Hong Kong’s stock exchange operator from January will lift its listing qualification for the first time in nearly three decades, but will stop short of doubling the requirement after push-back from the city’s brokers and bankers.Companies seeking...

American car company Ford’s joint venture in China has apologised for an ad copying Marilyn Monroe’s iconic white dress air vent scene, following a backlash from the public and state media.The scene from the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch is widel...

The Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit that was due to be held in Singapore next month has been cancelled, the organisers said on Thursday, citing the Covid-19 pandemic.This year’s event, which is arranged by the International Institute for ...

Hong Kong’s lawmakers could be required to don business attire, and not sportswear or jeans, when they enter the Legislative Council’s chamber, with the pro-establishment camp set to push through another series of changes to the rule book.As part...

Hong Kong’s joblessness shows signs of easing, with the city’s unemployment rate dropping sharply to 6.4 per cent for the February to April period, falling for the second consecutive month as the effects of coronavirus pandemic receded.The rollin...

The US consulate in Guangzhou has issued a warning to American citizens to avoid the SEG Plaza, the iconic Shenzhen skyscraper that was suddenly evacuated on Tuesday, despite safety inspectors finding no issues in the building’s main structure or s...

China has urged countries around the world to provide more vaccines and more support to Africa to help build a “defence line” against Covid-19.The international community should help ensure the “accessibility and affordability of vaccines” in...

The deaths of two Thai migrant workers in Israel in a rocket attack from Gaza cast fresh light on the difficult lives thousands of Thais face far from home.Weerawat Karunborirak, 44, from the northern province of Petchabun, and Sikarin Sa-ngamrum, 24...

After a four-month voting process that saw 83,000 Tibetan refugees around the world cast their ballots, 54-year-old Penpa Tsering, a former speaker of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, was declared the community’s new political leader.Tsering’s el...

Malaysia on Thursday recorded 6,806 new coronavirus cases, its biggest daily jump in infections since the start of the pandemic, the health ministry said on Twitter.It was the second straight day of record infections amid a fresh surge in Covid-19 ca...

Taiwan is to set up Covid-19 testing stations all over the island to test for viral infections as the number of domestic cases continues to rise and one new death was recorded.On Thursday, an additional 286 locally transmitted infections were reporte...

Named after slain Islamist commanders and fashioned mostly from makeshift materials in clandestine Gaza workshops, the rockets of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have long bedevilled a technologically superior Israeli military.The current cross-border fighti...

China has to give up its control over the currency’s exchange rate eventually if it wants to achieve greater global use of the yuan, according to a central bank official.The yuan exchange rate will have to be determined by global market participant...

The final testing of a four-year-old Hong Kong boy previously diagnosed with Covid-19 has confirmed no traces of the virus in his nasal or blood systems, according to a source, a finding local health experts agree would make it “very likely” he h...

A new type of coronavirus that could infect humans was confirmed in at least one pneumonia patient hospitalised in 2018 in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, a medical journal reports.The virus was the first canine coronavirus to have been isolated in a...

Tong Liya, one of China’s most popular actresses, announced her divorce on Thursday, the unofficial Valentine’s Day in China, and in turn was celebrated by fans who called her decision “long overdue”.On Thursday morning, her ex-husband, actor...

The Gaza Strip’s already feeble health system is being brought to its knees by the fourth war in just over a decade.Hospitals have been overwhelmed with waves of dead and wounded from Israel’s bombardment. Many vital medicines are rapidly running...

The first person to be tried under Hong Kong’s national security law has lost a judicial challenge against the justice minister’s decision to dispense with a jury at his trial next month.Thursday’s High Court ruling means that Tong Ying-kit, wh...

Facial recognition technology isn’t just for humans. In Hong Kong, it is now being embraced to protect an endangered species of coral reef fish.In a world first, researchers at the University of Hong Kong have created a facial recognition app to id...

China has tapped the United States for more than a third of next season’s expected corn imports, accelerating its pace of buying from the world’s top supplier to fill its growing grain needs.The Asian nation bought about 9.5 million metric tonnes...

A man has been arrested for allegedly pistol-whipping and robbing an Asian-American Lyft driver in a Los Angeles suburb during an attack caught on video, authorities announced Wednesday.The arrest for the May 10 attack in South El Monte was to be dis...

European Union member states agreed on Wednesday to reopen the bloc’s borders to travellers who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, European sources said.Meeting in Brussels, diplomats also agreed to increase the level of new cases ...

