Wading into an ongoing debate about the freedom of the press, a former Hong Kong privacy commissioner has argued that the lack of a system for verifying journalists’ qualifications makes it difficult for the government to release sensitive informat...

Police have arrested five secondary school students, including a 14-year-old, in connection with a robbery at a Tai Po jewellery store involving two gold pieces worth HK$56,000 (US$7,200).The five suspects are from four different schools, and two of ...

Ending months of speculation, Beijing finally unveiled concrete details in March for its overhaul of Hong Kong’s electoral system, with the central principle that only “patriots” can rule the city effectively barring most pan-democrats from see...

Protesters against military rule marched in Myanmar on Saturday, three months after a coup ended the country’s democratic transition, with several small blasts compounding a sense of crisis that a United Nations envoy warned could bring state admin...

China’s government has found more than two dozen mapping and text applications to be in violation of data privacy regulations, in an expansion of the nation’s crackdown on the technology and internet industry.Thirty-three applications operated by...

Many Hong Kong restaurants, entertainment venues and tour operators are not expecting much of a windfall from the first weekend of looser social-distancing measures under the city’s so-called vaccine bubble scheme, with some complaining of stringen...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Saturday, authorities said, but no tsunami warning was issued.At least three people were injured by the quake, which produced strong shaking along parts of the eastern coast and wa...

The Covid-19 pandemic derailed many events in 2020, including the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity.The meeting is rescheduled for October in Kunming, China, offering an opportunity for Beijing and Washington – rivals on nearly all fronts �...

India on Saturday recorded over 400,000 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, the first country to do so in the pandemic, as it opened its faltering vaccination drive to all adults and a hospital fire killed 18 people.According to the health ministry, 401,...

The genomes of the latest two mutated Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong are identical to the first variant case detected in the community, the Post has learned, raising fears over the emergence of invisible transmission chains in the city.According to...

Every phone call brings trepidation.Because every call is, inevitably, about the coronavirus. Often, it is a call for help – someone needs a hospital bed, or the hospital has run out of oxygen or vital drugs. But increasingly, it is news about losi...

In his first major speech as Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin on Friday called for developing a “new vision” for American defence in the face of emerging cyber and space threats and the prospect of fighting bigger wars.Reflecting President Joe Biden�...

Indonesian lawmakers are calling for the sister ship to KRI Nanggala 402 – which sank recently with the loss of all 53 crew – to be grounded until it is proven seaworthy.They say the sinking of the 44-year-old submarine has underscored the danger...

Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as of Monday and those who disobey will face fines and jail, government officials said.The emergency d...

Hong Kong recorded a nearly sixfold increase in the number of technology-based crimes in the past decade, hitting about 13,000 cases and monetary losses totalling HK$2.96 billion in 2020 alone, the latest figures show.According to police, reports of ...

Like many Hong Kong children, 12-year-old Sze Choi-lam found herself captivated by the beloved Wisely Series of science fiction novels, so she set out to make a drawing of one of its otherworldly characters.Unlike other children, however, she will so...

As Indonesia’s borders stay shut for a year and counting, people who used to travel overseas for medical treatment are turning to local hospitals.“More cancer patients are showing up at the hospital that I went to,” said Edyth Chatrina, a lawye...

“Go to hell”. These were the last words Wang Nan heard before her husband kissed her on the cheek and pushed her off a cliff in Thailand where he had supposedly taken her to see the sunrise on June 9, 2019.Three months pregnant with her husband Y...

Copper prices have breached the US$10,000 per tonne mark for the first time since 2011 due to strong demand in China and the weak dollar – providing hopes for producers such as Zambia, which last year defaulted on its foreign debt, and the Democrat...

After months of reporting few if any locally transmitted cases, Singapore has in recent weeks seen reinfections among migrant workers who had previously recovered from Covid-19, as well as reports of people catching the coronavirus despite being vacc...

While the decision by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest contract chip manufacturer, to expand production at its plant in Nanjing, the capital city of Chinese coastal province Jiangsu, may make sense amid a global chi...

Tom Lau* pays his landlord his rent of HK$6,300 (US$811) in cash every month. The 36-year-old has a room in an East London house owned by a mainland Chinese family.The owner subdivided the three bedrooms into six, and Lau is among eight people living...

A Chinese state-owned airline is reassessing whether to resume cargo flights to India, but so far the services remain suspended because of a surge in coronavirus cases in the country.Sichuan Airlines Logistics, the logistics arm of Sichuan Airlines, ...

The White House said on Friday that US President Joe Biden plans to veer from the approaches of his two most recent predecessors as he tries to stop North Korea’s nuclear programme, rejecting both Donald Trump’s deeply personal effort to win over...

After the first 100 days of Joe Biden’s presidency, the outlook for trade relations between the US and China remains cloudy.No discussions have been scheduled between the US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He, despit...

