‘Big, scary moment’? What’s up with Section 899 and its ‘retaliatory’ taxes?
With the market taking a closer look at the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” after it was narrowly passed by the US House of...
Hong Kong police arrest man over anthrax hoax at social welfare office
Hong Kong police are hunting for a man who fled a social welfare office after telling staff he had left anthrax on the counter....
Facing gender ratio crisis, Vietnam proposes tougher laws on sex selection
Published: 8:41pm, 4 Jun 2025Updated: 8:51pm, 4 Jun 2025 Vietnam is planning to impose stiffer penalties for gender-based sex selection in pregnancy, as the...
China hits out at Marco Rubio over criticism of 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown
Published: 8:33pm, 4 Jun 2025Updated: 8:33pm, 4 Jun 2025 China has lodged a protest about US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comments about the...
India projected to accelerate solar power generation as storage costs fall
Published: 8:00pm, 4 Jun 2025Updated: 8:17pm, 4 Jun 2025 India’s transition towards a clean energy-based digital economy may have received a boost from a...
Chinese state media releases key details about DF-5 nuclear weapons
Published: 8:00pm, 4 Jun 2025Updated: 8:07pm, 4 Jun 2025 China’s state broadcaster CCTV has for the first time released some of the key specifications...
Huawei claims better AI training method than DeepSeek using own chips
Researchers working on Huawei Technologies’ large language model (LLM) Pangu claimed they have improved on DeepSeek’s original approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) by...
Singapore’s health minister ‘dismayed’ at GP clinic with US$40,000 rental bid
A healthcare firm clarified that its record high rental bid of more than S$52,000 (US$40,300) per month for a clinic space in a Singapore...
BBC Defends Gaza Coverage After White House Criticism
The White House press secretary said the corporation had to ‘correct and take down’ a story but a BBC spokesperson said it ‘did not...