The Tokyo Olympics are just around the corner. Among the Olympic hopefuls who have started on their journey to Tokyo is our windsurfing team, who became the first batch of Hong Kong athletes to arrive in Japan.But the Tokyo Olympics, which were delay...

A Hong Kong scientist is leading a worldwide study of coastal pollution, particularly by drugs that have contributed to the worsening problem of treatment-resistant superbugs.The Global Estuaries Monitoring Programme, run by Professor Kenneth Leung M...

The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham), one of the city’s most influential business groups, has bought an office in the heart of the city, its top representative has said, showing its long-term commitment at a time when Washington i...

China vowed to deal a “head-on blow” to the United States after it imposed more sanctions on mainland Chinese officials over Hong Kong and warned American companies of the hazards of doing business in the city.Beijing’s liaison office in Hong K...

Thailand has tightened coronavirus restrictions and warned of further measures as daily cases surpassed 10,000 for the first time and the death toll hit a record 141 on Saturday despite an overnight curfew in Bangkok and several other provinces.The s...

Most healthy Hong Kong residents can skip a third vaccine dose, but those with weaker immune systems may need one, the city’s vaccine advisory panel convenor has said.Professor Wallace Lau Chak-sing also maintained on Saturday that the two vaccines...

The written confession of Lu Wei, China’s disgraced internet tsar who once rubbed shoulders with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was put on display by Beijing in an exhibition dedicated to its efforts to fight corruption.Lu, 61, became the first ...

An online Chinese celebrity died on Tuesday after a botched liposuction treatment resulted in a massive skin infection and a two-month-long stay in the intensive care unit.The health commission of Hangzhou, the largest city in the eastern province of...

Beijing’s watchful eye is enough to guarantee that Hong Kong’s chief executive will be punished for any corrupt acts, the city’s leader has said, underscoring her belief that extending anti-bribery laws to her own position would weaken the role...

Tokyo Olympics organisers said on Saturday a person has tested positive for Covid-19 at the athletes’ village, the first case at a site where most competitors will be staying, raising new doubts over promises of a “safe and secure” Games.The or...

Gangs controlled by Hong Kong triads are believed to be behind a massive smuggling operation delivering more than 1,000 tonnes of frozen meat a day to mainland China, the Post has learned.Using dozens of high-powered speedboats, they cross into Hong ...

China has successfully tested an experimental spacecraft that state media has hailed “an important symbol of China’s rise from a space power to a space superpower”.The vessel was described by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporati...

The South Korean government has summoned the Japanese ambassador to the foreign ministry over crude remarks about President Moon Jae-in and his attempt to organise a summit with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga during the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Hiroh...

Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues and athletes in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July. In 2014, European badminton hit its nadir at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. For the first time in 115 y...

It’s common to have crushes on celebrities – even celebrities have crushes on other celebrities – and often harmless. However, a recent Hong Kong phenomenon has gone from seemingly innocuous to downright scandalous.A significant portion of the ...

Senior US officials have said an advisory to American businesses operating in Hong Kong was not a warning but a “factual account” of the escalating risks posed by the national security law, while indicating further sanctions could be in store if ...

Cha* was 12 when she snorted ketamine for the first time at a friend’s home. She took it again the next day, and every day for the next two months. Looking back, the Hongkonger, now 19, says she was trying to get over breaking up with her boyfrien...

Four days before 22-year-old Emma Liu was expected to start her first full-time job as a private tutor for online classes at a Chinese start-up, the company called to notify her that work would be delayed for at least three months.The call was made b...

China’s top health authority said the nation’s Covid-19 inoculation programme followed the principle of free will amid reports that non-vaccinated people in different parts of the country were facing new restrictions imposed by local governments....

When a 7-year-old boy said he wanted to wear a skirt to school “because it’s breezy and pretty”, his parents weren’t too surprised. They went to the mall with their son, who then picked out a blue skirt.But when his father wrote about the exp...

US President Joe Biden on Friday said social media misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccinations is “killing people” and the White House said Facebook needs to clean up its act.“They’re killing people. The only pandemic we have is among the ...

At the start of last week it seemed as if Singapore could finally see the light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel.While the city state has one of the world’s lowest fatality rates from the coronavirus pandemic, over the past 18 months its 5.7 milli...

Former Hong Kong swimming star Karen Lo Cheuk-hang still remembers how she felt when there was no live audience at a local competition she once took part in.“To be honest, I didn’t mind that, because I am stressed when performing in front of the ...

A United States federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked new applications to a programme that protects immigrants who were brought to the US as children from deportation, but said the hundreds of thousands of people already enrolled would not be affe...

Defence lawyers for high-profile Chinese businessman Sun Dawu and his co-defendants have argued that the majority of the testimony collected by police is inadmissible as evidence as it was gathered under duress.The closed-door trial of billionaire Su...

