Hong Kong authorities confirmed another 130 new local coronavirus cases on Friday, with untraceable infections accounting for almost half, a day after the government had warned it could further tighten social-distancing rules to contain the outbreak�...

Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed his country’s close ties with China as “unprecedented” in a meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday, as tensions between Moscow and Kyiv threaten to erupt into further conflict.In...

Biel Crystal, the world’s largest maker of smartphone screens, is among a host of companies betting that demand for initial public offerings will improve after a dismal January that saw just a handful of deals.The glassmaker that counts Apple among...

The 10 sets of siblings representing Japan at the Beijing Winter Olympics will use their family links to bring out the best in each other, with some tapping into long-standing rivalries while others work together for a common goal.At the Tokyo Games,...

Two small private Chinese banks announced last month that they would no longer provide services involving banknotes or coins, in the latest sign that the country is accelerating its march towards a totally cashless society.Zhongguancun Bank, which se...

It all happened quickly. On January 18 evening, I had a sore throat and a cough. The next morning, I felt worse and went to a clinic, even though the do-it-yourself swab test I did at home was negative.“This is probably not Covid but let’s test y...

Hong Kong police have arrested three more staff members of a scandal-hit child protection group over accusations of abuse, taking the total number of suspects in the case to 23.Officers also identified another four toddlers who were allegedly abused ...

Russia’s diplomatic delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics was slashed from 20-25 to a mere six because of local Covid-19 restrictions, according to Russian state media, but who made the final cut?1. Vladimir PutinRussian President Vladimir Puti...

The Canadian government will not use troops against truckers whose nearly week-long protest of coronavirus vaccine mandates has brought traffic in central Ottawa to a halt, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.More than 200 trucks and other vehicles ha...

China is unlikely to be displaced as the main funder of infrastructure projects among belt and road countries even as alternatives like the European Union’s Global Gateway plan come online, analysts say.But after a series of setbacks, Beijing is ta...

Hong Kong aims to ramp up its coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 per day amid an uptick of Delta and Omicron cases towards the end of the Lunar New Year holiday, a senior official has said.The disclosure came as a source told the Post that more ...

Northern Ireland’s first minister resigned in protest at post-Brexit trade rules on Thursday, a day after another minister tried to halt some checks on agri-food goods coming from the rest of the United Kingdom, drawing European Union anger.Paul Gi...

By early December US intelligence was certain: the man occupying the top floor of a nondescript house in Atmeh, northern Syria – who never left the premises, emerging only to bathe on the roof – was the head of the Islamic State group.In the Whit...

Veteran Hong Kong activist Koo Sze-yiu was arrested by national security police on Friday morning over accusations of inciting subversion.The 75-year-old member of the League of Social Democrats was taken into custody at his Cheung Sha Wan home short...

The leader of Islamic State killed in a US raid in northwest Syria was largely a mystery, with almost no known photos, never appearing in public or in the group’s videos.He met his end in the same rebel-held Idlib province where his predecessor, Ab...

Hong Kong financial services consultant Larry Campbell was shocked to receive a bill for more than HK$171,000 (US$21,960) from Tesla to replace the stalled battery in his five-year-old Model S car.The electric vehicle maker told him last October that...

India’s death toll from Covid-19 crossed 500,000 on Friday, a level many health experts say was breached last year but obscured by inaccurate surveys and unaccounted dead in the hinterlands, where millions remain vulnerable to the disease.The count...

Hong Kong’s rising number of untraceable Covid-19 cases will prevent any easing of social-distancing curbs when they are due to expire later this month and more workers will need to be ordered to work from home to reduce social interactions, the Po...

Increasing the number of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) can help the sector tackle a widening skills gap as demand for talent increases amid changes to the workplace wrought by Covid-19, according to a female Hong Ko...

While speculation grows that Indonesia and Israel are making efforts to normalise diplomatic ties amid a flurry of low profile contacts, experts say the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation will not want to risk political upheaval by appear...

As the coronavirus pandemic continued to wreak havoc around the world in the last 12 months, a series of high-profile crimes caught national attention‘Go to hell’: the last words she heard before she was pushed off a cliffThose were the last word...

The spread of the Omicron variant will make China’s success in tackling Covid-19 “look more fleeting” and could undermine its efforts to present itself as a global health leader, a US think tank report has said.“China’s efforts to seek glob...

When lawmaker Judy Chan Ka-pui dropped in on fellow pro-establishment ally Witman Hung Wai-man’s birthday party on January 3, she had little inkling the event would snowball into a political storm culminating in the resignation of Hong Kong’s hom...

