A group of establishment-leaning Hong Kong principals have signed up as candidates for seats on the powerful 1,500-member committee that will pick the city’s leader, vowing in the process to end the opposition’s domination of their subsector and ...

A herd of wandering elephants that fascinated locals and people around the world by making a months-long journey into urbanised southwest China, raiding farms and even a retirement home for food, appears finally to be headed home.Local authorities in...

A former Chinese health minister has criticised suggestions by some experts in China – including its leading epidemiologist – that the country needs to learn how to live with the novel coronavirus, yet another sign that Beijing will stick to its ...

Chinese online entertainment giant Bilibili unveiled a record 16 new games at its summer launch event, including six self-developed titles, despite regulatory scrutiny reaching a fever pitch last week after state media criticised video games as “sp...

An air-and-sea search for an alleged smuggler who went missing after falling from a boat during a high-speed chase by Hong Kong police and customs officers came to an end on Monday with the discovery of a man’s body in the waters off Tuen Mun.The j...

Ocean Park’s new all-weather Water World will finally open to the Hong Kong public on September 21 after four years of delays, with vaccination against the coronavirus encouraged for visitors, but not compulsory.Online ticketing starts at 5pm on Mo...

Hong Kong health authorities will begin offering walk-in Covid-19 vaccinations to those aged 60 to 69 from Wednesday in the latest bid to push the city towards herd immunity.The government on Monday revealed that 4,600 passes would be made available ...

Cathay Pacific is planning to cut the checked baggage allowance for its cheapest economy tickets from 30kg to 23kg, while all other cabin classes will be getting substantial luggage weight upgrades, the Post has learned.Sources said the changes were ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire after it emerged nearly £100,000 (US$138,700) was spent on two works of art to be displayed on the walls of 10 Downing Street.The accounts of the Government's Art Collection fund show £70,200...

A former Hong Kong auxiliary police officer has been jailed for seven weeks for hurling a water bottle at a crowd during an anti-government protest last year.Vincent Luk Ping-yat, 25, was found guilty last month of one count of behaving in a disorder...

China reported another 94 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases as the country continues to fight the most serious outbreak since last year’s peak in Wuhan, testing tens of millions of people across the country.Of the new infections, 41 were in Henan,...

As Covid-19 cases surge, some hospitals in the United States are raising the alarm over hospitalisation rates that may push facilities to capacity.The number of people hospitalised with the virus in the US has more than tripled over the past month, f...

Alibaba Group Holding has fired a manager accused of rape and punished several executives for their handling of the case as it grapples to contain the reputational fallout from a case that exposed what chairman Daniel Zhang called “shameful” aspe...

Local Japanese officials have in recent weeks called attention to the actions of Chinese diplomats in Japan, accusing them of pressuring city and prefectural governments that adopt resolutions critical of Beijing.Their complaints have surfaced as Tok...

In the valleys of central California, the search for water has turned into an all-out obsession as the region suffers through a drought that could threaten the United States’ food supply.Residents have watched with dismay as verdant fields have tur...

The Hong Kong Law Society’s elections this year promise to be considerably less exciting than in 2020, when liberal, outspoken candidates won most of the seats at stake in a heated contest.Beijing’s tightening grip on the city’s affairs, with t...

Factory-gate price inflation in China remained high in July, data released on Monday showed. The producer price index (PPI), which reflects the prices that factories charge wholesalers for their products, rose by 9 per cent in July from a year earli...

The coronavirus had been largely under control in China for months, until a handful of Nanjing airport workers tested positive.They had cleaned a plane that arrived from Moscow with an infected passenger on board.Less than three weeks later, the outb...

China's eastern port city Qingdao is swamped with its worst ever algae infestation in decades, turning the Yellow Sea green and endangering China's sea life  

Standard Chartered, one of three note-issuing banks in Hong Kong, plans to open a “green branch” this year in the latest move by a local lender to promote banking services that can help cut pollution.The branch, whose location is not yet confirme...

A total of 18,369 cases in Hong Kong, among them 667 classified as severe, and a case fatality rate of a little less than 1 per cent. These are the numbers, not of the Covid-19 pandemic but the 2018/2019 season for the influenza virus, SARS-CoV-2’s...

Hong Kong’s airport has become the first in the world to adjust its air conditioning based on real-time weather data, cutting down its yearly energy consumption by the amount needed to power 1,200 households over the same period.The new Predictive ...

A former assistant who filed a criminal complaint against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo last week on accusations he groped her in the executive mansion in Albany is speaking publicly for the first time in a televised interview to be broadcast on Mon...

Thousands of people partied in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower on Sunday to watch the closing ceremony of the delayed 2020 Olympics and celebrate the French capital’s status as host of the 2024 showpiece.The contrast was dramatic after a Tokyo Games...

Using a diamond to cut glass is not news, but a research team in northern China recently developed the world’s hardest glassy material that can leave a deep scratch on the surface of a diamond with ease.The (tentatively named) AM-III, a transparent...

