Chinese solar panel manufacturer LONGi Green Energy Technology said the detainment of its products at the US border has not yet had a major effect on its operations.LONGi is the latest solar panel maker to have its imports seized by US border officia...

The doctor behind an aesthetic company that introduced an experimental cancer therapy which killed a woman in Hong Kong’s worst beauty treatment blunder has won an appeal to reduce his jail term by two years to 10.The Court of Appeal on Thursday up...

Singapore’s Covid-19 outbreak may be slowing. The number of new local infections fell in the past week compared to a week earlier for the first time since mid-October, marking a key milestone that could lead to an easing of restrictions in the fin...

Three children were injured and sent to hospital for treatment after two buffaloes charged into a group of pupils on Lantau Island in Hong Kong on Thursday.A 24-second video posted online shows one adult buffalo chasing another across South Lantau Ro...

Sinovac vaccine recipients with low antibody levels against the coronavirus will get a “significantly higher” immunity boost if they choose the BioNTech booster shot as their third dose, according to Hong Kong researchers.The first local head-to-...

Bill Gates is planning to microchip the world through a Covid-19 vaccine. The 5G networks scattered around the world are causing people to catch coronavirus. Covid-19 was spread by Maine lobsters shipped to China.The Covid-19 pandemic has given birth...

An American journalist detained for months by Myanmar’s junta has been denied bail and hit with a third criminal charge, his lawyer said on Thursday.Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier Myanmar magazine, was held in May as he attempted to lea...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged to bury his government’s enemies “with our blood” as he marked the start of the war in the Tigray region one year ago.Abiy, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, was speaking a day after a st...

North Korea can get all the uranium it needs for nuclear weapons through its existing Pyongsan mill, and satellite imagery of tailings piles suggests the country can produce far more nuclear fuel than it is, a new academic study has concluded.Despite...

Overweight and diabetic, Kavita Menon almost died of coronavirus-related complications in the early days of India’s catastrophic second wave of infections earlier this year.“One day, my condition was so bad that my husband brought my son and daug...

Hong Kong police seized an estimated HK$8.3 million (US$1.1 million) worth of illegal drugs including crack cocaine when they raided and closed down a new manufacturing plant operating from a remote village house in the New Territories.A 29-year-old ...

Iran agreed to resume talks on November 29 with world powers on reviving a nuclear deal after a five-month gap, with the United States urging a quick resolution.The indirect negotiations in Vienna come amid mounting pressure on Iran, with Western nat...

China reported 87 symptomatic local Covid-19 cases on Thursday, as its Delta outbreak spread to two more provincial areas, bringing the total to 19.Henan and Jiangsu provinces each reported three cases – their first since the latest outbreak began ...

China’s treatment of Lithuania is a “wake-up call” for Europe, Lithuania’s deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday while calling for the European Union to be united in its dealings with Beijing.China demanded in August that Lithuania withdr...

Greta Thunberg chose the day that finance chiefs rallied trillions of dollars to deploy in the fight against climate change to make her presence felt at COP26. Thunberg and other activists from Greenpeace and the Indigenous Environmental Network int...

Former US president Donald Trump mostly resisted the temptation to get more involved in Glenn Youngkin’s Republican campaign for Virginia governor.But that didn’t stop Trump from taking credit for Youngkin’s upset victory in the Democratic-tren...

This is the second part of a series on challenges China faces in its battle against Covid-19. Here, Zhuang Pinghui looks at what international research is revealing about the problem of “long Covid”.The 5 million lost lives are not the only human...

A person not physically present at an unlawful assembly or riot can no longer be held liable as an actual participant of the crime, Hong Kong’s top court has ruled in a landmark decision for pending trials stemming from the 2019 anti-government pro...

The organiser of a pay-to-view autopsy in the United States defended the event, after an outcry by the family of the dead man who did not know he would be dissected in front of a live audience.Around 70 people forked over up to US$500 each to watch i...

The Promise by Damon Galgut, pub. Chatto & WindusDamon Galgut has won the 2021 Booker Prize for the best English-language novel published in Great Britain. His remarkable and brilliant novel The Promise tracks the downfall of a white South African fa...

China Evergrande Group’s automotive unit is nearing a sale of UK start-up Protean Electric to e-mobility company Bedeo, people with knowledge of the matter said.The divestment by China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group could be announced as soon ...

He was called the father of fibre optics, and on November 4, Google Doodle celebrates what would have been the 88th birthday of Charles Kao Kuen.Born in Shanghai in 1933, Kao left the Chinese city with his family when he was 14. They moved to Hong Ko...

An American woman’s claims that Britain’s Prince Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17 will probably be tried in a New York court late next year, if they survive a legal challenge, a judge said on Wednesday.Lawyers for Andrew have asked the ...

Li Zehou, one of China’s most influential contemporary philosophers and a leading scholar of the “Chinese enlightenment”, died on Wednesday in the United States, his adoptive country for nearly 30 years. He was 91. A native of Hunan province, ...

