Taiwanese author Iris Chiang hardly seems like the type whose work would be banned from publication in China. Yet four years after being sold to a Chinese publisher, her book teaching children how to appreciate art has yet to go to press, a victim of...

A punishing, decade-long drought in Chile has gone from bad to worse following a scorching July, a month which typically brings midwinter weather showering the capital Santiago in rain and snow. But a lack of precipitation this year has left the tow...

China’s ambassador to Seoul on Wednesday urged the two Koreas to get along better with each other, as Pyongyang again resorted to sabre-rattling amid ongoing US-South Korea military drills. Xing Haiming made the remarks at a forum marking the 29th...

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said the government needs to treat China with more caution after relations with its largest trading partner hit new lows.“They have made the world look at them in a different light – their actions in...

A merchant who coerced a 14-year-old girl into performing a sexual act by impersonating a police officer last year has been jailed for 27 months.Chan Pak-kit was sentenced at the District Court on Wednesday on charges of falsely pretending to be a po...

A group behind some of Hong Kong’s ­largest protests is expected to announce on Friday it is disbanding, sources have told the Post, as it faces a police investigation into its activities.The expected break-up of the embattled Civil Human Rights F...

Six Chinese provinces have reported a total of 90 new local Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, with 54 of the symptomatic cases from a city in eastern Jiangsu province.The city of Yangzhou launched its sixth round of mass testing on Wednesday morning,...

The former financial controller of a British private school in Hong Kong that struggled to pay its staff and rent this year has been arrested on suspicion of stealing nearly HK$600,000 (US$77,100) from the institution after being fired last month, a ...

As China recalled its ambassador to Lithuania on Tuesday and urged Vilnius to do the same, lawmakers in the Baltic state were holding an extraordinary plenary session to discuss the spiralling migrant crisis on its border with Belarus.Some lawmakers ...

India’s move to abolish a controversial law that allowed it to tax foreign investments retrospectively has been cheered by analysts, though they remain cautious about how the decision will boost its image as a business-friendly destination.The deci...

More flexibility should be introduced to secondary schools and universities to avoid athletes dropping out or taking longer to complete their degrees, the former chief of the Hong Kong Sports Institute and a government source have said.Professor Chun...

Hong Kong must further reopen to overseas travellers or Cathay Pacific will be forced to hand back unused runway slots to foreign airports, dealing a permanent blow to the city’s status as an international hub, a top executive has warned.The assess...

This is the sixth part in a series of stories looking at China’s economic outlook in the second half of 2021 as it continues its recovery from a coronavirus-hit 2020.On July 1, under cloudy skies in China’s capital, Hui Ka Yan, the 63-year-old bi...

Singapore’s economy is set to expand at a faster clip than the government previously expected as the city state shakes off an uptick in virus cases and looks to reopen more sectors through to the end of the year.The city state revised its forecast ...

South Korea reported more than 2,200 new daily Covid-19 cases, its highest number since the pandemic began, Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol said on Wednesday, as the country grapples with its worst outbreak to date.Despite having tough distancing mea...

A Chinese court has sentenced Canadian businessman Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage, five months after a closed hearing in a case that helped plunge China-Canada relations to their lowest point in decades. Spavor was found guilty o...

A Boeing 737 MAX test plane took to the skies in China on Wednesday as the US manufacturer looks to end a nearly two-and-a-half-year regulatory grounding of the model in the key travel market.Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed a 737 MAX 7 t...

China’s efforts to be seen as a responsible investor overseas are at risk from high rates of human rights abuses linked to its business operations, especially in the metals and mining sector, a report released on Wednesday found.The Business & Huma...

When Phuong joined Vietnamese community charity Happy Vegetable Trip over a month ago, she was amazed at the amount of work involved in getting free food to those in need. It included mobilising volunteers, keeping track of vegetable stocks, securing...

Members of Hong Kong’s biggest teachers’ union are mourning the sudden decision to disband a group that staunchly defended their rights for decades, saying the organisation cannot be replaced by another body any time soon.Analysts described the b...

Hongkongers moving abroad have bought at least US$100 million worth of property since 2019, a year marked by unprecedented social unrest, according to a Hong Kong-based law firm.The Harvey Law Group (HLG) found that Hongkongers’ preferred destinati...

A debate is under way in China about whether the government’s harsh regulatory crackdown on the country’s Big Tech firms is not only wiping out market value but also undermining their competitiveness with US rivals.Fang Xindong, one of China’s ...

In the first of a three-part series on Hong Kong’s housing crisis, the Post examines why demand outstrips supply, leaving Hongkongers unable to afford their own homes.Airport worker Wong Ng is aware that Beijing wants Hong Kong to get rid of all ti...

Ethiopia’s government on Tuesday summoned all capable citizens to war, urging them to join the country’s military to stop resurgent forces from the embattled Tigray region “once and for all”.The call to arms is an ominous sign that all of Eth...

