The Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has entered South Africa – its first venture on the continent.The firm announced on Monday that it had started recruiting drivers in Cape Town and would start offering services to the public in the autum...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday proposed paying for vaccines against the coronavirus with oil, though he provided few details about how such a scheme would work.The crisis-stricken OPEC nation’s crude exports have plummeted to their l...

The home of Hong Kong’s Academy Awards telecast for more than 50 years will not be broadcasting this year’s Oscars amid reported calls by Beijing for mainland media to either boycott or downplay the glitzy celebration of the global film industry....

Hong Kong’s tourism workforce will be thrown a lifeline with officials set to offer its embattled staff nearly 2,000 temporary jobs on the city’s Covid-19 vaccination programme, the Post has learned.The full-time roles – with monthly pay rangin...

A former opposition lawmaker facing subversion charges in the largest national security law crackdown to date was denied bail for a second time at the High Court on Monday.“Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, who has been detained since February 28, will...

The Czech Republic’s richest man, billionaire Petr Kellner, was killed in a helicopter crash in Alaska, his financial group PPF said on Monday. He was 56.PPF said five people died in the crash, whose circumstances were being investigated.“We anno...

Tie-dye might invoke images of the 1960s, hippies, and Woodstock, but what about the Bai people of southwestern China?For more than 1,500 years, this ethnic group in Yunnan province has been dyeing their clothes blue using the leaves of a plant local...

Chinese officials warned Swedish clothing brand H&M and other companies the “era of bullying” by foreign powers was over, after months-old statements by the international brands expressing concerns about forced labour in Xinjiang triggered calls ...

Las Vegas Sands Corp. set up a special committee to look into potential breaches of anti-money-laundering procedures at its Singapore casino, which has already been the target of probes by US officials and local police.The committee of three independ...

Australia expects to log a record A$136 billion (US$104 billion) from iron ore exports this financial year, as global steelmaking recovers after a coronavirus-led downturn, a government report showed on Monday.The country’s most valuable economic e...

Key points:Government asks Hongkongers to get vaccinated if joining a potential air travel bubble with SingaporeIt wrote to Japan, South Korea, Thailand and New Zealand to resume talks on air travel bubbleCompulsory quarantine period for arrivals fro...

In the waters of Victoria Harbour near the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, three jellyfish glide amid the seaweed, floating twigs and marine litter, showing that people don’t have to venture far out to sea to spot them. These jellyfish, says expert John...

A trade meeting between China and the United States will take place “when the time is right”, new US Trade Representative Katherine Tai has said.The Office of the US Trade Representative confirmed Tai spoke to some 14 international trade official...

Palau’s leader flew into Taiwan on Sunday as the two coronavirus-free allies prepare to launch a travel corridor and boost their pandemic-hit tourist sectors.A charter flight carrying President Surangel Whipps and a delegation including United Stat...

Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei Technologies Co has suspended downloads of sportswear brands Nike and Adidas from its app store amid a public uproar in China over their position on the alleged use of forced labour by Xinjiang cotton producers...

Indonesian state oil company Pertamina said on Monday it has shut its Balongan oil refinery in West Java as it battles to control a massive fire that broke out overnight, injuring five people.About 950 nearby residents had been evacuated, Pertamina s...

Beijing laid down key principles earlier this month on how to shake up Hong Kong’s electoral system to ensure the city’s governing power would be firmly held by “patriots”, a drastic overhaul critics have seen as aimed at wiping out dissent.T...

A US religious-rights official said she was “flattered” to be the target of Chinese government sanctions stemming from a dispute between the two countries over Beijing’s treatment of Uygur Muslims, which Washington has described as a genocide.T...

When a piece by digital artist Beeple recently sold for US$69.3 million as a non-fungible token in a one-of-a-kind auction by British auction house Christie’s, ripples of excitement spread throughout the global arts scene.The piece – a JPEG colla...

The landlords of nearly 100,000 subdivided Hong Kong flats will be subject to a new rental index under a proposed tenancy control bill designed to protect some of the city’s poorest residents, but the formula could still allow for rent increases of...

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged Germany’s 16 federal states to honour measures agreed to curb Covid-19, with cases spiralling as many regions stray from the national line.“We need action in the federal states,” Merkel said in an interv...

Myanmar security forces killed a man in the country’s main city of Yangon on Monday, media reported, as activists called on ethnic minority forces in the diverse nation to back their campaign against military rule.After the bloodiest day since last...

More than 30 million people in Britain have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.A total of 30,151,287 people between December 8 and March 27 received their first jabs, around 57 per cent of all British adults, the Department of Health a...

Rebels fought the Mozambican army on Sunday for the fifth straight day for control of the strategic northern town of Palma, as reports came in that dozens of civilians have been killed and bodies were littering the streets. The fate of scores of fore...

The stranded container ship blocking the Suez Canal for nearly a week has been partially refloated, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said, raising hopes the busy waterway will soon be reopened.The 400-metre-long Ever Given became jammed diagonally acr...

