One of the co-founders of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central movement, Benny Tai Yiu-ting, has been sent back to jail to await the outcome of his appeal against his conviction and prison sentence over the 2014 protests.Court of Appeal vice-president Mr Jus...

Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying has warned residents that they must respect the fact that the city’s political system was uniquely created by Beijing, not copied from any foreign model.Leung made the remarks in his third video speech in a w...

China’s Mars orbiter has beamed back high-resolution images, revealing geographic features of the red planet in detail.The photos taken by Tianwen-1 come a week after the United States released a panorama of the Martian surface snapped by the rover...

China’s two sessions this year kicked off on Thursday with the head of its top political advisory committee making clear the dominant theme for Hong Kong would be to ensure the city will be governed by patriots, as he pledged to ensure its proper i...

US President Joe Biden has released a national security agenda outlining how the country would compete with an increasingly assertive China, including by moving to restore its global leadership and boosting alliances to both counter and leverage coop...

A 35-year-old Hong Kong man cheated death on Wednesday night by jumping across a three-metre (9.8-foot) gap from the laundry rack outside his eighth-floor flat onto the roof of an adjacent building after a fire broke out in his housing block in a sus...

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday expressed support for his attorney general, who this week denied accusations he raped a schoolgirl when he was a teenager.Morrison told reporters Australia must follow the rule of law and the pr...

Hong Kong’s ombudsman has accused authorities of inadequate monitoring of high-demand vaccines following an investigation into their quality, after fake human papillomavirus (HPV) shots were found at two clinics in 2019.The findings prompted the wa...

In the aftermath of the Myanmar military’s violent crackdown on the 2007 Saffron Revolution mass protests, Singapore briefly found itself in the international spotlight alongside its ignominious Asean neighbour.With few outside players having lever...

South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Thursday appealed for calm as concerns rose over the deaths of two people, both with pre-existing conditions, days after they received the first dose of AstraZeneca’s two-shot Covid-19 vaccine.The Korea...

Hong Kong recorded nine new coronavirus infections on Thursday, while a minister has revealed that 67 people were deemed unfit to receive the Sinovac vaccine the day before.The turning away of dozens from their Wednesday vaccination appointments emer...

Hong Kong’s biggest international school group will have thousands of its staff undergo regular Covid-19 screening from this week to meet a prerequisite by education authorities to fully resume in-person classes, the Post has learned.But no exact d...

Hong Kong’s financial chief has hit out at a Washington-based think tank for removing the city from an annual league table ranking the world’s freest economies, saying the decision was “clouded by political bias”.The city drops off the Herita...

Indian pharmaceutical firm Bharat Biotech said its domestically developed vaccine, criticised for being rolled out before final trials, was found in interim late-stage data to have almost 81 per cent efficacy in preventing Covid-19 infection.Question...

A single mother in Shanghai has finally received employer-provided maternity insurance after a three-year legal battle.This makes Shanghai the second region in China after Guangdong province to give equal treatment to children born to unmarried singl...

A number of policies under consideration by Hong Kong’s financial regulators may take some of the sizzle and exuberance out of one of the world’s busiest destinations for initial public offerings (IPOs).The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limite...

How about this for bargain-hunting? A small bowl bought for US$35 in a yard sale in the US turned out to be a rare 15th century Chinese artefact possibly worth US$500,000.The porcelain bowl – with delicate floral motifs – was acquired by a buyer,...

China has released footage of its military conducting joint landing drills in the disputed South China Sea, days after US reconnaissance operations and a Taiwanese exercise simulating a mainland Chinese attack on its reefs.Mainland China’s People�...

Defiant anti-coup protesters returned to cities and towns across Myanmar on Thursday after dozens of people were killed in the deadliest day of the junta’s crackdown, with global powers condemning the “brutal violence” and the United Nations wa...

Hong Kong businessman and poker player Stanley Choi Chiu-fai has backed AirAsia Group to be a front runner in the airline industry’s recovery from the Covid-19 crisis by investing HK$400 million (US$55.6 million) in the low-cost carrier.The merger ...

The US Marine Corps commandant has elevated China as the top threat facing American policymakers amid concerns over the PLA’s military build-up.“China will remain the pacing threat for the next decade,” General David Berger wrote in a memo to S...

Beijing is expected to send a veteran trade official to oversee economic affairs at its liaison office in Hong Kong, according to government sources.Yin Zonghua, 56, a deputy director of the country’s top political consultative body, is the front r...

An unstaffed SpaceX rocket exploded on the ground on Wednesday after carrying out what had seemed to be a successful flight and landing.It was the third straight incident involving the prototype of the Starship rocket, which SpaceX hopes one day to s...

