The European Union’s imports from Xinjiang more than doubled over the first half of this year, despite concerns over the use of forced labour in the western Chinese region.Shipments to the EU rose by 131 per cent year on year in the first six month...

Hong Kong customs officers have seized more than HK$230 million (US$29.6 million) worth of drugs hidden in various shipments of imported food in three separate busts, two of which were the largest of their kind in 20 years.Four men and one woman were...

Australia’s New South Wales logged its second-highest daily increase of the year in locally acquired Covid-19 cases on Sunday amid fears of a wave of new infections and extended restrictions after thousands of people joined an anti-lockdown protest...

Indian sprinter Revathi Veeramani was about six years old when both her parents died from separate illnesses, leaving her maternal grandmother to care for two orphaned young granddaughters. Arammal Veeramani, 76, raised the family by earning a daily...

Hong Kong must get rid of subdivided flats in the next two decades by “drastically” increasing land supply and simplifying “tedious” planning procedures, according to Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po.Writing on his official blog on Sunday,...

China will give the United States a “tutorial” about how to treat other nations equally if needed, the country’s foreign minister has said ahead of the visit by US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman.“The United States always wants to exe...

French President Emmanuel Macron was greeted with flower garlands and Tahitian dancers on the tarmac as he touched down on Saturday night for his first official trip to French Polynesia.While in the South Pacific territory, he plans to discuss its st...

Follow our live coverage of day two of the Tokyo Olympics here.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Sunday that face masks are a “must” at Tokyo medal ceremonies, after swimmers were seen taking off masks on the medal podium and hugg...

Rohit and Neha met while working in the same office in Noida, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. They fell in love, but Neha’s parents did not approve due to the couple being members of the same clan, which meant they were regarded as almost sib...

Flights and rail services were cancelled in several Chinese coastal cities on Sunday as Typhoon In-fa arrived, with further heavy rain expected following last week’s devastating floods further inland.The national meteorological administration raise...

This is part of a series of articles based on a wide-ranging Post interview with Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po. Read part one here and part two here.Hong Kong is keen to reopen its borders not just with mainland China but also the world, althou...

A bus blast that killed nine Chinese nationals in Pakistan shows the inadequacy of Chinese firms’ security, according to analysts.They also said Beijing should offer equipment and training to its neighbour to try to better protect China’s citizen...

The first known batch of viruses retrieved from the deepest point in the Mariana Trench includes giant species bigger than some bacterium, according to a research team in Shanghai.The many legends of giant sea creatures have been largely debunked bec...

As Malaysia’s health system heaves under the weight of a Covid-19 daily caseload that remains stubbornly high, thousands of young contract doctors like Anthony John are volunteering at virus response centres to ease the pressure off counterparts wi...

This is part of series of articles based on a wide-ranging Post interview with Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po.Plans for the area of northern Hong Kong nearest Shenzhen need to be reviewed to identify more sites for development and spur interacti...

China is not happy with the “incomplete map” NBC Universal showed during the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, the Chinese consulate in New York said on Saturday.The demonstration, which featured neither self-ruled Taiwan nor the South C...

For eight consecutive weeks, Africa has witnessed a surge in coronavirus cases, worsened by the rapidly spreading Delta variant that has been found in 26 African countries and lagging vaccinations on the continent.There has been cause for hope in the...

A snow leopard at the San Diego Zoo in California has tested positive for the coronavirus. Ramil, a nine-year-old male snow leopard, was tested for the virus after caretakers noticed that he had a cough and runny nose on Thursday.The animal’s stool...

Flames racing through rugged terrain in Northern California destroyed multiple homes on Saturday as the state’s largest wildfire intensified and numerous other blazes battered the US West.The Dixie fire, which started July 14, had already levelled ...

Two Chinese nationals face military prosecution for ordering two Congolese soldiers to inflict “degrading and humiliating treatment” on illegal Congolese miners in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army said on Saturday.“Two Chines...

Thousands of people in Italy took to the streets on Saturday to oppose the government's health policies, as tougher regulations have been introduced to counter a surge in case numbers.Some 3,000 people in Rome gathered to protest against what is kn...

The death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in India climbed to 124 on Sunday, officials said, with rescuers searching for dozens more missing.The country’s western coast has been inundated by torrential rains since...

Weakened by pro-Iran factions at home, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi will meet US President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss a possible full US troop withdrawal from his country.The White House talks between the two allies come just a week af...

Afghan authorities on Saturday imposed a nighttime curfew across 31 of the country’s 34 provinces to curb surging violence unleashed by a sweeping Taliban offensive in recent months, the interior ministry said.The widespread Taliban assault has see...

The United States views upcoming high-level meetings between American and Chinese diplomats as an opportunity to prevent growing bilateral tensions devolving into misunderstandings and even conflict, senior US officials said on Saturday.Following vis...

