Taiwan’s gift of 150,000 doses of its domestically developed Medigen Covid-19 vaccine has arrived in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region, the Taiwanese foreign ministry said on Monday.As part of the island’s renewed pandemic diplomacy push, T...

In the past couple of months, a 31-year-old migrant worker has gained notoriety in China for teaching himself English and immersing himself in philosophical studies while doing blue-collar work for more than a decade.When he was not toiling away in g...

For S$50 (US$36.88) a day, Wayne Chia will drive you around, play mahjong with your relatives, and peel shrimp for you so your hands won’t get dirty.More importantly, he’ll pretend to be your boyfriend so that you can avoid the dreaded “why are...

A Hong Kong court has jailed a man for eight months for displaying and possessing seditious posters which insulted three judges presiding over the first national security law trial and called for further protests in the city.Property manager Kim Chia...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is pushing to quicken the pace of booster vaccinations, as a poll showed his voter support slipping months ahead of a key upper house election.Kishida inspected a military-run vaccination centre on Monday, as a s...

Hitoshi Nakama’s small fishing boat has been approached or even chased by Chinese coastguard vessels off disputed islands in the East China Sea more times than he cares to recall, but he says that will not stop him returning to waters he insists ar...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has asked Beijing to remove her home affairs chief, the highest-ranking official to be caught up in a scandal surrounding an Omicron-hit birthday bash this month, while two other members of her team will re...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to Australia in February to meet counterparts from Japan, India and Australia to discuss Indo-Pacific coordination, the Australian government said on Monday.The two-day meeting of the Quadril...

Hong Kong’s leader will not attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, instead remaining in the city to supervise anti-pandemic efforts after local health officials raised concerns about a rise in untraceable Covid-19 cases.Ho...

South Korea is set to introduce guidelines aimed at protecting animals used for filming after footage of a fatal fall in which a horse broke its neck was aired in a popular television drama, sparking outrage.The horse crashed headfirst into the groun...

Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Costa won Portugal’s general election and will now have an absolute majority in parliament, meaning far-left parties are no longer needed to back his budgets.Costa’s centre-left Socialists took about 42 per cent o...

While US President Joe Biden got personal and threatened sanctions on Vladimir Putin if he invaded Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping tendered a warm welcome to the Russian leader as a guest of honour at the grand Winter Olympics opening ceremony ...

Foreign journalists in China are facing “unprecedented hurdles”, including threats of legal action, online troll campaigns and dwindling numbers, according to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC).In its annual report, the press grou...

The United Nations has received “credible allegations” that more than 100 former members of the Afghan government, its security forces and those who worked with international troops have been killed since the Taliban took over the country August ...

A technological upgrade to operating theatres at a Hong Kong public hospital has allowed doctors to live-stream procedures at 4K resolution, which provides a picture detailed enough that consulting surgeons can monitor the work and offer advice remot...

Hong Kong government architects are experimenting with robotic technology to cut building time and find ways around a looming labour shortage in the city’s construction industry.The Architectural Services Department has begun using robots to cut th...

In the upcoming Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, competitors and fans in the skiing events will be within shouting distance of an area that was the summer hunting retreat for royalty over 800 years ago.About 20km away from Chongli district in Hebei prov...

The United Arab Emirates intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early on Monday as the Israeli president visited the country, authorities said, the third-such attack in recent weeks.The missile fire further escalates tension...

When Hong Kong set a daily record of 164 Covid-19 infections last Thursday, officials were forced to confront the previously unthinkable: had the time finally come to dump the city’s “dynamic zero-Covid” strategy and move towards “living with...

Kyoto, the ancient Japanese capital that tourists flocked to in their millions pre-pandemic, is in danger of going broke as it struggles to offset billions of dollars in debt racked up through big-budget infrastructure projects with persistently low ...

Following protests of Spotify kicked off by singer Neil Young over the spread of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation, the music streaming service said that it will add content advisories before podcasts discussing the virus.In a post on Sunday, Spotify c...

On this last day of the Year of the Ox, we should take a solemn moment to look back at how far we have come: not very far, it seems, since the Lunar New Year has effectively been cancelled, again.Speaking exclusively to the Post last week, former chi...

North Korea confirmed on Monday it had tested a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) on Sunday, according to state news agency KCNA, the first time a nuclear-capable missile of that size has been launched since 2017.The launch was f...

An artificial womb for fetuses to safely grow in, and a robotic nanny to monitor and take care of them.All within the realm of possibility, say Chinese scientists, in what could be a breakthrough for the future of childbearing in a country facing its...

President Joe Biden on Sunday called for the release of US Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.Frerichs, a civil engineer and contractor from Lombard, Illinois, was kidnapped in January 2020 from the ...

