Taiwan’s application to join a massive multilateral trade deal is expected to be discussed by the bloc’s commission this week, five months after it was submitted.The commission overseeing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Paci...

Hong Kong confirmed 2,071 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the most in a single day since the pandemic began two years ago, while another 4,500 people tested preliminary-positive.It is the first time Hong Kong’s daily caseload has exceeded 2,000, w...

Many years ago, Priyanka Gandhi used to be known within India’s Congress Party as its “secret weapon”. It meant that if the party one day chose to unleash her onto the electorate – if she ever agreed to join active politics – the result wou...

A court has denied a transport worker bail after prosecutors charged him with setting fire to a refuse bin at a Covid-19 testing site in northern Hong Kong.Poon Hoi-ming, 27, was hit with one count of arson at Sha Tin Court on Monday over the disturb...

Cambodia is powering up its new National Internet Gateway, a move activists say will allow the government to further silence the country’s embattled opposition voices.United Nations rights experts warn the gateway, which will funnel all web traffic...

Taiwan aims to ease its strict Covid-19 quarantine policy from next month as it needs to gradually resume normal life and reopen to the world, the government said on Monday.Since the pandemic began two years ago, Taiwan has succeeded in keeping repor...

Hundreds of headbanging metalheads rock out to the roaring guitars and thundering drums of Thai band Defying Decay, chanting along to their latest politically-charged tune.The group’s single, The Law 112: Secrecy and Renegades, is a raucous, defian...

India has banned 54 Chinese apps in a new order citing security concerns, according to a local newspaper report, marking the latest instance of tensions between the two neighbours locked in a protracted border dispute that has affected business deali...

Oil extended a powerful rally as geopolitical tensions over Ukraine ticked higher at a time of soaring global demand, with physical indicators pointing to growing near-term scarcity.West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rallied more than 1 per cent to hit th...

He has a full campaign team that’s fanning out around France, meeting with voters. He makes speeches about his future plans for the country. The problem? French President Emmanuel Macron hasn’t officially declared that he’s a candidate for Apri...

New Zealand’s prime minister on Monday said protesters opposing coronavirus mandates were using “intimidation and harassment”, as authorities appeared to take a harsher stance toward the convoy of demonstrators that has disrupted the capital of...

Anti-triad police officers are searching for four assailants involved in a knife attack that ended with the victims’ van crashing into a parked car as they tried to flee the scene.The two victims – believed to be 14K triad members – were trying...

India’s foreign minister has criticised China for its alleged economic coercion of Australia, in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, saying progress and prosperity over the past 80 years was the result of a trading system “governed by ru...

A bus explosion killed one person and injured 42 others, two of them seriously, in northeastern China on Saturday, around 600km (390 miles) from Beijing, where the Winter Olympics have entered their second week.The cause of the rush hour blast in She...

Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies from Animal House to Ghostbusters, has died. He was 75.Reitman died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, California, his family told Associated P...

In a crowded campaign office in Seoul, young, trendy staffers are using deepfake technology to try to achieve the near-impossible: make a middle-aged, establishment South Korean presidential candidate cool.Armed with hours of specially-recorded foota...

Erlyn, 18, stopped going to school after the death of her asthmatic brother in 2019. Her friend Daisy, now 16, lost her mother in 2017, the cause of death unclear as the poverty-stricken family had no cash for medical tests; they still blame witchcra...

Unemployed Hongkongers will be granted a one-off payment of HK$10,000 (US$1,282) as part of an expected HK$27 billion round of pandemic relief funding, with the city reporting 2,071 new coronavirus cases on Monday amid a worsening fifth wave of infec...

A global travel divide is deepening as some countries ditch Covid-19 restrictions including quarantines, isolation and even mandatory testing for good, while others cling to years-old curbs.Lingering barriers to travel in Asia in particular are isola...

A conference centre built and paid for by China is nearing completion in the Zambian capital Lusaka.Developers of the Kenneth Kaunda International Conference Centre plan to hand it over to the government next month, in time for Lusaka to host the Afr...

Every day, Laos’ first high speed train linking its capital Vientiane to Boten, a city on the Chinese border, leaves the station and brings goods and people up and down along its 414km route.The daily routine started in December following the compl...

China’s release of more conservative peak emissions target for its steel industry have raised concerns that its overall aim to hit the mark by 2030 could be at risk, according to industry insiders.Chinese authorities said last week that its steel i...

In the last of a three-part series on Hong Kong’s coming chief executive election, Natalie Wong examines an emerging debate about the city following the “Macau model” for the leadership post. Read part two here.With six weeks to go before Hong ...

A Chinese collection of non-fungible token cartoon monkeys is accused of plagiarising Bored Ape Yacht Club, one of the world’s most popular NFT projects, but the creator insists that his works are original.The project, named Bored Wukong, features ...

Reported cybercrimes in Hong Kong rose more than sevenfold over a decade to 16,159 cases last year, with victims claiming record losses totalling more than HK$3 billion (US$385.3 million).Police said the surge was driven by a sharp rise in online lov...

