China will remain an important economic partner for South Korea despite the election of a new “pro-American” president that has been critical of Beijing, experts said.In particular, South Korean companies could profit from the economic priorities...

Just a month ago, economists were optimistic about the Asia-Pacific region, predicting that its economic recovery was poised to continue on an upwards trajectory this year.The region took the Omicron outbreak in its stride, with most economies learni...

Short video company Kuaishou Technology is renewing its focus on the global market, with chief executive Cheng Yixiao taking direct charge of the international business amid a reorganisation of the unit.The Beijing-based company said it established a...

Jho Low was a big man in Vegas. He sported gold lamé suits, travelled with an entourage and lost tens of millions of dollars, a New York jury was told.In a single 90-minute stint playing baccarat, his game of choice, the Malaysian financier lost US$...

The central Chinese city of Wuhan has vowed to create a 100 billion yuan (US$15.7 billion) space industry by 2025 and become China’s “valley of satellites”, joining other cities tasked with developing the sector.Wuhan is offering firms up to 50...

Starting April 1, travellers who have been fully vaccinated overseas and registered their vaccination history with South Korea’s Q-Code website will be able to enter the country without a seven-day quarantine period.Travellers who have completed a ...

Two mainland cities, including China’s southern gateway city Shenzhen, have sacked and punished dozens of officials for falling short in their fight against Covid-19, as the mainland battles the largest outbreaks in multiple cities since the Wuhan ...

China will step up scrutiny of the country’s statistics agency and tackle the “outstanding problems” of data fraud and falsification, the Communist Party’s anti-corruption inspection unit said on Friday.While the National Bureau of Statistics...

Some elderly Covid-19 patients at Hong Kong’s government-run AsiaWorld-Expo isolation facility have been deprived of showers for more than 20 days amid a staffing shortfall, with a nurse describing residents there as “abandoned” in a “living ...

Despite three weeks of Russian bombardment, Ukraine has kept up a stiff defence of its cities by using Turkish-made drones to carry out pop-up attacks on the invaders with a lethal effectiveness that has surprised Western military experts.The Bayrakt...

South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s push to move his office away from the sprawling Blue House complex has drawn criticism from opponents who accuse him of prioritising feng shui over cost and security.His transition team has said the pres...

Li Meng is a devoted mother trying to support her two-year-old daughter, but in the eyes of Chinese society and the state, she is almost a second-class citizen.Millions of single mothers like her have it rough in a country where out-of-wedlock births...

Prison visits for friends and family members of inmates are set to resume, albeit with certain conditions, after the Correctional Services Department (CSD) declared it had brought an outbreak of Covid-19 in its facilities under control.The prison aut...

The television channel of a sanctioned Russian businessman on Thursday said Alphabet Inc’s Google had lost a court appeal against a 2021 ruling that the company pay a compounding fine for blocking access to the channel’s YouTube account.The Mosco...

Foreign diplomats, journalists and tourists were “systematically” denied access to China’s Tibet autonomous region over the past year, according to a new US government assessment, indicating that Washington’s efforts to pressure China into op...

A Shanghai man complained that his luxury apartment, bought at 95 million yuan (US$15 million) in 2010, has experienced raw sewage leaks and major water damage, and said he and his family can no longer feel comfortable there.The community he lives in...

Employers affected by Hong Kong’s raging fifth wave of coronavirus infections will receive a new round of subsidies to help them cover staff salaries from May to July, the city’s leader has announced.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor als...

As the casualties mounted in Ukraine, Washington and Moscow wrangled over whether the term “war crimes” was appropriate, an indication that the US plans to pursue the matter long after the fighting ends.A day after calling Russian President Vladi...

China is ramping up corn purchases from the United States as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine snarls grain exports and puts spring plantings in doubt, pushing prices higher in Chicago.The world’s top importer scooped up 200,000 metric tonnes of corn ...

Nasa’s massive new rocket began its first journey to a launch pad ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the moon this summer.It left the Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building on Thursday for an 11-hour journey ...

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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade agreement entered into force in Malaysia from Friday, the country’s trade ministry said.Malaysia is expected to be the largest beneficiary of the China-backed RCEP among Southeast As...

An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere, and while it wasn’t dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected right before hitting our planet.On March 11, astronomer ...

The harsh numbers revealing people were leaving town in droves, particularly expatriates from the financial sector, finally convinced Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to rethink the city’s stringent pandemic control measures, the Post ha...

Since the onset of its military action against Ukraine, Russia has found itself in an awkward diplomatic position in which it has been almost completely alienated internationally, with just a handful of states expressing support or, at best, neutrali...