Markie Post, the actress best known for roles in Night Court and The Fall Guy, has died after a nearly four-year battle with cancer. She was 70.“For us, our pride is in who she was in addition to acting; a person who made elaborate cakes for friend...

Hundreds of people, among them many Belarusians living in exile in Poland, marched on Sunday in Warsaw to protest political repression in neighbouring Belarus — a demonstration held on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Belarus presidential...

On the eve of the anniversary of his re-election, widely believed to have been rigged, Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko was threatened by the European Union with additional sanctions.“The EU stands ready to consider further measures in light o...

France’s health minister on Sunday appealed for volunteer doctors and nurses to travel to the overseas territories of Guadalupe and Martinique as a wave of Covid-19 infections overwhelms hospitals on the two Caribbean islands.Health Minister Olivie...

The monstrous Dixie Fire in northern California continued to grow overnight, making it the second-largest fire in state history as thousands of people continued to flee advancing flames, authorities said on Sunday.As of early Sunday it had destroyed ...

China’s foreign ministry has condemned the United States for granting Hong Kong residents temporary “safe-haven status”, under which they can live and work there for 18 months.The ministry’s statement, issued together with the one from the Ho...

Singapore will recalibrate its foreign worker policies to balance between being accepting of those from other countries and addressing the economic and social concerns of its citizens, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said.The government is aware such ...

China and the US have been at loggerheads on almost all fronts, but with tensions continuing into the Joe Biden presidency, where is the relationship heading? As part of a series taking the temperature of bilateral ties, Minnie Chan looks at what is ...

As the Philippines reels from a deadly surge in coronavirus cases, four athletes have stunned and lifted the spirits of their nation by winning four Olympic medals – including the country’s first gold.Since 1924, Filipino athletes have only manag...

Myanmar protesters on Sunday marked the anniversary of a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that brought Aung San Suu Kyi to prominence, with flash mobs and marches of defiance against the ruling junta.The country has been in turmoil since the military coup...

Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Authority has defended its compensation offer to property owners affected by the redevelopment of housing blocks once allocated for civil servants, after complaints the amount was smaller than expected because of land prem...

A female employee of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has accused a direct supervisor of rape and a client of molesting her during a meeting on July 27.In an internal letter sent early on Sunday, Alibaba chairman and chief executive Daniel Zhan...

Despite investing heavily in aircraft assembly facilities in China, Airbus may soon see its edge over rival Boeing eaten away as the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) is expected to enter the narrow-body plane market with i...

Greater Bay Airlines (GBA), bidding to be Hong Kong’s newest carrier, will make its inaugural flight on October 1, the 72nd anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, the Post has learned.The National Day flight, which will take place amid an...

The mercury is touching 27 degrees Celsius (80.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in leafy Mount Merrion, an abnormally high temperature for this affluent suburb of Dublin, even for July.Covid-19 restrictions mean indoor dining is still banned in the Irish capita...

Hong Kong police have seized 106kg of illegal drugs worth about HK$57 million (US$7.3 million) hidden in two containers of bedding products from Pakistan.Officers from the force’s narcotics bureau detained two brothers, aged 24 and 26. The 26-year-...

Delhi banker Surbhi Kumar* was never keen to marry or have children. But after witnessing the deaths of two relatives during India’s Covid-19 second wave in April, the 37-year-old became anxious about growing old with no close family around. So she...

A Hong Kong property tycoon has pledged an additional HK$4 million (US$514,075) to a local sports technology initiative that designed the suit worn by Olympic track cycling medallist Sarah Lee Wai-sze in the hope of kick-starting innovation in the de...

Nini Ye cried for hours last week when she learned that Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu Yifan had been detained by Beijing police for alleged rape.“Ten years of my youth is gone,” the 17-year-old Shenzhen teenager said. “I will never like or ...

Chinese health authorities reported 96 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Sunday, 11 fewer than a day earlier and more than a third of them in the province where the latest surge in infections began.The National Health Commission said 81 of the new c...

One of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants more than seven years ago is free and has been reunited with her family, a state governor’s office said.Nearly 300 schoolgirls, most aged between 12 and 17, were abducted by Boko Har...

Covid-19 patient Isaac Chow Ka-chun thought his battle with the disease was over when he was discharged from hospital seven months ago. But he soon discovered he was short of breath after five-minute walks.The 28-year-old had suffered from fever, run...

Indonesia’s most volatile volcano on Sunday erupted on the densely populated island of Java, spewing smoke and ash high into the air and sending streams of lava and gasses down its slopes. No casualties were reported.Mount Merapi unleashed clouds o...

Hong Kong’s consumption voucher programme has sparked a major leap in the local use of electronic payment systems, the city’s finance chief has said, pointing to the creation of more than 2.2 million new accounts in the past few months.A week aft...

For the past week, the name Akidi Tio and the hashtags #PrankNasional or #NationalPrank have been trending on social media across Indonesia as the country has been gripped by what appears to be a bizarre hoax. It involves a deceased businessman, a n...