Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Saudi Arabian energy minister who helped direct the 1973 oil embargo and was later kidnapped by Carlos the Jackal, has died. He was 90.He passed away in London and will be buried in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca...

Former Taiwanese justice minister Chiu Tai-san has taken charge of the Mainland Affairs Council as part of a reshuffle, an appointment seen as an effort to ease tensions with Beijing.Chiu has taken a relatively moderate stand on relations with mainla...

Australia and Facebook on Tuesday struck a last-ditch compromise to allow the social media giant to demonstrate its support for journalism before being forced to pay for news content, ending a stand-off that focused global attention on the regulation...

A paralegal charged alongside Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying with breaking the national security law took police to court on Tuesday over what he said was the unlawful seizure of personal property after his arrest.In the legal action, whi...

Hong Kong’s lawmakers and district councillors will be barred from contesting elections for five years if they are disqualified for improper oath taking or failing to uphold the city’s mini-constitution under a draft of a proposed new law, accord...

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, has pushed its flagship gaming studio Nuverse to centre stage by launching a stand-alone website for the development and publishing team, a sign of its commitment to gaming as the Beijing-based unicorn seeks to profit ...

More than 60 years ago, Mao Zedong envisaged that China would one day become a great power, while retaining amicable relations with the rest of the world.Mao’s 1957 statement arguably inspired President Xi Jinping’s global ambitions and his “Ch...

Police are searching for a man in his 20s who is accused of indecently assaulting an eight-year-old girl in a Hong Kong public housing block.Officers received a complaint of a Monday night attack on a housing block staircase in Wo Che Estate, off ...

A Hong Kong social worker jailed for a year for obstructing police at a 2019 anti-government protest has seen his conviction upheld but his sentence trimmed to eight months following a partially successful appeal at the High Court.Lau Ka-tung vowed t...

Hong Kong’s leader has defended Beijing’s planned overhaul of the city’s electoral system, saying the rancour in the former British colony’s political scene has troubled the central government for almost two decades.Chief Executive Carrie Lam...

The People’s Liberation Army is teaching Hong Kong police Chinese-style marching so they can perform the drillsat next year’s 25th anniversary celebrations of the city’s return from British rule for the first time, according to sources.A gov...

Hong Kong customs officers have arrested two men and seized HK$2.25 million (US$288,460) worth of suspected liquid cocaine disguised as health food products and airmailed to the city from South America.The 1.7kg haul was discovered when customs offic...

A Shanghai Disneyland show was cancelled and police were called after an audience member assaulted an actor in the middle of a performance. The 35-year-old woman, surnamed Guan, walked onto the stage during a Pirates of the Caribbean show and began ...

Gab instead of Twitter, MeWe over Facebook, Telegram for messaging and Discord for insiders – banned from mainstream platforms, US conspiracy and supremacist movements, many of which support Donald Trump, have shifted to networks that are more conf...

Hong Kong police arrested two more Chinese University students on Tuesday over an assault on campus security guards, bringing the number of suspects detained in the case to seven.The two men, aged 22 and 24, were apprehended in different dormitories ...

Facebook will restore Australian news pages after Canberra offered amendments to a proposed law designed to force tech giants to pay for media content displayed on their platforms, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Tuesday.Australia and the social me...

China has said it supports India’s chairmanship of the BRICS summit this year, signalling goodwill after the two countries agreed to cool tensions in their months-long border stand-off.The neighbours last week pledged to disengage troops from Pango...

Cambodia’s efforts to reclaim artefacts taken during the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s and smuggled through neighbouring Thailand received a boost when the daughter of a controversial late British art collector last month announced she ...

In the second part of a series looking at China’s forthcoming legislative meetings, known as the Two Sessions, we look at how China’s real estate developers, among the biggest debtors in the country, are looking for hints of relief as 15 of them ...

A Malaysian court on Tuesday ordered a temporary halt to a controversial plan to deport 1,200 Myanmar detainees to their homeland weeks after a coup, following a last-ditch legal challenge.The Kuala Lumpur High Court said the repatriation cannot take...

Hong Kong health authorities confirmed 12 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, while up to 70,000 residents registered for Covid-19 jabs, fully booking slots for a fortnight on the first day of the city’s mass vaccination drive opening.All vaccine slo...

Members of the non-profit Justice Centre watched in dismay two weeks ago as Hong Kong lawmakers sparred with officials over a bill affecting immigrants claiming refugee status.Local human rights advocates and lawyers had warned that the Immigration (...

Hong Kong’s opposition parties have warned they could end up not running in elections if races are “manipulated” by Beijing under the impending electoral reforms led by the central government with the aim of blocking “non-patriots” from the...

US President Joe Biden’s administration dashed hopes for a softer approach to the World Trade Organization by pursuing a pair of his predecessor’s strategies that critics say risk undermining the international trading system.The US delegation to ...