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers proposed matching bills in the Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday that would require the United States to negotiate the renaming of Taiwan’s de facto embassy in Washington as the “Taiwan Representat...

A new study by Chinese researchers supports the theory that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus may have originated from mice.The study said there was strong evidence that the virus had passed from humans to mice and then – after multiple mutati...

Risks inherent in China’s zero-Covid strategy, and Beijing’s shortcomings in handling the pandemic, provide a unique opportunity for the US to strengthen its global health leadership and diminished geopolitical reputation, according to experts an...

Chinese Big Tech companies’ seasonal rush to offer billions of yuan in electronic red packets, known as lai see in Cantonese, for the Lunar New Year holiday fell short of last year’s offerings, a sign of intensified competition among the country�...

The US government warned Moscow on Thursday that closer economic ties with China would not offset consequences of sanctions that would be triggered by a Russian invasion of Ukraine.Speaking about the difficulties Russia would face if the country was ...

Nasa plans to retire the International Space Station at the end of 2030 and crash it into the Pacific Ocean in an area called Point Nemo, according to a Nasa press release.After three decades, the private sector will be taking over operations in futu...

Four of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s closest aides resigned and his finance minister criticised him over a barb he made about the main opposition leader, in a tumultuous day for his government.Johnson’s premiership is facing a growing c...

The Pentagon said it had evidence of a plan by Moscow to film a fake Ukrainian attack on Russians to justify a real assault on its pro-West neighbour.“We do have information that the Russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasio...

China’s imports of Australian iron ore, the bellwether of the trading relationship between the two countries, fell nearly 3 per cent last year as Beijing sought to reduce steel production and carbon emissions.Diplomatic ties have remained icy in re...

The swift and decisive response by countries of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to the riots in Kazakhstan raises a question for its peer in the region, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO): can it become equally ...

Jeff Bezos’s massive new superyacht is nearing completion, but getting it to its owner will require taking out a bridge.The 417-foot (127-metre) sailing yacht, code-named Y721, is being built by Alblasserdam, Netherlands-based Oceanco.For the boat ...

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has reinstated a professor who was acquitted of federal charges that had accused him of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving Nasa research grants.Nanotechnology expert Hu Anming re...

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has urged American athletes not to speak out on China’s human rights record while competing in the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, citing the risk of retaliation by the Chinese government.“You are there ...

A deputy commissioner of the Labour Department has become the first senior Hong Kong official to have contracted Covid-19.Jeff Leung Wing-yan, who manages the occupational safety and health section, was confirmed with the coronavirus on Thursday even...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is under quarantine after being exposed to a household staff member who tested positive for Covid-19, his spokesman said on Thursday.Duterte, 76, has since tested negative for Covid-19, but is “currently observi...

China is ready to present a “streamlined, safe and splendid” Winter Olympic Games to the world, President Xi Jinping said, as about 30 heads of state and government, royal families and international organisations began arriving in Beijing for the...

When the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games ends on Friday night, acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou will be the first person to have overseen the event for two Olympics.His opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Games is ran...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach will meet Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai inside the “closed loop” of the Beijing Olympics, he said on Thursday.The well-being of Peng, a former world No 1 doubles player who has taken ...

An Indian teenager detained for more than a week by Chinese troops along the nations’ disputed Himalayan frontier was tortured while in captivity, according to his family.Miram Teron was on a hunting trip in northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state whe...

Thousands of worshippers descended on Che Kung Temple in Sha Tin on the third day of Lunar New Year, despite strict social-distancing measures being in place as Hong Kong battles its fifth wave of coronavirus cases.The Chinese Temples Committee, whic...

Two years of being buffeted by the coronavirus has brought palpable hardships to tourism in China. Hardly anyone can see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, and many are hanging by a thin thread of dogged determination.When the coronavirus b...

Philippines lawmakers have approved legislation requiring social media users to register their legal identities and phone numbers when creating new accounts, a Senator said on Thursday, in an ambitious move to thwart online abuse and misinformation.T...

The smartphone market in India recorded record revenue and shipments last year despite ongoing supply constraints, with Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp leading the pack, according to a new report by research firm Counterpoint.Chinese brands acco...

This year’s chief executive election will be the first since Beijing imposed sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s political system to ensure only “patriots” hold power, but so far, the only person to throw his hat in the ring is a political neophy...

Thousands of mansions in a remote corner of India once housed some of the nation’s wealthiest bankers and traders but a century later most of them lie abandoned, their desolate remains a mute testament to lost riches.The tycoons of Chettinad, near ...

The cold snap over the Lunar New Year holiday will spill into the weekend, with unsettled weather also expected next week, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.The weather forecaster on Thursday said a cold winter monsoon would persist over the coa...