India will carry out a deeper review of post-vaccination side effects from the AstraZeneca coronavirus shot next week although no cases of blood clots have been reported so far, an official said on Saturday.New Delhi decided to conduct the review aft...

Hong Kong education authorities have asked schools to report if they have installed surveillance cameras on campus, the Post has learned, following calls from pro-Beijing lawmakers for the devices to be installed in classrooms to monitor teachers.At ...

Indonesia’s efforts to make the peace in post-coup Myanmar aren’t just about showing Southeast Asian solidarity, they are a way of showcasing Jakarta’s democratic credentials to the new administration in the United States, experts say.The coup ...

Competing claims over a chain of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea are causing escalating tensions between China and Japan, increasing the risk of a miscalculation in the region, according to analysts.While Tokyo has never acknowledged that i...

Hong Kong’s property buyers ignored warnings of a growing cluster of Covid-19 infections in the city to snap up new flats on offer at Cheung Sha Wan, as the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines and a resurgent stock market boosted confidence.Wheelock P...

As the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged America, Esther Lim grew more worried by the day for her parents’ welfare and her own – not just for their health, but their safety in the face of rising attacks against Asian-Americans.When her friend was hurt in...

Attracted by something Hong Kong could not – a mature enough technology ecosystem and a big enough market of paying customers – Alan Chan’s decision to take his start-up business to Taiwan in 2018 proved to be a masterstroke. His OmniChat busi...

Slingshot to stardomSlingshot enthusiasts across the country have been enthralled by a Chinese man named Zhu Liang who can hit moving water droplets from a distance with a slingshot. What started out as a hobby has morphed into Zhu becoming a slingsh...

A Hong Kong court has revoked the bail previously granted to former opposition lawmaker Jeremy Tam Man-ho, one of 47 activists charged in the city’s largest crackdown to date under the national security law.The High Court judge on Saturday overturn...

New York’s embattled Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday said he will not step down despite calls to do so by heavyweights within his Democratic Party, as he faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching.“I am not going t...

The Canadian judge in Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s US extradition case rejected her request to admit as evidence employee statements that contradict a US claim she misled bankers about the company’s business in Iran, a ruling said on Friday.But the ...

Security forces in Myanmar on Saturday again met protests against last month’s military takeover with lethal force, killing at least four people by shooting live ammunition at demonstrators.Three deaths were reported in Mandalay, the country’s se...

Hong Kong registered another 47 coronavirus infections on Saturday, mostly from a worsening outbreak at a gym, while the city’s leader ramped up appeals for residents to get vaccinated amid concerns over the scheme’s progress.Thirty-nine of the n...

The United States is moving to boost its military presence in the Indo-Pacific, as President Joe Biden’s administration shapes plans to contain China’s influence in the region.But observers say it could be a challenge for the US to keep up its pu...

At last year’s National People’s Congress (NPC), Chinese President Xi Jinping told a panel discussion that Beijing should look into the shortcomings of its public health sector that had been exposed by the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. Ever sinc...

Last June, when the Hong Kong Trade Development Council spotlighted business opportunities in Myanmar in an article on its website, there was no shortage of Hong Kong businesses on hand to express their bullish sentiment.Hong Kong had recently emerge...

With the world closely watching the aftershocks from “that” bombshell Meghan Markle interview with Oprah Winfrey, institutional racism appears to be alive and well within the British monarchy. Now we have a former royal butler telling the worl...

For 60-year-old Jin Liguo, coal mining runs in the family. His parents were miners and now his offspring is also part of the industry in Shanxi province, the centre of China’s coal production. Retired after a 40-year career in the industry, Jin is ...

China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, on Thursday formally approved the biggest shake-up of Hong Kong’s electoral system since the city’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. The revamp will mean big changes for both the oppos...

A baby raccoon to stroke while you sip your skinny latte? Or a snake to coil around you after your cappuccino?Forget dog or cat cafes, Shanghai’s animal cafe scene has expanded to include a wider and more exotic kingdom.The fad in dining alongside ...

Amid the barren fields and empty streets, Hong Kong nuclear radiation researcher Ray Lei Yu-ting still senses the lingering unease in the town of Namie, a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.Sitting only a few kilometres north of the ill-fate...

Four years ago, a traffic accident cost Le Thi Kim Tram her left arm. Amid the trauma, the 42-year-old lay recovering in hospital, thinking of ways to continue her livelihood – cutting hair, a trade followed by three generations of her family.To ma...

When the Hong Kong government pushed restaurant patrons to scan a QR code before being served, many in the city probably considered downloading the “Leave Home Safe” app. Yet many instead choose – whether due to privacy concerns or plain inerti...

Experts are warning of a looming labour shortage in Hong Kong, especially in the information technology sector, as local talent moves away and fewer foreign specialists arrive.Employers say they are competing for the same small pool, and facing short...

