A cutting-edge stem cell treatment helped to regrow the nerves of patients with spinal cord injuries – in some cases helping patients whom doctors expected to spend the rest of their lives in a wheelchair to walk again, according to new research.Pr...

A priest and three other men have been charged with the gang-rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, Indian police said, in a case that sparked days of protests in New Delhi.The low-caste girl was allegedly assaulted by the priest, 53, and three wor...

Hong Kong needs fresh strategies in everything from asset management to renminbi promotion if it hopes to take advantage of the opportunities offered by Beijing’s latest five-year plan, the city’s finance chief has said.Taking to his official blo...

Officials need to provide more reference materials for Hong Kong educators stressed at the prospect of teaching the newly revamped liberal studies subject in the new school year, according to a policy research body.The Youth Ideas think tank, under t...

Hurricane Ida was rapidly intensifying early on Sunday, becoming a dangerous Category 4 hurricane on track for a potentially devastating landfall on the Louisiana coast while emergency officials in the United States grappled with opening shelters for...

China has denounced the “unscientific” US intelligence services report on the origins of Covid-19, saying it threatens to unleash a new wave of racism against Asian people.Beijing has stepped up its attacks on the US investigation following the r...

Positioning Hong Kong as a dealmaking hub and capitalising on a surge of interest from mainland Chinese investors and Southeast Asian companies could deliver a boost to the city’s professional services industry, according to the Hong Kong Trade Dev...

China is aiming to be carbon neutral by 2060, and for its carbon emissions to peak by 2030. But its initial efforts have been undermined regionally, partly by provinces continuing to launch high-energy and high-emissions projects.After China – the ...

Every Hongkonger who can get a Covid-19 jab needs to if the city ever hopes to return to “normal life”, the minister in charge of the city’s immunisation drive has said, refusing to rule out barring the unvaccinated from entering public premise...

US forces are in the final phase of leaving Kabul, ending two decades of involvement in Afghanistan, and just over 1,000 civilians at the airport remain to be flown out before troops withdraw, a Western security official said on Sunday.The country’...

A former corporate executive, a scientist, and an enterprising mother are at the centre of a new documentary produced in Hong Kong, which highlights the environmental damage caused by the fashion industry while telling the stories of those creating s...

Even when she’s not at work, the scent of garlic lingers on Marites Arendain’s calloused palms – her “garlic hands” are the legacy of years spent peeling bucket after bucket of the pungent vegetable.She earns 80 pesos (US$1.60) for the 15kg...

Two people were injured after a Porsche collided with a 5½-tonne truck on Hong Kong’s San Tin Highway on Sunday, overturning the much larger vehicle and causing heavy traffic congestion.One of the occupants of the badly damaged sports car was trap...

Julie Tian was happy to work hard, and was paid well for it. But that was then.The former English teacher at a private tutoring company in Beijing now spends most of her time on the sofa, doing little all day except checking WeChat messages, only to ...

Singapore has outpaced most advanced economies to fully vaccinate 80 per cent of its population of 5.7 million against Covid-19, paving the way for the small but wealthy city state to forge ahead with reopening in an approach that is closely watched ...

A large number of exporters in Shenzhen engaged in a business model known as “made in China, sold on Amazon” have hit hard times as the US e-commerce giant moves to shut down their stores over suspected abuses of the customer review system, expos...

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.Hong Kong’s weather authorities ended a lengthy thunderstorm warning on Sunday afternoon after earlier issui...

Historian Kwong Chi-man wants Hongkongers to remember the horrors of war, and one particularly painful episode from the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941 stands out.Nurses running an orphanage in Fanling in the New Territories were raped and brutali...

Cybercrimes in Hong Kong surged in the first half of this year, as the Covid-19 pandemic kept people online and vulnerable to scammers.There were victims among many who fell in love online, and those tricked into revealing their personal details to c...

When a 54-year-old Hong Kong resident serving hotel quarantine experienced severe abdominal pain earlier this month, she called the Department of Health’s designated hotline for medical attention.The woman’s call marked the start of a 44-hour ord...

With China intent on sticking with its zero-tolerance coronavirus strategy, the recovery of its domestic aviation industry remains uncertain.Analysts have said loss-making airlines may be forced to push back the deliveries of new foreign-made planes,...

The pistol used to kill the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid in the days of the American Wild West has been auctioned for US$6.03 million, a world record for a firearm.The Colt single-action revolver owned by sheriff Pat Garrett had been estimated at U...

The United States warned late on Saturday of a “credible threat” near Kabul airport and urged its citizens to leave the area, days after a deadly attack on crowds fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. “Due to a specific, credible threat, all US ...

Hurricane Ida on Saturday intensified over warm Gulf of Mexico waters, prompting tens of thousands to flee coastal areas, while President Joe Biden pledged aid to help states quickly recover once the storm has passed.Forecasters said Ida could make a...

A crowd of about 70,000 people “embraced” Europe's largest saltwater lagoon on Saturday to protest against one of Spain's worst environmental tragedies in recent years.The human chain, some 73km (45 miles) long, covered the entire circumference o...

