The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA), Asia’s oldest non-binding military pact, on Monday marked its 50th anniversary with an aerial and naval display that one analyst said underscored the countries’ commitment to continued cooperation.The F...

Xiaohongshu, the social media and lifestyle platform sometimes known as China’s answer to Instagram, apologised for letting bloggers share heavily filtered photos of tourist attractions, disappointing users who went to those locations after seeing ...

China’s poorest provinces have the smallest number of public charities working for them while some of the richest regions are home to the nation’s biggest fund-raising organisations, according to data from Tencent’s 99 Giving Day.Results from t...

Former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb called for “urgent research” into a mutation of the Delta variant – known as “Delta Plus” – following a surge in Covid-19 cases in the UK. “We need urgent research to f...

An Indonesian cafe is jumping on the global Squid Game bandwagon, hoping to fuel its pandemic recovery by recreating some of the games from the South Korean television series in its cafe space.In a dark room with neon lights, patrons are greeted by s...

Some of Southeast Asia’s old-money tycoons are boosting investment in technology start-ups, looking to ride a wave of surging valuations as they seek to counter the fallout of the pandemic on businesses ranging from retail to hospitality and manufa...

Two labourers were killed by gunmen in Indian-administered Kashmir on Sunday, police said, the latest victims of a fresh outbreak of violence that has sent jitters through the disputed Muslim-majority region.The two labourers, who were Hindus from Bi...

Employees of Hong Kong International Airport, workers at quarantine hotels and those who drive travellers between the two will all soon be tested for Covid-19 more regularly, the Post has learned, with daily screenings for the unvaccinated.The new te...

A yacht burst into flames in a typhoon shelter in Hong Kong on Monday, sending plumes of smoke into the sky.Emergency personnel were called to Aberdeen South Typhoon Shelter when the blaze broke out on the 17-metre boat moored off a shipyard on Ap Le...

Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund, a war chest used to defend the local currency, lost HK$13.2 billion (US$1.7 billion) in the third quarter as it fell victim to a slump in the local stock market.The loss in the July-to-September period compares with a gai...

China’s “zero Covid-19” status was broken days after the last outbreaks tapered off, with a new outbreak involving eight people emerging over the weekend.A couple of retired university professors from Shanghai tested positive in the tourist cit...

Foxconn Technology Group unveiled its first electric vehicles, a milestone that could boost the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer’s credentials as a serious bidder for Apple’s secretive automotive project.The SUV and sedan models introduced on M...

A father in Pakistan is suspected of killing his two daughters and their four children by setting their house ablaze because one of the women married against his wishes, police said.Manzoor Hussain is being hunted by police after allegedly setting fi...

Happy Monday!I’m Amber Wang, a reporter at the South China Morning Post who focuses on diplomacy and defence, with your Monday update on the biggest news items from the previous week, and what to look forward to in the week ahead.My pick for the bi...

Relations with Saudi Arabia are at the top of China’s Middle Eastern diplomacy efforts, the Chinese foreign minister told his Saudi Arabian counterpart in a call on Sunday.Wang Yi said China had always given priority to its relations with Saudi Ara...

Exhausted after working long hours during the coronavirus pandemic and resentful that their bosses are not sharing sometimes huge profits, tens of thousands of nurses, factory workers and other labourers are going on strike across the United States.S...

Australia is in talks over a quarantine-free travel bubble with Singapore for fully vaccinated visitors, its health minister said, as it secured access to two additional Covid-19 treatments from Roche and Pfizer.Expedited discussions are under way wi...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Annabelle Dickson on politico.eu on October 17, 2021.British MPs holding meetings with the public could be offered police protection following the killing o...

China’s economy grew by 4.9 per cent in the third quarter of 2021 compared with a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday.This was just below expectations in the median survey of Bloomberg analysts, which had predi...

People’s Bank of China (PBOC) governor Yi Gang said authorities can contain risks posed to the Chinese economy and financial system from the struggles of China Evergrande Group.The property developer’s trouble “casts a little bit of concern,”...

At least three senior Hong Kong barristers regarded as low profile and uncontroversial have emerged as possible candidates to lead the Bar Association, which has incurred the wrath of Beijing for being too political.Legal sources told the Post that s...

When Derrick Nguyen moved to Singapore 10 years ago, it was as if he had come full circle. The American chiropractic business owner had lived in a refugee camp in the city state for five months from 1979 to 1980, after his family fled Vietnam in the ...

A book pro-Beijing media and lawmakers have attacked for saying it was right for foreign powers to take military action against China during the early 1900s has been snapped up by readers, according to employees of a retail bookstore chain in Hong Ko...

The La Palma volcano in the Canary Islands, which has been erupting steadily for weeks and shows no immediate sign of ending its activity, has produced a second lava flow that is rapidly approaching the sea.The flow is 200 metres away from the coast ...

When dozens of African leaders gathered in Beijing three years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping promised change.To help rebalance the lopsided trade relationship, Xi said China would encourage Chinese companies to invest in Africa, upgrade economic ...

