Xiamen in Tears! Taiwanese Firms Pull Out, No Jobs Left, Workers Fleeing Home Early in October
The Zhongshan Road in Xiamen looks empty. Over half of the shops along the street have closed. Aside from a few restaurants with some...
The rise of branded residences and why Hong Kong is an outlier
Fancy living in a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-themed neighbourhood? How about an opulent flat influenced by the luxury fashion house Versace? If...
All-round approach needed as Hong Kong classrooms open to world
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s latest policy address may prove to be a watershed moment for Hong Kong’s education system. Among several measures, one...
Nets v Suns in Macau: tracing the NBA’s rise, fall and return to China
Published: 9:00am, 5 Oct 2025Updated: 9:06am, 5 Oct 2025 Hongkonger Wilson Tsang Wai-shun began following basketball in secondary school, a time when the National...
China slams toys featuring Japan’s notorious WWII Unit 731
A social media account run by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has strongly criticised the production and sale of toys depicting Japan’s World War...
China girl falls and lands on awning, rescued by neighbour 6 floors down
Published: 9:00am, 5 Oct 2025Updated: 11:36am, 5 Oct 2025 A four-year-old girl miraculously survived a 20-storey fall from a residential building thanks to a...
Trump Says Israel Agrees to Gaza Withdrawal Line as Part of Cease-Fire Plan
A convoy of Israeli tanks is deployed at Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, on Sept. 16, 2025. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump...
China’s AI research prowess is proof of global innovation power shift: book
The belief that China is a country only good at adopting technologies at scale has been a “misperception”, according to the author of The...
Malaysia’s ‘2 kitchens’: an appetising solution to the US-China trade war?
As the world’s two largest economies drift further apart, Malaysia’s top trade official has reached a sobering conclusion about what that means for Southeast...