A pro-government historian is set to appear for the prosecution in the first trial under Hong Kong’s national security law, arguing a popular protest slogan displayed by the defendant incites others to commit separatist acts.The High Court on Tuesd...

President Joe Biden and a top health official warned that too many Americans are declaring virus victory too quickly, appealing for mask requirements and other restrictions to be maintained or restored to stave off a “fourth surge” of Covid-19. T...

The last Korean to be convicted of war crimes after serving in the Japanese military during World War II has died without receiving the apology and compensation he insisted Tokyo owed him for his suffering. Lee Hak-rae, 96, died on Sunday.  Lee was ...

An upstate New York woman said Governor Andrew Cuomo used a visit to her home during a 2017 flood emergency as an opportunity to grab her face and twice kiss her on the cheek in an unwanted encounter.Sherry Vill, 55, a businesswoman from Greece, New ...

 Top Glove Corp.’s stock sank after the US Customs and Border Protection ordered personnel at American ports of entry to seize its gloves made in Malaysia, putting pressure on the world’s biggest gloves maker to improve its labour practices.The ...

A worker at a steel manufacturer in China has committed suicide by jumping into a blast furnace after allegedly losing large sums of money on the stock market, local police said.The clip is from a recording of a surveillance camera at the Baogang Gro...

GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to help manufacture as many as 60 million UK doses of a Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax as the British government looks to shore up supplies amid tensions with the European Union.The British pharmaceutical company will provid...

Former US president Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at two of the country’s leading figures in the coronavirus battle after they criticised his handling of the pandemic.In an angry statement, Trump described Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as “t...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will allow private companies to import vaccines “at will” to boost inoculations amid a global supply crunch and to help speed up the reopening of the economy.Businesses can choose where to source and i...

Hong Kong’s health minister has said the city is not ready for a major downscaling of social-distancing rules, cautioning against moving too quickly and wiping out its efforts in containing the fourth Covid-19 wave.Secretary for Food and Health Pro...

Leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organization on Tuesday backed an idea to create an international treaty that would help the world deal with future health emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic now ravaging the globe.The idea of such ...

Fundraising via new share listings in Hong Kong soared more than ninefold to a record in the first quarter, pushing the city’s main board to second place behind Nasdaq in the global rankings for initial public offerings (IPOs). The 822 per cent inc...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet his Southeast Asian counterparts this week, stepping up Beijing’s attempts to engage with the region and counter growing criticism over its activities in the South China Sea.Sources said in addition to mee...

Myanmar protesters held overnight candlelit vigils after an advocacy group said security forced had now killed over 500 people since a February 1 coup, and as activists on Tuesday launched a new civil disobedience campaign to hurl garbage onto street...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro overhauled his government on Monday, changing six cabinet members including the foreign, defence and justice ministers, as the far-right leader faced mounting pressure over a deadly surge of Covid-19.Bolsonaro, who ...

Feng Zhimin was waiting for a bus last week in a village near the southern city of Guangzhou when a sudden explosion across the street almost knocked him off his feet. “It was so powerful that the windows were blown in and glass scattered everywhe...

Key points:– Election Committee will enjoy biggest share of Legislative Council seats with 40, while 30 seats go to the trade-based functional constituencies, leaving the directly elected geographical constituencies with just 20, down from 35– Fi...

While older adults have been at the front of the vaccination queue in many countries because of their increased vulnerability to Covid-19, this has not been the case in China – until now.This month some cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, offic...

Authorities in Mianning, a county in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, put tight restrictions on residents’ ability to buy more than one lighter or box of matches until the end of June, according to an announcement posted on social medi...

Two researchers are proposing an idea to revolutionise Hong Kong’s land-use laws, floating an idea that could help to unlock and convert the city’s swathes of farmland into residential land and help alleviate the city’s chronic affordability pr...

In March, leaders of the “Quad” countries – the United States, India, Japan and Australia – came together for a momentous summit, resulting in their first-ever joint statement. This was a milestone for the Quad, after years of struggling to g...

Thailand expects about 2 million foreign tourists, mostly Chinese and Europeans, to visit Phuket this year once the nation’s most popular resort island reopens to vaccinated visitors from July 1.The holidaymakers may generate about 105 billion baht...

Philippines billionaire Enrique Razon was sued in New York by a company that claims the tycoon illegally terminated an agreement to operate a Manila casino and is hiding assets in the United States to avoid paying an arbitration award.The suit, filed...

Hong Kong’s travel industry has called on the city and its prospective travel bubble partners to strike bilateral agreements recognising each other’s approved Covid-19 vaccines in order to get the long-awaited deals off the ground.The appeal from...

North Korea called South Korea’s president “a parrot raised by America” on Tuesday, resuming its trademark derisive rhetoric against its rivals amid renewed animosities on the Korean peninsula.Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean le...

