China should conduct targeted research and propose fiscal and taxation plans in response to new global rules to set a minimum corporate tax, according to a former taxation official.Beijing needs to act to minimise the negative impact on the investmen...

China rejected as ridiculous and arrogant criticism from Canada over separate court proceedings involving two detained Canadians.The Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday that remarks by Canada over the cases this week of Robert Lloyd Schellenber...

The Swire Group’s two publicly listed flagship companies delivered strong financial results in the first six months of 2021, marking a strong bookend to the tenure of Merlin Bingham Swire before the six-generation scion of the founder steps down on...

The leader of the Hong Kong chapter of the Falun Gong spiritual movement said on Thursday that the group – which is banned in mainland China – is here to stay, refuting a fake social media post claiming it was pulling out of the city.The bogus po...

A Chinese woman said she would sue a hotel chain for one yuan (15 US cents) to draw attention to poor security in some hotels after a naked man entered her room in the middle of the night.The woman, known as Huahua on Weibo, said last week she hoped ...

A Hong Kong nurse who incorrectly injected a man with two doses of Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday has been suspended from his job at a community inoculation centre amid an investigation by health authorities.The Department of Health on Thursday said i...

Disgraced South Korean pop star Seungri was handed a prison sentence for prostitution-related and gambling offences on Thursday.The sentence was handed down to the former Big Bang member by a military court after a lengthy investigation into his invo...

Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry apologised Thursday for the manhandling of a Nigerian diplomat and announced it had launched a formal investigation of the incident.Nigeria earlier this week recalled its ambassador to Jakarta and summoned Indonesia’s...

US health officials stepped up calls for pregnant women to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as new evidence showed no increased risk of miscarriage from the shots.Women who received messenger RNA Covid-19 vaccines before 20 weeks of pregnancy have no ...

The embassy of Israel in Singapore on Thursday said it condemns social media posts comparing the city state’s Covid-19 vaccinations to the Nazi Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews, days after an opposition figure made such an analogy on Facebook a...

Hong Kong police have arrested a fortune-teller on suspicion of animal cruelty after he was accused of killing a rabbit, frogs and mice during rituals that cost his clients as much as HK$20,000 (US$2,570).Officers arrested the 19-year-old man in a st...

Convicted forger Peter Chan Chun-chuen has been declared bankrupt for failing to pay HK$28.4 million (US$3.6 million) in legal fees owed to the charitable foundation of late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum after the civil suit that determined he had fak...

China’s central bank has shed some light on its latest foreign exchange policy six years on from a devaluation of the yuan that was meant to be a free-market reform but instead sent shock waves through global financial markets. The People’s Bank...

China is mobilising massive resources to stop the spread of the coronavirus in an eastern city, where Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan warned the situation was not yet under control.“We should take more resolute and decisive acts and ensure Covid-19 contro...

A new elite of uber-rich entrepreneurs is shooting up the wealth rankings in South Korea, overtaking the families behind the country’s decades-old sprawling conglomerates known as “chaebol.”Brian Kim, the founder of mobile messaging app Kakao C...

Extreme floods and droughts, which will become more frequent and severe in the coming years, may pose a greater threat to China’s economic development than previously thought, said two of the authors of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel...

Shabana Asthana, 25, was in university when she bought her first pair of jeans, but the Indian student could not wear it until she went to her college hostel. When she finally put it on, matching it with a shawl and a loose collarless shirt known as...

Extra Australian military personnel may be called in to ensure compliance with lockdown rules in Sydney, the New South Wales state government said on Thursday, as the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant spreads into regional areas.The move co...

A Chinese team studying “internal waves” so strong they can sink submarines in the Andaman Sea say they have developed a computer model to predict when and where the worst ones are likely to happen.They focused on a particular area of the sea, wh...

Fully vaccinated adults in Britain will no longer be legally required to self-isolate if they come into contact with a coronavirus case from August 16, the government said.All under-18s will also be able to avoid isolation under the new rules, accord...

China’s central bank is facing mounting calls to cut interest rates as fresh coronavirus outbreaks threaten to upend the recovery in the world’s second-largest economy.Economists affiliated with the government see scope for lower interest rates, ...

Hong Kong’s biggest teachers’ union could be left on the losing end of property deals as the embattled body races to sell off substantial assets before its disbandment, analysts have said.Members of the city’s political and education circles ar...

Belarus on Wednesday ordered the United States to reduce its embassy staff after Washington imposed a fresh round of sanctions on the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko.“The American side was suggested to reduce the number of staff in its Min...

A helicopter carrying tourists plunged into a volcanic lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East on Thursday, and rescuers were searching in the lake for up to eight people missing, officials said. At least eight others reportedly surviv...

As the highly infectious Delta variant challenges pandemic control efforts around the world, a great unknown looms large: what might the virus behind Covid-19 do next?Scientists widely agree that new mutations of Sars-CoV-2 are likely to emerge as ti...

