A Chinese journalist has posted a video online that he suggested showed China’s troops seizing Indian counterparts, following disputed reports that India detained Chinese soldiers during the border stand-off.A journalist from nationalistic tabloid ...

Hong Kong authorities confirmed nine imported Covid-19 cases on Friday, and suspended Air Canada passenger flights from Vancouver for two weeks.The flight suspension, which will run from October 16 to 29, was announced the same day that provisional d...

Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, has been allowed a temporary release of her passport for her to travel to Singapore to visit her pregnant daughter who is expected to deliver soon.The High Court in Kuala Lumpur ...

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.A 13-year-old boy battling for his life at Hong Kong Children’s Hospital is in dire need of a heart transpla...

DingTalk, one of China’s most widely used workplace apps, said on Wednesday that its number of users increased from 400 million to 500 million between January and August, giving its developer Alibaba Group Holding a stronger foothold in the country...

A Hong Kong scientist who sought medical attention for a protester shot by police during the 2019 unrest has been jailed for a year for taking part in an unlawful assembly.Dr Yau Wang-tat, who obtained a PhD in applied physics at Polytechnic Universi...

Singapore needs to guard against rising inequality and is studying options to expand its system of wealth taxes, said the city state’s finance minister.The island nation’s policies should continue to promote broad-based wealth accumulation, and t...

Buffeted on all sides by a property slump, energy crisis, weak consumer sentiment and soaring raw material costs, China’s third quarter economic growth could drop to as low as 4.9 per cent, analysts say.Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday China has...

One member of a student activist group has won bail ahead of her trial on subversion charges under the national security law, but three of her three co-defendants were sent back to jail on Friday.Chu Wai-ying, 18, an ex-spokeswoman for Student Politi...

A new plan requiring more Hong Kong teachers to pass a test on the city’s mini-constitution to qualify for jobs would eventually be extended to kindergartens and semi-private schools as well, Hong Kong’s education minister revealed on Friday.Secr...

Prosecutors are questioning a woman and her boyfriend over the cause of a fire that killed 46 people in southern Taiwan.The couple did not answer questions from the media on Friday morning when they were brought to the prosecutor’s office in the ci...

Satellite images have revealed China is upgrading and reinforcing its airbases closest to Taiwan along its southeastern coast, indicating Beijing may be stepping up its plans to take the island by force.The upgraded infrastructure at three airbases i...

Xu Wei was just a father trying to make ends meet and raise his newborn son as a small business owner selling electrical sockets online.Then Xu, from Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan province, received devastating news: His one-year...

The former domestic worker of the late Dr Raymond Yuen, who died after being sickened by Covid-19, still cannot believe he is gone and told of how the doctor paid for her to attend courses back in 2007 that later allowed her to be certified to work ...

Singapore’s power grid operator SP Group is teaming up with a French firm to import renewable energy generated in Indonesia, while an Australian-Singapore company is purchasing solar energy from Australia via a 5,000km subsea power line that passes...

Republican Senators led by Marco Rubio on Thursday called on the Biden administration to blacklist Honor, a former unit of embattled Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, describing the firm as a threat to national security.In a letter dated Thursday Octobe...

US former President Bill Clinton was in a California hospital on Thursday with an infection and responding well to two days of treatment, his doctors said.Clinton, 75, was admitted on Tuesday evening to the UCI Medical Center in Irvine “for a non-C...

Pet photography is a booming industry with China’s growing number of pet owners willing to pay thousands of yuan for a portrait of their fluffy babies.As pet ownership has exploded in China in recent decades, photography for almost any occasion has...

Fully vaccinated foreign nationals from dozens of countries and jurisdictions on the Philippines’ “green list” will no longer be required to undergo facility-based quarantine, the government said, provided they have a negative test result from ...

Jordan’s Sima Sami Bahous was appointed as executive director last month to lead UN Women, the United Nations’ gender equality and empowerment entity.UN Secretary General António Guterres, who announced her name after consultations with member s...

Three Chinese astronauts are set to go into orbit on the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft just past midnight on Saturday, replacing the Tiangong space station’s first crew who returned to Earth in September. Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu will jo...

Worn out by coronavirus restrictions, pollution and traffic gridlock, wealthy Bangkok residents are buying up bolt-holes in the southern beach retreat of Hua Hin as the pandemic sparks a lifestyle pivot away from the big city. Famed for its long whi...

A prominent Bill Cosby accuser filed suit Thursday against the actor over a 1990 hotel room encounter in Atlantic City, New Jersey, before the state’s two-year window to file older sexual assault claims expires.Los Angeles artist Lili Bernard said ...

Hollywood star Nicole Kidman has not returned to Hong Kong to continue filming a television drama, the Post has learned, contrary to local news reports that sparked fresh debate over the government’s policy for Covid-19 quarantine exemptions.Severa...

