Day: December 13, 2025

Published: 6:02pm, 13 Dec 2025Updated: 6:06pm, 13 Dec 2025 Hong Kong’s constitutional affairs chief has dismissed suggestions that a record number of invalid ballots...

In China’s Gelao ethnic group, an old custom required brides to have one or two upper teeth removed before marriage, supposedly to avoid bringing...

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A record 32,000 entrepreneurs took part in the 2025 African Business Heroes summit in Rwanda on Saturday, in the seventh annual edition of the...

At a packed and tiny storefront in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po, Yau Yiu-wai busily explains the best way to open and shut umbrellas...

People love to hate governments, and they loathe having to pay taxes. However, from now on, we’ll have to embrace more state intervention and...

Published: 4:27pm, 13 Dec 2025Updated: 8:31pm, 13 Dec 2025 Hong Kong authorities have expressed confidence in swiftly identifying a location in Tai Po to...

Christine Fong Kwok-shan, a long-time district councillor in Hong Kong known for defending constituents’ rights with fiery and sometimes controversial political acts, has pledged...

A year after the curtain fell on the Assad regime’s five-decade reign of terror, Syria is emerging as a rare beacon of renewal in...