A city in northeastern China has declared a state of emergency, ordering Covid-19 tests for all people leaving the city as the wider province tries to stamp out an outbreak of coronavirus infections.The announcement came as the National Health Commis...

Former US president Donald Trump performed the controversial “Tomahawk Chop” cheer – denounced as a racist gesture by Native Americans – in support of the Atlanta Braves on Saturday while attending game four of baseball’s World Series.Trump...

Property agents selling homes overseas should be made responsible for ensuring people have enough information to decide if it is worth the risk, even if the government has no control over foreign developers, Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has said.S...

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced on Sunday, in his first public appearance since taking control of the group in 2016.Akhundzada has been the spiritual chief of th...

Hong Kong’s financial secretary has said the city’s economic growth this year will be close to 6.5 per cent – at the upper end of government estimates made two months ago.But Paul Chan Mo-po also acknowledged that growth was not necessarily bei...

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Local officials will be lenient at first, but Hong Kong residents should also be cooperative when the city’s Covid-19 contact-tracing app becomes mandatory on Monday for anyone entering government buildings and other facilities, the civil service c...

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies on Saturday endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations, a linchpin of new international tax rules aimed at blunting the edge of fiscal paradises amid skyrocketing profits of some multinational businesses....

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome on Sunday for their first face-to-face exchange since a rare public fiery encounter in Alaska in March.The US State Department said the two senior diplomats would...

For the past two years, Naim has been seeking study support from medical students in his hometown in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh province.The fifth-year medical student at China’s Zhengzhou University has been struggling to get on top of his lessons ...

A top communist rebel commander has been killed in an assault by government soldiers in the southern Philippines, the military said on Sunday.George Madlos, also known as Ka Oris, was the commander and spokesman for the New People’s Army (NPA), the...

After witnessing the ups and downs of climate negotiations over the past decade, Li Shuo sometimes feels frustrated. As a veteran climate campaigner with Greenpeace East Asia, he has seen a “complete circle” – from the catastrophic 2009 Copenha...

US actor Alec Baldwin said on Saturday in his first public comments on the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a movie set that the tragedy was a “one in a trillion episode”.In footage aired by TMZ, Baldwin and his wife Hilaria s...

China’s factory activity contracted more than expected in October to shrink for a second month, hurt by persistently high raw material prices and softer domestic demand, pointing to more economic disquiet in the final quarter of 2021.The official m...

The Vatican has become more cautious about changing its diplomatic relationship with Taiwan as the island becomes the focus of growing diplomatic wrangling over the island by Beijing and Washington, according to observers.The Vatican is one of Taipei...

When Indonesians hear the term “animal sanctuary”, they usually imagine a place where animals classified as endangered species live. Animal shelters for stray cats and dogs also exist in the country, but are usually privately run by animal lovers...

Hong Kong’s expertise in managing floods and preventing landslides can be helpful to the wider Asia-Pacific region in tackling climate change, the city’s environmentalists have said.Although the city is not directly involved in global climate tal...

Britain's Prince Charles will tell world leaders they have an “overwhelming responsibility to generations yet unborn” when he addresses the G20 summit in Rome on the eve of COP26.Charles, who has been invited to speak by Italy's prime minister, M...

Emmanuel Macron on Saturday sought to strengthen ties with India and Indonesia, France’s presidency said, after Paris was locked out of a defence pact between the US, UK and Australia.Since losing a major submarine deal with Canberra, which joined ...

China’s new boundary law – the country’s first-ever to address land border security and emphasise the role of the military in its defence – was made necessary by recent challenges, its top legislature has said.The Land Borders Law, due to tak...

The US and the European Union have concluded a trade truce on steel and aluminium that will allow the allies to remove tariffs on more than US$10 billion of their exports each year.Negotiators reached an agreement on Saturday as they worked to balanc...

The G20 nations have it in their power to prevent the deadly pandemic from raging further and to avoid future pandemics, according to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.“How many more will die, in this and fu...

Hundreds of activists rallied in Glasgow on Saturday to urge world leaders to act on climate change, in the biggest protests yet in the Scottish city ahead of the crucial COP26 summit.Attendees had come from far and wide including several other Europ...

Gunmen presenting themselves as Taliban attacked a wedding in eastern Afghanistan to stop music being played and killed at least three people, the government said on Saturday.Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said two of the three attac...

Lebanese politicians were in contact with foreign officials on Saturday to try find a solution to a crisis between Lebanon and Gulf nations led by Saudi Arabia, triggered by comments of a cabinet minister regarding the war in Yemen.Kuwait and the Uni...

Chinese President Xi Jinping beamed into the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rome by video call on Saturday to tell the world’s most powerful economies that “developed countries” should lead the way in the fight to reduce global greenhouse gas emissio...

