Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte approved a law allowing foreign investment in more business sectors, his office said on Friday, in a bid to boost jobs and growth in the Southeast Asian economy.The law, which amends a three-decade old foreign in...

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has demanded HSBC explain its decision to freeze the accounts of several Hong Kong opposition figures and groups in recent years, pointedly asking the banking giant whether its actions have contributed to the erosio...

A mosquito-borne disease that can cause brain inflammation has emerged in Australia and infected at least one person, prompting officials to issue health alerts for people working with pigs and horses.The confirmed Japanese encephalitis case in Queen...

The southern province of Guangdong reported China’s highest number of daily imported Covid-19 cases, accounting for nearly half of the nationwide tally and with all but two cases originating from neighbouring Hong Kong.Of 233 imported cases declare...

Hong Kong businesses have been wrestling with “brain drain” prompted by a recent emigration wave as nearly two-fifths of companies polled by the city’s largest commerce chamber said they had experienced an adverse effect on their operations.Acc...

As Russian troops closed in on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv this week, a muddy construction site in a local neighbourhood was teeming with workers and welders of the KAN real estate developer.Instead of homes and offices, they were making giant, metal an...

China is scooping up corn and soybeans from the United States as part of efforts to mitigate the risks to commodity supplies from Russia’s war in Ukraine and slower harvests in South America.Chinese buyers recently booked around 20 cargoes of Ameri...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday vowed to scrutinise power infrastructure and improve the grid’s reliability after a mass outage left one-third of the island without electricity.Taiwan blamed negligence during annual maintenance at a majo...

On paper, the US decision to freeze Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal assets looks like an empty gesture.Although widely considered one of the richest men in the world, official Russian documents say all he owns are a couple of old cars, ...

Southeast Asia has more than 70 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), accounting for some 97 per cent of all the region’s companies and at least 29.7 million tonnes of carbon emissions each year.This total, which is greater than the wh...

Hong Kong police arrested a woman on suspicion of murdering her two-week-old daughter by dropping her from a footbridge just before daybreak on Friday.Police and paramedics were called to the scene outside the Sea Crest Villa private housing estate o...

Hong Kong has cut the recommended interval between the first and second dose of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for care home residents from four weeks to three, as the city battles a worsening coronavirus crisis with more than 52,500 new cases confirme...

South Korea kicked off two days of early voting as the country battles a record wave of coronavirus infections, while data showed inflation unexpectedly accelerated in February as rising costs weighed on voters.New daily cases hit a fresh peak of 266...

A pure, strong form of tungsten has been created, according to Chinese developers who say it can be used in kinetic energy weapons and nuclear fusion reactors.The team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Hefei, Anhui province, said they had develop...

ParknShop supermarkets and Watsons pharmacies are imposing restrictions on the purchase of certain products in the wake of a rash of panic buying sparked by fears of a lockdown when Hong Kong launches its universal coronavirus testing drive later thi...

In February 1972, US president Richard Nixon defied conventional foreign policy wisdom when he arrived in Beijing for meetings with Chinese leader Mao Zedong. In recognition of the trip’s historical significance, the South China Morning Post is run...

Australian authorities on Friday warned of more rains over the weekend in several flooded regions in the country’s east, likely hampering relief efforts as defence personnel try to reach worst-hit towns cut off by days of downpours.A wild weather s...

First, it was Fifa, UEFA and the International Skating Union banning Russian athletes and teams from all events, followed by the International Paralympic Committee barring Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing in the upcoming Winter Paralymp...

US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said the Ukraine war could have the effect of accelerating China’s moves to develop alternatives to the current US dollar-dominated international payments infrastructure.Powell was questioned on Thursday in a ...

Refugees have been left unable to purchase daily necessities with their food subsidy cards after rumours of a citywide lockdown in Hong Kong spurred a wave of buying panic that swept goods off shelves and pushed prices up.Refugee Union chairwoman Ade...

Hong Kong’s securities watchdog last year imposed the lowest level of fines since 2016, with analysts attributing the decline to the impact of the pandemic and a lack of big cases over 2021.According to data compiled by law firm Freshfields Bruckha...

Russian forces seized the largest nuclear power plant in Europe on Friday after a building at the complex was set ablaze during intense fighting with Ukrainian defenders, Ukrainian authorities said.Fears of a potential nuclear disaster at the Zaporiz...

As the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games gets under way, the athletes, international contingents, members of media and viewers around the world will find that the Chinese hi-tech infrastructure behind last month’s Winter Olympics remains in plac...

A top Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has called on local authorities to have the courage to shoulder their arduous responsibilities and uphold their oath of office by taking “concrete actions” to battle the coronavirus pandemic.Xia...

