China has accused the United States of blocking UN Security Council calls to ease tensions in Gaza, raising fears that the violence between Israelis and Palestinians could descend into all-out war.In a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart Shah M...

The meteoric rise in palm oil prices is poised to inflate costs for everyone from restaurants to confectionery and cosmetic manufacturers, and could potentially change consumption patterns.The world’s most consumed edible oil has surged more than 1...

China’s meteorological authority issued a blue weather warning on Sunday in response to forecasts of heavy rain in eastern and southern parts of the country.The provinces of Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong and the Guangxi Zhua...

An annual marathon in Hong Kong commemorating the Tiananmen Square crackdown proceeded in diminished fashion on Sunday amid a heavy police presence, with its organiser also dropping its long-held call to “end the one-party dictatorship”, which so...

The land outside the Kotturpuram railway station in Chennai, on the South Indian coast, was once a barren stretch people avoided, filled with construction debris and rubbish. Today, it is lined with lush trees of jamun, neem, Java plum and teak, attr...

At a science and technology conference in China last month there was one big thing on Qin Chuan’s mind.One particular bottleneck was holding back progress in life sciences in general and research on the coronavirus in particular, according to the d...

Henry Fan Hung-ling, chairman of the Hospital Authority, recently wrote about the public health care challenges Hong Kong faces because of the impending silver tsunami. We will be seeing an explosive number of people with chronic illnesses, such as c...

US basketball icon Kobe Bryant was inducted posthumously into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday part of a star-studded group that also included Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett.The late Los Angeles Lakers player was inducted as pa...

When Jade Deng was about to give birth at a hospital in San Antonio, Texas in July, she was shocked to learn that staff at the Chinese consulate in Houston were burning documents.“Why did they do that?” the 33-year-old former garden designer from...

Hong Kong would be in a stronger position to negotiate travel bubbles with mainland China and foreign countries if more residents were vaccinated against Covid-19, the health chief has said.The assertion by Secretary for Food and Health Professor Sop...

In the third instalment of our Tokyo Trail series on key issues surrounding the Olympics, we look at why Hong Kong’s government snapped up broadcast rights to the Games. It may sound surreal now, but tens of thousands of Hongkongers turned out to ...

Singapore and Taiwan, success stories in containing Covid-19, are both rapidly imposing aggressive restrictions at home – and tightening travel between each other.In Singapore, indoor dining was banned from Friday, and working from home will now be...

A high-profile court case in Cambodia involving a beauty queen and a tycoon last week set social media alight, provoking a heated debate about sexual assault, power and consent.Mean Pich Rita, a second-year university student and a former competitor ...

The catering arm of Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has been invited to bid for a contract to serve the city’s largest Covid-19 quarantine centre after a food scandal led to the firing of the previous vendor, the Post has learned.A so...

In the second instalment of our Tokyo Trail series on key issues surrounding the Olympics, we look at at why China is pledging its support for the Games to go ahead.At a time when Japan is under mounting pressure to cancel or further postpone the Tok...

International luxury brands are less likely to be affected by the “China Pride” phenomenon that is gripping the country’s consumer market, as they tend to be well established and produce better quality goods, according to Credit Suisse. The re...

The Immigration (Amendment) Bill 2020 was passed on April 28 with minimal opposition in the Legislative Council. To understand the full implications of the bill and how it will affect vulnerable migrants, one must look at the anti-refugee rhetoric in...

A US jury in a North Carolina federal civil rights case has awarded US$75 million to two Black, intellectually disabled half-brothers who spent decades behind bars after being wrongfully convicted in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.Th...

Nearly 60 years ago, dozens of soldiers assembled for a top-secret mission to Vietnam, three years before President Lyndon Johnson officially sent US combat troops to the country.They never made it. Their plane disappeared between Guam and the Philip...

When Joe Biden was sworn in as US president more than three months ago, observers expected the official American script on China’s influence in Africa would change.China is Africa’s biggest trading partner and bilateral lender, and the administra...

A quartet of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s accusers have reportedly been subpoenaed to provide sworn testimony in the state Attorney General’s investigation of their sexual harassment charges, with one expected to appear in court this month.Cu...

An explosion inside a mosque on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least 12 people during Friday prayers as worshippers gathered for the Eid al-Fitr holiday during a ceasefire.The Taliban insurgent group, which declared the three-day...

Bodies of Covid-19 victims have been found dumped in some Indian rivers, a state government letter seen by Reuters says, in the first official acknowledgement of the alarming practice, which it said may stem from poverty and fear of the disease in re...

Israel bombed the home of Hamas’ chief in Gaza early on Sunday and the Islamist group fired rocket barrages at Tel Aviv as hostilities stretched into a seventh day with no sign of abating.At least four Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strike...

Thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians on Saturday in major European cities including London, Berlin, Madrid and Paris, and in the United States in Boston and Washington, DC as the worst violence in years raged between Israel and ...

