China will work with Indonesia to try to close the “vaccination divide” as the Southeast Asian country grapples with delays in shipments of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.During a phone call on Tuesday with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, ...

In almost three decades of working in Sao Paulo’s largest cemetery, the oldest gravediggers can’t remember performing more than 10 night burials.But since the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic swept across Brazil, that exception has become ...

Hong Kong authorities have arrested a suspected phone scammer accused of impersonating a police officer to trick his victim into revealing his online banking details.The scam came to light when the victim, a 25-year-old man, discovered someone had tr...

 A South Korean court on Wednesday dismissed a case brought by World War II sex slaves and their families against the Japanese government, contradicting an earlier court ruling made in favour of victims demanding reparations.But it is unclear if the...

The European Union reached a tentative climate deal that should make the 27-nation bloc carbon-neutral by 2050, with member states and parliament agreeing on the targets on the eve of a virtual summit that US President Joe Biden will host.“Our poli...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has emphasised that, despite a reference to Taiwan in a joint statement released after his recent meeting with US President Joe Biden, there is no possibility of Japanese forces being committed to any military c...

Hong Kong officials are facing fresh calls to impose a new legal responsibility on adults to report suspected child abuse following the sentencing of a couple in one of the city’s most distressing murder cases.The Law Reform Commission has recommen...

Hong Kong health experts have suggested tighter Covid-19 control protocols for the city’s quarantine hotels, warning of possible transmissions between new arrivals in isolation in the wake of the city’s first locally detected case involving a mut...

His name has been chanted by demonstrators around the globe, his face displayed on murals across America. Since his brutal death George Floyd has embodied the black victims of police violence and racism in the United States.On Tuesday, accountability...

The phrase “treat yo’ self” has become something of a global slang term for millennials to justify spending a bit too much on a meal, a retail purchase that stretches the budget or even taking a day off work. In China this generation is known ...

A police manhunt is under way for a gang of attackers who assaulted two men with bamboo poles on a Hong Kong street in the early hours of Wednesday.A video circulating online shows several assailants beating the two victims with one- to two-metre-lon...

Police shot and killed a teenage girl on Tuesday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd.Police showed bodycam footage on Tuesday night at a news conference of the officer shoot...

An Indian railway worker has been hailed as a “superhero” after he sprinted more than 30 metres along a track to grab a boy from the path of an express train.CCTV images of Mayur Shelke’s incredible rescue have gone viral on social media with m...

Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers exploited widely used networking devices to spy for months on dozens of high-value government, defence industry and financial sector targets in the United States and Europe, according to FireEye, a prominent cyb...

Two veterinary surgeons in Chile are under investigation for allegedly giving dog coronavirus vaccines to at least 75 people in the months before human jabs arrived in the country, health officials said on Tuesday.The pair stand accused of having adm...

South Korea and Australia are proving to be the odd couple of the global economy, managing to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus crisis thanks to deep links with China’s growth and key advantages unique to themselves.The duo’s connections are...

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck, was handcuffed and taken into custody on Tuesday after being convicted of all three counts against him.Twelve jurors found Chauvin guilty of seco...

Almost a billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have now been administered, according to Bloomberg, providing scientists with critical feedback on how the jabs work in the real world, especially as global daily infections move toward record highs and new...

China’s top health regulator is investigating allegations an oncologist at a leading Shanghai hospital intentionally used more expensive, substandard treatment options for a cancer patient that led to his early death.Lu Wei, an expert on gastrointe...

President Xi Jinping will attend a virtual climate change summit hosted by his US counterpart Joe Biden on Thursday, the Chinese foreign ministry has confirmed. His attendance is a sign of cooperation between the US and China, after years of deterior...

A jury on Tuesday convicted former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin of murder in the arrest of George Floyd, a milestone in the fraught racial history of the United States and a rebuke of law enforcement’s treatment of black Americans.Here are s...

As the Japanese proverb goes, “Let the past drift away like water.” Yet with radiation, letting go is not so simple. Even as the Japanese government tries to rid itself of the catastrophic after-effects of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, radioactiv...

Japan’s glacial Covid-19 inoculation push is prompting some foreign residents to consider flying to other countries to get vaccinated, as the pandemic surges again with no shots in sight for everyday people.Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga negotiated ...

The number of homes standing empty in Hong Kong may climb to an 18-year high in 2021 as thousands of families flee to the UK, according to a Bloomberg estimate.The proportion of vacant units could surge to 5.4 per cent according to a Bloomberg Intell...

Candidates of delayed Legislative Council elections will not be refunded campaign expenses if they are being investigated for national security law breaches under revised Hong Kong government guidelines that critics condemn as a U-turn.The government...

