University of Hong Kong (HKU) chair professor of public law Johannes Chan Mun-man has left that post after more than three decades with the institution following the expiration of his contract, the Post has learned.On the university’s website, Chan...

Large numbers of pigs are dying from African swine fever in China’s top hog-producing province, say farmers and analysts, raising concerns it could spread further across the south and slow China’s pork production recovery.The deadly African swine...

Three top Hong Kong security officials have apologised for breaking social-distancing rules while attending a hotpot dinner at a luxury clubhouse earlier this year, but said they were only doing their jobs.Commissioner of Customs and Excise Hermes Ta...

When Malaysian shuttler Lee Zii Jia won the All England Open men’s singles badminton title in March this year, he boosted the hopes of a nation weary from Covid-19 pandemic gloom. The 23-year-old was immediately dubbed a successor to legendary shu...

Karmic fortune has arrived in the digital art market, with a kaleidoscopic splash of colours and the face of a revered Thai monk offering portable Buddhist good luck charms to tech-savvy buyers.Sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – virtual images o...

A trader charged with orchestrating what police describe as one of Singapore’s biggest suspected investment frauds began setting off alarm bells at banks more than a year before his arrest in February, according to people familiar with the matter.N...

Hong Kong police have arrested three men on suspicion of stealing free government Covid-19 specimen collection packs from a railway station.The trio, aged between 27 and 34, were detained in a series of raids in Kwai Chung and Sha Tin on Thursday aft...

Pfizer and BioNTech announced they would seek authorisation for a third dose of their Covid-19 vaccine to boost its efficacy, as the Delta variant drove devastating outbreaks in parts of the world.Delta is the most infectious strain of the virus sinc...

An obscure bureaucratic office in Beijing has emerged as one of the most feared government institutions for China’s Big Tech as Beijing clamps down on what it sees as cybersecurity risks in the internet sector.The Cyber Security Review Office was c...

Singapore will not take the same approach as Britain and the United States for mass reopening, but neither will it keep the sort of restrictive outlook that China and Australia have adopted, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said.“I think what we want is...

A group of men believed to have been part of the hit squad that killed Haitian president Jovenel Moise were arrested after they broke into and hid inside Taiwan’s embassy on the Caribbean island.Eleven men suspected of being involved in the assassi...

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, is seeking to preserve and promote the mystical 9th-century Buddhist Borobudur temple in Central Java amid growing intolerance, raising hopes it could escape the fate of Afghanistan’s B...

As South Korea prepared on Friday to raise antivirus restrictions in the greater Seoul area to their highest level after new Covid-19 cases climbed to a daily record for the second day running, unvaccinated young people were increasingly being blamed...

The US Air Force has released a new image and details of its next-generation B-21 Raider stealth bomber, which defence experts say is apparently part of efforts to counter threats posed by China and Russia’s military modernisations.While the artist...

Hong Kong prosecutors have established a prima facie case against the first person charged under the national security law, the city’s High Court has ruled.A three-judge panel composed of jurists hand-picked by city leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngo...

The Tin Hau Temple in Yau Ma Tei used to fulfil multiple functions, apart from being a place of worship. Built in the 1860s to honour the eponymous Chinese sea goddess, the complex was a community hub that served as a venue for local council meeting...

Factory-gate price inflation in China remained high in June, data released on Friday showed, falling slightly from the near 13-year high a month earlier.The producer price index (PPI), which reflects the prices that factories charge wholesalers for t...

University of Hong Kong student union leaders quit early on Friday and apologised after being criticised for passing a motion that “appreciated the sacrifice” of a man who stabbed a police officer before killing himself.Hours later, the chairmen ...

Chinese aviation officials have signalled they are open to conducting flight tests on Boeing 737 MAX, a step toward lifting the plane’s grounding in that nation after more than two years, according to people familiar with the matter.Details of a va...

China has opened another research centre into Xi Jinping Thought as part of the drive to enshrine his ideology at the heart of the country’s governance.The new addition, dedicated to his thoughts on ecology, brings the total of such research centre...

A woman who took her ex-boyfriend’s car and ran 49 red lights for revenge has been arrested and charged along with another man who helped her, the Global Times has reported.Police in Shaoxing, east China’s Zhejiang province, said a man surnamed C...

Former chief executive Leung Chun-ying seems to have his sights set on contesting the chief executive election next year. He has been outspoken in his criticism of the government on various issues.Meanwhile, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, our current ch...

An unprecedented blunder at housing development The Pavilia Farm, which will be partially demolished, has set alarm bells ringing across Hong Kong’s construction sector over inadequacies in site supervision and project management, according to indu...