A California judge on Thursday imposed a life prison sentence on multimillionaire real estate heir Robert Durst, who was convicted last month of murdering his best friend Susan Berman in 2000.Durst, 78 and in poor health, had spent much of the past f...

Stuart Neil’s day job keeps him pretty occupied. He’s a virologist at King’s College London, investigating how the coronavirus causing Covid-19 attacks the human immune system.Then, in his own words, he found himself “falling down the rabbit ...

Nigeria’s top general said on Thursday that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, leader of the insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), was dead.ISWAP is an offshoot of the Boko Haram insurgent group that has been fighting against the Nigerian ...

A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold at auction three years ago fetched almost £18.6 million (US$25.4 million) on Thursday – a record for the artist, and close to 20 times its pre-shredded pric...

When top barley buyer China last year slapped tariffs of more than 80 per cent on imports from Australia amid a bilateral spat, grain farmers Down Under could have been forgiven for fearing tough times ahead.But a switch to canola, combined with idea...

A panel of expert advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted on Thursday to recommend booster shots of Moderna Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine for Americans aged 65 and older and those at high risk of severe illness.If the FDA signs o...

A House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol is set to vote on Tuesday to hold a top adviser to former president Donald Trump in contempt of Congress for not cooperating in the probe. Steve Bannon, who served as the f...

Britain will offer six-month emergency visas to 800 foreign butchers to avoid a mass pig cull, it said on Thursday, after farmers complained that an exodus of workers from abattoirs and meat processors had left the pork sector fighting for survival.A...

The bow-and-arrow rampage by a man who killed five people in a small town near Norway’s capital appeared to be a terrorist act, authorities said on Thursday, a bizarre and shocking attack in a Scandinavian country where violent crime is rare.Police...

The United States gained a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday paving the way for further confrontation expected between Washington and Beijing over governance, values and their competing visions for the global order.Washingto...

Six Shiites were shot dead in Beirut on Thursday, in an attack on supporters of Hezbollah and an allied Lebanese party who were gathering to demand the removal of the judge investigating last year’s devastating port blast.The shooting, which took p...

Hong Kong authorities have told an opposition politician recently stripped of his district council seat to return more than HK$110,000 (US$14,100) in allowances and payments for expenses.Former Kowloon City district councillor Tony Kwok Tin-lap on Th...

“Faultlines” in global economies caused by the coronavirus pandemic have persisted and recoveries have been “hobbled” by Delta variant outbreaks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said as it cut its worldwide growth forecast for the year....

Chinese President Xi Jinping has highlighted the country’s role in ensuring stability in the global supply chain during the Covid-19 pandemic and promised to boost links to other countries.Xi’s comments on Thursday came in an online address at th...

Britain’s Prince William has criticised some of the world’s richest men for using their wealth to fund a new space race and space tourism rather than trying to fix the problems on Earth instead.William on Thursday voiced his disapproval in an int...

LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social media network for job-hunters and recruiters, announced that it will soon shut down its operations in China, after facing intense criticism for years over its decision to censor politically sensitive posts on its ...

President Xi Jinping has hailed China’s political system as a “great creation” and the key to its global success on Thursday amid intensifying ideological confrontation with Washington.He told a party meeting in Beijing that the competition bet...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is scheduled to start construction of a new fab in Japan next year and begin mass production there in 2024, according to the chief executive of the world’s top chip maker.TSMC’s CEO C.C. Wei said at a ...

Shenzhen officials cancelled a scheduled meeting with Hong Kong’s leader at the last minute on Thursday, depriving her of the opportunity to lay out her plans for the development of a vast metropolis near the border.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng...

China’s record-high level of factory gate inflation has increased the risk of stagflation, but surging coal prices that have forced factories to charge more for their products are unlikely to keep rising at the same pace for much longer, analysts s...

The United States and the Philippines are planning to return to full-scale military drills in 2022 after two years and will invite Australia and Britain as observers, in another sign of the Biden administration’s push to deepen ties in the Indo-Pac...

When 25-year-old Shanghai resident Sherry Zhang was recommended a South Korean drama called Squid Game, she knew exactly where to turn, and it was not the show’s official distributor, Netflix.Rampant piracy of the massive hit television show reveal...

Philippine foreign secretary Teodoro Locsin Jnr on Thursday warned that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) would lose credibility if the leader of the junta in Myanmar was allowed to attend a virtual regional summit this month.“We c...

A viral WeChat post about Chinese foreign workers grappling with poor conditions and delayed access to medical aid in a Singapore dormitory affected by Covid-19 has prompted an outpouring of aid and support, including from Beijing’s embassy in the ...