A Hong Kong taxi passenger has sued the ride-hailing giant Uber, saying she was injured in the city’s first fatal crash involving the service nearly three years ago.Plaintiff Leung Hoi-ni has also named the administrator of the estate of the Uber d...

A Hong Kong cargo dock known as “Instagram Pier” for its popularity with photographers and social media users was shut to the public over the weekend by officials reportedly citing coronavirus-related concerns.A councillor said he was shocked to ...

After the deadliest fighting in decades, India and China are setting up demilitarised areas along their Himalayan border – a move that has rankled some members of India’s security establishment.Soldiers from both countries for now will no longer ...

Singapore’s top diplomat Vivian Balakrishnan has confirmed that a special meeting of Asean foreign ministers and the Myanmar military will be convened on Tuesday to discuss the political crisis in the Southeast Asian nation.While countries in the A...

China is using the Covid-19 pandemic as “yet another way to control journalists”, a press group said on Monday, warning that Beijing had introduced extra surveillance and restrictions for health reasons as tools to frustrate reporters’ work.Alt...

India has started expanding its Covid-19 vaccination drive beyond health care and front-line workers, offering the shots to older people and those with medical conditions that put them at risk. Among the first to be inoculated on Monday was Prime Min...

The People’s Liberation Army kicked off a month-long military exercise in the South China Sea on Monday, as the United States steps up reconnaissance operations and France sends military vessels to the region.The prolonged PLA drill comes as it int...

A Myanmar court on Monday filed another charge against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a lawyer acting for her said, as protesters marched in defiance of a crackdown by security forces that killed at least 18 people the previous day.Lawyer Min Min So...

Bookings for Hong Kong’s delayed launch of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccinations will open on Wednesday, with 140,000 slots available for priority residents to receive the first jabs a week later, the authorities have revealed.Seven more communi...

Prince Harry has revealed that the process of separating from royal life has been very difficult for him and his wife, Meghan.In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harry invoked the memory of his late mother, Princess Diana, who had to find her way alo...

China’s rare earths are underpriced due to vicious competition and face low resource utilisation, which would lead to a race to the bottom, the country’s industry minister said on Monday.“Our rare earths did not sell at the ‘rare’ price but...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is under increasing pressure to address what has been described as a toxic culture in the country’s parliament, as police investigate an alleged rape in the 1980s involving a now cabinet minister.The Austral...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday called for the decoupling of disputes over Japan’s wartime past from bilateral cooperation for future prosperity and peace, saying the past should not hold the two countries back. His reconciliatory ges...

A nine-year-old Hong Kong boy died on Monday after falling from the window of his family’s 15th-floor flat in Lam Tin, according to police.He was believed to have been trying to open a ventilation window in his room at the Laguna City housing estat...

Standard Chartered will revamp its 70 branches in Hong Kong but has no plans to reduce the size of its network as there is still strong demand for in-person banking services, according to its Hong Kong chief executive.One of three note-issuing banks ...

With homebound nominees appearing by remote video and hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on different sides of the country, a very socially distanced 78th Golden Globe Awards trudged on in the midst of the pandemic and a storm of criticism.Netflix, which...

A high-end Tsim Sha Tsui shopping centre where a “super-spreader” Covid-19 cluster emerged will now remain closed until Saturday, while experts are urging the government to prioritise vaccination for workers in the restaurant sector and plug a te...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said she was eager to get straight to work as she took up her role on Monday as the first woman and first African to lead the beleaguered World Trade Organization (WTO).“I am coming into one of the most important institutions in...

Hong Kong police raised warning flags on Monday afternoon after hundreds of supporters gathered outside a court for the hearing for 47 opposition figures charged under the national security law, with officers accusing them of breaching the same legis...

Former US president Donald Trump lashed out at China on his return to the national political stage on Sunday, calling it a “tremendous economic threat” to the United States and criticising the Biden administration for rejoining the World Health O...

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Monday reiterated his promise to hold elections after the coronavirus pandemic was under control, saying the government’s main focus now was “to steer this country clear of the double whammy of heal...

China’s factory activity expanded at the slowest pace in nine months in February as weak overseas demand and coronavirus flare-ups weighed on output, adding pressure on the country’s labour market, a business survey showed on Monday.The slowdown ...

Hundreds of depressed Hongkongers in Britain have urged the government to arrange special flights for them to return home after being stranded there for two months.People the Post spoke to said they felt ignored by authorities in their home city afte...

China’s fundraising boom for electric cars looks set to continue through the Year of the Ox as the capital-intensive industry ploughs billions of dollars into new models, marketing and infrastructure across the world’s largest car market.The sing...

Some Hong Kong hotel operators are considering converting their properties into residential buildings as the tourism industry shows no sign of recovery and home prices start to rebound.The applications for conversion of two hotels – the Horizon Sui...