A huge wind farm in China’s northwest is the latest in the country’s succession of energy mega-projects, but the rocky road of its construction has already raised questions over its future.Completed last month in the Gobi Desert in the landlocked...

China’s CoronaVac jab, a key tool in Brazil’s fight against Covid-19, is less effective against the Gamma variant first detected in the virus-ravaged South American country, a study said Friday.Researchers found that antibodies generated by the v...

The Taliban sees China as a “friend” to Afghanistan and is hoping to talk to Beijing about investing in reconstruction work “as soon as possible”, the group’s spokesman Suhail Shaheen said on Wednesday. In an exclusive interview with This ...

Young Communist Party cadres must be both loyal and politically competent to carry on the enterprising work of the century-old ruling party, People’s Daily has said in a commentary.The commentary, published last Wednesday, said young cadres must pr...

The confirmed death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condominium tower rose to 64 on Thursday after crews recovered the remains of 10 more people from the concrete and steel ruins of the building.A total of 76 people remain missing and feared dea...

The United States has been carrying out a delicate balancing act over Taiwan, and recent comments by a senior White House official opposing a declaration of independence indicate the limits of its support for the island, observers have said.The comme...

A small aircraft has clashed at the Orebro airport in Sweden, killing several passengers, police said on Thursday evening.The plane crashed during take-off and then caught fire, with nine passengers on board, police said.It was unclear if all of the ...

Michael Avenatti, the celebrity lawyer who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against ex-president Donald Trump, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Thursday for attempting to extort Nike.US District Judge Paul Gardeph...

S&P Dow Jones Indices has announced that it will remove more Chinese companies from its indices to align with an executive order by US President Joe Biden that prohibits investment in businesses believed to have ties to the Chinese military.The compa...

A 28-member hit squad made up of Americans and Colombians assassinated President Jovenel Moise, Haitian police said, adding that eight were still at large as the country lurched into political chaos.One day after Moise was killed and his wife Martine...

On Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video call with his French and German counterparts in an attempt to improve relations with the European Union. Despite all the tensions in Beijing’s relationship with Brussels, the trio agreed to conti...

Joe Biden defended the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, saying it was “not inevitable” that the country would fall to the emboldened Taliban, and confirmed the US exit would be completed by August 31.But he also admitted that, nearly 20 ...

Trump Organisation chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg has been terminated as the director and controller of one of Donald Trump’s Scotland golf courses. The news comes after the executive and company were charged in a 15-count indictment.A n...

The Biden administration’s US$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package and other interventionist fiscal measures are a pivot towards China’s economic model and signal a bust of Washington’s long-advocated neoliberal ideology, according to a new ...

Rebuilding Gaza after the latest devastating war between Israel and the territory’s militant Hamas rulers will cost up to US$485 million, the World Bank said.The report says it will take up to US$380 million to repair the physical damage alone, wit...

The discovery last week of 119 probable missile silo sites under construction in western China has rung alarm bells in Washington. US military personnel and analysts were already raising eyebrows over China’s modernisation of its nuclear weapons an...

Queen Elizabeth has visited the set of Coronation Street to mark the long-running television soap opera’s 60th birthday.The monarch was all smiles on Thursday as she met veteran cast and crew of the show, walked along the storied cobbled street and...

The European Parliament has adopted a broad new resolution on Hong Kong, advocating tough measures be taken over the government’s crackdown on the city’s press freedom.The 28-point resolution passed with broad support in the plenary session in St...

Afghan commandos battled the Taliban for control of a provincial capital on Thursday as the president insisted they had the capacity to defeat the insurgents even with a complete US troop withdrawal likely just days away.Plumes of smoke billowed over...

A woman who was “berated” by security guards at Disneyland Paris for breastfeeding her daughter on a bench said on Thursday she hoped outrage about her experience would help prevent other incidents of “mum shaming”.Disney has apologised for t...

Sinovac Biotech’s coronavirus vaccine has become the most used in the world, with over 943 million doses delivered worldwide.By the end of the year there could be more than 2.9 billion doses of the Chinese-developed vaccine made, according to the L...

Three top Hong Kong officials have admitted they broke social-distancing rules while attending a dinner at a luxury clubhouse earlier this year, after media leaks and pressure from lawmakers forced them to come clean.In another twist to the scandal, ...

A Hong Kong judge on Thursday concluded a day of proceedings in a trial he was presiding over with a speech decrying the extent to which he and his colleagues were harassed, capping it off with a stern warning to anyone who interfered with the operat...

Eighteen months on since the start of the pandemic, Malaysia’s Covid-19 statistics paint a grim picture.The daily new caseload on Thursday, for instance, stood at 8,868 – the second-highest tally on record. Over 800,000 people have been infected,...