As South Korea heads to the polls this week to choose its next president, the country’s women have been asking themselves another question: would you marry a “No 2 man”?In presidential elections, Korean voters use a numbering system to indicate...

Sri Lanka’s central bank has devalued the rupee by up to 15 per cent, taking one of several steps analysts said are needed to obtain an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme that would boost currency reserves and help negotiate debt rest...

Three plain-clothes police officers subdued a 15-year-old boy during a scuffle after he was caught along with his brother, 13, violating social-distancing rules while playing basketball in Hong Kong over the weekend.The teenager was arrested on suspi...

Two star dancers have announced they are quitting the Bolshoi Ballet, as Russia’s best-known cultural institution becomes swept up in the international backlash against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.On March 7, Italian Ja...

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched a second satellite into space, the country’s state-run news agency reported on Monday, just as world powers awaited Tehran’s decision in negotiations over the country’s tattered nuclear deal.Th...

Hong Kong could postpone its Covid-19 mass testing to April as part of a shift in focus to reducing coronavirus death rates and caring for the elderly, sources have said with the city in the throes of a fifth wave of infections.Insiders told the Post...

China should ease its restrictions on overseas academic exchanges to help improve the country’s image abroad, a leading academic has told the country’s annual political set piece.Jia Qingguo, a professor at Peking University and delegate to the C...

Malaysia expects a new batch of foreign workers to arrive in May and June for its palm plantations, the plantation industries minister said on Tuesday, a delay of months from an original plan to add more labour early this year.A shortage of foreign w...

A man has been jailed for four years over his actions during a riot on National Day in 2019, with a Hong Kong judge finding no evidence to support his claim that he had only attacked police at the scene after they assaulted a protester during the dis...

Police are investigating whether a minibus or a taxi sped through a red light just before the two vehicles collided at a Hong Kong intersection on Tuesday, leaving seven people injured.Emergency personnel were called in at about 7.15am when the crash...

Chinese-owned app TikTok, the country’s first social media platform with global influence, has suspended live streaming and new content in Russia to comply with a law that criminalises the spreading of what the Kremlin calls “fake information”....

More than 14,000 Hong Kong residents reported they were infected with Covid-19 using a newly launched government website, while health authorities separately confirmed 28,475 cases on Tuesday.A total of 17,236 people whose infections were detected us...

The death toll from week-long floods battering Australia’s east coast rose to 20 on Tuesday, after the bodies of a man and a woman were discovered in floodwaters in Sydney.Police said it was “suspected” the pair are a missing mother and son who...

Yulia Shimelevich hurries to stock up on imported food for her cat and dog as it may soon disappear from Moscow shelves with the onslaught of sanctions from Western capitals on Russia over Ukraine.“My life has already collapsed,” the 55-year old ...

With the rampant spread of the Omicron variant around the world, many ask whether primary vaccination doses or boosters are still needed if a person is infected with Covid-19.In theory, infection can induce antibodies that may result in so-called nat...

Beijing will “improve” the system by which it rules Hong Kong, while safeguarding national security and devising “legal weapons” for countering foreign forces, the head of China’s legislature has said.Li Zhanshu, chairman of the National Pe...

Ukraine’s military intelligence said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces have killed a Russian general near the besieged city of Kharkiv, the second Russian senior commander to die in the invasion.Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, first deputy commander...

In early December, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released the “Worldwide Cost of Living 2021” report.Hong Kong, which ranked first last year, fell to fifth place below Zurich by end of 2021, while Tel Aviv in Israel became the city with t...

A delegate at China’s top political advisory body has suggested allowing single women over 30 to give birth to one child, as the country’s birth rate declines.Hua Yawei, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)...

As more Ukrainian towns and cities come under siege, concern is mounting for millions of civilians in the crossfire.Russia on Tuesday said it opened humanitarian corridors for civilians to flee pummelled Ukrainian cities, though Ukrainian leaders wer...

A research team in Beijing says they have built a new type of rocket engine powered by explosions.The continuous rotating detonation combustion engine, developed by Professor Wang Bing and colleagues from the school of aerospace engineering in Tsingh...

British lawmakers moved a step closer to adopting new rules to allow the government to implement sanctions more quickly and require overseas buyers of property to publicly register their true owners as Britain seeks to put more pressure on Russia ove...

Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, the prospect of industrial nations coming together to quickly enact meaningful cuts to greenhouse gas emissions seemed slim. But with Russia blowing apart the world order, advocates for international climate action...

Commercial satellite imagery shows construction at North Korea’s nuclear testing site for the first time since it was closed in 2018, US-based analysts said on Tuesday, amid fears the country could resume testing major weapons.Images captured by sa...

Russia has vaulted past Iran and North Korea to become the world’s most-sanctioned nation in the span of just 10 days following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.In a surge of action led by the United States and European allies start...

