Four Olympic contractors from the US and Britain have been arrested in Tokyo on suspicion of using cocaine, officials said on Tuesday, as the Japanese capital counts down to the July 23 opening ceremony of the Games.Tokyo metropolitan police said the...

The World Health Organization blasted the senseless “greed” of rich countries considering Covid-19 booster vaccinations while the most vulnerable in other nations were left exposed to the virus.Striking an increasingly exasperated tone, the WHO s...

A 15-year-old boy who was among five Hongkongers arrested this week in connection with an alleged terrorist plot is likely to be charged under the national security law, the Post has learned.A police source said the secondary school student would pro...

A man who took part in an “indiscriminate” attack on protesters and commuters at a Hong Kong railway station two years ago apologised to his victims on Tuesday.Lam Koon-leung told a judge he had joined the rabble “out of impulse” in one of th...

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Most Hongkongers do not currently need a third dose of a Covid-19 jab, a government adviser has said ahead of official talks on whether to offer extra shots to fully vaccinated residents.Chinese University’s David Hui Shu-cheong on Tuesday said the...

Alibaba Group Holding’s Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund (AEF) will be an anchor investor in a HK$2 billion (US$257 million) fund to support start-ups in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) of Hong Kong, Macau as well as parts of Guangdong province in a vote of...

A French national who claims his two children have been abducted by their Japanese mother says he is willing to continue his hunger strike close to Tokyo’s new Olympic Stadium “to its natural conclusion”.Vincent Fichot, 39, began his strike on ...

Australia has a “firm commitment” to launch a quarantine-free travel bubble with Singapore, which is more likely to now occur by the end of the year due to Sydney’s coronavirus outbreak, Australia’s top diplomat to the city state said.“Ther...

China has pledged to support Japan as host of the summer Olympics and said it would send a big team to the Games, but called for measures to ensure participants’ safety.In a meeting with Tokyo Olympic Committee chairwoman Seiko Hashimoto on Monday,...

The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission’s decision to censor 42 songs by Western artists including Nicki Minaj and Bruno Mars on the grounds their lyrics are “immoral” has raised eyebrows among critics who say the action is futile in the age of ...

China’s surprise dovish tilt last week is only a prelude to an interest-rate cut as economic growth begins to slow rapidly, according to UBS Asset Management, a prediction that clashes with the broader consensus.The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) ...

China’s antitrust watchdog has granted tech giant Tencent Holdings “unconditional approval” to buy out US-listed search engine Sogou, a sign of relief for the country’s Big Tech companies as Beijing has been tightening its scrutiny of the sec...

The South African government said it was deploying soldiers in two provinces as violent protests continue in response to the jailing of the former president.The government has also established a political crisis team to bring the unrest under control...

The University of Hong Kong has cut all ties with its student union and will investigate those who passed a resolution “appreciating the sacrifice” of a man who stabbed a police officer before killing himself.In a strongly worded statement on Tue...

For Wang Huaiying, the elders in her home village cared a lot about having a male heir. Families she grew up around would often have three or four children in the hope of getting a boy, even during the days of China’s one-child policy.Born and rais...

Hong Kong’s leader has said no further action will be taken against three top security officials over a dinner that violated social-distancing regulations, after deciding the trio did not breach other rules or laws.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng ...

China on Tuesday denounced Japan for “grossly interfering in its internal affairs” after Tokyo raised the importance of the Taiwan Strait in its annual defence report – for the first time calling for vigilance “with a sense of crisis” over ...

A record-breaking heatwave affecting the Pacific northwest and parts of Canada has cooked millions of mussels, clams and other sea creatures alive.About two weeks ago, Alyssa Gehman, who studies marine ecology community, was looking to go for a swim ...

Thuya Aung recalls driving through the night last week searching for medical oxygen for his father, who was suffering from Covid-19 at the family home in South Dagon township near Yangon. Thuya’s mission meant defying the overnight curfew imposed b...

Members and candidates of the all-powerful body that will determine the next chief executive and lawmakers in Hong Kong must declare if they or their spouses hold passports issued by any other countries, including a British National (Overseas) one, t...

China’s trade may slow in the second half of year, according to the customs administration, despite strong imports and exports in June, which both beat expectations.China’s exports grew by 32.2 per cent last month from a year earlier, to US$281.4...

The United States and Russia said on Monday they would cooperate on climate change despite strained relations, during a visit to Moscow by US climate envoy John Kerry.Kerry, the former secretary of state who has become US President Joe Biden’s glob...

Even under ordinary circumstances, feeding an Olympic Village is a mammoth task, with chefs preparing tens of thousands of meals a day for elite athletes from around the world. But at Tokyo 2020, there’s an added pressure: strict coronavirus rules ...

Elon Musk swears that he is funny.The Tesla chief executive officer, testifying under oath on Monday at a trial over the electric carmaker’s controversial 2016 acquisition of SolarCity, said he leans into his sense of humour to generate free public...

