China’s disdain for the Western-style democracy and its hypersensitivity to any questions relating to Taiwan – “the mother of all core interests” – are no secret.That’s why Beijing went ballistic when US President Joe Biden managed to hit...

Hong Kong’s retail sales in October surged 12 per cent year on year, marking the ninth straight month of a rebound, as the government’s HK$36 billion (US$4.6 billion) electronic consumption voucher scheme continued to sustain the recovery.Provisi...

The chairman of Hong Kong’s Labour Party faces up to a year in jail after pleading guilty to contempt and obstructing a security officer during a chaotic Legislative Council meeting last year.Steven Kwok Wing-kin admitted liability on Tuesday – h...

The chairman of a Taiwanese conglomerate said on Tuesday he does not support independence from China after Beijing fined his company in an apparent warning to it and other businesses to toe the mainland’s line on its sovereignty claims.Beijing took...

Existing Covid-19 jabs will struggle against the Omicron variant and it will take months to develop a new shot that works, the head of US vaccine manufacturer Moderna has told the Financial Times.Stephane Bancel told the newspaper in an interview pub...

Two Chinese border cities have halted some commodity imports by rail to reduce the risk of Covid-19 coming in from other countries, as northern areas of the country tackle a fresh resurgence of the coronavirus disease. Suifenhe, a city in Heilongjia...

An unlicensed driver has been arrested on suspicion of reversing a car into the motorcycle of a Hong Kong traffic police officer then speeding away.The 23-year-old man was picked up by officers in Sha Tin’s Shek Mun Estate on Monday and detained fo...

Food delivery giant Uber Eats revealed on Tuesday it would wind down its Hong Kong operations by year’s end after seeing slower-than-expected growth.“Uber Eats has unfortunately not grown as expected in Hong Kong,” the company said in response ...

The Omicron coronavirus variant is likely to enter China, but mainstream tests will be able to detect any cases, and the country’s zero-Covid response will block community transmission, according to a senior public health official.“Omicron was pr...

In the depths of the mountains in southwestern China, one teacher is educating the next generation while being inspirational proof that no obstacle is too much to overcome.Jiang Shengfa, who lost his arms in an accident 25 years ago, has been teachin...

Singapore, which in recent months was progressively reopening its borders and allowing quarantine free travel, will from Friday tighten its coronavirus testing regime for all travellers amid concerns over the new Omicron variant.All travellers will h...

Hong Kong’s health minister has said new border-control measures designed to contain the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant are stringent enough, brushing aside the idea the city’s border should be closed even to returning residents.Spain,...

Japan’s crown prince criticised the media on Tuesday for falsities and “terrible things” in its coverage of the engagement of his daughter, former princess Mako, who relinquished her royal status to marry a commoner last month.Mako, 30, postpon...

Barbados ditched Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic on Tuesday with its first-ever president and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean isla...

When it comes to death, veteran embalmer Dennis Pedrozo has seen it all in his 24 years of preserving bodies. But nothing prepared him for the Covid-19 pandemic, which has changed long-standing funeral practices.While Singapore’s Covid-19 death tol...

China’s top security official has touted President Xi Jinping’s “common prosperity” campaign and vowed to crack down on illegal income, saying it could help Beijing to avoid political risk.Guo Shengkun, secretary of the Central Political and ...

China’s factory activity unexpectedly returned to expansion in November after seven months of decline due to an improved power supply situation and lower raw material prices, but the potential impact of the “big caveat” of the Omicron coronavir...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s chosen successor on Tuesday announced his withdrawal from the 2022 presidential race, saying it was “not yet my time”.Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, a close aide to the president, entered the contest ...

Ehab Fouad was a teenager when he marched in the parade marking the birth of the United Arab Emirates, that has gone from desert outpost to regional powerhouse in 50 years.The retired civil engineer, now 64, vividly recalls December 2, 1971, when he ...

Hong Kong schools will need to infuse civic values including law-abidingness and national identity into all subjects under a new teaching framework to address a “passive and self-indulgent mindset” in some young people, the Post has learned.A sou...

Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile and politically volatile jobs.But his prior lack of name recognition coupled with a solid technical background appears to ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko accused Lithuanian authorities of dumping the bodies of migrants on the border between the two countries a claim rejected by Lithuania amid soaring border tensions between Belarus and its European Union neigh...

The Italian Women’s Association (IWA) in Hong Kong brought back its signature annual charity market this month after a year-long hiatus, raking in nearly HK$800,000 in a single day in donations and proceeds from the sale of high-quality goods from ...

China has built underground shelters along its borders with India in the Himalayas to protect its troops and weapons as tensions between the two countries persist into the harsh winter.The People’s Liberation Army Western Theatre Command, which ove...

Japan on Tuesday confirmed its first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a man who had arrived in the country from Namibia.The man in his 30s had earlier tested positive for the coronavirus at the airport, chief cabinet secretary Hiroka...

