 have given residents a degree of flexibility and freedom rarely seen elsewhere in China.The city of 24 million residents has never imposed a lockdown or restricted transport to deal with outbre...

On Douban, a Chinese social networking website, there is a group named “Away from the screen,” which was formed in 2020 and now has over 30,000 members who are striving to break their phone addiction.A person, with the username “Bot9,” shared...

Jacky Chan was surprised to see an anti-epidemic kit packed with six rapid antigen test kits, a thermometer, masks and an outdated guideline for Covid-19 patients hanging on his door last week, 10 days after he first reported his infection to health ...

Britain’s Defence Ministry said in a tweet on Monday that Russia could be planning to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine in response to a staged fake attack on Russian troops.It cited no evidence to support the assertion in what it calle...

Medical practitioners in Hong Kong have been reluctant to recommend Covid-19 vaccines to patients with chronic health conditions for fear of the risk of adverse events. Significant numbers of doctors have also been hesitant about openly discussing or...

Ireland has sent 5,000 ready-to-eat meals and 200 units of body armour to Ukraine, as the war against Russia continues.The country, while military neutral, has committed itself to providing non-lethal aid to Ukrainian forces battling the Russian inva...

Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson is among the six passengers on the next launch of Jeff Bezos’ space travel venture Blue Origin, the company announced on Monday.The launch is scheduled for March 23 and Davidson will be the third celebrity on ...

Almost two years after China achieved victory in eradicating Covid-19 in Wuhan, the country surprised the world again this week by imposing a lockdown in Shenzhen and restricting travel in Shanghai, two of its most important economic hubs.The message...

Anna Sorokin – who conned New York’s social scene under the name Anna Delvey and whose exploits as a fake heiress became the subject of the hit Netflix show Inventing Anna is being deported, two sources familiar with the situation said.Sorokin wa...

China’s most advanced stealth fighter jet, the J-20, has a new engine that has significantly boosted its performance, according to a military source.The WS-15 afterburning turbofan engine was developed in China and has increased manoeuvrability and...

The election of conservative Yoon Suk-yeol as South Korea’s next president has raised questions over the future direction of relations between Seoul and Beijing, with the former prosecutor making clear he plans to strengthen trade and security ties...

In this year’s annual session of the National People’s Congress, Premier Li Keqiang presented a finance report with an estimated 1.45 trillion yuan (US$230 billion) set aside for defence spending in 2022.Although that figure is an increase on las...

Britain will scrap the remaining coronavirus-related restrictions on international travel from the end of this week, marking the end of nearly two years of measures, the UK government announced on Monday.Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said in a twe...

The United States told European Union officials that China had expressed willingness to provide Russia with the military support it requested for its attack on Ukraine, according to a source familiar with the exchange.The source confirmed that the EU...

A jet linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich landed in Moscow early on Tuesday, after taking off from Istanbul following a brief stop there, FLIGHTRADAR24 data shows.The jet linked to Abramovich, the owner of Britain’s Chelsea socce...

Russia’s increasing isolation from the West may reinforce China’s push for self-reliance in advanced technologies, according to analysts, with Western sanctions already leaving one joint venture “effectively dead”.Moscow is facing a barrage o...

Julian Assange was on Monday denied permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against moves to extradite him to the United States, where he could face a lifetime in prison.Washington wants to put the WikiLeaks founder on trial in connection with t...

With Moscow’s war on Kyiv now into its third week, an asymmetry in power is in place with Russia advancing steadily and clinically against an outmatched Ukraine, taking out military assets and their supporting infrastructure. This war is very much ...

US astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries.Nasa insists Vande Hei’s h...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday sounded the alarm over Russia raising the alert level for its nuclear forces after invading Ukraine, describing it a “bone-chilling development.”“The prospect of nuclear conflict, once...

A large number of civilians have managed to get out of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol using a humanitarian corridor, the first time in more than a week that such a corridor has been employed successfully and not been disrupted by attacks.Mor...

The pro-democracy advocacy group Hong Kong Watch, which operates in Britain, has been accused by the city’s government of violating the national security law and ordered to shut down its website, making it the first overseas group to be targeted by...