Snaking queues at Manila food banks have become a common sight as the economy continues struggling a year after the Philippines’ first coronavirus lockdown. It is a sharp contrast to 2018, when hundreds lined up for the grand opening of Uniqlo Co.�...

A giant slab of ice bigger than the Spanish island of Majorca has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg currently afloat in the world, the European Space Agency said on Wednesday.The newly c...

Australia is looking into the cause of a hold-up of grape exports to China, with Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Dan Tehan saying around 20 per cent of the fruit shipped to the mainland is stuck at the border in yet another sign of deterio...

Zhang Yiming, one of China’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, said he is ready to throw in the towel after nearly a decade of running the world’s largest unicorn ByteDance Technology, becoming the latest among the country’s technology founders to step...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nick Niedzwiadek on politico.com on May 19, 2021.Former US president Donald Trump lashed out at New York Attorney General Letitia James following news that ...

Samoa’s expected new prime minister has pledged to shelve a US$100 million Beijing-backed port development, calling the project excessive for the small Pacific island that is already heavily indebted to China. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, the oppositio...

A juvenile leopard that fled from a safari park in eastern China last month is feared to have died, while a Siberian tiger that wandered into a town in northeastern China around the same time has returned to the wild.Rescue workers and drones are sti...

Evelyn Char Ying-lam was walking through the heart of Hong Kong’s shopping district in Causeway Bay late last month when an advert on the side of a tram caught her eye and made her stop in her tracks.It was a promotion marking the 22nd birthday of ...

Thirty-five House Republicans joined Democrats Wednesday in voting to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, risking the wrath of former president Donald Trump and flouting party leaders who condemned th...

China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia is calling for more comprehensive reporting of cryptocurrency mining, signalling a strong determination to weed out power-consuming activities in the region.The move comes as the country’s financial regul...

The US and Russian foreign ministers have sought to ease tensions in their first meeting since President Joe Biden took office, saying they were ready to cooperate but acknowledging the wide gulf separating them.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

A Hong Kong secondary school whose redevelopment plans were thrown into disarray after officials withdrew a HK$470 million funding request from the legislature amid concerns over the principal’s political stance maintains its mission has always be...

A heated debate in South Korea about mandatory military service for women is inflaming divisions between the sexes rather than narrowing social gaps, the country’s gender equality minister said.The issue has been the subject of wide discussion sinc...

North Korea’s denuclearisation and how Seoul can navigate ties with both the US and China will loom large as South Korean President Moon Jae-in heads to Washington this week to meet US leader Joe Biden.The meeting follows the completion of a US pol...

Spain’s government pleaded with mainland regions on Wednesday to relieve crammed reception centres for minors in the North African enclave of Ceuta where some 1,500 children and teenagers crossed this week from Morocco.A source familiar with the ta...

This is the fifth 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 and Qin Chen shed some light on why so many people in China...

When a student opened fire at an Idaho middle school, teacher Krista Gneiting directed children to safety, rushed to help a wounded victim and then calmly disarmed the sixth-grade shooter, hugging and consoling the girl until police arrived.Parents c...

The United States should realise that it is not going to be easy to get European allies on board to fight China because of the different priorities each country faces, a former top US trade negotiator said on Wednesday.“Europe might think of China ...

A deal is “shaping up” to bring the United States back into the nuclear deal with Iran, negotiators said on Wednesday, citing headway in efforts to break the impasse.“We’ve made good progress,” Enrique Mora, the European Union official who ...

 China on Thursday postponed the launch of a cargo spacecraft carrying supplies to its Tiangong Space Station due to unspecified technical issues.The Tianzhou 2 was expected to launch from the Wenchang spacecraft launch site in the southern islan...

Two French journalists have been ordered to stand trial on charges of blackmailing the king of Morocco for allegedly demanding money to hush damaging revelations about him, court documents showed on Wednesday.Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet are ac...

China and Russia have agreed to deepen cooperation on nuclear energy and pledged to play a bigger role to combat climate change during a virtual ceremony on Wednesday.Meeting by video link, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vla...

Israel and Gaza militants vowed to keep fighting after US President Joe Biden urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek a “de-escalation” on Wednesday on the path to a ceasefire in the 10-day conflict.An Egyptian security source said the tw...

An event in Shanghai to promote the latest instalment of American movie series Fast & Furious on Tuesday was cancelled by its distributor Universal Pictures, citing security concerns.“Universal Pictures received threats which attempted to prevent t...

While global attention has been focused on India’s runaway second Covid-19 wave, a surge in cases has pushed neighbouring Nepal’s health care system to the breaking point, with intensive care unit wards jammed and hospitals clamouring for oxygen....