A Chinese man has sought help from a mobile game to restore the virtual house his late wife built so that he can continue remembering her, moving many people online. The Beijing man posted under the handle @chuwengeileyan on November 26 that the virt...

China has pledged to bolster its economy, primarily on the back of domestic demand, and build a robust domestic market to counter external challenges, after a high-level meeting setting the tone for next year’s economic policy. Following the centra...

The abstract imagery and expressive colours of the late Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki take centre stage in Hong Kong, as the M+ museum presents Asia’s first and largest retrospective of his print works – including lithographs and intaglios –...

An exhibition based on the works of the celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has been postponed as relations between the two countries continue to deteriorate. Studio Ghibli, the Oscar-winning anime st...

Seoul police have arrested a South Korean man who poured boiling water on his Thai partner’s face while she was sleeping in the hopes of disfiguring her so that she would not leave him for other men. Police from the Uijeongbu station in Gyeonggi pr...

Hong Kong contractors will be required to provide proof that the scaffolding mesh they use is fire-retardant while samples will also be tested at laboratories under a series of measures rolled out by the government in the wake of the deadly inferno i...

China has urged the Dutch government to push the Netherlands arm of semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia to send personnel to China, Beijing’s commerce ministry said during a press conference on Thursday. The Dutch embassy in China has been asked to...

Industrial plants in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi have come under renewed pressure to scale back their operations as authorities respond to a week of heavy and hazardous smog in the city. Vietnam’s Ministry of Health earlier this week urged powe...

A plunge in the value of the Indian rupee to record lows over the past week as Asia’s worst-performing currency could be a mixed blessing for the South Asian economy, which has been gunning for months to reach a trade deal with the US, observers sa...

In the first three quarters of this year, China added 310 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity, up 47.7 per cent year on year and accounting for 84.4 per cent of all new power installations in the country, according to the National Energy Administr...

Cryptocurrencies tumbled on Thursday and bitcoin fell back below the US$90,000 threshold in a renewed signal of market jitters, as fresh concerns about artificial intelligence profits weighed on technology stocks. Risk sentiment turned sour after US ...

A prominent Chinese economist said the country can sustain annual economic growth of 5 to 6 per cent over the next decade and stabilise relations with the United States by the middle of the century, as it seizes opportunities from the fourth industri...

Three Thai civilians were killed as heavy combat continued along the country’s border with Cambodia, the Thai military said on Thursday, marking the country’s first civilian fatalities since the fighting resumed. The latest large-scale fighting w...

The impending termination of a long-running tax incentive that powered South Korea’s booming cosmetic surgery clinics risks driving away cost-conscious foreigners to destinations like Singapore and dealing an economic blow to the local medical tour...

We have selected seven Lifestyle stories from the past seven days that resonated with our readers. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Cantopop icon Alan Tam: from Leslie Cheung’s rival to fans smashing a...

Heart-stopping footage released on Thursday by Australian authorities showed the moment a skydiver was left dangling thousands of metres in the air after their parachute caught on the plane’s tail. The skydiver survived the incident, which occurred...

The remains of nine Indonesian nationals who died in the devastating Tai Po inferno could soon be returned to their home country, as most burial orders have now been issued. The Indonesian consulate in Hong Kong told the Post on Thursday morning that...

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s characterisation of US-China relations as a “G2” partnership is “deeply problematic”, a Democratic lawmaker has warned in a letter to the Pentagon chief. Such a description sidelines Washington’s allies an...

A controversial British adult film star faces deportation from Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for violating immigration laws after she was arrested on suspicion of making pornographic online content, police said on Thursday. Local police last we...

Hong Kong authorities should look into the impact of social media on the city’s teenagers and explore ways to tighten control over their internet usage, education and health experts have urged. Their comments came on Thursday after Australia became...

Philippine prison authorities have denied that convicted former mayor Alice Guo was receiving special treatment at the Correctional Institution for Women after reports claimed she had been given access to a mobile phone and allowed to receive unautho...

The trust of late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum has donated HK$100 million (US$12.8 million) to victims of the deadly Tai Po blaze, surpassing tycoon Li Ka-shing to become the second-largest single donor after the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Nina Wang...

With their domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series, we examine China Inc.’s next phase of “going glob...

A concerned mother in China has revealed that her local authorities are requiring all post-partum women to report when they had their last menstrual period. The request has sparked a backlash over privacy concerns and abuse of power. On December 2, a...

US President Donald Trump has deployed thousands of US troops to the Caribbean and warned of strikes on Venezuelan soil. On Wednesday, Trump announced the seizure of an oil tanker in enforcement of unilateral US sanctions. How far could Trump go, and...

Hong Kong’s first Chinese medicine hospital has opened its doors to patients, with subsidised outpatient services for the first month fully booked, prompting the facility to add extra slots to meet demand. The Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong...

