India’s Modi urged to attend China’s victory parade. What would it mean at home?
Published: 12:00pm, 3 Aug 2025Updated: 12:03pm, 3 Aug 2025 A historian has called on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend China’s Victory Day...
HKEX to slash minimum spread of 300 stocks from Monday
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), which operates Asia’s third-largest stock market, will reduce the minimum trading spread for about 300 stocks starting Monday,...
Hong Kong forecaster issues 2 amber rainstorm signal on Sunday, warns of floods
Published: 11:03am, 3 Aug 2025Updated: 1:39pm, 3 Aug 2025 This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please...
How Singapore’s economic architect Goh Keng Swee shaped its state-linked giants
The First Fools: B-Sides of Lee Kuan Yew’s A-Team is a new anthology about Singapore’s founding leaders. In this excerpt, author Aaron Low spotlights...
Chinese scientists create a ‘storm eye’ for PLA forces in electronic warfare
Chinese scientists have developed an advanced electronic warfare technique that can create a zone of electromagnetic calm, similar to the eye of a storm...
Why Nanking massacre remains such a powerful Chinese cultural symbol
This summer, two Chinese films – Dead To Rights and 731 – have stirred strong public reactions. Focusing on some of the darkest chapters...
China Takes Back Hong Kong, But Messes It Up—Shenzhen and Hong Kong Collapsing Together
As 2025 approaches, Shenzhen’s economic data paints a grim picture. Key indicators like investment and exports are all on a downward spiral. Is this...
Should Hong Kong’s baby bonus scheme include talent to boost birth rate?
Questions have been raised about the effectiveness of potentially extending a baby bonus scheme to talent admitted to Hong Kong to boost the birth...
China boy writes to marine park about missing fish, gets personal reply, invitation
A six-year-old boy who is besotted with fish wrote to an ocean aquarium after noticing some sea life had disappeared, and surprisingly received a...