More than 200 emergency workers have launched a third day of rescue operations involving an air-land-sea search for the former chairman of Bank of Communications (Hong Kong), who went missing while on a country park hike on Sunday.Wednesday’s searc...

Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has urged the government to regulate chemical levels of products after a test of 14 silicone food containers and cups found over two-thirds had exceeded safety limits and prolonged use could affect liver health.The Con...

Hong Kong’s security chief has stepped up his war of words with the city’s biggest journalists group, suggesting it disclose its financial records and membership list to alleviate “public concerns” about its ethics.But the idea was swiftly sh...

Hundreds of thousands of people in China and Southeast Asia may be infected annually by animals carrying coronaviruses related to the one that causes Covid-19, according to a study emphasising the ongoing pandemic threat from spillover events.An aver...

China is testing its air defence forces in Tibet against possible Indian missiles or jets, state media reported.In a live-fire drill on a plateau at 4,700m (15,400-foot) altitude, an air defence brigade under the Tibetan Military District hit several...

Sydney authorities moved to lift curfews for coronavirus hotpots on Wednesday, as infection numbers stabilised and vaccination rates surged, almost three months after activity in Australia’s largest city was frozen by lockdown orders.New South Wale...

Covid-19 deaths and cases in the United States have climbed back to levels not seen since last winter, erasing months of progress and potentially bolstering President Joe Biden’s argument for his sweeping new vaccination requirements.The cases – ...

Olympic badminton champion Chen Yufei has been delighting spectators in China’s ancient city of Xian, with at least one fan skipping classes on Tuesday to watch her latest victory in the qualifying matches for the country’s 14th National Games.Th...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday lashed out at the idea of expanding the US-led Five Eyes intelligence alliance to include South Korea, berating it as an “outdated” by-product of the Cold War era.Wang made the remarks after his talks...

The 2022 Gay Games, which Hong Kong was to host in just over a year, have been postponed until 2023 due to coronavirus pandemic-related travel restrictions.Founder and co-chair Dennis Philipse told the Post the decision to delay the event – the fir...

Businesses in Malaysia’s prime holiday destination, Langkawi, are gearing up to welcome the return of tourists this week, as the country takes an early step towards recovery from a devastating coronavirus crisis. Its Indonesian counterpart Bali, me...

Nine Hong Kong opposition activists and former politicians have been jailed for up to 10 months over their roles in last year’s banned Tiananmen Square vigil, while three others were given suspended sentences.Wednesday’s ruling at the District Co...

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, according to the South’s military, days after Pyongyang said it had successfully tested new long-range cruise missiles.The two ballistic missiles launched from a site in cent...

Californians voted overwhelmingly to keep their Democratic governor Tuesday, roundly rejecting a Republican attempt to unseat him in a special recall vote spurred by mask mandates and Covid-19 lockdowns.Gavin Newsom handily survived a confidence vote...

China says it is leading the world in nuclear power technologies, and it is expanding the sector as it seeks alternatives for coal-fired power generation and aims to become carbon neutral by 2060.On Sunday, the world’s first high-temperature gas-co...

As soon as his news conference ends, Jagmeet Singh pulls out his phone, gathers the crowd for an Instagram video and leads them in song, jumping and spinning in place while filming.As he campaigns ahead of next week’s snap elections, Singh, the 42-...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has praised the dramatic landing of three fighter jets on a makeshift runway in the rural southern county of Pingtung on Wednesday.The jets – an F-16, a French-made Mirage and a Ching-kuo indigenous defence fighter ...

A month after seizing Kabul, the Taliban face daunting problems as they seek to convert their lightning military victory into a durable peacetime government.After four decades of war and the deaths of tens of thousands of people, security has largely...

Retail sales growth in China slumped heavily in August further, accentuating the slowdown in the Chinese economy, the latest economic data shows.Both industrial production and fixed-asset investments growth in August also fell short of expectations, ...

Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism squad, known as Densus 88, has arrested 123 members of the Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah (JI) since last month, according to a report by the Indonesian authorities seen by This Week in Asia. In...

China’s Covid-19 outbreak in the southern coastal province of Fujian is continuing its rise, with 51 new infections recorded on Tuesday and its highest ranking official predicting “a big, tough and difficult battle” ahead.Putian, where the outb...

In a new official report on Tuesday, China’s state broadcaster CCTV bashed fan clubs and “malicious fandom culture” once again, amid an ongoing national crackdown on entertainment circles.The CCTV report explored the hierarchy and behaviour of ...

In the first of a three-part special, the Post looks at the lead-up to the Election Committee polls this Sunday, with pro-Beijing insiders hailing the selection process so far as a success, noting two more major polls for the city are likely to follo...

Huawei Technologies Co, the Chinese telecommunications giant, plans to recruit more international talent by offering them higher salaries than current market rates, as the company pushes to overcome US trade sanctions that have crippled its core smar...