The student reporter who gained national acclaim when he interviewed President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009 has died of natural causes, his family said.Damon Weaver was 23 when he died on May 1, his sister, Candace Hardy, told the Palm Bea...

When China’s Zhu Rong rover finally touched down on Mars on Saturday after seven months of space travel, a “Made in Hong Kong” camera installed on the rover ensured the landing was smooth.The Mars Landing Surveillance Camera, which is just 390 ...

Hong Kong’s Apple Daily has said without further cash injections, its parent company can survive only another nine or 10 months after national security police froze nearly HK$500 million (US$64 million) worth of founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s asse...

The commissioning of a United States “floating naval base” will extend the military competition between the US and China into areas where China controls ports, according to defence experts.However, as the base is vulnerable to attack, it will pri...

Covid-19 infections in adults of all ages fell by 80 per cent five weeks after a first dose of Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccine, according to Italian research published on Saturday.The first such study by a European Union country on the real-wo...

Taiwan-Hong Kong relations might revert to basic interactions as was the case decades ago because of problems with the renewal of the work permits needed by officials to work in each other’s jurisdiction, observers said.The two sides have been in a...

India reported on Saturday its smallest daily increase in coronavirus infections in nearly three weeks, but deaths stayed near the 4,000-mark as the World Health Organization warned that the second year of the pandemic could be worse than the first.I...

Chinese authorities have summoned 10 online ride-hailing providers, including Didi Chuxing and Meituan, urging them to charge commissions fairly and transparently, in Beijing’s latest efforts to crack down on malpractices by the country’s interne...

The coronavirus pandemic has practically grounded most Hongkongers for well over a year, and an end to this de facto ban on holiday travel is nowhere in sight. As there are only so many malls to shop at and country parks to hike through, a slew of op...

Road King Infrastructure Limited is on track to pull off a hat trick, selling over 70 per cent of the flats on offer during its third consecutive weekend of home sales, in a clear sign that Hong Kong’s real estate market is back on the mend after t...

Controversy has erupted in Pakistan over major concessions to India that the country’s powerful military leadership appears to be prepared to make, following months of backchannel talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration.The secre...

A plane carrying more than 70 Australians fleeing virus-stricken India landed in the country’s north on Saturday, the first since a controversial ban on arrivals ended.The plane touched down in Darwin on Saturday morning after picking up vulnerable...

Hong Kong Air Cargo (HKAC) has said it is facing a staff crunch as several of its expatriate pilots have been kept waiting for their expired work visas to be renewed, or getting only three-month extensions at a time.The company has urged authorities ...

China’s for-profit academic publishing industry has drawn criticism again after a paper claimed chickens could be hatched from boiled eggs, but commentators say shady practices continue to thrive.Their assertions are backed up by inquiries by the S...

The Hong Kong Red Cross has declined to take its seat in the revamped 1,500-strong body that will pick the city’s leader, citing its policy of political neutrality, an official document has revealed.In response, the Constitutional and Mainland Affa...

More than half of Hong Kong students have said they are spending more time playing video games during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new survey has found, much to some parents’ chagrin.Hong Kong Christian Service, which conducted the poll of more than 2,...

The landing of the Zhu Rong rover on Mars is a milestone for China’s space programme, signalling advances in the country’s technology. China is the third country to achieve such a feat. What is the Tianwen programme? The Tianwen-1 probe carryin...

The deadly escalation between Israel and the Palestinians has embarrassed Gulf states which forged ties with the Jewish state and put a strain on their Abraham Accords that were billed as a game-changer.The bloodshed has prompted condemnation from Is...

Back-to-back tornadoes killed at least 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured, officials and state media reported on Saturday.Eight people died in the inland city of Wuhan and four others in the town of Shengze, ...

Since the arrival of Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines for Covid-19, Asia-Pacific countries have struggled to source adequate supplies.Governments including those of Australia, South Korea and Singapore are now racing to establish facilities to ma...

US Republicans on Friday elected Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, an outspoken defender of Donald Trump, as their new House conference chair, as the party scrambles to unify amid an explosive debate about its direction.Stefanik replaced Liz Cheney, who ...

The South China Morning Post has bagged 51 medals at a prestigious international annual awards event that attracted thousands of entries from media organisations around the world.For the second year in a row, the paper’s graphics team was among the...

Taiwan has ordered the closure of some entertainment venues and public facilities, and tightened limits on social gatherings in a bid to contain a new coronavirus outbreak as the daily number of local cases rose to a record 180 on Friday.Officials sa...

Hong Kong customs officials have seized HK$50 million (US$6.4 million) worth of gems, luxury items and marine products bound for mainland China in the biggest haul of its kind so far this year, with the raid carried out at the construction site of th...

When Zhang Zhengxiang heard that officials in Kunming had been named and shamed for damaging the environment around Dianchi Lake he was so pleased he could not sleep for two days.The scandal involved a real estate project on Changyao Mountain on the ...