An internet radio host linked to a fundraising campaign that paid for young Hong Kong protesters to study in Taiwan was arrested for a second time by national security police on Sunday for allegedly having “seditious intent”.Wan Yiu-sing, better ...

An Indonesian village was inundated by crimson-coloured water after flooding hit a fabric dyeing centre in central Java, sparking a social media frenzy.Residents of Jenggot, near the town of Pekalongan, were seen wading through blood-red water on Sat...

Hong Kong police seized 280kg of marijuana from a warehouse in Lok Ma Chau on Friday, the second-largest cannabis seizure ever, with an estimated value of HK$63 million (US$8.12 million) on the black market.Authorities also arrested a 41-year-old bus...

For most of her young life, nine-year-old Gao Ximan dreamed of becoming a policewoman. But after attending an eight-week online workshop about climate change over the summer, she decided being a conservationist was a more important ambition.“Siberi...

Sales at Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year flower markets have plummeted, according to florists who are lamenting the impact of coronavirus crowd-control measures and lower footfall.Some growers reported their takings were down as much as 40 per cent by t...

US President Joe Biden has quickly launched a campaign to support LGBTIQ people abroad, putting their rights higher on the US foreign policy agenda than ever before.Elevating a 2011 initiative launched by his former boss Barack Obama – and reversin...

A long-term strategic plan to achieve carbon neutrality in Hong Kong by 2050 would be unveiled by the middle of this year, the city’s finance chief said on Sunday, as he vowed to tap into the opportunities brought on by the “green wave”.Last ye...

In his new memoir The Last Helicopter: Two Lives in Indochina, long-time Hong Kong-based journalist Jim Laurie recalls the final days of war in Vietnam and Cambodia, and the attempted rescue of Soc Sinan, a woman whom he loved.Helicoptered out of Phn...

Hong Kong’s tougher mandatory-testing regime is designed to give authorities the upper hand in its Covid-19 fight so they can ease social-distancing restrictions after Lunar New Year, the health minister has said.Secretary for Food and Health So...

Thousands of anti-coup protesters in Myanmar poured back onto the streets on Sunday, as an internet blackout failed to stifle growing outrage at the military’s overthrow of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.The fresh rally followed the largest protes...

For Syahiirah Junaidi, a Kuala Lumpur resident, the recent halal meat scandal in Malaysia is beyond her control.The country was in December rocked by reports that a cartel had for decades been allegedly bribing officials to import and sell Muslims no...

The recent unrest in Myanmar should serve as a reminder to Chinese investors of the political risks involved in financing projects overseas, especially in Southeast Asia, and the importance of performing due diligence, observers say.“Aung San Suu K...

Over half of Japanese businesses in Vietnam and India have plans to expand their in-country operations, a recent survey showed, in a sign of the shift towards reducing reliance on China as a production base in what is known as a “China Plus One” ...

In the second of a two-part series on global capital flows, Zhang Shidong explores the sentiment behind record-breaking Chinese fund flows into Hong Kong stocks. It also shows why the city has become an indispensable gateway for global capital seekin...

From 1,000 guests to 20. Farah Hani and Khairul Anuar were ready to get married in 2020, having prepared for their big day more than a year in advance. Covid-19 swiftly put paid to those plans.As Singapore implemented stringent safety measures, the c...

Jihyun Park shares the civic concerns of any other would-be town councillor in Britain, from local education to potholes in the roads. But she is unique in one regard: no other candidate has fled North Korea.Park is believed to be the first defector ...

Hong Kong will choose its next leader in March next year. As the election of this sixth-term chief executive draws near, the requisite qualities of a chief executive have again become a hot topic of discussion in political circles.In recent official ...

As Myanmar’s dark era of junta rule began winding down in 2011 with the bold reforms initiated by the quiet ex-general, President Thein Sein, other events happening across Southeast Asia gave reformists hope this was not an isolated instance of dem...

At least 20 local and overseas businesses are keen to get involved in Hong Kong Ocean Park’s plan for a massive overhaul, according to chairman Lau Ming-wai.They are interested in opening new shops, food and beverage outlets, and starting sports an...

Britain plans to tax retailers and tech companies whose profits have soared during the Covid-19 pandemic, The Sunday Times reported, citing leaked emails.The government has summoned companies to discuss how an online sales tax would work, while plans...

One person was missing in the French city of Bordeaux on Saturday after an early-morning blast that may have been caused by an accident at a car mechanic’s shop, according to French media.There were also reports of one 89-year-old man with serious ...

Hong Kong could be more “consistent and rational” in its Covid-19 infection control measures, according to top academic and gastroenterologist Joseph Sung Jao-yiu.The city’s medical experts must also do more, using scientific facts, to boost Ho...

About 15 Chinese Belt and Road Initiative projects worth more than US$2.4 billion ran into trouble last year, including a US$680 million electricity project in Zimbabwe, according to a think tank report.The London-based Overseas Development Institute...