As Iran’s nuclear programme makes troubling advances, President Joe Biden is set to huddle on Saturday with European allies to talk through strategy as they press for a diplomatic resolution – and to plan for the possibility Iran declines to retu...

Hong Kong’s leader is expected to launch a campaign encouraging flexible employment for mothers in the public and private sectors, in a bid to retain such employees in the workforce.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor revealed the idea on Sa...

Squid Game costumes – guards, contestants and a creepy doll from the hit Korean drama series – dominated the Hong Kong nightlife hub of Lan Kwai Fong on Saturday, although prop guns were not part of revellers’ Halloween outfits after a police w...

Kei Komuro, the newlywed husband of former princess Mako, failed the New York State bar examination, a source close to the matter said on Saturday.Komuro, who is planning to start a new life with the niece of Emperor Naruhito in New York as early as ...

Only 15 applicants filed papers when nominations opened on Saturday for Hong Kong’s first Legislative Council poll under an electoral overhaul ordered by Beijing, less than half the number typically seen on the first day of the two-week application...

The escalating race between China, the United States and Russia for hypersonic weapons raises the risk of a misjudgment which could end in military conflict, security experts warned.Their assessment follows alarm in the US at reports that China carri...

Hong Kong’s homebuyers snapped up a collection of tiny flats on offer over the weekend at Lohas Park in Kowloon’s Tseung Kwan O area, shrugging off the record price that was 30 per cent more than the most recent launch in the neighbourhood.Kowloo...

Things fell apart quickly, after Hong Kong participants of a leadership course apparently authorised by the University of Southern California (USC) attended their graduation party two weeks ago and posted pictures on Facebook, showing off their certi...

The heads of the world’s 20 biggest economies kicked off two days of talks on Saturday where they were set to acknowledge the existential threat of climate change, but stop short of radical new commitments to tame global warming.Looming over the tw...

The party chief of Zhengzhou, the central Chinese city that suffered devastating flooding this summer, has been removed from his position on the top provincial decision-making body.The floods killed at least 292 people in the city and, although the a...

Hong Kong’s housing minister appeared to be in damage-control mode on Saturday over his recent remarks that substantially cutting waiting times for a public flat could take up to 20 years, a stunning admission that exasperated lawmakers.Striking a ...

A cluster of coronavirus infections in a city in northeastern China was caused by an imported case and is not related to other outbreaks in the country, according to Chinese health authorities.Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the National Health Commi...

China has hit out at senior American and European Union officials for their latest displays of support for Taiwan.In his first comments on Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call for the island to play a greater role in the United Nations, Foreign...

Sudanese security forces on Saturday killed two protesters during mass anti-coup rallies, doctors said, despite warnings from global powers who had urged restraint by the military.“Two demonstrators were killed in the city of Omdurman by the putsch...

Producers behind The Battle at Lake Changjin, a nationalistic war movie in China that has been very successful at the box office, announced on Thursday that the film would be getting a sequel.The next movie is likely to be named Water Gate Bridge and...

Veteran Hong Kong pro-establishment lawmaker Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee is likely to announce her bid for re-election to the Legislative Council, as she might be unable to secure Beijing’s blessing to run for chief executive of the city, the Post has le...

Global support for Taiwan’s participation in the United Nations has grown unprecedentedly strong in recent months, with a US-led effort building concerns over the challenges the self-ruled island faces in its diplomatic joust with Beijing.Analysts ...

It was late in the afternoon on October 17 when Sarinah (not her real name) heard a knock on the back door of the home she shares with her mother and younger sister in a village in Indonesia’s ultraconservative Aceh province.Home alone and still ne...

Afghanistan’s new Taliban authorities swear they plan to crack down on the illicit drugs trade that largely fuelled their successful revolt.But so far nothing has changed for cannabis farmers like Ghulam Ali, whose crop stands head-height across th...

Japan’s political leaders made their final appeals to voters on Saturday, a day before the general election to decide whether to give Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a mandate for his Covid-19 and economic policies.The Liberal Democratic Party and its...

Indonesian logistics firm J&T Express announced that it will acquire its Chinese rival Best Inc’s courier business for 6.8 billion yuan (US$1.06 billion), amid a brutal price war among the industry’s major players.“The acquisition of Best Expre...

China’s central bank has ordered the country’s lenders to meet new asset and leverage standards to make them more resistant to risk as the financial system grapples with disruptions from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Evergrande debt crisis and Weste...

A host bar in Japan that dressed its male staff in Nazi uniforms and used the swastika symbol as its motif, down to the labels on champagne bottles handsome young men poured for their female clients, recently closed less than 48 hours after it opened...