The investigation into the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise descended into confusion Tuesday, as the Caribbean island’s prime minister sacked a prosecutor who had accused him of links to the killing.The decision by Prime Minister Ar...

As soothing Chinese music plays in the background, pupils at a kindergarten in Sham Shui Po work on an arts and crafts exercise. In the next room, students recite verses by the renowned Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, while in another, they press balls of ...

China is set to launch a third cargo spaceship to dock at its space station to deliver fresh supplies and bring back three astronauts who have been there for almost three months, sources say.Two sources familiar with China’s manned space programme ...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Paul McLeary on politico.com on September 14, 2021.Since taking office, the Biden administration has kept up Washington’s shipments of weapons and trainin...

A panel of former US policymakers has urged Washington to join a Pacific Rim trade pact abandoned four years ago, pass legislation that would fund technology innovation and bolster educational exchange with China and other countries as part of a raft...

US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ruffled lots of feathers with her 2021 Met Gala dress – and not the fashionable kind.After some called the Democrat a hypocrite for condemning wealth inequality at the lavish, star-studded red-carpet event,...

The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday urged Chinese firms to comply with American auditing rules and said the agency supported legislation that would allow for faster delisting.Gary Gensler, testifying before the Senate Co...

The house former drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán fled in 2014 when Mexican marines had him surrounded underwent some changes recently as the Mexican government prepared to give it away in a national lottery.The surveillance cameras that ...

Fearful of Donald Trump’s actions in his final weeks as president, the United States’ top military officer twice assured his Chinese counterpart that the two nations would not go to war, according to a forthcoming book.Chairman of the Joint Chief...

Maxime Bernier, a former cabinet minister nicknamed “Mad Max”, is channelling anger against mandatory vaccines into surprising support for his populist People’s Party of Canada (PPC) in the country’s tight election race.His efforts may end up...

China’s ambassador to Britain Zheng Zeguang was barred from the country’s parliament in Westminster over Chinese sanctions on British lawmakers.Zheng had been expected to speak at the summer reception for the all-party parliamentary group on Chin...

Russian President Vladimir Putin entered self-isolation after people in his inner circle became infected with the coronavirus, the Kremlin said Tuesday, adding that the leader himself tested negative for Covid-19.Putin, who is fully vaccinated with R...

Hong Kong has been crowned the world’s freest economy yet again by the Canada-based Fraser Institute, but the organisation’s latest report has also warned that Beijing’s heavy hand will drag the city down in future rankings – an assertion loc...

Hong Kong police are not taking any chances and plan to deploy at least 4,000 officers to ensure smooth and peaceful polls for the powerful Election Committee on Sunday even though only 4,900 voters are expected to cast their ballots, the Post has le...

China’s Communist Party and the State Council jointly released a set of guidelines for building “cyberspace civilisation” by urging government bodies to further increase and improve control over online content, amid Beijing’s wider campaign t...

Chinese space scientists have come up with a proposal for hypersonic flight across the surface of Mars which, if successful, they say would solve another piece of the red planet colonisation puzzle.Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter can fly a distance of ...

A Hong Kong judge who granted bail to an activist hospital worker accused of breaking the national security law has observed there is no evidence that the defendant “ever had an international connection”.Madam Justice Esther Toh Lye-ping of the H...

Sreelatha, 32, works as a part-time cook in Anna Nagar, a neighbourhood in northwestern Chennai, the capital city of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She cooks for four families from 7am to 12pm every day and earns 10,000 rupees (US$135) a m...

Officials have defended a controversial policy limiting gender status changes on Hong Kong identity cards to those who have undergone sex reassignment surgery, arguing there is a need to balance transgender rights against the difficulties faced by bo...

NetEase, China’s second-biggest publisher of video games for smartphones and personal computers, has downsized some of its studios and projects since early September amid the government’s heightened scrutiny over the sector, according to people w...

A former chairman of Bank of Communications (Hong Kong) has been missing since Sunday while on a hike in a country park, sparking a two-day air-and-land search by emergency teams.The rescue operation centred on Shou Fugang, 59, was still under way by...

The Indian consulate in Hong Kong has rebuked the city’s former justice minister over remarks citing India as a place where “there are many crimes” and “people disregard the law” in spite of its democratic system.The consulate on Wednesday ...

Hong Kong’s security minister has hit out at major journalist groups in the city, accusing them of “infiltrating” schools to attract student reporters and going against professional ethics.In an interview with Ta Kung Pao published on Tuesday, ...

China has called on the US and its transpacific allies to abandon the “zero-sum mentality” and not target a third party, after the White House announced the first in-person summit of Quad leaders next week.President Joe Biden will host Australian...

In a packed theatre in the southern Chinese megacity of Shenzhen last month, a troupe of improvisation actors stood in front of an audience, pointed to a member of the crowd and asked her to share a story from her life.The woman, who appeared to be i...