Two new anti-riot guns have been given to Hong Kong police and could be used to guard against trouble when the city celebrates China’s National Day, on October 1.The pistol-shaped weapons fire either balls of pepper powder or an irritating liquid p...

An Islamic State-linked woman arrived in New Zealand with her children on Saturday, local media reported, in a repatriation that was forced upon the country after Australia stripped her of her citizenship.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced last ...

Chinese students have snapped up expensive airline tickets in a scramble to start the autumn semester on American campuses after the United States eased quarantine requirements.In the past, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students have headed to Ame...

Hong Kong is “no longer in travel talks” with other places because of differences in approach to containing Covid-19, the city’s health minister has revealed.Sophia Chan Siu-chee on Saturday said the government was still aiming to strike a bala...

China’s securities regulator has said it will “create conditions” to cooperate with the United States over how it supervises the auditing of Chinese companies.The pledge by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), which came in a stat...

United States Vice-President Kamala Harris’ upcoming visits to Vietnam and Singapore will offer clues on how Washington plans to “get its game up” to match China’s dominant economic and trade status in Southeast Asia, analysts say.The choice ...

US President Joe Biden’s special envoy for North Korea on Saturday arrived in South Korea for discussions over stalled nuclear diplomacy with Pyongyang.Sung Kim’s visit comes amid fresh tensions over ongoing US-South Korean military exercises, wh...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a call for experts to join a new advisory group it is forming, in part to address the agency’s fraught attempts to investigate how the coronavirus pandemic started.In a statement on Friday, the UN heal...

The last 18 months have been difficult for Hong Kong retailer William Lane, who opened an eco-lifestyle store in the city’s Happy Valley district early last year.One of his biggest challenges has been sourcing product supplies amid the global pande...

R. Kelly’s former tour manager has testified about how the US singer decided to marry 15-year-old singing sensation Aaliyah after finding out she was pregnant – and how he bribed a public employee with US$500 to get her a fake ID so the wedding c...

Singapore will from September remove quarantine requirements for vaccinated travellers from Germany and Brunei, in a signal to the world it is cautiously reopening while managing the Covid-19 threat.It has also unilaterally scrapped quarantine requir...

Robin Wang carries three mobile phones wherever he goes – two for his boss and one for himself, along with two high-capacity power banks.It is what the 30-something junior assistant at a Shanghai government office must do to stay on top of his job....

Wang Xiaogang’s first encounter with a thinking machine two decades ago set him on a career path that would turn him into one of China’s foremost experts on artificial intelligence (AI).A masters student in electronic engineering in 2001, Wang wa...

A scene of deep love and possible tragedy from over 1,500 years ago was discovered in northern China in 2020 during an excavation of over 600 tombs at a cemetery unearthed by a construction project.According to a report on the findings, published in ...

China aims to increase its forest coverage rate to 24.1 per cent by 2025, up from 23 per cent last year, in an effort to improve ecosystem health, a senior forestry official said on Friday.The country also plans to expand its national parks to cover ...

When Hong Kong announced in June that vaccinated residents would be able to shorten hotel quarantine with a positive antibodies test that would remain valid for three months, frequent business traveller David Granger did not bother contacting his nea...

May* had finally relaxed enough to fall asleep in a park in Mong Kok, when she jolted awake to discover a man had crept up to lie beside her.“I was very scared. Why sleep next to me when there is so much space?” she recalls.It was not the only un...

A heartbreaking video showing a US Marine lifting a baby over a razor wire-topped wall at Kabul’s airport caught global attention on Friday, amid the chaos of thousands trying to flee Afghanistan newly controlled by the Taliban.The video, which sho...

Hong Kong’s debt-ridden Ocean Park has started looking for partners for its massive redevelopment plan under a build-operate-transfer model.The Aberdeen theme park issued an invitation to bidders on Friday to join the first, or pre-qualification, r...

Greece said on Friday it had completed a 40km fence on its border with Turkey and a new surveillance system was in place to stop possible asylum seekers from trying to reach Europe following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.Events in Afghanist...

All eyes were on Beijing’s top legislative body on Friday, with the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee expected to announce a far-reaching law that could potentially affect Hong Kong’s reputation as a global financial hub.But i...

Nicholas Burns, a career diplomat widely respected in Washington, will be nominated as US ambassador to China, President Joe Biden announced on Friday.The selection of Burns, who served in the US State Department for more than three decades in high-l...

A Chinese satellite has tested a technology that could offer the most accurate means yet of tracking air traffic from space, in the hope of preventing repeats of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 tragedy.Each aircraft in the sky emits a radio signal, ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andrew Desiderio, Heather Caygle and Lara Seligman on politico.com on August 20, 2021.US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers on Friday that Americ...

The giant container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March, crossed the waterway on Friday for the first time since it left Egypt after the incident.The ship, en route from Britain to China, crossed the canal among a conv...

