Chinese education giant New Oriental has ignited online controversy after its founder posted an internal message from his holiday in Antarctica while employees were reportedly frustrated with long working hours. The message from Yu Minhong, which was...

The potential cancer-fighting effects of the antioxidant quercetin – found in a variety of foods including onions, apples and durian – are partly dependent on the presence of microbes in our gut, a Chinese research team has found. Quercetin has s...

From Finland opening diplomatic outposts in Senegal to Czech instructors training Mauritanian security forces, a group of smaller European nations has joined a global scramble for influence in Africa. Estonia, Romania and Malta are among European Uni...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has taken Beijing’s push for multilateralism to the Group of 20 summit in South Africa, calling for solidarity and free trade at an event boycotted by the world’s biggest economy. Addressing the gathering of leaders in Jo...

China’s third most senior official and top legislator pledged “sincere” friendship with New Zealand and called for tighter economic links between the two countries during a four-day trip to the Pacific nation. Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standin...

Hong Kong’s transport authorities have requested an investigation report after a Sun Ferry vessel carrying passengers crashed into Central Pier while docking, damaging the facility. Police received a report at 9.33am on Sunday from a passer-by that...

Italy’s centre-left opposition is testing out a big-tent alliance, guessing it’s the best way to unseat Giorgia Meloni at the next general election. The rest is still being worked out. The alliance pulls together parties with disparate political ...

The narrative of “AI at all costs” seems to have lost some steam recently. Once heralded as an unstoppable force for growth, artificial intelligence now faces critical questions about sustainability, particularly as funding models and market sent...

The crash of India’s Tejas fighter in front of global arms buyers at the Dubai Air Show is the latest blow to a key national trophy, leaving the jet reliant on Indian military orders to sustain its role as a showcase of home-built defence technolog...

A senior Hong Kong police officer has appealed to Indonesian residents in the city to take part in and support the coming Legislative Council election as part of the government’s latest effort to boost voter turnout. Raymond Suryanto Chin-chiu, hea...

A tentative thaw in India–China ties is rekindling hopes that the two Asian giants could move from strategic rivalry to clean-energy cooperation at a moment when the Global South is searching for leverage in climate negotiations. This cautious warm...

Each winter for the past three years, Claire Zhou, a teenager from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, has counted down the days until she can fly to northern China and pull on a new ski suit and boots. The better she skis, the more frequently sh...

An old man in Shanghai who became an online celebrity by “waiting for love” every evening at a landmark has turned out to be a deadbeat who refused to fulfil a court order that he pay a large amount of outstanding rent to his landlord. The true i...

Hong Kong has become a “safe haven” for capital with bank deposits exceeding HK$19 trillion (US$2.4 trillion) this year, while the city’s goods exports have remained resilient despite the tariff war, the finance chief has said. Financial Secret...

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro damaged his electronic ankle bracelet with a soldering iron hours before his arrest, according to video released by the Supreme Court. The footage shows Bolsonaro telling an officer he had applied “hot iro...

More than 85 per cent of Hong Kong infants and toddlers remain unvaccinated against flu, a leading respiratory disease expert has said, while warning of the approaching winter peak after more than 20 severe influenza cases were recorded among childre...

Key scientists behind China’s latest stealth fighter and aircraft carrier have been promoted to one of the country’s top scientific academies in recognition of their contributions to advances in military technology. The honours also highlight the...

When the rains fall over Madrid, a quiet rural town in the southern Philippines, muddy brown torrents sweep through rice fields and homes. For Beth Samblado, the floodwater is a recurring reminder of a struggle she and her neighbours in Surigao del S...

An elderly man in Japan who won 600 million yen (US$3.8 million) in the lottery kept his windfall a secret from his penny-pinching wife so he could live a life of luxury. According to the Japanese media outlet, The Gold Online, the 66-year-old known ...

Visitors to the Hong Kong’s Palace Museum reported a smoother experience on Sunday, a day after chaotic crowds prompted the institution to suspend walk-in ticketing for its popular Egyptian exhibition before resuming sales in the afternoon. Walk-in...

Singapore authorities raided a car loan company that borrowed from a firm connected to Prince Holding Group, as the net widens on those linked to the alleged scam organisation and its chair, Chen Zhi. The premises of Singapore-registered SRS Auto Hol...

Hong Kong labour authorities have launched an investigation into the death of a 49-year-old worker who was strangled by his clothing when it became caught in a machine. The Labour Department announced the inquiry on Sunday following the man’s death...

Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong are set to get a larger shelter from their consulate, with some groups hoping their years-long demand for a new facility will result in more “flexible” arrangements to better suit the needs of distressed mig...

India earlier this month inaugurated a high-altitude airbase near its disputed border with China, prompting analysts to suggest that the development capped long-term efforts to upgrade infrastructure there rather than posing a threat to Beijing. Acco...