A leading Hong Kong medical expert has suggested that residents aged 60 and above should get a fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine.Professor Lau Yu-lung, who chairs the government’s Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases, made the suggest...

The tidal wave of Covid-19 infections sweeping Hong Kong and a possible citywide lockdown in the coming weeks mean listed companies could miss the important March 31 deadline for reporting their financial results, accountants have warned.Accounting i...

Asia’s largest plastic producers, from China to India, Saudi Arabia and Japan were among the 175 United Nations member states that last week indicated their approval of a plan to create the world’s first global plastics treaty by 2024.Environment...

Taipei Zoo has announced that two of its pandas are starting a special weight-loss diet and new exercise routine after keepers became concerned the pair had become obese, reported Xinhua.The two female pandas called Yuan Zai and Yuan Bao are the daug...

Insufficient isolation facilities, manpower and the absence of government engagement were the reasons behind Hong Kong private hospitals’ refusal to take in Covid-19 patients, the sector’s leader has said, as pressure mounted for them to step up ...

The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper with 118 years of history, has launched a metaverse experience on blockchain gaming platform The Sandbox, offering an immersive, gamified tour of the city’s iconic Star Ferry Pier.The Post’s met...

A debate is under way within US President Joe Biden’s administration over its policy toward China given the risk that Beijing will help Russia weather the economic and financial sanctions imposed after its invasion of Ukraine, according to sources ...

Energy-importing Asian economies outside China should brace for steep rises in crude oil bills and energy costs as prices go “berserk” over the Russia-Ukraine conflict, investment bank Natixis said.Much of the impact could be borne by households ...

The turmoil on global financial markets intensified Monday, with US stocks plunging the most in 17 months and commodity prices relentlessly powering higher as the fallout from war in Ukraine threatened the global economy.The S&P 500 sank almost 3 per...

The chief of China’s top advisory body has moved to allay fears and quell suggestions that authorities are not doing enough to support the nation’s private companies, in Beijing’s latest attempt to reassure the jittery sector that is struggling...

Former Attorney General William Barr criticises American companies for being too close to the Chinese government and argues for more regulation of US technology companies in a new book about his time in President Donald Trump’s administration.China...

Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing will keep its stores in Russia open, joining a small group of international firms that are staying put even as dozens of big brands temporarily halt operations or exit the country over its invasion of Ukraine.Political pre...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that China should strengthen the use and making of military laws when engaging with other countries.“China should make more comprehensive the body of military laws and regulations that involve foreign cou...

The Securities and Futures Commission has urged Hong Kong businesses to prepare for compulsory universal Covid-19 testing, an event that is likely to affect their operations as the city struggles to contain an Omicron-fuelled fifth wave of the pandem...

China has offered to play a “constructive role” in mediating the conflict in Ukraine but continues to refuse to condemn the Russian invasion is it tries to maintain its delicate balancing act.During a carefully choreographed press conference on t...

The US and European allies on the United Nations Security Council failed Monday to convince China and Russia to back a text noting North Korea’s “violations” of resolutions on missile technology.North Korean state media said Pyongyang carried o...

US efforts to catch up with China and Russia in developing hypersonic weapons may be set back after Lockheed Martin Corp.’s air-launched missile suffered three consecutive test failures that left it on a tight schedule.That has put in doubt the Pen...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive the sexual assault case against comedian Bill Cosby, who was released last year when his 2018 conviction was overturned.Prosecutors had filed an appeal with the court last year to review the decision ...

Russian forces destroyed an atomic physics lab under international safeguards in Ukraine’s second largest city, the head of the world’s nuclear watchdog said, underscoring growing concerns over the safety risks posed by fighting around the countr...

In global diplomatic circles, what is not uttered publicly can reveal more than that which is out in the open. Perhaps no one captured this with more spice and sauce than Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Périgord, the acknowledged French maestro of Eur...

A Hong Kong activist hospital worker has been arrested on suspicion of violating her bail conditions by making comments online that could endanger national security, the Post has learned.Winnie Yu Wai-ming, founder and former chairwoman of the Hospit...

Even a mild Covid-19 infection may cause the structure of the brain to change in areas associated with smell, memory, cognition and emotions, a study by Oxford University has found.Gwenaelle Douaud, associate professor with the Nuffield Department of...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba have agreed to meet at a forum in southern Turkey on Thursday, the first potential talks between the top diplomats since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.Mevlut...

China has accused Washington of failing to live up to its promise to not pursue confrontation with Beijing or provoke divisions in other parts of the world.Launching the broadside at his annual press conference on the sidelines of China’s legislati...

A cluster of towns built among fir and oak woodlands to the northwest of Kyiv have long attracted the capital’s middle class. Now they’ve been turned into places of utter desperation.Russian forces encroaching on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in a bid...