Manchester police said they had arrested a man on suspicion of rape and assault on Sunday after Manchester United suspended England forward Mason Greenwood following allegations on social media.“Greater Manchester Police was made aware earlier toda...

Kyiv on Sunday urged Moscow to pull back its troops from Ukraine’s border and continue dialogue with the West if it is “serious” about de-escalating tensions that have soared amid fears of a Russian invasion.“If Russian officials are serious ...

Authorities have searched properties in the German city of Essen, in what security sources say are raids linked to a robbery at one of the country’s most opulent museums.The public prosecutor’s office in the city of Dresden – home to the Green ...

Howard Hesseman, who played the radio disc jockey Johnny Fever on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and the actor-turned-history teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class, has died. He was 81.Hesseman died on Saturday in Los Angeles due to complications...

Huawei Technologies Co. said on Sunday it has initiated arbitration proceedings against Sweden under the World Bank Group after the Nordic country banned the Chinese tech giant from rolling out its 5G products.“The Swedish authorities’ decision t...

The United Arab Emirates’ de facto ruler on Sunday discussed cooperation and regional issues with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, the first Israeli head of state to visit the Gulf country.Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dha...

The British Foreign Secretary has said a situation in which British soldiers would fight alongside Ukrainians against Russia is “very unlikely.”Liz Truss described how Britain has been offering support to Ukraine through intelligence, cyber suppo...

Gunmen killed a Christian cleric and wounded his colleague as they were driving home from church in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday, police said.Pastor William Siraj died instantly in the ambush, church authorities said.No one im...

An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced to death 10 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group found guilty of violence against security officers in 2015, a judicial source said.The case will now be referred to the Grand Mufti, Egypt’s top theo...

A politician’s troubles are a humorist’s treasures.The scandal-prone British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given cartoonists and meme-makers unimaginable riches for years, and with his hold on power now in jeopardy, their fortunes are only gro...

Researchers in southwest China say they developed an artificial intelligence system that can teach Chinese combat drones to win dogfights thousands of times faster than comparable American technology.In domestic peer-reviewed journal Acta Aeronautica...

Former US President Donald Trump said Republicans would investigate President Joe Biden for corruption if they retake Congress in the midterm elections.“Biden has the real scandals. And rest assured, when Republicans retake Congress, the Biden corr...

In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Gabit Koishibayev, Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Beijing, assesses the biggest crisis to shake his country since independence in 1991. He also addresses concerns about the impact of the unrest on Chin...

Concerns that the upgraded Turkic Council could lead to a rise in pan-Turkism in Central Asia which could spill into neighbouring countries, including China, are “unfounded and not necessary”, according to Kazakhstan’s ambassador in Beijing.Gab...

The death toll linked to a powerful storm that swept across parts of Europe rose to five on Sunday, after more accidents linked to high winds were reported in Poland and the Czech Republic.A 27-year-old man died on Sunday in the northern Polish provi...

Britain’s Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan have expressed their concern to Spotify about Covid-19 misinformation on its platform and are committed to continuing to work with the company, a spokesperson for their Archewell foundation said o...

Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined what he referred to as last year’s national achievements, including in relation to Hong Kong, as he extended Lunar New Year greetings at a reception in Beijing on Sunday.Xi said Hong Kong had been “transforme...

Russia said Sunday it wants “mutually respectful” relations with the United States and denied posing a threat to Ukraine, as the UK said it was preparing fresh sanctions against Moscow.Tensions have soared between Moscow and Washington after West...

Nine people died in Las Vegas when a car sped through a red light and smashed into five other vehicles, police said on Saturday.One other person was in critical condition in hospital after the pile-up in the casino city in the western US state of Nev...

China is increasingly turning to state-led investment to stabilise its economy, hoping mega infrastructure projects will stimulate local business and create jobs.In late December, China’s finance ministry said it had offered local governments an ea...

As the Lunar New Year celebrations arrive, Asians marking the festivities will be expecting to receive money in red envelopes, feast on delicious food and attend reunions with relatives and family friends (where Covid-19 social distancing restriction...

Kuwait suspended flights to Iraq for a week starting Sunday citing security fears after a rocket attack targeted Baghdad international airport. Iraqi authorities, meanwhile, announced an attacker had been apprehended.Kuwait Airways, the country’s m...

The owner of a pet shop chain that was forced to close after Hong Kong faced unprecedented suspected hamster-to-human coronavirus transmissions has urged the government to improve communication with the industry as some affected stores were allowed t...

Hong Kong’s finance chief has said his coming budget will be focused on supporting people’s livelihoods amid the economic hardships of the coronavirus pandemic, while also taking into account the financial stability and long-term development need...

Beijing is racing to contain its latest Covid-19 outbreak, as cases continue to grow with just days to go until the Winter Olympic Games.China’s capital and Games co-host city topped the local cases tally for Saturday, accounting for 20 of the 54 n...