Public access to the personal information of company directors will be restricted under a government proposal to enhance privacy protection, raising fears among media groups that press freedom in Hong Kong will be undermined.The proposal, outlined in...

US prosecutors filed two new charges in their sex crimes case against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell Monday, adding a new victim and extending the time frame of her alleged offences.Federal lawyers filed a superseding indictment in a New York co...

The United States has no right under international law to prosecute Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou for fraud because her alleged conduct has nothing to do with the US, her lawyers told a Canadian extradition hearing on Monday as they bega...

Speculation is running rampant among Chinese about how many years of pension income may be lost after the government announced plans to gradually increase the nation’s mandatory retirement age.The move has sparked deep concern among working and mid...

Six years ago, Christina Bui, who was born in the US state of Virginia to a family of Vietnamese immigrants, accepted a job in Ho Chi Minh City. Her mother was appalled.“My dad was ‘whatever’ [about it] but my mom was furious, giving me the who...

Canada is suspending the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for people under the age of 55 following concerns it may be linked to rare blood clots.The National Advisory Committee on Immunisation recommended a pause on AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccina...

The Biden administration said on Monday it is looking at “additional actions” that the United Nations might take to respond to North Korea’s recent missile tests.US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield was not specific about...

Former US President Donald Trump slammed as “pre-textual” his niece Mary’s argument that her lawsuit claiming she was defrauded of much of her inheritance decades ago was not barred by a two-year statute of limitations.Mary Trump, who wrote a d...

Finnish pulp and paper giant Stora Enso says it will “divest” from making the raw ingredient needed to produce wood-based viscose rayon fibre, the world’s third most common clothing material, a day after a South China Morning Post article highl...

Video footage of George Floyd gasping for breath was front and centre on Monday as the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee on the Black man’s neck went on trial on charges of murder and manslaughter.Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell s...

The world is emerging from the biggest social and economic shock in living memory, but it will be a long time before the deep scars of the Covid-19 pandemic on human well-being fully heal.In the Asia-Pacific region, where 60 per cent of the world liv...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for greater debt relief and new creative financing to help poorer nations deal with the pandemic and prevent their economic recoveries from falling behind.A “new debt mechanism” t...

Scores of Chinese and foreign companies producing “well-known global brands” may be involved in human trafficking, forced labour and other human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, a United Nations working group said on Monday, calling mo...

A group of European Union members plans to present a list of priorities for the implementation of a scheme known as the green passport, which would facilitate travel in the bloc despite the coronavirus pandemic.The green passports are to be implement...

Author Dav Pilkey, best known for his children’s book series Captain Underpants, and Scholastic publishing have pulled his 2010 graphic novel The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future off the shelves over what they dubbed “p...

Outrage grew in Mexico and El Salvador as Mexican authorities said on Monday that an autopsy of a Salvadoran woman who died in police custody confirmed that police broke her neck.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador flatly said that Victoria Esper...

The biggest city in Xinjiang has expanded its footprint more than four times in less than three decades, mainly because of a rapidly rising population, according to a new study.The population of Urumqi has increased more than a third over the last 10...

A theory that China’s latest joint venture with the SWIFT financial messaging service is a defensive move against the United States has been refuted by a former Chinese bank executive, who insists the move is actually part of efforts to promote the...

A powerful new committee that will vet candidates for Hong Kong’s most important elections will be kept to fewer than 10 people and the members decided by two groups overseeing national security under a drastic overhaul of the political system by B...

An evening talk show focused on history, literature, science and philosophy has been suspended by Hong Kong’s trouble-plagued RTHK, multiple sources have told the Post, while the public broadcaster also confirmed it axed another current affairs doc...

The United States on Monday suspended a trade pact with Myanmar as it voiced outrage over the military junta’s killing of more than 100 democracy protesters over the weekend.The Trade and Investment Framework, which laid out ways to boost business ...

The Chinese branch of an organisation set up to promote good practice in the cotton industry has publicly split with its headquarters over claims of forced labour in Xinjiang, insisting that it has found no evidence it is taking place.The rift betwee...

The South China Morning Post has earned 12 prizes – including six in the top spot – in the Newspaper Society’s 2020 Hong Kong News Awards.China news editor Josephine Ma, reporter Linda Lew and former reporter Lee Jeong-ho took second runner-up ...

Indonesia’s planned joint exercise with Japan underlines the Southeast Asian nation’s intention to upgrade its maritime defences amid China’s rising assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific, though that does not necessarily mean it will align itself w...

The virus that causes Covid-19 most likely passed from bats into humans via an intermediary animal, but it is “extremely unlikely” that it came from a laboratory leak, according to a draft of a highly anticipated World Health Organization investi...