Japan’s fighter aircraft have been scrambled to respond to a sharp increase in Russian military planes approaching Japanese airspace north of Hokkaido in recent weeks, as tensions escalate over a disputed island chain.Experts say that Moscow’s ac...

Authorities in northern Germany appealed to thousands of people on Tuesday to get another shot of Covid-19 vaccine after a police investigation found that a Red Cross nurse may have injected them with a saline solution.The nurse is suspected of injec...

Giant pumps whirr deep underground at a plant in Singapore that helps transform sewage into water so clean it is fit for human consumption while reducing ocean pollution.The tiny island nation has little in the way of natural water sources and has lo...

This week’s Sino-Russian joint military exercise in northwest China is putting the PLA’s latest combat tactics to the test as well as many of its newest weapons, which are being used by the Russians for the first time.More than 10,000 troops have...

Beijing has an opportunity to cooperate with Washington on infrastructure and green investments in the post-coronavirus era, but both superpowers are currently preoccupied with tackling global inflation caused by government monetary and fiscal stimul...

The Taliban seized two more Afghan cities on Tuesday – including one just 200km (125 miles) from Kabul – as tens of thousands of people fled their homes in the north for the relative safety of the capital and other centres.But despite the bloodsh...

Lithuania will build a 508km-long (316-mile-long) fence on its border with Belarus to stop an unprecedented wave of migrants pouring into the European Union’s east.The arrivals are part of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s strategy to r...

Former US president Donald Trump’s statements about the fraud case against Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou had been greatly exaggerated by her lawyers in an effort to have the American bid for her extradition thrown out, the Canadian jus...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Tanya Snyder on politico.com on August 10, 2021.The US Senate passed its bipartisan infrastructure plan Tuesday after months of fractious negotiations among...

Faced with mounting legal pressures and demands for his departure from President Joe Biden and others, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned on Tuesday following an inquiry that found he sexually harassed 11 women.In a televised, 20-minute address,...

Thai riot police fired water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters in Bangkok on Tuesday as hundreds rallied for democratic reform and against the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.Demonstrators defied a ban on public g...

A massive Chinese-financed dam in Cambodia has “washed away the livelihoods” of tens of thousands of villagers while falling short of promised energy production, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.The 400-megawatt Lower Sesan 2 dam in the kingdom...

British MPs are calling for the government to block Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing from launching in the UK over data protection fears in a move that could threaten the company’s European expansion.The cross-party group of hawkish lawmakers ...

The United States, China, Russia and Pakistan will meet in Qatar’s capital of Doha on Wednesday to discuss the worsening situation in Afghanistan, as the Taliban’s military offensive threatens to overrun the Kabul government, paving the way for c...

China’s medical products regulator has approved local trials for the combined use of the Chinese Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine and a DNA vaccine developed by American biotech company Inovio.The trials are set to begin in the autumn in China and will eva...

Police are investigating whether human bones found on a hillside in eastern Hong Kong belong to an elderly woman who went missing in April 2020.Dozens of officers combed the slopes around Po Hong Road in Tseung Kwan O on Tuesday after a cleaner disco...

A US peace envoy on Tuesday warned the Taliban that any government in Afghanistan that came to power through force would not be recognised internationally, after a series of cities fell to the insurgent group in stunningly quick succession.Zalmay Kha...

Trusted virologist Zhang Wenhong is under fire in China over remarks echoing what many experts around the world have said: that Covid-19 is not going away and we will have to learn to live with it.Zhang has become a household name in China during the...

Peering out into the darkened audience of a Dubai bar, comedian Imah Dumagay leaned into the microphone and addressed the mistaken perception that many people have across the Middle East when they see a Filipino at a nightclub.“I am from the Philip...

Tencent Holdings-backed Krafton, developer of hit game PUBG: Battlegrounds , plunged in its trading debut on Tuesday, after raising US$3.8 billion in South Korea’s largest initial public offering in more than a decade, amid Chinese state media’s ...

A bitter internal row is brewing within Hong Kong’s biggest opposition party, with members split on whether to contest coming Legislative Council elections after the rules of the game were drastically rewritten by Beijing.The tensions – which had...

United States retailer associations have argued that US tariffs on Chinese products are hurting business, in the latest call on President Joe Biden’s administration by domestic business groups to resume trade talks with China.Seven trade groups –...

Taiwan will stage its largest war games in mid-September to test the combat readiness and defence strategies of its armed forces against a possible military attack by Beijing, which claims sovereignty over the self-ruled island.Tuesday’s announceme...

For most Indian athletes, winning an Olympic medal is not only a sporting achievement but also a triumph of willpower and desire to succeed despite economic deprivation, government neglect, failing infrastructure and sometimes prejudice.At the Tokyo ...

More economists have moved to slash their economic outlook for China as the Delta variant spreads across the world’s second biggest economy, forcing the closure of restaurants and entertainment venues and the cancellation of numerous high-profile t...