China and the Philippines should not be distracted by their disputes in the South China Sea and should instead focus on advancing cooperation on oil and gas exploration in the region, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said when wrapping up his week-lo...

A state-run zoo in India has stopped feeding chickens to birds such as hawks, eagles and owls as bird flu outbreaks spread to more than 10 states in the country.Serological tests of a brown fish owl, which died at the National Zoological Park in New ...

A government advisory panel has recommended the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in Hong Kong, paving the way for a mass inoculation campaign after Lunar New Year.The panel of experts meeting on Monday took three hou...

Washington has barely had time to process the implications of Democratic control after two Georgia run-off elections that are delivering the Senate to Democrats. Hours after the races were decided, a mob of zealots ransacked the US Capitol and reshap...

Malaysia unveiled a 15 billion ringgit (US$3.7 billion) Covid-19 aid package on Monday to help the economy weather the impact from a fresh surge in virus cases.The plan – the first stimulus the government has announced this year – helps bolster t...

China has announced sanctions on US officials and lawmakers in response to similar US action last week over the political crackdown in Hong Kong and Washington’s efforts to forge links with Taiwan.Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying s...

At least 12 miners are believed to be still alive after being trapped underground for over a week following an explosion at a gold mine in eastern China.Rescuers at the Hushan mine in Qixia city, Shandong province, received a note from the survivors ...

Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Monday criticised a recent South Korean court ruling ordering the Japanese government to pay damages to former “comfort women”, saying it has created an “abnormal” situation.“I will continue t...

Chinese troops stationed in the South China Sea are learning battlefield English to avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments during engagements with forces from other countries in the disputed waterway.According to a report by state-owned English-lan...

Joe Biden ascends to the US presidency on Wednesday with an inaugural speech outlining how he’ll tackle the health and economic crises he inherits while attempting to knit the country back together, just two weeks after the outgoing president’s l...

Beijing’s two offices overseeing Hong Kong affairs hit out on Monday at the latest United States sanctions imposed on Chinese officials over this month’s mass arrests of opposition activists, warning the departing administration in Washingt...

US President Donald Trump was set to become the only American leader in a century with more than 400,000 deaths from one event on his watch.The US was expected to cross that sombre threshold as early as Monday. It was yet another reminder of how poor...

Firefighters pulled an unconscious man from a burning flat in northern Hong Kong on Monday after a refrigerator burst into flames just before daybreak, leading to about 100 residents evacuating the building.Emergency personnel were called to Lung Mun...

China’s pork output posted a sharp recovery last year after the sector was decimated by an incurable hog disease in 2019, official data showed on Monday.China’s 2020 pork output fell by just 3.3 per cent from a year earlier to 41.13 million tonne...

A South Korean court sentenced Samsung Electronics heir Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, otherwise known as Jay Y. Lee, to two-and-a-half years in prison on a bribery charge on Monday, a ruling which is likely to have ramifications for his leadership of th...

Hong Kong civil servants can continue to voice their concerns over pay and working conditions, but they cannot publicly criticise the government or its policies, particularly now that they must take oaths pledging allegiance to the city, the civil se...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday underscored the importance of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to the country, making clear that Seoul would not naturally take the side of its traditional ally Washington in its rivalry wit...

The first and only person to be convicted of rioting over violent clashes on a notorious date of the 2019 Hong Kong protests has been jailed for four years, after the judge dismissed his defence that he was attending the anti-government demonstration...

Angola, Africa’s largest destination by far for Chinese loans, has reportedly secured a better debt relief deal with Exim Bank of China, but could be on the hook down the track over less favourable agreements with two other Chinese banks.Angolan fi...

Hong Kong has a vital and indispensable role to play in China to facilitate the economy’s so-called dual circulation development, as well as in the internationalisation of the yuan and the growth of the Greater Bay Area, said the country’s bank r...

Aid was on Monday reaching the thousands of people left homeless and struggling after an earthquake that killed at least 81 people on an Indonesian island, as rescuers intensified their work to find those buried in the rubble.More rescuers and volunt...

US President Donald Trump at this point is opting not to issue a pardon for himself as he prepares an expansive list of more than 100 pardons and commutations for release on Tuesday, a source familiar with the effort said.White House advisers have sa...

US defence officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washi...

Hong Kong was expecting more than 100 coronavirus cases on Monday, according to a medical source, as health experts advised the government to expand mandatory testing to all restaurant and retail workers in Yau Tsim Mong district, site of a major out...

North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament has passed decisions made by a major ruling party meeting where leader Kim Jong-un vowed to bolster his nuclear deterrent and established plans to salvage a dismal economy.The North’s Korean Central News Agen...

