The USS Nimitz carrier strike group is heading into the Indo-Pacific region after serving an extended period in the Middle East.The group had served more than 270 days in the Central Command and was moving into the Indo-Pacific region, Pentagon spoke...

Hong Kong’s pro-establishment lawmakers are pushing for another overhaul of the legislature’s rule book in a bid to further curb filibustering, two months after the mass departure of their opposition counterparts.But critics fear the latest batch...

Chinese state media on Wednesday lashed out at the latest call from Australia to reset fractured diplomatic ties, saying “it will take more than a verbal olive branch to repair” the relationship.The editorial in China Daily also said China has ne...

Two mainland Chinese human rights lawyers who represented Hong Kong fugitives captured while trying to flee to Taiwan have told the Post they plan to launch legal appeals against the revocation of their practising licences.Lu Siwei and Ren Quanniu’...

South Korea’s defence ministry has dropped its description of Japan as a “partner” in its latest defence white paper, while highlighting better relations with China – prompting Washington to stress that Tokyo and Seoul are its most important ...

Police have arrested four Hongkongers and seized more than HK$1.7 million (US$219,000) worth of cannabis in a crackdown on a drug-trafficking syndicate that employed a fleet of cars to deliver marijuana across the city.Seven vehicles allegedly used f...

Indian authorities heavily increased security at three main protest sites outside New Delhi’s border on Tuesday, adding iron spikes, steel barricades and hundreds of riot police in an attempt to stop tens of thousands of demonstrating farmers from ...

Concerns about rising defaults in China’s property sector grew as a major developer became the first casualty of strict deleveraging rules recently introduced by the government, missing debt payments.China Fortune Land Development, ranked 43rd by s...

A resident of Hong Kong’s Jordan neighbourhood is being sent to hospital after returning unclear Covid-19 test results during the city’s latest overnight lockdown, one in a series of operations that have raised questions over the small number of ...

Rare earth related stocks in Hong Kong and mainland China are enjoying a mini rally after a military coup in Myanmar this week stoked concerns about a supply squeeze. The bounce may be fleeting, according to Guosen Securities.The military seized powe...

Joe Biden’s immigration reform push received a boost Tuesday when the Senate confirmed his pick to head the Department of Homeland Security, as the US president seeks to roll back Donald Trump’s hardline policies.Cuban-born Alejandro Mayorkas, co...

The family office of Google co-founder Sergey Brin is setting up a branch in Singapore, joining the rush of uber-wealthy clans towards the Southeast Asian financial hub.Bayshore Global Management, the California-based firm that services Brin, establi...

Chinese internet culinary sensation Li Ziqi has set a record for “Most subscribers for a Chinese- language channel on YouTube”, Guinness World Records announced on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service on Tuesday night.She was listed in the recor...

South Africa has received 1 million doses of the Covishield vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India as the Asian country moved to use its vaccine diplomacy to shore up its global image – putting it in direct competition with China.South Af...

The din of banging pots and honking car horns reverberated through Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon late on Tuesday in the first widespread protest against the military coup that overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.The party of the...

The absence of Thailand’s Queen Suthida from public engagements has roused some anxiety within the country, where the 42-year-old has her own supporters among diehard royalists. Information about the Thai monarchy is heavily sanitised by the count...

The World Health Organization’s team of investigators visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China on Wednesday morning as part of their hunt for clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.The experts spent about 3 1/2 hours at the h...

The US State Department is “deeply concerned” about the Chinese authorities’ treatment of two human rights lawyers who were barred from representing a group of Hong Kong fugitives, and Washington is ready to counter China’s “aggressive and ...

Singapore has become the first country in Asia to approve Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine as it begins rolling out its immunisation programme to the wider population.The city state expects to receive the first shipment of the Moderna shots around March,...

China’s services sector activity growth slowed sharply in January, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday, as the latest coronavirus outbreak hit sentiment hard ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday period.The Caixin/Markit services Purchasing M...

Iran says it has allowed all crew except the captain from a South Korean tanker seized last month for alleged pollution to leave the country in a “humanitarian move”.The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized the Hankuk Chemi and arrested its m...

Houses on Hong Kong’s outlying islands, which are 40 per cent cheaper than their urban counterparts, are enjoying a surge in popularity as a shift to home-working during the coronavirus pandemic changes the priorities of potential buyers.The number...

My phone vibrates. A friend has texted me another petition. “Reopen Hong Kong Schools.” I sigh, and add my signature to the thousands of others. I’ve signed several of these over the past few months. Hong Kong parents are desperate. But no one ...

Chinese investors in Myanmar might face delays in the aftermath of the country’s coup, with the military replacing a raft of top government officials, according to an observer.Myanmar’s military government said on Monday night that it would repla...

