A new tourism project featuring augmented reality enables smartphone users to enjoy panoramic views of what Hong Kong looked like in the past – part of a bid by officials to bolster the city’s appeal ahead of the much-anticipated return of foreig...

Sophea* froze when the footage of Cambodian cosmetics entrepreneur Deth Malina being battered by her then-husband flashed up on social media. “It was difficult to watch,” the mother-of-three, 36, recalled. “It reminded me of my home life and wh...

Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday and said he was in home quarantine in Mumbai with mild symptoms of the disease.Tendulkar, who is widely revered as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, confirmed the ne...

A Chinese man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for raping a 10-year-old girl who became pregnant as a result of the assault, according to official reports.The case came to light when the child, identified only by the pseudonym Xiaoye, from ea...

One person was killed and a candidate’s car attacked Saturday as the state of West Bengal – India’s worst hotbed of political violence – held elections, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to unseat one of his fiercest opponents.Victory...

China is home to the most self-made women entrepreneurs in the world, according to a new report. The country minted 24 new femalebillionaires to start 2021, bringing the total number to 85, said Hurun Research Institute. China’s 85 female billion...

After weeks of silence as Myanmar’s military cracked down on civilians protesting against the February 1 coup, the Arakan Army (AA), a major player among the country’s more than two dozen ethnic armed groups, this week announced it was on the sid...

Myanmar’s security forces shot and killed at least 50 protesters on Saturday, news reports and witnesses said, a brutal crackdown on dissent that came as the leader of the ruling junta said the military would protect the people and strive for democ...

Hong Kong recorded zero local coronavirus infections on Saturday for the first time since mid-November, with a government pandemic adviser saying the city was “edging towards” its goal of zero daily cases and urging residents to get vaccinated.Al...

China’s industrial firms saw their combined profits for the January-February period soar 179 per cent year on year to 1.11 trillion yuan (US$169.7 billion), according to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday.The ju...

A disagreement between China and the Philippines over 200-plus Chinese vessels’ presence at a disputed South China Sea reef has sparked concerns Beijing is upping efforts to control the contested waters.Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana...

The preliminary findings of an investigation into packaging defects in Hong Kong’s supply of BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines could be ready as soon as next week, with the use of the jabs – currently suspended – set to resume if no widespread problem...

North Korea on Saturday threatened a further military build-up in response to Joe Biden’s condemnation of this week’s missile launches, a weapons test that marked Pyongyang’s first substantive provocation since the US president took office.The ...

The Haidian Huangzhuang area in Beijing was once a mecca for students wanting to improve their exam performance.Located in northwest Beijing close to the prestigious Peking University and Tsinghua University, it was home to hundreds of off-campus tra...

I have to admit that I love the story of “David and Goliath” being played out in real life. Everyone loves a good underdog story, and perhaps now more than ever, we need stories such as these to uplift us. Fighting racial inequality and comb...

Sheng Siong supermarket tycoon Lim Hock Leng and his family live on a sprawling 33,700 sq ft property in the centre of Singapore. Its two buildings and nine bedrooms are home to Lim and his wife; the couple’s four children, and their families; as w...

Tycoon Vincent Tan, who surprised corporate Malaysia with the appointment of Abdul Jalil Abdul Rasheed as the new chief executive officer of Berjaya Corp, says this will be the first step towards him taking a back seat.He says it is his wish that non...

Five Hong Kong disciplined services, including police and customs officers, will perform Chinese-style marching for members of the public for the first time on National Security Education Day next month, the Post has learned.The public performance co...

Hong Kong’s plan to increase stamp duty by 30 per cent in August will add much-needed revenue to the government’s coffers while helping to drive away dangerous speculative trading activities by high-frequency traders, according to officials and a...

Kung Chung-ying recalls what it was like to sleep rough on the streets as he guides visitors at an exhibition on life stories of Hong Kong’s homeless every Saturday.The 65-year-old Hongkonger, a former Japanese cuisine chef of more than 40 years, r...

Here’s some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid.The space agency announced this week that new telescope observations had ruled out any chance of Apophis smacking Earth in 2...

The company that owns the giant container ship stuck sideways across the Suez Canal said an attempt would be made to refloat the vessel by taking advantage of tidal movements later on Saturday.The Ever Given, owned by Japanese firm Shoei Kisen KK, go...

It would be natural to assume that when a Chinese businessman approached the family behind Singapore supermarket chain Sheng Siong with a proposal for a joint venture in Yunnan province, China, it was because he had been impressed by their climb from...

Last year, office worker Bobo* was on the escalator at an MTR station after work, when she suddenly felt her dress move. She was shocked to find a man behind her was taking a photo of under her dress. She felt angry but was also afraid he might harm ...