Foreigners living as dependants in Singapore who decide to seek employment will soon have to obtain their own work passes, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said on Wednesday.The vast majority of Dependant’s Pass (DP) holders – generally the spouse...

Hong Kong universities’ international reputations appear to have taken something of a hit – at least in certain disciplines – with many local institutions experiencing declines in a global league table ranking the quality of the education they ...

A popular science anime that makes heroes and villains of human body cells has become the first Japanese manga series on China’s state broadcaster since a ban on foreign cartoons more than a decade ago.Cells at Work!, which shares the daily lives o...

Like many Chinese millennials, 24-year-old Lin Chenru likes to upgrade his mobile phone every couple of years – just don’t ask him where his old devices are.“I think they’re still in my room, but I don’t know exactly where,” Lin said. “...

Three people are in life-threatening condition after a man injured eight victims in a stabbing spree in the southern Swedish city of Vetlanda on Wednesday, medical personnel said.The assailant was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg by poli...

Keep hope alive. That was former US president Barack Obama’s campaign slogan. Keeping hope alive is not a hurdle in democracies. Those who loathe Donald Trump proved it by voting him out. Those who idolise him proved it by jam-packing a rally where...

A transgender South Korean soldier who was forcibly discharged from the army after gender-reassignment surgery has been found dead, police said, prompting anger on Thursday and calls for legal reforms.Firefighters found Byun Hee-soo in her home in Ch...

US lawmakers reintroduced legislation on Wednesday that would ban some Chinese companies from accessing US capital markets.Five Republican colleagues joined Senator Marco Rubio of Florida in proposing the American Financial Markets Integrity and Secu...

Public health workers in Beijing are the least willing to get a coronavirus jab compared to their peers elsewhere in China, according to a survey by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. It found that less than 74 per cent of all CD...

Lithuania will open an “enterprise office” in Taiwan by the end of the year, its Ministry of Economy and Innovation said on Wednesday, a move that risks irking Beijing at a troubled time for the European country’s relations with China.The offic...

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny quipped that “everything is fine” and made jokes about prison life Wednesday as he sent his first message from a detention centre outside Moscow.In the message posted on Instagram, President Vladimir Putin’s most p...

Three in five businesses in the China-Australia education sector say Chinese appetites for Australian education are deteriorating, with the tense bilateral relationship between the two countries the main reason, according to a new survey by the Austr...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reclaiming their narrative after Britain's Times newspaper published a report about a bullying complaint allegedly filed from inside Kensington Palace.According to the Times, a former communications secretary to the...

China is the biggest geopolitical challenge that United States faces in the 21st century, one that pales beside the likes of Russia or the Middle East, the US secretary of state said on Wednesday in an address outlining the Biden administration’s f...

The Chinese English-language news network CGTN will be able to broadcast in Britain, despite being officially banned there, as a result of a ruling by a French regulator, it emerged on Wednesday.British regulator Ofcom slapped a ban on China Global T...

Accusations that former US president Donald Trump irreparably poisoned the fraud case against Huawei Technologies Co. executive Meng Wanzhou by threatening to intervene in her proceedings came under the spotlight at an extradition hearing in Vancouve...

The Senate Finance Committee easily approved US President Joe Biden’s pick to be America’s top trade negotiator.The panel on Wednesday confirmed Katherine Tai to be US trade representative on a voice vote.Her nomination, which has received strong...

A US contractor died on Wednesday when at least 10 rockets slammed into an airbase housing US and other coalition troops in western Iraq, the Pentagon said.Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the contractor “suffered a cardiac episode while shelteri...

The man charged with ploughing a rented van into dozens of people in Toronto in 2018, killing 10, is guilty of all 26 counts – 10 of murder, 16 of attempted murder – a judge ruled on Wednesday, dismissing the defence argument that the suspect’s...

Capitol Police said they had uncovered intelligence of a “possible plot” by a militia group to breach the US Capitol on Thursday, nearly two months after supporters of then president Donald Trump stormed the iconic building to try to stop Congres...

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China’s political elite will face a number of challenges when they gather in Beijing next week for the year’s biggest legislative set piece – the meetings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Con...

Police on Wednesday arrested a 94-year-old man on suspicion of animal cruelty after he was captured in a now-viral video plucking a pigeon at a public housing estate in Hong Kong.The online video shows the man, who is wearing a hat and seated beside ...

A Hong Kong couple have denied murdering their five-year-old daughter who prosecutors said died of septicaemia after her immunity was weakened by 150 days of neglect, horrifying “games” and torture “in hell”.The High Court on Wednesday heard ...