Two mainland Chinese men believed to be behind a series of burglaries in Hong Kong’s New Territories were among three people arrested at the scene of a bungled Sunday night break-in, during which two police officers drew their guns.Sources said off...

Russia is turning to multiple Chinese firms to manufacture the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in an effort to speed up production as demand soars for its shot.Russia has announced three deals totalling 260 million doses with Chinese vaccine companies ...

A single mother in eastern China who beat her daughter repeatedly for not doing well enough in school has lost custody of the 12-year-old.Chongchuan District People’s Court in Nantong, in China’s Jiangsu province, stripped the mother, Li Ping, an...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended banning Australian citizens from returning from India, amid criticism by human rights groups that the government’s threat to punish breaches with fines of roughly US$50,000 and five years impris...

A young Hongkonger on Monday pleaded guilty to rioting, admitting he was part of a group that attacked a police officer who then drew his gun in self-defence.Nou Jeffrey, 20, confessed to his role in the February 29 incident last year, when crowds ga...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday said her country’s differences with top trading partner China were becoming “harder to reconcile”, amid divisions between Wellington and its Western allies over how to manage relations with Be...

Representatives for Hong Kong’s foreign domestic workers have lodged a formal complaint with the equality commission over the introduction of mandatory Covid-19 testing and vaccination for the city’s 370,000 helpers, a move the watchdog’s chief...

Live music returned to the birthplace of The Beatles after a long coronavirus-enforced silence on Sunday when the English city of Liverpool hosted a one-off music festival to test whether such events spread the virus.Around 5,000 people ditched face ...

India on Monday reported more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases for a 12th straight day, taking its overall caseload to just shy of 20 million, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by 3,417.With 368,147 new cases over the past 24 hours, India’s total i...

Pressure mounted on Boris Johnson as the ruling Conservative Party’s polling lead shrank ahead of local elections, and the leader of the Scottish Tories said the UK Prime Minister should quit if he’s found to have broken rules over the funding of...

Even after more than a year of devastating coronavirus surges across the world, the intensity and scale of India’s current crisis stands out, with patients desperate for short supplies of oxygen, pleas for help from overwhelmed hospitals, and image...

Fighting between Afghan government forces and the Taliban left more than 100 insurgents dead in 24 hours, the defence ministry said on Sunday as it took control of a US military base in a restive province.The US military handed over Camp Antonik in t...

At 68, Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to the United States is well past the traditional retirement age.He has held the all-important post for an unusually long stint of eight years and his replacement is seen as overdue.Cui is part of an ageing fo...

Northern Ireland marks its 100th year on Monday, but faltering efforts to commemorate the centenary encapsulate the rift at the heart of the British province.Ever since Ireland was freed from British rule in 1921, Northern Ireland’s existence has b...

Hong Kong will resume passenger flights from Britain this week for the first time since December 25, the Post has learned.Authorities are poised to remove the harsh Covid-19 travel restrictions imposed on Britain which stopped passenger flights from ...

From Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Al Franken and Donald Trump, there’s a rich history of celebrities trying out new careers in politics.The list could soon grow.In California, former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner is running for governor. In...

Hundreds of private rural plots zoned as village land in Hong Kong are not as unfit for development as the government has claimed and can be used for public housing, a research group has argued.Liber Research Community said it also found land in vill...

US President Joe Biden’s administration’s policy toward North Korea “is not aimed at hostility” but at “achieving the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”, a top aide said.National security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke hours ...

For the past 30 years, Hong Kong lawyer and veteran pan-democrat Albert Ho Chun-yan has spent every May preparing for the candlelight vigil marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing on June 4, 1989.This year, he is busy wit...

Flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung has once again fallen victim to burglars, with luxury watches and cash valued at more than HK$1.4 million (US$180,000) snatched from his Pok Fu Lam mansion along with his identification documents.Chao ...

When Myanmar’s authorities began cracking down on civilians defying a coup led by the military three months ago, social entrepreneur and digital creator Aung Min began rallying support for the civil disobedience campaign and the pro-democracy Natio...

Retiree Chan, 71, was shocked when she answered a phone call last month and found a “mainland official” accusing her of breaking the national security law.The caller knew her Hong Kong identity card number, and accused her of money laundering too...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday that China had recently acted “more aggressively abroad” and was behaving “increasingly in adversarial ways”.Asked by CBS News’ 60 Minutes if Washington ...

The travel bans imposed by the US on countries including India, China and the UK lack a clear sense of purpose and do not make sense, said former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb.“I’m not sure what we are hoping to accomplish. If the goal is to tr...

