A jobless man in Hong Kong accused of robbing two taxi drivers of HK$7,200 (US$927) in total at knifepoint in two separate cases a fortnight ago was arrested on Thursday night after officers identified him from surveillance camera footage.Police said...

A woman in China from central Henan province who found a woman who looked strikingly similar to herself on social media has discovered that they are identical twins.  Cheng Keke, 29, from Gongyi city, announced on ByteDance’s Douyin social media ...

Hong Kong’s oldest university has moved to distance itself from its student union, reasserting control over the body’s facilities and cutting off its access to financial services over accusations that the “increasingly politicised” group used...

Kyrgyzstan said Friday that its death toll in armed clashes with Central Asian rival Tajikistan had reached 13, after the pair agreed a ceasefire following the worst fighting along their disputed border in years.Kyrgyzstan’s health ministry said th...

At least 10 imported Covid-19 infections previously confirmed in Hong Kong carried a variant suspected to be behind the current devastating surge in India, the Post has learned.The researcher behind the discovery has called on the government to step ...

A Japanese sumo wrestler has died after landing on his head during a bout last month in a horrifying injury that caused shock waves and calls for reform in the sport.Hibikiryu, a lower-tier wrestler whose real name was Mitsuki Amano, died of acute re...

China’s top diplomat in Canberra blamed Australia for deteriorating ties between the nations, accusing it of economic coercion and “provocations” in a wide-ranging speech that painted Beijing as a victim.Citing Australia’s decision last week ...

Australians woke up to the freelancing advice this week that “drums of war” were beating louder in their neighbourhood, according to the country’s top security official.It is hardly news that regional anxiety is rising as the countries of the I...

A top Hong Kong public health adviser has cautioned that a potential fifth wave of Covid-19 infections could emerge in the next two weeks, hours after authorities identified the city’s first untraceable case with a mutated strain and evacuated hund...

Last week, tenants of an office building in Beijing’s Chaoyang district were informed that new recruits would not be allowed to enter without producing a Covid-19 vaccination certificate. Instead, a notice said they should go directly to a vaccinat...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Benjamin Din on politico.com on April 29, 2021.In his first public speech since leaving office, former vice-president Mike Pence on Thursday closely aligned...

Jailed Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung has pleaded guilty to taking part in an unauthorised June 4 vigil last year commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.Three district councillors – Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen Ka-wai a...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Anita Kumar on politico.com on April 29, 2021.US President Joe Biden marked his 100th day in office at a celebratory pandemic-induced car rally outside Atla...

Nine Hong Kong opposition leaders and activists have lost an appeal against their convictions for their roles in the 2014 Occupy protests.The Court of Appeal on Friday delivered its unanimous ruling to the challenge mounted by the final group to be ...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit the White House on May 21 for talks with US President Joe Biden, highlighting the “ironclad alliance” between the two countries, the White House said on Thursday.“President Biden looks forward to wo...

China is on high alert after a number of people coming into the country tested positive for a coronavirus variant believed to have helped fuel a catastrophic surge of cases in neighbouring India.The reports come as China prepares for an immense stres...

India’s coronavirus disaster deepened on Thursday with the daily death toll climbing above 3,600 as dozens of countries sent urgent medical aid to help tackle the crisis.India on Friday posted a record daily rise with 386,452 new cases and 3,498 de...

Like many young South Koreans who voted for Moon Jae-in four years ago, Koo Jae-hoon placed his hopes in the progressive leader’s pledge to build a fairer society.But when Koo again had a chance to cast his ballot during the Seoul mayoral by-electi...

The “peak” of China’s economic growth has already passed or will soon do so and momentum will only “wane” further for the remainder of the year, analysts said, after slowing domestic and overseas demand led to lower-than-expected sentimen...

At least 44 people were crushed to death at an overcrowded religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, doctors said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “heavy disaster”.The crush occurred as tens of thousands of ultra-Or...

I had mixed feelings when I pored over Bloomberg’s latest Covid-19 Resilience Ranking released this week.On one hand, it was good to see my home country Singapore fare well in the index, which uses a wide range of data – from freedom of movement,...

Vietnam’s leaders will have to walk a fine line in their dealings with China, as Hanoi looks to manage its maritime disputes with Beijing while preventing itself becoming embroiled in the rivalry its giant neighbour has with the US, observers say.F...

Global cases of the coronavirus topped 150 million as Brazil became the second country to officially top 400,000 deaths.The global death toll from Covid-19 has reached 3.15 million, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally, as variants of the no...

Polish scientists said on Thursday they have discovered the world’s first pregnant Egyptian mummy while carrying out scans on the 2,000-year-old remains kept at the National Museum in Warsaw.“My husband Stanislaw, an Egyptian archaeologist, and I...

A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday released a photo that shows the British socialite accused of enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuses with a bruise around her left eye, which the lawyer called a “black eye”.The photo was attached to a l...

