Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong has gone on a charm offensive in the city, announcing that its annual spring reception will be broadcasted live on its website on Friday.Posting a video and a message on its WeChat social media platform on Thur...

A group of activists campaigning for human rights in Tibet and support for ethnic Uygurs called on Thursday for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, saying the event would embolden China’s government in its crackdowns.The Beijing Games...

An ammonia leak from an ice plant in the Philippine capital region left two dead and more than 90 others injured or sickened while hundreds of residents fled to safety, an official said Thursday.Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco said an employee of TP ...

Asia’s meme-laden pro-democracy movement, the #MilkTeaAlliance, has welcomed a new member in Myanmar after the country’s military removed the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup.The anti-authoritarian hashtag began as a form of ...

Hong Kong’s restaurant earnings logged a record decline last year, dropping 29.4 per cent from 2019 as the Covid-19 pandemic and sweeping social-distancing regulations took a devastating toll on the city’s catering sector.The Census and Statistic...

Hong Kong’s education chief has stressed that regular testing of school staff for Covid-19 will not be a prerequisite for the full resumption of face-to-face classes, saying students’ return to classrooms would instead depend on the overall pande...

Health authorities in Australia on Thursday said they were aiming to vaccinate the entire population against Covid-19 by October, as they announced they had secured 150 million vaccine doses.Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia had secured an...

A 16-year-old who hurled a petrol bomb at police quarters during Hong Kong’s 2019 anti-government protests has become the latest to see his original sentence toughened after the appeal court found a probation order inadequate and ordered him to a t...

The US State Department has reaffirmed Washington’s one-China policy on Taiwan as the island tries to further raise its international profile by setting up an office in Guyana.State Department spokesman Ned Price said there was no change in the Uni...

A truck driver was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving following a collision between his vehicle and a light rail train in northern Hong Kong on Thursday that sent 20 people to hospital.Emergency personnel were called to the scene of the accid...

With the US State Department naming Japan and India as countries it is consulting as Washington forms its response to the Myanmar coup, attention has turned to the ties the Asian nations have with the military leadership and whether Tokyo and New Del...

The UK has passed the peak of its latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said, as the country reached the milestone of vaccinating 10 million people, about 15 per cent of the population.“We are on a downward slope of cases, hospitalisat...

A hiker died in hospital on Thursday after being airlifted from a Hong Kong country park where she had been trekking.The 51-year-old woman and a female friend were hiking in Sai Kung East Country Park when the incident happened at around 9.42am.Accor...

It apparently costs US$1,650 a month to rent but doesn’t have a toilet or an oven: TikTok users are going crazy over a video captioned New York’s “worst apartment ever”.Its exact address is a mystery, and you won’t find it listed on any ren...

Foreign investors held more than a tenth of all outstanding Chinese government bonds for the first time in January, official data showed, as demand surged on a combination of higher yields and a stronger yuan.Total offshore holdings of Chinese govern...

A former University of Florida professor and researcher fraudulently obtained US$1.8 million in federal grant money while concealing support he received from the Chinese government and a company that he founded in China to profit from that research, ...

Hong Kong confirmed 22 coronavirus cases citywide on Thursday, after a lockdown of three housing blocks the night before resulted in just one preliminary-postive test.All but three of the latest infections were locally transmitted, including 10 from ...

House Republicans decided to stand by two Republican lawmakers who have polarised the party, voting to retain Liz Cheney as their No 3 leader and saying they’d fight a Democratic push to kick newcomer Marjorie Taylor Greene off her committees.In a ...

Former US president Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers misspelled the name of the country they were, filing a document that addressed “Members of the Unites States Senate”.The typo was at the top of a 14-page brief filed ahead of Trump’s impe...

Hong Kong’s leader has announced plans to roll out a series of five major legislative amendments, including one that will require district councillors to take oaths of allegiance and another allowing doctors to be registered in the city after obtai...

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in pledged on Thursday to upgrade the country’s alliance with the United States in a phone call with President Joe Biden, Seoul’s presidential office said.The call comes as Moon, who had offered to be a mediator...

China’s Premier Li Keqiang believes the global economy faces “many uncertainties and destabilising factors” as it battles the coronavirus pandemic, while also insisting Beijing remains committed to its relationship with Britain despite recent t...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has pledged to mobilise enough international pressure on Myanmar’s military “to make sure that this coup fails” as the UN Security Council tries to negotiate a statement on the crisis.Myanmar pl...

