Hong Kong’s economy is moving towards recovery, but its slow progress in vaccinating residents against the coronavirus could hold back growth, the city’s finance chief has warned.While private consumer spending increased by 1.6 per cent in the la...

Four in 10 Hong Kong teachers have decided or are minded to leave the profession, with most citing increasing political pressure for wanting to quit, according to a survey by one of the city’s biggest trade unions.Ten per cent of the 1,178 educator...

Haiva Nurani couldn’t quite believe her eyes when she spotted her favourite brand of Indonesian coffee confectionery in an episode of hit South Korean television series Vincenzo . The 22-year-old college student from Bandung, Indonesia, has been a...

Authorities in a southeastern Chinese province have postponed plans to shorten quarantine for visitors from Taiwan after a surge in new coronavirus cases on the island linked to the travel industry.A coronavirus command centre in Fujian announced on ...

Hong Kong’s health minister has warned the emergence of variant coronavirus strains with untraceable sources of transmission could trigger a reversion to tougher control measures, while the city on Sunday confirmed one imported infection and no new...

After a month-long delay, the results of China’s once-a-decade population census will be released on Tuesday, the country’s statistics bureau said on Sunday.The data was originally scheduled to be released in early April, but was put back first u...

The remnants of China’s Long March 5B rocket splashed down in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives on Sunday morning with no immediate reports of any damage or casualties, ending an anxious week as people and governments wondered where and when the s...

US politician Elise Stefanik began her Washington career as a moderate, but has changed tack and surged in influence to likely become the most powerful Republican woman in Congress – a trajectory she owes entirely to her staunch defence of Donald T...

Outside a remand prison in a run-down Bangkok suburb, five women stand by cardboard cut-outs of their incarcerated children. A bedsheet tied to the gates bears the message: “Give us our children back.”This is the closest they can get to the young...

Eddie Lo* is preparing for an imminent move to Britain with his wife, a primary-school teacher, and their two young children. They want their son settled in a British state primary school in time to sit the competitive 11-plus entrance examination ne...

When *Mrs Zhen’s husband lost his battle to stomach cancer last year, the family was devastated.She fell into depression and some days found it difficult to get out of bed.However, she says she found the strength to keep going for her three childre...

Myanmar’s junta has declared a group of ousted lawmakers running a shadow government would now be classified as “terrorists”, as the military moves to tighten its grip over a country in turmoil.Since the military seized power in a February 1 co...

In late April, a day before SpaceX launched its 10th batch of satellites this year, Chinese Vice-Premier Han Zheng attended a ceremony in Xiongan, a megacity that is about a two hours’ drive south of Beijing, celebrating the creation of a new state...

A blood cancer patient who received the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine by mistake after going to the wrong inoculation centre in Hong Kong will now get two BioNTech jabs.Hong Kong health authorities said they were making an exception in allowing the mixing...

While heightened military tensions over Taiwan are concerning for the island’s overseas diaspora, many take the view that a full-blown crisis is unlikely – at least in the short-term.Like most overseas Taiwanese, Bryan Hsieh keeps close tabs on d...

Authorities in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC say they are seeking to arrest a man who reportedly left a restaurant without paying, used racial slurs when confronted by two Asian-American workers and assaulted one of them.Arlington County Police...

The relationship between motherhood and work is one of the trickiest balancing acts there is for a woman. Entrenched gender stereotypes place an unfair burden on working mums. At work, employers may be biased against female employees who are mothers...

It’s just two digits but the number on the hull of the first of China’s largest amphibious landing helicopter docks (LHD) points to a high value.The first Type 075 Yushen-class Hainan ship was given the pennant number “31” when the PLA Navy c...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Gloria Gonzales, Ben Lefebvre and Eric Geller on politico.com on May 8, 2021.The main fuel supply line to the US East Coast has shut down indefinitely after...

A Covid-19 variant spreading in India is more contagious and may be dodging vaccine protections, contributing to the country’s explosive outbreak, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said on Saturday.Soumya Swaminathan warned that “...

Iran on Saturday dismissed doubts expressed by US President Joe Biden as to how serious Tehran is about the continuing nuclear negotiations.“3 years ago today, a disgraced buffoon violated US obligations under JCPOA & UNSCR 2231,” Foreign Ministe...

Scotland is headed for a protracted showdown with the UK government over the right to an independence referendum after leader Nicola Sturgeon’s nationalists scored a decisive election victory.The BBC projected the Scottish National Party won 63 of ...

The European Union and India have agreed to resume talks on a free trade deal that have been frozen since 2013, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Saturday.“Between the EU and India there is a close relationship but a...

The European Commission has struck a deal with Covid-19 vaccine producer BioNTech/Pfizer to buy up to 1.8 billion additional doses for the next few years, President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Saturday.“Happy to announce that [the European Co...

Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 55 people and wounded more than 150, mostly female students, officials said.A senior interior ministry official said that most of the casualties were students coming ...

