Hong Kong experienced its third-warmest autumn on record this year, bolstered by a particularly sunny November and the hottest September since 1884.Last month saw more than 230 hours of sunshine in total, 35 per cent more than the norm over the prece...

A type of probiotic bacteria in the gut has the potential to improve a person’s antibody response to Covid-19 vaccines, researchers at two Hong Kong universities have found.The joint study by Chinese University (CUHK) and the University of Hong Kon...

China’s health minister has defended the country’s zero-Covid strategy, saying that a swift reaction to outbreaks was vital in stopping the spread of more transmittable variants.The authorities would “stand steadfastly” by the zero-tolerance ...

An official at China’s central bank cautions against the country’s rapidly growing interest in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and metaverse-related activities, warning that these could “easily become money-laundering tools”.Virtual assets “are ...

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday accused China of increasing tensions in the region, citing a hypersonic missile test in July as just one of the military capabilities pursued by the world’s second-largest economy that made it a threat ...

A CEO of a Hong Kong manufacturing company has been arrested over dangerous driving causing death after a head-on collision between his Tesla and a motorcycle on Wednesday night in Tai Tam, according to a police source.The source said a preliminary i...

A Hong Kong judge urged social media users to “reflect” on their online speech as he jailed a man for seven months on Thursday for inciting others to harm police officers during the months of social unrest that began in 2019.Speaking from the ben...

As Beijing’s censorship of tennis player Peng Shuai’s explosive sexual assault allegation against a former senior Chinese official reverberated around the world, the sport’s household names, from Roger Federer and Serena Williams to Novak Djoko...

Beijing has said politics should be kept out of sport following the Women’s Tennis Association’s decision to withdraw from China over the case of former champion Peng Shuai, who accused a former senior official of sexual assault.Wang Wenbin, a sp...

Hong Kong will launch a long-awaited Covid-19 health code compatible with the version used in mainland China on December 10, one of the final pieces of the puzzle needed for a reopening of cross-border travel.The city’s risk-exposure “Leave Home ...

China’s new carbon trading market is riddled with policy ambiguities, say analysts, as it prepares to allow more sectors to participate in the new year.Following its launch in July, the national emissions trading scheme (ETS) faces its first compli...

The threat of a US federal government shutdown was looming as lawmakers failed to reach a budget agreement before funding runs out Friday.Congress has until Friday night (Saturday Hong Kong time) to come up with a new budget in order to avoid a sudde...

Transit passengers who find themselves stranded at Hong Kong’s airport should undergo Covid-19 testing and potentially face quarantine, health experts have said after a fourth imported Omicron case was confirmed.On Wednesday, a 38-year-old transit ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Washington had seen “evidence” Russia could be planning an invasion on Ukraine, threatening Moscow with painful economic sanctions if it attacks.Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, said h...

Tom Udall, the new US ambassador to New Zealand, said he wants to find areas of common ground with China in a region where tensions often run high.Udall, a former US senator from New Mexico, held his first press conference in his new role on Thursday...

A “robust” joint statement is expected to follow the second US-EU dialogue on China on Thursday, according to a senior US State Department official.At a briefing for reporters ahead of the meeting, the official said there was increasing convergen...

Beijing has summoned Japan’s envoy to complain about former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s remarks on Taiwan, according to China’s foreign ministry.In “stern representations” made on Wednesday night to ambassador Shui Hideo, Chinese a...

Earlier in August, it rained on the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history, and new research suggests that it not only will become a normal occurrence, but it will happen much sooner than previously thought.The major...

Argentina’s ex-president Mauricio Macri was charged Wednesday with ordering the illegal surveillance, as head of state, of relatives of 44 sailors who died when a navy submarine sank in 2017.Judge Martin Bava issued an indictment against the 62-yea...

A criminal complaint has been filed in the Netherlands, accusing blue-chip Western apparel brands including Nike, Patagonia and C&A of profiting from the alleged use of forced labour in the far-western Chinese region of Xinjiang.The filing this week ...

A high-speed railway linking China to Laos is set to officially open on Friday, swinging open the doors to a landlocked country desperate to haul itself out of poverty and slotting into place a pivotal piece of Beijing’s belt and road plans for Sou...

When a popular character dies in a soap opera, it often causes a stir with its audience, but in the case of the Chinese streaming series Marvelous Women, it was the demise of a cat that upset viewers, in part because they were not convinced the felin...

The wife of the man known as the “godfather of black music” was shot and killed Wednesday in a break-in at the couple’s Beverly Hills home, police said.Jacqueline Avant, 81, was found in her home with fatal gunshot wounds, Beverly Hills Police ...

Hong Kong health officials have asked airlines to begin maintaining separate teams that will fly exclusively to and from mainland China to further reduce the risk of Covid-19 entering the country, the Post has learned.The decision to separate China a...

