US adds 172,000 jobs in May, strongly beating expectations
US employment growth surged in May, beating market expectations, while the unemployment rate remained steady, government...
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Chinese researchers claim breakthrough in training household robots with AI-generated homes
A team of Chinese researchers has claimed a breakthrough in training robots in real-world home environments, tackling a ...
Thailand to join UN maritime arbitration with Cambodia
Thailand said on Friday it will join a UN arbitration process chosen by Cambodia to resolve a festering maritime boundar...
Hong Kong tutor who plotted to murder flight attendant gets 3-year jail term reduction
A Hong Kong private tutor found guilty of orchestrating a failed plot to murder his business partner eight years ago has...
Trump is turning allies and partners into friends of China
China-Canada relations are undergoing a thaw after years of estrangement and recrimination. China and India are seeking ...
Asia’s marine pledges face credibility test at global ocean conference
Asia’s governments have spent years promising to protect the seas that feed their people, shelter their coasts and suppo...
Chinese EVs reclaim momentum as tech upgrades, incentives squeeze gains of foreign marques
International marques have failed to sustain the market share they regained in China early this year after consumers fel...
Huawei chips refine DeepSeek model in major leap for China’s AI self-reliance
A research team that includes Huawei Technologies says it has successfully used the firm’s Ascend 910C chips to complete...
Chinese black hole-hunting scientist Dai Liang quits US for Shanghai post
A physicist who was awarded a fellowship reserved for the “brightest young scientists” in the US and Canada for his work...
US Senate passes US$70 billion ICE funding; fails to ban ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund
The US Senate handed President Donald Trump a victory early on Friday morning, passing a bill that would provide the De...
Philippines’ UN defeat: a result of domestic ‘political circus’, close ties with US?
The Philippines’ landslide defeat to Kyrgyzstan for a UN Security Council seat has dealt a blow to Manila’s long-running...
Hong Kong tour guide stripped of licence over coercing visitors into shopping
A Hong Kong tour guide accused of threatening visitors into making shopping purchases has been struck off for damaging t...
Hong Kong taps banks, lawyers and crypto firms to help rewrite rules for tokenised bonds
Hong Kong’s de facto central bank has formed a group of industry experts to help remove legal and regulatory hurdles to ...
Australian fined, given suspended jail term for dining and dashing in Hong Kong
An Australian man, who claimed to be a lawyer, has been fined HK$2,000 (US$255) and given a suspended sentence by a Hong...
How China imperial exam leaves historical footprint and impact on gaokao, modern education
In the first of a two-part series focusing on China’s hugely important national college entrance examination, or gaokao,...
How a pig farm dispute exposed fault lines in Malaysia’s multiracial politics
Pig farmers in the central state of Selangor have spent years trying to keep their business out of Malaysia’s culture wa...
Chinese military team inspects Russian bases as Putin hails ‘natural allies’
A PLA inspection team visited several facilities in Russia’s Eastern Military District this week, including an air defen...
No cap on HK$2 transport scheme trips as costs outweigh savings: Hong Kong minister
Hong Kong authorities will not cap the monthly number of subsidised trips that eligible elderly residents and people wit...
Hong Kong police arrest man after repeated bottle-throwing from flat injures 2
Hong Kong police have arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of repeatedly throwing glass bottles from the windows of h...
China, South Korea boost commercial flights as tourism increases between the 2 countries
China and South Korea will allow 70 more flights per week between the two countries in view of fast-growing, two-way tou...