Hong Kong prosecutors have made a surprise U-turn and withdrawn their challenge against four of the 15 defendants granted bail in the case of 47 opposition figures charged under the national security law over their involvement in an non-official prim...

A sweeping Chinese trend of grown women squeezing into childrenswear to show off their waistlines has been attacked by people online who call the craze “unethical”.Online posts showing teenagers and women in their 20s posing in changing rooms of ...

Two Hong Kong taxi drivers and a hospital receptionist have been jailed for up to 11 months each for bribery in the information technology constituency of the Legislative Council polls in 2016.Magistrate Peony Wong Nga-yan said the court must emphasi...

There is almost nothing Raquel Barrion doesn’t know about the two Lebanese children she has looked after since they were babies. But one day, the Filipino domestic worker decided to find out how much they knew about her.Barrion, 39, was pleasantly ...

An Australian public broadcaster is suspending the use of content from Chinese state-run news services CGTN and CCTV after a human rights group highlighted the channels’ history of airing allegedly forced confessions.SBS, which airs multilingual an...

China has offered foreign diplomats in Beijing inoculation with one of its coronavirus vaccines, possibly as early as this month.But the offer has had a mixed response among overseas diplomats amid concerns that the shots could complicate future trav...

Former Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa fell over at the end of the Chinese legislature’s meeting on Friday, but was not injured and left with the help of other delegates.The 83-year-old, Hong Kong’s first postcolonial chief executive from 1997 to ...

Anyone aspiring to run for Hong Kong’s Legislative Council will need to secure an unspecified number of nominations from a committee stacked with pro-establishment members under Beijing’s plan to drastically overhaul the city’s political system...

Hong Kong’s universities will be expected to change their curricula to reflect the new national security law by the coming academic year and be prepared to help “prevent and suppress” acts that could violate the legislation, the education minis...

China’s home-built C919 aircraft is expected to finish flight testing and win airworthiness certification by the end of this year, the programme’s chief designer, Wu Guanghui, said on Friday on the sidelines of an annual parliament meeting.State ...

Premier Li Keqiang kick-started China’s parliamentary session by outlining the economic growth target for the nation and pledging to stop foreign interference in Hong Kong.In his 30-page government work report delivered at the National People’s C...

The second of three women who have accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual misconduct rejected his public apology on Thursday, a response likely to ratchet up pressure on the embattled Democrat.Charlotte Bennett, a 25-year-old former aide to...

An industry association representing the world’s airlines is mulling more ambitious climate change targets in a “rethink” of its environmental policy as part of a wider effort to convince the aviation industry to adopt even greener goals, its o...

Police in northern India said on Thursday they had arrested a man who beheaded his daughter and carried her severed head to the village police station, a case that spurred calls for a new law against so-called honour killings.The man told police he h...

More than HK$900 million (US$116 million) in suspected crime proceeds has been frozen in an unprecedented joint crackdown by Hong Kong police and stock regulators against “ramp and dump” online investment scams.Confirming a Post report, authoriti...

A top Hong Kong microbiologist has advised that elderly and chronically ill residents take the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine following the death of a Sinovac recipient, though a key government expert has said there is little evidence to suggest...

Nine great apes at the San Diego Zoo are the first non-human primates to receive an experimental Covid-19 vaccine, zoo officials said on Thursday.Four orangutans and five bonobos have been vaccinated so far, with the zoo planning to immunise another ...

Despite only being a bail hearing, the attention generated by the marathon proceedings surrounding the fate of 47 Hong Kong opposition activists has been unprecedented.After 28 hours spread over four days, a city court finally decided on Thursday nig...

Hong Kong’s MTR chief has shrugged off the threat presented by a possible break-up of the operator’s railway monopoly, saying it would be unfazed if the government decides to open up the market.In an interview with the Post, Rex Auyeung Pak-kuen,...

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube will lift its suspension on former US president Donald Trump’s channel when it determines the risk of real-world violence has decreased, the company’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, said on Thursday.YouTube suspended Trump’s chan...

Manila’s planned acquisition of the world’s fastest supersonic cruise missiles from India would boost the Philippine armed forces’ ability to defend coastal areas amid an ongoing dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea, according to analy...

China set an economic growth target of “above 6 per cent” for 2021 as the country continues its strong rebound from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic last year, Premier Li Keqiang announced Friday at the National People’s Congress in Beiji...

The United Arab Emirates is the third-most-vaccinated country in the world, having administered more than 6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, according to the Bloomberg vaccine tracker. China has played a prominent role in this since Abu Dhabi beg...

The most important event on China’s political calendar gets under way on Friday morning in a year like no other. In 2021, the country will mark a series of milestones, from the centenary of the Communist Party to the 50th anniversary of the People...