At least five out of eight Hong Kong public universities could be left without a popularly elected student union as arrests of leaders over the past year over politically sensitive events have deterred some from joining such bodies.The handful of stu...

Hong Kong’s education authorities are weighing whether to allow up to a third of a school’s student capacity to return for in-person classes after the coming holiday, the Post has learned.Two sources said education officials held a meeting with s...

Irregularities at Hong Kong’s costliest rail link were worse than a high-level investigation had previously indicated, according to government-appointed experts who branded the problems “unacceptable” and “unusual”.In a 428-page final repor...

This article was first published in Foreign Policy.Australia, India, Japan, and the United States have perfectly legitimate concerns about China. It will be uncomfortable living with a more powerful China, and it’s equally legitimate for them to he...

Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday said founder Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO and become executive chairman, as the company reported a third consecutive record profit and quarterly sales above US$100 billion for the first time.This summer, Bezos, 57, will...

An amendment to a British trade law that would potentially block future trade deals with China over alleged genocide in the Xinjiang region has cleared a key legislative hurdle.The House of Lords voted to pass an amendment to the trade law on Tuesday...

A prototype of a SpaceX rocket the company hopes will one day journey to Mars crashed in a fiery explosion as it tried to land upright after a test flight Tuesday.It was the second such explosion after the last prototype of Starship met a similar fat...

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh condemned the military coup in their homeland and said it makes them more fearful to return.A counter-insurgency operation by Myanmar’s military in 2017 involving mass rape, murders and t...

Myanmar’s coup this week is proving to be a major test of how far US President Joe Biden will go with his plan to reassert Washington as a bulwark of democratic values, and analysts say the new administration’s initial reactions show it is aware ...

Chinese authorities have banned the use of mobile phones in schools.The Ministry of Education said the ban, which applies to both primary and secondary schools, was designed to crack down on “internet and games addictions” and help students focus...

The British variant of the coronavirus has developed a new, concerning mutation in a small number of cases, which scientists said makes it similar to the South African and Brazilian variants and could reduce the efficacy of vaccines.The emergence of ...

Russia is facing a second week of nationwide protests against the detention of opposition activist Alexei Navalny. Rallies on January 31 beat modern Russia’s previous record in terms of detentions with some 5,000 people detained and 93 journalists ...

Suspected Chinese hackers exploited a flaw in software made by SolarWinds Corp to help break into US government computers last year, according to five people familiar with the matter, marking a new twist in a sprawling cybersecurity breach that US la...

The US government said on Tuesday that it has not been able to contact leading members of Myanmar’s civilian government, including de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and is working with Japan and India to put pressure on the country’s military for...

Captain Tom Moore, the British World War II veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers on the frontline of the battle against the coronavirus, has died aged 100 after contracting Covid-19, his family said on Tuesday.Moore struck...

On Day 1 of his administration, US President Joe Biden moved to undo the most damaging aspects of Donald Trump’s legacy and started to reverse many of the previous president’s policies, particularly on the environment, immigration and restoring f...

A police officer fired his gun in an attempt to stop a car from running him over in northern Hong Kong late on Tuesday, before three people were arrested for drug offences.The bullet hit the windscreen of the Lexus, which slammed into railings and ov...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andrew Desiderio on politico.com on February 2, 2021.Former US president Donald Trump bears “unmistakable” responsibility for the deadly January 6 attac...

The University of Hong Kong has urged its student union to scrap a planned showing of a documentary about a jailed pro-independence activist, warning that the screening could breach the law and the social-distancing rule limiting public gatherings.Wh...

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Content on national security, lawfulness and patriotism would be expanded under the proposed revamp of Hong Kong’s controversial liberal studies subject, education authorities revealed in a consultation paper sent to schools on Tuesday.New names fo...

Hong Kong’s police chief has defended the low prosecution rate for offences related to national security, saying such serious acts took time to investigate.Commissioner of Police Chris Tang Ping-keung also said on Tuesday that suspects who accused ...

Supporters of a scaled-back US military role believe China is unlikely to be “inalterably aggressive or impossible to deter” despite its growing power, an analysis by a US think tank has concluded.The Rand Corporation report published last month ...

Offline messaging app Bridgefy said it was downloaded more than 600,000 times in a few hours in Myanmar, after the country’s military seized power on Monday and temporarily disrupted internet traffic.The Mexico-based start-up, which gained populari...

Millions of people around the world have now been vaccinated against Covid-19, but the high demand for basic equipment such as glass vials and syringes now threatens to cause delays to the roll-out if the manufacturers cannot meet their orders in tim...

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 per cent effective against symptomatic Covid-19, according to results published in The Lancet on Tuesday that independent experts said allayed transparency concerns over the jab, which Moscow is already rolling ou...