‘Affordable dignity’: Chinese develop taste for Japan’s budget restaurant chains
Students, white-collar workers and families filled the tables during a recent dinner rush at a branch of Saizeriya – a Japanese-owned chain of Italian...
Hong Kong Olympic champion Vivian Kong to sign up for tourism seat in Legco race
Hong Kong Olympic gold medallist Vivian Kong Man-wai will sign up for the coming Legislative Council election on Monday, vying for the tourism sector...
Filipinos rally behind coastguard amid sea tensions, US alliance debate
Filipinos have placed higher levels of trust in the coastguard and the armed forces despite public rows between officials and pro-Duterte politicians over the...
Hong Kong can live with cosmetic changes. Just don’t change its core
Hong Kong is bouncing back, especially in finance, defying predictions of decline after the 2019 unrest and the 2020 national security law. The Hong...
Powerful 6.3 quake kills at least 10 in Afghanistan, hundreds injured
Published: 9:29am, 3 Nov 2025Updated: 1:09pm, 3 Nov 2025 A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday,...
How Thailand melted tariff barriers to become Asia’s top ice cream exporter
To stand out among the dizzying array of sweet treats that pack supermarket freezers from the likes of Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s, an...
US Christian Leaders Welcome Trump’s Spotlighting Persecution in Nigeria
Christian advocacy groups across the United States hailed U.S. President Donald Trump’s Oct. 31 decision to again designate Nigeria as a country of particular...
Trump Says China ‘Knows the Consequences’ If It Invades Taiwan
President Donald Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping understands “very well” what would happen if China invades Taiwan, therefore, the topic never came up...
Trump Invites Dodgers to White House After Back-to-Back World Series Wins
President Donald Trump invited the Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House after the MLB team became back-to-back World Series champions on Nov. 1....