The United States is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days, according to four US officials, as the Trump administration escalates pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government. Reuters was not able to e...

For homeowners in mainland China, selling a property has become so difficult that some are turning to xuanxue, a neo-Taoist philosophy that has morphed into internet slang for any superstitious ritual meant to enhance luck, from feng shui tweaks to c...

An eight-year-old disabled boy has died after being found unconscious at a flat in Hong Kong early on Sunday, hours after being given Chinese medicine, prescription drugs and milk to ease a fever. The boy, believed to be a pupil at the Hong Chi Pineh...

Hong Kong doctor Ben Ng Siu-bun still remembers the horrors of war in conflict-torn Gaza. The 52-year-old anaesthesiologist joined a humanitarian mission organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross to Gaza in March this year, providing ...

China has loosened its civil service medical rules so that sufferers from three chronic diseases will no longer be barred, a move hailed by campaigners and legal groups as a landmark in the fight against unfair employment practices. The updated rules...

European leaders and other allies told the US that its peace plan for Ukraine needed “additional work”, in a rushed bid to try and slow walk a Trump administration determined to give concessions to Russia and impose terms by Thanksgiving. They is...

South Korea is set to acquire nuclear-powered attack submarines with US approval and assistance, according to a joint fact sheet last week. That approval came following a meeting at the end of October between South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and ...

Hong Kong holds strategic advantages as an arbitration hub in Asia, particularly due to its unique arbitration framework and growing commercial activities within China, according to a US-listed legal finance company. This competitive edge was poised ...

Ant Group’s new “vibe coding” artificial intelligence app LingGuang has overwhelmed servers after user downloads surpassed 1 million in just four days, hitting the milestone faster than OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora, according to the Chinese fint...

Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee was in no mood for messing about. Pointing her index finger at reporters one October morning inside Hong Kong’s legislature, she sternly signalled for them to get out of her way. “Don’t block my way to the meeting,” she ...

A 23-year-old man in China has won a “lying-flat competition” by resting on a mattress for 33 hours and 35 minutes. The contest, sponsored by a domestic mattress brand, kicked off at 10.18am on November 15 at a shopping centre in Baotou, Inner Mo...

When Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong took the stage at an Nvidia event in Seoul last month, his wry observation – “Why are there so many iPhones here?” – was met with knowing laughter from the assembled crowd. For a country that pri...

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was enlisting the help of legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to spruce up the courses at Joint Base Andrews – adding a site long known as the “president’s golf course” to his long list of constru...

When Russian forces rolled into Ukraine in early 2022, one of the first moves by Kyiv was sending a post to Elon Musk on X: Ukraine needs satellite internet. Within days, thousands of Starlink terminals arrived, restoring command and control across t...

John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter disclosed on Saturday that she has terminal cancer, writing in an essay in The New Yorker that one of her doctors said she might live for about another year. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter,...

Europe is once again embroiled in a prolonged argument over how to keep deforestation-linked timber out of its markets. The European Union’s deforestation regulations, once promoted as a bold step forward, have instead become a symbol of hesitation...

Irish fashion designer Paul Costelloe, personal designer to the late Princess Diana who became a fixture at London Fashion Week for four decades, has died aged 80, his family said in a statement on Saturday. Costelloe was appointed as Diana’s perso...

Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 80, local health authorities said on Saturday, in a further test of a fragile ceasefire between the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel. Witnesses and medical staff s...

Brazil’s Cop30 presidency pushed through a compromise climate deal on Saturday that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it. In securing the accord, Brazil hoped to demo...

A contract worker died in hospital hours after collapsing in the basement of a sewage treatment plant on Saturday, with Hong Kong’s Drainage Services Department ordering his employer to investigate. Department director Ringo Mok Wing-cheong express...

Left-leaning social media users have amplified an AI-generated audio clip purporting to show US President Donald Trump screaming at US officials to block the release of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, researchers said on Fri...

Hong Kong’s new medical school will focus on training “future-embracing” doctors to adopt emerging technologies to treat patients, the head of its host university has said. Professor Nancy Ip Yuk-yu, president of Hong Kong University of Science...

Marilyn-Joy Cerny has challenged the US government thousands of times during her 35-year career as a trade lawyer, enjoying an enviable record of recovering tariff money for importers whom Washington wrongfully charged. But the sheer scale of potenti...

A highly anticipated exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum of relics from ancient Egypt descended into chaos on Saturday, with visitors complaining a confusing queuing system left them waiting for hours and many demanding a refund. The museum apo...

The G20 summit in Johannesburg opened on Saturday with a firm call from the host nation to safeguard the group’s credibility and role, despite the shadow cast by the first-ever US boycott in the forum’s history. South Africa has, however, secured...

A UK-based platform supporting British National (Overseas) visa holders is launching a campaign to lobby against London’s proposed immigration reforms, calling them unfair and a source of “acute anxiety” for the Hong Kong community in the count...