When Philippine vaccine tsar Carlito Galvez Jnr announced on Monday that the country’s Food and Drug Administration had authorised emergency use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, and was aiming to procure up to 10 million doses, he was ...

The world’s top two iron ore miners struggled to keep up with strong Chinese demand in the first quarter of 2021, hit by operational challenges and weather disruptions, in a positive sign for prices that are already at decade highs.Brazil’s Vale ...

The US ambassador to Russia said on Tuesday he will head home for consultations – a move that comes after the Kremlin prodded him to take a break as Washington and Moscow traded sanctions.The Kremlin emphasised that it could not order Ambassador Jo...

Ahead of this week’s summit of global leaders to discuss ways of tackling climate change, this South China Morning Post series looks into how attitudes have changed among China’s leadership, the challenges faced by the world’s largest polluter ...

Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the black man’s neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious re-exami...

Relations between China and Australia have become fraught over the past year after Canberra pushed for an international probe into the origin of the coronavirus without diplomatic consultations beforehand, and Beijing has responded with a number of...

A woman from the capital Damascus has applied to run for president of Syria, the parliament speaker said on Tuesday, making her the first female to make a bid for the country’s top job. The largely symbolic election is certain to be won by Presiden...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Quint Forgey on politico.com on April 20, 2021.US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was “praying” for a guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvi...

Police in Spain said on Tuesday they have dismantled one of the largest criminal gangs growing cannabis in the country and trafficking it across Europe.At least 65 people, most of them Chinese nationals, were arrested in several Spanish cities, Portu...

China is expected to approve a Covid-19 vaccine made by German firm BioNTech in June, according to a Bloomberg report citing a US business leader.Ker Gibbs, head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, told the outlet that the Shanghai gover...

Asians living in America are under assault. Rarely a day passes without a report about someone of Chinese, Filipino, Thai or Indonesian descent being attacked or even killed. Legislation meant to address the onslaught is moving through Congress. And ...

Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday it will resume rolling out its Covid-19 vaccine in Europe after the region’s medical regulator said the benefits of the shot outweigh the risk of very rare, potentially lethal blood clots.Europe’s health regulato...

China launched a large-scale experimental network in Beijing on Tuesday to test the future of internet technology over the next five to 10 years.Headquartered at Tsinghua University, the “future internet technology infrastructure” connects 40 of ...

The level of protection offered by the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine dropped 70 per cent against the more infectious South African variant, according to data published by mainland scientists, but Hong Kong health experts on Tuesday sought to reassure r...

China’s “Mighty Dragon” J-20 stealth fighter jet is expected to get purpose-built new engines within the next two years, according to a military source. The WS-15 engine has been specially designed for the J-20 and is designed to improve its ma...

As the Biden administration pushes its proposed US$2 trillion domestic infrastructure programme forward, it is sparking debate about the programme’s potential to wreak havoc in emerging markets. If passed, the total amount of extra capital pumped ...

The European Union does not want to see the strategic rivalry between China and the United States develop into a cold war and will seek to cooperate with all parties in the Indo-Pacific region, a senior Brussels official said on Tuesday.On Monday the...

China is making it clear that it will honour the Group of 20’s debt-suspension scheme it endorsed last year, but Beijing is reluctant to respond to Western suggestions about debt restructuring for struggling developing nations.While promising a “...

Hong Kong’s police chief would back a new law banning fake news and has doubled down on his criticism of a local newspaper which he said “incited hatred” with its coverage of National Security Education Day last week.Commissioner of Police Chri...

Malaysia’s former leader Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday urged the country’s king to revoke a Covid-19 state of emergency, saying the royal order – made in January on the advice of the government – was uncharacteristically turning the country’...

China is currently the most active state actor in amplifying QAnon-related conspiracy theories on Facebook, according to the latest report published by the Soufan Centre, a non-profit organisation founded a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FB...

Hong Kong prosecutors have asked a court to proceed with the trial of a university student in her absence, after she fled the city following her arrest in a 2019 anti-government protest, but the presiding judge has questioned if this will violate the...

A top Chinese securities regulator in charge of talking with the US about the auditing of Chinese businesses listed in US markets called on US President Joe Biden’s administration to work with Beijing, blaming the lack of an agreement on an increas...

A woman was detained after dramatically climbing onto a car and shouting about Tesla vehicle malfunctions at a car show in China on Monday.Video on Chinese social media showed the woman at the Shanghai Auto Show 2021 standing on a Tesla sedan wearing...

Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, the country’s army said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a presidential election.Deby’s son, Mahamat Kaka,...