Conjoined baby twins born in war-ravaged Yemen were taken to Jordan on Saturday for separation surgery, the United Nations children’s agency said, almost two months after a hospital warned they were in critical condition.Born in the Yemeni capital ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Friday discussed issues ranging from regional security to human rights and the war in Yemen, the State Department said on Saturday.The discussion between Blinken and Saudi ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ben Leonard on politico.com on February 6, 2021.Brad Parscale, who served as Donald Trump’s senior adviser for data and digital operations, is calling on ...

The shooting of a street juggler has set off protests over alleged police violence in southern Chile, with several buildings set ablaze and an officer held in custody for investigations on Saturday.Local news media showed about 10 buildings set ablaz...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed the International Criminal Court the day after a ruling opened the way for the court to hear war crimes cases brought against Israel.“When the ICC investigates Israel for fake war crimes – thi...

A meteorologist in the US Navy was pleasantly surprised to recover a wallet he had lost – 53 years ago in Antarctica.Paul Grisham, 91, did not even remember losing the wallet when friendly strangers contacted him to return it via post, The San Dieg...

Egyptian authorities on Saturday freed an Al-Jazeera journalist after more than four years in detention, his family lawyer said.Mahmoud Hussein walked free from a police station on Saturday afternoon, a few days after a court ordered his conditional ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ben Leonard on politico.com on February 6, 2021.Donald Trump’s lead impeachment lawyer on Friday suggested he will take aim at Democrats’ own words in h...

With coronavirus cases still climbing, Honduras got tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations programme, so the small Central American country struck out on its own, securing the shots through a private deal.Honduras “cannot wait on...

A German company is ready to remove hazardous materials stored in dozens of containers at Beirut’s port, Germany’s ambassador to Lebanon said Saturday, following efforts to secure the facility after the August 4 explosion that devastated the port...

An employee at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) was wrongly administered the equivalent of five doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine due to a human error, the public health care institution said Saturday.The error happened on January...

Cathay Pacific Airways has secured approval from mainland Chinese authorities to fly most of the routes previously covered by its now-defunct subsidiary, in a move seen as a confidence booster for Hong Kong’s struggling flag carrier.The Post has al...

Call it US President Joe Biden’s version of “Make America Great Again” – a strategy to bring jobs and industries back home and one that may weaken Wall Street’s long-standing influence over Washington’s trade policy, especially towards Ch...

Iran’s foreign minister urged Washington to act fast to return to the nuclear accord, pointing out that legislation passed by parliament forces the government to harden its nuclear stance if US sanctions are not eased by February 21.Mohammad Javad ...

The Chinese authorities have given conditional approval for the general public use of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech, the company said on Saturday.The approval is based on results from two months’ worth of phase three clinical tria...

German prosecutors reportedly are holding about 1,700 bitcoin confiscated from a bitcoin miner, but the man will not give them his password to unlock the cryptocurrency.“We asked him but he didn‘t say,” Sebastian Murer, a prosecutor, said on Fr...

Former US president Donald Trump made his social media comeback on Friday with a post on Gab in which he called his second impeachment a “public relations stunt.”Gab is a social networking website that is popular among far-right supporters. It ro...

Beijing may take its time to respond, but is unlikely to hit back hard against Canada’s latest move to offer a swathe of Hongkongers work permits, political pundits and international relations experts have suggested.At issue is whether towards the ...

Hong Kong’s justice minister on Saturday hit back at unspecified media reports that she said were prejudiced in their characterisation of prosecutors’ recent efforts to secure tougher sentences for those convicted of crimes relating to 2019’s s...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo received the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine live on television last month, but despite the fanfare, his ambitious inoculation campaign is already facing glitches from refrigeration, distrust and disinformation.M...

China has added 517 new species to a list of nationally protected animals, marking the first major update of the inventory since its introduction in 1989.The additions, which include the wolf, large-spotted civet and golden jackal, take the number of...

A leading government health adviser has said Hong Kong will not cut corners when it comes to approving Covid-19 vaccines developed on the mainland, even as neighbouring Macau received its first batch of 100,000 doses from Beijing on Saturday.In a cer...

China’s LGBT communities are reeling over new internet self-publishing rules they claim will remove the last vestiges of free expression they have.The new rules apply to everyone in China and force self-publishers to apply for an official licence t...

If the time comes, South Korea’s new consul general in Shanghai will not hesitate to get the shot.Kim Seung-ho, Seoul’s senior diplomat in the Chinese financial hub, said he had confidence in China’s coronavirus vaccines and would roll up his s...

Indoor grilling isn’t a new concept, but in the coronavirus pandemic era, it can make the difference between a restaurant surviving or closing its doors.Good ventilation is turning into a secret weapon for Japan’s yakiniku, or “grilled-meat” ...

Hong Kong’s homebuyers returned to the market, snapping up 83 per cent of the 460 new flats put on sale at two locations in the city’s biggest property sales weekend this year.The city’s subway operator MTR and its real estate partner Nan Fung ...

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers have been protesting on the outskirts of New Delhi for more than three months, demanding the repeal of new agriculture laws they fear would leave them at mercy of corporations.While largely peaceful, the protests t...