Hong Kong contact tracer Sammy Li Ka-yu was tracking down everyone at a Lunar New Year family dinner attended by a confirmed Covid-19 patient, when she stumbled on the fact that a couple in their 90s were present.The female patient had not disclosed ...

The United Arab Emirates is moving ahead with plans to invest US$10 billion in Israel, underpinning a partnership which has rapidly developed in the 18 months since the pair normalised diplomatic relations.It comes as both the small but influential M...

One of the passengers missing aboard the ferry ablaze off Greece was found alive on Sunday, Greek coastguards said.The man was one of the 12 truck drivers who were missing following the blaze, the coastguards said.Rescuers spotted the man on the stri...

China’s locally transmitted Covid-19 cases have continued to rise as the country grapples with its latest outbreak in Inner Mongolia.The National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday that 101 new local infections were reported nationwide, rising ...

Hong Kong experienced its coldest morning on Sunday since winter began, with the temperature falling to as low as 8 degrees Celsius (46.4 degrees Fahrenheit), the city’s observatory said.The forecaster said it was the coldest since January 8, 2021,...

China should raise the minimum income tax threshold to boost consumption and the rich should be taxed more as the country works towards “common prosperity”, according to a prominent businesswoman.Gree Electric Appliances chairwoman Dong Mingzhu t...

A record low of only 280 Hong Kong university students went on exchange programmes overseas or to mainland China in the last academic year, as Covid-19 travel restrictions wrecked plans for these much sought-after trips.That was 95 per cent fewer tha...

Coronavirus transmission chains in Hong Kong could be cut off by more than 90 per cent if citywide testing was completed in three to seven days, the head of a major laboratory operator has said.Sunrise Diagnostic Centre chairman Anthony Wu Ting-yuk t...

Recorded confessions made by the man who was Colombia’s most wanted drug lord before his arrest have been stolen, in another blow to his latest trial, officials said Saturday.The recordings of Dairo Antonio Usuga, also known as “Otoniel”, were ...

Hong Kong resident Nick Jones was ready to be by his wife’s side on February 16 for the birth of their first child when he was told he could not be in the delivery room.Faced with a surge in Covid-19 infections, the city’s public hospitals have r...

Researchers from China and Denmark say they have worked out an important step in how to turn carbon dioxide into a raw material using electricity – a process that could dramatically boost efforts to reduce emissions.In a paper published in the peer...

Before the pandemic hit, Anh Wu’s Hanoi-based motorbike tour business was booming, taking up to 100 groups of intrepid travellers on guided tours across Vietnam each year.Some of Offroad Vietnam’s customers were solo adventurers, others were grou...

The Phyang monastery in Ladakh, in the Indian Himalayas, plans to combine Western science with Buddhist cosmology to draw stargazing tourists to the desert region of Jammu and Kashmir state.In April, the monks at the monastery, which dates back to 15...

Hong Kong confirmed more than 6,000 new Covid-19 infections for the third time in the past four days on Sunday, as the health minister warned of tighter social-distancing measures to come, throwing into doubt plans to launch a widely anticipated vacc...

US businessman Donald Trump’s new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple’s App Store on Monday, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by Reuters, potentially marking the return of the former pre...

Taiwan will stage a series of live-fire drills next month at several islets under its control, including two close to the Chinese mainland, to test the combat readiness of its forces there.The drills come amid growing concerns that cross-strait confl...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned Iran not scupper negotiations to save the 2015 nuclear agreement on Saturday, calling on Tehran to make concessions.“The Iranian leadership now has a choice: now is the moment of truth,” Scholz told the Munich...

Compared to past editions, this year’s Singapore Airshow was a markedly muted affair.The biennial event – held since 2008 – has typically been among the most highly anticipated aviation trade fairs in the region, with aircraft and weapons manuf...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison branded a Chinese navy vessel pointing a laser at one of his nation’s surveillance aircraft off the northern coast an “act of intimidation”.The incident occurred three days ago when a P-8A Poseidon patro...

After enduring strict Covid-19 measures that kept him from seeing his wife and friends for more than two years, cross-border Hong Kong truck driver Liu Kun-ming has made the painful decision to shut down his transport company.“I want to get out as ...

The majority of China’s youth do not lead lifestyles conducive to having a healthy heart, says a new national report from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Asia.The study measured seven “ideal metrics” and found that the number...

Jinghai district in northern China is hardly a rice-growing paradise. Located along the coast of the Bohai Sea, over half of the region’s land is made of salty, alkaline soil where crops can’t survive. Yet, last autumn, Jinghai produced 100 hecta...

As I walk to the rubbish collection point for my neighbourhood, I am fully aware that I am stepping into a minefield. This time, I am pretty confident that I have got it right. The kitchen waste has been drained of excess liquid, the cardboard boxes ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, facing a sharp spike in violence in and around territory held by Russia-backed rebels and increasingly dire warnings that Russia plans to invade, on Saturday called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet ...