President Xi Jinping urged scientists to further China’s progress in space, as the country moved a step closer to launching the first module of its space station.The remarks came as a heavy-lift rocket was moved into place on Monday in preparation ...

From protest placards poking fun at army chief Min Aung Hlaing to emblazoning pro-democracy slogans on roads and part of a riverbed – at a scale meant to be large enough to appear in satellite photos – Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement agai...

CLP Holdings is boosting its investment in low carbon electricity generation and distribution in the Greater Bay Area as part of efforts to tackle climate change and ensure its long-term sustainability.The company, the larger of Hong Kong’s two pow...

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested on Monday at an airport in Virginia on international drug trafficking charges, the Justice Department said.Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, who is a dual citizen of the US and Mexico, was a...

Unemployed Hongkongers will be offered low-interest bank loans – capped at HK$80,000 – under an unprecedented budget measure targeting more than 250,000 jobless workers, the Post has learned.Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po will announce the o...

UK property developers, desperate to bounce back from a dismal year of sales, have been offering a broad range of incentives to attract international buyers. Some took advantage of the Lunar New Year period to see if the Chinese tradition of “lai s...

MWC Shanghai, the regional edition of the world’s biggest mobile industry trade show, kicks off on Tuesday amid the ongoing US-China tech war, providing a major showcase for the latest innovation from the likes of telecommunications equipment giant...

A Boeing 747 plane’s engine exploded in mid-air on Saturday over the Netherlands, dropping metal debris that injured two people, according to Dutch authorities.The cargo plane operated by charter company Longtail Aviation, began experiencing engine...

Efficacy rates. Herd immunity. Transmission prevention. None of these terms bothered me a month ago. With Hong Kong expected to begin Covid-19 vaccination on Friday, they suddenly seem important. But I’m no scientist and I want to have a normal lif...

An emotional President Joe Biden called the milestone of more than 500,000 US deaths from Covid-19 “heartbreaking” on Monday and urged the country to unite against the pandemic.“I know what it’s like,” Biden said in a national television ad...

A new campaign to educate China about Communist Party history is meant to be a rallying point to consolidate support for its policies and loyalty to the leadership, according to analysts. President Xi Jinping, who will oversee the campaign, launched...

The US space agency Nasa on Monday released the first audio from Mars, a faint wind sound captured by the Perseverance rover.Nasa also released the first video of the landing of the rover on the red planet.A microphone did not work during the descent...

Canada’s House of Commons voted on Monday to declare that China is committing genocide against more than 1 million Uygurs in the western Xinjiang region but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Cabinet abstained from the vote.The non-binding motio...

An expert’s proposal to solve the looming social crisis caused by China’s gender imbalance by matchmaking urban “leftover” women with rural unmarried men has sparked controversy. Wu Xiuming, deputy secretary-general of the Shanxi Think Tank ...

The European Union escalated its criticism of Beijing’s political crackdown on Hong Kong on Monday, but stopped short of rolling out major sanctions on the city’s officials for the continued squeeze on opposition figures.Hong Kong was high on the...

After beating bone cancer, Hayley Arceneaux figures rocketing into orbit on SpaceX’s first private flight should be a piece of cosmic cake.St Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced Monday that the 29-year-old doctor’s assistant – a forme...

America must understand that China is different, emphasised the late Lee Kuan Yew when some 25 years ago I asked Singapore’s iconic modern founder whether my new newspaper column on Asia, then in the Los Angeles Times, might possibly do some good. ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out a phased plan on Monday to end England’s Covid-19 lockdown, offering a “cautious” approach to try to prevent a return to wholesale restrictions that have hobbled the economy.Johnson, under pressure t...

China is placing greater emphasis on food security and self-reliance to feed its 1.4 billion people, according to its annual blueprint for rural policies amid the pandemic, with an emphasis on utilising new agricultural technologies.The new plan puts...

In a significant defeat for former President Donald Trump, the US Supreme Court on Monday declined to step in to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York state prosecutor.The court’s action is the apparent culmination of a lengthy legal b...

Two Guangdong officials have joined the top brass of Beijing’s office in Hong Kong overseeing national security, the South China Morning Post has learned.A source said the officials were Zheng Zehui, 47, the deputy mayor and public security bureau ...

Microsoft is teaming up with European publishers to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news, raising the stakes in the brewing battle over whether Google and Facebook should pay for journalism.The US tech giant and four big European...

Consumers will get a refund of 10 HK cents for every plastic bottle returned, while a levy of up to 65 cents will be imposed on drink suppliers for each such container, according to a scheme proposed by the government to help raise Hong Kong’s dism...

The Philippines on Monday approved China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, making it the third shot to be cleared for emergency use, but the country is no closer to inoculating its population of 109 million because of a new hitch: the Western makers o...

Beijing’s announcement of an overhaul to Hong Kong’s electoral and administrative systems has left many questions unanswered, including the space available for foreigners to be in influential positions of leadership and the scope of criticism all...