Tech unicorn ByteDance, owner of hit short video app TikTok and its Chinese sibling Douyin, recorded significantly slower revenue growth last year, as Beijing’s harsh regulatory measures set back the company’s business expansion plans, according ...

Five Chinese companies are now allowed to make cheap versions of Merck’s Covid-19 pills to supply low-income countries, an UN-backed organisation said on Thursday.Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical, BrightGene Bio-Medical Technology, Shanghai Desano Pha...

China condemned a French parliamentary resolution that accuses Beijing of carrying out a genocide against its Uygur Muslim population, a move that has strained ties two weeks before the Winter Olympics.The resolution adds to a chorus of Western natio...

Meat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his ‘Bat Out of Hell’ album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, and I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won�...

China has urged Germany to avoid “megaphone diplomacy” in a meeting where the new German foreign minister highlighted “fundamental differences” on human rights – a possible sign that Berlin may take a more critical stance than under Angela ...

Hong Kong authorities will impose a five-day lockdown on 2,500 residents of a public housing block hit by a Covid-19 outbreak in an unprecedented move to prevent the virus spreading in the community, the Post has learned.Two sources on Friday said re...

A Boeing 737 MAX plane was recorded taking off and landing in southern China on Friday as the American manufacturer pushes to resume commercial flights with the model after a ban of nearly three years.Chinese flight tracking app VariFlight Pro showed...

A non-fungible token (NFT) project featuring 2,000 pixel art hamsters has been launched in Hong Kong, after the public hit out at a government decision to cull the animals over the possible risk of Covid-19 transmission to humans.Earlier this week, H...

A new metaverse project that includes Warner Music Group as a partner is using non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to create virtual celebrities that can appear in various digital media and tie a token’s value to an idol’s popularity.Called The Guardians ...

The family of the late Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung has been given “one last chance” to settle their ongoing dispute over his HK$11.3 billion (US$1.45 billion) estate out of court.Mr Justice David Lok Kai-hong on Friday granted a third ad...

A Hong Kong theatre group has given some underprivileged children a lesson on using masks to express themselves.Local theatre group The Nonsensemakers held a two-day mask-making workshop on November 13 and 20 for six primary school children from thre...

Britain’s top foreign and defence officials held talks with their Australian counterparts in Sydney on Friday, focusing on advancing a security pact involving nuclear-powered submarines and sharing notes on countering China’s growing clout.UK For...

Hong Kong police have arrested two more staff from a scandal-hit child protection group on Friday on suspicion of assaulting toddlers at one of its facilities, bringing the total number of employees allegedly involved up to 18.The number of victims f...

China must prevent and defuse the risk of external shocks this year while strengthening macroprudential management and guiding market expectations, the country’s foreign exchange regulator said on Friday.The comments come as the US Federal Reserve ...

Two months after it emerged, the Omicron variant has ripped through many populations and is rapidly becoming the dominant coronavirus strain.Global case numbers have hit record levels, but proportionally hospitalisations and deaths are lower than for...

For the first time since the start of the pandemic the coronavirus has reached an Argentine research base in Antarctica, causing the evacuation of nine unvaccinated staff who tested positive for Covid-19, an official said on Thursday.Twenty-four of t...

Pakistan last week launched its first-ever national security policy, listing economic security as its top priority even as it continues to emphasise military security.Still, the shift is striking given that Pakistan has been at odds with its nuclear-...

Teachers who have not been inoculated against the coronavirus could face legal consequences for entering campuses from late February under a recently announced expansion of Hong Kong’s vaccine bubble to cover all local schools, a senior education o...

The contrasting epidemiological reports of two coronavirus carriers in Beijing have sparked heated debate about widening inequality in China, laying bare the challenges facing the government’s “common prosperity” drive.Authorities in Beijing on...

A Florida man was charged on Thursday with human smuggling after the bodies of four people, including a baby and a teen, were found in Canada near the US border in what authorities believe was a failed crossing attempt during a freezing blizzard.The ...

Gaurav Patil would not hesitate to recommend getting married in Vietnam to his friends back home in India.Patil, who has lived in Vietnam for 10 years, tied the knot with his Vietnamese partner at a resort in the central coastal town of Quy Nhon in l...

Lithuania’s exports to China suffered a near-total collapse in December, amid a blazing row over the Baltic state’s support for Taiwan.Chinese government customs data released on Thursday showed shipments from Lithuania to China dropped by 91.4 p...

Russia’s central bank on Thursday proposed banning the use and mining of cryptocurrencies on Russian territory, citing threats to financial stability, citizens’ well-being and its monetary policy sovereignty.The move is the latest in a global cry...

Getting vaccinated against Covid-19 won’t affect a couple’s chances of getting pregnant, but contracting the coronavirus could impair male fertility.Those are the main conclusions of a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, refuting a...