Myanmar’s junta lost a tug of war over leadership of its United Nations mission in New York, as the United States unveiled new sanctions targeting military conglomerates after the deaths of dozens of civilians protesting against last month’s coup...

Hong Kong’s MTR chief has laid out his plan to “fix the health” of the rail giant by introducing a new system to rectify its widely criticised reporting culture, saying he expects to see results in two years.Rex Auyeung Pak-kuen, chairman of th...

Chinese migrant workers suffering from incurable black lung disease lived on an average monthly income of just 393 yuan (US$61) last year, far below the national average of over 4,000 yuan a month for other migrant workers, according to an annual sur...

A decade ago, Sakae Kato stayed behind to rescue cats abandoned by neighbours who fled the radiation clouds belching from the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant. He won’t leave.“I want to make sure I am here to take care of the last one,” he said f...

Thousands of New Zealanders forced to evacuate following a series of strong earthquakes in the area on Friday can return home, authorities have said.An 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck about 8.30am (local time) near the Kermadec Islands, some 800 kilo...

Putting Meng Wanzhou on trial for fraud would be “a triumph for the rule of law”, a Canadian government lawyer said at an extradition hearing for the Huawei Technologies Co. executive on Thursday in Vancouver, as he rejected claims that former US...

Scientists have spotted a planet orbiting a star relatively near our solar system that may offer a prime opportunity to study the atmosphere of a rocky Earthlike alien world – the type of research that could aid the hunt for extraterrestrial life.T...

China has hit out at Lithuania’s plans to set up a representative trade office in Taiwan, after it emerged that the Baltic nation was exploring broader ties with Taipei.At a press conference in Beijing on Thursday, foreign ministry spokesman Wang W...

A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of Covid-19 is planning to scrap an interim report on its recent mission to China amid mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington over the investigation and an appeal from one internati...

Having been removed from British airwaves because of its Communist Party ownership and a row over licensing, Chinese broadcaster CGTN has been approved to transmit its English-language programming out of France.But French regulators issued what indus...

China has a big image problem on the other side of the Pacific, with a Pew Research Centre survey suggesting that nine in 10 Americans now view it as a competitor or an enemy, rather than a partner, and a majority in favour of pressuring Beijing on h...

Australia has asked the European Commission to review a decision by Italy to block a shipment of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, while stressing on Friday the missing doses would not affect the roll-out of Canberra’s inoculation programme.Italy, ...

South African police have seized hundreds of fake Covid-19 vaccines and arrested four suspects in connection with the haul, the Interpol global police coordination agency said.This comes after Interpol, which is headquartered in France, issued a glob...

China and the United States can coexist as major global powers but they must learn to respect each other and not go down the wrong path of confrontation and rivalry, the spokesman for the Chinese legislature said on Thursday.Speaking at a late-night ...

A four-day court hearing for Hong Kong’s biggest national security prosecution has triggered a wave of complaints from the 47 defendants and their lawyers over the authorities’ handling of the case, which they said left the accused in dirty cloth...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Tim Smitz and Tania Snyder on politico.com on March 3, 2021.Former transportation secretary Elaine Chao repeatedly used her staff and her position of power ...

Health experts said China would have enough vaccine doses to meet a target of immunising 40 per cent of the population against Covid-19 by July, but overcoming public hesitancy was a challenge. They said that with the pandemic largely under control ...

I panicked when I covered the annual Chinese legislative session for the first time in 2012. As thousands of lawmakers and political advisers – mostly middle-aged men in black suits – poured into the Great Hall of the People, I simply could not t...

The buyer who paid a record HK$459.4 million (US$59.3 million) last month for an apartment at Hong Kong’s Mid-Levels has been revealed in a document filed with the city’s Land Registry.Yin Xi was stated as the buyer of Flat 1 on the 23rd floor of...

China struck a triumphant tone as it launched the annual gathering of national political advisers in Beijing on Thursday.At the opening of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, CPPCC chairman Wang Yang said the country could claim...

China Development Bank (CDB), a policy lender that finances high-priority government programmes, has earmarked 400 billion yuan (US$62 billion) of loans this year to support strategic emerging industries and advanced manufacturing, as Beijing acceler...

At least 19 Myanmar police have crossed into India to escape taking orders from a military junta that is trying to suppress protests against last month’s coup, an Indian police official said on Thursday, adding that more were expected.The men have ...

As poorer countries struggle to get access to Covid-19 vaccines, some of the earliest jabs to arrive in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America have been free and supplied by China. The question is whether Beijing can keep exporting doses when it has...

Fifteen of the 47 Hong Kong opposition politicians and activists facing subversion charges were granted bail in the city’s biggest crackdown to date under the national security law, but they were immediately ordered to remain in custody after prose...