Hong Kong residents returning from the United States will have to spend their first seven days of quarantine in a government camp, with the city’s health authorities poised to elevate the country to the highest Covid-19 risk level, sources have sai...

The Omicron strain may be spreading faster in Britain than in South Africa, with UK cases of the variant possibly topping 60,000 a day by Christmas, according to epidemiologist John Edmunds.It’s likely there are more Omicron cases than confirmed by...

A Chinese officer who was in a coma and received head injuries in a border clash with India last year says he is now ready to go back to the front line, according to Chinese state media.Lieutenant Colonel Qi Fabao is a regimental commander of the Peo...

A mouse bite is at the centre of an investigation into a possible new Covid-19 outbreak in Taiwan, after a worker at a high-security laboratory was confirmed as the island’s first local case in more than a month.The lab worker, a woman in her 20s, ...

Climate change is “an aggravating factor” for instability, conflict and terrorism, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday.The UN chief said the regions that are most vulnerable to climate change “also suffer from ins...

A teenager in Hong Kong has been cleared of all allegations he forced a 13-year-old girl to have sex with him when they were classmates at an international school.The American defendant, now 17, stood trial last month at Eastern Court where he denied...

Everyone in Hong Kong will be able to ride the city’s trains, buses and trams free of charge on polling day for the coming Legislative Council election, officials have announced in a bid to boost voter turnout.Confirming a Post report, the governme...

Rescuers rushing to a highway accident found a horrific scene of death and injury after a freight truck jammed with as many as 200 migrants tipped over and crashed into the base of a steel pedestrian bridge in southern Mexico on Thursday.The migrants...

In a further bid to rival China’s influence and presence in Southeast Asia’s Mekong Basin, the United States has awarded a grant to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to improve the collection and sharing of data and improve water management.The s...

While the aviation industry has faced a significant slowdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the expansion of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has not skipped a beat. With the construction of the third runway topped off in September, the decade-l...

Hong Kong customs has confiscated HK$33 million (US$4.2 million) worth of cannabis buds, as authorities step up a crackdown on party drugs ahead of the festive season.About two-thirds of the 153kg haul was disguised as instant oats and hidden in a sh...

Australia’s military said on Friday it plans to ditch its fleet of European-designed Taipan helicopters and instead buy US Black Hawks and Seahawks because the American machines are more reliable.The move comes less than three months after Australi...

Hong Kong is losing its longest non-stop flight with American Airlines (AA) deciding to axe its Dallas route, as another carrier pulls services to a city which has some of the toughest border controls against Covid-19.The world’s largest airline re...

Taliban militants in Pakistan have declared an end to a month-long ceasefire arranged with the aid of the Afghan Taliban, accusing the government of breaching terms including a prisoner release agreement and the formation of negotiating committees.Th...

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus which causes Covid-19 threatens to scupper a flagship UN environment conference planned for China in the spring.Environmentalists are warning that the COP15 summit – where about 195 countries are due to sign a...

More than 82,900 Hongkongers signed up on Friday in the first four hours of registration for the city’s new Covid-19 health code, which is required for quarantine-free travel to mainland China under a long-awaited reopening of the border.Innovation...

Myanmar’s military government accused senior United Nations officials on Thursday of interference and making judgments based on “distorted news”, days after a storm of international criticism over the jailing of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi....

China will help landlocked Nepal boost connectivity via road and rail, Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said, in a move that experts say will raise strategic concerns for regional rival India.Addressing the International Conference on Nepal’s Reconstru...

Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett was convicted on Thursday on charges he staged an anti-gay, racist attack on himself nearly three years ago and then lied to Chicago police about it.Smollett stood and faced the jury as the verdict was read, showin...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres will attend the Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony, despite a diplomatic boycott of the Games by the US and several other countries.“The secretary general received an invitation from the Inter...

The Biden administration is holding talks among federal agencies about the security of Americans’ data and whether the US government has adequate tools.In June, President Joe Biden withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban ...

A free-trade deal with its closest ally United States was meant to be the cornerstone of the UK’s commercial policy after it had left the European Union.But five years after a “massive” deal was promised to London by then US president Donald Tr...

Music may seem like the last thing deaf parents thought they could enjoy with their children, but a Cantonese opera workshop organised by law firm Deacons has proved that music really is a language that speaks to everyone.Working with Operation Santa...

China’s senior diplomat hit back at US pressure on Central American nations to block them from switching recognition from Taiwan to Beijing, after it established formal ties with Nicaragua on Friday.Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the attack on Frida...

