The long-awaited travel bubble between Singapore and Hong Kong has been put on hold for a second time amid a sharp resurgence in untraceable Covid-19 cases in the city state, the two governments have said.Monday’s decision to suspend the quarantine...

Hong Kong Disneyland has posted its worst net loss on record at HK$2.7 billion (US$347.5 million) – the park’s sixth straight year in the red – amid a series of closures and a near-complete absence of tourists because of the coronavirus pandemi...

Hong Kong’s low vaccination rate could jeopardise future deals with suppliers if more city residents do not step forward to take the shots, a government pandemic adviser has warned. Professor Yuen Kwok-yung’s comments came as the city confirmed ...

A major cyclone packing ferocious winds and threatening a destructive storm surge bore down on India on Monday, disrupting the country’s urgent response to its devastating coronavirus pandemic.At least six people died over the weekend in torrential...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ben White on politico.com on May 16, 2021.US President Joe Biden wants to fund his US$4.1 trillion infrastructure and family policy agenda with a huge pile ...

Taiwan’s outbreak of community transmitted Covid-19 cases continues to grow, with 333 new infections reported on Monday, following 206 on Sunday.Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said the new local cases included 158 from Taipei City and 148 from nei...

Thailand’s daily coronavirus cases on Monday surged to a record with outbreaks in prisons and construction sites in the capital showing no signs of easing.The country reported 9,635 new infections, the highest-single day increase since the pandemic...

Over half of the children’s crayons recently tested by Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog were found to contain traces of harmful petroleum derivatives that can cause rashes or allergic reactions with prolonged skin contact, while three exceeded Europ...

Sitting in front of a wooden rack in her studio in a quiet town in suburban Suzhou, 48-year-old Chen Yinghua was trying to represent a scene when a dark hole swallows a star — with the help of silk threads and a needle.The first Chinese artist to t...

The wife of Belgium’s ambassador to South Korea, Xiang Xueqiu, will exercise her diplomatic immunity to avoid criminal charges over accusations she hit two shop workers in the head in a row over shoplifting, police said on Monday.Ambassador Peter L...

Two 16-year-old students have pleaded guilty to rioting charges, admitting that they hurled objects at the Hong Kong government headquarters during an anti-government protest in 2019.The District Court heard that the teenagers, whose names were withh...

China said it was willing to host peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, as the United Nations warned that the eruption of violence in their escalating conflict could spark an “uncontainable” crisis in the region.During a virtual meeting ...

Media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and nine prominent Hong Kong opposition figures on Monday pleaded guilty to taking part in an unauthorised 2019 National Day protest.Among the group were the Democratic Party’s Albert Ho Chun-yan, Sin Chung-kai and Y...

Miss Mexico was crowned Miss Universe on Sunday in Florida, after fellow contestant Miss Myanmar used her stage time to draw attention to the bloody military coup in her country.Sunday night marked the Miss Universe competition’s return to televisi...

Goldman Sachs is hiring more than 400 employees in mainland China and Hong Kong, the latest foreign bank to seek to further expand its presence in the world’s second-biggest economy, according to a person familiar with the matter.The American bank ...

Indonesia has been gripped by the lurid details of a poisoning case that bears similarities to the trial of Jessica Wongso in 2016 and which has reignited discussions of how and why women kill.While Wongso was sentenced to 20 years in prison for kill...

Catherine McCormack, 39, is trading a plum job at Goldman Sachs in New York for a finance job – in Australia.That might seem like a career-killer, but McCormack says the pros outweigh the cons in a world still crippled by the lasting impact of the ...

Trading in Next Digital shares was suspended on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Monday, two days after the Security Bureau froze nearly HK$500 million (US$64.4 million) in assets belonging to its controlling shareholder, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying.The tempo...

China’s industrial output grew 9.8 per cent in April from a year ago, slower than the 14.1 per cent surge in March, official data showed on Monday.That matched a 9.8 per cent year on year rise in a consensus forecast by analysts from a Reuters poll...

The local creative studio behind attention-grabbing installations such as a giant rubber duck in Victoria Harbour and an army of papier mache pandas will fly a hot-air balloon in the shape of a character created by the artist Kaws over cities around ...

The logistics arm of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com started marketing its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) to retail investors on Monday at a price range of HK$39.36 to HK$43.36 per share, which could see the firm raise as much as HK$26.4 bil...

The head of the group behind many of Hong Kong’s largest rallies in recent years has warned that depriving residents of channels to voice their grievances could trigger mass protests and even violence.The convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front (C...

The total disarray of the government’s quarantine policy over the past two weeks sent me to my dictionary to look up “dilly-dally” (“waste time through aimless wandering or indecision”), then “shilly-shally” (“fail to act resolutely o...

One of Hong Kong’s largest bus companies wants the government to fix its system of approving fare adjustments for franchised bus services, saying operators are suffering huge losses in the ongoing economic slump brought on by the coronavirus pandem...

