President Joe Biden might have persuaded some of the world’s largest economies to hike taxes on corporations, but the US Congress could be a far tougher sell. White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday said leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) ...

Tensions were rising on the streets of the Peruvian capital as supporters of the presidential candidates began to lose patience on the fifth day of the vote count, with official results showing leftist Pedro Castillo retaining a slim lead over Keiko ...

The European Union is at risk of losing out to Russia and China in its own backyard, with its trademark slow decision making creating an opening for the rival powers and increasing tensions in the continent’s most volatile region. Efforts to safeg...

A claim that some mothers in China take their sons, some of whom are teenagers, into female bathrooms and change rooms has sparked heated discussion online. Many people have commented that they have had similar experiences with young men and boys in...

The US will find it hard to change its deliberate ambiguity over whether it will come to Taiwan’s defence, a former Nato commander has said. The US has long refrained from outlining how it would respond in a potential war between Taiwan and mainla...

United States funding of US$30 million in support of Hong Kong’s internet freedom is nothing more than a political gesture designed to bolster American bargaining power over China, the city’s technology experts have said. The Senate this week pa...

With China’s recent announcement of a three-child policy to increase its fertility rate, some Chinese analysts and social commentators have cited the relative success of Nordic countries in raising birth rates. But while efforts by Scandinavian st...

Hungary’s governing conservative party has prepared new legislation that bans showing pornographic material and any content portraying or promoting sex reassignment or homosexuality to anyone under 18. Fidesz, the party of Prime Minister Viktor Orb...

Beijing’s top representative in Hong Kong has slammed those calling for an end to China’s “one-party rule” as the “real enemies of the city’s prosperity and stability” in a speech ahead of the Communist Party’s 100-year anniversary.Lu...

Hong Kong has long maintained its reputation as one of the world’s most expensive cities to own a home. Now, add car parking bays to the list.Car parking bays in Hong Kong have been smashing records over the past few years. Last month a spot sold f...

Prominent Hong Kong opposition activist Agnes Chow Ting was released from prison on Saturday morning, after serving about six months for her role in a 15-hour siege of police headquarters during the 2019 anti-government protests.The 24-year-old was m...

The clusters of cone-shaped burial mounds dotting the hills of Goryeong in South Korea have endured since the era of Gaya, the loosely knit federation of six or seven small kingdoms that prospered between the first and sixth centuries. They are also ...

A Malaysian fugitive financier and a former member of hip hop trio the Fugees were accused in a new indictment of illegally lobbying the Trump administration to drop an investigation tied to the 1MDB global bribery scandal and remove a Chinese dissid...

Felicity Hui waited nervously under the figure of Mickey Mouse straddling the arches of Hong Kong Disneyland.After months of tutoring a group of children online, the 17-year-old was about to meet them for the first time.All of a sudden, eight childre...

China’s recently published census brought warnings of severe problems for the country. “Such numbers make grim reading for the party,” reported The Economist. This “could have a disastrous impact on the country,” Huang Wenzheng, a fellow at...

May Zhang* always used to say that she and her husband were like conjoined twins, because she has stayed so close beside him through 16 years of marriage. “We stick with each other for 24 hours every day,” she said. Her husband, Hongkonger Jose...

Former US President Donald Trump on Friday announced a new personal project he is working on: a book.“I’m writing like crazy,” Trump said in a statement released through his leadership PAC, “and when the time comes, you’ll see the book of a...

A teenager who recorded the murder of George Floyd in a clear and unrelenting single shot with her mobile phone was recognised on Friday by the arbiters of the highest honours in US journalism.The Pulitzer Board awarded Darnella Frazier a special cit...

Japanese researchers found mouse sperm exposed to high levels of cosmic radiation for nearly six years produced a large brood of healthy, unremarkable “space pups”. Their study was published on Friday in Science Advances. The sperm was stored i...

Southeast Asian countries are still worried about China, despite Beijing’s latest efforts to boost relations during the first face-to-face meeting of foreign ministers since the pandemic began.Observers said this wariness by Asean nations could cas...

The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgement yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and a military scientist.The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to Isra...

Seventy-five years ago, hundreds of Chinese mariners were rounded up and deported from Britain after they risked their lives helping the Allies’ World War II effort.Now, the British parliament is being urged to formally apologise for what has been ...

Postponed by a year, the biggest sporting event since the coronavirus brought the world to a halt kicked off Friday at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome – a milestone both for European and world sports.The opening match of soccer’s European Championshi...

The Queen hosted Group of Seven (G7) world leaders at an evening reception when a day of political talks gave way to the “soft diplomacy” of the monarchy.Three generations of the royal family were present for the event staged at the botanical gar...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ben Leonard on politico.com on June 11, 2021.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he is “working together” with President Joe Biden on the case of...

