Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star whose welfare has been the focus of intense international concern, appeared at a youth tennis event in Beijing on Sunday morning, according to photos posted online by the event’s organiser.The former top-ranked d...

Renowned Hong Kong epidemiologist Professor Gabriel Leung, who has been at the forefront of the government’s Covid-19 strategy, has quit as the head of the University of Hong Kong’s medical school.Announcing his resignation on Sunday, Leung said ...

Two Hong Kong police officers have been arrested on suspicion of using false documents to obtain information on cases they were not working on, the Post has learned.A source said on Saturday the two officers were a station sergeant and a constable fr...

China’s CDC has issued sanitation guidelines for package and food delivery companies after the coronavirus was detected on several parcels earlier this month.The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that the companies sh...

An organisation formed by key participants in China’s currency market urged banks to limit speculative foreign-exchange trading after the yuan climbed to a six-year high versus peers.The China Foreign Exchange Committee (CFEC)– founded under guid...

The build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine has left US officials perplexed, muddying the Biden administration’s response.Some Republican lawmakers have been pressing the US to step up military support for Ukraine. But that risks turning what may b...

Yoshihiko Takeuchi, who ran a small restaurant on the island of Okinawa, told only a few friends he had the coronavirus. When he didn’t answer phone calls from public health workers for three days, police went to his home and found him dead in his ...

The Hong Kong government plans to raise the sale of green bonds in yuan, after the successful launch of a euro-denominated one last week, to further consolidate the city’s role as the global offshore RMB business hub, the city’s finance chief sai...

The warnings have come firmer and faster in the last year, particularly in recent weeks.At a summit last week with his American counterpart, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned of the dire consequences if Taiwan crossed the “red line” and declare...

Hong Kong’s sole delegate to the top national legislative body has expressed confidence that the city’s border with mainland China could reopen soon, after being told to travel to Beijing next month.The summons to the next meeting of the National...

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on Sunday said his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi invited him for an official visit during a recent phone conversation, but arrangements were not in progress.Hayashi, who became Japan’s top diplomat on Novem...

China has formally downgraded its diplomatic relations with Lithuania after the opening of a de facto embassy by Taiwan in the Baltic state, the foreign ministry announced on Sunday.Beijing reduced its presence in Vilnius from the level of ambassador...

A group of international university students arrived in Australia from Singapore on Sunday after nearly a two-year pandemic absence, as a travel bubble between the two countries came into effect.Fully vaccinated travellers from Singapore are now allo...

Hong Kong property owners and managers have until December 1 to reconfigure their television signal transmission system with some digital channels switching to new frequencies.The city’s communications authority said residents could miss out on get...

At the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Dakar, Senegal, at the end of the month, China is expected to announce more financing and new deals in a range of areas, from e-commerce to health care.But with Chinese lenders becoming more cautious and de...

Diana Fitriani was only 17 when she left her sleepy hometown of Purwokerto on Indonesia’s most populous island of Java to further her studies in Yogyakarta, a bustling city about four hours away by car.Boasting a number of internationally renowned ...

A Hong Kong couple were arrested on Saturday after their three-year-old daughter’s school raised the alarm about a possible case of child abuse.The girl, who has been sent to hospital, had suffered injuries to all four limbs, and there were obvious...

China could offer developing countries pathways to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, a senior environmental policymaker has said.Li Junfeng, founding director of the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperatio...

Some Hong Kong teachers are ignoring official guidelines and skipping politically sensitive topics in the revamped liberal studies subject, as textbooks will only be available next year and fears abound that devising their own classroom materials cou...

Two years since the negotiations for a code of conduct in the contested South China Sea hit a roadblock, Beijing is keen for talks to progress as Chinese President Xi Jinping meets leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Mond...

The death toll from record flooding in western Canada has risen to four, with a fifth person still missing, local authorities said on Saturday.Torrential rains hit southwestern British Columbia last Sunday and Monday causing widespread flooding and l...

The head of the US Indo-Pacific Command said on Saturday the United States and its allies need to operate with a greater sense of urgency amid rising tensions and China’s increasingly assertive military actions.Admiral John Aquilino reaffirmed Amer...

As discussions about a possible war to reunite mainland China with Taiwan gained traction among warmongering Chinese patriots, Liu Yadong, a journalism professor at Nankai University in Tianjin, reposted an article that mocked the initial passion amo...

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters have feelings too, a British study has found, prompting the government in London to add the animals to the list of those protected by forthcoming laws.Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (L...

Indian police said on Saturday they had charged senior executives of Amazon.com’s local unit under narcotics laws in a case of alleged marijuana smuggling via the online retailer.Police in the central Madhya Pradesh state arrested two men with 20kg...

Climate activists have blocked a major bridge in central London during a march in support of nine jailed Insulate Britain campaigners.In full view of a heavy uniformed police presence, up to 250 people who had marched from London’s Royal Courts of ...

