The Jag Anand, stranded off the Chinese coast for almost a year with Australian coal, left the port of Jingtang on Thursday after delivering its cargo, according to shipping data analysed by Bloomberg.Chartered by Cargill, the vessel left the port of...

Mountaineer Akash Neggi is fully prepared to take on the world’s highest mountain – after spending several weeks sleeping in a tent in his living room in the US state of New Jersey.As Nepal battles Covid-19, a growing number of climbers are using...

Never have there been so many of these costly, shiny, futuristic-seeming gadgets in one place – 1,188 muon detectors, 4,901 electromagnetic particle detectors, 78,000 square metres of water Cherenkov detector array and 18 wide-angle gamma-ray teles...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nahal Toosi on politico.com on May 20, 2021.As Biden administration officials sought to end the latest Israeli-Palestinian fighting, they kept two numbers i...

Hong Kong schools should be allowed to run full-day sessions and even relax mask-wearing requirements if enough of their pupils are vaccinated once the city’s Covid-19 inoculation programme is extended to those aged under 16, a leading health exper...

Taiwan reported 312 new domestic Covid-19 cases on Friday amid a spike in infections that has spread to at least 10 cities and counties.In all, 127 were recorded in Taipei and 144 in New Taipei where a large number of cases had been reported in the p...

Imagine being able to control a robotic arm from a distance, using only your mind. Now imagine being able to feel when its fingers grasp an object, as though it were your own hand.US researchers published a study in the journal Science about the worl...

The cargo spacecraft whose launch was postponed by China this week will have an important role in testing robotic technology helping to build the country’s space station.Tianzhou 2, an uncrewed cargo ship and the second of 11 missions being sent up...

China’s climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions rose 9 per cent in the first quarter of 2021 compared with pre-pandemic levels, driven by a carbon-intensive economic recovery and big increases in steel and cement output, research showed on Thursda...

Hong Kong police have arrested six people in connection with a suspected scam in which 19 jobseekers lost a combined HK$3.5 million (US$451,000) after their credit card data was stolen.Four of the suspects were charged with conspiracy to defraud afte...

More local tertiary institutions are set to make Covid-19 vaccination a condition to live on campus, the Post has learned, with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) going a step further and requiring all students, staff and cont...

The Malaysia-based owner of one of the biggest casino projects ever on the Las Vegas Strip won regulatory approval on Thursday to deal cards, roll dice and welcome gamblers when Resorts World Las Vegas opens on June 24. With praise for the US$4.3 bi...

[Sponsored article]Against the backdrop of China’s growing global economic influence, many students are noticing the benefits of a university education in the populous East Asian country.Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) – a leading j...

JD Logistics indicated on Friday it will price its Hong Kong initial public offering at HK$40.36, which will help the company raise HK$24.6 billion (US$3.2 billion) in the city’s second-biggest deal so far this year, according to a person familiar ...

China’s latest salvo against cryptocurrencies has driven a brutal sell-off in bitcoin markets but retail traders, miners and even crypto finance firms reckon Beijing’s bark is louder than its bite.China’s announcement on Tuesday of a tougher ba...

More than half of Hong Kong’s blue-chip companies have failed to commit to carbon emissions reduction or energy efficiency improvement targets in their latest annual reports. Investors including BlackRock want board directors to get their act toget...

As an LGBT activist, legal whizz-kid and Vietnam’s first openly gay candidate running for a seat in its rubber-stamp parliament, Luong The Huy is determined to lead long-lasting change for the country’s marginalised communities.Huy, 32, running a...

A Connecticut judge set US$20 million bail on Thursday for a man charged with killing a Yale graduate student and eluding authorities for three months before being arrested in Alabama, where officials said he was caught living under a fake name with ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged that some of the country’s foreign foes dream about biting off pieces of the country’s vast territory, warning that Moscow would “knock their teeth out” if they ever try.In strong remarks during a conf...

Tensions across the Taiwan Strait have risen to the point where the risk of armed conflict is at “an all-time high”, according to a Beijing-backed think tank.The China Cross-Strait Academy released a report on Wednesday on relations across the na...

Chinese citizens living in Thailand began being vaccinated on Thursday as part of China’s global campaign to inoculate its nationals living and working abroad.China recently donated 500,000 vaccine doses, and Thailand agreed in turn to inoculate Ch...

Hong Kong went on a roller-coaster ride on Thursday that started with the city within touching distance of achieving the milestone of a month with zero untraceable Covid-19 infections – and the long-awaited border reopening in sight.But it all ende...

The teahouse culture in Taipei’s Wanhua district is responsible for the recent spike in Covid-19 infections, official figures suggest.In just 10 days, close to 900 people in the district tested positive for the coronavirus and at least 516 of them ...

Earlier this month, I received an email from a reader who was concerned about discrimination against domestic workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. As a member of an ethnic minority group herself, she noted that she too had “experienced racism in ...

