Thousands of reservists report for duty as Israel begins new Gaza offensive
Tens of thousands of reservists started to report for duty on Tuesday ahead of a new Israeli offensive in Gaza City, which Prime Minister...
Chinese man poses as ex-PLA official, learned scholar, hospital project consultant
A suspected con man in China has been placed under criminal detention for posing as a retired People’s Liberation Army (PLA) official and a...
Hong Kong education minister open to international version of DSE exams
Published: 5:45pm, 2 Sep 2025Updated: 5:58pm, 2 Sep 2025 Hong Kong’s education minister has said she is open to developing an international version of...
Honour guards in China’s military parade to carry PLA’s latest QBZ-191 rifles
Published: 5:43pm, 2 Sep 2025Updated: 7:24pm, 2 Sep 2025 Beijing’s massive military parade on Wednesday will feature China’s next-generation QBZ-191 rifles, described by state...
Man plunges to his death in Hong Kong after falling asleep on rooftop
Published: 5:32pm, 2 Sep 2025Updated: 6:02pm, 2 Sep 2025 A man plunged to his death in Hong Kong after falling asleep on a rooftop...
Tencent’s open-source translation model beats Google, OpenAI in top global event
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings on Monday released a new open-source translation model that aced a global machine-translation competition despite its small parameter size,...
Vietnam holds military parade on its 80th anniversary
On 2 September, Vietnam celebrated the 80th anniversary of national independence, which occurred in 1945 in the wake of Japan’s defeat in WWII. The...
Protest-hit Indonesia badly needs new ideas to root out corruption
The protests that have sprang up across Indonesia are a warning about the state of the country and a wake-up call for better governance....
Afghanistan quake death toll passes 1,100 as rescuers search for survivors
Published: 4:22pm, 2 Sep 2025Updated: 4:35pm, 2 Sep 2025 Rescue teams scoured Afghanistan’s mountainous east for survivors on Tuesday, as the death toll from...