Chinese technology giants Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings have both renamed their non-fungible token (NFT) offerings as “digital collectibles”, as Beijing casts a weary eye on this new virtual asset market as a potentially huge bubble....

The first person prosecuted under Hong Kong’s national security law for chanting pro-independence slogans in public has been convicted of inciting secession.Adam Ma Chun-man faces up to seven years in jail after a District Court judge, hand-picked ...

Happy new week! I’m Guo Rui, a reporter covering China’s politics and policies. I explore their human impact and am interested in the feminist and labour movements as well as independent documentary films.Every Monday we catch you up on the previ...

Japan’s Defence Ministry said on Monday that five Russian ships had passed through the Tsushima Strait in the country’s southwest and entered the Sea of Japan, or East Sea, after previously forming a flotilla with five Chinese ships that sailed a...

Amnesty International will close its two offices in Hong Kong by the end of the year, blaming the “devastating” decision on the Beijing-imposed national security law, which the group says has hampered its work.Amnesty, which established its prese...

China needs to reduce carbon emissions in a safe and secure way to avoid economic, financial and social risks during the green and low-carbon transformation, according to the country’s leading economic planning official.“[We should] deal with the...

A Hong Kong taxi driver died on Monday after experiencing chest pain at the wheel and crashing into a water-filled barrier in San Po Kong.“I might not be able to drive you – heart pain,” the 69-year-old man was said to have told his passenger j...

Hong Kong hopes to make its ambitious plans for a vast metropolis near the mainland Chinese border a reality within 15 – not 20 – years, the city’s leader has said, while simultaneously urging patience on the part of residents.In revealing the ...

Sheltered by snow-spattered mountains, the Stordalen mire is a flat, marshy plateau, pockmarked with muddy puddles. A whiff of rotten eggs wafts through the fresh air.Here in the Arctic in Sweden’s far north, about 10km (six miles) east of the tiny...

Singapore’s Health Ministry has issued a correction order to the website “Truth Warriors” over claims that Covid-19 vaccines are not effective.International evidence shows categorically that vaccines cut Covid-19 infection, as well as serious i...

Chinese vaccine manufacturer Sinovac has lodged an application with the Hong Kong health authorities to allow children in the city to receive its Covid-19 jabs, the Post has learned.A source on Monday said the company submitted an application a few d...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said international rules and order should not be dictated by a single power or one bloc in a speech on Monday to mark five decades since China took a seat at the United Nations.Xi took a veiled swipe at American predomina...

Armed forces detained Sudan’s prime minister over his refusal to support their “coup” on Monday, the information ministry said, after weeks of tensions between the military and civilian figures sharing power since the ouster of autocrat Omar al...

For the first time in 28 years, a central member of Japan’s imperial family is getting married on Tuesday – yet with the royal wedding just hours away, excitement is largely absent, no crowds are gathering in the capital to wish the young couple ...

A former senior Saudi security official who helped oversee joint US counterterrorism efforts claimed in an interview with 60 Minutes that the kingdom’s crown prince once spoke of killing a sitting Saudi monarch before his own father was crowned kin...

Rising Covid-19 infections in China have prompted organisers to postpone the weekend’s Beijing marathon, as the country seeks to return to zero cases ahead of the Winter Olympics.China reported 39 new domestic infections on Monday, in an outbreak s...

Anti-impotence drugs formed the bulk of a record HK$55 million (US$7 million) haul of controlled pharmaceutical products seized in a customs crackdown on a transnational syndicate, which allegedly mailed the tablets to customers around the world from...

Ahead of next week’s COP26 climate summit, aimed at extracting fresh pledges from world leaders to bring down carbon emissions, an ongoing energy crunch is driving up demand for coal globally.Yet nowhere is this addiction to dirty fuel more visible...

New Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling party was dealt a blow on Sunday when it lost one of two upper house special elections, which are serving as a barometer of support ahead of a national general election in a week. In a setback to ...

The Canadian Coast Guard said Sunday that a fire spewing toxic gas from a container ship had been “stabilised” and that it now planned to deploy firefighters to the vessel to quell the rest of the blaze.The Zim Kingston is anchored off the city o...

Local university researchers will soon be able to access a vast trove of government health care data from the comfort of their campuses following a move by authorities aimed at accelerating medical innovation in Hong Kong.A total of 5 billion pieces ...

This is the first part of a series of stories on China’s new push on “common prosperity”. Here, Jane Cai looks at the rise in inequality and the plight of people left behind.Threading his tricycle through the narrow alleys of downtown Beijing o...

A weather phenomenon that typically delivers harsher winters is on the way and is expected to add to Asia’s energy crisis.The La Nina pattern, which forms when equatorial trade winds strengthen to bring colder, deep water up from the bottom of the ...

October 25, 1971, marked the beginning of a new chapter in China-UN cooperation. On that day, the UN General Assembly, at its 26th session, adopted Resolution 2758 to restore all the lawful rights of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nat...