The coronavirus pandemic may have scaled down Credit Suisse’s charity drive over the past two years, but that has not stopped the banking giant’s employees from coming up with ways to reach out to the needy in Hong Kong.Fundraising events remaine...

There’s no indication the Omicron variant of is more deadly than other strains, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said in a recorded message. In fact, the opposite may be true, he said.“Of the over 300 cases that have now been diagno...

Germany’s incoming foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock from the Green party, on Wednesday pledged “dialogue and toughness” in dealing with China, and did not rule out a boycott of Beijing’s Winter Olympics.Baerbock, 40, is set to become Germa...

Technical-standards setting has arisen as the new battleground in superpower rivalry, with challenges posed by China’s rise also a “wake-up call” for Europe, an EU business group has warned.In contrast with the free-market driven practices in t...

Authorities in central China detained two bosses of a catering company and are investigating four government officials after dozens of students were hospitalised after eating a school lunch last week.The incident increased scrutiny on the caterer, th...

Russia and a number of Southeast Asian countries on Wednesday kicked off their first ever joint naval exercise along the Strait of Malacca, one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, Indonesia’s navy said.The drills come at a time of growi...

From groceries to beef and petrol, Hongkongers have felt the pinch of rising prices from inflation, with the global economy and supply chains still gripped by the pandemic. In the first instalment of a three-part series, Denise Tsang and Fiona Sun ex...

The conservative-dominated Supreme Court appeared poised on Wednesday to roll back abortion rights in the United States by upholding a law in the southern state of Mississippi that would ban the procedure after 15 weeks.Hundreds of demonstrators gath...

Beijing wants the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to secure the release of five Chinese miners kidnapped in the country last week even as its embassy ordered Chinese nationals to leave three provinces in the Central African nation.Foreign Mini...

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it had removed accounts used by an influence operation originating in China that promoted claims of a fake “Swiss biologist” saying the United States was interfering in the search for Covid-19�...

More than half a millennium ago, Aztec warriors brandished a weapon called a macuahuitl, a wooden club with jagged obsidian blades embedded on its sides, to inflict gruesome wounds on enemies in close combat.A newly identified armoured dinosaur that ...

The US should take concrete steps to expand cooperation with China in health security, building on their ties in this area and momentum from last month’s leaders’ summit, a new report from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies says.�...

Array Collective, 11 Northern Ireland-based artists, won Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize on Wednesday, the first artists from the UK province to claim the award in a year dominated by collaborations.It beat out competition from four other groups...

As US-China tensions increase and Washington pivots to the Indo-Pacific, the US Army is preparing for any potential conflict with China by focusing on bases, logistics and long-range missiles suited to the region’s vast distances, its top official ...

US President Joe Biden’s pick to lead Washington’s international development finance agency said on Wednesday that, if confirmed, he would examine the body’s funding of overseas projects using Chinese-sourced solar panels, amid concern over all...

Alec Baldwin said he did not pull the trigger of the gun that fired a live bullet and killed a cinematographer on the set of the movie Rust, according to an excerpt of an upcoming television interview that was released on Wednesday.Baldwin, who was h...

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced on Wednesday that it would suspend all of its tournaments in China, a dramatic escalation in the global reaction to Beijing’s censorship of an explosive sexual assault claim by Chinese tennis pro Pen...

China and the US are preparing for a meeting between their top military officials amid rising tensions over Taiwan and an arms race over the most lethal hypersonic weapons.Following last month’s virtual call between presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Bi...

The US recorded its first confirmed case of the Omicron variant on Wednesday – in a vaccinated traveller who returned to California after a trip to South Africa – as scientists around the world race to establish whether the new, mutant version of...

Years of imitating others’ innovations and relying on imports are among the reasons China is still a long way from becoming a hi-tech manufacturing powerhouse, according to a leading engineer who advises the Chinese government.“The next 15 years ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday laid out a new strategy for responsible civil, commercial and national security-related use of space amid growing commercial interests and concerns about Chinese and Russian competition.US Vice-President Kamala H...

The European Union unveiled its long-awaited infrastructure drive on Wednesday, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pitching it as a “true alternative” to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.The plan, known as the Global Gatewa...

Donald Trump had a positive Covid-19 test, quickly followed by a negative, shortly before he went into a presidential debate with challenger Joe Biden last year, according to a new book.Despite getting the all-clear in that second test, Trump would g...

Scientists have urged the world to help vaccinate Africa against Covid-19 to reduce global transmission rates, limit the emergence of new variants and better control the pandemic.In an opinion piece published in the journal Nature on Thursday, four s...

Blue Mountain Networks, a regional broadband provider based in Oregon, received unwelcome news from its supply chain contractor a few weeks ago.The contractor, which helps make sure the company receives switches and other gear on time, explained in a...