The signs are abundant of how Ukraine frustrated Vladimir Putin’s hopes for a swift victory and how Russia’s military proved far from ready for the fight.A truck carrying Russian troops crashes, its doors blown open by a rocket-propelled grenade....

China’s biggest steel production hub ordered emergency traffic controls and mass coronavirus tests after finding seven new local Covid-19 cases, as the battle continues against a nationwide surge driven by the Omicron variant.The pandemic control o...

At least two people are dead and 26 others are missing after a ferry carrying dozens of migrants sank off the coast of Indonesia, an official said on Sunday.The wooden fishing boat was carrying 89 on board when it departed for neighbouring Malaysia t...

About 2.5 million Hongkongers may have already been infected with Covid-19, with the daily caseload likely to drop to fewer than 1,000 in the coming weeks, a top government adviser has said.Professor Yuen Kwok-yung from the University of Hong Kong (H...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor caught us by surprise last Thursday with her proclamation that when it comes to the tough Covid-19 fighting measures the government has adopted, “people’s tolerance is fading”. Lam apparently feels pre...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s siege of the port city of Mariupol was “a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come”, while local authorities said thousands of residents there had been taken by force across the b...

In January, Indonesian police searched the home of Terbit Rencana Perangin Angin, the Regent of Langkat, after he had been arrested for allegedly receiving kickbacks for infrastructure projects.But what was meant to be a corruption investigation turn...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has promised to reveal on Monday the outcome of an interim review on social-distancing rules and border control measures, noting a downward trend in coronavirus infections.A source familiar with the assessm...

China’s year-long campaign to clip the wings of the country’s Big Tech sector has taken a heavy toll and is now casting a long shadow over the employment market, a development at odds with the government’s goal of creating economic prosperity.T...

Chinese bioethicists are looking at the issues around caring for the world’s first gene-edited babies, and say more needs to be done to regulate research in the area.It comes as two prominent bioethicists – Lei Ruipeng and Qiu Renzong – last mo...

Australia has imposed an immediate ban on exports of alumina and aluminium ores, including bauxite, to Russia, the government said on Sunday as part of its ongoing sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.“Russia relies on Australia for...

Covid-stricken and isolated in her Hong Kong home for a fortnight, 72-year old Lau was kept awake on many nights by severe headaches, a sore throat and constant feelings of helplessness.“I cried. I feared every day that if anything happened to me, ...

Sarie* is a 29-year-old single mother raising a six-year-old son in her parents’ home in Leyte. When she fell pregnant with her second child in 2021, her immediate thought was to “terminate it”.“I’d only been dating my ex for two months whe...

A rising interest among young consumers to purchase soon-to-expire food has emerged in China, and the now booming industry could help combat the country’s food wastage problem.The soon-to-expire food industry is expected to grow from a market size ...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said the United States would send a contingent of troops to the country to strengthen Nato’s eastern flank amid the war in Ukraine.Petkov made the announcement after holding talks with US Defence Secretary Lloy...

World-famous ballet dancers from Russia and Ukraine, Argentina, Cuba, France and Japan came together on Saturday for a gala to raise funds for Ukraine and send a message of peace.The yellow and blue flag of Ukraine flew outside the London Coliseum fo...

Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world – even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That is according to a so-called World Happiness report released ahead of the UN-designated International Day of Happiness on Sunday.The annual...

Ukraine’s fightback against the Russian invasion offers Taiwan lessons on building up effective asymmetric capabilities to defend against an attack from mainland China, Taiwanese officials and analysts said.They also urged Taiwan to learn from the ...

Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate arrive in Belize on Saturday for a week-long Caribbean tour that was marred by a local protest before it even began amid growing scrutiny of the British Empire’s colonial ties to the region.The arrival o...

Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, affectionately known as Big S to her fans, recently remarried. This may not sound like big news, but it was to an old flame she dated 20 years ago.They broke up because Koo Jun-yup, a South Korean disc jockey, chose his ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed thousands of anti-war demonstrators in Bern via live video link on Saturday, while calling on the Swiss government to freeze the accounts of Russian oligarchs.“This too is a battle against evil,” Z...

Turkmenistan’s new president pledged on Saturday to continue the tightly controlled country’s political course, including international neutrality, at an inauguration ceremony confirming the Central Asian state’s father-son leadership transitio...

Pope Francis on Saturday visited Ukrainian children who have fled the Russian invasion and are being cared for at the Vatican’s paediatric hospital in Rome.A smiling Francis, 85, reached out to clasp the hands of children as he walked through a war...

Russia’s space agency on Saturday dismissed Western media reports suggesting Russian cosmonauts joining the International Space Station (ISS) had chosen to wear yellow suits with a blue trim in support of Ukraine.“Sometimes yellow is just yellow,...