Some 35,000 revellers marched for LGBT rights at Berlin’s annual Christopher Street Day celebration on Saturday, twice as many as expected.The parade started with a call from Klaus Lederer, Berlin’s senator for culture, to make the city a “quee...

French anti-riot police fired tear gas on Saturday as clashes broke out during protests in central Paris against Covid-19 curbs and vaccination, local television reported.Television pictures showed police trying to tackle demonstrators near the capit...

The Vatican released information on its real estate holdings for the first time on Saturday, revealing it owns more than 5,000 properties as part of its most detailed financial disclosures ever.The information was contained in two documents, a consol...

A lot remains uncertain as to what US No 2 top diplomat Wendy Sherman can achieve in her visit to China, but she can at least expect a nice dinner.Not that Beijing has high hopes for her trip to reverse a free-falling relationship – there is no sig...

The UK’s economy could face a loss of more than 4.6 billion pounds (US$6.3 billion) in just four weeks if rules on self-isolation following a “ping” from the NHS app aren’t relaxed, according to data from Centre for Economics and Business Res...

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on Saturday that Japan will pass on its experience of hosting a “safe and secure” Olympics – being held in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic – to Paris, host of the 20...

Hong Kong’s Legislative Council used to see scores of journalists scrambling for seats in the media’s reserved area next to the chamber, as lawmakers arrived for their meetings every Wednesday.That crowd of journalists has dwindled considerably, ...

Hong Kong’s real estate buyers mostly ignored a weekend sale of leftover apartments at four residential projects, as they await newer offerings to come on to the market.Investors bought 30 of the combined 191 flats on offer at Seaside Sonata and Gr...

Over the last week it has been Syria, Egypt and Algeria. In between there was also a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad.Four months earlier there was a series of stops in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain an...

The world’s largest iPhone factory, located in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, is raising its cash rewards for new workers to yet another record-high as Foxconn Technology Group ramps up production capacity amid extreme levels of rainfall th...

Reaching herd immunity against Covid-19 is no longer a realistic goal for Hong Kong, medical experts agree, arguing instead for the city to prepare to live with the virus.Their warning came despite a recent increase in the vaccination rate and Chief ...

A report claiming that Chinese fishing vessels are dumping their human waste into disputed waters has highlighted an unusual environmental dimension to Beijing’s dispute with the Philippines and other countries over the South China Sea.However, som...

A Chinese shipbuilder has begun work on an unmanned scientific ship that could be a “game changer” for the country’s marine research, according to a trade publication.The vessel – said to be the first of its type – will carry drones and be ...

Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets of Sydney and other cities in Australia to protest Covid-19 lockdown restrictions amid another surge in cases, and police made several arrests after crowds broke through barriers and threw plastic b...

The Tokyo Olympics, already struggling with an outbreak of Covid-19 among athletes, may face another kind of disaster – a tropical storm.Tropical Storm Nepartak, with gusts up to 90 kilometres per hour, was still about 1,800km south of Tokyo on Sat...

Eleven-year-old Nathan Chang Lok-hang ranked among the top 15 per cent of students sitting maths in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams this year, despite being one of the youngest candidates in the qualification’s history.But the Primary Six p...

Hong Kong health authorities will as early as next week begin handing out 200 passes a day at the city’s Covid-19 vaccination centres allowing walk-ins by residents aged 70 and above to boost a flagging take-up rate among the elderly, the civil ser...

Devastating floods in central China this week have highlighted how vulnerable cities can be to extreme rainfall, as the world faces more such weather events due to climate change.Water and engineering experts say long-term urban planning, including b...

Some of Singapore’s top chefs are fed up with the government’s on-again, off-again measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, which include a temporary shutdown of in-person dining.Faced with a surge of cases from clusters related to karaoke lounge...

Saying that Malaysian politics has been turbulent over the past three years is something of an understatement. But on July 8, when the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) – which commands the largest bloc of parliamentary seats in Prime Mini...

Germany has reportedly joined China in a complaint about the size of table tennis playing areas at the Tokyo Olympics.Liu Guoliang, the Chinese coach of the national team and the president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, told Chinese state n...

A South Korean television network has apologised after using inappropriate images and captions to describe countries during the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony on Friday.The broadcaster, MBC, used images of pizza to describe Italy, an upheaval for Haiti,...

In a blow to travellers and airlines, Hong Kong has decided to delay by two weeks a plan to offer shorter quarantine periods to vaccinated arrivals who clear a coronavirus antibody test at the airport, the Post has learned.The tests will not be intro...

When more than 7,000 athletes and officials from around the world arrived in Tokyo for the 1964 Olympics, the endeavour to feed them nutritious and tasty meals involved procuring as much as 15 tonnes of meat, six tonnes of vegetables and 29,000 eggs ...

Emergency workers in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou said they expected to pump out a flooded road tunnel, where many cars were reportedly trapped, by Saturday night.The authorities have not released an official death toll from the tunnel, but ...