Game of Thrones actress Esme Bianco sued Marilyn Manson on Friday, alleging sexual, physical and emotional abuse.In the lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles, Bianco says that the US goth rocker violated human trafficking law by bringing her ...

The US criticised China on Friday for failing to fulfil commitments it made in the “phase one” trade deal a year ago to improve protections for the intellectual property of American companies.In its first report under the Biden administration, th...

TikTok, the popular short-video app, named ByteDance Chief Financial Officer Chew Shou Zi as chief executive officer, filling the top leadership position after the departure of Kevin Mayer last year. Vanessa Pappas, who has served as interim head, wa...

Mikhail Petrov’s TikTok posts started going viral this year when he tapped into growing discontent in Russia with bite-sized explanations of the country’s budding protest movement.His popularity exploded to over 250,000 followers and TikTok invit...

The US will restrict travel from India starting on May 4, the White House said on Friday, citing a devastating rise in Covid-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus.White House press secretary Je...

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday the United States does not consider China’s cooperation on climate change a favour, and that it was unclear if Beijing would fully follow through on its commitments to reduce emissi...

A brutal boxing tournament in Russia that pits bare-knuckle fighters against each other in short, bloody bouts has surged in popularity on social networks during the coronavirus pandemic.The “Top Dog” tournament began broadcasting fights in car p...

The Kremlin accused Washington on Friday of fuelling tension with “unfriendly actions” after the US embassy in Moscow said it was cutting staff and stopping processing visas for most Russians.The embassy said it was cutting consular staff by 75 p...

A satellite imaging database containing detailed information of more than a million locations has been launched in China to help reduce errors made by artificial intelligences when identifying objects from space, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said ...

A very small number of mainly frail, elderly Covid-19 patients are being hospitalised and dying even after having a first dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca’s vaccines, but this does not mean the shots aren’t working, UK researchers said on Friday.Pre...

Western sanctions targeting Xinjiang are no more than “a piece of waste paper” and their real purpose is to hamper Chinese companies internationally, the region’s government said on Friday.“Their real purpose is to conduct an ‘industry geno...

Bad news, knowing no time zones, arrives in a jarring burst of messages, calls and posts telling millions of members of India’s worldwide diaspora that yet another loved one has been sickened or lost to the coronavirus.Sometimes it comes in a barra...

A vocational college in China has been shut down after its principal claimed her students used “mind power” to produce chicks from boiled eggs. The journal which published the claims has also been closed.Guo Ping, who founded the college, was lea...

A Hong Kong art teacher has resigned himself to the possibility that he may soon become the city’s latest educator to be deregistered for life, as officials weigh what disciplinary action to take over a series of “inappropriate” political carto...

While China is slowing its infrastructure spending amid concerns of growing debt, it is still pushing ahead with investment to support its aviation ambitions, including construction of the world’s largest offshore airport outside the northern port ...

Singapore is enforcing stricter coronavirus measures after finding an infection cluster at one of its largest hospitals, with health authorities saying on Friday they may consider further restrictions if cases grow and indicate widespread transmissio...

China’s embassy in Tokyo has deleted anti-Semitic tweet that portrayed the US as death knocking on the door of Muslim countries after it triggered a war of words with Japanese Twitter users.The cartoon, posted late on Thursday afternoon, features t...

China and Germany have agreed to step up engagement on issues including human rights and the Asia-Pacific, as Beijing seeks to keep relations between the two countries on a level footing after Angela Merkel steps down later this year.The Chancellor, ...

Revelations that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal mobile number has been circulating online for 15 years raised national security concerns on Friday, amid a raft of probes into his conduct.The phone number appeared on a press release...

China’s former deputy chief of staff of the navy is suspected of “serious violation of discipline and law” and has been disqualified from the national legislature, authorities announced.Song Xue, a deputy of the People’s Liberation Army Navy ...

Two more Hong Kong teachers have been deregistered for life, one after being accused by authorities of “using a large amount of one-sided and biased teaching materials”, and the other for their involvement in 2019’s anti-government protests.The...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a condolence message to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promising to help the coronavirus-battered nation cope with a devastating surge of infections and deaths.Xi said he was very concerned about the second...

A man in Heilongjiang province in northeast China who abused his wife for three years, often forcing her to work or sleep in a pigpen and eat garbage, had the appeal for his 18-month prison sentence rejected in a case that caused fury about the perce...

A US-based YouTuber and a Russian influencer were ordered off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Friday after recording themselves defying mandatory mask-wearing with some imaginative make-up.Clips of the video created by Josh Paler Lin and Leia ...

Leading experts in communicable diseases met in Tokyo on Friday to review countermeasures put forward by the organising committee for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games, 83 days before one of the largest sporting events in Japan’s history is due to o...