A 72-year-old man with paraplegia has become the first person in China to play mahjong with the help of a brain-computer interface.According to a video clip taken in a hospital in Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang province, eastern China, the pa...

Germany’s new foreign minister, Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock, recently prescribed a course of “dialogue and toughness” for China. German tabloid BILD applauded her with an almost satirical headline: “Baerbock makes dictators trembl...

Last August, Vince Patton was watching a YouTube video of a Tesla owner who had made a startling observation: Tesla drivers could now play a video game on their car’s touch-screen dashboard – while the vehicle is moving.Curious to see for himself...

Civil rights groups and academics have become reluctant to meet European Union officials in Hong Kong following the introduction of the national security law last year, the bloc’s top diplomat in the city has told the Post ahead of Human Rights Day...

Fighter aircraft and tanks are conducting live-fire drills while a US multiple rocket system has been deployed as American and Japanese troops carry out one of their largest joint military drills in recent years.The Exercise Resolute Dragon, which ru...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand next week on his first trip to Southeast Asia, as Washington seeks to ramp up engagement with the region.The four-day trip will come after Blinken attends a Group of Sev...

A federal appeal court ruled Thursday against an effort by former US president Donald Trump to shield documents from the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.In a 68-page ruling, the three-judge panel tossed aside T...

Israel on Thursday led a 10-country simulation of a major cyberattack on the global financial system in an attempt to increase cooperation that could help to minimise any potential damage to financial markets and banks.The simulated “war game”, a...

Singapore reported its first local Omicron case late on Thursday, with the health ministry saying it expected more cases of the new coronavirus variant at its borders given its high transmissibility.The patient is a 24-year-old airport employee who h...

Shipping rates from China to surrounding Asian countries have soared amid the peak season ahead of the Lunar New Year, adding fuel to an already overheated global shipping market disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.The Southeast Asian routes of the...

The Saudi national arrested in Paris this week on suspicion of being involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was just a tourist who had been holidaying with a friend in France, an official familiar with the investigation said.After his ...

Russia said on Thursday that escalating tensions over Ukraine could lead to a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis, when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov made the comment when asked by a reporter if the...

Recently, the Financial Times ran an article with the headline “The US and China are already at war. But which kind?” The author, Gillian Tett, bases many of her assertions on one of the most popular historical analogies employed by Sino-American...

New York’s attorney general is seeking former US president Donald Trump’s testimony in an ongoing civil investigation into his business practices, a person familiar with the matter said.Attorney General Letitia James’ office has requested that ...

When the White House announced this week that it would not send any officials to the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing, the response from Congress was swift – rare bipartisan praise, followed by another demand: US corporate sponsors of the Games ...

The United States launched a two-day Summit for Democracy on Thursday with calls for introspection, restructuring and renewal as democracies around the world face unprecedented challenges.In his opening remarks, President Joe Biden welcomed represent...

An independent panel set up in Britain to examine China’s crackdown against Uygurs and other ethnic minority groups ruled on Thursday that the Chinese government’s actions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region constituted genocide.In a judgemen...

The body of Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, one day after he and 12 others were killed in a helicopter crash near a military academy.Rawat, 63, was travelling with his wife and other senior officers when the...

Apple’s reported US$275 billion investment in China is raising questions in Chinese media regarding the size of the deal after widespread coverage in the US of a report about the tech giant’s lobbying efforts highlighted the precarious balancing ...

During a rare opportunity to interact with mainland Chinese astronauts in space through a live video lecture on Thursday, 15-year-old student Men Ruihan in Hong Kong asked whether water in space could be recycled.Astronaut Wang Yaping said the crew h...

A World Health Organization advisory body has stuck by its decision not to recommend Covid-19 booster shots for now, but says it will keep a close watch on the impact of the new Omicron coronavirus variant.The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on I...

China’s central bank announced late on Thursday that it will raise the reserve requirement ratio for banks’ foreign exchange deposits for the second time this year in Beijing’s latest move to curb the yuan’s rally against the US dollar.The Pe...

Recipients of the BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine should get their jabs on the thigh rather than arm to reduce heart inflammation risks, Hong Kong health experts have said, after a panel delivered its first “indeterminate” ruling on whether a death was...

Members of China’s Communist Party (CCP) have a personal obligation to help tackle the country’s plunging fertility rate by having three children, according to a commentary that has since been scrubbed from the internet.“No party member should ...