Former Hong Kong home affairs minister Patrick Ho Chi-ping has been removed from the city’s register of medical practitioners for 12 months as a result of his conviction in the United States over a multimillion-dollar bribery plot involving African...

Colin Huang, who surpassed Jack Ma and Pony Ma last year as China’s second-richest businessman, was also the nation’s most generous when it came to giving away his wealth, topping the Hurun China Philanthropy List 2021.The billionaire, who unexpe...

The Philippine and Malaysian economies continued contracting in the first three months of the year, adding to signs that some of Southeast Asia’s biggest nations are struggling amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases.The quarterly figures released o...

A popular Chinese TV series about home education has been branded as a “magic contraception tool” because viewers say it discourages them from having children.Xiao She De, or “A Little Dilemma”, describes two middle-class city-based families ...

Two Chinese activists swept up in a crackdown against reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic were tried in a Beijing court on Tuesday, after more than a year in detention.Cai Wei and Chen Mei, who pleaded guilty, archived censored artic...

At least nine people were killed after shooting broke out Tuesday at a high school in the central Russian city of Kazan, local news agencies reported.Citing local sources, agencies reported that two people had opened fire at School No. 175 in Kazan, ...

A 48-year-old Hong Kong woman struggled with an intruder she found in her upscale Mid-Levels flat before daybreak on Tuesday but failed to stop him from fleeing with about HK$2.7 million (US$348,000) in valuables and cash.As of midday, a citywide man...

Thirty-six miles off the coast of South Korea, the Donghae gas field is running dry. When it closes next year, its pipeline to the port of Ulsan could go into reverse, creating the Asian nation’s first major carbon-capture reservoir by injecting ca...

A 23-year-old Italian woman received six doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Sunday, after a nurse at a hospital in Tuscany accidentally injected an entire vial.Italian news agency AGI reported the incident on Monday, and USL Toscana Nord Oves...

After Myanmar’s military seized power by ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, they couldn’t even make the trains run on time: state railway workers were among the earliest organised opponents of the February takeover, and they went...

The Spanish government and opposition blamed each other after crowds of mostly maskless youths partied in the streets of Madrid and Barcelona when a state of emergency imposed to curb the pandemic ended at the weekend.Imposed last October amid an ala...

China on Monday urged the United States, Germany and Britain to cancel an upcoming videoconference on Beijing’s crackdown on the Uygur Muslim minority, and called on other United Nations members not to attend the event.At least 1 million Uygurs and...

Malaysian authorities have captured eight suspected Abu Sayyaf militants who may have been planning ransom kidnappings in the country, said Philippine military officials who provided information that helped lead to the arrests.The Filipino militants ...

A Texas man free on bond from a murder charge was returned to custody after neighbours found a pet tiger wandering around a Houston neighbourhood.Houston police said that Victor Hugo Cuevas, 26, was back in custody charged with felony evading arrest....

The Hong Kong government has for the first time stepped in to purchase broadcasting rights to the Olympics and will allow five local television stations to broadcast the Games for free in July, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has revealed....

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Eric Geller on politico.com on May 10, 2021.The cyberattack that forced the shutdown of the US East Coast’s largest fuel pipeline has prompted fresh quest...

China’s factory gate prices rose at the fastest rate in three and a half years in April, official data showed on Tuesday, as the world’s second-largest economy continued to gather momentum following record-setting growth in the first quarter.The ...

Hong Kong’s leader has ordered another round of compulsory Covid-19 testing for the city’s roughly 370,000 foreign domestic workers, but has withdrawn a mandatory vaccination plan after discussions with consulates.The U-turn came as Chief Executi...

US television network NBC on Monday dropped its broadcast of the Golden Globes ceremony in 2022 after a Hollywood backlash over the ethics of the group that hands out the annual awards for film and television and its lack of diversity.Tom Cruise join...

Seychelles, which has vaccinated more of its population against Covid-19 than any other country, saw active cases more than double in the week to May 7, raising concerns that inoculation is not helping turn the tide in some places.The World Health Or...

China’s internet regulator has said it has overseen the deletion of more than 2 million posts containing “harmful” discussion of history, amid preparations to mark the Communist Party’s centenary in July.“For a while, some people have disse...

This story has been made freely available to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.Mainland China’s population grew last year, results of the once-in-a-decade census released on Tuesday showed, although the numb...

Russian President Vladimir Putin scored several goals in a game of ice hockey, appearing in an amateur league for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.Putin, who was vaccinated against Covid-19 over a month ago, said earlier on Monday ...

Nearly one-quarter of the foreign nationals granted refugee status by Japan in 2020 were Chinese, a record high despite the dramatic decline in people arriving from China on tourist visas last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.Support groups f...

The colossal task of designing and building a temporary hospital in record time to care for Hong Kong’s Covid-19 patients was one of the most challenging projects government architect Winnie Ho Wing-yin had undertaken.The North Lantau Hospital Hong...