The US ambassador who made a splash in Vietnam by making a rap video may soon get a promotion – to be the top diplomat for Asia under President Joe Biden.Daniel Kritenbrink, a career diplomat who speaks Chinese and Japanese, was nominated by Biden ...

Veterinary surgeons suspect another pet has been poisoned at a dog-friendly park in an affluent Hong Kong neighbourhood, fuelling fresh fears among owners after at least seven animals died in 15 similar cases this year. The Veterinary Specialty Hospi...

One of China’s first-tier cities has issued unprecedented regulations that clearly define what constitutes sexual harassment. Published in Shenzhen, in the southern province of Guangdong, the guidelines say sexual harassment is defined as inappropr...

American children’s book author Beverly Cleary, who responded to a young reader’s plea for realistic characters by bringing rare insight and humour to the lives of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins and the other children who populated her more than 40...

US President Joe Biden said he suggested to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a phone call on Friday that democratic countries should have an infrastructure plan to rival China’s Belt and Road Initiative.“I suggested we should have, essenti...

With tensions running high between Beijing and Taipei, the fate of a landmark trade pact they signed over a decade ago hangs in the balance.The preferential trade agreement – called the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) – was signed...

The Biden administration criticised on Friday what it called a Chinese “state-led” social media campaign against US companies and other foreign businesses that have pledged not to use cotton and other components involving Uygur workers in Xinjian...

Chinese officials briefed diplomats on Friday on the ongoing research into the origin of Covid-19, ahead of the expected release of a long-awaited report from the World Health Organization.The briefing appeared to be an attempt by China to get out it...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Iran on Friday for a visit that Iranian state media said would see the signing of a 25-year cooperation agreement between the two countries, which are both under US sanctions.The accord, final details of wh...

A US biotech firm trying to figure out why coronavirus vaccines work better for some people than others is searching for clues in an unlikely place: faeces.Persephone Biosciences based in San Diego is recruiting volunteers for a 250-person study that...

US President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration, an event the US hopes will help shape, speed up and deepen global efforts to cut clim...

The judge who issued the warrant for Meng Wanzhou’s arrest at the request of US authorities was not misled about her connections to Canada, and although Meng owned two multimillion-dollar houses in Vancouver, neither were listed in her name, a Cana...

The World Health Organization urged countries on Friday to donate Covid-19 vaccine doses to inoculate the most vulnerable in 20 poorer nations after India, a key supplier to the agency’s Covax Facility vaccine-sharing programme, said it was priorit...

France bears overwhelming responsibilities over the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and was “blind” to preparations for the massacres, a report by historians said Friday, while adding there was no evidence Paris was complicit in the killings.A historical...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Quint Forgey on politico.com on March 26, 2021.Robert Redfield, the former director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said he believed ...

Twenty Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Friday, in the largest incursion yet reported by the island’s defence ministry.The move marked a dramatic escalation of tension across the Taiwan Strait, and cam...

Footage has been released showing a sniper squad from the People’s Liberation Army garrison in Hong Kong carrying out an exercise, in a move seen by political experts as sending a warning shot to any “destabilising forces” in the city. A 90-sec...

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) start-up Xpeng Motor completed the country’s longest autonomous driving test by a mass-produced vehicle on Friday.A fleet of the company’s P7 mid-sized cars left Guangzhou on March 19 for the weeklong, 3,675-km (2,28...

If Wilson Lam could do it over again, he would not take the Covid-19 vaccine. The 26-year-old Hong Kong resident woke up in hospital after fainting outside a government-run centre where he was inoculated on Wednesday. He was shocked to find much of h...

When Hong Kong lawmaker Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee received her second dose of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine this week, she did not expect her purple handbag to make her the focus of online attacks.Eagle-eyed internet users zoomed in on a photo of the pr...

France has chosen the baguette as its candidate for Unesco intangible cultural heritage status, the government said on Friday, seeking recognition for that most quintessential of French symbols.While berets and strings of garlic around the neck might...

The first person to be tried under Hong Kong’s national security law will have a rare pretrial hearing under public scrutiny on Tuesday, a legal source says.The Department of Justice had requested an open case-management hearing at the High Court, ...

China administered almost 5.5 million Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday as it stepped up its efforts to inoculate 40 per cent of the population by June.The National Health Commission announced it had administered more than 91.3 million doses and its figu...

A civil servant who raised almost HK$4.6 million (US$592,062) through crowdfunding to help people arrested during anti-government protests has been detained on suspicion of money laundering, after allegedly spending the money on luxury handbags and i...

Russia wants to strengthen military ties with Myanmar, its state media reported on Friday, after a meeting between top defence officials and a junta condemned by Western countries for killing hundreds of civilian protesters.Russia’s deputy defence ...

A majority of school heads in Hong Kong say they hope to bring all students back to campus for half-day classes without requiring staff undergo Covid-19 testing as employees were “stressed” over the rule, a survey has found. The Professional Teac...