In the fifth of a six-part series on Hong Kong’s novice lawmakers, the Post meets Ambrose Lam San-keung, a legal sector representative mounting a comeback after an embarrassing setback seven years ago.Former Law Society president Ambrose Lam San-ke...

Malaysia has resumed ticket sales for air and land travel under a vaccinated travel lane (VTL) programme with Singapore that had been suspended until January 20 over Omicron coronavirus variant concerns, the health ministry said on Friday.Health Mini...

Proponents of traditional Chinese medicine have met the head of the World Health Organization to present a report on its use in the fight against Covid-19.The delegation led by Huang Luqi, a vice-commissioner of the National Administration of Traditi...

Landlords of subdivided flats in Hong Kong have made a last attempt to exploit their tenants before a rent control law takes effect on Saturday, according to some residents.The Post also found some estate agents appeared to have limited knowledge or ...

A hotel in China is under fire over plans to offer suites looking directly into a tiger’s enclosure as part of a Chinese Year of the Tiger experience.Sendi Tribe Treehouse Hotel, inside the Nantong Forest Safari Park, in Jiangsu province, eastern C...

Since the price of pork surged to a record 200 baht (US$6) a kilo, Wichai Rungtaweechai’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing with orders for his speciality – crocodile meat – as Thais seek out cheaper sources of protein.A kilogram of crocodile meat...

Members of US President Joe Biden’s diplomatic team have launched an effort to burnish their checkered record at the administration’s one-year mark.The basic message during a flurry of public events involving Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blin...

As a teenager, Ronson Chan Ron-sing dreamed of nothing else but becoming a journalist, jumping at every chance to get his byline in as many student newspapers and magazines willing to accept his pieces.He studied journalism in university and became a...

China and Russia delayed a US bid to impose UN sanctions on five North Koreans on Thursday, diplomats said, as Pyongyang suggested it may resume tests of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.The move by China and Russia came ahead of a closed-door...

US prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist, using a ruse that there was a bomb threat.The charges in Manhattan federal court...

A senior Conservative lawmaker accused the British government on Thursday of intimidating and attempting to “blackmail” those lawmakers they suspect of wanting to force Prime Minister Boris Johnson out of power.Johnson is facing growing calls to ...

China and the US are in talks to prepare for a potential crunch meeting between Chinese top diplomat Yang Jiechi and US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on core national security concerns.But the two sides remain deeply divided on protocol and...

US lawmakers have called on the International Olympic Committee to reaffirm the free-speech rights of athletes in the Winter Games, after a Beijing official warned that speech that violated Chinese regulations would be punished.“The International O...

A bipartisan group of more than 140 US lawmakers called on US Trade Representative Katherine Tai to immediately revive and expand a tariff exclusion process on Chinese goods to help US manufacturers.The House of Representatives members said in a lett...

Informal negotiations over Australia’s anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese goods have fallen through, with China on Thursday calling for a World Trade Organization panel to arbitrate the dispute.Beijing has since June been urging Canberra to rethink th...

Ukraine’s president pushed back on Thursday against US President Joe Biden’s suggestion that Western allies were split over how to react to any potential “minor incursion” from Russia into its neighbour.“We want to remind the great powers t...

In a blow to the US Justice Department’s China Initiative policy, prosecutors on Thursday dropped all charges against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor accused of misrepresenting his relationship to China on funding documents.Gang C...

China will start building a network of a thousand satellites to provide 5G coverage within the next three months, according to state media reports.The first batch of six low-cost, high-performance communication satellites have been produced, tested a...

The “Doomsday Clock,” representing the judgment of leading science and security experts about perils to human existence, remains at 100 seconds to midnight this year, with advances like Covid-19 vaccines balanced by rising misinformation and othe...

Nineteen-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford has set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small plane down in western Belgium on Thursday – 155 days after she departed.She made it count for hers...

A cross-party group of backbenchers has called for the British government to impose additional sanctions against Chinese officials, enact import blacklists and take other steps to address alleged human rights abuses against Uygurs and other ethnic mi...

The United States is looking for ways to potentially accelerate delivery of Taiwan’s next generation of new-build F-16 fighter planes, US officials said, bolstering the Taiwanese air force’s ability to respond to what Washington and Taipei see as...

France’s parliament passed an opposition-led motion asking the government to condemn China for “crimes against humanity and genocide” against its Uygur Muslim minority and to take foreign policy measures to make this stop.The non-binding motion...

A demographic crisis arising from China’s unprecedented low number of newborns is being compounded by an elderly population that is ageing faster than ever, and experts warn that this might be an irreversible trend that could result in older people...

It could take just a brief encounter in an MTR station for the Omicron variant to transmit from one person to another, Hong Kong health officials said on Thursday.Contact tracing of a previously unlinked, positive case found possible transmission pat...