The Taliban said on Saturday they would announce a new government for Afghanistan in the coming week and expected the economic turbulence and sharp currency falls that followed their takeover of the city two weeks ago to subside quickly. Zabihullah ...

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan overshadowed a summit in Baghdad on Saturday grouping key regional leaders as well as French President Emmanuel Macron who vowed his country would stand firm in Iraq.“Given the geopolitical events, this confe...

Police tussled with protesters as thousands of people marched through Berlin on Saturday chanting slogans and waving banners against Covid-19 restrictions.Some demonstrators tried to get past barricades to the government district around the Reichstag...

An Afghan woman on board an evacuation flight to Britain gave birth to a baby girl early on Saturday with assistance from the cabin crew, Turkish Airlines said in a statement.Soman Noori, 26, started having contractions during the Turkish Airlines fl...

Politics has complicated the search for the origins of Covid-19 but a new specialist group could help to get the investigation back on track, according to a leading World Health Organization official.The UN body is looking for up to 25 specialists to...

Former Chinese finance minister Jin Renqing died after a fire broke out in his home in western Beijing on Friday night, according to Chinese media reports. He was 77.State broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday that a fire started in the flat on Yuyua...

Stranded international students studying at Hong Kong universities are pleading to be given the same deal as foreign domestic helpers on Covid-19 vaccine recognition so they can resume face-to-face studies.Fully vaccinated students who had attempted ...

Hong Kong’s homebuyers plunged into the market for fear of missing out as prices approached a record high, helping Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) to record its second sell-out weekend.All 300 apartments on offer at the Wetland Seasons Bay in Tin Sh...

Hong Kong police have arrested a suspect believed to have been captured on video stealing a handbag using a home-made apparatus through the window of a tenth-floor flat in Sham Shui Po.The jobless 31-year-old Vietnamese man was detained by officers o...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Kevin Baker on politico.com on August 28, 2021.It was inevitable. With the hurried end of the US involvement in Afghanistan, the old epitaph has been revive...

People who contract the Delta variant of Covid-19 are more than twice as likely to be hospitalised as those infected with the Alpha strain, according to a UK study, raising the prospect of a greater burden on health services this winter.The review of...

Chinese authorities have hit out again at the country’s “chaotic” entertainment industry, pledging to uproot the negative influence of celebrity culture on youth.The commitment is part of a national campaign to safeguard the “political and id...

Hurricane Ida churned toward the US Gulf coast on Saturday, forecast to gather strength in coming hours and prompting evacuations of flood-prone New Orleans neighbourhoods and oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.Forecasters said it could make US landfall ...

Freedom of expression is a human right, the trade union for elite European athletes has said, calling for further reform of the rules governing protests before next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics.In an interview with the South China Morning Post, P...

Kabul-based freelance photojournalist SH, who asked to only use her initials, is one of 10 million ethnic minority Tajiks living in Afghanistan.Since the Taliban takeover of the country, she said she has been threatened with dire consequences if she ...

Members of Hong Kong’s biggest teachers’ union have agreed to speed up the disbandment of the 47-year-old organisation by amending its constitution so fewer members are required to initiate the process.A special meeting of 140 members was held on...

Too little is known about melted fuel inside damaged reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to be able to tell if its decommissioning can be finished by 2051 as planned, a UN nuclear agency official said on Friday.“Honestly speaking,...

Hong Kong schools are unlikely to be holding full-day sessions when the new term begins on September 1, as almost none have reached the required 70 per cent threshold of vaccinated students and teachers.Some secondary schools said while most of their...

A Chinese military source has confirmed that the Chinese and US militaries resumed high-level talks last week for the first time since US President Joe Biden took office in January.A source close to the People’s Liberation Army told the South China...

Australia reported a record 1,126 coronavirus infectious on Saturday, the vast majority in New South Wales, the epicentre of the Delta-fuelled outbreak.More than half of Australians have been in weeks-long lockdowns as officials in Sydney and Melbour...

For 15 years, Robert F Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole by a California parole board that maintained he did not show adequate remorse or understand the enormity of his crime that rocked the nation and the world in 1968.But on Frid...

Attendees of a film screening hosted at the office of a Hong Kong opposition district councillor are being prosecuted after a Friday night raid by police and undercover health inspectors who deemed the gathering a violation of the city’s Covid-19 s...

The sole Hong Kong hotel designated for quarantining foreign domestic workers is already completely booked, the Post has learned, a situation the city’s labour minister hopes to relieve with the addition of new accommodation by mid-September.Under ...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris’ recent trip to Southeast Asia may signify that the US is changing the way it manages relations with the region, where most countries are wary of picking sides in its escalating rivalry with China, diplomatic observe...

It took the Association of Southeast Asian Nations nearly three months to convene a special meeting to discuss Myanmar’s February 1 coup. Then, a further three months elapsed before the bloc agreed on appointing Brunei’s senior diplomat Erywan Y...