Hong Kong’s health minister has denied the medical sector’s concerns are being ignored over a controversial proposal to allow doctors trained elsewhere to work in the city, although officials are expected to press ahead with the legislation despi...

Sri Lanka’s parliament on Thursday passed a law installing a powerful economic commission to administer a huge Chinese luxury oceanside development after altering elements of the bill ruled unconstitutional by the country’s top court.The bill to ...

Hotels and construction companies in Hong Kong are offering incentives for staff to get vaccinated against Covid-19 amid government efforts to boost the city’s sluggish inoculation rate, the Post has learned.Billionaire Michael Kadoorie’s Hongkon...

Prince William and his brother Prince Harry on Thursday issued strongly worded statements criticising the BBC and British media for unethical practices after an investigation concluded that one of the broadcaster’s journalists used “deceitful beh...

Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He has called for further reform of the country’s controversial honours system for top scientists as it prioritises self-reliance amid its trade and tech rivalry with the United States.Liu met top science academics in Guang...

EU member states reached a deal on Thursday paving the way for a Covid-19 certificate to open up travel in Europe, just as the operators of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris announced a July reopening.The deal will allow anybody living in the EU’s 2...

A China-backed plan to upgrade an airstrip on Kiribati is fuelling political divisions in the tiny Pacific Island nation, with opposition figures questioning Beijing’s intentions and the project’s purpose.The proposed revamp of the airstrip, whic...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new immigration pathway for Hong Kong residents has seen nearly 6,000 applicants three months since its launch, a spokesman for the country’s immigration ministry said on Thursday.In November, the Canadian...

China’s distribution of its home-grown coronavirus vaccines in Latin America has helped Beijing gain a stronger foothold in the region and weaken US influence there, a congressional advisory panel was told on Thursday.The US-China Economic and Secu...

President Joe Biden signed the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act into law on Thursday designed to fight the sharp rise in crimes and racist incidents against Asian-Americans that have taken place since the start of the pandemic.“All of this hate hides in pl...

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip, came into force early Friday after 11 days of deadly fighting that pounded the Palestinian enclave and forced countless Israelis to seek shelter from rockets.A...

A driver of a Shinkansen bullet train left the cockpit to use the bathroom while the train was running at 150km/h (93mph) with some 160 passengers on board in central Japan, Central Japan Railway Co. said Thursday.The 36-year-old driver was out of th...

Two doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine may be around 85 to 90 per cent effective against symptomatic disease, Public Health England (PHE) said on Thursday, while cautioning that it did not yet have enough data to be conclusive.Britain h...

Former opposition lawmaker Eddie Chu Hoi-dick is quitting Hong Kong politics as he prepares to fight a raft of criminal charges which he expects will land him in jail for “a considerable period”.Chu said on Thursday he was also disbanding his pol...

[Sponsored Article] To celebrate the success of its online and offline maker-centred learning model, Victoria Educational Organisation (VEO) held the inaugural STEAM-focused Education Festival in support of UNICEF HK’s “Cherish Water” Charity ...

The Group of Seven is playing a “dangerous game” by making aggressive and baseless criticism of the Kremlin because it pushes Moscow closer to Beijing, Russia’s ambassador to London, Andrei Kelin, said on Thursday.G7 foreign ministers this mont...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has tested negative for Covid-19 after a worker at her residence was confirmed to be infected, her spokesman said on Thursday, as the island reported 286 new domestic cases amid a spike in infections.Having for months...

The European Parliament has voted to freeze discussions on an investment deal with China until Beijing removes the retaliatory sanctions it imposed on EU officials, diplomats, academics and researchers in March.The motion stalls a deal that was agree...

Police in Thailand said on Thursday they were pursuing more suspects in the kidnapping of a Taiwanese businessman in which an American entrepreneur with a criminal past and two other men have been arrested. The case involves a business dispute over t...

Nearly half of recovered Covid-19 patients still suffer from abnormal lung functions such as shortness of breath three months after being discharged, according to data from a public hospital.The tests showed that as of April, about 46 per cent of 167...

China said it planned to hold talks with Israel and other powers to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after it had expressed “firm support” for Palestine’s statehood in a telephone call with Palestinian officials this week.Beijing has so...

More than 2,000 new subsidised homes in east Kowloon will go on sale this month, with asking prices ranging from HK$1.18 million to about HK$3.85 million (US$496,000).The flats in Kai Chuen Court in Diamond Hill, the newest batch under the Green Form...

An inquiry into how the BBC secured the 1995 interview with Britain’s Princess Diana in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage concluded on Thursday that the journalist involved had acted deceitfully.The BBC set up the investig...

The United States and China must find ways to cooperate even if there is no full trust between them because if relations continue to plummet, the possibility of military conflict would have dire consequences for the rest of the world, Singapore Prime...

Progress against the coronavirus pandemic remains “fragile” and international travel should be avoided, a World Health Organization director warned on Thursday, while stressing that authorised vaccines work against variants of concern.“Right no...