Chinese health authorities reported 96 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Sunday, 11 fewer than a day earlier and more than a third of them in the province where the latest surge in infections began.The National Health Commission said 81 of the new c...

One of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants more than seven years ago is free and has been reunited with her family, a state governor’s office said.Nearly 300 schoolgirls, most aged between 12 and 17, were abducted by Boko Har...

Covid-19 patient Isaac Chow Ka-chun thought his battle with the disease was over when he was discharged from the hospital seven months ago. But he soon discovered he was short of breath after five-minute walks.The 28-year-old had suffered from fever,...

Indonesia’s most volatile volcano on Sunday erupted on the densely populated island of Java, spewing smoke and ash high into the air and sending streams of lava and gasses down its slopes. No casualties were reported.Mount Merapi unleashed clouds o...

Hong Kong’s consumption voucher programme has sparked a major leap in the local use of electronic payment systems, the city’s finance chief has said, pointing to the creation of more than 2.2 million new accounts in the past few months.A week aft...

For the past week, the name Akidi Tio and the hashtags #PrankNasional or #NationalPrank have been trending on social media across Indonesia as the country has been gripped by what appears to be a bizarre hoax. It involves a deceased businessman, a n...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has mobilised the military to carry out relief work in areas recently hit by heavy rains, state media said on Sunday, amid concerns over an economic crisis and food shortage.More than a thousand homes were damaged and ...

Beijing should look at adjusting its zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19, despite the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant, as other countries start to open up, Chinese health experts said.They also called on authorities to learn from the e...

Australia continued its struggle to contain a Delta outbreak across the nation’s east coast, with the race to increase vaccinations now key to prospects for a reduction in Covid-19 restrictions.New South Wales state recorded 262 new cases on Sunday...

Even by the standards of Thailand’s unpredictable politics, it’s been a topsy-turvy ride for Tanat Thanakitamnuay. In 2014, he was a firebrand leading massive royalist demonstrations that led to the downfall of Thailand’s last genuinely civilia...

China’s move to create quieter submarines by reconfiguring its Type 039A diesel-powered submarines would aid the Chinese navy in a possible war for Taiwan reunification and territory conflicts in the East and South China seas, according to military...

A digital revolution is quietly under way in Africa, as dozens of electronic wallets have sprouted on the continent for users to transfer money digitally through their smartphones, some of them powered by Chinese technology.One of the biggest is M-Pe...

When the 40-year-old history aficionado and calligraphist, Philipus Dellian Agus Raharjo, wrote on social media in September last year about his trip to the Thio Family Mausoleum in his hometown of Semarang, Central Java, his post caught the eye of B...

Hong Kong screen legend Chow Yun-fat has been given an honorary doctorate from Baptist University for his outstanding achievements and contributions to society.At the ceremony on campus on Saturday, the 66-year-old action star expressed gratitude for...

An ancient snack bar will soon be open to visitors at the Archaeological Park of the buried Italian city of Pompeii.From Thursday, August 12, visitors will be able to see the site in the Gulf of Naples south of the volcano Vesuvius, the Pompeii Archa...

The Covid-19 outbreak in the United States crossed 100,000 new confirmed daily infections on Saturday, a milestone last exceeded during the winter surge and driven by the highly transmissible delta variant and low vaccination rates in the South.Healt...

At this time when there is so much focus on national security issues and more integration with the mainland, two recent events have brought home the historic role of foreigners, good and bad, in the creation of the city.First was that a half-Chinese ...

Joint military activities between China and Russia are poised to get back into full swing, according to announcements that observers said also suggest Beijing and Moscow are stepping up efforts to learn from each other in dealing with the US.More tha...

The Taliban on Sunday said they had captured the key Afghan city of Kunduz, as fierce fighting raged in the centre of a second northern capital.Kunduz is the third provincial capital to fall in the past three days, but the most significant Taliban ga...

Three large wildfires churned across Greece on Saturday, with one threatening whole towns and cutting a line across Evia, the country’s second-largest island, isolating its northern part. Others engulfed forested mountainsides and skirted ancient s...

Around 3,000 people gathered in Berlin on Saturday for a large picnic in an unusual location when they took their seats at tables on a runway of the former Tegel Airport.The tables had been set up in such a way that, when viewed from the air, they di...

A huge infrastructure bill deemed historic by US President Joe Biden has passed a key procedural hurdle, with enough Republican senators joining Democrats to make its final passage in the upper chamber appear nearly certain.The US$1.2 trillion bill, ...

The United States on Saturday condemned a thwarted plot to attack Myanmar’s UN ambassador in New York, saying it fits a “disturbing pattern” of authoritarian leaders and their supporters seeking to persecute opponents around the world.Two Myanm...

Police in Thailand on Sunday said a 27-year-old Thai man had been charged with the murder a Swiss woman who was found dead earlier this week on the resort island of Phuket. “Police have charged the offender for murder and robbery causing death,”...

Amsterdam capped a month of events commemorating the 25th anniversary of its first Gay Pride festival with a Pride Walk through the city’s historic centre on Saturday that drew around 10,000 participants carrying flags and an enormous rainbow banne...

