Rung, 23, is the bookish-looking student leader whose demands for royal reform roused a kingdom. Sainam, 16, has electric-blue hair and is in big trouble for wearing a crop top to mock a king. Both are facing the full weight of the law as members of ...

From the ancient ports of southwest Italy to the industrial heartlands of Germany, European companies are enjoying strong trade with China’s Xinjiang region amid increasing pressure on Brussels to act against allegations of forced labour and other ...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has been arrested in Stanley Prison in connection with the case of 12 fugitives who tried to flee to Taiwan, the local newspaper he owns said on Wednesday.Apple Daily said its founder was detained under the ...

EHang Holdings, one of China’s largest drone makers, has dismissed fraud allegations levelled against it by activist short seller Wolfpack Research, which resulted in the company’s US share price shedding nearly two-thirds of its value on Tuesday...

Ma Xiaolin frequently wrote about current affairs on one of China’s leading microblogging sites, where he has 2 million followers. But recently, he said in a post, the site, Weibo, called and asked him not to post original content on topics ranging...

A US winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather claimed more lives, including three people found dead after a tornado hit a seaside town in North Carolina and four family members who perished in a Houston-area house...

The president of the Philippines has approved an amnesty programme for Muslim and communist rebels who would agree to surrender their weapons to return to normal life, in the latest such attempt to tame rural insurgencies that have raged for half a c...

Hongkongers should be wary of marketing hype touting the health benefits of air fryers, the Consumer Council warned on Wednesday, noting that preparing food in the trendy kitchen gadgets still has the potential to create the same potentially cancer-c...

Ri Sol-ju, the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has appeared in public for the first time in more than a year, with South Korea’s spy agency saying she had refrained from outside activities due to concerns about Covid-19.She has not been se...

Donald Trump’s legal troubles are far from over, despite his acquittal in the US Senate impeachment trial that ended on Saturday.US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell noted this just moments after voting to acquit Trump, saying the courts are t...

Andrew Yang continues to cement his front runner status in the New York City mayoral race by running the table in early fundraising.He hit 11,000 individual local donors over the weekend, triggering an influx of US$2 million in matching funds from th...

The United States will continue to press China for a clear condemnation of the military coup in Myanmar, as Beijing tries to distance itself from the chaos in the Southeast Asian nation.US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Wednesday that C...

Workers in the Hong Kong aviation industry will be among the first groups to get vaccinated for Covid-19 from as early as next Friday, the Post has learned, while health officials confirmed 16 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday.The latest infections,...

US President Joe Biden vowed during a prime-time televised town hall on Tuesday to accelerate the country’s vaccination programme and said teachers should be moved closer to the front of the line for inoculations to allow more schools to reopen.In ...

Opponents of Myanmar’s military coup, including celebrities, veteran activists and students, rejected on Wednesday an army assertion that there was public support for overthrowing elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and said their campaign would not b...

Treasury Wine Estates, the world’s largest listed winemaker, expects demand in China to “remain extremely limited” due to Chinese tariffs on Australian wine imports, with analysts saying the redirection of surplus wine to other markets will tak...

A former top Central African Republic football official and a militiaman nicknamed Rambo pleaded not guilty to war crimes charges as their trial began at the International Criminal Court.Ex-sports minister Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona was allegedly a se...

Thousands of people protested across Spain in reaction to police arresting an outspoken rapper on Tuesday, after he was sentenced to prison for insulting the monarchy and glorifying violence.Rapper Pablo Hasel, whose real name is Pablo Rivadulla Duro...

The team of international scientists that went to Wuhan in January to probe the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, flew out a month later into a storm of criticism, as well as remaining questions about the source of the virus and China’s cooperation...

Donald Trump is no longer relying on Rudy Giuliani for legal representation, an aide to the former president said Tuesday, as the former mayor’s own troubles with the law continued to pile up.“Mayor Giuliani is not currently representing Presiden...

Japan on Wednesday began Covid-19 vaccinations, starting with an initial group of 40,000 health workers before expanding the roll-out to the elderly and people with pre-existing medical conditions.The first shots were given at a state-run hospital in...

Hong Kong’s beleaguered catering sector is gearing up for the resumption of evening dine-in services on Thursday with more than 100,000 workers lining up for mandatory Covid-19 tests.Some business owners are grappling with how they can record detai...

Law enforcers with court warrants could access data from Hong Kong’s Covid-19 risk exposure app for crime detection purposes, according to security and legal experts, despite officials stressing it would only be used for contact tracing.While conce...

A recent article in the Financial Times, titled “Companies consider writing Hong Kong out of legal contracts” has caused a stir in the Hong Kong legal industry. The article quoted senior lawyers from 10 large law firms in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sin...

Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui East is a pale shadow of the bustling shopping and eating hub it was before the Covid-19 pandemic arrived and changed everything.Gone are the crowds of visitors thronging its narrow streets, the mainlanders rolling trolley...

The number of new cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide fell by 16 per cent last week to 2.7 million, the World Health Organization said.The number of new deaths reported also fell 10 per cent week-on-week, to 81,000, the WHO said late Tuesday in its ...

Chinese parents are sending their children away to study at increasingly younger ages. It’s a trend the government plans to stamp out.More than 700,000 Chinese residents moved abroad for study in 2019, a rise of more than 6 per cent from the previo...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Matthew Choi and Marianne Levine on politico.com on February 16, 2021.Former US president Donald Trump issued a caustic and highly personal statement agains...

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge celestial object struck off the coast of what is now Mexico, triggering a catastrophic “impact winter” that eventually wiped out three-quarters of life on Earth, including the dinosaurs.A pair of astronomers at...

As China pledges that its carbon emissions will peak before 2030 and that it will be carbon neutral by 2060, the question remains of what measures its provincial governments will take to achieve those ambitious targets.About two-thirds of Chinese pro...

US foreign policy “neglect” of Southeast Asia could drive Asean nations further into the economic orbit of China, analysts say, even as Beijing’s economic clout continues to be a source of anxiety for many in the region.Southeast Asia has emerg...

US President Joe Biden has renewed the country’s commitment to a stronger foreign policy, anchored in smart diplomacy, revitalised alliances and public-private partnerships to confront today’s global security challenges. But did he go far enough ...

Canada and other nations are considering labelling China’s treatment of its Uygur minority a genocide, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday.This comes after Donald Trump’s outgoing administration last month said Beijing’s incarceration...

Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday a bill that would strengthen oversight of mosques, schools and sports clubs to safeguard France from radical Islamists and ensure respect for French values – one of President Emmanuel Macron’s landmark...

The daughter of Dubai’s ruler says she is being held captive and fears for her life after a foiled attempt to flee the emirate, according to new footage aired by the BBC on Tuesday.Sheikha Latifa has not been seen in public since an attempted escap...

A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed all charges against a white woman who called the police on a black birdwatcher in Central Park for requesting she leash her dog.Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi said prosecutors were satisfied with Amy Co...

The Hong Kong Bar Association has urged the government to state clearly in a proposed legislative amendment that officials would not have the power to stop residents entering or leaving the city, after accepting clarification that changes targeted th...

US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping had their first telephone conversation on February 10. It is evident that while their phone engagement was expansive (two hours) and courteous, there is no radical change in US policy towa...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Maya King on politico.com on February 16, 2021.On the heels of the US Senate’s acquittal of Donald Trump, the National Association for the Advancement of ...

US President Joe Biden is sidestepping a divided Congress and going straight to the nation on Tuesday with a televised town hall in Wisconsin seeking support for his US$1.9 trillion economic rescue package.With lawmakers reeling from the aftermath of...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in phone talks with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday said his country would fully support Japan’s efforts to host the postponed Olympics and Paralympics this summer amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Jap...

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi travelled to Brunei on Tuesday in an initial effort to rally fellow members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to formulate a “better” response to the political turmoil in Myanmar.Retno...

ByteDance, one of China’s most valuable technology unicorns, is looking to raise capital in the United States by listing the shares of its China-only short video sharing application Douyin in New York, according to a source familiar with the plan.T...

China’s ambassador to Myanmar has dismissed rumours that Beijing was assisting a military coup in its southeast Asian neighbour, days after hundreds of pro-democracy protesters demonstrated outside the Chinese embassy.On February 1, Myanmar’s mil...

China overtook the United States as the European Union’s biggest trading partner last year, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said.China’s trade volume in goods with the 27-member EU, excluding Britain, reached €586 billion (US$710 billion) in ...

Hungary on Tuesday became the first EU country to receive China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine as an initial batch of 550,000 doses arrived in Budapest, the government announced.The vaccines – enough to protect 275,000 people against Covid-19 �...

After nine tense months, India and China’s border stand-off might now be inching towards a resolution. Since last week, both sides have agreed to withdraw thousands of their troops from the Pangong Tso glacial lake high in the Himalayas.Footage sup...

As the world scrambles for Covid-19 vaccines, scientists are closely watching the impact they have in the real world.The efficacy and safety data from clinical trials provided important information to regulators deciding whether to approve their use,...

Japan incentivising its companies to shift manufacturing facilities out of China and adding Bangladesh to a list of preferred destinations for relocating the factories may give the South Asian nation’s economy a boost.“As the pandemic started in ...

Hong Kong authorities are doubling down on efforts to promote local tourism, according to industry insiders, with plans to offer rewards such as free tours and staycations to more than 20,000 qualifying residents as part of a HK$20 million (US$2.6 mi...