Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice-President William Lai and Premier Su Tseng-chang will each donate a month’s salary towards humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine, as its fight to repel a Russian military invasion entered a seventh day.The wa...

TikTok, the short-video app popular for showing off new dance moves, is now performing a delicate balancing act itself to comply with varying requirements from Brussels, Moscow and Beijing over content related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, highl...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accused Russia, which has launched an invasion of his country, of seeking to “erase” Ukrainians, their country and their history.In a video address, the Ukrainian leader said a missile strike ...

The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is launching blanket searches in areas where travellers from Hong Kong are known to congregate in a bid to stop the community spread of Covid-19.A resident surnamed Liu from the Shatou residential area in Futian ...

China’s Ministry of Public Security launched a year-long campaign on Tuesday to tackle the trafficking of women and children, the subject of national fury since a video of a mentally-ill woman chained in a dirty shack by her husband went viral.The ...

Hong Kong food suppliers have called on the public to stop panic buying necessities, saying there is plenty to go around in spite of some manpower shortages and shipping hiccups.Ever since word emerged of a possible large-scale lockdown later this mo...

Cheng Linggeng used to fear the grim and uncertain job market he was entering, as the prospect of finding employment as a young person seemed increasingly daunting.He knows that a record 10.76 million college students are poised to graduate in China ...

Last week’s budget offered a reminder that despite the significant challenges of the pandemic, there are still opportunities to strengthen Hong Kong’s economic future, particularly when it comes to enhancing our status as a global financial centr...

The spectre of nuclear weapons being deployed in Ukraine, combined with the leaps that both China and North Korea have made in recent years in atomic weaponry, has emboldened some on the right in Japan to call for the nation’s non-nuclear principle...

The US consulate in Hong Kong on Wednesday warned Americans not to travel to the city, citing the risk of parents being separated from their children over Covid-19 infections.It also highlighted risks for United States’ citizens from “arbitrary e...

HSBC will allow only vaccinated staff and visitors to enter its premises beginning on March 28, becoming the first of Hong Kong’s banks to enforce the local monetary authority’s policy to urge more residents to protect themselves against Covid-19...

Insulting or verbally abusing the Hong Kong government amounts to a challenge against Beijing’s authority, a judge has ruled in finding an opposition activist guilty of 11 charges in the city’s first sedition trial since its return to Chinese rul...

Hong Kong confirmed a new record of more than 55,000 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, with a government adviser calling on private hospitals to do more to fight the city’s worsening outbreak by treating patients with mild symptoms.All but 27 of the ...

While still basking in the afterglow of the Beijing Winter Olympics, organisers are quickly making accessible and barrier-free modifications for the Paralympians arriving in China.The Winter Paralympics are set to open amid the long-running pandemic ...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday its member countries, including the United States and Japan, agreed to release 60 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves to ensure stability for oil markets amid Russia’s invasion of ...

Russia’s central bank and sovereign wealth fund probably own a combined US$140 billion worth of Chinese bonds, assets that they may seek to access given global sanctions, according to estimates by Australia & New Zealand Banking Group.The Bank of R...

The swift and sweeping international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is proof that liberal democracies are able to deliver over autocracies, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday, in his first State of the Union address.Russian President ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has encountered stronger resistance than expected and logistical problems have also slowed its advance, according to defence officials and military experts.As the offensive entered its sixth day on Tuesday, experts said...

While waiting for a pot of soup to boil, washed vegetables to dry, or meat to stew, Benfen Yang sat on a low stool and wrote swiftly on manuscript paper in a four-square-metre kitchen in Nanjing, the capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province.In t...

The killing of an Indian gangster on Phuket island has highlighted Thailand’s reputation as a hideout for foreign criminals, even amid a pandemic that has restricted global travel and heightened scrutiny of people’s movements.Jimi “Slice” San...

Former Hong Kong Bar Association chairman Paul Harris left the city on Tuesday night, hours after he was asked to explain acts that had allegedly violated the national security law in a meeting with police.The Post has learned that the senior counsel...

A plunging rouble, flight cancellations and money-transfer difficulties are prompting Russian and European tourists to cancel trips to Thailand, a blow to the Southeast Asian nation’s tourism-revival efforts.The exclusion of many Russian banks from...

There will be no more live updates to this story. The Post’s coverage of the Ukraine-Russia conflict continues at scmp.com.US President Joe Biden touted Western unity against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a State of the Union speech where the i...

Reaching peak carbon emissions before its 2030 target could help China to avoid more 600,000 deaths from exposure to the most deadly small particles over the following two decades, a study has found.President Xi Jinping set the 2030 target two years ...

A New Zealand-led global investigation into online child sexual abuse material identified more than 90,000 accounts, led to the arrest of hundreds of offenders worldwide and safeguarded 146 children, authorities said on Wednesday.The collection of on...

