Hong Kong’s financial chief weighed in on discussions on whether developers and big landlords should offer rental aid to struggling tenants, saying on Sunday they should provide “breathing space” to help businesses ride out the fifth wave of Co...

A top mainland Chinese epidemiologist who helped to contain Beijing’s Sars outbreak in 2003 and the first coronavirus wave in Wuhan will arrive in Hong Kong on Monday to guide local anti-epidemic efforts, the Post has learned, as authorities report...

Beijing’s top envoy in Kyiv has warned that a planned evacuation of its citizens in Ukraine had to be delayed and urged people to take all safety precautions in “a period of high security risks”.The Chinese embassy earlier said it would arrange...

At least once a week, Satish Mishra, 54, and his Delhi-based family of five dine in a multi-cuisine restaurant that offers not only South Indian and Mughlai food on their menu, but also pizza, Chinese, and Continental cuisine.Service is quick and eff...

Search efforts continued on Sunday in the hardest-hit areas of Indonesia’s Sumatra island after a strong earthquake there killed 10 people, injured nearly 400 and left thousands displaced, a disaster official said.Rescuers retrieved two more bodies...

Japan should discuss a possible sharing of nuclear weapons similar to that of Nato members in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday.Nato’s nuclear sharing arrangements let the US keep its nucle...

A research team in China say they can rapidly accelerate the ageing process of Chinese liquor, achieving in minutes what would otherwise take at least two years to do.And the equipment to do it can be found in almost any kitchen: a glass jar, timer, ...

North Korea has accused the United States of being the “root cause of the Ukraine crisis” while defending Russia, in Pyongyang’s first official response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.Russia ordered troops into neighbouring Ukraine this week...

Major Hong Kong restaurant chain Cafe de Coral will suspend most of its dine-in service to focus on providing takeaways this week, while other eateries have temporarily ceased operations amid surging Covid-19 infections and stringent business curbs.H...

Multinational brands looking to tap China’s enormous consumer market are being forced to rethink their strategies amid Beijing’s “common prosperity” initiative, rising consumer nationalism and changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic.Presid...

Thousands of young Arabs who took up studies in Ukraine, often fleeing violence back home, are appealing to be rescued from a new nightmare – Russia’s full scale invasion of the country.More than 10,000 Arab students attend university in Ukraine,...

The Hong Kong government will deploy more than 100,000 electronic wristbands to better monitor coronavirus patients undergoing home isolation, in addition to using the vaccine pass to trace close contacts amid a surging Covid-19 fifth wave.Secretary ...

It’s been a long time coming but India’s chess culture, nurtured over decades, is finally producing players who can keep the flag flying proudly, years after it was first raised aloft by world champion Viswanathan Anand in 1988.The latest grandma...

The Russian TikTok video has it all: a cat, puppies and a pulsing background beat. It’s cute, watchable and hardly seems the stuff of state propaganda.In 2014, Russia flooded the internet with fake accounts pushing disinformation about its takeover...

Mong Kok resident Agnes Wong*, 73, felt it right away when Hong Kong’s controversial vaccine pass scheme took effect on Thursday, barring unvaccinated people from a wide range of premises across the city.The divorcee and cancer survivor, who lives ...

China has pledged to step up cooperation over policing with the Solomon Islands after a team of Chinese advisers began work in the Pacific island nation following serious unrest late last year.Last December Beijing announced it would send advisers an...

President Vladimir Putin congratulated members of the Russian special forces for having fought “heroically” in Ukraine, while the Kremlin stressed it was ready for talks with Kyiv.“Special gratitude to those who these days are heroically fulfil...

Indonesians have a saying that a name is akin to a prayer. So when parents give their child a name, it goes without saying that a certain wish for his or her future is inherent within. This belief has produced some distinctive name-giving traditions ...

North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday, Seoul said, resuming a weapons-testing blitz following a month of relative calm during the Beijing Winter Olympics, and while the world focuses on Ukraine.The Sunday launch is Pyongyang’s eighth so f...

On February 22, Shanghai’s online star explosive sniffer dog “Raw Rice,” or Shengmi in Chinese, retired after 10 years of service.Many people sent their congratulations and thanks via social media.“Thank you for putting your life on the line ...

South Korea may be geographically small compared to its neighbours China and Japan, with a significantly shorter history of competitive sports than, say, Europe or North America, but it’s a powerhouse in certain Olympic events.The country is known ...

Volunteers from an NGO helping domestic workers in Hong Kong were shocked to find a 28-year-old Filipina woman alone, cold and ill with Covid-19 in a parked car.Josie* had been self-isolating in her employer’s car for 30 hours when she was found on...

Experts are calling for higher awareness of the operations of drones in low-altitude airspace as the autonomous weapons become increasingly active, especially during conflicts.On Monday, Saudi Arabia’s state-run news agency said 16 people of variou...

Thirteen people have died and four others are still missing after a tourist motorboat sank in central Vietnam, local authorities said on Saturday.The accident occurred on Saturday afternoon as the vessel carrying 39 people from the Cham Islands to sh...