The daily number of elderly Hongkongers getting their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine has plunged by 85 per cent over the past three weeks, data reviewed by the Post shows, raising concerns the city’s health care system could be stretched further ...

Indonesia’s goal to revitalise its pandemic-battered tourism sector could take a leap forward this weekend when the island of Lombok gears up to host one of the world’s top motorcycle races, seen as an opportunity to showcase there is far more to...

Most residents in Zibo, a city in eastern China’s Shandong province, were walking fast, trying to find refuge from the cold winter that is part of life in early February.But sitting by the sidewalk was a 10-year-old girl still wearing her school un...

Like most inhabitants of Hong Kong, I have watched with anxiety as the fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic unfolds in the territory.But news this week left me with little doubt that mainland health professionals are being viewed with jaundiced eye...

Researchers may have solved Stephen Hawking’s famous black hole paradox – a mystery that has puzzled scientists for almost half a century.According to two new studies, something called “quantum hair” is the answer to the problem.In the first ...

Hong Kong can ease its tough pandemic-control measures in six to eight weeks at the soonest and relaxation is “preferred” to sticking with the “dynamic-zero” Covid-19 policy, a top government adviser has said, as officials prepare to unveil t...

Advanced Chinese and American fighter jets have had several encounters in the East China Sea, a source close to Beijing’s military told the Post, saying it reflected the high level of tensions between the two nations.This came as a top US Air Force...

Experts warned on Thursday that imposing Ukraine-related sanctions on Beijing could backfire, pushing China and Russia closer together and weakening America’s influence abroad.Speaking before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a ...

A judge suspended court proceedings in the rape case against Ron Jeremy on Thursday after a lawyer raised doubts about the disgraced porn star’s mental health.Six weeks before the start of a trial on charges that he sexually assaulted nearly two do...

Karen Fukuhara, who stars on the US superhero series The Boys, said she is “physically fine” after a man attacked her on the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings.On Wednesday, Fukuhara wrote on Instagram that a stranger struck her in...

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday told the Russian people that they are being fed misinformation about their country’s assault on Ukraine and appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attack.The Hollywood s...

A protracted war between Russia and Ukraine could damage the global fertiliser supply chain, putting pressure on grain prices and production in China during a key planting season.The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has warned of a possible world...

Peru’s top court on Thursday reinstated a controversial pardon for polarising former President Alberto Fujimori, who governed the Andean nation during the tumultuous 1990s before being sentenced for human rights violations.Fujimori, 83, was initial...

Graffiti warnings daubed on the doors of activists in Moscow. A food blogger threatened with up to 15 years in jail for “discrediting” Russia’s army. A call to sack a senior former official for “treachery” for opposing the war in Ukraine.Pr...

Rescuers were searching for survivors in the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol, after Ukraine said a powerful Russian air strike hit the building where hundreds of people had been sheltering from the war.The port city is encircled ...

A Russian editor who protested Moscow’s military action in Ukraine during a state television news broadcast said on Thursday she is quitting her job but not accepting France’s asylum offer, calling herself “a patriot”.Marina Ovsyannikova, an ...

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has the liberal world order shaken and thus also the foundations of European foreign and defence policy. Recent events have forced a paradigm shift, with the result that EU countries are suddenly inclined to upgrade signi...

Hong Kong police will be deployed to help residents collect bodies of their loved ones in public hospitals from next Monday, amid complaints that families were unable to do so with the city battling a fifth wave of coronavirus infections.The Departme...

Veronika Belotserkovskaya, an influencer best known in Russia for glamorous Instagram posts on her life and cooking classes, has become one of the first targets of the country’s draconian new legislation that makes criticism of the war in Ukraine p...

The BBC said Thursday that it has apologised and paid a “substantial” sum to Princess Diana’s private secretary over subterfuge used to get an explosive television interview with the late royal.The UK’s national broadcaster said it acknowledg...

Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe will no longer be attempting this year to send its first rover to Mars, which was to have probed whether the planet ever hosted life.The European Space Agency confirmed Thursday that it’s indefinit...

China’s revised Covid-19 treatment guidelines will reduce hospital stays, ease the burden on the health care system and bring “more confidence” in the battle against the virus, according to a top infectious disease expert.Zhang Wenhong, who lea...

A leading media outlet has apologised for a reporter’s question to Hong Kong’s leader about how Covid-19 patients should lodge complaints over mainland Chinese medical professionals after pro-Beijing figures and media accused the journalist of sp...