A month after Joe Biden assumed the US presidency, Pakistan is increasingly concerned that the direction of its future relationship with the United States could be determined by Washington’s competition with China and the role that neighbouring nem...

Hong Kong and Singapore are in discussion again over the postponed travel bubble, with both cities mulling extra safeguards amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Post has learned.A government source said authorities on both sides were in talks over the ...

Russia on Saturday approved a third coronavirus vaccine for domestic use, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on state TV, though large-scale clinical trials of the shot, labelled CoviVac and produced by the Chumakov Centre, have yet to begin.Russi...

Chinese food delivery giant Ele.me has apologised after its couriers accused the platform of setting impossible targets for holiday bonus pay.The company had tried to incentivise its couriers to stay put and continue working over Lunar New Year as th...

Eight members of a dance troupe preparing for a contemporary performance quit the show before its opening last December over fears it might contravene Hong Kong’s national security law, the Post has learned.They were uncomfortable that Matches, a p...

Four retired Taiwanese military intelligence officers – including a major general – have been indicted for spying for mainland China, prosecutors said on Saturday.The quartet were charged with developing a spying network and collecting confidenti...

Britain’s success at vaccinating faster than anywhere else in Europe is putting pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to figure out what comes next.While Israel is emerging as the global test case for a country’s ability to inoculate its way o...

Members of Myanmar ethnic groups marched on Saturday in a colourful show of opposition to the coup that ousted the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, despite some misgivings about her commitment to their aspirations for autonomy.Protests against the Feb...

In his 70 sq ft cubicle in Cheung Sha Wan, renovation worker Xu Guiquan, 62, struggles with feelings of desperation as he has been mostly out of work since the Covid-19 pandemic hit Hong Kong early last year.Working only five or six days a month, his...

China has said it is willing to work closely with Asean to ease political tensions in Myanmar as pressure mounts on Beijing to condemn the military coup in its Southeast Asian neighbour.In a call with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi on Frida...

China’s robotics industry has fallen behind targets set out by Beijing in a plan to upgrade the industrial sector, despite production surging 19.1 per cent last year, research shows.China buys and builds more industrial robots than any country, but...

Newsroom staff of Hong Kong’s public broadcaster can make their own decisions without having to run everything by their chief editor, and political issues will not dictate the degree of involvement by senior managers in the work process, top offici...

Alarm about the workplace culture at Australia’s Parliament heightened on Saturday amid claims that a former government adviser accused of raping a junior female colleague in the building had sexually assaulted another woman.Prime Minister Scott Mo...

Hong Kong recorded 15 new Covid-19 infections on Saturday, according to a source, while a top medical expert assured the public that China’s Sinovac vaccine was safe for elderly people who were in stable condition.Among the new cases, five were imp...

Cambodia’s close ties with China have often led to criticism that the Southeast Asian country is too dependent on, and even a client state of, the world’s second largest economy. However, its next-door neighbour Laos – despite enjoying billions...

At least two reporters from media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s Next Magazine, who allegedly acquired and published birth certificate details of the son of Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi in 2019, have been prosecuted and will appear in cou...

A French navy vessel will conduct surveillance activities in the East China Sea until early March as part of international efforts to block North Korea from engaging in ship-to-ship transfers of goods at sea in violation of UN Security Council resolu...

In late January, when the “Nerds vs Wall Street” battle was at its most intense on the New York Stock Exchange, one of China’s most promising technology entrepreneurs was catching very few winks 13 hours away in Shenzhen. Li Hua, who also goes...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Saturday said Facebook Inc has re-engaged with the government after escalating tensions saw the social media company disable a raft of pages in the country, including some that offered public-health advice ...

Hongkonger and Nepali Dilip Rai, 42, stops to catch his breath as he climbs the stairs to his fourth-floor flat in an old tenement building in Jordan.The security guard lives with his wife, also 42, and their nine-year-old son in one bedroom of the f...

When Shaheen and her husband moved from Pakistan to Hong Kong 14 years ago, she could not have been happier. He had found work in the airport’s cargo area, giving her time to get used to life in the bustling metropolis.After a year, they had a son ...

Malnutrition has been rising in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, especially among children and adolescents, despite economic growth in the area, according to two separate studies by Chinese researchers.About 16 per cent of Xinjiang residents...

Growing up in Hong Kong, Aggie Lam did not interact much with people from other cultures. At school and university she noticed that Hongkongers, mainland Chinese, and non-Chinese students stuck together in their groups.It was through her work in the ...

The term “unicorn”, used to describe start-ups worth more than US$1 billion, had not even been coined in 2009, when Stanford MBA graduate Forrest Li began working on his new gaming company with nearly a dozen employees – all cramped in a tiny s...

China’s coal-fired power plants fell to less than 50 per cent of its total power generation mix for the first time last year, while separately, power generated from non-fossil fuels rose to make up more than a third of the country’s power output,...