A forthcoming 45-page report detailing the Assembly’s impeachment investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo backs up sexual harassment and other misconduct claims levelled against the disgraced Democrat.Lawmakers who reviewed the rep...

A Czech model sentenced to over eight years in prison for drug trafficking in Pakistan in 2019 was released on Saturday after her acquittal this month, the Czech foreign minister said.Tereza Hluskova, 25, was arrested at the airport in the eastern Pa...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday his country was investing in Africa without imposing unsustainable levels of debt, as he witnessed the signing of contracts worth more than US$1 billion in Senegal’s capital Dakar.The deals betw...

Football fan Pope Francis met on Saturday with priests, migrants and Swiss Guards making up his very own team for a charity match promoting the inclusion of the Roma community.“Team Pope – Fratelli Tutti” (All Brothers) will face players from a...

All flights to and from the Spanish island of La Palma have been cancelled due to ash from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which has been erupting for the past two months, the airport operator announced.Twenty national flights were cancelled on Saturday, s...

In China, official media outlets often portray Joe Biden as a weak leader. The US president, who turns 79 on Saturday, has also been mocked on China’s tightly controlled social media – over his age, gaffes and plunging approval ratings – agains...

KMB drivers have urged the company to reduce the number of routes per shift after a double-decker bus overturned in northern Hong Kong, killing one passenger and injuring 11 others.Drivers should only operate two routes instead of the three allowed u...

Two Chinese nationals and a Congolese official were sentenced to 10 years in prison over the procurement of Chinese women as prostitutes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, their lawyer said on Saturday.“My clients Ye Jingpeng and Lili Bin were se...

A record number of Hongkongers have chosen to study in Canada this year, and many appear to be taking advantage of new pathways to permanent residence there.Education and emigration consultants told the Post they had been handling an unprecedented nu...

A senior mainland Chinese official in Hong Kong has pointed to the 153 Legislative Council aspirants who passed vetting as proof the legislature will not be “one-sided”, while also urging future lawmakers to help promote cross-border development....

A long-time associate of Chinese President Xi Jinping has been named as the Ministry of Public Security’s party chief amid an anti-corruption drive targeting the law enforcement apparatus.Wang Xiaohong, 64, currently deputy minister of public secur...

Hong Kong police on Saturday arrested 27 people who allegedly used false information to create a “double identity” when applying for consumption vouchers and other cash handouts or allowances from the government, with some even using the ruse twi...

More than 800 Hong Kong diners were warned or fined on Friday night after police raided two unlicensed barbecue sites in Mei Foo, arresting 17 owners and staff.The move followed recent efforts by authorities to put up giant banners outside housing es...

Beijing’s top envoy in Washington has pushed back against US assertions that China should obey “traffic rules” set by the White House and accused the United States of trying to erect another “Berlin Wall” to contain China.In his first remar...

Tens of thousands of people, many of them far-right supporters, protested in Vienna on Saturday against coronavirus restrictions a day after Austria’s government announced a new nationwide lockdown and said vaccines would be made compulsory next ye...

A star Chinese tennis player who has not been seen publicly since making a claim of sexual assault against a senior Chinese official, will soon make an appearance, according to an editor at a state newspaper.Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of state-run tab...

They are shivering in barracks without heat, going hungry and have no money. They say their passports have been taken by their Chinese employer and that they are now stuck in a grim plainland in Serbia with no help from local authorities.These are th...

A high-level delegation of mainland Chinese health officials and experts arrived in Hong Kong on Saturday to inspect Covid-19 prevention measures as both sides prepare for the first phase of the border reopening early next month.The officials from th...

Civilian resources could provide valuable backup if Beijing were to launch an attack across the Taiwan Strait, analysts said.This came after a US government advisory agency concluded that the mainland Chinese military already had or would soon achiev...

Homebuyers on Saturday flocked to the first new flat sale in five years at Kennedy Town, which property agents attributed to the project’s ideal location in the northwestern part of Hong Kong island and the large developers behind it.Sun Hung Kai P...

Lithuania would “appreciate” stronger European Union support in its dispute with China, Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said, after the United States agreed to offer the Baltic nation financial support to help cushion any financial losses...

The option of running Hong Kong Sevens behind closed doors without spectators was ruled out as the move was not financially viable for the organiser, the city’s sports chief said on Saturday as he explained the postponement of the tournament for th...

Singapore will from Monday ease strict Covid-19 restrictions that were reimposed in September after its biggest outbreak of the Delta variant, though officials emphasised further reopening would be done in an incremental manner.With over 85 per cent ...

Hongkongers may have arrived late to the online game phenomenon Popcat Click, but they have raced to the global top spot with no sign of waning enthusiasm.The most ardent players admit this competition requires neither skill nor hard work. All you ha...