Three men were charged with attempted murder and robbery on Thursday in the theft of singer Lady Gaga’s dogs in February, authorities said, a crime that saw her dog walker shot on a street in Hollywood.The suspects are three men ages 18, 19 and 27,...

China’s lending to Sub-Saharan Africa energy and infrastructure projects rose slightly in 2020, though deal values remain well below their 2017 peak, a new report shows.Chinese lenders advanced US$3.3 billion in 2020, a slight increase from 2019’...

China continued to buy large quantities of coal from the United States in March, moving it closer to meeting its obligations under the US-China trade deal and replacing Australian coal exports that were banned in October.While only representing a f...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Seligman, Andrew Desiderio and Erin Banco on politico.com on April 29.US officials are investigating a suspected directed-energy attack on federal gove...

More than 100 Afghan security force personnel have been killed over the last two weeks amid a surge of Taliban attacks following Washington’s announcement it would pull all US troops out by September 11, officials said on Thursday.Senior Afghan off...

A newly developed, lollipop-shaped coronavirus test is being rolled out in some of Austria’s kindergartens as an alternative for youngsters who don’t take well to throat or nose swabs.Pupils – a little shy – lined up in one Vienna kindergarte...

The decision by India and Russia to hold a “two-plus-two” meeting of their foreign and defence ministers is meant not only to clear up misunderstandings in their bilateral relationship, but to send a signal to both the United States and China, ex...

The raging state of the Covid-19 pandemic in India is a wake-up call for Africa that its governments and citizens must not let their guards down, the African Union’s disease control agency warned on Thursday.African nations generally do not have su...

Beijing loyalist Kenneth Fok Kai-kong has hailed a “new force” representing young Hongkongers on a reformed body that will wield significant power over major polls under an electoral overhaul, in remarks made on the first television talk show hos...

The United States has ramped up reconnaissance activities near China’s coast under Joe Biden’s administration, leading to a recent close encounter between the country’s warships, Beijing warned on Thursday after the American president defined t...

A row has broken out over an image in new teaching materials to be used in Hong Kong’s schools that depicts Mickey Mouse and Goofy lookalikes in military uniforms, fighter planes dropping hamburgers instead of bombs, and evil versions of McDonald�...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his love on Thursday for John Lewis, defending the British retailer after it became embroiled in his flat refurbishment scandal for providing what a guest allegedly described as a “furniture nightmare”.Asked...

Britain could restart leisure travel with the US next month as part of a plan to reopen its borders, according to the head of London’s Heathrow airport.Progress on Covid-19 vaccinations in the two countries could allow the US to be included on the ...

Nine out of the 10 fugitives who had served jail terms in mainland China for illegally crossing the border while attempting to flee to Taiwan will appear in a Hong Kong court on Friday to face charges of perverting the course of justice.A police sour...

The US reported that its economy grew 6.4 per cent on an annualised basis in the first quarter, a faster clip compared to the previous quarter as the pandemic turned a corner with a concerted push for vaccination.The US economy expanded to US$22.05 t...

Nearly 60 per cent of Hong Kong youth want to emigrate if possible, a new survey has found, up from almost half three years ago.A study released on Thursday by Chinese University’s Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies also found that young p...

Malaysia’s decision to exclude the AstraZeneca vaccine from its main Covid-19 inoculation drive is the latest vote of no-confidence in the jab, and complicates an already sluggish roll-out of vaccines across Asia.China on Thursday beat the United S...

Hong Kong’s bars crawled to life on Thursday night in a muted comeback after a five-month closure, with many operators struggling to cope with what they said was hastily distributed information from the authorities and a rushed Covid-19 vaccination...

China has appointed a new commander in the Tibet military region from an army group with decades of fighting experience, according to the official military social media account.Lieutenant General Wang Kai appeared in a Communist Party history educati...

There may not be gold in their fields, but some farmers in northeastern China have found the soil in their backyard is offering them easy money.Black soil, one of the most fertile soils in the world, has become a target of illegal exploitation and ha...

When the European Union sanctioned four Chinese officials in March over suspected human rights violations in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, the response from Beijing was swift.China hit back within hours, imposing its own sanctions against...

Delays to Hong Kong legislation banning sales of e-cigarettes have allowed them to become further entrenched in young people’s lives, according to anti-smoking campaigners.Nearly 86 per cent of 283 current smokers aged 25 or below tried e-cigarette...

Chinese customs officials have continued to detain more Australian wine at ports of entry this year, while sales to China have plunged as Australian trade authorities consider ways to negotiate the release of shipments.Last month, more than 8,000 lit...

As the battle with Covid-19 rages around the world, a small French biotech has a possible solution for the long-term war against the virus and the rapidly spreading mutations.The company, Valneva SE, has a vaccine that could be more variant-proof, gi...