The governments of Mexico and Guatemala have launched a joint military-police operation along their common border aimed at blocking caravans of migrants hoping to reach the United States.The Biden administration had sent envoys to the two countries o...

At least four people were killed and swift-water rescue crews plucked more than 130 people from cars, flats and homes as devastating storms continued to hammer the southern United States.An overnight deluge pounded parts of Tennessee with nine inches...

The suicide bombing at an Indonesian cathedral on Palm Sunday was carried out by two members of a pro-Islamic State extremist group blamed for other church blasts, including a deadly 2019 attack in the Philippines, police said.About 20 worshippers we...

Veteran actor and two-time Hong Kong Film Awards winner Liu Kai-chi died on Sunday night aged 66, after a short illness.Liu, who had reportedly been battling stomach cancer for the past couple of months, died at the Prince of Wales Hospital, in Sha T...

Nestled among forests and icy lakes, a 54-year-old factory in the tiny Finnish village of Uimaharju churns out pulp made from the dense woodland that blankets the country.It is a world away from the clothing stores of Helsinki, Hong Kong and New York...

The United Arab Emirates will become the first country to produce China’s Sinopharm vaccine abroad in a deal that deepens Beijing’s influence in the Gulf, long a bastion of US power.Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries PSC said on Sunday it signed a co...

In the three years since China first aired its vision for a “Polar Silk Road” trade route, it has made some headway in expanding its presence in the Arctic.Chinese entities have opened up new freight routes and conducted scientific expeditions in...

Young people in Hong Kong should look for career opportunities in the government and mainland China, the city’s deputy leader said on Sunday.Despite an alarming unemployment rate among fresh graduates, Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung predi...

China’s 25-year agreement with Iran underlies a shift in its Middle East strategy as relations with the United States deteriorate, the country’s former ambassador to Tehran has said.Last week China and Iran signed the pact on energy, economic and...

Hundreds of members of a hardline Islamist group attacked Hindu temples and a train in eastern Bangladesh on Sunday, police and a local journalist said, as violence spread across the country in the wake of a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Mo...

An exhibition of the winning entries in the 2020 World Press Photo Contest – including five shots taken during Hong Kong’s 2019 anti-government protests – opened its doors to the public on Sunday, a month after Baptist University abruptly backe...

A Chinese consumer boycott against international brands such as Nike and Adidas appeared to be losing steam over the weekend.Nationalists had called for a boycott after statements expressing concern about allegations of forced labour in Xinjiang resu...

Malaysia’s biggest political party and key ruling coalition ally Umno on Sunday said it will not cooperate with Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s alliance in the next national election, deepening conflict within the ruling pact.Muhyiddin’s 13 m...

Underprivileged Hong Kong residents have joined a local concern group in urging the government to cap rent increases at 10 per cent and tie pricing to the actual market value of properties to prevent landlords from taking advantage of lower-income te...

China’s plan to become a powerhouse in civil aircraft manufacturing could be derailed by US export controls on aviation products, as tension between Beijing and Washington shows no sign of easing despite a new administration in Washington. A trade ...

Japan is set to issue digital health certificates to citizens who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, joining China, the EU and other countries that have adopted similar measures aimed at opening up overseas travel.In line with international stand...

To take or not to take the second shot, that is the question for more than 462,000 Hongkongers who have already received their first Covid-19 vaccination dose of either China’s Sinovac or the German-made BioNTech.Those who are worried by the sudde...

China’s top legislative body will start finalising details of the overhaul of Hong Kong’s electoral system on Monday, and it is expected to adopt the toughest options to fix the problems that Beijing has identified in enforcing the bottom line of...

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit to New Delhi last week was the latest symbol of Washington’s desire for the two sides to close ranks against China’s increasing assertiveness, observers say.Yet in drawing closer to the United States, I...

Two months after Cambodia launched its Covid-19 vaccination programme with 1.2 million shots made by China’s Sinopharm and India’s Serum Institute-produced AstraZeneca vaccine, the government on Tuesday said garment factory workers, who number ab...

Hong Kong authorities were considering ways to incentivise residents to take the coronavirus jab amid a sluggish start to the city’s vaccination roll-out, a government adviser said on Sunday, as top officials renewed their push for a programme they...

China must ensure manufacturing remains the backbone of its economy and not allow it to slowly wither, as had happened in the United States, economists say.Cai Fang, a former deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who now works as an a...

South Korea’s “hurry, hurry” culture has propelled the country’s economic development and given rise to its renowned service culture, but the mindset is not without side effects. These include a corporate culture notorious for overworking emp...

A sandstorm that hit Beijing on Sunday morning pushed air pollution levels off the charts, turned the sky yellow and reduced the sun to a blue dot.The storm was the second to hit the Chinese capital in less than two weeks and came after the Beijing M...

The Philippine military is sending light fighter aircraft to fly over hundreds of Chinese vessels in disputed waters in the South China Sea, its defence minister said, as he repeated his demand the flotilla be withdrawn immediately.International conc...