Hong Kong’s recent economic recovery gained traction in the third quarter, with 5.4 per cent growth over the same period last year, but rising inflation posed a threat.The advanced estimate by the Census and Statistics Department on Monday showed g...

Hong Kong has officially scrapped Covid-19 quarantine-exemption privileges for most diplomatic personnel and top business executives, as local officials intensified their bid to convince Beijing to reopen the border with mainland China.The changes, f...

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declared victory on Monday after leading his ruling coalition to a strong majority in national elections.Kishida, a soft-spoken centrist who has been in office for a month, vowed to boost the world’s third-big...

Shanghai Disneyland will remain closed until at least Tuesday after a confirmed Covid-19 case was linked to the park, after nearly 34,000 people were tested before being allowed to leave the park on Sunday amid China’s battle with an uptick in loca...

British bank Barclays on Monday said chief executive Jes Staley had quit ahead of contesting the outcome of a UK probe into historical links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Barclays, which had supported Staley during the investigation, ad...

China’s growing military muscle and its drive to end American predominance in the Asia-Pacific is rattling the US defence establishment. American officials see trouble quickly accumulating on multiple fronts: Beijing’s expanding nuclear arsenal, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will publish a speech on Monday outlining China’s climate position and commitments on the website of the World Leaders Summit of the United Nations Climate Conference (COP26), which opened in Glasgow on Sunday.Xi, who h...

With the world poised to hit more than five million people officially dead from the coronavirus, experts say the pandemic’s future path will depend greatly on vaccinations.How many dead?The true number of fatalities is believed to be far higher tha...

Geely Automobile Group, China’s largest private carmaker, has earmarked one of its biggest research spending budgets to drive itself towards a 2025 electrification target, where four in 10 vehicles delivered will be powered fully, or partially, by ...

Three government employees were among five people arrested on Monday for using fake versions of Hong Kong’s coronavirus contact-tracing app on the first day of its launch as a mandatory requirement for entering public buildings.The suspects, held o...

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the United States expects China to meet its commitments under the phase-one trade deal signed under former President Donald Trump, but could look at eventually lowering some tariffs in a reciprocal way.Yellen t...

Sydney’s international airport came alive with tears, embraces and laughter on Monday as Australia’s border opened for the first time in 20 months, with some arriving travellers tearing away mandatory masks to see the faces of loved ones they hav...

Across 25 UN climate conferences since 1995, only twice have more than 110 world leaders joined the fray to confront the spectre of global warming. As they do so again Monday in Glasgow, an unspoken question looms: Copenhagen or Paris?Will COP26, in ...

The former leader of the group behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil pleaded guilty on Monday to three unauthorised assembly charges for organising last year’s banned event.Lee Cheuk-yan, the ex-chairman of the now-dissolved Hong Kong ...

China has applied to join the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA), the commerce ministry said on Monday.China said the agreement will help China’s cooperation with member countries in the digital economy.The pact currently covers Singapore...

A reimagined pizza in India recently began trending on social media after being served at a local restaurant in Surat, Gujarat state.Baked in a traditional clay pot, or kulhad, it was filled with corn tomatoes, cheese pizza crust, cottage cheese, thr...

Good morning. My name is Mimi Lau, China correspondent with a focus on human rights, religious and ethnic affairs, labour issues, and civil society. I spent nearly eight years in southern China from 2009 before returning to Hong Kong in 2017 and I co...

This is the second part of a series on China’s new push for “common prosperity”. Here, Jane Cai looks at the image problem for vocational training that is creating a shortfall in skilled worker numbers, and ways to bridge the gap.Fan Yuxuan, a ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Australia’s prime minister outright lied to him over a cancelled submarine deal, deepening an already fraught diplomatic crisis.“I don’t think. I know,” Macron said on Sunday when asked by Australian medi...

China’s October factory activity grew at its fastest pace in four months as new orders rose and disruptive power shortages started to ease, but input costs remained high while export orders declined further, a private survey showed on Monday.The Ca...

A Hong Kong NGO’s project to help improve the mental health of 500 students – by equipping them with skills to better manage their emotions and interpersonal relationships – has received a funding boost from a local leadership programme.Teach f...

Traces of banned drugs have been found in nearly 200 imported cannabis-derived wellness products that have been gaining popularity in Hong Kong in recent years, a customs source has told the Post.Those caught selling such illicit goods faced possible...

Honda Hon Tat-kwong has been driving children to school in his 13-seater minibus for the past 10 years, and he has never felt so anxious about rising fuel prices.The price of diesel shot up from HK$15.40 (US$1.98) per litre in January to HK$17.75 per...

To Singaporeans like Angela* and her husband, both in their 40s and in the IT industry, investing in property seems like a no-lose proposition.“If I choose the wrong property, in the worst-case scenario, I can still live in it or collect rental. Bu...

New Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi and Canadian singer Bryan Adams cancelled separate appearances on Saturday night after testing positive for Covid-19. They join a number of artists who have contracted the virus despite vaccination.“Jon is fully vacci...

US President Joe Biden praised Pope Francis on Sunday for his empathy and humanity, calling the pontiff “a fine, decent, honourable man”.“This is a man who is someone who is looking to establish peace and decency and honour, not just in the Cat...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Sunday she has contracted Covid-19.She said she was last in contact with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, when she met him in the White House. Psaki said they were more than 1.8 metres (6 feet) apart an...

Growing instability across Africa has focused fresh attention on China’s policy of avoiding internal politics and carrying on with business as usual, raising questions about whether it will be able to continue this approach.For years, Chinese compa...

Thailand is ending quarantine for vaccinated visitors from more than 60 countries including China, India, Japan, Singapore and the US, in the biggest reopening gamble in Asia and one that could mark a turning point for the revival of mass tourism dur...

Brazilian authorities said on Sunday that nine firefighters had died in a cave after the roof collapsed while they were training inside.The accident occurred as a group of 26 firefighters were on a training exercise in a cave near the city of Altinop...

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The FBI and other key law enforcement agencies failed to act on a host of tips and other information ahead of January 6 that signalled a potentially violent event might unfold that day at the US Capitol, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.Among t...

Japan’s ruling coalition is on track to retain power but lose seats in parliament, media predictions said after polls closed in Sunday’s general election, the first major test for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.The 64-year-old, who took office a mo...

Hackers have threatened to extensively publish data from the Israeli lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) dating site Atraf if the operators do not pay the equivalent of US$1 million.“We are dealing with an Iranian cyberterror even...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday declined to discuss how the Pentagon might respond in the event of a military attack against Taiwan by China.In a CNN interview from Rome, where he was attending the G20 Leaders’ Summit, Blinken was as...

The years from 2015 to 2021 are on track to be the seven hottest on record, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Sunday, warning that the planet was heading into “uncharted territory”.The preliminary WMO state of the climate report, laun...

Two motorists were killed and five people injured – one critically – when a Lamborghini and two other cars crashed on a northern Hong Kong road on Sunday night.Police arrested a third driver on suspicion of dangerous driving after the crash near ...

Hundreds of passengers hoping to travel to Glasgow, Scotland, for the COP26 climate summit by train were left waiting inside London’s Euston station on Sunday after a fallen tree halted services.Just before 2pm, an announcement in the station revea...

The United States is delivering an additional 1.5 million coronavirus vaccine doses to Taiwan, a senior US administration official told Reuters, increasing to 4 million the total number of shots donated by Washington to the self-ruled island, which i...

US President Joe Biden has criticised the absence of his Chinese and Russian counterparts, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, from the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rome as “disappointing”, after the gathered heads signed off on a communique that promised...

Britain and France on Sunday clashed again over a post-Brexit fishing row, with London calling on Paris to withdraw its threats and rejecting assertions there had been any agreement to try to cool a heated argument that could ultimately hurt trade.Th...

A 24-year-old Japanese man dressed in a Joker outfit who attacked passengers on a Tokyo train on Sunday night, injuring 17 people, had expressed admiration for the infamous Batman comic villain and “wanted to kill people and be given the death pena...

Beijing has dismissed a US review into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying the use of intelligence agencies was “ironclad proof of politicisation”.In the 18-page report, the US intelligence community concluded that the coronavirus had no...

The European Union and United States announced a new metals alliance on Sunday that US President Joe Biden said would “restrict access to our markets for dirty steel, from countries like China”.On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Rome, ...

China’s scientists say they have found a way to create animal feed from carbon monoxide on an industrial scale – a breakthrough that could help reduce the country’s dependence on imported soybeans.The process uses tail gas containing carbon mon...

When Hong Kong resident Ng Keung suffered an injury that left him unable to walk, he feared dancing was forever beyond his reach. But with government support, he now performs in front of audiences, gliding across the stage in a specially made wheelch...

Mainland Chinese authorities have deregistered a third human rights lawyer involved in the defence of Hong Kong fugitives caught by the national coastguard while trying to flee to Taiwan last year.Lin Qilei revealed on Sunday that the Beijing Municip...

Come Monday, the world’s second-oldest military pact will turn 50.The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) was formed in 1971 after the British withdrawal east of the Suez Canal, with the primary aim of protecting former colonies Malaysia and Sin...

Hong Kong is moving full speed ahead with the building of two New Territories towns that will be part of the government’s ambitious Northern Metropolis project, the development chief has said following an inspection of the construction sites.Set to...

Beijing should be prepared in case South Korea and the United States seek to develop their military alliance further, a recent Chinese foreign policy analysis has warned.The assessment, made by two scholars with the China Institutes of Contemporary I...