A crowd surge at a popular Hindu temple in southern India left at least nine people dead and dozens injured, local authorities said on Saturday. The incident occurred at the Swamy Venkateswara Temple in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh state...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung held talks on Saturday, discussing ways to advance practical cooperation between the two countries and the progress on the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. They met on the...

Belle Kwok Sin-ming, 33, felt a calling to take on the role of a Hong Kong auxiliary police constable even while working her day job as an engineer at the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department. “At work, I am responsible for planning and ma...

Political leaders like to perform on the global stage and there is no greater “performer” in this regard than US President Donald Trump, who has just been swinging across Asia, doing deals while posing as the best buddy of every national leader h...

Some major restaurant chains in Hong Kong are offering discounted cash coupons to attract customers in a sluggish market, but the city’s consumer watchdog has warned people to check the terms carefully and buy only what they genuinely need. Tai Hin...

The fires have long since been extinguished, but in Kathmandu’s devastated government district, the embers of suspicion still smoulder. Nearly two months after a Gen Z-led youth uprising swept through Nepal’s capital, forensic teams are working t...

A wave of humanoid robot launches in China this year has shaken up the market with eye-catching low prices – though some industry insiders warn the trend might not be financially attainable and could be driven more by hype and capital than by genui...

A restaurant in China which lets its staff play popular characters from a famed martial arts novel to interact with customers has trended on mainland social media. Xiangyang Courtyard in Xiangyang, Hubei province, central China, which opened in Septe...

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has won a landslide election victory, official results showed on Saturday, after key candidates were jailed or barred from a vote that has triggered days of violent protests. The final result showed Hassan won ...

Operations at the Singaporean Public Utilities Board’s Johor River Waterworks have been temporarily suspended after a water pollution incident affecting the Malaysian river. “Water supply in Singapore remains unaffected as PUB has stepped up prod...

Hundreds of spectators have gathered on both sides of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour to catch a parade of giant inflatable cartoon characters such as Labubu, Elmo and Doraemon. The event wraps up a week-long Water Parade organised by Hong Kong design...

Olympic gold medallist Vivian Kong Man-wai has suspended her duties at the Hong Kong Jockey Club as she is expected to run for the coming Legislative Council election, the Post has learned. The 31-year-old fencing star retired last year and has since...

In 2021, when most of his peers were settling into retirement, 64-year-old Li Ming chose a different path. The law professor – already retired from a leading Beijing university – boarded a six-hour flight from the bustling capital to Tumxuk, a sm...

A man in Turkey has agreed to pay his ex-wife 10,000 liras (US$240) every quarter in “cat support”. His move sets a new precedent for divorces in the pet economy era, which is booming with Turkey’s pet population reaching 20.9 million in 2023. ...

A Hong Kong police motorcycle has collided with a Mercedes-Benz limousine on a highway leading to the Tai Lam Tunnel, injuring an officer and two others. The force said it received a report at 10.26am on Saturday that the motorcycle and the private c...

The US and Cambodia will revive flagship military exercises for the first time in eight years, the latest sign of warming ties following a flurry of deals between the two sides including a Trump-backed peace accord with Thailand. US Defence Secretary...

Jamaica plans to set up field hospitals in five western parishes after Hurricane Melissa caused extensive damage to health facilities, Health Minister Christopher Tufton has said. Local media reports from Friday quote Tufton as saying that additional...

Top corporate leaders, athletes and members of ethnic minority groups will be among the 65 people expected to carry the torch in the Hong Kong section of the National Games relay, the Post has learned. From tycoon heirs such as Sino Group chairman Da...

China’s Ministry of Commerce on Saturday said it is looking to exempt some Nexperia orders from an export ban that it imposed after the Netherlands seized control of the Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker. “We will comprehensively consider the actual ...

South Korean showbiz icons G-Dragon and Cha Eun-woo stole the spotlight at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting gala in Gyeongju on Friday, blending diplomacy, culture and star power in a way that left both K-pop fans and foreign dig...

Details of the first joint Russian-Chinese submarine exercise have been published in a military magazine, which said the two countries had shared sonar data and carried out rescue exercises. The exercise in early August involved two Kilo-class diesel...

Land-scarce Singapore officially remains non-committal about building a nuclear reactor, but experts say all signs point to the city state turning to atomic energy to meet its net-zero goals by 2050. The discourse around civilian nuclear energy has p...

A new guided history tour, organised by a local cultural enterprise, takes visitors through the fortifications and battle-scarred landscapes near Wong Nai Chung Gap, focusing on Hong Kong’s defence during the second world war against Japanese force...

China will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meeting in its southern city of Shenzhen in November next year. The announcement was made on Saturday by Chinese President Xi Jinping as world leaders wrapped up this year’s Apec meeting,...

Five months after a glitzy groundbreaking ceremony just outside Hanoi, the area where The Trump Organisation-branded US$1.5 billion luxury golf resort was unveiled remains just fields of banana and orange trees as angry farmers challenge the site’s...

Hours before South Korea and China were set to hold their first summit, North Korea sought to set the tone by dismissing any discussion of its denuclearisation as a “pipe dream”. Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Lee Jae-myu...

With over 12,000 registered yachts but only around 4,300 berths, Hong Kong plans to boost its yacht tourism by adding about 1,100 berths at several locations: the proposed Airport Bay Marina, the Hung Hom harbourfront, the former Lamma Quarry and the...

A new White House rule issued on Friday restricts the ability of credentialed journalists to freely access the offices of press secretary Karoline Leavitt and other top communications officials in the West Wing, near the Oval Office. The new memorand...

Inside the cramped premises of Hong Kong Family Food, a two-dish-rice restaurant in Causeway Bay, 59-year-old Lo Hung-wan toils away serving up takeaway meals for her customers. “It is very busy during the lunch rush; I won’t even bother to answe...

Chinese observers downplayed Beijing’s reference to Okinawans as “indigenous”, saying the comments were primarily a critique of the militarisation of Japan’s southernmost prefecture – home to dozens of US military bases – rather than a ch...

An 11-year-old boy who accidentally swallowed a 10-gram gold bean worth 10,000 yuan (US$1,400) by mistake was told by his mother not to relieve himself outside because it would be “too expensive”. The story has amused many people on mainland soci...

In a bustling Bangkok market, hundreds of wholesale vendors have been selling black clothing since dawn – several with hefty discounts – in honour of Thailand’s late former queen. Rows of black T-shirts at a small stall hang near a banner readi...

Beneath hills draped in ancient rainforests, where rivers sustain millions and biodiversity flourishes, Southeast Asia hides a treasure coveted by global superpowers: rare earth elements. These minerals – neodymium, dysprosium and yttrium, to name ...

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had renovated the Lincoln Bedroom’s bathroom, putting his latest stamp on the White House after demolishing the East Wing, paving over the Rose Garden and decorating the Oval Office in gold. Trump, w...

Just back from his whirlwind Asia tour, US President Donald Trump on Friday hailed a newly negotiated trade deal with China as a “long-lasting” victory even as he teased the possibility of more tariff concessions. Aboard Air Force One en route to...

With the US cutting its tariffs on Chinese imports by 10 per cent – halving a duty initially imposed by Washington over allegations of complicity in the fentanyl trade – analysts said the reduction may further strengthen the competitiveness of Ch...

In a previous column, I outed my pre-pandemic dating life as a middle-aged newly single Chinese woman in the United Kingdom. Six months into my spreadsheet approach to love (100 daily Tinder swipes, 50 culls and a literacy-and-basic-human-decency fil...

US President Donald Trump said he received an apology from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney over a television ad that opposed tariffs, but suggested that trade talks between the two countries would not restart. Asked by reporters aboard Air Force ...

Multiple people who had allegedly been plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday in Michigan, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post. The law enforcement effort was focused on suburban Detroit. Patel said ...

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he did not want Americans to “go hungry” and was ready to maintain funding for food aid a day before some 42 million people would lose their monthly assistance. In a lengthy social media post, Trump s...

Tanzania’s main opposition said hundreds had been killed in three days of election protests, with the country still under an internet blackout on Friday and the government denying any use of “excessive force”. A security source and diplomat in ...

US President Donald Trump on Friday denied he was considering strikes inside Venezuela, appearing to contradict his own comments from last week and amid intensifying expectations that Washington may soon expand drug-trafficking-related operations. Th...

A luxury Hong Kong hotel has been ranked as the best in the world by a British-based organisation that recently named a local bar as No 1 globally. The Rosewood Hong Kong in Tsim Sha Tsui bagged the coveted accolade in the latest edition of the “Wo...

Hong Kong has confirmed its second locally acquired chikungunya fever infection, with the patient’s viral sample found to match that of the first domestic case. The Centre for Health Protection said on Friday that it had classified it as locally ac...

Chinese military scientists have unveiled a rare glimpse into one of the most advanced frontiers of aerospace technology: a prototype of a morphing hypersonic vehicle capable of flying at speeds exceeding Mach 5. The missile, revealed in a published ...

At least 49 hopefuls have declared that they will run for directly elected seats in Hong Kong’s coming Legislative Council race after the first week of the nomination period, already marking a 40 per cent jump from the previous poll. While an inten...

Hong Kong’s business sector has echoed a government call to boost the voter turnout rate in the coming Legislative Council election by offering incentives such as a half day of paid leave and transport subsidies to encourage employees to cast their...

The US government shutdown barrelled towards its second month on Friday and the pain is spreading fast – with federal workers broke, food aid vanishing and millions of Americans caught in the crossfire. What started on October 1 as a Washington sid...

Deaths from air pollution in Southeast Asia could rise by nearly 10 per cent and cost the region more than US$1 trillion by 2050 unless more effective action is taken, a new study has warned. The research – published in the journal Environment Inte...

The leaders of China and Canada held their first formal talks since 2017 on Friday, with both sides agreeing to revive exchanges and cooperation in an effort to repair strained ties. Chinese President Xi Jinping met Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carne...