Chan, in his 40s, was among the early visitors when the June 4 Museum reopened on Tuesday after being closed since December because of the Covid-19 pandemic.Giving only his surname, the Hongkonger said he usually visited the place around the annivers...

This is the first in a series by the SCMP looking at how China’s legal system has changed over the decades and some of the challenges it faces today. Here, Jun Mai looks at how Beijing struggles to make its case on the international stage.With Chin...

When Singapore began its coronavirus lockdown last April, little did Prashant Somosundram know that it would be 16 weeks before The Projector, the independent cinema he runs, would be allowed to reopen – and even then only at reduced capacity.While...

China’s political elite will gather in Beijing this week for the year’s biggest legislative set piece facing a number of major political challenges, including the aftermath of the coronavirus and the ongoing rivalry with the United States. In thi...

Up to six cases of a highly transmissible variant of coronavirus first identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus have been detected in Britain for the first time, English health officials said on Sunday.Three cases were found in England and another ...

The world’s super-rich have weathered the Covid-19 pandemic, their numbers increasing last year, particularly in China which saw the fastest gain, according to the latest Wealth Report by property consultancy Knight Frank.The elite club of people w...

Given its origin as a niche streaming site for fans of anime comics and games (ACG), Bilibili’s success has been a surprise for many. But behind the company’s rapid rise is a group of dedicated users known as “uploaders” who create content fo...

A colossal dinosaur dug up in Argentina could be the oldest titanosaur ever found, having roamed what is now Patagonia some 140 million years ago at the beginning of the Cretaceous period, scientists said on Sunday.The 65-foot (20-metre) lizard, Ninj...

Several members of the PGA Tour took to the course on Sunday emulating the wardrobe of Tiger Woods – a red shirt and black trousers– to honour the golf great, who was seriously injured in a single-car crash on Tuesday.Tony Finau, Rory McIlroy, Ja...

Senior Republican senators called on US President Joe Biden to keep the US out of the nuclear deal with Iran, joining some Democrats who have voiced reservations about the agreement.The agreement, signed in 2015 by Iran and six world powers including...

Three children were killed and 15 more were injured after a fire broke out at the al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, Unicef said on Sunday.The UN Children’s Fund called for the safe reintegration and repatriation of all children in al-Hol Camp a...

Thousands of Argentinians protested over the weekend against what they see as the privileging of politicians, their families and allies in receiving Covid-19 vaccinations.On Saturday evening, demonstrators hung stuffed black body bags on the gates of...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo acknowledged for the first time on Sunday that some of his behaviour with women “may have been insensitive or too personal”, and said he would cooperate with a sexual harassment investigation led by the US state’s...

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said “many” people in Saudi Arabia want normalised relations with Israel, voicing hope the kingdom will join the Abraham Accords agreed during Donald Trump’s administration.Pompeo, who served as Trump’...

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews marking the Purim holiday threw stones at police in Jerusalem on Sunday, as tensions persist between authorities and a deeply religious community accused of repeatedly flouting coronavirus restrictions.Police said reside...

Indonesia said on Sunday that it was “deeply concerned” with the growing violence in Myanmar and urged restraint by security forces, after at least 18 people were killed when police cracked down on protesters on Sunday.“Indonesia urges the secu...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who survived a chemical poisoning last year that he called a Kremlin attempt to kill him, has begun serving his two-and-a-half-year sentence at a notorious penal camp.Navalny, who was removed from his Moscow ...

More than 300 demonstrators gathered in Venezuela’s agricultural Portuguesa state following the murder of three young women last week, in a protest against femicide, the gender-related killing of women and girls.Chanting for “Justice” and holdi...

Soon after Joe Biden was elected US president, Beijing began talking up the possibility of renegotiating the so-called phase one trade deal it agreed with Washington last year, but observers say that might be easier said than done.Chinese Foreign Min...

As much as 70 per cent of educators polled by a pro-establishment teachers’ union said they supported a proposed revamp of Hong Kong’s controversial liberal studies subject, as a month-long consultation on reforming the syllabus ends on Tuesday.I...

Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators marched on the army barracks home of Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Sunday in a procession filled with the flags and signs of the #MilkTeaAlliance, the trans-Asia movement of youthful protesters ...

The Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper has hit back at a motion passed by the Canadian parliament last week that said Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang constituted genocide, claiming that the label applied to Canada’s past treatment of i...

Chinese investment in Australia fell by 61 per cent in 2020 to the lowest level recorded by the Australian National University in six years, coinciding with a worsening diplomatic dispute.The annual tracking study from the university’s East Asian B...

Chinese police have tracked down a suspect believed to have stolen an Apple smartphone and replaced it with a carton of apple-flavoured milk, news portal The Paper reported on Sunday.The smartphone was ordered by a woman surnamed Liu in Hefei, in the...

China’s National Health Commission has claimed medical risks and ethical issues are behind its ban on single women freezing their eggs.The commission’s stance has come under fire from Chinese internet users, who described the ban as discriminator...