Year: 2025

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, an ancient and quirky tradition has resurfaced in Taiwan, where unmarried women sneak into neighbours’ gardens to steal vegetables,...

Singapore’s High Court has dismissed a bid by foreign liquidators to sue Standard Chartered Bank and BSI Bank in the city state over transactions...

Hong Kong’s leader has pledged to “eliminate bottlenecks” and shorten the time needed to realise economic gains to ensure that residents from all walks...

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced ex-president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for “treason”. Advertisement Kabila, 54,...

As the Philippines’ coastguard struggles to patrol vast, contested waters with a handful of ageing planes and helicopters, a single politician’s larger private fleet...

Malaysia’s government is facing allegations of muzzling free speech after the social media account of a leading independent news portal was suspended shortly after...

Hong Kong insurance companies and brokers from Wednesday are barred from paying excessive referral fees to unlicensed individuals, as the city’s insurance regulator bolsters...

At 12.01am on Wednesday, US Eastern time (12.01pm Hong Kong time), the US government shut down after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to...