On his first day of work as Hong Kong’s director of broadcasting in 2011, Roy Tang Yun-kwong was greeted by dozens of angry staff who rolled out a black carpet for him.They wanted someone from the media industry as their editor-in-chief, and raised...

As an ethnic Chinese citizen of Myanmar, Aye Myint is worried.The 28-year-old web designer said that since the country’s military coup on February 1, many of her Myanmese friends had bombarded her with questions about China’s position on the over...

A Chinese researcher visiting Stanford University who was charged with visa fraud after she allegedly hid her military background is facing new charges, US federal prosecutors said.A federal grand jury charged Chen Song, 39, with obstruction of justi...

On February 2, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s de facto opposition leader, was sentenced to two years and eight months in a penal colony. This was soon after Navalny’s return to Russia from Germany, where he had spent nearly five months recovering from ...

US reality star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian on Friday filed for divorce from rapper Kanye West after almost seven years of marriage and months of rumours that their relationship had broken down.Representatives for Los Angeles Superior Court and ...

The British secret service MI6 has followed in the footsteps of the country's Ministry of Defence and apologised for its part in the treatment of LGBT personnel.The fact that until 1991 LGBT+ people were not allowed to work for the famous service for...

Ukraine on Friday imposed sanctions against powerful pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, citing an investigation into the “financing of terrorism”.Ukraine has been fighting separatists backed by Russia in the eastern Donetsk and Lugansk reg...

The European Union and United States must prepare for “long-term strategic competition with China”, US President Joe Biden said in a foreign policy address on Friday, one of the clearest signs yet of how the new US administration views and intend...

US singer Marilyn Manson, facing a growing number of sexual and physical abuse accusations, is now the target of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s criminal investigation into allegations of domestic violence.“The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Depar...

Prince Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, is expected to stay in hospital for “observation and rest” until at least next week, according to media reports on Friday.The reports only cited an unnamed source.Prince Philip ...

The rapid deterioration in US-China relations has made most small and medium-sized countries anxious. As if grappling with the devastating impact of Covid-19 was not enough, they are also increasingly sandwiched between the two great powers. Washingt...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nick Niedzwiadek on politico.com on February 19, 2021.US President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday that he will travel to Texas as the state remains lock...

The executive director of Vancouver’s Little Mountain Place care home has resigned from the facility where 41 elderly residents recently died after being infected with Covid-19, in British Columbia’s deadliest outbreak of the pandemic, the South ...

In case Cambodia’s Angkorian temples, on the list of Unesco World Heritage Sites, are not enough of a draw, there are plans in the works for a 75-hectare amusement park within walking distance.For comparison, 75 hectares (750,000 square metres) is ...

Dubai’s royal family insisted Friday that Sheikha Latifa was being “cared for at home” after the United Nations demanded proof that she was still alive following “disturbing” footage aired this week.The UN Human Rights Office said it had as...

The king of eSwatini on Friday said he had recovered from Covid-19 in January after taking an antiviral drug sent by Taiwan, with which the kingdom maintains diplomatic relations.The tiny southern African country is the only state on the continent st...

Only about 200 of some 5,000 Hong Kong kindergartens, tutorial centres and schools intend to bring back all pupils for in-person classes from Monday by meeting a government condition to have staff undergo regular Covid-19 screening, according to the ...

On a recent rainy evening in East London, dozens of young people lined up outside a cramped community hub to collect rice, vegetables and other food essentials.In the line were foreign students who came to Britain to pursue their dreams of higher edu...

Thousands of archaeologically significant finds have been discovered at two construction sites in Xian, one of China’s oldest cities and home to the terracotta army, forcing archeologists to skip holidays and work overtime.More than 1,000 archaeolo...

Six defendants have been acquitted of conspiracy to riot and gather illegally during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong, after a judge ruled the prosecution suffered from “hindsight bias” and a lack of evidence.The District Court foun...

France is stepping up its military presence in the South China Sea by planning two voyages through the disputed waters.The French navy said an amphibious assault ship the Tonnere and the frigate Surcouf had left their home port Toulon on Thursday and...

Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine greatly reduces virus transmission, two Israeli studies have found, shedding light on one of the biggest questions of the global effort to quash the pandemic.Data analysis in a study by the Israeli Health Ministry and Pfiz...

The appointment of Leung Ka-wing once raised hopes his leadership at Hong Kong’s public broadcaster would bring professionalism instead of bureaucracy when he started more than five years ago.But the government and the pro-establishment bloc had gr...

Prison authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state have begun preparations to hang a female inmate who has been on death row for 11 years, in what would be the first execution of a woman since the country’s independence from the British in 1947.Sh...

A Hong Kong judge dismissed on Friday a legal challenge from a major conveyancing firm against the Law Society’s decision to shut the company down after it was accused of misappropriating client money.The Court of First Instance judgment also noted...