Crowds of critically ill patients, low oxygen supplies and poor hygienic conditions were among scenes reported by some public health care staff as Hong Kong struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak to date.The Post talked to health care workers ...

On February 21, the first day of kindergarten in Zigong, Sichuan province, southwest China, a careless father surnamed Wang, put his son on the wrong school bus and proudly recorded the moment on video, without knowing his mistake until he got home.W...

Medicine delivery services provided by several organisations amid Hong Kong’s worsening fifth wave of Covid-19 infections may not be supervised by pharmacists and patients could be exposed to risks of taking the wrong drugs or dosage, a medical ass...

If China tries to help Russia evade sanctions in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, it will face countermeasures, a senior US State Department official said on Thursday, without providing details.State Department counsellor Derek Chollet sai...

The strategic Black Sea port of Kherson became the first major Ukrainian city to fall to Russian forces since they invaded a week ago.This came as Mariupol in the southeast, another key port city, was left blockaded and without water, heating or powe...

A new non-fungible token (NFT) project started in Hong Kong is encouraging people to invest in shares of expensive virtual land created in the metaverse, as increased interest in these digital assets contrasts with recent warnings about their potenti...

Leaders of the Quad grouping of countries – the United States, India, Australia and Japan – agreed on Thursday that what is happening to Ukraine should not be allowed to happen in the Indo-Pacific, the prime ministers of Japan and Australia said....

About half of more than 200 Hong Kong delegates are expected to be absent from China’s two most important annual conferences, which start on Friday, for reasons related to the city’s worsening coronavirus outbreak. The record absenteeism rate ha...

Despite its slowing economic growth, China may not raise its fiscal deficit target significantly and is likely to refrain from excessive stimulus to prevent the further build-up of aggressive debt by local governments, according to analysts.Premier L...

Hotel employees in Hong Kong have been offered a salary boost to join front-of-house operations at venues being used to quarantine coronavirus patients, while more than 200 travel sector workers have applied for positions at government-run isolation ...

Its streets are lined with restaurants serving shashlik and signs using the Cyrillic alphabet; the smell of rising Russian cakes wafts from bakeries and Slavic syllables muttered by passers-by fill the air.This small neighbourhood could be almost any...

Russia’s bid, supported by China, to roll back Nato, exploit divisions among democracies and work together to make the world safe for authoritarians shows early signs of doing just the opposite as fallout mounts following President Vladimir Putin�...

The United States consulate, closed since 2017 following alleged “sonic attacks” against diplomatic staff, will resume a limited service issuing visas, its embassy in Havana said Thursday.Washington reduced the US mission to the bare minimum five...

An Indian tax investigation into China’s Huawei Technologies Co. has found the telecoms equipment maker manipulated account books to reduce its taxable income in the country, an Indian government source said on Thursday.Without naming the company, ...

The Pentagon has established a new hotline with Russia’s ministry of defence to prevent “miscalculation, military incidents and escalation” in the region as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine advances, a US official said on Thursday.The United Stat...

China should lift all of its family-planning restrictions and step up pronatalist measures to boost the country’s precariously low birth rate, according to a number of representatives to the “two sessions” agenda-setting meetings that kick off ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that he will seek a second term in office at elections next month, with Russia’s war in Ukraine likely to eclipse the campaign but boost his chances.Macron formally announced his attempt to bec...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow’s advance in Ukraine was “going to plan” and Kyiv appealed for Western military aid on Thursday, even as the warring sides met for ceasefire talks.After the fall of a first major Ukrainian city to Ru...

Barley and consumer goods have continued to flow between China and Russia along the China-Europe railway lines despite major shipping and air freight being severely restricted by Western sanctions.The continued trade, which accounted for 18.6 per cen...

A 28-year-old homeless man has been charged with hate crimes after a string of unprovoked attacks on women of Asian descent in New York, police said.Steven Zajonc was arrested on Wednesday in connection with assaults on seven women in different Manha...

The US Navy said on Thursday it had recovered a stealth fighter jet that sank in the South China Sea after crashing off an aircraft carrier while trying to land.A major recovery operation was launched to find the plane – one of the most advanced in...

There are many ways to lose a war, but few fail as soon as they start. While Russian troops attempt to take Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has galvanised near global opposition to his aims of rebuilding an empire and cementing his place in the pantheon of g...

Philippine troops killed at least seven Muslim insurgents aligned with Islamic State group in a recent offensive in the south and recovered 45 heavy firearms and several bombs and landmines that were to be used in future attacks, military officials s...

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Hundreds were feared dead in the embattled Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Thursday after more than a day of Russian bombardment left buildings in ruins and civilians cowering in terror.Russian forces unleashed a barrage of artillery fire, rockets...