Hong Kong’s decision to suspend some but not all of the services provided by a coronavirus testing lab whose false-positive results led to a number of people being incorrectly quarantined was necessary to maintain the city’s pandemic fighting cap...

India recorded more than 320,000 new cases of coronavirus infection on Tuesday as a grim surge of illness and death weighed on the country and its sinking health system started getting much-needed support from foreign nations.Tuesday’s new infectio...

A US$1 billion project to build a tourist district in South Korea has been scrapped due to mounting anti-Chinese sentiment sparked by an online petition wrongly depicting it as a Chinatown. The decision came after what Gangwon Province head Choi Moon...

On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, tourists are flocking to historic sites and making pilgrimages to party landmarks.On a street where the Red Army once roamed, a group of retirees in historic pastel-blue army uniforms belts out...

Hong Kong local tours are set to return next month capped at 30 people per excursion, while the government will launch an app allowing restaurants and bars to check the Covid-19 vaccination records of customers, the Post has learned.Officials are exp...

Hong Kong police have arrested seven people in a crackdown on a gold trading scam that duped 116 investors in mainland China out of HK$236 million (US$30.4 million) over a five-year period.Those detained over the cross-border swindle included the dir...

US President Joe Biden will deliver a prime time address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday – the eve of his first 100 days mark.But will US lawmakers all listen to the president – even for one night?Recent history is not assuring. Repub...

Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing on Tuesday signalled he was not emphatically behind Asean’s “five-point consensus” plan to de-escalate the country’s post-coup violence, saying instead that the military would consider the proposals �...

China has vowed to encourage its private companies to help India in its battle against a drastic surge in Covid-19 cases which has seen repeated daily global records of new infections and local media reports that patients are dying because of a lack ...

Full vaccination will be the baseline for Hong Kong residents hoping to take part in future travel bubbles, the city’s commerce minister has said, as flights for a new quarantine-free corridor with Singapore were rapidly filling up on Tuesday.Secre...

Heavily armed Somali opposition fighters were holding positions in parts of Mogadishu after clashes with government troops erupted over the president’s bid to extend his mandate, in the country’s worst political violence in years.Fighters used mo...

Lawyer for the family a black man shot by sheriff’s deputies in North Carolina during an attempted arrest last week, said body camera footage showed he had been “executed” and accused officials of withholding evidence.Lawyers said 42-year-old o...

Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday stopped short of saying the annual vigil commemorating the Tiananmen Square crackdown would be banned going forward under the national security law, but emphasised it was the city’s obligation to respect the ruling C...

The Japanese government emphasised concerns over China’s military expansion and growing activities in the East China Sea and South China Sea in an annual foreign policy report released on Tuesday.The 2021 edition of the Diplomatic Bluebook said Chi...

Debate is simmering in China about whether the nation is facing a food crisis. Stoked by President Xi Jinping’s war on food waste, food export restrictions from some Southeast Asian nations amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and the inclusion of food sec...

Three years ago, his five-star restaurant in Yangon’s Mayangone township was packed with diners every day, serving French cuisine to both expats and Myanmar locals. But after the double whammy of the Covid-19 pandemic and February 1 coup left his b...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk expects some fatal accidents when his company starts sending people to Mars to explore and colonise the red planet.“Honestly, a bunch of people will probably die in the beginning,” the SpaceX boss said in a recent inter...

India’s mounting crisis surrounding a surge in coronavirus infections is prompting wealthy families to flee the country by private jet.With reports of hospital bed and drug shortages sweeping social media, Indian tycoons and others able to afford ...

Profits at China’s industrial firms grew sharply in March from a low base a year ago, as demand for raw materials surged along with the economic recovery, but the pace of growth slowed, official data showed on Tuesday.Profits rose to 711.18 billion...

Health experts have warned that Hong Kong risks seeing more infectious Covid-19 variants taking root, and urged authorities to stay alert and plan for the worst.Among other things, they said the city must keep up its border defences – including a t...

 Banker Matthew Kong has an inkling where his Hong Kong friends will want to visit when the travel bubble with Singapore opens on May 26. Beyond the usual tourist attractions, he said parents like him actually enjoy the city state’s Popular books...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged further efforts in ecological conservation during a visit to Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in the country’s south. In Guilin, the second-largest city in Guangxi, Xi took a boat to inspect the ecological co...

Electric carmaker Tesla Inc marginally beat Wall Street expectations for first-quarter revenue on Monday boosted by a jump in environmental credit sales to other carmakers and robust demand from China.Sales of regulatory permits were higher than quar...

A veteran television show host at Hong Kong’s beleaguered public broadcaster has become the latest senior employee to quit after the appointment of a civil servant as the new director of broadcasting.Brian Chow Kwok-fung, the assistant director (ra...

