Friends and supporters of jailed Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan have begun to release interviews with her recorded before her arrest, in the hope of drawing the world’s attention to her plight.Sentenced to four years in prison for “picking...

Major international schools in Hong Kong are shortening their year-end and other breaks to give expatriate staff a longer summer holiday to return home and still meet the city’s strict quarantine requirements.The schools are worried that teachers u...

A woman arrested over a car crash that left eight people injured in one of the busiest nightlife spots in Hong Kong on Friday night was a domestic helper who was chauffeuring her employer for a night out, a police source has said.The 44-year-old dome...

They were big in Hong Kong cinema in the 1990s and 2000s – and now these male actors are finding a new audience and fans in China.Stars like Jordan Chan Siu-chun and Michael Tse Tin-wah (both 54), made famous in the Hong Kong triad film series Youn...

Scientists have discovered a planet 10 times as massive as Jupiter orbiting a pair of stars in another solar system, according to new research.The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, points to the discovery of a planet named b Centau...

A US State Department envoy has conveyed his concerns to top Cambodian officials about bilateral and regional issues, including the crisis in Myanmar and the construction of Chinese military facilities at a Cambodian naval base.The visit by Counsello...

Hong Kong needs to strengthen intellectual property (IP) protections for new inventions if it hopes to become the region’s innovation and technology hub, a leading researcher has said, noting scientific infrastructure alone will not be enough to ac...

Lui Che-woo, one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest men with a casino, hotels and apartments under his belt, met his match in late 2016 when his company K Wah International lost a bidding war to a Chinese airline that was on a land grab in the world’s mos...

A rare bronze Chinese wine jar that may be upwards of 3,500 years sold for US$1.52 million at a Christie’s online auction on Wednesday.Called a zun, this Chinese ceremonial vessel was probably owned by Shang dynasty (1600-1046 BC) aristocrats and i...

Ten months after the military coup in Myanmar, investors from China, who fund over half of the garment factories in their country’s Southeast Asian neighbour, are contemplating relocation.Chinese investors have been caught up in the turmoil since t...

New Zealand health authorities have launched an investigation after a man allegedly got vaccinated against Covid-19 up to 10 times in one day, local media reported.It is thought the man was paid to receive the jabs on behalf of other people, news web...

Covert “foreign agents” remaining in Hong Kong could further undermine the coming Legislative Council election, the city’s No 2 official has warned amid concerns over low voter turnout for next Sunday’s poll.Chief Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu s...

A critical vulnerability in a widely used software tool – one quickly exploited in the online game Minecraft – is rapidly emerging as a major threat to organisations around the world.“The internet’s on fire right now,” said Adam Meyers, sen...

Adopting vaccine passports will help countries reopen their borders during the Covid-19 pandemic and encourage citizens to receive their jabs, Israel’s top diplomat in Hong Kong has told the Post.In his first interview since arriving in the financi...

When Hong Kong businessman Chai Kwong-wah decided to open a factory in Shenzhen in 1993, cheap land and labour were top considerations for his Hello Kitty and Disney toy business.The local government rolled out the red carpet, offering 1.2 acres of l...

Every Monday, Jeong Jae-bong goes to his office in Seoul and messages his clients, family and friends with his hot new tips about the latest funds and stocks.“Everyone these days wants to know how they can live better lives,” said the 27-year-old...

For the first time in nearly a decade, a Japanese prime minister is set to live in the official residence – a century old structure that is a monument to art deco aesthetics and clouded by an ominous history.No date has been formally announced but ...

The appeal of the new head of Hong Kong’s Catholic diocese Stephen Chow Sau-yan to repair divisions in society after the polarising events of the 2019 social movement is timely and relevant.It is indeed a call for everyone to take some responsibili...

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Saturday vowed the West and its allies will “take a stand against aggressors who seek to undermine liberty” as she hosts a G7 ministerial summit.The two-day gathering in Liverpool, northwest England, of fore...

The Chinese government’s ambitious campaign to review the country’s 1.12 million mobile apps has yielded initial results, with problematic apps being removed and the country’s new data laws being implemented, a new government report said.The Cy...

A speech at a Beijing secondary school telling girls to have “a clean heart and a clean body”, while boys should curb their effeminate side has triggered controversy in China.The speech was made by a female teacher surnamed Suo and was addressed ...

A man dumped hundreds of FedEx packages in a roadside ditch in Alabama, later saying he was dealing with a death in the family and did not want to deliver the items, a sheriff said on Friday.Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon identified the suspect as 2...

China’s southern tech hub Shenzhen has announced emergency measures to cut water consumption as the city grapples with severe shortages amid the worst drought in four decades.The shortage is mainly due to a lack of rainfall in the upstream region o...

When Hong Kong actor Neo Yau Hawk-sau co-founded the YouTube channel Trial & Error to create low-budget short videos, he never imagined it would become all the rage within just a year.It is now one of the city’s most popular channels, with 350,000 ...

