The World Health Organization (WHO) said the team of experts it led in Wuhan to study the origins of the coronavirus had agreed with Chinese counterparts for a summary report and stressed that the mission was not intended as an “investigation of su...

A new visual effects approach for film production, which proved its worth in the new Star Wars franchise The Mandalorian, is inspiring production companies in mainland China and Hong Kong to experiment with the technology in hopes of making it mainst...

China has called Canada “hypocritical and despicable” for leading a coalition of the US and 57 other countries in a non-binding denunciation of the state-sponsored arbitrary detention of foreign nationals for political purposes.Ottawa launched a ...

Peru’s president announced that 487 officials, including the former ministers of foreign affairs and health, took advantage of their privileged positions to secretly receive early inoculations of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine that the government th...

Singapore said on Tuesday that it would tap into its deep reserves for a second consecutive year to fund continued targeted support for businesses amid the Covid-19 pandemic, upending analysts’ expectations that the government would exercise pruden...

Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said on Tuesday that the international community should rule out “widespread” sanctions against Myanmar following the military coup there, arguing that such punitive measures would hurt ordinary ...

Once Europe’s poster child in the battle against Covid-19, Germany has turned into a problem child with the pandemic threatening to spin out of control – even after two months of a strict national lockdown that has frayed nerves, eroded faith in ...

Hong Kong’s hotel unions have slammed the city’s welfare minister over his refusal to set up an unemployment assistance fund and called for employers to reward staff whose jobs have been made more difficult by Covid-19 quarantines and staycations...

Indonesia has named Ridha Wirakusumah as the chief executive officer of its new wealth fund, which is set to bring in financing to invest in local projects from infrastructure to health care.Wirakusumah was formerly the CEO of PT Bank Permata and has...

Japanese voice actress Ai Kayano has triggered a fierce online debate with her social media posts about visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, the controversial memorial in Tokyo that commemorates millions of Japan’s war dead, including convicted war crimin...

China said it had “full confidence” in the new boss of the World Trade Organization, after the appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was confirmed as the trade body’s director general on Monday – the first woman and first African to hold the pos...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday accused Australia of shirking its responsibility for a dual national arrested in Turkey over reported links with Islamic State.In an unusually blunt message to her counterpart Scott Morrison, Arder...

Dr Anthony Fauci has won the US$1 million Dan David Prize for “defending science” and advocating for vaccines now being administered worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic.The Israel-based Dan David Foundation on Monday named US President Jo...

After a seven-month journey, Nasa’s Perseverance rover prepares to touch down on Mars on Thursday after first negotiating a risky landing procedure that will mark the start of its multi-year search for signs of ancient microbial life.Transported ab...

Hong Kong will from Thursday relax its tough package of social-distancing measures for the first time since the onset of the local fourth wave three months ago, as the city recorded just eight coronavirus cases on Tuesday.All sports venues, fitness c...

With China’s box office takings expected to return to near pre-pandemic highs in 2021, the world’s largest movie market is becoming more attractive – and more tricky – for Hollywood studios.Ticket sales from cinemas in China, which has largel...

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be the first in line to receive a Covid-19 vaccine when the country’s National Immunisation Plan starts on February 26.Malaysia’s first tranche of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will arrive this Sunday,...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Kelsey Tamborrino on politico.com on February 15, 2021.Forget unrealistic notions about abolishing fossil fuels in a decade, or modest efforts to make elect...

Two former opposition lawmakers are facing up to five years in prison after admitting to their roles in an unauthorised demonstration against the now-withdrawn extradition bill in Hong Kong more than a year ago.Au Nok-hin and Leung Yiu-chung had thei...

Saudi Arabia heaped pressure on foreign companies to move their Middle East headquarters to the kingdom, saying it will stop signing contracts with firms with hubs in other countries from 2024.The bold ultimatum could intensify competition for busine...

US President Joe Biden is expected to gradually resume cybersecurity talks with China, but will continue to fiercely compete against Beijing to maintain an upper hand in cyber strategy and in global cyberspace governance, a Chinese think tank report ...

Scientists have discovered “strange creatures” under a 900-metre thick ice shelf in Antarctica, according to an article published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.The previous theory was that life couldn’t exist in such extremity: no ...

Myanmar’s military on Tuesday vowed it would hold an election and hand power to the winner, denying that its ousting of an elected government was a coup and denouncing protesters for inciting violence and intimidating civil servants.“Our objectiv...

BHP Group expects China’s ban on imports of Australian coal to continue for some time, a policy that has dented the top global miner’s coal returns, chief executive Mike Henry said on Tuesday.BHP acknowledged that its coal business, which is unde...

A mentally ill man accused of murdering two people in stabbing spree on New York City subway trains and seriously wounding two others was ordered held without bail on Monday.Manhattan prosecutors charged Rigoberto Lopez with first-degree murder, seco...