For the past 20 months, the South Sudanese track-and-field team have been training in Maebashi, a city two hours north of Tokyo, for the Olympics. The five athletes arrived before the Games were delayed by the pandemic, expecting to stay for only hal...

Friday’s announced sanctions and an advisory to US companies operating in Hong Kong underscore the limited leverage Washington has over Beijing’s “behaviour” and conflicting pressures it faces from its domestic constituencies, former US offic...

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro said he will soon leave the hospital where he has been receiving treatment for a partial intestinal obstruction, after avoiding emergency surgery two days ago.“I’ll soon be back to work, God willing,” the president pos...

With “Welcome” messages in multiple languages, the Eiffel Tower greeted tourists on Friday for the first time in almost nine months, reopening to the public even as France introduces new virus rules aimed at taming the fast-spreading delta varian...

At an auction of a house in the affluent Sydney suburb of Chatswood in 2015, a group of protesters stunned prospective bidders when they turned up with placards decrying foreign homebuyers.“Keep the Aussie dream alive,” the signs said. “We don�...

Australia makes much of its values-driven approach to diplomacy and foreign policy decisions. It plays an active part in alliances such as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue and other international groupings that promote liberal values. At the recen...

Large swathes of apparel-producing areas in Asia will be underwater by 2030, an analysis released on Friday showed, threatening thousands of suppliers with submersion unless they relocate to higher ground.The analysis, which overlaid maps of rising s...

Standing at the entrance to a looted mall and surrounded by soldiers, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed on Friday to restore order to the country after a week of violence set off by the imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma.Visiting...

Pacific Rim leaders vowed to ramp up the production and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines Friday at an emergency virtual meeting to develop an action plan that will contain the global pandemic.The unprecedented talks brought together heads of state f...

ByteDance’s gaming chief, Yan Shou, said that the Beijing-based tech giant needs to focus on becoming a global gaming company to rival international gaming powerhouses such as Nintendo and Activision Blizzard, according to an internal speech, a cop...

Bishijie, an online community for Chinese cryptocurrency investors, has terminated operation of its website and app in mainland China, becoming the latest casualty of Beijing’s crackdown on bitcoin and other digital tokens.Privately held Bishijie, ...

As Afghanistan’s neighbours become increasingly rattled by the Taliban’s rise on the back of the US troop withdrawal, one question that has emerged among Indian policy watchers is whether the Northern Alliance – an anti-Taliban military front l...

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged US$3 billion in international aid to help developing countries recover from Covid-19 over the next three years at a virtual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Forum on Friday, state news agency Xinhua reporte...

The organiser of the Hong Kong Book Fair has said it received complaints against publishers accused of breaching the national security law, but some vendors at the event are still proceeding with the sale of works penned by opposition figures.The Hon...

Billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov agreed to pay his ex-wife around 135 million pounds (US$186 million), ending the largest financial dispute that Britain’s divorce courts have ever seen.Tatiana Akhmedova accepted a cash and art settlement that is around...

China is likely to launch its third aircraft carrier later this year, but is not yet ready to equip the advanced platform with a modern ship-borne fighter jet because of technical limitations of the jets so far available, military observers said.Rece...

The Hong Kong director of a protest documentary screened at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday has sold the copyright of the film to protect himself from legal repercussions, but has decided to stay in the city, saying he does not want to be ruled by...

Overseas visitors will be granted access to China’s digital currency without the need to open a local bank account during trials at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, according to a central bank white paper.The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has...

Huang Qifan, the outspoken former mayor of China’s largest municipality, has offered a stern warning to China’s technology firms in a speech that serves as a commentary on business practices in the industry.In a speech at the China Internet Confe...

China said it was reviewing a World Health Organization proposal for new research into the origins of Covid-19, a day after the UN body signalled it was moving forward on a second phase of the investigation.Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on F...

Singapore on Friday described a growing Covid-19 infection cluster linked to karaoke bars as a setback for its reopening plans, saying it was challenging to track down those involved, even as authorities sought to “aggressively ring-fence” cases ...

The 2021 DHL-SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards (HKBA) kicked off the nomination process to honour outstanding management, corporate and entrepreneurial achievements over the past 12 months, when the city was mired in recession amid the Covid-19 pandemic...

China’s Ministry of Culture is planning a major crackdown on karaoke songs that it deems subversive or pose a threat to national unity.The ministry has proposed creating a centralised list of forbidden songs and it will expect karaoke venues to com...

China is sending its largest-ever delegation to the Tokyo Olympics, where it will be looking to take the lead in the battle for gold.This year’s Summer Olympics, which will run from July 23 to August 22, will be like no other, with spectators banne...

Hong Kong’s top court has thrown out a last-ditch appeal by ousted pro-independence lawmaker Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang, who was jailed for storming a Legislative Council meeting five years ago in a bid to take his oath of office.The Court of F...