China’s supply chains are under growing pressure amid increasing uncertainty in the global markets, a senior official from China’s central bank has warned.“The impact of Covid has sped up the shift in the global distribution of production,” L...

Fears of a new cluster in Hong Kong’s ongoing Omicron outbreak emerged on Sunday as health authorities found that a woman who recently returned to the city from Pakistan tested positive for the coronavirus five days after leaving hotel quarantine.A...

Hong Kong’s finance chief has said it will be a challenge to decide whether to target specific groups for benefits or distribute goodies to the masses in the coming budget to be unveiled next month, with the city set to enjoy a much lower fiscal de...

China’s most advanced stealth fighter the J-20 narrowly avoided a “serious accident” in a test flight nine years ago during the early days of the aircraft’s development, according to its manufacturer.Aviation Industry Corporation of China (Av...

A North Korean cargo train pulled into a Chinese border town on Sunday, in what could be one of the first confirmed crossings since anti-coronavirus border lockdowns began, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing sources that said it was ...

The northern city of Tianjin and Chinese capital Beijing are battling to contain the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and bring it under control ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday and start of the Winter Olympics.Meanwhile the health author...

Once in a while, a person dies whose life happens to mirror in almost every detail the lives of millions around him. Salil Tripathi’s fate was to be that person, to be that death.Last Saturday, as heavy rain lashed the Indian capital in one of the ...

In the first of a five-part series on Hong Kong’s novice lawmakers, the Post meets Tik Chi-yuen, the only non-establishment candidate elected to the Legislative Council.Hong Kong’s only centrist lawmaker has pledged to press the authorities to pu...

The scale of China’s lucrative live-streaming business model – revealed by the 1.34 billion yuan (US$210 million) tax evasion fine for top influencer Huang Wei, known as Viya – has taken ordinary Chinese by surprise.“Is it reasonable for live...

An FBI hostage rescue team stormed a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas on Saturday night to free three remaining hostages of a gunman who had disrupted a religious service and began a stand-off with police more than 10 hours earlier.The hostage siege �...

News that fashion magazine Vogue is to launch a print edition in the Philippines has created a buzz in a nation that prides itself on its love of celebrity culture, glamour, and beauty.Conde Nast’s confirmation this week that it would follow-up the...

Pioneering Italian fashion designer Nino Cerruti, who introduced “casual chic” into men’s fashion and in his heyday dressed Hollywood stars, has died at the age of 91.He died at the Vercelli hospital in the northwest region of Piedmont, where h...

A massive underwater volcanic eruption in Tonga that triggered tsunami waves around the Pacific caused “significant damage” to the island nation’s capital and smothered it in dust, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Sunday.The erupt...

Covid restrictions are preventing Annelise Murray, a 22-year-old English teacher in Hong Kong, from taking trips with her friends to Macau’s casinos.But she still recently managed to win big on a slot machine, walking away with HK$4,700 (US$600) �...

She just snapped. That’s what Yu Inoue told the officer on duty when she walked through the doors of a neighbourhood police station in the Kita ward of Sapporo, northern Japan, late into the night on December 23.The 57-year-old confessed to repeate...

Hong Kong student Kok Suen-tung was in a holiday state of mind when she felt unwell, tested herself and found out she had Covid-19 last month.The final-year social policy student at the University of Bristol cancelled plans to visit friends in London...

Russia’s involvement in Kazakhstan is a reminder for Beijing that it is still reliant on Moscow to secure its interests in Central Asia.But experts said China would benefit from the Russian action to quell the unrest and had no intention of taking ...

A woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train at the Times Square station Saturday, police said, a little more than a week after the mayor and governor announced plans to boost subway policing and outreach to homeless people in New York ...

The six-year legal battle over pop superstar Prince’s estate has ended, meaning the process of distributing the artist’s wealth could begin next month.The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the Internal Revenue Service and the estate’s admin...

The welcome news of the election of Hong Kong’s ICAC commissioner Simon Peh Yun-lu to head the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA), at its general meeting on January 5, could not have come at a better time.Over the past...

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has surrendered his mobile phone to authorities as part of the investigation into a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last autumn, a law enforcement official said.Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Juan Ri...

Scientists warn that Omicron’s whirlwind advance practically ensures it will not be the last version of the coronavirus to worry the world.Every infection provides a chance for the virus to mutate, and Omicron has an edge over its predecessors: It ...

At least half a million chickens have been either killed by a bird flu outbreak in Burkina Faso or culled to prevent the virus spreading, the West African country announced Saturday.The outbreak of the highly pathogenic H1N1 strain of avian flu was d...

Violent unrest in Kazakhstan that began with peaceful protests in early January over energy prices has left 225 people dead, authorities said, in a dramatic increase on previous tolls.The demonstrations spiralled into unprecedented clashes between se...

Japan’s Pacific coast was hit early Sunday by a tsunami following a massive underwater volcanic eruption in the South Pacific island country of Tonga the previous day, prompting the weather agency to issue a tsunami warning and advisories while urg...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing mounting pressure to get a grip on the drip feed of revelations about Covid-19 rule-breaking at his Downing Street office as he fights to keep his job.Former Conservative minister Tobias Ellwood said Joh...

