A senior Chinese diplomat has warned France not to “submit to the United States”, or it will risk losing dignity and respect.Zhang Jun, the ambassador to the United Nations, made the comments in response to a joint statement, signed by 43 mainly ...

The launch of a “cruise to nowhere” in Hong Kong on Sunday is still plagued by uncertainty despite a possible false alarm over a Covid-19 scare involving a crew member.A sailing of the Spectrum of the Seas was abruptly halted on Thursday just as ...

The remaining Hung Hom-Admiralty section of the long-overdue Sha Tin to Central link, Hong Kong’s most expensive rail project ever, will be delayed yet again to about July next year due to setbacks caused by signalling glitches last year, the MTR C...

A former director of a Hong Kong taxi drivers’ group has been jailed for a year over his leading role in a scheme to buy votes for a pro-government candidate in the 2016 Legislative Council election.Li Wai-man, then corporate affairs director of th...

Gunmen killed at least seven people and wounded 20 in an assault on Friday on an Islamic seminary in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.The attackers randomly shot some victims and stabbed others with knives at the Balukhali refugee complex in Cox...

A lawyer, students and housewives were among 20 Hongkongers who fell victim to online shopping and money changing scams, losing more than HK$600,000 in total, police said on Friday.Officers have arrested three suspected key members of the gang behind...

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed Thursday in a tragic incident involving a prop gun fired by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the New Mexico set of the film Rust, appeared to have a bright future.A 2015 graduate of the AFI conservato...

Hong Kong’s move to mandate the use of its Covid-19 contact-tracing app at government buildings will hit homeless residents and other vulnerable groups in need of services hard given that many lack smartphones, an NGO has warned.The new policy, see...

China Evergrande Group paid the US$83.5 million interest payment on its offshore bond, just before a 30-day grace period runs out for declaring it in default, as the world’s most indebted developer took action to assure a capital market on edge abo...

The Biden administration’s top spies and scientists released the first-ever National Intelligence Estimate on the global security threats posed by climate change on Thursday, concluding that it will pose ever-greater challenges internationally in t...

A quarantine-free travel bubble between Singapore and Australia could be established “within the next week”, said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday.The arrangement will first be focused on allowing vaccinated students and busines...

The Post has won a top prize at this year’s Online Journalism Awards for its showpiece documentary series, China’s Rebel City: The Hong Kong Protests.The no-holds-barred audiovisual account of the unprecedented political turmoil and social chaos ...

US President Joe Biden said the United States would come to Taiwan’s defence in the event that China attacked the self-governed island, prompting confusion about whether his administration remained committed to the long-held US policy of “strateg...

Many small business owners in South Korea recognise themselves in the cash-strapped characters of the wildly popular Netflix drama Squid Game , who vie desperately for a chance to win US$38 million, exposing a debt trap that is all too familiar.Neari...

US authorities were investigating after Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer and wounded a director when he discharged a prop gun on a movie set in New Mexico.The incident happened Thursday on the set of Rust in the southwester...

Nearly 2,000 people have walked more than 50 million steps combined – equivalent to scaling the 49-storey Jardine House building in Hong Kong 5,000 times – and amassed over HK$2.7 million (US$347,200) in support of a mental health charity.The ann...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern set one of the world’s highest vaccination targets for pandemic restrictions to be eased as she presented a road map for the country to abandon lockdowns and gradually reopen. Once 90 per cent of the eligi...

The price of car parking spaces at the Lohas Park residential enclave in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O district has risen to a record high, as a chronic shortage in the area forced vehicle owners to bid up prices.Wheelock Properties, the developer of t...

Even as Thailand struggles to revive its decimated tourism-dependent economy, Gladiator actor Russell Crowe’s social media posts have revealed a silver lining to the pandemic.While tourists have been giving Thailand a wide berth – resulting in it...

The Pentagon’s hypersonic weapons programme suffered a setback on Thursday when a booster rocket carrying a hypersonic weapon failed, people briefed on the test result said.The test was intended to validate aspects of one of the Pentagon’s hypers...

Chinese movie stars, directors, singers, pop stars and celebrities are turning to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which can be stored on a digital ledger, to better engage with their fans and to tap new ways of making money.This month some of the biggest...

The FBI on Thursday identified human remains found in a Florida nature preserve as those of Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the death of girlfriend Gabby Petito while the couple was on a cross-country road trip.The remains, a backpack and not...

Only half of the private clinics in Hong Kong that want to provide specialised medical services have applied for a licence to do so, the regulator responsible for overseeing them has revealed.According to government statistics, 167 provisional and 43...

Britain’s 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth spent a night in hospital for the first time in years for what royal officials termed “preliminary investigations” but was in good spirits and back at work at her Windsor Castle home.The world’s oldest an...

A retired couple in China who tested positive for Covid-19 while touring the country’s north have sparked a race to track infections across multiple provinces and regions, becoming the latest example of the challenges for Beijing as it seeks to mai...