French officials on Friday said they had broken up a smuggling operations that shipped millions of baby eels to Asia, where they are a prized delicacy that can command up to €5,000 (US$6,000) per kilogram.The inquiry began in 2017 when customs offi...

The director of Crazy Rich Asians has regrets about stereotypical depictions in the international blockbuster film.Jon M. Chu is apologising for how the 2018 hit romantic comedy portrayed South Asian characters.During a recent interview with Insider,...

The clearing of natural forests for the expansion of palm oil plantations in Indonesia is putting its commitment to reducing emissions at risk, according to a new report, while also causing the loss of land and livelihoods among the country’s rural...

A Taiwanese court on Friday handed prison terms to a dozen former presidential security agents and airline employees over their roles in a cigarette smuggling scandal on the island two years ago.A bodyguard in President Tsai Ing-wen’s entourage tri...

Group of Seven leaders braved drizzly beachside weather on the Cornish coast in southern England for a traditional “family” photo at the start of their annual summit, before the meeting formally got under way with a discussion on boosting the glo...

China’s top lawmaking body has passed a sweeping data law that further enhances the government’s authority and promises hefty punishments for any transgressions as Beijing continues to rein in Big Tech and impose its sovereignty over data produce...

Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal has upheld the constitutional status of a controversial arrangement allowing state laws to be applied to a section of the West Kowloon terminus of the cross-border high-speed railway.The judicial review raised a debate o...

The provincial authorities in northwest China have confirmed that a local party chief has died and five people have been arrested as the fallout over the deaths of 21 runners in an ultramarathon last month continued.The death by suicide of Li Zuobi, ...

Europe’s drug regulator on Friday identified another rare blood condition as a potential side effect of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine and said it was looking into cases of heart inflammation after inoculation with all coronavirus shots.The Europ...

Amid rising anti-globalisation sentiment and as Western countries intensify their efforts to contain China, the country is entering a period of economic development that will create new infrastructure to enable the global use of the yuan, according t...

China will establish a leading group to coordinate and enforce anti-sanctions measures in response to Western pressure over human rights, technology and trade, under a law passed on Thursday by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee.The ...

Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying is ramping up his campaign for using land on the fringes of a protected country park to be used for building public housing, even though the government has categorically rejected the idea.Leung, now an elder st...

A consortium led by Billion Development and Project Management has bought the 25-year-old Kowloon Bay International Trade and Exhibition Centre (Kitec), in a multibillion dollar project to erect office towers in one of Hong Kong’s most sought-after...

UK infections of Covid-19 continued to rise, posing a dilemma for Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of a crunch decision on Monday on whether to proceed with the final stage of reopening the economy later this month.Data released on Friday by the Of...

Chinese researchers have predicted that the Inner Tibetan Plateau will become wetter in the next seven years, in a study that the scientists say could help improve water management in the region.In a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Scien...

China urged the US to abide by the one-China principle and maintain the stability of the Taiwan Strait during a phone conversation between the two countries’ top diplomats on Friday.Speaking with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Yang Jiechi, h...

Chi Wang lives a quiet life in McLean, Virginia, near Washington, retired after 47 years working as the head of the Chinese section at the Library of Congress, and penning an occasional opinion piece for the South China Morning Post, mostly encouragi...

Health officials in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong signalled on Friday that the battle against the current Covid-19 outbreak may have turned a corner.Guangzhou’s first known patient, a 75-year-old woman from the hard-hit Liwan district,...

British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Friday there was no doubt some countries were using vaccines as diplomatic tool to secure influence, and that Britain did not support so called vaccine diplomacy.Asked whether he was concerned that China ...

Two opposition figures and six core members of the organiser of Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen vigil have pleaded not guilty to unauthorised assembly charges stemming from last year’s banned event, while two former lawmakers are expected to admit t...

The Hong Kong Book Fair will finally return to the city on July 14 albeit with social-distancing rules in place, but some exhibitors do not expect any new political books on the shelves in the current climate.The Trade Development Council (TDC), whic...

Malaysia extended the nationwide lockdown by two weeks as the number of daily cases remains elevated, Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.The first phase of the lockdown, due to end on June 14, will continue until June 28. The decision to exten...

A man in eastern China developed a parasitic infection after swallowing five live frogs because he believed they would make him stronger, a local hospital said. The man, aged 53 and surnamed Sun, ate the amphibians after his fellow villagers told hi...

A Filipino domestic helper in Hong Kong who was repeatedly assaulted, including being hit with a frying pan, was not allowed to take any days off over 14 months of work because of her employer’s Covid-19 precautions, a concern group has revealed.Po...

A new United Nations report has outlined how drug-related crime organisations in Southeast Asia have expanded beyond the Golden Triangle, with traffickers increasingly turning to maritime routes amid Covid-19 restrictions on air travel.A record 170 t...