When India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman meets the CEO of British firm Cairn Energy on Tuesday, the outcome of their talks will have a bearing on the South Asian nation’s ambitions to lure foreign direct investment (FDI) and position itse...

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologised on Tuesday to a woman who alleged she was raped in the country’s parliament by an unnamed senior colleague, and promised a thorough investigation into the government’s workplace culture.The w...

When a deadly fire broke out in an unlicensed Nepalese restaurant in Hong Kong last November 15, Shakir Mohammad was among the first firefighters at the scene.The 29-year-old, based at Tsim Sha Tsui Fire Station, recalled strong smoke and flames comi...

Much of the United States was in the icy grip of an “unprecedented” winter storm as frigid Arctic air sent temperatures plunging, forcing hundreds of flight cancellations, making driving hazardous and leaving millions without power in Texas.Texas...

China’s railway passenger numbers plunged almost 70 per cent during the first 15 days of the Lunar New Year travel rush while freight transport jumped, as people stayed home amid the government’s coronavirus restrictions.Lunar New Year’s Day fe...

The following is a two-week timeline of events since Myanmar’s military took power in a coup on Monday, February 1, starting from when civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained by the Myanmar military and a state of emergency declared in the co...

A new fire services staff quarters complex in Hong Kong has showcased the advantages of a construction method using factory-made modular units.The complex at Pak Shing Kok in Tseung Kwan O, in the New Territories, has five blocks of 16 and 17 storeys...

Japan and the United States are once again bashing China for its deployment of coastguard vessels in Japan’s claimed 12-nautical-mile territorial seas around the disputed Diaoyu Islands, which Japan calls the Senkaku Islands, in the East China Sea....

Indonesian police are on the hunt in Bali for a Russian fugitive wanted by Interpol after he escaped from custody while waiting to be deported from the resort island, authorities said Monday.CCTV footage released by the authorities showed Andrey Kova...

A group of key players from Hong Kong’s taxi industry hopes to win back customers lost to rival Uber by introducing premium six-seater cabs that deliver more comfort.If the government approves the plan, they are prepared to roll out about 500 of th...

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday lawmakers will establish an outside, independent commission to review the “facts and causes” related to the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of then President Donald Trump.Pelosi...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Exim), Washington’s official export credit agency, sits just five minutes to the northeast of the White House. But it spent years in dormancy, and its return to prominence in late 2019 took an administra...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will receive his anti-Covid-19 injection in public in a bid to allay concerns among Filipinos about the safety of the vaccine, his spokesman said on Monday.It was earlier announced that Duterte did not want to be ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised to “hold accountable those responsible” for a rocket attack on an airbase in Iraq’s Kurdistan region that killed a foreign civilian contractor and wounded five others and a US soldier.The attack on ...

For a sign of the extent to which sentiment towards Hong Kong’s commercial property sector has deteriorated, look no further than the results of the latest survey on the investment prospects for the leading markets in Asia published by PwC and the ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that world powers should clinch a global treaty on pandemics to ensure proper transparency after the novel coronavirus outbreak which was first reported in China.Johnson said he would be keen to sig...

Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan Markle will break their silence in their first interview since they quit Britain’s royal family when they sit down with Oprah Winfrey next month.Harry and Meghan, who announced they are expecting their seco...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday listed AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, widening access to the relatively inexpensive shot in the developing world.“We now have all the pieces in place for the r...

US President Joe Biden was doing so well on the China front. He reassured allies that Washington is back on their team. He laid down all of the markers clearly for President Xi Jinping (Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Taiwan). He made clear that while cooperati...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is drawing up plans to lift national pandemic restrictions on socialising, shopping and travelling to work, including possible target dates for when the curbs will be eased.“What we want to see is progress that ...

[Sponsored Article] After a whole year of on-again, off-again schooling in Hong Kong, it’s probably safe to say that schools have entered a new normal during the Covid-19 pandemic, and that the virtual or a hybrid model of teaching is here to stay...

As Beijing considers who to send to Washington to replace its long-time ambassador Cui Tiankai, it will look for someone who embodies its current diplomatic approach: measured and knowledgeable about the US, but firm and tough enough to carry out Pre...

Torrential rains triggered a landslide on Indonesia’s main island of Java that killed at least 10 people, with rescuers digging desperately with their bare hands and farm tools on Monday to locate at least 14 missing people, including four children...

More than HK$8.33 billion (US$1.07 billion) conned from the victims of online, phone and investment scams was laundered through thousands of Hong Kong bank accounts last year, the Post has learned.The police force’s anti-fraud squad intercepted nea...

Protesters in Myanmar kept up their demands on Monday for the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and an end to military rule, undaunted by the junta’s deployment of armoured vehicles in several parts of the country and more soldiers on the s...