Chinese women who caught Covid-19 earlier in pregnancy were at lower risk for severe disease than those who became infected later, according to an analysis of cases in expectant mothers during China’s initial outbreak last year.Researchers at the N...

Many Hong Kong exporters are facing severe cash flow problems ahead of the peak Christmas season, with the global supply chain crisis leaving their deliveries stranded at ports in the United States and their goods at factories in mainland China.Hong ...

The South Korean Netflix hit Squid Game is breaking barriers on what seems like a daily basis.The dystopian drama, in which desperate and indebted people take part in deadly games to win a massive pot of money, has not only beaten the period drama Br...

An avalanche on a snow-capped Ecuadorean volcano killed at least four climbers and injured a fifth, officials reported on Sunday.The avalanche struck a group of about a dozen mountaineers while at an altitude of 6,100 metres (20,000 feet) on the dorm...

Vaccines for children between the ages of five and 11 are likely to be available in the first half of November, top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Sunday, predicting a timetable that could see many children being fully vaccinated ...

A crew member says she has raised safety concerns in the past about the assistant director who authorities say unwittingly handed actor Alec Baldwin the prop gun that killed a cinematographer on a film set.Crew member Maggie Goll said in a statement ...

British pop star Ed Sheeran said on Sunday he has tested positive for Covid-19 and will do interviews and performances from his house while he self-isolates.Sheeran, 30, broke the news on social media days before his new studio album is scheduled for...

Israel on Sunday announced plans to build more residences for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, drawing immediate condemnation from Palestinians, peace activists and neighbouring Jordan.The announcement from the housing and construction mini...

Archaeologists in Iraq revealed Sunday their discovery of a large-scale wine factory from the rule of the Assyrian kings 2,700 years ago, along with stunning monumental rock-carved royal reliefs.The stone bas-reliefs, showing kings praying to the god...

Russia on Sunday condemned a decision by the United States to add Russians seeking US visas to a list of “homeless nationals” who can apply for visas in third countries.The move allowed Russians to apply for US visas in Warsaw instead of their ho...

The husband of Iranian-British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained more than five years in Iran, has gone on a hunger strike again after a court decided she has to spend another year in prison.Richard Ratcliffe started his...

Despite an all-fronts rivalry between China and the US, Wall Street has continued to double down on the world’s No 2 economy.In the latest development, Goldman Sachs said it had received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission to t...

Two people were killed and nine injured in a laboratory explosion at China’s top national aerospace university on Sunday.The explosion happened shortly before 4pm at the Jiangjun Road campus of the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics...

Arab nations that normalised ties with Israel last year have “sinned” and should reverse such moves, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei said on Sunday.The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all agreed to normalise ties with Israel...

China has passed a law to strengthen border security that permits the use of blockades and “police apparatus and weapons” against those who cross its borders illegally.China has been in a protracted border stand-off with India, with both sides bu...

A bomb that killed at least one person in a pork restaurant on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital Kampala was packed with nails and shrapnel, police said on Sunday.The explosion, which occurred on Saturday night in a suburb in the northern outskirt...

Hong Kong is likely to give seasonal flu and Covid-19 vaccines at the same time in line with World Health Organization (WHO) suggestions as the latest data suggests simultaneous vaccination will not affect their efficacy, a government pandemic advise...

Hong Kong police seized four powerful speedboats and 14 outboard engines suspected of being used for smuggling during a raid on a storage site hidden along the Tuen Mun coast.Officers said the modified vessels, worth more than HK$4 million (US$515,00...

Tokyo confirmed 19 daily coronavirus cases on Sunday, the fewest since mid-June last year, as the downtrend in infections continues across Japan.The figure released by the Japanese capital city’s metropolitan government was below 20 for the first t...

US and Taiwanese officials discussed plans to allow the island to “participate meaningfully” at the United Nations on Friday in the latest move to upgrade Washington’s relationship with the island.The US State Department said in a statement rel...

A top government adviser has dismissed concerns that a controversial proposal to ban defendants seeking legal aid from choosing their own criminal lawyers could breach Hong Kong’s mini-constitution.Executive Council member Ronny Tong Ka-wah said ch...

Some 17,000 hairy crabs valued at about HK$1.53 million (US$196,800) and another 1.1 tonnes of frozen food believed to have been smuggled from mainland China were seized by Hong Kong authorities last Friday.The contraband was found by customs officer...

In February 2019, Facebook set up a test account in India to determine how its own algorithms affect what people see in one of its fastest growing and most important overseas markets. The results stunned the company’s own staff.Within three weeks,...

China should resolutely resist “erosive” political Western influences such as multi-party elections and an independent judiciary and “tell the story of China’s democracy” well, the chairman of the country’s top legislative body said on Sa...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered an audit of all logging contracts and the suspension of all dubious concessions ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow next month.President Felix Tshisekedi told a meeting of the coun...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor will return to work on Monday after fracturing her elbow in a fall at her official residence last week.Lam said in a post on her official Facebook page on Sunday that she would resume her duties as chief ex...