Chinese became more trusting of the government several months into the pandemic, according to a survey conducted by researchers from China, Canada and Sweden.Nearly 20,000 people were polled across 31 provinces or administrative regions in mainland C...

Top government advisers have endorsed a controversial plan on Tuesday to allow more overseas-trained doctors to practise in Hong Kong after authorities accepted “mild modifications” from the medical sector to win its support, the Post has learned...

An injured minke whale calf which became stranded in London’s River Thames was put down on Monday after its condition deteriorated and hopes for its survival faded, hundreds of kilometres from its home.The whale had been spotted swimming upstream i...

Chinese companies have seen a spike in demand from India for medical oxygen equipment after Beijing pledged to mobilise support for the country as it struggles with a worsening Covid-19 crisis.China is the world’s biggest manufacturer of oxygen con...

This is the second in the South China Morning Post’s series of explainers about China’s Communist Party, in the lead-up to the party’s 100th anniversary in July. In this piece, Jane Cai explains how the second-largest political party in the wor...

US regulators authorised the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12 and said they could begin receiving shots as soon as Thursday, widening the country’s inoculation programme as vaccination rates have slowed significan...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Seligman and Andrew Desiderio on politico.com on May 10, 2021.US officials suspect that a notorious Russian spy agency may be behind alleged attacks th...

A US Coast Guard ship fired about 30 warning shots after 13 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came close to it and other American Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said on Monday.This is the second ...

A Covid-19 variant spreading in India, which is facing an explosive outbreak, appears to be more contagious and has been classified as being “of concern”, the World Health Organization said on Monday.The UN health agency said the B. 1.617 variant...

Israel unleashed new air strikes on Gaza early Tuesday, hitting the high-rise home of a Hamas field commander and two border tunnels dug by militants, as Hamas and other armed groups fired dozens of rockets toward Israel. It was an escalation sparked...

The Indian government has told doctors to look out for signs of mucormycosis or “black fungus” in Covid-19 patients as hospitals report a rise in cases of the rare but potentially fatal infection.The state-run Indian Council of Medical Research (...

This is the first in a series of stories about the impact of India’s Covid-19 crisis on the Indian and Chinese economies and the global initiative to restructure supply chains.Apple’s efforts to diversify its production from China to India are be...

Malaysian state-owned investment fund 1MDB and a former unit have filed a combined 22 civil suits against entities and individuals for the recovery of assets worth more than US$23 billion.1MDB, whose full name is 1Malaysia Development Berhad, filed s...

China will set up a “separation line” on the world’s highest peak to prevent transmission between climbers after a cluster of Covid-19 cases was reported at a base camp in neighbouring Nepal.The mountaineering management bureau of the Tibet aut...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday gave the green light to cautious hugging and the serving of pints inside pubs after months of strict restrictions as he set out the next phase of coronavirus lockdown easing in England.The government ann...

It sounded like the stuff of tabloids but a claim published on the weekend that Chinese military scientists discussed weaponising a deadly strain of coronavirus came from a mainstream Australian media outlet.The Weekend Australian reported on Saturda...

One of China’s most outspoken businessmen could face 25 years in prison if convicted on a range of charges against him, his legal team said on Monday.Rural entrepreneur Sun Dawu is accused of provoking trouble and disturbing public order, illegal m...

A safari park in eastern China concealed the escape of three leopards – one of which was still at large – for nearly three weeks to prevent negative publicity affecting its visitor numbers during last week’s May Day holiday, police said on Mond...

China has equipped its border troops facing India with a modified truck-mounted rocket, state media reported.The digital version of the PHL-03 long-range multiple rocket launchers were filmed mass deployed to an artillery battalion of the Chinese Peo...

A Hong Kong judge presiding over a riot trial stemming from the anti-government unrest in 2019 has hit back at defendants for “losing focus” on the case after they accused him of being biased towards the prosecution.Twelve out of 23 defendants on...

The family of a patient with kidney failure who died after being given the wrong medication has called the punishment handed to the Hong Kong doctor responsible “too light and unacceptable”.Dr Mo Ho-yuen, who runs a private clinic, was found guil...

A Vietnamese man deported from the United States under a push by the Trump administration to expel immigrants convicted of crimes in the United States has been arrested on suspicion of murder in Vietnam.Bui Thanh Hung, a Vietnamese-American who was d...

China’s economy is facing a slew of challenges from job creation to government red tape and low efficiency in spite of a strong recovery in the first quarter, Premier Li Keqiang told officials in a recent meeting. Li made the assessment at the ann...

German drug maker BioNTech, whose coronavirus vaccine with Pfizer was the first to be approved in the United States and Europe for use last year, on Monday announced a new manufacturing facility in Singapore that would produce “several hundreds of ...

Why is China’s census important?The decennial census is key to gauging changes in the size and diversity of China’s population, making it an essential tool for future government policies.National Bureau of Statics (NBS) commissioner Ning Jizhe ...