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Asean should continue to exclude Myanmar’s junta leaders from meetings until headway is made on an agreement which includes a cessation of violence in the country.The Association of Southeast Asian Nati...

Domestic politics is likely to push Beijing and Washington towards more confrontation this year and it will be difficult to ease tensions, according to a senior Chinese foreign policy adviser.But Wang Jisi, who is also president of the Institute of I...

Police in Sweden deployed patrols and helicopters to the Forsmark nuclear plant to hunt for a large drone seen flying over the site late on Friday, but were unable to catch the unmanned vehicle, they said on Saturday.The incident came a day after Swe...

Thousands of Hongkongers flocked to Mong Kok’s flower market on Saturday after health authorities tackling an Omicron-fuelled wave of coronavirus cases abruptly cancelled traditional Lunar New Year fairs, disappointing shoppers and florists alike.I...

India, which has among the world’s deadliest roads, on Saturday proposed mandating at least six airbags in all passenger cars manufactured from October 1.The government wants carmakers to provide two side airbags and two curtain airbags, to protect...

China’s president has outlined his vision of a digital economy with 5G connectivity as its backbone and nationwide data management at its core, as he channelled the forces of technology to serve socioeconomic development in the world’s second-lar...

Two Hong Kong men in their 60s collapsed and died while hiking in separate incidents on Saturday.At Ling Wui Shan in southern Lantau, a 64-year-old man surnamed Lo, who was thought to have had an existing health condition, passed out while hiking wit...

China and Iran announced plans for cooperation in areas such as energy and infrastructure on Friday as they officially launched a 25-year cooperation agreement.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also told his visiting Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirab...

A three-storey scuba diving boat sank after catching fire off Hong Kong’s scenic Jin Island in Sai Kung on Saturday afternoon, with 15 people on board rescued.The 22.7-metre (75 foot) vessel, which was carrying many scuba tanks, could be seen engul...

The Chinese capital reported its first community case of the Omicron coronavirus variant on Saturday, with local and imported infections of the strain now detected in about half of the country’s provinces and municipalities.Pang Xinghuo, deputy dir...

Hong Kong customs authorities have denied social media users’ accusation that it set up a 34-year-old man they arrested for allegedly selling knock-off handbags.The Customs and Excise Department said it arrested the man in relation to five suspecte...

The self-declared state of Somaliland is seeking US recognition as it pitches itself as a counterweight to Chinese influence in the Horn of Africa.There have been growing calls for Washington to set up a representative office in Somaliland, which wel...

Shanghai’s market regulator on Friday issued a new directive that puts a cap on the price of so-called blind boxes – popular sealed packages that contain collectible goods – and restricts sales to young children.The Shanghai Administration for ...

Frightened Tongans fled to higher ground on Saturday after a massive volcanic eruption, heard in neighbouring countries, triggered the area’s second tsunami in as many days with social media footage showing waves crashing into homes.“A 1.2 metre ...

With participants who look like characters from K-dramas and storylines that wouldn’t be out of place in a film script, reality television dating shows have captured the imagination of South Korean audiences.But while it is hard to doubt the popula...

Hong Kong customs officials have arrested three suspected drug traffickers in connection with a total of HK$69.4 million (US$8.9 million) worth of narcotics discovered in two separate cases.In one case, 110kg of cannabis worth HK$22.5 million was hid...

Management hiccups and blunders at a government-run quarantine camp in Penny’s Bay during a growing Omicron outbreak in Hong Kong have left many residents upset and prompted an apology from the city’s leader.Prolonged isolation, postponed tests, ...

University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax over the last five years has repeatedly enraged students with her racist comments, first calling into question the academic ability of black students and most recently saying the US would be better off...

It all started with the milk.In May, Chinese fans of popular boy band talent show Youth With You were given the right to vote for contestants by scanning a QR code printed on the bottle cap of a sponsor’s product.The promotion led to frenzied buyin...

The prices of China’s newly built homes declined at a slower rate in December, offering a bit of relief to dozens of property developers that are struggling with a cash crunch and mounting debt.The average price of new homes across 70 cities fell b...

Children in Hong Kong as young as five could receive the Chinese-produced Sinovac coronavirus vaccine from next week, the city’s civil service chief said on Saturday, as authorities confirmed five new Covid-19 cases.Health officials said infection ...

Researchers from the University of Cyprus last week reported a new strain of the coronavirus that appeared to be a hybrid of the Delta and Omicron variants.But doubts later emerged about the “Deltacron” hybrid – with some attributing it to data...

Even as India grapples with a third wave of Covid-19 infections fuelled by the Omicron variant, with every fourth person testing positive in recent days, its election juggernaut has not stopped.Political parties have held massive rallies bringing tog...

About an hour before midnight on December 21, Hong Kong finance professional Jackson Leung turned on his personal computer and clicked on a link to obtain a non-fungible token (NFT) from the popular local project Monkey Kingdom.It did not take long, ...