Police in riot gear cleared the main protest hub in downtown Ottawa Saturday, using batons and pepper spray and making dozens of arrests, as they worked to flush out a hard core of demonstrators occupying the Canadian capital.In a day-long show of fo...

Converting naval corvettes into China Coast Guard ships could boost the power of the enforcement agency and tackle sensitive maritime issues in a more flexible way, according to a Chinese journal.“China’s maritime law enforcement environment has ...

Some Asian-American lawmakers warn that disparaging language framing China as a top economic competitor may spur a new wave of anti-Asian violence in the US.Their concerns have grown in recent weeks as Congress has turned its attention to a bill know...

It’s no surprise that Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler, a true-crime documentary about a con artist who scammed women out of millions of dollars, is a global hit.Because of dating app Tinder’s popularity – and notoriety – the documentary amass...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi firmly rejected international concerns and accusations about Beijing’s repressive treatment of its Uygur minority in comments made to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. China has come under fire from Weste...

Popular Hong Kong boy band Mirror swung into action for shooting an anti-pandemic promotional video while donations from various enterprises continued to pour in on Saturday.The efforts were in response to a call to action by Luo Huining, director of...

Modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was in pretrial detention in Paris in the wake of a human trafficking and underage sex scandal focused on deceased US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, has been found dead, AFP reported on Saturday.The French judiciary...

Beijing has got the drums rolling to proclaim a successful end to hosting the Winter Olympics, after a lead-up that suggested they could be marred by controversy.Although China was not expected to rival the leading traditional winter sports countries...

China’s reliance on hi-tech imports and potential workforce shortages in the next decade are two big looming vulnerabilities for its defence industry, according to a new report by a US think tank.In the report released last week, researchers at the...

A major social welfare group has hit back after Hong Kong officials warned operators of care homes for the elderly could be violating the sector’s code of practice if they refuse to take back recovered Covid-19 patients.The Hong Kong Council of Soc...

Chinese regulators have approved the mixing of domestic vaccines as boosters to improve immunity against Covid-19, and added two more Chinese-developed shots to the booster roster.But there is still no sign that an mRNA vaccine developed by Germany-b...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin launched exercises by strategic nuclear missile forces on Saturday and Washington said Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s border were “poised to strike”.As Western nations fear the start of one the worst co...

The number of Hong Kong students applying to universities in Britain slipped to 6,010 this year from 6,400 in 2021, according to the latest official data.Percentage wise, the 6.1 per cent year-on-year decline was the steepest in a decade.Some educati...

China has condemned the US’ latest list of “notorious” sellers of counterfeit goods as “irresponsible” and lacking objectivity or solid evidence.This comes after Washington named six online and nine bricks-and-mortar Chinese platforms in it...

Chinese authorities have charged a former investigative journalist over comments about a military-themed blockbuster movie, accusing him of defaming Chinese soldiers from the Korean war.Prosecutors in the southern city of Sanya, Hainan province, anno...

Western leaders on Saturday said Russia and China were seeking to “replace the existing international rules” with their own order, as Beijing backed Moscow over its showdown with Nato.Russia has all but encircled Ukraine with its huge troop build...

Chinese authorities are grappling with two rapidly spreading outbreaks of the coronavirus, both of them triggered by imported cases, according to the National Health Commission.The NHC said on Saturday that Hohhot, in Inner Mongolia, reported 42 new ...

Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong who have been invited to the nation’s two most important annual conferences next month are weighing their options, after being told they have to undergo a seven-day quarantine in the neighbouring city of Shenzhen befo...

Two years after he was sent to central Hubei province to lead the battle against one of the worst public health crises in the history of modern China, the country’s top official for infectious disease control has headed south to Shenzhen – to hel...

A Chinese navy vessel directed a laser at an Australian aircraft in flight over the country’s northern approaches, illuminating the plane and potentially endangering lives, Canberra’s defence department said on Saturday.A P-8A Poseidon – a mari...

More than 100 medical workers from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong arrived in Hong Kong on Saturday to help the city tackle a surge in coronavirus cases.Guangdong authorities said the 114-strong team would help with research, treatment, an...

Hong Kong civil servants from various departments will be deployed as part of the government’s lockdown and isolation arrangements to combat the worsening coronavirus crisis, the Post has learned.The assignment would last for three months and the l...

South Korea reported 102,211 coronavirus cases on Saturday, topping the 100,000 mark for a second-straight day, though down slightly from the record level reported on Friday.Infections have spiked as the Omicron variant ravages the country. Cases hav...

Armed customs officers in Hong Kong have carried out secret missions to escort and bury illegal cigarettes in landfills, destroying HK$700 million (US$89.73 million) worth of contraband last year, the Post has learned.To make sure nobody tried to une...

Britain and France have signed a deal to jointly develop new cruise and anti-ship missiles, their defence procurement agencies and manufacturer MDBA said Friday, after months of cross-Channel defence tensions over a submarine deal with Australia.Pari...

Delhi is home to 253 bird species, and almost all of them are at risk. Rapid industrialisation, construction, shrinking wetlands and human practices such as kite flying are the main reasons. But hope remains. Three men in India’s capital city work ...