Hongkongers are feeling the impact of the Omicron variant in every facet of life. From surging fresh grocery prices and long lines for Covid-19 testing and vaccinations, to overcrowded public hospitals amid heartbreaking scenes of patients camping ou...

In March, the World Health Organization will mark two years since it declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global pandemic.Despite the disruptions caused by Covid-19, advances in technology have helped countries around the world fight the spread of the co...

As Russian troops were closing in on the Ukrainian capital, more Russians spoke out on Saturday against the invasion, even as the government’s official rhetoric grew increasingly harsher.Street protests, albeit small, resumed in the Russian capital...

Pro-Ukraine demonstrations erupted across the world on Saturday, as thousands took to the streets from London to New York to Tehran to denounce Russia’s assault on its neighbour.Moscow’s invasion has sparked a global outcry and prompted punishing...

Iran is studying a rough draft of a deal to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement with major powers hammered out during talks in Vienna, its foreign minister said on Saturday.All sides have said the talks on bringing the United States back into the agreeme...

When did the US-China trade war start?During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to reduce the trade deficit with China.The United States and China are the two largest economies in the world and bilateral trade between them totalled...

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich suddenly handed over the “stewardship and care” of the English Premier League football club to its charitable foundation trustees on Saturday.The move came after a member of the British parliament called for the Rus...

Russia’s space agency Roskosmos is suspending cooperation with Europe on space launches from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana in response to Western sanctions over Ukraine, Roskosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday.“In response to EU sa...

As Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous carnival holiday rolls around this year without official events due to Brazil’s ongoing Omicron coronavirus wave, a slew of private parties are ensuring glitter-dusted revellers will have plenty of ways to celebra...

Russia’s build-up led many Ukrainians to turn to cryptocurrencies, before the invasion seized up the sector. But it is still facilitating global fundraising efforts, albeit through an opaque decentralised system that Russia could also exploit to ci...

Russia’s communications regulator on Saturday ordered independent media to remove reports describing Moscow’s attack on Ukraine as an “assault, invasion, or declaration of war” or face being blocked and fined.As Russian forces moved into Kyiv...

China’s military can learn from the strengths and failures of Russia’s tactics in Ukraine, particularly its use of strategic deception, according to Chinese observers.In a report on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV said Russian armed forces had so ...

Members of a pro-Beijing delegation from Hong Kong are exploring ways to attend the country’s two most important annual conferences virtually, after getting stuck in quarantine in Shenzhen for 21 days when their colleague tested positive for Covid-...

Major Chinese social media platforms said they are clamping down on misinformation and other inappropriate content, as internet users in the country took to WeChat, Douyin, and other popular apps to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.“Individua...

A leadership school funded and built by the Chinese Communist Party to train political party officials in southern Africa has opened in Tanzania, as part of Beijing’s efforts to export its model of governance.The Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership S...

Residents have been forced to wait up to 26 hours for an ambulance to take them to hospital in Hong Kong as demand soars during the escalating Covid-19 crisis and manpower levels suffer after hundreds of paramedics fell ill with the virus.Director of...

The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is standing strong against the threat of the coronavirus pandemic and will not see a similar surge in cases as its neighbour Hong Kong, according to the head of a designated Covid-19 hospital.Liu Lei, Communist P...

As Hong Kong battles its most ravaging wave of coronavirus infections, Li, a mainland Chinese official, is among staff camped out at the central government’s liaison office in Sheung Wan and clocking long hours at work. He is a task force member un...

More than 100 nations convening in Nairobi next week are expected to take the first steps toward establishing a historic global treaty to tackle the plastic crisis afflicting the planet.Plastic has been found in Arctic sea ice, the bellies of whales ...

A major Chinese rating agency has joined the world’s three dominant credit assessors in cutting Ukraine’s creditworthiness after Russia’s invasion, as the conflict between the two countries dramatically increased the cost of their sovereign loa...

Now the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is over, it is time for China to begin to consider its reopening in the face of a pandemic that is increasingly coming under control throughout the world.China’s strict zero-tolerance strategy to keep Covid-19 c...

Mandy Ho Ka-man, 28, was bursting with enthusiasm after she joined Hong Kong’s Public Libraries Advisory Committee in April.When Halloween came round, she and another young committee member tossed up a “wild idea” of inviting veteran actress La...

China may be thousands of kilometres from Ukraine but the conflict in the Eastern European country is at the forefront of Ukrainian students and workers far from home.According to the Ukrainian embassy in Beijing, between 50,000 and 100,000 Ukrainian...

China has expanded and extended fishing bans on the country’s second-longest river, prohibiting catches on the upper reaches of the Yellow River all year round.In a notice issued on Wednesday, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said fish...

A video clip of a 78-year-old granny skilfully doing push-ups in a hospital corridor has gone viral after it was revealed that she hopes to keep fit so she can take care of her sick husband.The granny, surnamed Feng, said her husband, 84, has needed ...

The term Russian oligarch conjures images of posh London mansions, gold-plated Bentleys and sleek superyachts in the Mediterranean, their decks draped with partiers dripping in jewels.But the raft of sanctions on oligarchs announced by President Joe ...