Over the past three decades, an 81-year-old Chinese man has been operating by himself a small zoo hosting animals, most of which were saved off the streets or on the way to be slaughtered.The zoo on Phoenix Mountain Forest Park in Enshi, central Hube...

China’s urban rail transit system expanded at an unprecedented rate last year, adding 62 brand-new metro lines in 35 cities, according to researchers with the China Association of Metros.These projects increased the total length of China’s urban ...

As Hongkongers worry about just the kind of lockdown they have to accept in the coming weeks, sources said officials were still weighing options while experts warned the city was ill-equipped to conduct a mainland China-style shutdown and mass testin...

As Russian rockets pounded targets in eastern Ukraine, men of fighting age lined up for hours outside gun shops in the western city of Lviv on Tuesday to buy hunting rifles and shotguns to protect their communities.“I can see that Russia will not s...

As Hong Kong contemplates a mass lockdown to contain a runaway increase in coronavirus infections, there is at least a precedent the city can look to to keep daily necessities flowing to people under stay-at-home orders.At the height of the Covid-19 ...

South Korea posted a record of 219,241 coronavirus cases for Tuesday, a sharp spike after the daily tallies hovered around 170,000, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on Wednesday.This is the first time the country’s case count ha...

Two former Goldman Sachs bankers sought advice from a feng shui master in 2016 on how to handle a US investigation into the looting of funds from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund, one of the bankers, Tim Leissner, testified on Tuesday.Leissner...

Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, US intelligence had predicted a likely blistering assault by Moscow that would quickly mobilise the vast Russian air power that its military assembled to dominate Ukraine’s skies.But the first six days have co...

In the past week, since Australia announced an A$804 million (US$578 million) to boost scientific research on Antarctica, its efforts have been framed as part of the ongoing competition for influence with China that stretches from the Indo-Pacific to...

Australia will “robustly defend” itself in its World Trade Organization (WTO) case with China over Canberra’s decision to impose anti-dumping duties on imports of wind towers, stainless steel sinks and railway wheels, which will now be heard be...

The Swiss-based Nord Stream 2 company has gone belly-up after Germany halted the gas pipeline following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.Berlin halted the project, built to bring Russian gas to Europe, as Moscow faced a barrage of sanctions from the We...

Russian forces have been accused of using the widely banned and dangerous weapons known as vacuum bombs that “obliterate” their victims.Amnesty International accused Russia of using vacuum bombs, or thermobaric weapons, to attack a preschool in n...

The United States declared on Tuesday that it would compete with China and its “harmful” trade practices this year through domestic post-pandemic recovery and stronger ties with allies.“We are clear-eyed about China’s doubling down on its har...

Two Chinese miners who were kidnapped in jihadist-torn Niger almost nine months ago have been released in neighbouring Burkina Faso, sources said on Tuesday.“The two Chinese hostages were released in Burkina Faso in February,” a Nigerien security...

Lina, a 27-year-old Lebanese woman, started skipping her contraceptive pills a year ago as their price soared beyond her reach. Today, she is five months into an unplanned pregnancy and anxious about the future.As Lebanon’s economic crisis makes bi...

Australian banks are retreating from China’s most lucrative financial businesses, even as Wall Street and European competitors queue up to get deeper into the world’s second largest market.The sharp contrast came amid tension between Beijing and ...

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a telephone discussion with his Ukrainian counterpart on Tuesday, and urged Kyiv to find a solution to the current crisis through negotiations with Moscow, China’s state media reported.“We have consistently...

The United Nations launched an emergency appeal Tuesday for US$1.7 billion to provide urgent humanitarian aid to people caught up in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and refugees fleeing the fighting.The UN estimates that 12 million people inside Ukra...

The United States is seeking to quash suggestions that the war in Ukraine presents an opportunity for mainland China to attack Taiwan, Chinese observers said.The assessment was in response to a commitment from White House Indo-Pacific policy coordina...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine – in the middle of a new cold war between China and the US – has dragged the world deeper into an abyss of confrontation.The conflict could have been avoided, if Putin and his supporters ha...

The Hong Kong government’s failure to provide a coherent account and timely assurances on a potential citywide lockdown for compulsory Covid-19 testing contributed to a wave of panic buying among residents, political and communications experts said...

US sanctions on exporting hi-tech products to Russia are creating a dilemma for Chinese tech companies, from ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing to smartphone vendor Xiaomi.On the one hand, it is a tricky proposition to quickly comply with Western sancti...

China is unlikely to allow Russian banks banned from the Swift financial messaging system to use its own cross-border payment network to circumvent sanctions, as Beijing is cautious about provoking punitive action from the United States and European ...

The granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev has told a British newspaper she is embarrassed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and that her grandfather would have found it “despicable”.“He’d think it w...

Hong Kong public hospitals will begin storing corpses in private mortuaries in a bid to ease the pressure on overwhelmed morgues due to surging Covid-19 deaths, while crematoriums have extended their service hours to cope with a backlog.Health author...