A Canadian lawmaker left red-cheeked after appearing stark naked on a House of Commons Zoom conference call has apologised to his colleagues.William Amos, a Liberal MP, was caught covering his nether regions with a mobile phone and in a state of natu...

The European Union said it was expecting 50 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses earlier than expected, as the United States said it would continue a pause in vaccinations using the Johnson & Johnson shot for at least another week so regulators c...

Hong Kong police arrested a part-time journalist from the city’s public broadcaster on Thursday after a stop-and-search at a railway station uncovered two airguns in his backpack.The 21-year-old man, who works for government-funded RTHK, was interc...

A top Hong Kong health official and local medical experts have stressed that pregnant women should seek the advice of their doctor before getting a BioNTech coronavirus jab and not use the Sinovac vaccine at all after two miscarriages were reported o...

Spiralling Covid-19 cases have put Cambodia “on the brink of death”, its strongman premier Hun Sen has warned, as the country imposed lockdowns in the capital Phnom Penh and a nearby city.Cambodia has reported a surge in Covid-19 cases since Febr...

A US Air Force F-15C Eagle fighter fired the longest known air-to-air “kill” shot to date in a recent test, the service said on Wednesday.The fighter fired an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) at a BQ-167 target drone and ...

Myanmar security forces opened fire on Thursday on a pro-democracy protest by medical workers in the city of Mandalay, and during more shooting in a nearby area one man was killed and several were wounded, media reported.Opponents of a February 1 cou...

Experts and environmental groups have taken issue with the Japanese government’s insistence that releasing water contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean is the best solution to the problem, accusing the a...

China’s first quarter growth figures this year could exceed 20 per cent from a year earlier, a record high that offers fresh evidence of the robust rebound in the world’s second largest economy and its central position in driving the global recov...

A South Korean dairy product manufacturer has come under scrutiny after it claimed tests showed its yogurt was effective in killing the coronavirus – a claim that sent its stock soaring despite a swift denial by health authorities.The country’s M...

 The Biden administration was poised to take action against Russian individuals and entities in retaliation for alleged misconduct including the SolarWinds hack and efforts to disrupt the US election, according to people familiar with the matter.As ...

South Korean police on Tuesday said they are investigating a Chinese man who allegedly displayed violent behaviour in a restaurant in the capital Seoul after hearing other people talking about “dirty Chinese kimchi.”At a hotpot restaurant in the ...

Hong Kong will allow those aged under 30 to get a Covid-19 jab in an expansion of the city’s vaccination programme, the Post has learned.Residents aged 16 or above would be able to receive BioNTech doses, while those older than 18 could opt for the...

Hong Kong will allow locally based, unvaccinated cargo flight crews to skip quarantine if they have stayed in six Asia-Pacific countries deemed lower risk, while fully vaccinated aircrews will also be allowed to bypass isolation, the Post has learned...

Bernard Madoff’s death in prison on Wednesday doesn’t change much for his victims, many of whom are still waiting to be made whole on their share of US$20 billion that vanished with the con man’s 2008 arrest.The recovery effort, still under way...

A senior Japanese politician said cancelling the Tokyo Olympics over the coronavirus remains a possibility on Thursday, as a surge in cases renews concerns about the Games with less than 100 days to go.Toshiro Nikai, the ruling Liberal Democratic Par...

A controversial live stream binge drinking boom in China has attracted millions of fans but has mainstream media seriously alarmed about health impacts.Although the trend appeared a few years ago, the videos in which bloggers drink excessive amounts ...

Under pressure from the United States and reeling from a blitz of Chinese sanctions, the European Union is preparing new measures to punish Beijing for sweeping electoral reform that will marginalise opposition voices in Hong Kong. According to four...

Beijing’s top official in Hong Kong on Thursday urged the city administration to remain firm in safeguarding national security, calling it a “bottom line” and key to solving a variety of social issues with the central government’s support.Luo...

Since its launch in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative has stirred intense international debate over its political-economic impacts and a wide range of associated risks. Chinese spending on the initiative has slowed since 2018, and lockdowns du...

The police officer who shot dead black 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb after appearing to mistake her gun for her taser was arrested Wednesday on manslaughter charges.Minneapolis has been roiled by nightly violent protests after Kim...

Top intelligence officers from India and Pakistan held secret talks in Dubai in January in a new effort to calm military tension over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, according to people with knowledge of the matter.Ties between the nuclear-...

More than two-thirds of representatives sitting on the all-powerful body which now oversees Hong Kong’s key elections have either already been appointed by the authorities or will be hand-picked by pro-establishment chambers or groups, the Post h...

Financial controllers at companies operating in China are expecting their businesses to perform better in 2021, bolstered by the global roll-out of vaccinations and rising consumer demand in Western economies, a Deloitte survey has found.Some 89 per ...