Li Auto, one of three New York-listed Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers chasing Tesla’s market lead, said it is mulling the possibility of an offshore production base – perhaps in Europe – to be its stepping stone for the global market, as i...

In the second of a three-part series on Hong Kong’s housing crisis, the Post looks at the part played by the MTR Corporation and Urban Renewal Authority in providing homes for Hongkongers. Read part one here.Joanna Wong remembers the excitement of ...

Hackers behind one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency heists have returned more than a third of US$613 million in digital coins they stole, the company at the centre of the hack said on Wednesday.Poly Network, a decentralised finance platform that fa...

Janet Yellen is weighing a trip to China in the coming months that would be her first as US Treasury secretary, people familiar with the matter said, as the Biden administration engages in a broad review of policy toward the Asian power and the tarif...

China’s ongoing crackdown of online fan circles, or fan quan – informal virtual communities centred around an idol – has intensified government efforts to weed out opinion manipulation in the country’s cyberspace.Internet watchdog the Cybersp...

A record high proportion of Hong Kong secondary school graduates will secure spots in local universities this year amid a drop in competition, but some analysts predict many students will be looking beyond the city for higher education, prompted in p...

This is the seventh 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.China’s economy is normalising after bouncing back from the worst of the coron...

A slice of cake from the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer sold for £1,850 (US$2,558) at auction in Britain on Wednesday – with a warning not to eat it.The 40-year-old slab of marzipan and thick white icing decorated with the r...

New Zealand on Thursday laid out its plan for reopening its borders, the latest “zero-Covid” economy to confront the difficult task of charting a path out of international isolation during the pandemic.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the gover...

Compared to Geely Automobile Holdings’ efforts more than a decade ago, today’s Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers with ambitions to break into the global market are finding that consumers are friendlier towards China-made cars, especially in Eu...

Autonomous driving start-up Pony.ai has put on hold plans to go public in New York through a merger with a blank-cheque firm at a US$12 billion valuation, after it failed to gain assurances from Beijing that it would not become a target of a crackdow...

Meng Wanzhou’s dishonesty was “abundantly clear” and the US had successfully made a prima facie case of fraud against the Huawei Technologies executive, who should be taken into custody pending her surrender to American authorities, Canadian go...

Regional authorities in Sicily recorded temperatures of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit) Wednesday as an anticyclone dubbed “Lucifer” swept in, which if confirmed would be a new Italian and European record.The blistering temperature was re...

Russian authorities announced a new criminal charge against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday, the latest move in a crackdown ahead of September’s parliamentary election that could add as much as three years to his prison term.Navalny, Pre...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday a clinical trial in 52 countries would study three anti-inflammatory drugs as potential treatments for Covid-19 patients.“These therapies – artesunate, imatinib and infliximab – were selecte...

The US Navy’s successful completion of explosion impact trials for aircraft carrier the USS Gerald R. Ford has sent a message to China and Russia that it is not worried about missiles dubbed “ship-killers”, a Chinese military observer said.The ...

China should immediately and unconditionally release two Canadian citizens subject to “arbitrary detention” and heed the concerns of dozens of nations in halting the use of arrests for diplomatic leverage, America’s top diplomat said Wednesday....

Several Chinese newspaper websites have removed comments about the coronavirus pandemic that were “wrongly presented” as coming from a Swiss biologist who does not appear to exist, Switzerland’s foreign ministry said Wednesday.The press and soc...

Lithuania will recall its ambassador to China “as soon as her quarantine is over”, with the envoy having recently travelled back to Beijing, according to a source familiar with the plans of the government in Vilnius.On Tuesday, China recalled its...

The “Made in China, sold on Amazon” community plans to reduce their reliance on the world’s biggest e-commerce marketplace, according to a Shenzhen-based trade body, as Chinese merchants expect business conditions to get harsher on the US onlin...

China’s strong reaction to Lithuania’s decision to allow Taiwan to open a de facto embassy is due to a deep concern that more countries will follow the Baltic state’s lead, setting off a domino effect in Europe, China observers said.China recal...

A London judge on Wednesday widened the scope of a US appeal against a block on the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from Britain and will hear the renewed bid in late October.A judge ruled in January that Assange should not be extradi...

US President Joe Biden will gather world leaders in December for a virtual “Summit for Democracy” that is being seen as a challenge to China and an alternative to the traditional G20 meeting.Biden is seeking to bring together heads of state with ...

Hong Kong’s rural leaders have called for changes in the law to make it easier to sell ancestral land as part of proposals on the better use of New Territories sites to ease the city’s housing shortage.These include lowering the threshold for the...

China has administered 1.8 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses as of Wednesday, and is racing closer to herd immunity. But how will the country and others around the world deal with new variants that escape vaccine protection?While experts said that vacci...