This is the ninth in a series of stories about China’s once-a-decade census, which was conducted in 2020. The world’s most populous nation released its national demographic data on Tuesday, and the figures will have far-reaching social policy and...

Canadian police used tear gas on Sunday following clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters in Montreal, as the worst violence in years raged between the Jewish state and Islamist militants.Several hundred demonstrators, draped in Isr...

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday is set to consider a draft non-binding resolution calling for “an immediate suspension” of the transfer of weapons to the military junta of Myanmar, a UN official said on Sunday.Unlike Security Council resolutio...

This is the eighth in a series of stories about China’s once-a-decade census, conducted in 2020. The world’s most populous country‘s national demographic data will have far-reaching social policy and economic implications. China’s long-stand...

The immunologist who leads the Covid-19 response in the United States said on Sunday that “the undeniable effects of racism” have led to unacceptable health disparities that especially hurt African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans during...

When Kenya floated a US$215 million tender for the construction of a major dam in the western part of the country it received four bids.Two were from Chinese contractors China Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic and Technical Cooperation a...

Rafael Nadal beat a tired Novak Djokovic 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 for a record-extending 10th Italian Open title on Sunday.The Spaniard recovered from a potentially dangerous fall after tripping over a raised line to take the latest instalment of the most-playe...

A Bengal tiger last seen a week ago roaming the gardens of suburban Houston and terrifying locals has been found unharmed and was being moved on Sunday to an animal sanctuary, police said.“We got him, and he’s healthy,” Houston police commander...

This is the fourth in the South China Morning Post’s series of explainers about China’s Communist Party, in the lead-up to the party’s 100th anniversary in July. In this piece, Josephine Ma explains how China’s Communist Party is deeply entwi...

Israeli medical staff said on Sunday that at least two people were killed and more than 150 injured in a bleacher collapse at an uncompleted synagogue in a West Bank settlement near Jerusalem.Amateur footage showed the collapse occurring during praye...

A subsidiary of French insurance giant Axa has been hit by a ransomware attack affecting operations in several Asian countries, the company said on Sunday, confirming a Financial Times report.“Asia Assistance was recently the victim of a targeted r...

Israeli warplanes unleashed a series of heavy air strikes at several locations of Gaza City early on Monday, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled the fourth war with Gaza’s Hamas rulers would rage on.Explosions rocked the...

The latest census on China’s population has confirmed the much-anticipated concern about ageing and low fertility. In 2020, China had a population of 1.41 billion people, an increase of about 72 million from 1.34 billion in 2019. This represents a ...

Domestic workers lined up outside Covid-19 testing centres on one of the hottest days of the year in Hong Kong on Sunday to comply with what many called a discriminatory government order they be screened again.A few of them were dressed in red after ...

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Sick of working long hours for average pay, Dong Liang is looking to throw in his job at a small tech company in Shenzhen for work with China’s civil service.The 24-year-old from Huizhou city in Guangdong province is one of millions of young Chines...

Britain is confident that existing vaccines will provide protection from a more transmissible coronavirus variant that was first identified in India and is now spreading across the country, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday.England, Scotla...

A “tsunami-like” surge of applications to register trade unions in Hong Kong following the 2019 social unrest has put “an enormous pressure” on authorities, the labour minister has revealed.But Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong o...

Singapore will close public schools this week as it grapples with a sharp rise in domestic cases of Covid-19 that have resulted in the city state returning to lockdown-like conditions in place at the height of the pandemic last year.The country on Su...

Authorities in China have stepped up Covid-19 controls and residents are lining up to get vaccines after two provinces reported the country’s first cases of community transmission in over three weeks.Yingkou, a port city in northeast China’s Liao...

US spy drones are set to become a more frequent sight in the skies around China as the military confrontation between the two countries in the region ramps up another notch, according to experts.The US Navy said on Friday that two MQ-4C Triton dron...

Seven Indonesians drowned after an overloaded boat capsized because of tourists attempting a selfie in a reservoir on Java island, police said on Sunday.The accident happened when all 20 passengers suddenly moved to the one side of the vessel to take...

China’s latest move to introduce a controversial property tax represents a fresh crackdown on property speculation and a curb on runaway home prices, but analysts believe it is also an “inevitable” solution to help solve the nation’s debt cri...

When he was 10, former Malaysian transport minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook worked at his father’s Chinese restaurant with his elder siblings after school and during the weekends.His family spent most of their time at the Hong Seng restaurant in Ser...

A walk at night through New District, in the city of Dandong on China’s northeastern border with North Korea, gives little indication that just a few years ago it was the scene of feverish speculation that it was about to boom with the opening up o...

When Jozeph Paul Zhang, an Indonesian-Chinese Christian evangelist, uploaded a video on YouTube last month from a country in Europe, he deliberately used provocative language to attract attention.The 40-year-old claimed he was the “26th Prophet” ...