Three teenage students were taken into custody on Monday after being arrested on suspicion of robbing a 49-year-old woman of more than HK$200,00 (US$25,640) in a late-night mugging on a Hong Kong street.Crime-squad officers are investigating if the t...

The administrator of a Telegram group has pleaded guilty to nine incitement charges for abetting attacks on Hong Kong police officers and instigating a violent demonstration at the height of 2019’s civil unrest.Insurance agent Siu Cheung-lung was c...

A resurgence of Covid-19 infections in northern China has forced two small cities to suspend public transport and tighten control over residents’ movement, as the country has showed no willingness to go easy on local outbreaks.China reported 21 new...

Attempts to appoint female leaders in Japan meet resistance from men and women who see them as running counter to traditional values, according to the new head of the country’s biggest federation of labour unions.“The perception that roles should...

Swept up in a whirlwind romance after meeting at a Bollywood party in Mumbai, Saattvic and Gaurav Bhatti dreamed of celebrating their love with a typical big, fat Indian wedding.Seven years on, it remains a dream.Same-sex marriages are illegal in Ind...

Chinese vaccine manufacturer Sinovac – which has supplied the most Covid-19 vaccines globally – is confident it can rapidly mass produce a version against the Omicron variant if needed, but only after regulatory approvals are obtained, along with...

The Solomon Islands’ most populous province, the source of anti-government protesters who waged a fiery protest in the capital Honiara last week, is unhappy Australia has sent in police and soldiers at the request of the Pacific island nation’s p...

A retired police officer and his wife have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over their alleged involvement in a Sunday night street fight with a Hong Kong businessman who collapsed and later died in hospital.A dispute erupted at about 7pm o...

South Korea is reviewing online security regulations after a hacker targeted hundreds of smart home devices and sold intimate video footage of residents on the dark web in exchange for bitcoin.Alerted by the Korea Internet Security Agency to the case...

Hong Kong has confirmed its third Omicron coronavirus variant case, though officials stress that all three infections have been successfully contained.City health officials on Monday said all countries with reported Omicron infections would be moved ...

Opening arguments begin Monday in the federal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is charged with helping her long-time companion, financier Jeffrey Epstein, recruit, groom and exploit girls as young as 14 years old for sexual abuse.The alleged incidents...

Two Chinese internet companies are set to raise close to US$1 billion between them in Hong Kong initial public offerings.Microblogging platform Weibo, and NetEase-backed music streaming site Cloud Village are racing to complete their fundraising ahea...

The World Health Organization is racing to better understand the new coronavirus Omicron variant, as countries throw up travel restrictions against the heavily mutated strain that appeared on the global radar last week.In an update on Sunday, the WHO...

The EU’s border agency is to deploy a plane 24-hours-a-day over the Channel coast to monitor migrant crossings, France announced after pushing its European partners for help in cracking down on people-smuggling.Ministers responsible for immigration...

Occupying an entire city block a short walk from the White House, the Trump International Hotel is a splashy neoclassical palace steeped in more than a century of Washington lore.The towering atrium features a huge skylight that dapples the lobby bar...

Some functional constituency candidates in next month’s Legislative Council election have issued platforms that amount to little more than vague slogans, while others’ aims are virtually indistinguishable from their ostensible rivals’, promptin...

Talks on Monday aimed at paving the way for the United States return to a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran are set to be hobbled by major differences over the agenda.Former US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the accord – whose...

Singapore and Malaysia reopened one of the world’s busiest land borders on Monday, allowing vaccinated travellers to make the crossing after nearly two years of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The sudden closure of the border in March last yea...

Actor Matthew McConaughey isn’t running for Texas governor after months of publicly flirting with the idea of becoming the latest celebrity candidate.The Academy Award winner said in a video posted Sunday night that political leadership was not a r...

Pizza slices, supersized coronavirus cells and Goku from Dragon Ball Z – complete with the flaming wig – were just a few of the unlikely players going head to head in a Hong Kong squash tournament earlier this month to raise money for a worthy ca...

In this series, we answer frequently asked questions about China’s strict zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19 including current entry restrictions, the length of quarantine and which tests travellers have to take. Have a question you want us to tac...

If Vincent Diu Sing-hung wins in Hong Kong’s December 19 Legislative Council poll, he will make history as the first electrician to be elected lawmaker.The 48-year-old is among the 51 candidates vying for the Election Committee constituency. Unlike...

A previous strategy of creating artificial wetlands to compensate for the loss of natural wildlife habitats should not be reprised for a railway project servicing Hong Kong’s planned Northern Metropolis, a green group has warned, saying past effort...

Virgil Abloh reimagined the profile of a fashion designer, merging streetwear, music and high fashion, and shattering glass ceilings as the first black creative director at Louis Vuitton.Abloh died on Sunday at the age of 41, with few aware that he h...

