Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group said its Shenzhen factories have restarted some production and operations under “closed-loop” management, which keeps all employees living and working on company campuses.The resumption of business, followi...

Hong Kong’s graft-buster has charged two men with conspiracy to deceive the Lands Department into granting building licences over a span of 14 years for a HK$1 billion development project in the New Territories.Edward Wong Kwong-wing, 72, operator ...

China will roll out support measures to bolster its capital markets and steady economic growth following a massive stock sell-off over the past two weeks, driven by concern over coronavirus outbreaks, regulatory action and Russia’s invasion of Ukra...

Beijing on Wednesday lambasted Taiwan’s humanitarian aid for Ukraine and sanctions on Russia as “taking advantage of others’ difficulties” after the island announced it was sending more funds donated by the public for refugees.The war in Ukra...

Van* had never seen snow or left her home country of Vietnam until she arrived in Romania. She is among hundreds of employees at a turkey meat producing plant in the small town of Codlea, about three hours from the capital Bucharest.“I went far awa...

An accidental missile fired by India last week prompted Pakistan to prepare a retaliatory strike, people familiar with the matter said, showing how close the nuclear-armed neighbours came to blows over a potentially disastrous mistake.Pakistan had pr...

Russia has lost up to 40 per cent of the units it sent into Ukraine when Moscow invaded its neighbour in February, the Ukrainian military’s general staff said on Wednesday.The troops were either completely destroyed or have lost their combat capabi...

Hong Kong’s finance chief has said that quarantine-free travel with mainland China could resume in the second half of this year, with the government also planning to bring international business leaders to town for a high-level summit in November.S...

Taiwan held live-fire drills in its northernmost territory on Wednesday, putting the spotlight on a remote islet strategically located at a chokepoint near mainland China and potentially vulnerable to attack.The defence ministry says the exercises on...

[Sponsored Article] A research team co-led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently developed an innovative human-machine interface (HMI) that can teleoperate robots to imitate the user's actions and perform complicated tasks. The breakthrou...

China would have tried its best to prevent the war in Ukraine if it had known about it, said Qin Gang, Chinese ambassador to the US, in the latest statement from Beijing denying collusion with Russia over the war.Qin made the remarks in an opinion pi...

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) has launched its most significant transformation in the digital age, spinning off an independent venture to turn historical art, photographs and content from its 118-year-old archives into tradeable non-fungible to...

In a written exchange from an undisclosed location, Olena Zelenska, Ukraine’s first lady, told America’s ABC News that she fears for the safety of her husband, Volodymyr Zelensky.“As every woman in Ukraine, now I fear for my husband,” Zelensk...

Australia and the Netherlands have launched legal proceedings against Russia over the downing of flight MH17, which killed 298 people in 2014.What’s so unusual about this new legal action is that it’s being brought before the International Civil ...

The economic cost of Russia’s assault on Ukraine was fully exposed on Wednesday as Vladimir Putin’s sanctions-ravaged government teetered on the brink of its first international debt default since the Bolshevik revolution.Moscow was due to pay US...

A flood of anti-tank missiles sent to Ukraine has potentially changed the course of the war, putting pressure on Russia to find enough capable troops for the gruelling urban combat that is now more likely.For some military analysts, the number of lat...

Australia announced almost A$500 million (US$360 million) in funding to boost output of critical minerals, aiming to diversify supply for its allies and counter China’s dominance of the global market.Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled the fundi...

China reported more than 3,000 new domestic Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, a drop from the previous day’s 5,100 infections, which had been the biggest rise in the country’s daily tally since the pandemic’s early stages in 2020.The National Health...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban rallied his supporters behind a message of peace and security as he tried to lock in gains in opinion polls less than three weeks before an election.Tuesday’s national holiday in Hungary saw the biggest events ...

Hong Kong announced it would close all gazetted public beaches starting from Thursday until further notice to prevent social-distancing violations, while leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said she would “humbly accept” the criticisms of former co...

American media outlets came under scrutiny on Tuesday in a US Senate hearing on authoritarianism, with Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson and other right-wing outlets accused of allegedly assisting Moscow in spreading misinformation related to its i...

The theme for International Women’s Day 2022 is “Break the Bias”, which asks us to imagine a world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. This is the third story in a series about gender equality in China.Felizia Yao, a 27-year-old singl...

The Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious award, was awarded Tuesday to Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere – the first African to win the honour in its more than 40-year history.Kere, 56, was hailed for his “pioneering�...

Singapore could lose out on much of the trade in services with Russia it had hoped for after imposing sanctions for the war in Ukraine, analysts say, if Moscow acts on its warning that bilateral economic ties and deals may suffer.Russian envoy to Sin...

A year after a giant container ship got stuck in the Suez Canal for almost a week and disrupted global trade for months, another Evergreen Marine vessel has run aground, this time near the US capital.The Hong Kong-flagged Ever Forward got stranded af...