Australia and New Zealand ended up in a minor diplomatic squabble last week after New Zealand trade minister Damien O’Connor said in an interview that if Australia “were to follow us and show respect” by engaging “a little more diplomacy from...

Even for Christine Shearer, a veteran researcher on China’s energy development, the data was surprising.Last year, when China pledged to be carbon neutral by 2060, the country built the equivalent of one large coal-fired power plant per week, addin...

In the first of a two-part special, the Post looks at the meaning and implications of a political catchphrase “Patriots governing Hong Kong” now gaining currency.On most weekends, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Ko...

US President Joe Biden’s administration is signalling it currently has no plans to bar American athletes’ participation in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, despite mounting calls for the Games to be moved over China’s human rights record.Right...

Canning Fok Kin-ning, the right-hand man of tycoon Li Ka-shing, has put two mansions located at the southern tip of Hong Kong Island on the market, taking advantage of resilient prices for high-end real estate to lock in the returns on his investment...

Nearly HK$17 million was raised in the 2020 edition of Operation Santa Claus (OSC), topping the previous year’s tally in the face of numerous obstacles created by the Covid-19 pandemic in Hong Kong.The Christmas-themed fundraising drive, co-organis...

Australia last year scrapped two bodies overseeing the effectiveness of its overseas aid programmes due to cost concerns, new documents reveal, while officials cut staff and a key oversight role despite reassurances the bodies’ “core functions”...

Myanmar’s junta blocked Facebook and other messaging services in the name of ensuring stability on Thursday as they consolidate power following a coup and the detention of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.The move to silence online activists came af...

Powerful, low-frequency sound waves could be used to trigger rainfall in areas that suffer from drought, according to a study by researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing.In a weather manipulation experiment conducted on the Tibetan Plateau last ...

A woman accused of taking part in the January 6 siege on the US Capitol asked a federal judge for permission to leave the country on holiday this month.In a court filing Monday, lawyers for Jenny Louise Cudd requested the court’s blessing to travel...

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has nominated Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, to honour their struggle against a national security law that Beijing imposed on the city without local input, a move that is s...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Gavin Bade on politico.com on February 2, 2021.US Senator Ted Cruz is delaying a vote on UN ambassador nominee Linda Thomas-Greenfield in the Senate Foreign...

A 22-year-old man from New Jersey who suffered horrific injuries in a car accident has become the world’s first person to undergo a successful face and double hand transplant, his medical team announced on Wednesday.Joe DiMeo sustained third-degree...

Nomadland director Chloé Zhao was nominated for a Golden Globe on Wednesday morning, making her the first ever woman of Asian descent recognised in the directing category.Zhao’s nomination should not come as a surprise. Nomadland earned the top pr...

The United States said on Wednesday that the last remaining treaty with Russia capping their nuclear arsenals has been extended for five years through 2026, and vowed to pursue further arms control not only with Moscow but also with Beijing.An extens...

The US Justice Department dismissed on Wednesday its own lawsuit against Yale University for allegedly discriminating against Asian and white applicants in its undergraduate admissions process.In a new filing to the federal district court of Connecti...

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) said on Wednesday that its annual meeting, which has already been postponed and moved from Switzerland to Singapore, will be pushed back again due to pandemic-related challenges.The annual gathering of the world’s pol...

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has warned student union candidates against engaging in activities on campus that break the law or jeopardise national security.The university was responding on Wednesday to claims by the candidates, who are runnin...

Russia has reached out to German biotechnology company IDT Biologika to explore jointly producing the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the German health ministry said Wednesday.It comes a day after The Lancet journal published trial results showing the...

German companies have shown “evident” optimism about the outlook in China this year and most remain committed to the market despite concerns over economic decoupling from the US, according to the latest business confidence survey.Their optimism w...

Slain US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lay in honour on Wednesday in the building he died defending as colleagues and the lawmakers he protected paid their respects.Sicknick died after defending the Capitol on January 6 against protesters tha...

The Australian Open was again thrown into chaos Wednesday when up to 600 players and officials were told to isolate and get tested after a worker at a hotel they are staying in became infected with Covid-19.Victorian state Premier Daniel Andrews said...

US President Joe Biden has threatened to impose sanctions on Myanmar in response to the military coup and the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders.But what might that mean for the Southeast Asian country?Has Myanmar ever faced san...