2 dead after cargo plane slides off Hong Kong runway, partly lands in sea
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2 dead after cargo plane slides off Hong Kong runway, partly lands in sea
Published: 6:08am, 20 Oct 2025Updated: 7:34am, 20 Oct 2025 This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please...
Liu Qian on Chinese innovation, the US rivalry and women holding up half the sky
Liu Qian is the founder of Wusawa Advisory and formerly the managing director of The Economist Group in Greater China. She is also a...
Million Tea Farmers Cry! China’s Tea Industry Collapses, A Large Number of Tea Gardens Abandoned
This year, China’s tea industry is experiencing an unprecedented wave of closures. Tea prices have collapsed, forcing many tea shops and factories to shut...
Will today’s great powers heed the example of Richard Nixon and Zhou Enlai?
When Germany emerged as Europe’s industrial powerhouse in the 19th century, the established powers spent years attempting to contain it, culminating in a war...
Turkish Cypriots elect pro-talks leader, renewing hope for Cyprus unity
Hopes for a resumption of long-stalled talks to heal Cyprus’ decades-old ethnic rift were buoyed on Sunday when Turkish Cypriots elected a leader who...
Bolivia elects centrist Paz as president, ending 2 decades of socialism
Published: 4:04am, 20 Oct 2025Updated: 4:59am, 20 Oct 2025 Bolivians voted on Sunday in an unprecedented presidential run-off between two conservative, capitalist candidates, ushering...
Trump urged Zelensky to make concessions to Russia in tense meeting: sources
Published: 3:05am, 20 Oct 2025Updated: 4:02am, 20 Oct 2025 US President Donald Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russia’s terms for ending...
UK’s Prince Andrew asked police to help smear sex abuse accuser: report
Published: 2:19am, 20 Oct 2025Updated: 3:25am, 20 Oct 2025 Britain’s Prince Andrew asked police in 2011 to dig up personal information about Virginia Giuffre,...