China’s economy grew by 2.3 per cent in 2020, in a dramatic turnaround since the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the country in the early part of the year, according to new figures released on Monday.The annual growth rate was the lowest since the Chi...

Google said on Sunday that antitrust claims in a Texas lawsuit were “misleading”, responding in a blog post as state attorneys general plan suits against the Alphabet unit.In December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint about Goo...

Hong Kong’s embattled Ocean Park, which is seeking HK$2.8 billion in fresh government funding to stay afloat and launch new initiatives, plans to revamp its business model by charging fees for individual attractions and offering free access to a re...

While the Hong Kong government has procured enough Covid-19 vaccines for the entire city and, according to Health Secretary Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee, it aims to vaccinate most of the population within 2021, that goal to inoculate Hongkongers is...

An expected U-turn by the Hong Kong government to allow Lunar New Year flower markets at traditional major venues has caused confusion among florists, with some saying the reversal is too late as they have already sought alternative locations or chan...

Monday marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, when American-led coalition forces invaded Iraq. The Gulf War sparked 30 years of chaos and turmoil in the once powerful Middle Eastern country but also served as a rude awakening for China...

In just a decade, Mark Wang made a cool S$700,000 (US$530,000) profit when he sold his public housing flat for S$1.07 million last September, having bought the heavily subsidised unit from the government through a ballot. He intends to partially fund...

Japan plans to collect data from people who become infected with the novel coronavirus even after they receive vaccinations to assess how vaccines may help prevent the spread of the virus, sources close to the matter said on Sunday.Inoculations are e...

Hong Kong officials should let high school students take charge of creative plans to upgrade their communities to help young people regain trust in the government and society, a team of experts has said.It also urged bureaucrats and community leaders...

Fears of major protests by armed, far-right Trump supporters outside the US Capitol and at state capitols on Sunday proved unfounded, with only small groups, some carrying weapons, gathering in a handful of cities.More than a dozen states activated N...

Brazilian health regulator Anvisa on Sunday approved emergency use of Covid-19 vaccines from China’s Sinovac Biotech and Britain’s AstraZeneca, kicking off immunisations as the pandemic enters a deadly second wave.Minutes after Anvisa’s board v...

An antibacterial baby lotion sold in China has been pulled off the shelves and its producer’s facilities shut down after a five-month-old on whom it was used grew a protruding forehead and cheeks covered in hair and saw her weight balloon. Tests sh...

The Trump administration notified several Huawei suppliers, including chip maker Intel, that it is revoking certain licences to sell to the Chinese company and intends to reject dozens of other applications to supply the telecommunications firm, peop...

Police detained top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Sunday when he flew back to Russia months after barely surviving a poisoning attack, prompting a new wave of Western condemnation.Navalny was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport less than a...

When the United States swears in a new president on January 20, there will be sighs of relief at home and abroad, especially after the January 6 storming of Capitol Hill by Donald Trump’s supporters in denial over Joe Biden’s election victory. O...

Rock producer Phil Spector, who changed the sound of pop music in the 1960s with his “Wall of Sound” recordings and was convicted of murder for the 2003 murder of a Hollywood actress, has died at age 81 of Covid-19, according to authorities and m...

Egypt on Sunday unveiled ancient treasures found at the Saqqara archaeological site near Cairo, including sarcophagi over 3,000 years old, a discovery that “rewrites history”, according to famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass.Saqqara is a vast necropol...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is probably strutting around and feeling his oats, having accomplished several goals simultaneously with his decision to lift all unofficial constraints on US-Taiwan relations in effect as of 2021. No doubt he wante...

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated and more than a dozen have been killed in recent days in flooding on Indonesia’s Borneo island, officials said Sunday.National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson Raditya Jati said floods brought ...

The choice of Armin Laschet as leader of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has been seen as a promising development by Beijing, observers say, raising hopes that he will continue to adopt a pragmatic approach to China if he succeeds her as...

The top United Nations official for Libya said an advisory committee of representatives from Libya’s different regions has proposed a way forward for choosing a transitional government that would lead the war-torn country to elections late this yea...

China is expected to send more resources to troops stationed in remote border areas, including those engaged in the current stand-off with India in the Himalayas, following an overhaul of the People’s Liberation Army’s rules on how officers are t...

Hong Kong’s struggling Ocean Park is to tap the public purse again for “a couple of billion dollars” in fresh funding to survive the coronavirus pandemic before overhauling its business model for a sustainable future, the Post has learned.Two s...

An effort by a self-exiled senior member of the banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to lead a return to her homeland on Sunday has failed after an airline refused to carry her.The thwarted plan to return represented the second attempt by...