Hong Kong Professor Paul Yip Siu-fai, a population health expert, does not take any message from someone seeking help lightly. Now, with a technological assist from an online platform called Open Up, the academic and his team can more quickly determ...

At least 66 people died and 100 were injured when a massive fire engulfed the coronavirus isolation ward of an Iraqi hospital Monday, health officials said on Tuesday.The fire broke out at the Al-Hussein hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriy...

A game of brinkmanship – albeit an uneven one – between Hong Kong authorities and district councillors appears to be playing out decisively in the government’s favour.In the days since administration sources told several media outlets that disq...

White House officials are discussing proposals for a digital trade agreement covering Indo-Pacific economies as the administration seeks ways to check China’s influence in the region, according to people familiar with the plans.Details of the poten...

Thailand on Monday placed 10 million people in the capital under fresh coronavirus restrictions and a curfew, as its deadliest wave of infections threatens to erode plans to bring vaccinated visitors back to its islands.The kingdom has recorded a tot...

Beijing and its Hong Kong government proxies have given all manner of reasons for the national security law. The provisions covering secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign powers implemented a year ago are not enough, we are now ...

China’s National Energy Administration has ordered local governments to press ahead with solar projects already in the works, as it seeks to roll out a pilot programme for rooftop photovoltaic power.The NEA’s announcement reverses instructions fr...

MTR Corporation union leader Tam Kin-chiu remembers how upset and threatened he felt after someone posted his photograph, workplace details and mobile phone number online in August 2019.In the midst of escalating anti-government protests, Hong Kong�...

Democrats in the Texas Legislature on Monday bolted for Washington DC and said they were ready to remain there for weeks in a second revolt against a Republican overhaul of election laws, forcing a dramatic new showdown over voting rights in America....

The Biden administration on Monday asked a federal appeals court for a ruling that will bring an end to the Trump-era efforts to ban new downloads of TikTok.The US Justice Department said in a legal filing that the case against the Chinese-owned vide...

China’s most famous sci-fi writer Liu Cixin, author of The Three-Body Problem, is joining one of the country’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) companies, SenseTime Group, as director of its Science Fiction Planet Research Center.SenseTime an...

Filipinos on Monday took to social media to tell the Philippines’ trade department to leave their adobo alone after the agency set up a committee to come up with a standard recipe for what is popularly known as the national dish.Adobo – a stew of...

There are always concerns about Japan, with its background of brilliant accomplishments and unforgettable aggression. Now that Japan is in the foreground again with the cheerless Olympics, who can be sure what is next?East Asia began its major transf...

British police have so far arrested a total of 86 people during and following Sunday’s Euro 2020 soccer final between Italy and England, they said on Monday.The Metropolitan Police said offences ranged from public order offences to actual bodily ha...

US President Joe Biden on Monday called protests in Cuba “remarkable” and a “clarion call for freedom”, praising thousands of Cubans who took the streets to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis – one of the isl...

A global initiative to distribute coronavirus vaccines to poorer countries was boosted on Monday by a deal to buy 110 million Chinese shots, as the British government confirmed it was axing most restrictions in England on the back of a strong vaccina...

The United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will hold a foreign ministers’ meeting virtually on Wednesday, the Cambodian government said in a statement on Monday.The video conference will be the first such high-level meeting be...

The South China Sea is already a crucible of contending US-China visions of “the international order”, especially the rules governing “freedom of navigation”. The US undertakes frequent freedom of navigation operations (Fonops) with manned wa...

The Covid-19 pandemic caused an estimated 18 per cent increase in the number of people facing hunger, a United Nations report released on Monday found, dealing a massive setback to efforts to ensure everyone has access to food.The world was already o...

China’s Mars rover has been going in for a close look at rocks and sand dunes in the two months since it touched down on the red planet.The China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Monday that the Zhu Rong rover was performing well and wa...

Chinese researchers have designed a fabric they say can cool the body by nearly 5 degrees Celsius and could help people cope with rising temperatures.The “metafabric” – designed by a team of scientists from across the country – looks like ord...

China is prepared for more sanctions after the US added 23 Chinese entities to its export blacklist last week, but Beijing will be cautious in responding given its reluctance to encourage full-scale technology decoupling, Chinese experts and governme...

Rescuers are searching for nine people who remain missing after the collapse of a budget hotel in eastern China, as eight people were confirmed on Tuesday to have died.District authorities said on an official social media feed that six others were re...

Hong Kong’s commerce chief has brushed aside calls to censor films posted online, questioning if this is practicable and necessary.In a Legislative Council panel meeting on Monday, lawmakers urged the government to consider censoring films posted o...

China should bolster its defences so that critical infrastructure could withstand potential future electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks that can wipe out power grids and communication, according to a Chinese military nuclear research institute.T...