At the eleventh hour of its painstakingly negotiated investment deal with the European Union, China tried to add a clause that would have frozen some of the benefits for EU states that restricted access for Huawei Technologies Co. and other Chinese t...

A woman who initially sought refuge with a Singapore family after running away from home became their slave after angering one of the women by engaging in a sex act with her husband.Four of the family members pleaded guilty on Thursday to various cri...

Hong Kong authorities have made their first major maritime smuggling bust of the new year, seizing more than HK$4 million worth of illicit wildlife products and contraband items, and arresting a local man in the early hours of Friday morning.A law en...

With complaints of “smell harassment” increasing in Japan’s workplaces, an entrepreneur who battled his own odour demons has launched a new service to determine just how badly a person smells. Shota Ishida set up Odorate Co. in 2019 and is lau...

Nguyen Huu Khanh hasn’t seen his family since he moved to Madrid in 2017 to study Spanish – and he also misses pho with tender beef and the many other foods of his home. As soon as Spain reported its first Covid-19 outbreak in February last year,...

Hong Kong reported a slight Covid-19 rebound on Friday with 45 new cases, as a leading government pandemic adviser said the Sinovac Biotech coronavirus vaccine acquired by the city had attained a “quite desirable” protection rate.The remarks by P...

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong received his first shot of a vaccine against Covid-19 on Friday, he said in a Facebook post.A video showed the 68-year-old being injected in the arm at a local hospital.Singapore has so far only approved Pfize...

US Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick has died of injuries suffered during a riot led by supporters of President Donald Trump, the force said in a statement late on Thursday.Wednesday’s breach of the building was a stunning assault on American d...

China accused the United States of “playing with fire” with its plans to send its UN envoy to Taiwan next week, saying the move would create “new difficulties” for the already troubled ties between Beijing and Washington.The visit from Januar...

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[Sponsored Article]  Just how much of the global service industry will be left standing by the time COVID-19 is brought under control is anybody’s guess. In the US, an industry association says restaurants across the country are on track to lose ...

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[Sponsored Article] The COVID-19 epidemic has ravaged labour markets around the world. In April, the US unemployment rate hit 14.7 percent, its highest since the Great Depression. Even mighty China, the global driver of economic growth, saw the offi...

A South Korean court ordered Japan to compensate women forced to work in Japan’s military brothels during World War II, a landmark decision likely to inflame tension between the US allies just before Joe Biden takes office.The Seoul District Court ...

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All 53 Hong Kong opposition activists arrested earlier this week under the national security law have been released by Friday, the Post has learned, except former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai, who was remanded for failing to surrender his Bri...

A convicted firebrand cleric who inspired the Bali bombers and other violent extremists walked free from an Indonesian prison on Friday after completing his sentence for funding the training of Islamic militants.Police said they would continue to mon...

A jury began deliberations on Friday over whether a Hong Kong student’s fall from a car park near the site of a protest two years ago was a homicide or an accident.But Coroner Ko Wai-hung told the five-member panel that concluding Alex Chow Tsz-lok...

On January 6, US Capitol Police dispersed violent extremists who stormed the US Capitol. Armed throngs invaded Congress’ hallowed halls to undermine the peaceful transfer of power through certification of the Electoral College votes.The US Capitol ...

Chinese authorities are urging residents not to make “unnecessary” trips to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday, as the country grapples with fresh coronavirus outbreaks.Many local governments have issued notices this week calling on p...

President Donald Trump offered his most explicit acknowledgement of defeat in November’s election on Thursday, pledging to work with president-elect Joe Biden’s transition team and calling for national unity, a day after crowds violently laid sie...

Helping to push a stone slab with a carving of a Hindu deity into the earth, Kampon Tansacha said he faced a stark choice in deciding what to do with the army of staff that looked after his botanical garden outside the Thai resort city of Pattaya: cl...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Burgess Everett and Heather Caygle on politico.com on January 7, 2021.Three top security officials in Congress were poised to lose their jobs over the embar...

The largest crackdown on opposition figures since Beijing imposed the national security law in Hong Kong has shaken civic groups, with some disbanding and others moving their servers overseas or destroying the contact details of volunteers to avoid �...

Boeing will pay US$2.5 billion to settle a Justice Department investigation and admit that employees misled regulators about the safety of its 737 MAX aircraft, which suffered two deadly crashes soon after entering airline service.The government and ...