Hong Kong Disneyland expects that its business and the city’s tourism sector as a whole are in for a slow recovery, even with a much-awaited travel bubble with Singapore due to be relaunched in May.Michael Moriarty, Hong Kong Disneyland’s managin...

An overcrowded smuggling boat capsized Sunday off the California coast after crashing into the shoreline, killing three people and leaving 27 people hospitalised with a range of injuries, authorities said.The accident happened Sunday morning off San ...

Argentina coronavirus cases hit 3 million on Sunday, as medical workers said hospitals were full to capacity despite toughened government measures to bring down the spread of infections.The country’s health ministry said there were 11,394 new cases...

Hong Kong’s total property sales, including homes, shops, industrial units and parking spaces, may have soared to their highest monthly level in almost two years as buyers bet on the local economy bouncing back from recession amid a decline in coro...

China’s drive to vaccinate its population with home-made Covid-19 jabs is not confined to its own borders, but has a unique twist in being extended to millions of citizens living in as many as 30 countries around the world.The so-called Spring Seed...

A star-studded concert at SoFi Stadium on Sunday in Inglewood will be one of the first major in-person events in Los Angeles County since the Covid-19 pandemic forced a pause on such large gatherings.Vax Live kicks off at 6pm pacific time and will be...

South Africa on Sunday revealed plans to ban the breeding of lions in captivity for trophy hunting or for tourists to pet, advocating a more “authentic” experience for visitors.The decision was in response to recommendations contained in a govern...

The US top trade negotiator will begin talks with the World Trade Organization on ways to overcome intellectual property issues that are keeping critically needed Covid-19 vaccines from being more widely distributed worldwide, two White House officia...

Manchester United’s Premier League clash against Liverpool on Sunday was called off after fans broke into Old Trafford and invaded the pitch during a protest against the Glazer family.Manchester United were among 12 clubs that last month signed up ...

UK officials have downplayed the prospect of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's imminent release from Iran after state TV suggested Britain would pay a £400 million debt to secure her release.Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of the British-Iranian charity wo...

The UK said on Sunday it was sending an extra 1,000 oxygen ventilators to Covid-struck India, as a group of doctors staged their own intervention by offering long-distance telemedicine from Britain.British authorities have already sent 495 oxygen con...

Israel observed a day of mourning on Sunday for 45 people crushed to death at a Jewish religious festival, with flags lowered to half-staff and questions raised about accountability for one of the country’s worst civilian disasters.In accordance wi...

Opposition activists on Sunday held their annual ritual of washing the Pillar of Shame, a sculpture at the University of Hong Kong that commemorates the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.It marked the start of a series of annu...

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Iranian state television said on Sunday that Tehran would free four Americans accused of spying in exchange for four Iranians held in the United States and the release of US$7 billion in frozen Iranian funds.The US State Department immediately denied...

With cafes, bars and museums closed to combat the coronavirus outbreak, Parisians are learning what tourists have long known – finding a public toilet in the French capital requires some sleuthing and plenty of patience.Long lines outside the few f...

International pressure against China over its Xinjiang policies has gained traction in recent months, with China criticised over the treatment of Uygur Muslims in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. China has denied allegations of forced labour and det...

The Group of Seven richest countries will look at a proposal to build a rapid response mechanism to counter Russian “propaganda” and disinformation, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.Speaking ahead of a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting i...

Former opposition lawmaker Raymond Chan Chi-chuen, who is currently in jail awaiting trial on national security charges, has announced he is quitting his party and leaving politics altogether.In a brief statement issued through his sister on Sunday, ...

Myanmar security forces opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days on Sunday killing eight people, media reported, three months after a coup plunged the country into crisis.The protests, after a spell of dwindling crowd...

The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong and its naval support group have concluded an exercise in the South China Sea, the defence ministry said on Sunday.Gao Xiucheng, a spokesman for the Chinese navy, said the exercises were “legitimate and can enh...

Hong Kong police have arrested a 36-year-old man and seized more than HK$130 million (US$16.7 million) worth of suspected cocaine hidden in two cars in Yuen Long.Police on Sunday said they stopped the suspect at Pak Sha Tsuen on Friday afternoon and ...

Police in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have detained a man accused of selling his two-year-old son and using the money to tour the country, local media reported.The man, surnamed Xie, quarrelled constantly with his current wife and is all...

Singapore on Sunday registered 14 new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 infection, of which 11 are linked to the cluster at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) where a nurse working at Ward 9D was first found to be infected on April 27.This brings the ...

An extreme thunderstorm in east China left 11 people dead and 66 injured on the eve of the May Day holiday, while more than 3,000 were forced to evacuate, according to state media.The cities of Nantong, Huaian, Taizhou and Suqian in Jiangsu province ...