China’s state security apparatus will compile lists identifying key Chinese entities for counter-espionage work, according to a new regulation rolled out on Monday by the Ministry of State Security (MSS).Once included on a list, the entity must con...

A pair of Nike Air Yeezy 1s worn by rapper Kanye West sold for US$1.8 million, triple the previous record for trainers, Sotheby’s said on Monday, as the market for rare sports shoes soars.The shoes beat the record held by a pair of Nike Air Jordan ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Katherine Landergan and Daniel Han on politico.com on April 26, 2021.Andy Kim was deep in thought when he retraced the path of the gunman who killed eight...

A former senior inspector from China’s top anti-corruption agency is expected to face trial soon over alleged corruption.State news agency Xinhua reported on Monday that the National Supervisory Commission, which investigates corruption in the rank...

Yuan Jinhui, the 40-year-old founder of OneFlow Technology in Beijing, believes his company will one day rival Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s Pytorch to become the mainstream AI computing framework of choice and, through this accomplishment, ...

Something strange has happened to public discourse in the West, perhaps magnified by the dislocation and despair of the pandemic. People are not just covering their mouths with masks to avoid viral harm; they are covering their mouths so as not to sa...

A US judge on Monday found that Huawei Technologies Co. had not violated a court order by sharing certain information with its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who is using the information to help fight her extradition from Canada.But US Distri...

Business class was that silent and spacious sanctuary for the well-heeled, at least until the coronavirus pandemic destroyed global aviation. But as flights creep back, this once-exclusive haven is being invaded, by the masses.Flush with cash and a r...

The streets of Hong Kong are quieter now but the themes of the city’s protest movement are being portrayed in a publicly funded Canadian play that takes its name from one of the most controversial moments of the unrest.Yellow Objects, a multimedia ...

Two cases of human-to-cat transmission of coronavirus have been identified by researchers.Scientists from the University of Glasgow found the cases of Sars-CoV-2 transmission as part of a screening programme of the feline population in Britain. The c...

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday her recent treatment in Turkey, where she was denied a chair at top-level talks, underscores the EU’s need to tackle sexism.In her most personal comments yet on the incident that has...

Dr Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signalling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his critically ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works.Like other doctors across ...

The situation in India, where Covid-19 cases have surged, is “beyond heartbreaking”, and the World Health Organization is sending extra staff and supplies there to help fight the pandemic, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.“WH...

The United States will begin sharing its entire pipeline of vaccines from AstraZeneca once the Covid-19 vaccine clears federal safety reviews, the White House said on Monday, with as many as 60 million doses expected to be available for export in the...

Myanmar security forces shot dead a man in the second city of Mandalay on Monday, national media reported, two days after Southeast Asian leaders said they had reached consensus with the junta on ending violence.Activists opposed to military rule cal...

The European Commission said on Monday it had launched legal action against AstraZeneca for not respecting its contract for the supply of Covid-19 vaccines and for not having a “reliable” plan to ensure timely deliveries.AstraZeneca said in respo...

A civil-rights group best known for organising several massive protests during the 2019 social unrest in Hong Kong is facing a police investigation into the legality of its operations.The Civil Human Rights Front has been given until next Wednesday t...

Chinese billionaire Sun Dawu is expected to face trial later this year, after police in Hebei province said they had handed details of his case over to prosecutors.The agribusiness tycoon and a group of family members and employees were initially det...

The US Supreme Court will consider a major new Second Amendment dispute, agreeing to use a New York case to decide whether the government must let people carry a handgun in public for self-defence purposes.With the nation reeling from series of mass ...

China again increased spending on its military last year, reflecting a global increase in defence expenditures in spite of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Sweden-based research group.In a report released on Monday, the Stockholm Internationa...

US President Joe Biden is betting that his US$2.25 trillion economic stimulus plan centred on infrastructure spending will boost the coronavirus-hit American economy and put it in a better position to compete with China.In a sense, Biden is taking a ...

Singapore has brought charges of forging bank documents against a businessman who has already been accused of raising at least S$1 billion (US$754 million) from investors for commodity trades that did not exist.Singaporean Ng Yu Zhi, 34, is charged w...

With the resumption of global travel on the horizon, some people are discovering that their choice of coronavirus vaccine could determine where they are allowed to go.Hong Kong citizen Marie Cheung travels to mainland China regularly for her work wit...

China has sought to reinforce its territorial claims to a group of East China Sea islands by releasing a landscape survey of the Japanese-administered features as tensions build with Tokyo.The survey of the Diaoyu Islands – known as the Senkakus in...

The Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe’s visit to Sri Lanka on Tuesday is as much about boosting political and economic cooperation as it is about military links, experts say.Wei will become the second senior Chinese official to have visited the c...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday criticised Iran after a British-Iranian charity worker was sentenced to another year in jail on charges of propaganda.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, completed a five-year sentence in Tehran in March, after be...