North Korea fired an “unknown projectile” on Wednesday which appeared to fail immediately after launch, South Korea’s military said, amid reports that the nuclear-armed country is seeking to test-fire its largest missile yet.The United States a...

The captain of a Singapore-flagged cargo vessel has been cleared of fraud after a magistrate found insufficient evidence that he had intended to con Hong Kong authorities out of free Covid-19 treatment by concealing his crew members’ health status....

Singapore’s top diplomat said he hopes China will use its “enormous influence” on Russia to help end its war with Ukraine, warning that Beijing’s decisions in the coming days and weeks could determine the future path of the global economy.“...

A food safety scandal has engulfed China’s largest meat producer after an undercover investigation showed workers using meat that had dropped on the floor, wearing dirty smelly uniforms and forging staff health certificates.Jiangxi TV Station expos...

Hong Kong’s iconic Star Ferry is having difficulty covering its employees’ salaries and paying down loans, saying it expects to still be in debt even after 2047 following two years of losses totalling more than HK$70 million (US$8.9 million).The ...

The latest census figures suggest the proportion of Hong Kong’s population aged 65 or above has increased from about 7 per cent in 1981 to 20 per cent in 2021. That means one in five people in the city is elderly. The main reason for this is that p...

Hong Kong health experts are hopeful that the recent arrival of two oral Covid-19 drugs, MSD’s molnupiravir and Pfizer’s Paxlovid, can provide a breakthrough in the city’s fight against a fifth wave of infections.The use of oral drugs to treat ...

New Zealand will begin reopening its border to the world next month, bringing an end to the “fortress” settings that kept Covid-19 out for much of the pandemic.Vaccinated Australians will be allowed to enter without needing to isolate on arrival ...

The governor of the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin has pledged that the outbreak in Jilin City, the epicentre of the country’s latest Covid-19 outbreak, would be contained within a week even as the number of infections topped 3,500 in a sin...

A dramatic video from China showing a husband helping his wife escape a house fire while holding her tightly emerged online on Monday.The couple became trapped on the balcony after their apartment in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, eastern-central coastal...

Europe tried to leave Covid-19 behind, but the rush to unwind restrictions is now setting the stage for a revival of pandemic risks.Accelerated by the emergence of BA.2 or “stealth Omicron” – a more-transmissible strain of the Omicron variant �...

Stringent Covid-19 lockdowns in neighbouring Shenzhen and several major cities in mainland China have sparked a fresh round of finger-pointing at Hong Kong from over the border for contributing to the worst nationwide coronavirus outbreak in two year...

Hong Kong’s first door-to-door vaccination programme will start giving out Covid-19 jabs to 10,000 homebound elderly and disabled residents next week, but NGOs have said the scheme will only cover one-tenth of those in need of help.Social service a...

It’s been just days since Yoon Suk-yeol won the South Korean presidential election, but already the backlash has begun.Yoon, of the conservative People Power Party, beat his rival Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party, in last week’s poll by a wh...

Robert Peterson misses spending Sundays with his mother, cooking and running errands. Dana Toole plays a video of her sister over and over just to hear her voice. Michael Webb has started speaking out about gun control since his ex-wife’s fatal sho...

The civilian head of the United States Army expressed apprehension on Tuesday about the military advances China has achieved over the past two decades and described the steps the US is taking in response to bolster its posture in the Indo-Pacific.“...

The US customs agency has banned all goods made by the Chinese sportswear giant Li-Ning, accusing the company of using North Korean labour in its supply chain, a violation of US sanctions.It is the latest move from Washington to crack down on China�...

A team of Chinese military scientists say they have achieved a breakthrough in laser imaging technology that will allow ground stations to identify and track a target in space with unprecedented accuracy.The results suggest that the radar, developed ...

US President Joe Biden will travel to Europe next week for face-to-face talks with European leaders about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Tuesday.Biden will meet the European leaders at an extraordi...

Describing Vladimir Putin as “manly” is a euphemism. Throughout his political career, Russia’s leader has relied on hyper-masculine performances to build a macho image for his supporters. Posing shirtless while riding horses, petting tigers, fi...

A 30-year-old man with a lengthy criminal record and a history of mental illness was arrested on Tuesday for a string of shootings of homeless men in Washington and New York, police said.“We’ve got our man,” Washington police chief Robert Conte...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used a historic address to Canada’s parliament on Tuesday to call for a no-fly zone to protect his country from Russian forces, asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau how he would feel if Vancouver or Toronto ca...

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that US President Joe Biden and a dozen other top officials had been banned from entering the country in a reciprocal response to US sanctions.The measure, which also applies to Secretary of State Antony Bl...

An Irish cameraman for Fox News and a Ukrainian working as a producer for the US television network have been killed in fighting near Kyiv, Fox News said Tuesday.Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova died and correspondent Be...

A huge crowd tried to storm the Sri Lankan president’s seaside office on Tuesday as anger flared over runaway prices brought about by the worst financial crisis in the island’s modern history.The cost of food, medicine and other essential goods h...