China seeks more jobs, more FDI as external pressures threaten economy in 2025
China has pledged to create more jobs and boost foreign investment as the world’s second-largest economy braces for external uncertainties in the year ahead....
More Hong Kong police patrols at ‘Lan Kwai Fong of Gen Z’ as teen crime rises
Published: 6:13pm, 18 Jan 2025Updated: 6:34pm, 18 Jan 2025 Hong Kong police have stepped up law enforcement at Kwun Tong Promenade to tackle crime...
South Korea’s Yoon in court as investigators seek to extend detention
Published: 6:00pm, 18 Jan 2025Updated: 6:03pm, 18 Jan 2025 Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was in court for the first time on Saturday...
Could visit to Taiwan by mainland Chinese academics be first hint of a cross-strait thaw?
A recent visit to Taiwan by two prominent mainland Chinese academics to meet their counterparts on the island has prompted speculation that it may...
China fans thrilled that knife attack hero’s wife is expecting again after losing newborn
Nanjing Fat Brother, a man given the affectionate name because of his ample size and his heroism in stopping a knife attack years ago,...
Indonesia seeks a Chinese solar boom in the shadow of US tariffs
As US tariffs squeeze Chinese solar firms across Southeast Asia, Indonesia is emerging as a surprising outlier – sensing opportunity where others feel the...
Cambodia extends mine-free deadline as villager, 2 deminers killed
A Cambodian villager was killed after he drove a truck loaded with cassava over an anti-tank landmine on his farm, an official said on...
First-time homebuyers snap up Tuen Mun flats amid easing uncertainty around Trump policy
Homebuyers flocked to a new residential project by Early Light International Holdings in Hong Kong’s New Territories on Saturday, drawn by its value for...
Hong Kong to probe role of crime groups in kidnappings linked to scam farms
Hong Kong authorities will thoroughly investigate whether intermediaries luring residents into illegal work in Southeast Asia are being directly controlled by crime syndicates amid...