The fossil remains of nine Neanderthal men have been found in a cave in Italy, the culture ministry announced on Saturday, a major discovery in the study of our ancient cousins.All the individuals found in the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo, loca...

After a turbulent few days, a weak pulse has been detected on China’s investment deal with the European Union, which made it to the weekend just about alive.But the prognosis is not good: European lawmakers’ tails are up in opposition to a pact m...

Pope Francis offered his support on Saturday for waiving coronavirus vaccine patents to boost supply to poorer countries, in a video message to the “Vax Live” concert.The Argentine pontiff backed “universal access to the vaccine and the tempora...

New homes on offer in Hong Kong over the weekend were greeted with fanfare and enthusiasm, as a stronger-than-expected growth pace in the city’s economy bolstered confidence and brought investors back into the property market.Road King Infrastructu...

Environmental authorities and state media in China have singled out local officials who “turned a blind eye” to an illegal golf course and villas in a conservation area, hammering home demands to comply with central government orders.The accusati...

When Philippine foreign affairs secretary Teodoro Locsin Jnr praised Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor last Tuesday, calling her the best leader in Hong Kong since the opium war, others in the city’s administration heaved a sigh of relief.A potential dipl...

The far-right group Proud Boys allegedly received more than US$80,000 in donations from Chinese-Americans and the broader Chinese diaspora a month before the Capitol attack, according to a report by USA Today.The money was sent as part of a crowdfund...

It began with the elderly. When an Amazonian variant appeared, a broader range of Brazilians started dying. Then those in their 40s, 30s and even 20s succumbed. Now, in an even more chilling development – with possibly global implications – coron...

A man in central China is appealing against a court decision rejecting his divorce application on the grounds that his daughter was not his biological child.The case has revived debate over the virtues of a “cooling off” period for divorce applic...

Students meeting marine ecologist Brian Morton for the first time in class at the University of Hong Kong were often surprised to see their professor dressed casually in shorts and flip-flops.He was informal, approachable and did not like being calle...

The residents of an east China city were living in fear this week after discovering that leopards were roaming their neighbourhood.Three big cats broke out of Hangzhou Safari Park in Zhejiang province some time over the past seven days, but until Sat...

China’s embassy in Belgium has hit out at what it calls “baseless allegations” by a Belgian minister that a logistics hub in the country operated by Alibaba Group Holding could be used by Chinese spies for access to sensitive intelligence.The h...

One side of the image was of a Chinese rocket launch. The other was a photo of funeral pyres for coronavirus victims in India. Over the top was the title: “China’s fire vs India’s fire”.The image was posted on Changan Jian, a social media acc...

Hong Kong resumed local tours on Saturday under its new “vaccine bubble” scheme after a six-months hiatus, with at least a dozen companies offering day trips around the city after a largely scuppered attempt at reopening last week.While the bubbl...

For years now, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jnr has been firing off tweets that would have given Donald Trump pause.The 72-year-old’s stream-of-consciousness Twitter ramblings run the gamut from murderous threats – once calling for...

Health authorities on Saturday brought charges against two people for withholding details or providing misleading information after they sparked a Covid-19 variant infection scare as the first two cases to be discovered locally in Hong Kong with muta...

China has increased efforts to curb the massive production capacity of its domestic steel industry, a sector central to trade disputes with the United States and the European Union (EU), but also one of the nation’s largest sources of air pollution...

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is conscious after life-saving surgery, his family said on Saturday, as police made two arrests in connection with a blast they said was being treated as a terror attack.The 53-year-old was critically injured...

The expiry date for the HK$5,000 (US$645) digital vouchers to be distributed by the Hong Kong government to residents may be extended to Lunar New Year and dished out over fewer instalments, the city’s finance secretary has said, promising more fle...

India recorded more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a day for the first time, the government said on Saturday.The 4,187 new deaths took India’s overall toll to 238,270 since the pandemic started. It added another 401,078 new cases in 24 hours taki...

Before the coronavirus struck, Sam Kombe would receive tens and sometimes hundreds of Chinese visitors to Tanzania per month, travelling to the east African nation to sample safari tourism.Kombe owns Safari Infinity, a tour company in Arusha, in the ...

The death toll began to pile up in Ritwick Ghosh’s social circle back in India. First a college friend succumbed to Covid-19, then a close friend’s sister, then another lost a family member. “As long as there is no name or face, it is just a st...

The first batch of people among some 2,000 Hong Kong residents quarantined in camps were allowed to go home on Saturday afternoon under relaxed Covid-19 rules, the Post learned, while authorities had earlier admitted there were food hygiene issues at...

The United States is trying to position itself as a global leader in Covid-19 vaccine access with a sweeping policy shift on intellectual property rules and plans to send a tranche of doses overseas. But experts say it is hard to know when US action ...

Some iron ore traders view the indefinite suspension of the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue as a potential threat to the iron ore trade between the two countries, after bidding up iron ore prices to an eye-watering high of more than US$20...