When the premier of Australia’s New South Wales held a press conference to mark the end of more than 100 days of lockdown, he chose a pub as the venue and a roster of officials focused on the economy rather than public health.“It’s not just a h...

A conservative mayor will lead Hungary’s united opposition parties against Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the most fiercely contested election in more than a decade.Peter Marki-Zay dominated the six-party alliance’s primary run-off, defeating Kla...

Prince William presented the inaugural Earthshot prizes at a ceremony in London on Sunday, with projects from Costa Rica, Italy, the Bahamas and India picking up prizes.The new annual awards were created by Prince William to reward efforts to save th...

Hundreds of models wearing only white body paint walked Sunday across a stark desert expanse in southern Israel near the Dead Sea, part of the latest photography project of American artist Spencer Tunick.As for Tunick, dressed, in black, he stood on ...

Three people were killed in a helicopter crash in the western German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg on Sunday.It was initially unclear how many people had been aboard, according to a spokesperson.“We assume there was one pilot and two passengers,” p...

US officials were working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and five children with a US-based missionary group who were abducted over the weekend by a gang notorious for killings, kidnappings and extortion.The group w...

The German and Israeli air forces flew fighter jets over Jerusalem on Sunday to show their close ties ahead of a larger international military exercise.Pictures showed the four aircraft flying over Israel's parliament, the Knesset.The fly-by marked t...

At least 25 people have died in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains in southwestern India, officials said on Sunday, as rescuers scoured for survivors in muddy debris and the military flew in emergency supplies.Residents were cut off in pa...

Former US President Bill Clinton was on Sunday released from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection.He left at around 8am from the University of California Irvine Medical Center.Clinton, 75, was admitted on Tuesda...

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin headed to the Black Sea region on Sunday aiming to shore up alliances with countries pressured by Russia and show gratitude for their contributions to the two-decade war in Afghanistan.Austin will visit Georgia, Roma...

Spain’s leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez vowed Sunday to “abolish” prostitution in the country, saying it “enslaves” women.Speaking at the end of a three-day congress of his Socialist party, Sanchez highlighted policies introduced by hi...

Spending time in space can damage the brains of astronauts, according to new research that poses questions for the long-term risks of future space travel.Blood tests of space travellers indicate a slight but persistent brain injury and a faster agein...

Landlords of flats in older buildings on the eastern side of Hong Kong Island will be asked if they want their properties to be redeveloped, or just renovated, in a pilot scheme trying out a new bottom-up approach to urban regeneration.The scheme cov...

As another winter with Covid-19 approaches for the northern hemisphere, the world is supposedly more prepared to cope with the pandemic than a year ago, but analysts say the risks remain high.Vaccination drives around the globe have shown varying pro...

The Chinese military on Sunday condemned the United States and Canada for each sending a warship through the Taiwan Strait last week, saying they were threatening peace and stability in the region.China claims democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own t...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the city’s de facto central bank, apologised on Sunday after its electronic payment platform crashed for about five hours because of “unforeseen circumstances” during a scheduled maintenance.The system upgrade ...

China’s coal shortage is likely to ease in coming months, with domestic production and imports already showing signs of picking up, a coal industry association said on Sunday, amid government efforts to tackle tight supply.The Chinese government in...

The father of a man held for the fatal stabbing of a British lawmaker has told UK media that he is shocked and “traumatised” by his son’s arrest, as police continue questioning the suspect under terrorism laws.Harbi Ali Kullane, a former advise...

A Chinese military newspaper has called for a “people’s war” to defeat American espionage after the CIA set up a new unit dedicated to China.The launch of China Mission Centre on October 7, which CIA Director William Burns said was aimed at cou...

A major pro-establishment union has called on the Hong Kong government to eliminate poverty by appointing a commissioner to revamp the city’s existing policies.The Federation of Trade Unions also said that a new benchmark should be set to gauge the...

As the latest K-pop tunes play in the background, groups of young people chat quietly in Mandarin over bubble tea in a variety of colours. A sign in simplified Chinese characters directs the adventurous towards a studio upstairs where they can use a ...

Protests erupted for a second day in Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday, amid a wave of violence against local Hindus following a viral social media image perceived as insulting to the country’s Muslim majority.Some 10,000 protesters – many of th...

Sales continued apace on day two of a residential project launch in Sha Tin as the developer allocated smaller flats that tend to appeal to genuine end users, who are more price-sensitive than people buying purely to invest.Centralcon Properties, a l...

About five years ago, a herd of elephants showed up at Su Chun Fa’s estate in Malaysia and ate all the young oil palms in an eight-acre plot.Su blamed himself. Elephants had long roamed the adjacent forests in Johor, but they had stayed away from t...

Hong Kong’s sole delegate to China’s top legislative body has warned that mainland authorities are unlikely to accept any Covid-19 health code-sharing proposal from the city for residents to cross the border without having to undergo quarantine, ...