President Joe Biden, rejecting criticism of his handling of the chaotic US pull-out from Afghanistan, warned on Friday that the operation to evacuate thousands through Kabul airport carries risks and promised Americans there that “we will get you h...

Quiz show Jeopardy! was on the hunt for another new host Friday when Mike Richards resigned just nine days after getting the job.Richards had been lined up to replace Alex Trebek, who died of cancer last year, but was a controversial choice because o...

Britain and the United States sanctioned several Russian officials and entities on the first anniversary Friday of the near-fatal poisoning of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, which the West blames on Moscow.Separately, Washington blacklisted tw...

Civil rights organisations and academics sent letters in recent weeks to a US federal court, urging the judge to acquit former University of Tennessee professor Hu Anming – who is accused of lying to Nasa about his China ties and committing wire fr...

The Chinese embassy in Pakistan has condemned a suicide bombing as an “act of terrorism”, after perpetrators on Friday killed two children and wounded three in an attack aimed at Chinese nationals.Pakistani police said the blast targeted a vehicl...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to free his jailed opponent Alexei Navalny on the anniversary of a nerve-agent attack on the politician, whose life was saved by Berlin doctors.“I demanded from the Russian lead...

Hong Kong youngsters have the chance next month to engage in real-time conversation with three Chinese astronauts on the Tiangong space station.The trio – Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo – travelled into orbit in June to spend three mont...

China’s top legislative body on Friday passed a new law to strengthen the power of disciplinary inspectors to tackle corruption and misconduct among government and Communist Party officials.The law passed by the National People’s Congress Standin...

The return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan has boosted the morale of militant groups in Southeast Asia, inspiring some to make plans to go to the country and undertake military and other training there, according to analysts and a former militant.The ...

The main contractor for China’s nuclear projects has seen a massive increase in orders from the military compared with a year ago, signalling Beijing’s intensified push to boost its military nuclear capacities.China Nuclear Engineering and Constr...

According to a commentary in the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, the “youth modes” deployed by Chinese internet platforms to protect teenagers from gaming addiction and inappropriate short videos, do not go...

Beijing is likely to draft a more refined and targeted anti-sanctions law for Hong Kong that could list exemptions for selected multinational corporations instead of adopting the blunt approach of just imposing its own powerful legislation, analysts ...

Travellers needing to book three weeks of hotel quarantine in Hong Kong will probably have to wait until mid-September for availability, according to a Post analysis, after the sudden imposition of stricter rules triggered a scramble for rooms at des...

China’s top respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan on Friday said the country could reach herd immunity against Covid-19 by the end of the year if more than 80 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated.He said while Covid-19 vaccines, includ...

China reported single-figure local Covid-19 infections for the fourth straight day on Friday, suggesting the country has largely got the latest outbreak fuelled by the highly infectious Delta variant under control.On Friday, the National Health Commi...

Hong Kong has imposed some of the strictest measures in the world to control the spread of Covid-19, with travellers required to quarantine in designated hotels for up to 21 days.But the government’s decision to let Hollywood star Nicole Kidman ski...

From Seoul to Paris, and Moscow to Bangkok, concerned citizens are lining up for shots as Covid-19 case numbers swell. That may ease pressure on stretched hospitals around the world, but with it comes a hangover – a severe shortage of blood donors....

The sky will be limited for Didi Chuxing even if the ride-hailing giant can survive the current cybersecurity investigation, as Beijing is now working to cap how much the platform will be able to take from each ride, according to analysts and state m...

China’s biggest economic challenges are a result of population change and authorities must look for long-term solutions to the structural problem, two senior Chinese officials said after making a rare translation of a Western book on demographics a...

Ice cream giant Unilever has admitted to using powdered milk in Magnum ice creams in China while using real milk in products sent to other markets such as Europe, after a month of intense online speculation.Xinhua reported sales of Magnums in China h...

Hongkongers gathered at a shopping centre on Friday to catch a glimpse of the city’s most-decorated Olympian Siobhan Haughey, who saluted the “motivating force” of her hometown.A crowd of 200 turned up at Pacific Place in Admiralty to see swimm...

China’s top legislative body passed an amendment to the country’s Population and Family Planning Law on Friday, endorsing a major policy shift allowing couples to have up to three children.The revised law also includes support measures to encoura...

The global chip shortage continues to impact automakers in China and the rest of the world, forcing some to halt production on some models despite capacity ramp-ups by chip makers aimed at easing the crunch, according to industry insiders and analyst...

A former part-time RTHK journalist has been charged after he was found with two airguns and a walkie-talkie in his backpack near the Hong Kong Police College earlier this year.The 21-year-old postsecondary student was charged with possession of imita...

Sadiqa Madadgar’s social media looked much like any other successful young Afghan influencer’s until Taliban militants stormed into Kabul and upended her dreams.The return of the hardline Islamist group has sent a shock wave through Afghanistan�...