Egypt on Saturday displayed recently discovered, well-decorated ancient tombs at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo.The five tombs were unearthed earlier this month and date back to the Old Kingdom – a period spanning roughly fro...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Saturday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a “turning point for the world,” arguing that a victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces would herald “a new age of intimidation.”But th...

Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky says it will take years to defuse the unexploded ordnance once the Russian invasion is over. He said the country will need help from other countries to carry out the massive undertaking after the war.“A...

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday said his country will invest $42 billion in India over the next five years in a deal that is expected to boost bilateral trade.Kishida met his counterpart, Narendra Modi, in New Delhi during his firs...

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn will make his first visit as Asean special envoy to Myanmar from Monday, as the 10-nation group tries to address the crisis in the military-controlled Southeast Asian country.The three-day trip will lay th...

The US decision to not specify the fallout of any attempt by China to provide “material support” to Russia puts the ball firmly in Beijing’s court, analysts said.In two hours of virtual talks on Friday, US President Joe Biden told his Chinese c...

China has tried to move the war in Ukraine off the agenda of a major international summit as its public ambivalence over the Russian invasion threatens to damage its public image.Chinese leaders and diplomats have been making concerted efforts over t...

Former British prime ministers Gordon Brown and Sir John Major are among those calling for the creation of a new international tribunal to investigate Vladimir Putin and his underlings for their attacks in Ukraine.The former prime ministers have join...

Nearly 10,000 Covid-19 patients have received oral antivirals since they were introduced in Hong Kong two weeks ago as a way to reduce deaths and cases with severe symptoms, according to health authorities.Hospital Authority Chief Manager Dr Lau Ka-h...

Hong Kong’s funeral industry has warned that the number of coffins remains tight despite more being delivered to the city recently adding authorities needed to do more to ensure a steady supply of caskets to cope with a surge in coronavirus-related...

It is not clear what makes Valentyna Katkova cry more: illness and old age, or the fact that she now lives in a Kyiv underground train carriage, fleeing Russian bombing.The 77-year-old is one of some 200 Kyivans who have found shelter in a metro stat...

China’s state assets watchdog has set up two new bureaus to strengthen the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the national innovation and social responsibility drive, especially relating to carbon emissions.The newly created innovation burea...

China’s experience battling the Omicron variant will give it the understanding it needs to refine its coronavirus strategy to better protect the elderly, according to a top epidemiologist.Zeng Guang, a member of the National Health Commission’s e...

Voters in East Timor cast ballots for a president on Saturday in an election that will test the young nation’s stability amid a protracted political crisis and economic uncertainty.Incumbent Francisco ‘Lu Olo’ Guterres, 67, a former guerilla le...

When Guinea’s military toppled president Alpha Condé in a coup on September 5, it assured mining companies that they would be allowed to continue their activities.The military junta promised that “existing regulations, contracts and investments ...

After last week’s annual parliamentary meetings, which were overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s stock market this week experienced a level of tumult rarely seen since the stock market meltdown in the summer of 2015.Disrupted b...

A Hong Kong doctor on the run after being accused of selling vaccine exemption certificates was the boyfriend of a medical practitioner jailed over a beauty treatment that killed a woman in 2012, the Post has learned.Chan Hoi-yuk, 46, was placed on a...

Thousands of Hong Kong hotel rooms secured as community isolation facilities for Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms have mostly been left unused, with the city’s leader vowing to redesignate the space for other purposes.The government in February...

Russia used its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to destroy a weapons storage site in the country’s west, the defence ministry said.Russia has never before admitted to using the high-precision weapon in com...

As Ukraine’s war with its larger aggressor, Russia, continues, so does the propaganda battle between the two sides. As the conflict reaches its fourth week, the fight for supremacy in the information domain has extended beyond the confines of the t...

Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored index that ranked Afghanistan as the unhappiest, closely followed by Lebanon.The latest list was completed before the Russian invasion of Ukra...

Hong Kong’s iconic, 134-year-old Peak Tram is set to make a summer comeback following an eight-month closure for a final phase of renovations, with recently completed test runs on new carriages.The sixth-generation tramcars, sporting deep green ext...

Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow Saturday, while Russia said its soldiers had entered the centre of besieged port city Mariupol. As bitter fighting between local forces and Russian troops rages across t...

The president of Turkey, South Korea’s prime minister and other officials inaugurated a massive suspension bridge Friday over the Dardanelles Strait that connects the European and Asian shores of the key waterway. With a 2,023-metre span between i...

For Lynda Meeks, the most harrowing experience of her 14-day compulsory quarantine in Hong Kong was not spending the Lunar New Year holiday in February inside a government-run isolation facility at Penny’s Bay but having her six-year-old dog Kenned...

Weeks after the United States unveiled its Indo-Pacific strategy outlining its diplomatic and security engagements in the region, Beijing accused Washington of trying to establish an Indo-Pacific version of Nato, the North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio...