No foreign judges will preside over the first national security law case before Hong Kong’s top court on Monday, when it is slated to review a key provision in the legislation relating to a lower court’s decision to grant bail to media tycoon Jim...

China should be wary of relying too heavily on its state-led economic-management model and not get caught up in the belief that successfully controlling the pandemic last year is proof that the model will solve all future problems, prominent governme...

A World Health Organization team in China to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic ended 14 days of hotel quarantine on Thursday, kicking off the field portion of their month-long mission.Team members were seen boarding a bus outside their...

Hong Kong police have arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of duping a 72-year-old woman out of HK$3.5 million (US$451,500) in cash and valuables by offering to help get a refund of her 15-year gym membership and coaching fee worth HK$2 million.As th...

An elderly man died after a collision between his bicycle and a dump truck at an intersection in northern Hong Kong on Thursday.The crash took place at the junction of Tong Yan San Tsuen Road and the Ping Shan section of Castle Peak Road in Yuen Long...

As Japan prepares to extend its state of emergency beyond February 7, the country’s public is largely resigned to its fate. Most people say they are simply battening down the hatches to get through this latest phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, and lo...

Hundreds of Rohingya are missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia and are believed to have been trafficked to neighbouring Malaysia, officials and sources said Thursday.Just 112 refugees remain at the makeshift camp in Lhokseumawe on Indonesia’s no...

Daily global deaths from Covid-19 have topped 18,000 for the first time, the latest reminder of the pandemic’s devastating impact as governments tightened restrictions in a bid to contain alarming new coronavirus strains.With vaccines seen as the o...

The Biden administration delayed a ban imposed by Donald Trump on American investors, pension funds and financial firms investing in companies that have similar names to a group of blacklisted Chinese firms with purported ties to China’s military.O...

In a temple on the outskirts of Bangkok, participants at a daily ritual clutch a bunch of flowers and lie down in a coffin with a sheet pulled over them as monks chant.The Wat Bangna Nai temple in the Thai capital draws more than 100 people a day who...

With more than 3,000 burials in January alone, the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus does not remember a deadlier month.Its cemetery is expanding at breakneck speed as bulldozers dig dozens of graves daily to accommodate the influx of victims of Brazi...

Mandatory testing orders for 11 more buildings in a Hong Kong neighbourhood known as a major hub for funeral services have sparked fears it could be the next in line for a lockdown, as the city confirmed 39 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday.Sealing off ...

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged support to the Philippines in the event of armed attacks in the South China Sea as he reached out to Asia and Europe to renew US alliances after taking office.On Thursday, Blinken “reaffirmed ...

China’s fiscal revenue fell 3.9 per cent in 2020 from a year earlier, while expenditure rose 2.8 per cent, the finance ministry said on Thursday, underscoring the difficulties in government finances amid the coronavirus pandemic.However, as the wor...

The statue of Robert Clive outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in central London depicts him with an imperious gaze, his hand gripping the hilt of a sheathed sword.But despite often heated debate about monuments to colonial figur...

With a World Health Organization investigation into the origins of the coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease under way in China, a laboratory in Cambodia has discovered close relatives of the pathogen in samples that have been stored in a fre...

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the world risks sliding deeper into instability as the coronavirus pandemic combines with global rivalries and other international tensions.Addressing the World Economic Forum on Wednesday for the first ti...

The world’s most rapidly ageing society has long struggled to talk to its youth. That’s a disconnect that’s turning deadly in the pandemic.The difficulty in persuading young adults to upend their lifestyles to prevent Covid-19’s spread has ch...

The Inauguration Day photograph of a mitten-clad, glamour-defying Bernie Sanders perhaps was not the most flattering image of the US senator, but it has become a remarkably charitable one.The 79-year-old lawmaker from the northeastern state of Vermon...

Fortescue Metals Group on Thursday reported a 4.7 per cent jump in iron ore shipments, in line with forecasts, as global miners benefit from soaring demand in top steel producer China.The average price the company received for its iron ore during the...

Restaurants in New Delhi have been ordered to display a sign specifying the method of slaughter used for the meat on their menus, in what critics say is the latest attempt by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party to divide India’s Hindu and Muslim comm...

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday vowed the US would lead the world’s charge to confront the “existential threat” of the climate crisis, as he signed a raft of new orders and announced a global summit in April.The measures included placing a ...

Authorities in northwest China have ordered the suspension of a zinc smelting facility after it was linked to a toxic chemical leak into the Yangtze River.The alarm was raised when environmental officials in Hanzhong, a downstream city in Shaanxi pro...

Hong Kong’s next “ambush-style” Covid-19 lockdowns could target a handful of old buildings in four coronavirus-hit districts – Jordan, Mong Kok, Hung Hom and Sham Shui Po – where authorities have imposed mandatory testing.Public health expe...

Vietnam’s recorded 82 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, its first community transmission of the virus in 55 days, as fears grow of a wider outbreak, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.Early on Thursday morning, Vietnam had recorded just tw...

FedEx Express is planning a hasty, temporary relocation of its Hong Kong-based pilots and their families from the world’s busiest air cargo hub to San Francisco, making it the first major airline to balk at official plans to force aircrew to quaran...

Cathay Pacific Airways is planning one of its biggest bond sales to buttress its finances as Hong Kong’s hometown airline struggles to ride out the travel slump forced by the global coronavirus pandemic.The HK$6.74 billion (US$869 million) five-yea...

Beijing will add more overseas gambling destinations to its travel blacklist for Chinese nationals as it clamps down on an activity that it says sees an estimated 1 trillion yuan (US$155 billion) of capital outflows annually.The restrictions aim to �...

Across most of America, GameStop is just a place to buy a video game. On Wall Street, though, it has become a battleground where swarms of smaller investors see themselves making an epic stand against the 1 per cent.A group of amateur investors, orga...

For Kim Joo-tak and Noh Geon-hwi, two 20-something South Koreans, Seoul represents two sides of the same coin: the rich promise of living in a metropolis of 25-million-plus people, and the inequities that come with staying. Young people and families...

From this weekend, Britain will start accepting applications from Hong Kong residents with British National (Overseas) status for a new visa that offers a pathway to citizenship. In the final of a three-part series on the BN(O) visa, the Post looks a...

A man sacked for attending his father’s funeral and a woman dismissed after she refused to stay late at work to practise dancing for the company’s annual party are at the centre of two labour disputes that have challenged China’s grind-it-out w...

Reports that some imported cherries tested positive for traces of the coronavirus last week swiftly sent shock waves across Chinese social media, scaring customers and hurting cherry sales during the peak season ahead of the Lunar New Year.New inform...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte wants to get inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine in his buttocks, making it impossible for the shot to be given in public, officials said on Wednesday.“Let's respect that,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque sa...

The Shanghai government said it aims to achieve “scaled production” of 12-nanometre semiconductors this year, as part of the nationwide effort to strengthen domestic production to cut reliance on imported chips amid ongoing US sanctions that rest...

Cobalt prices have soared by about a quarter since the start of the year, driven by the push for electric cars in China and the European Union, as well as Chinese stockpiling, analysts said.On Tuesday, a tonne of cobalt was selling on the London Meta...

China looks set to remain a central feature of the United States’ foreign policy under Joe Biden, with newly appointed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying on Wednesday that Washington’s relationship with Beijing is “arguably the most im...

Overfishing has savaged populations of some sharks and rays by more than 70 per cent in the last half-century, leaving a “gaping, growing hole” in ocean life, according to a new study.Decades of data show an alarming decline in species ranging fr...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call for big countries not to bully the weak has exposed a “disconnect” between China’s behaviour and rhetoric, a top Australian minister said on Wednesday.Still smarting from punitive Chinese sanctions on a ran...

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the Biden administration’s pick for US ambassador to the United Nations (UN), said on Wednesday that she would use her tenure to counter China’s influence in the body’s powerful Security Council, resist its efforts to i...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday that he had agreed with US President Joe Biden in a phone call to strengthen their bilateral alliance, as China expands its economic and military might.They also agreed to arrange a US visit for...

EU demands that AstraZeneca make up delays of its Covid-19 vaccine by supplying doses from its UK factories on Wednesday risked setting the bloc and Britain on a post-Brexit collision course.Both the European Union and former member Britain insisted ...

The “Doomsday Clock” illustrating the perils facing the planet and humankind will remain at 100 seconds to midnight this year amid the threats of the coronavirus pandemic, nuclear war and climate change.“The hands of the Doomsday Clock remain a...

New Covid-19 variants that make the virus more contagious and could render vaccine and antibody protection less effective have spread rapidly across dozens of countries, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.In its latest epidemiological up...

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicated on Wednesday the Covid-19 lockdown in England would last until March 8 when schools could start to reopen, as he said some travellers to the UK would have to quarantine in government-provided hotels....

Airline industry chiefs have urged the Hong Kong government to rethink its plans to quarantine aircrew for 14 days, as Cathay Pacific Airways told staff the rule could start after February 11.In a brief memo to employees on Wednesday night, Chris Kem...

Asian-Americans who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic have found it harder than most in the United States to get them back, a study has found.The 5.9 per cent unemployment rate among the roughly 10 million-strong Asian workforce in Dece...

With just a few glimpses of the possible trajectory of Sino-US relations in the Biden era, Chinese President Xi Jinping acknowledged there was rivalry between the two nations, but suggested that interplay between the two nations should be more like f...

The Global Times, a state-owned newspaper under Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, called on Chinese tech firms to sue for compensation from the Indian government in an editorial on Tuesday after New Delhi made its ban on dozens of Chinese ...

Veteran human rights activist Guo Feixiong says he will go on a hunger strike if police stop him from leaving China so that he can care for his cancer-stricken wife in the United States.Guo, 54, whose real name is Yang Maodong, said he was booked to ...