China’s recent breakthroughs in fracking technology have the potential to usher in a new shale revolution that could solidify the country’s energy security and reshape the international oil order. That would see China join the United States, whos...

Over 50 couples tied the knot in a Muslim ceremony in Indonesia on December 3, 2025. The event, held at a grand mosque in the capital Jakarta, was part of a charitable programme to help couples who cannot afford the cost of a wedding

With the rise of social media and generative AI, how much of what we see online is true? In this new series, SCMP Fact-Check, the Post investigates claims circulating online and debunks viral misinformation impacting the daily lives of Hongkongers. �...

Tiny panda keychains are spreading festive cheer at Kowloon Shangri-La as the hotel supports Operation Santa Claus (OSC), which is raising funds this year for 13 Hong Kong charities and survivors of last month’s Tai Po fire. The Tsim Sha Tsui hotel...

Nobel laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado emerged from hiding to make her first public appearance in almost a year, waving to supporters from the balcony of her Oslo hotel early Thursday. Machado, who won the Nobel for chal...

US President Donald Trump has blasted media reports questioning his state of health as “seditious, perhaps even treasonous”, sparking pushback on Wednesday by one of the major outlets behind the stories. In a long, late-night social media post, t...

Hundreds of children whose school near the scene of Hong Kong’s deadly blaze that has been temporarily closed are finding their classes at two university campuses to be an eye-opening experience, educators have said, with some pupils planning on be...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese acknowledged some young people were still on social media a day after a world-first ban on under-16s went live, saying the roll-out was always going to be bumpy but would ultimately save lives. A day after t...

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng University has acquired office units in a commercial building in the New Territories for HK$90 million (US$11.6 million), making it the latest school to purchase real estate amid a government push to turn the city into a globa...

The classic legal drama Kramer vs Kramer tells a very sad story of a couple, played by Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, fighting over who gets to keep their young son upon the breakdown of their marriage. Those who watched the 1979 production, which ...

The collapse of the fragile truce between Thailand and Cambodia has plunged one of Southeast Asia’s most volatile border disputes back into crisis, renewing scrutiny of whether Asean can contain the fast-escalating conflict between two of its own m...

A quiet transformation is weaving itself into the fabric of Hong Kong. In recent years, the city’s social and business circles have been energised by a wave of newcomers from across the Chinese mainland. They have brought with them a culinary revol...

The Hospital Authority has reported to police an alleged fake equipment certificate submitted by a subcontractor involved in the Princess Margaret Hospital expansion project and suspended the company from its duties. The authority revealed on Wednesd...

Reincarnation must follow Chinese laws and be endorsed by Beijing, Tibetan Buddhist leader Panchen Lama has said in an apparent reference to the succession of the Dalai Lama. Speaking at an official symposium in Shigatse on Monday, the Panchen Lama �...

A Chinese woman escaping from a high-rise flat, reportedly to avoid being caught by her lover’s wife, has gone viral online. Video footage showed her scaling the building’s exterior walls and water pipes while wearing a miniskirt. The death-defyi...

The Hong Kong Bar Association will travel to Beijing next week to meet mainland Chinese officials, becoming the first delegation to visit the capital since the city’s deadliest fire in decades and its recent Legislative Council election. Chairman J...

A company linked to the family of late Macau casino pioneer Fu Tak-iam bought a serviced-apartment property in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district for about HK$550 million (US$71 million) amid renewed investor appetite for rental assets in the city. Plea...

Chinese artificial intelligence pioneer SenseTime is betting that its roots in computer vision will help it lead the next phase of AI, as the industry shifts towards multimodal systems and embodied intelligence in the physical world, according to co-...

South Korea is bracing for a showdown between political power and religious influence, as a widening bribery scandal linked to the Unification Church has thrust President Lee Jae-myung into a battle over how far the state should go in policing faith-...

Six major lenders in Hong Kong, including three note-issuing banks – HSBC, Standard Chartered and Bank of China (Hong Kong) – have kept their prime lending and savings rates unchanged, even though the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) lowered t...

A bipartisan commission focused on the rule of law and human rights in China is recommending that the US Congress scale up immersion programmes for Mandarin and other languages spoken on the mainland in American high schools and universities. The rec...

The Simandou mountain range in southeastern Guinea, once a dense forest where exploration teams relied on GPS and helicopters to navigate, has yielded vast reserves of its sought-after high-grade iron ore after decades of delay. Workers struggled to ...

On December 10, Australia began enforcing the world’s strictest social media age rule: platforms must now verify that users are aged 16 or above, or face fines of up to A$49.5 million (US$33 million), a bold experiment in returning oversight of chi...

Ukraine has sent Washington an updated plan for ending Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday, as US President Donald Trump laid into European leaders in the latest sign of a growing transatlantic rift. A first US plan that involv...