If any chief executive was going to ban weddings just head of Valentine’s Day, the day of romance and love, it would be Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor. As painful as the current Covid-19 restrictions are, such a certainty could almost be seen as welcom...

Israeli police fanned out in a tense east Jerusalem neighbourhood late on Sunday trying to contain violence between ultranationalist Jewish activists and Palestinian residents.The unrest took place in Sheikh Jarrah, a flashpoint neighbourhood where c...

Greek farmers, taking a page from the Canadian truckers’ protest handbook, say they are determined to shut down all the country’s major highways to protest against rising energy costs.At a gathering south of the city of Larissa in central Greece,...

Canadian police on Sunday cleared a key US border bridge occupied by trucker-led demonstrators angry over Covid-19 restrictions, towing vehicles and making “several” arrests in their bid to quell a movement that has also paralysed downtown Ottawa...

Around three hundred vehicles taking part in a Canada-style protest convoy against Covid-19 regulations arrived in Lille, northern France, on Sunday en route to Brussels, where officials have already banned a demonstration called for Monday.The flag-...

Afghanistan’s former president on Sunday called a White House order to unfreeze US$3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the US for families of September 11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people.At a packed news conference, Hamid Karzai soug...

Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi are fighting for pardons for all those executed for witchcraft in Scotland, the vast majority of whom were women, and for a memorial to those forgotten by history.“Between the 16th and 18th century in Scotland, ap...

Washington reaffirmed its warning on Sunday that Russia could invade Ukraine at any moment and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz demanded “immediate signs of de-escalation” as he prepared to visit both countries in a bid to head off a crisis that Ber...

US officials in the United Arab Emirates held meetings with Afghans after a protest in Abu Dhabi this week and discussed their “potential” transfer to the United States, an embassy statement said.The UAE was one of several Arab Gulf countries tha...

Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected to a second term as Germany’s president on Sunday as a special assembly voted the veteran politician, seen as a symbol of consensus and continuity, back in to the prominent yet largely ceremonial post.Steinmeier�...

Swiss nationals on Sunday voted to tighten their notoriously lax tobacco laws by banning virtually all advertising of the hazardous products, partial results showed.Nearly 56 per cent of voters and 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons backed the near-tot...

Christina Lee Look Ngan-kwan, former TVB director and wife of the late tycoon Harold Lee Hsiao-wo, has died. She was 98.Look passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, according to an obituary notice issued on Sunday afternoon by her children Irene ...

A Hong Kong political scientist viewed as a rising star of local academia has left Education University of Hong Kong following attacks by pro-Beijing media over his alleged pro-independence stance.A university spokesman confirmed on Sunday that assoc...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts from Japan and South Korea underlined the need for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait during wide-ranging talks in Hawaii on Saturday.In a joint statement after the meeting, the official...

Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered action against a mob and any police officers who acted an onlookers to the killing of a middle-aged man who allegedly desecrated the Koran in a remote village in eastern Pakistan.The custodian of a local mosque s...

In February 1972, US president Richard Nixon defied conventional foreign policy wisdom when he arrived in Beijing for a series of meetings with Chinese leader Mao Zedong, who also took a significant risk in hosting the American president. In recognit...

Taiwan is closely watching the situation in the narrow strait that separates it from mainland China and raising its preparedness in response to what is happening with Ukraine, the government said on Saturday, though it added the two cases were very d...

The location and the design of a new makeshift hospital to ramp up Hong Kong’s capacity to fight a worsening fifth wave of coronavirus infections is expected to be decided as early as next week, the Post has learned.Sources said it would be “a sc...

Red clothing and underwear are displayed in Saudi shopfronts, but the increasingly popular Valentine’s Day promotions are missing one thing: the festival’s name.While sales surge and Valentine’s gifts become more common among the youthful Saudi...

China should relax its dual citizenship restrictions, a Beijing-based demographer has said, as controversy swirls over the nationality of Winter Olympics gold medallist Eileen Gu.Olympic athletes must be citizens of the nations under whose flag they ...

The former head of India’s largest stock exchange shared confidential information with a yogi and sought his advice on crucial decisions, a probe by the market regulator has found, ahead of the bourse’s much-awaited public listing.In a case of �...

On a Friday earlier this month, nearly half a dozen young reporters and interns of Kashmir Walla, a Srinagar-based news website in Indian-administered Kashmir, were waiting anxiously for their editor to show up.Fahad Shah, 33, was due to edit the new...

More than 100 brides-to-be in Hong Kong have lost a total of HK$1 million (US$128,000) after a shop they rented wedding dresses from abruptly shut down in a possible case of fraud, the Federation of Trade Unions legislator Bill Tang Ka-piu has said.S...

The son and namesake of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos strengthened his lead over his closest rival ahead of the presidential election in May, results of a new poll released on Sunday showed.Ferdinand Marcos Jnr garnered a 44-point lead ov...