Pay freeze for Hong Kong civil servants, with 10,000 government posts to be axed
Hong Kong’s chief executive, civil servants and lawmakers will all have their pay frozen in the coming year, while about 10,000 government posts will...
Teachers Union Sues Education Department Over Anti-DEI Policy
The lawsuit said the Department of Education’s guidance violates free speech protections. The American Federation of Teachers and the American Sociological Association sued the...
Federal Agency Halts Trump Administration’s Firing of 6 Government Employees
The Merit Systems Protection Board ordered the administration to reinstate the workers. A federal agency on Feb. 25 stopped President Donald Trump’s administration from...
China welcomes new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 11 years after disappearance
China has backed a fresh search for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared 11 years ago. Advertisement The Boeing 777 aircraft which was...
As India, Bangladesh envoys engage in war of words, are ties reaching ‘point of no return’?
Relations between India and Bangladesh have reached a new low, with recent remarks by Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar highlighting growing frustrations in New...
As DeepSeek knock-offs flourish, China curbs false trademarks capitalising on AI hype
Chinese authorities have blocked dozens of trademark applications filed with the name DeepSeek, as the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up faces a flurry of...
Common ground or go it alone? Asean flummoxed by Trump tariff threat
Asean is in a race to find a unified position on punishing tariffs proposed by US President Donald Trump, as some members of the...
Australia jails 14 sect members over ‘slow and painful’ death of girl, 8
A judge jailed 14 members of a fringe Australian religious group on Wednesday over the “slow and painful” death of an eight-year-old diabetic girl...
Senator Warns That US, a Regulatory ‘Dinosaur,’ Losing Edge in Nuclear Innovation
Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) tells utility commissioners that the federal government must subsidize pioneering developers to be competitive. WASHINGTON—Americans invented nuclear power, were the...