Hong Kong police to expand CCTV coverage and link up with more departments
Hong Kong police will expand their surveillance camera coverage to public housing estates, cross-harbour tunnels and venues hosting the National Games including Kai Tak...
Flu’s spread across Asia prompts Hong Kong groups to join vaccination appeal
Medical organisations and politicians in Hong Kong, Macau and other parts of Asia have issued a joint appeal to take preventive steps against the...
US business leaders eye Hong Kong as ‘springboard’ to mainland China, Asia
American business leaders are looking to use Hong Kong as a “springboard” for tapping markets in China and Asia despite geopolitical tensions amid a...
China accuses US of carrying out cyberattacks on national time centre
China’s top counter-espionage agency has accused the United States of conducting cyberattacks against the country’s national time centre, which it said could have had...
Terminally ill Taiwan mum loses US$420,000 by selling home to ‘spiritual’ scammers
A terminally ill, cancer-stricken mother in Taiwan was coerced into a so-called spiritual growth cult, which eventually cost her family more than NT$13 million...
Hong Kong TCM hospital to collect data on Chinese, Western medicine interactions
Hong Kong’s first traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospital aims to co-develop the world’s first clinical database on interactions between its healing practices and Western...
Nobody ‘cares’: a crocodile caused barely a ripple at an Australian resort pool
A crocodile took a dip in a luxury hotel pool in northeastern Australia this weekend but failed to stir guests who relaxed in the...
Trump’s Thailand-Cambodia peace prize play puts Asean in a precarious position
The camouflage-clad soldiers who patrol the rice fields around Wichien’s village are a daily reminder that peace along Thailand’s border with Cambodia is perilous,...
Pakistan and Afghanistan Agree to Immediate Cease-Fire After Peace Talks in Doha
ISLAMABAD/KABUL—Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to an immediate cease-fire during talks in Doha, both sides said on Sunday, after a week of fierce border clashes,...