In a first, a US court has recognised animals as legal persons – specifically, the descendants of Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamuses who have thrived in Colombia since the notorious drug lord was killed almost 30 years ago.The ruling came after the n...

Long-time Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon could face criminal prosecution for refusing to cooperate with a probe into the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol after the House of Representatives voted on Thursday to hold him in contempt of Congres...

The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that police say is holding 17 members of a kidnapped missionary group is seen in a video released Thursday saying he will kill them if he does not get what he is demanding.The video posted on social media shows Wilso...

Why is the US dollar-yuan exchange rate so important?The exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the US dollar is an indicator of relative economic strength and also has a direct impact on each nation’s economy by affecting the value of imports ...

Barbados has elected its first president, a key step in preparations to become a republic and remove Britain’s Queen ElizabethI as head of state of the Caribbean island.Sandra Mason, the current governor-general, is set to be sworn in as president ...

A senior US official pushed back on Thursday over China’s growing clout in the United Nations, arguing that Beijing is crowding out Taiwan to the detriment of the international community.Monday is the 50th anniversary of UN resolution 2758, which s...

Fed up with social media sites censoring a naked paleolithic Venus and other works of art deemed suggestive, Viennese museums are showing them on the OnlyFans platform, known for hosting explicit content.An inspired publicity coup on the part of Vien...

Nato defence ministers agreed on a new master plan on Thursday to defend against any potential Russian attack on multiple fronts, reaffirming the alliance’s core goal of deterring Moscow despite a growing focus on China.The confidential strategy ai...

About 1,200 passengers booked on a “cruise to nowhere” from Hong Kong had their trip cancelled at the last minute on Thursday after a crew member tested positive for Covid-19, only to be told hours later the case could be a false alarm.The Centre...

The United States, Britain and the European Union accused the Hong Kong government of stripping Hongkongers’ democratic rights on Thursday, following further disqualifications of opposition district councillors for allegedly insufficient loyalty to...

China’s advanced economy and the flexibility of its yuan exchange rate leave it well placed to absorb shocks from policy tightening by the US Federal Reserve, including hot money flows out of the country, the nation’s currency regulator has said....

China’s foreign ministry in Hong Kong has criticised a United States policy allowing city residents granted so-called safe haven status to apply for work there, urging Washington to “pull back from the brink” and end its “brutal meddling” c...

Beijing police have reportedly detained renowned pianist Li Yundi on suspicion of patronising a prostitute.Li and a 29-year-old woman were detained and both admitted to their alleged behaviour, according to the city’s Chaoyang district police on th...

Shops catering to the vaping crowd were cutting back on supplies while customers stocked up on their favourite products after lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday aimed at outlawing the business of e-cigarettes in Hong Kong.But the ban leaves untouche...

A 25-year-old man appeared in court on Thursday after being charged with the murder of British MP David Amess, who was stabbed to death last week in what lawyers said was an attack with a “terrorist connection”.Ali Harbi Ali, who was arrested at ...

A team of Chinese military researchers say they have built and tested an anti-satellite robotic device that can place a small pack of explosives into a probe’s exhaust nozzle.Rather than blowing the satellite into pieces, the melt-cast explosive ca...

Zhuhai Wanda Commercial Management Group, the property servicing arm of Dalian Wanda Group, filed for a Hong Kong stock exchange listing reportedly valued at up to US$4 billion on Thursday night.The mainland China-based company, which is 69.99 per ce...

The Seoul city government said on Thursday it had filed a police complaint against members of South Korea’s main labour group who defied Covid-19 curbs to protest for more jobs and better work conditions while wearing outfits from the TV megahit Sq...

Organisers of the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon have cautioned runners to abide by the law and not make political statements when taking part in Sunday’s race, the first mass participation sporting event in the city since Beijing-imposed na...

Survivors and descendants of those killed in Indonesia’s anti-communist purge of 1965-1966 are urging Western countries to apologise for their roles in what the CIA has itself described as “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”.The...

Last week, President Xi Jinping announced China’s first batch of five national parks as he emphasised Beijing’s biodiversity commitments at the COP15 summit.Plans have now been unveiled to take the ecological protection push further, by expanding...

China is seeking to step up development of digital trade, a segment that is shaping into an integral part of the economy, amid questions that this effort might be impeded by the country’s restrictions on cross-border data flows.That plan was set ou...

A leading US government agency has defended previous funding for research into bat coronaviruses in China, saying the pathogens in question could not have caused the Covid-19 pandemic.Funds from the National Institutes of Health – which were giv...

An unrestrained nuclear competition between the US and Russia may cause China to take part in some form, a Chinese nuclear strategist has warned.As Cold War-era arms control regimes have fallen apart, the two nuclear superpowers and China have been m...

Apple has lost another legal attempt to block Huawei Technology Co’s use of the “MatePod” name, this time for a pair of earbuds, according to the Trademark Office of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA).Apple opposed ...