From the moment she first tasted a Thai durian in 2006, Pan Jiao Ling knew she was on to something special. The Nanning native had come to Thailand as an exchange student, but when she discovered what the locally grown “king of fruits” tasted lik...

Hong Kong kindergartners as young as three years old will be among those learning about the national security law on Thursday, the first National Security Education Day since the Beijing-imposed legislation took effect last June.While some kindergart...

One of the most disturbing child abuse cases in Hong Kong history concluded on Tuesday with a jury finding a father and stepmother guilty of murdering their five-year-old daughter in January 2018. The girl’s step-grandmother, who failed to interven...

China’s hi-tech hub Shenzhen is considering introducing 12 years of free education by 2025, according to state media.If it goes ahead, Shenzhen will be one of a handful of mainland cities to offer free schooling for all children after neighbouring ...

In 2019, Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, one of the world’s most influential state investors, unveiled plans to halve the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to its portfolio assets by 2030. Last year, the firm – which has majority control ove...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andrew Desiderio on politico.com on April 14, 2021.Chuck Schumer’s bid to put a bipartisan China bill on the Senate floor this month is in danger thanks t...

Sales of non-pandemic goods are on the rise as China’s business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce trade boomed alongside traditional trade in the first quarter of the year. Exports of kitchen products, household appliances and outdoor sporting goods thr...

US President Joe Biden has picked a former Democratic congressional staff member to serve as a liaison to the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community, according to a person familiar with the matter, following an increase in attacks in the US on...

Nine months after Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong, the city’s security chief says the legislation has driven away foreign agents, dried up funding from overseas for anti-government activists, and chased off or silenced troublem...

In Zhang Lianchao’s first year working as a mortician he saw a lot of dead bodies, but none quite like the body of a woman who had tragically plunged to her death from a tall building – she barely had a face any more.“Her head had an open wound...

Chris Dodd, a former US senator and long-time friend of Joe Biden, is expected to relay the US president’s concerns over the security of the Taiwan Strait and his desire for Taipei and Beijing to refrain from taking provocative action, observers sa...

US President Joe Biden’s invitation to Vladimir Putin to hold a summit was being hailed in Moscow on Wednesday as a sign that Washington had blinked first in the showdown with Russia over Ukraine.With indications that work is already under way for ...

Scientists have discovered yet another layer deep inside the core of the Earth, a new study suggests.“Traditionally we’ve been taught the Earth has four main layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core,” said Australian Nat...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nick Niedzwiadek on politico.com on April 14, 2021.US President Joe Biden on Wednesday formally announced plans to end America’s military presence in Afgh...

Beijing is reluctant to let Iran have its J-10C lightweight fighter jet in a barter trade for oil or natural gas, according to military analysts. Reports of Tehran’s interest in the jet have been circulating on Chinese social media platforms for mo...

Getting a shot at a coveted investment banking or finance job is a cutthroat, and sometimes controversial, business in China.Career consulting firms have mushroomed in recent years, enlisting what they say are thousands of finance professionals to he...

Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday dismissed initial offers at talks in Vienna to save Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal as “not worth looking at”, attempting to pressure world powers after an attack on the country’s main nuclear enrichment si...

China is a growing competitive threat to the United States on multiple fronts as it moves to reshape global norms, muscle its neighbours and expand cyber capabilities, but its internal problems could undercut the smooth rise it hopes to effect, top U...

Brazil’s P1 coronavirus variant, behind a deadly Covid-19 surge in the Latin American country that has raised international alarm, is mutating in ways that could make it better able to evade antibodies, according to scientists studying the virus.Re...

Legal scholars have warned of “real constitutional problems” in new legislation proposed by Hong Kong authorities that would make it a criminal offence for people to encourage voters to boycott elections or spoil ballots as a form of protest agai...

Bullying at Hong Kong’s primary and secondary schools has hit a 10-year high with reported cases jumping by more than 50 per cent year on year, despite in-person classes having been suspended for an extended period amid the coronavirus pandemic. A ...

An extremist political party in Pakistan responsible for paralysing swathes of the country with anti-France protests will be banned, a senior minister said on Wednesday.Thousands of supporters from the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) have blocked ma...

China has stepped up plans to launch its own version of the under-fire Better Cotton Initiative after the network cut off all ties with Xinjiang due to concerns about the alleged forced labour issue in the region, according to three people familiar w...

Promoting Hong Kong’s mini-constitution at the city’s schools cost education authorities eight times more this year, while the government is to also increase its spending on helping pupils join trips to mainland China.Statistics provided by the E...

China’s CanSino Biologics on Wednesday sought to distance its Covid-19 vaccine from concerns that products made using a similar technology could be linked to rare events of serious blood clotting.In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, the com...

France, India and Australia have indicated they are jointly planning to step up their presence in the Indo-Pacific, modelling their closer cooperation after the Quad’s efforts in areas such as maritime security, according to comments made by their ...