China has expanded its combat forces to adapt to changing risks – despite a years-long push to streamline the People’s Liberation Army, according a Communist Party publication.In a book of commentaries published in mid-November by the People’s ...

Frank Williams, founder and former boss of a team that bore his name and that still ranks as one of the most dominant and successful in the history of Formula One, died on Sunday at the age of 79.The sport’s chief executive Stefano Domenicali, a fo...

The World Health Organization has urged caution after two South African health experts, including the doctor who first sounded the alarm about the Omicron variant, indicated that symptoms linked to the coronavirus strain have been mild so far.The ini...

China is likely to switch its focus to supporting economic growth next year after regulatory crackdowns that encompassed property, education, technology and coal use in 2021, analysts say.The government tightened regulatory oversight this year to rei...

Israel’s government on Sunday approved the immigration of several thousand Jews from war-torn Ethiopia, some of whom have waited for decades to join their relatives in Israel.The decision took a step toward resolving an issue that has long complica...

Going by the Greek alphabet, the next names should have been “Nu” and “Xi” but the WHO skipped them and went on to call the latest coronavirus variant “Omicron”.But why? Was it to avoid similarities with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s n...

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera on Sunday accused Western countries of “Afrophobia” for shutting their borders to his and other neighbouring nations after South Africa flagged a new coronavirus variant last week.Dozens of countries have bar...

Cambodia’s Prince Norodom Ranariddh, former prime minister and the son of the late King Norodom Sihanouk, died on Sunday in France, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith announced on his Facebook page. He was 77.Khieu Kanharith, who said he learned ...

Tens of thousands of people in Scotland and northern England remained without power on Sunday after a storm brought sleet, sub-zero temperatures and disruptions across much of the UK.Icy gusts caused power cuts around the border between Scotland and ...

Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro claimed victory in Honduras’ presidential election on Sunday, setting up a showdown with the National Party which said its candidate had won a vote that could end the conservative party’s 12 years in po...

Italian researchers have published the first image of the Covid-19 Omicron variant, confirming expectations that the new strain was a highly mutated version of the original coronavirus.However, while its identification earlier this week has sparked w...

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The prime minister of the riot-hit Solomon Islands defied pressure to resign on Sunday, saying a wave of torching and looting that swept through the capital had been orchestrated by a few people with “evil intention” to topple him.Shattered glass...

When leaders of Group of 20 nations such as the US’ Joe Biden, France’s Emmanuel Macron and India’s Narendra Modi were seen hugging, taking selfies and chatting at their first in-person summit since the pandemic began, Chinese President Xi Jinp...

Hong Kong police have arrested a man who appeared to randomly shove a woman off a Light Rail station platform onto the track below.A widely circulated 12-second video clip of the incident on Sunday afternoon shows a man at the end of the platform of ...

Dutch health authorities said on Sunday that 13 cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant have been found in the Netherlands among passengers that were on two flights from South Africa that arrived on Friday.They were among 61 passengers who teste...

China has no plans to further tighten its border restrictions to contain the spread of the new and potentially more contagious Omicron coronavirus variant, leading Chinese experts said on Sunday.A number of countries have limited travel to and from s...

Watched by tourists and locals, thousands of monkeys in Lopburi in central Thailand feasted on two tonnes of fruit and vegetables after the town’s Monkey Festival resumed following a two year hiatus caused by the pandemic.Hundreds of macaques, also...

Hong Kong’s main provider of subsidised housing is considering building more small flats in coming projects, with some as tiny as 250 sq ft, the Post has learned.Sources said the Housing Authority was assessing the size of flats to sell to low-inco...

More than nine in 10 Hongkongers who will be affected by a major Urban Renewal Authority (URA) project in Yau Tsim Mong would prefer to be relocated elsewhere in the same district, and nearly half of homeowners there want “flat-for-flat” compensa...

When health ministers from around the world converge for a historic meeting this week, just one thing will be on the agenda.On Monday, the governing body of the World Health Organization will begin only the second “special” session in the body’...

With the US and Iran set to re-engage on November 29 in their seventh round of talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by Donald Trump’s administration three years ago, Washington has sought to reassure Middle Eastern allies that it will no...

A record number of Chinese are sitting the national civil service examination this year, in hopes of landing a secure government job amid slowing growth and high youth unemployment.More than 2.12 million applicants registered for Sunday’s exam, kno...

How big is China’s music industry?China’s music industry has grown rapidly to become one of the world’s largest over the past decade. Since breaking into the top 10 of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI’s) glo...

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said younger ministers tasked with picking someone among themselves to take over from him needed “a little longer” to make a decision, with a successor likely to be named well before elections due ...

Alvin Chau Cheok-wa, the head of Macau’s biggest casino junket operator, and 10 others have been arrested over their alleged links to illegal cross-border gambling and a money-laundering syndicate.The city’s judiciary police told a press conferen...