In a Thai jail, crime kingpin who claims he spied for China ‘fears for his life’
Published: 10:12am, 27 Jan 2025Updated: 10:17am, 27 Jan 2025 A jailed gambling tycoon fighting extradition to China received “inhumane treatment” in a Thai prison...
Federal Government Launches Immigration Enforcement Operations in Chicago
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove visited Chicago on Jan. 26 to observe the operations. Several federal agencies have launched immigration enforcement operations in...
Chinese Govts Go Mad With Fines Before New Year: BBQs and Fireworks Penalized, Public Anger Surges
Recently, in Guang’an, Sichuan, a man in his sixties was fined 200 yuan (about 30 US dollars) for smoking cured meat at home. Local...
Hong Kong feels the chill at 10 degrees Celsius, lowest so far this winter
Hong Kong recorded its coldest temperature so far this winter when the mercury dropped to around 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit) on Monday morning,...
Some New Zealanders Paying 50 Percent Tax, Treasury Reveals
A new analysis reveals some income earners and and many single parents are effectively paying half their income in tax, and there’s no way...
China’s factory activity contracts in January, ending 3-month expansion streak
Published: 9:36am, 27 Jan 2025Updated: 12:26pm, 27 Jan 2025 China’s factory activity fell back into contractionary territory in January in advance of an early...
Trump Appoints Member of an Oil Dynasty as Ambassador to New Zealand
Jared Novelly, who gave 17 times more in donations to Trump’s primary opponent Nikki Haley than he did to Trump, is the new US...
Rebel militia admits beheading captives in Myanmar
Myanmar rebel group the Arakan Army has confessed to beheading two prisoners, in a rare admission of deadly violence as it fights the ruling...
Why Hong Kong need not get defensive about national security
In the eight-and-a-half years that I led InvestHK, the major factor we always put front and centre in our pitch to potential foreign investors...