Seven months into his new role as the chief financial officer of Midea Group, 39-year-old Jeremy Choy is starting to feel at home in Foshan, a city neighbouring Guangzhou in southern Guangdong province.With multiple new Midea office towers being visi...

A Chinese man was detained for nine days for allegedly insulting police after posting a meme of a dog wearing a police hat on social media.The man, surnamed Li, posted the meme in a chat group on WeChat after expressing his anger over strict coronavi...

A drive to help homeless people secure steady employment and a support hotline for street cleaners and waste pickers are among the philanthropic projects set to benefit from the financial backing of this year’s Operation Santa Claus (OSC), an annua...

China’s carbon emissions this year are projected to rise by 4 per cent compared with last year, according to a report that will be launched at the COP26 climate change conference on Thursday.The annual assessment by an international group of scient...

Hong Kong travellers could be allowed to visit mainland China as early as next month without having to quarantine under a plan to gradually reopen the border, the Post has learned, but movement will be limited to Guangdong province, with Shenzhen as ...

US President Joe Biden returned from Europe Wednesday with a wake-up call for feuding Democrats holding up his sweeping domestic reforms in Congress – after a humiliating state election defeat that many blamed on inertia and infighting among the pa...

Just a few weeks ago, Kim Seon-ho seemed to be the most popular man in South Korea.Not only was the actor, 35, starring in the most popular drama on Korean television, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, he also had a leading role in one of the most-watched realit...

Police in Thailand have arrested the head of a company suspected of cheating overseas buyers of millions of dollars they paid for undelivered medical rubber gloves amid the coronavirus pandemic.Thai authorities have been cracking down on a surge in r...

The Chinese tech industry’s infamous 996 work hours – 9am to 9pm, six days a week – are set to disappear at ByteDance, the country’s first major tech company to explicitly discourage employees from working overtime.On Monday, TikTok owner Byt...

South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with The Promise, a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history.Galgut had been British bookmakers’ runaway favourite to...

A lawyer for the armourer who oversaw weapons used on the “Rust” movie set suggested Wednesday that someone deliberately put a live round into the gun used by Alec Baldwin when he accidentally shot dead a cinematographer.Jason Bowles said his cli...

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday in favour of Nicholas Burns as the next US ambassador to China, sending the long-time diplomat’s nomination to the full Senate for his approval.Only one senator on the 22-m...

Iran seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month and still holds the vessel, two US officials told Associated Press on Wednesday, revealing the latest provocation in Mideast waters as tensions escalate between Iran and the U...

The United States will focus on addressing supply chain shortages, particularly in semiconductors, building off of strength from the recent G20 leaders’ summit to further ramp up collaboration with other allied countries and the private sector, a s...

Turkish authorities have initiated legal proceedings against 30 people over a series of Twitter posts suggesting that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had died, according to a police statement on Wednesday.The police statement said the 30 were being in...

A French aid worker who was kidnapped and held hostage in Mali for four years has returned to the West African country on her own initiative, the French government said Wednesday, calling her decision “irresponsible”, a charge she rejected.Sophie...

China’s growing nuclear arsenal has expanded faster than US military officials anticipated just one year ago, according to a new Pentagon report published on Wednesday.The report highlights growing concern in Washington about Beijing’s rush to bu...

A Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort on the island of Bali has been indicted on murder conspiracy charges in the United States and taken into federal custody.FBI agents too...

Beijing shoppers stocked up on cabbage, rice and flour for the winter on Wednesday, after the government urged people to keep stores of basic goods in case of emergencies, though it assured them that there were sufficient supplies after some panic-bu...

A landlocked province in northwest China, in an effort to encourage couples to have children, is looking to sharply increase the duration of paid maternity leave to nearly one full year, putting it on par with some developed economies in Europe.Shaan...

Food and health authorities in Hong Kong have found traces of the coronavirus on imported food for just the second time since regular testing began – in this case, on sliced cuttlefish from Malaysia that had not yet entered the market.The discovery...

The United States has stepped up its military operations in the disputed South China Sea this year, according to new research from China.The Beijing-based South China Sea Probing Initiative said the US military conducted 52 reconnaissance flights ove...

China should be mindful of a potential reversal of capital flows as the US Federal Open Market Committee gets ready to kick off its monetary tapering by dialing back US$120 billion worth of monthly bond purchases, a former Chinese central bank offici...

England’s deputy chief medical officer said on Wednesday that too many people believe the pandemic is over, warning that Britain’s very high coronavirus rates and rising deaths mean that there are “hard months to come in the winter.”Jonathan ...

A Chinese University of Hong Kong medical research team’s breakthrough research into non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and its related cancer, which kills 700,000 people a year worldwide, has been recognised with a top science accolade in China.The...

Tencent Holdings launched three new self-designed chips on Wednesday, enabling the Chinese internet giant to play a role in the country’s development efforts in semiconductors and to further expand beyond video gaming, mobile payments and social me...