Protesters marched in cities across France on Saturday in a fourth consecutive weekend of demonstrations, denouncing what they see as oppressive rules forcing health workers to get Covid-19 vaccinations and citizens to have a health pass for many dai...

Four members of Hong Kong’s arts funding body have resigned, with one who had come under attack by pro-Beijing media citing concerns over “personal safety” as a reason for his departure.The Hong Kong Arts Development Council confirmed that thre...

For China’s diplomatic corps, the change at the top in the Washington embassy marks a generational transition that is gathering speed ahead of a sweeping leadership shake-up expected next year.The personnel changes are not only critical to the dipl...

Police have arrested 50 people suspected of ransacking a Hindu temple in a remote town in eastern Pakistan and are searching for another 100 suspects, it was revealed yesterday.The attack on the temple in the town of Bhong in Punjab province on Wedne...

Hong Kong schools are removing books from their libraries over the summer break that may violate the national security law, including titles targeted by pro-Beijing media and those broaching sensitive topics such as Taiwan.In the absence of an offici...

A trove of genetic data gathered by US intelligence agencies is unlikely to definitively prove whether the coronavirus leaked from a lab in central China because much of the evidence is indirect and circumstantial, according to scientific experts.CNN...

Gyro, a four-year-old mongrel, was finally given a home when a family adopted him from Hong Kong Dog Rescue in mid-2019.But the family returned Gyro to the NGO earlier this year as they were leaving for Britain without him.“I am very angry,” said...

Authorities in the Chinese capital have tightened travel restrictions to the city, banning visitors from coronavirus hotspots as they try to keep the highly transmissible Delta variant at bay.The latest wave of cases erupted at the international airp...

In April last year, as the first wave of the pandemic ripped through Europe, demands erupted on Chinese social media for a halt to shipments of masks and other personal protective equipment to the Netherlands, where the death toll from Covid-19 was s...

Hong Kong police’s national security director who was investigated for visiting an unlicensed massage parlour has been stripped of his post and reassigned as the force’s head of training and discipline, triggering an uproar in the ranks over his ...

As of August 3, Phuket has shut down all domestic travel to and from the island due to the rising number of mainly Delta variant Covid-19 cases in Thailand. New daily infections have topped 18,000 nationwide.The severity of this second wave, alongsid...

Little is known about the new quadrilateral framework announced last month between the United States, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan except that it is aimed at enhancing regional connectivity.A July 16 statement from the US State Department sai...

The vice-chairman of Hong Kong’s largest opposition party has left for London for unspecified reasons and will not return “within a short period of time”, sources have confirmed to the Post.The departure of Lee Wing-tat on Friday night marked t...

Like many women in China at the time, Song Chunxia got an abortion in the 1990s when an ultrasound revealed she was having a girl.The strict one-child policy imposed in 1979 meant that for some couples like Song and her husband there was a decision t...

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings censored an article by one of its own staff researchers published on Friday that discussed the country’s widening gap in the digital economy with the US and stressed the importance of the tech sector amid Beijing...

China has renewed calls for international sanctions on North Korea to be lifted and accused the United States of stoking regional tensions with talks to hold military exercises with the South.In an address to an online Asean foreign ministers forum o...

A huge wildfire tearing through northern California became the third-largest in the state’s history on Friday, and looked set to continue growing.A long-term drought that scientists say is driven by climate change has left the Western United States...

This is the fourth part in a series of stories looking at China’s economic outlook in the second half of 2021 as it continues its recovery from a coronavirus-hit 2020.Since May, Jane Zeng has had countless sleepless nights after her husband told he...

Former NBA star Jeremy Lin has tested positive for Covid-19 on his third day of quarantine in Shanghai on Saturday, after flying in from the United States.It is not known whether the 32-year-old has the highly transmissible Delta variant.Lin said he ...

Experience teaches us that well-organised despots, unless stopped in their tracks by citizen resistance, robust watchdog institutions, unforeseen outcomes and plain bad luck, can quickly remould sickly democratic institutions into a different politic...

A top adviser to Hong Kong’s leader has said no evidence exists to support the prosecution of the heads of the city’s largest teachers’ union for national security crimes, despite education authorities cutting ties with the group and warning la...

Hong Kong will increase the number of Covid-19 tests that travellers from low-risk countries must take as part of heightened scrutiny of arrivals, while a Post review has found a growing number of imported cases in recent weeks involved people who ha...

Restaurants, retail giants and shops selling electrical products are enjoying brisk sales thanks to Hong Kong’s HK$36 billion e-voucher scheme to boost consumer spending, but smaller players such as wet market vendors are unhappy with being left ou...

Australia reported a record daily number of new coronavirus cases this year on Saturday with the highly infectious Delta variant continuing to spread through the country’s most populous states of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.With about ...

Some of the world’s most advanced warships, such as aircraft carriers, and submarines – and possibly China’s carrier killer missiles – will be just some of the firepower deployed in the western Pacific Ocean this month as the United States, C...