This is the latest story in our series on the Covid-19 pandemic, a year after the first cases were reported in the mainland Chinese city of Wuhan. It explores how vaccines have advanced at unprecedented speed and what prospects they hold for the figh...

Calls grew among US lawmakers for the resignation of Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz on Thursday, saying that their attempts to overturn US President Donald Trump’s defeat in November’s election fuelled Wednesday’s violent besieging of the Ca...

The passage of the national security law has put an end to “one country, two systems”. It is now expected that many middle- and upper-class Hongkongers will migrate to other countries after the pandemic dies down. With more people leaving Hong Ko...

The US charged 55 people with crimes stemming from the siege of the US Capitol perpetrated by pro-Trump extremists on Wednesday, including a man who was arrested near the building with a semi-automatic rifle and 11 Molotov cocktails, the Justice Depa...

China will cease using the Russian engine currently fitted on China’s new generation J-20 stealth fighter jet, replacing it with an upgraded home-grown engine.A military insider told the South China Morning Post Chinese aircraft engineers found the...

The circumstances of the December 7 virtual town hall meeting with relatives of residents at the Little Mountain Place care home were grim: a Covid-19 outbreak had been reported.In the fortnight since the first case had been diagnosed in the suburban...

US President Donald Trump has said he is considering pardoning himself in discussions with aides since the November election, The New York Times reported on Thursday.The newspaper cited two unidentified people with knowledge of the discussions about ...

A vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech has been found to be 78 per cent effective against Covid-19 in late-stage trials in Brazil, making it the second Chinese vaccine that has passed minimum efficacy requirements by most regulators.The announcement made ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Gabby Orr and Anita Kumar on politico.com on January 7, 2021.US Vice-President Mike Pence is expected to attend Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration late...

Australia’s major commodity exports to China sank in November as Beijing’s trade restrictions hit home, although the impact of the slowdown was cushioned by redirected sales to other countries.Australia’s overall exports, including those to Chi...

An estimated 168,000 people were infected by the coronavirus during the epidemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, with at least two-thirds of the infections asymptomatic, according to a national study of blood antibodies.“A large amount of asy...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Tyler Pager, Doug Palmer and Gavin Bade on politico.com on January 6, 2021.US President-elect Joe Biden has selected Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo to ...

The storming of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump on Wednesday has prompted calls by some lawmakers to remove him from office before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20.The chaotic scenes unfolded after Republican...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday denounced erstwhile ally Donald Trump after the president’s supporters stormed Congress in response to his incendiary rejection of the US election result.“All my life America has stood for some ver...

Genetic differences between identical twins can begin very early in embryonic development, according to a study published on Thursday that researchers said has implications for how these siblings help scientists tease out the effects of nature versus...

US President Donald Trump faced growing calls for his urgent removal from office on Thursday, one day after thousands of his supporters attacked the Capitol building in an attempt to stop the vice-president and a joint session of Congress from formal...

Mainland China’s biggest coronavirus outbreak in months – in the northern steelmaking hub of Hebei province – has triggered curbs on transport, including truck deliveries of steel.But analysts expect the price of the metal to drop in the short ...

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has selected CLSA and Goldman Sachs for its planned second listing in Hong Kong, which could raise at least US$3.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.Nasdaq-listed Baidu plans to sell shares in the...

A service reservoir on Hong Kong Island dating back to 1908 was knocked down nine years ago with the consent of heritage officials, it has emerged, days after public calls to preserve a similar structure slated for demolition prompted government prom...

A Chinese lawyer has been suspended for a year after he posted videos on social media that allegedly showed police using torture to extract confessions from witnesses and a defendant he was representing.The justice bureau in Beijing’s Chaoyang dist...

An arrest warrant was issued on Thursday for outgoing President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and a powerful Iraqi militia leader last year, Iraq’s judiciary said.The warrant was issued by a judge in Baghdad’s ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s political troubles aren’t over yet – just weeks after he managed to survive a knife-edge parliamentary session, his key ally and the country’s largest political party, the United Malays National Org...

A former top official of China’s key policy bank was sentenced to life in prison for taking the equivalent of more than US$13 million in bribes, state media reported on Thursday.The Chengde Intermediate People’s Court in the northern province of ...

A jury will rule as early as on Friday on the cause of a Hong Kong student’s fatal fall in a car park near the site of a protest more than a year ago, as the presiding coroner on Thursday ruled out the possibility that the young man was pushed.Coro...