Two decades after Singapore began cracking down on a pan-Southeast Asia terrorist group calling itself Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the network’s operations leader, Hambali, remains at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial. The evidence against him shows that he ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked discussions over what should be the priority in our society, providing new perspectives on the debate between individual rights and collective responsibility. Depending on who, where and how we ask the question, diff...

Equatorial Guinea sits on the west coast of Central Africa and is home to just 1.4 million people.But the tiny oil-rich nation is right at the centre of a geopolitical rivalry between two of the world’s biggest powers – China and the United State...

Mike Nesmith, one of four members of 1960s television and pop phenomenon The Monkees, has died, fellow band member Micky Dolenz and his family said on Friday. He was 78.The group were a made-for-television outfit put together in the United States to ...

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday rejected Russia’s call for the West to withdraw its invitation to Ukraine to join the alliance.“Nato’s relationship with Ukraine is going to be decided by the 30 Nato allies and Ukraine – no o...

Washington concluded a two-day virtual “Summit for Democracy” on Friday with a spotlight on “misused” technology by autocratic states and calls for a follow-up summit to evaluate progress in safeguarding fair elections, protecting human right...

The European Union’s 27 foreign ministers will try to carve out a common position on whether to join the US-led diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Monday, with sources predicting that the discussion could “get messy”.The debat...

French President Emmanuel Macron hailed a “convergence of views” with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday as the two men met for their first talks as leaders.Macron and Scholz, both pro-EU centrists, are the new tandem in charge of Europe’s...

US President Joe Biden’s administration imposed economic sanctions on the Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime Group and two senior government officials in far-west Xinjiang over alleged human rights abuses in the region, the Treasury ...

US consumer prices rose last month at a rate not seen in nearly 40 years, the government reported Friday, underscoring how inflation threatens the world’s largest economy and President Joe Biden’s public support.The Labour Department’s consumer...

The US Supreme Court on Friday left in place Texas’ ban on most abortions, but ruled that clinics can sue over the state’s most restrictive abortion law in the nation.The court acted more than a month after hearing arguments over the law that mak...

Downing Street will not hold a Christmas party this year, Boris Johnson’s spokesman said on Friday as the prime minister faced public fury over claims his staff broke rules last year.“There’s no plans for that in No 10,” the spokesman said, l...

China has created a quantum communication network in space to protect its electric power grid against attacks, according to scientists involved in the project.Part of the network links the power grid of Fujian, the southeastern province closest to Ta...

Fear of losing access to the world’s biggest market has prevented liberal democracies from standing up to China, fugitive Hong Kong activist Nathan Law Kwun-chung has told world leaders at a summit, warning the city has become a “police state”....

Chinese human rights lawyers and activists said they were blocked from leaving their homes this week ahead of events to mark Friday’s UN Human Rights Day.China has seen a dramatic crackdown on civil liberties and freedoms since President Xi Jinping...

Accepting her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Philippine journalist Maria Ressa launched a vitriolic attack against American tech giants, accusing them of fuelling a flood of “toxic sludge” on social media.Ressa, the co-founder of news website Rappl...

Disruptions to Apple’s vast supply chain and cost control measures amid a pandemic-induced chip and components shortage are causing pain for the US tech giant’s Chinese suppliers and distributors, according to a local media report.Apple’s suppl...

Police have launched a criminal investigation into the suspicious deaths of four goats at a farm in northern Hong Kong near the border with mainland China.The owner of the farm in Fung Wong Wu in Ta Kwu Ling called officers shortly before 1pm on Frid...

Eight people were injured, two of them critically, when a car jumped a curb in a Hong Kong nightlife district packed with revellers on a busy Friday night, trapping one woman underneath. A 44-year-old female driver has been arrested.A police investig...

The government antiquities office is studying what could be a 118-year-old boundary stone that once marked the limits of Hong Kong’s first urban settlement after it became a British colony, following the discovery by a group of heritage lovers.The ...

Cambodian leader Hun Sen ordered the country’s military to destroy any US weaponry or dump it in warehouses on Friday, after Washington imposed an arms embargo over human rights concerns and Phnom Penh’s close ties with China.The US on Wednesday ...

US plans to channel US$7.1 billion in defence spending to the Indo-Pacific region in the next financial year to counter a rising China will escalate confrontation between the two powers, analysts say.The spending package was part of the National Defe...

Lenovo, the world’s largest personal computer manufacturer, has defended a sale of equity stakes in the company made by China’s top science academy in 2009, after weeks of unsubstantiated online allegations questioning the deal’s legitimacy and...

Beijing’s wooing of Taiwan’s ally Nicaragua on Friday is not just retaliation for the island’s independence efforts but it is also a sign of intensifying rivalry between China and the US in America’s own backyard, according to observers.Nicar...

Beijing has pledged to “front-load” policies to shore up the economy next year, as leaders remained on high alert against strong headwinds at the tone-setting annual central economic work conference that concluded on Friday.“We are facing three...

The Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece newspaper has issued a fresh warning about the metaverse, this time targeting speculators who engage in virtual property sales, saying they risk “getting burnt”.In a commentary published on Thursday, the...