Beijing should tread carefully when it comes to the Natuna Islands, a region belonging to Indonesia that borders the disputed South China Sea, a global trade route rich in fishing stocks and energy reserves.That was the view of former Singapore diplo...

The US government said on Friday that Myanmar citizens stranded by the violence following the country’s military coup would be able to remain inside the United States under “temporary protected status”.“Due to the military coup and security f...

The Group of Seven (G7) nations issued a statement expressing “grave concerns” about Beijing’s plan to change Hong Kong’s electoral system, which was approved on Thursday by China’s national legislature.Beijing said on Saturday it “strong...

Health workers in the United States have administered more than 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, an official tracker showed Friday, around 30 per cent of the world’s total of shots in arms so far.A total of 101,128,005 shots have been administer...

Mark Ivan and his wife, a Filipino couple in their early 30s, were on Friday standing in a queue of people – so long it snaked around a corner – to take Covid-19 tests under a row of white tents manned by medical workers in sky-blue protective ge...

China’s next aircraft carrier is likely to be nuclear powered, according to two people close to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).After a two-year delay because of technical problems, construction work on the vessel resumed earlier this year, th...

The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay a US$27 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody, a case that stirred national protests over racial injustice and police brutality.Floyd, a 46-year-old ...

A United States government regulator overseeing the communications industry labelled five Chinese telecommunications companies a “threat to national security” on Friday, including Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp.Announcing the designation, the F...

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have seen their popularity fall sharply in Britain after an explosive interview in which they accused the royal family of racism, a poll suggested on Friday.More than 11 million people in Britain, and 50 millio...

China on Friday said it was “deeply concerned” by what it described as the Australian government’s operation of offshore detention centres, and it called for the sites to be closed immediately.Ties between the two countries soured in 2018 when ...

Sri Lanka has complained to Beijing over Chinese-made doormats featuring the island’s national lion flag being sold through online retail giant Amazon, officials said Friday.Sri Lanka is highly sensitive to what it sees as any misuse of its nationa...

The World Health Organization on Friday approved Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, after already authorising the jabs made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca.“Every new, safe and effective tool against Covid-19 is another step closer t...

The European Union issued a scathing review of political conditions in Hong Kong, describing an “alarming political deterioration” and a “severe erosion of autonomy, democracy and fundamental freedoms”.The EU’s annual report on the city hit...

The image of US ambassador Jim Sasser peering out the broken door of the paint-splattered US embassy in Beijing is more than a moving photograph; it provides a mini-course in diplomacy.The context: an anti-US demonstration whipped up in the angry aft...

US President Joe Biden and the leaders of three major Asia-Pacific countries, an alliance known as the “Quad”, discussed “aggression” and “coercion” against members of the group by China, while agreeing to cooperate on development of 5G a...

Fear and anxiety gripped Hong Kong’s banking and legal sectors on Friday after an outbreak of Covid-19 linked to a gym popular with the city’s high-flying professionals ballooned in size.At least 100 workers waited in line to be screened at a mob...

Hong Kong recorded its first case of a patient experiencing facial paralysis after being vaccinated for Covid-19 last week, officials revealed on Friday, while taking pains to stress that the city’s incidence rate of possible side effects from the ...

British police have charged an officer with the kidnap and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, whose disappearance last week has sparked anger and fears among women about their safety.Constable Wayne Couzens, 48, who guarded diplomatic buildings, wi...

A lawyer for Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has questioned the apparent lack of plans by police to assist in the dispersal of departing demonstrators at an approved rally in 2019, for which he and six others were charged with organising an...

The International Olympic Committee has accepted China’s offer to supply coronavirus vaccines for participants in the next Summer and Winter Games, in an apparent win for Beijing as it battles boycott calls.In the IOC annual session on Thursday, pr...

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been moved from a detention facility in Russia’s Vladimir region where he was incarcerated last month and transferred to an unknown location, one of his lawyers said on Friday.Navalny, one of President Vladimir Put...

The first heads of state meeting of the “Quad” on Friday is expected to mark the start of a new power dynamic that would counter China’s influence in the region, but analysts ask how far can it go.US President Joe Biden and his counterparts fro...

A senior Beijing official on Friday said the central government’s unprecedented overhaul of Hong Kong’s entire political system would not shut out all opposition activists, and there were “patriots” among the pan-democrats who could still run...

A top microbiologist testifying at the trial of a Hong Kong couple accused of murdering their five-year-old daughter has concluded that the child would not have died of septicaemia if she had not been abused or neglected.Dr Ho Pak-leung, a clinical m...

A World Health Organization expert advisory committee is currently looking at AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine after some countries paused distribution of it, but there is no reason not to use it, a spokeswoman said on Friday.Health authorities in se...

A new top-level committee for vetting the loyalty of political hopefuls should accept a sincere pledge of allegiance as a “sufficient requirement” for running for public office, unless evidence shows a candidate has significantly harmed Hong Kong...