An effort by the Shenzhen government to boost traditional Chinese cuisine was suspended due to overwhelming interest after the public was attracted by a 1,700 yuan (US$266) reward for making a traditional brine recipe.According to South China Metropo...

A brawl at a rally against Asian hate in London over the weekend has exposed potential political tensions between Chinese groups in the UK, with the spotlight on a wave of Hongkongers migrating to the country under the British National (Overseas) vis...

The US military will reinforce deployments and bases directed at China and Russia, while maintaining forces in the Middle East adequate to deter Iran and jihadist groups, the Pentagon said on Monday, referencing results of a review.The US Defence Dep...

George Seda, a 31-year-old musician living in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, described the last few days on the Pacific island nation as like “walking through hell”.“There was nothing but fear, hunger, and terror,” Seda said, re...

Hong Kong is expecting an increase in the number of patients at public hospitals during winter to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic, health authorities have said, even as the effect of seasonal influenza is likely to be reduced as a result ...

EU, Iranian and Russian diplomats sounded upbeat as Iran and world powers held their first talks in five months on Monday to try to save their 2015 nuclear deal, despite Tehran taking a tough stance in public that Western powers said would not work.D...

Chinese prosecutors have indicated they are targeting online casinos after a growing number of operators allegedly used internet platforms to get around the country’s laws against gambling.Miao Shengming, head of the first prosecutor’s office at ...

Almost a decade ago, the World Bank and the Development Research Centre of China’s State Council published a report titled China 2030: Building a Modern Harmonious and Creative Society.While the report was presented as a research, its publication w...

Ethnic Chinese are twice as likely as other Canadians to own and live in housing that is unaffordable compared to their incomes, and only about half as likely to live in rented accommodation, according to a newly released government findings.The data...

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were “partners in crime” in the sexual abuse of teenage girls, a prosecutor said Monday in opening statements, with the defence countering that like so many women before her, Maxwell was being made a scapegoa...

Dutch military police arrested a husband and wife on Sunday who had left a hotel where they were being quarantined after testing positive for Covid-19 and boarded a plane to fly home to Spain.A spokeswoman for the local security authority that covers...

Chinese authorities need to stay ahead of the curve to stabilise the national economy in the face of outsized threats in the coming year, senior policy advisers said at the weekend.The nation’s massive export machine may lose steam, its financial m...

US President Joe Biden cautioned Americans against panicking over a new variant of the coronavirus recently identified in South Africa, and urged them to instead get vaccinated or obtain booster shots.“This variant is a cause for concern. Not a cau...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey resigned on Monday as the social media network’s CEO, after surviving an activist investor’s bid to oust him in 2020 and steering the firm during the tumult of Donald Trump’s presidency.Dorsey – who also is chie...

South Africa’s daily Covid-19 infection rate could triple to more than 10,000 by the end of this week as the new Omicron variant spreads rapidly, a top infectious disease expert said on Monday.Professor Salim Abdool Karim, the government’s chief ...

[Sponsored Article] Hailed as the Skills Olympics, WorldSkills Competition has become the foremost event promoting vocational and professional education as well as skills excellence. Nearly 400 young talents took part in 34 competition skills in the...

China has been forced to make a course correction in its drive for semiconductor self-reliance, focusing instead on boosting production of mature technologies while putting the goal of catching up with the world’s most advanced chip makers on the b...

China has promised to donate a billion coronavirus vaccines, advance billions of dollars for African trade and infrastructure, and write off interest-free loans to African countries to help the continent heal from the coronavirus pandemic.Speaking vi...

Sweden’s parliament on Monday elected Magdalena Andersson as the country’s prime minister, the first woman to hold the post, five days after her initial bid lasted only hours.Despite being a nation that has long championed gender equality, Sweden...

This is the third in a three-part series looking at the potential impact of China’s proposed property tax law.Computer programmer Zheng Wenxuan has two flats in Beijing – one for his own family and one for his parents who moved from their hometow...

Hong Kong authorities have issued arrest warrants for fugitive ex-lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung and a former district councillor over social media posts urging voters to either cast invalid ballots in the coming Legislative Council election or boycott it...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has told a group of visiting Baltic lawmakers that her administration would work to boost Taiwan’s presence in Europe after it opened a de facto embassy in Lithuania.“We have lately seen exchanges between Taiwan a...

An unemployed man on trial for biting a former Hong Kong district councillor’s ear and assaulting three others during the social unrest of 2019 was at the material time suffering from a mental disorder caused by his alcohol consumption, his psychia...

China’s “unfair trade practices” are once again in US crosshairs, with Washington indicating it will use a new metals alliance with the European Union (EU) to prevent Chinese dumping amid uncertainty over the next phase of bilateral trade talks...

WeChat, the super app run by Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, said on Monday it will allow more links and content from third-parties to open directly within user chats, in response to Beijing’s push for interoperability among China’s Big ...