Thai tycoon offers US$900 for slapping son’s mistress, who once dated grandson
A Thai durian tycoon has shocked the internet after publicly offering a reward of 30,000 Thai baht (US$900) for slapping the face of his...
Japan’s relaxed shooting rules to lessen bear attacks trigger new safety concern
A surge in bear attacks in Japan has forced the government to relax rules on “emergency shootings” in populated areas, amid concerns over whether...
Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: researcher-entrepreneur tackles rare brain diseases
For more than two decades, Professor Edwin Chan Ho-yin has pursued one of medicine’s toughest challenges by developing treatments for rare neurodegenerative diseases. Advertisement...
Veteran Hong Kong lawmakers Tommy Cheung and Chan Kin-por to step down
Published: 1:18pm, 11 Oct 2025Updated: 1:59pm, 11 Oct 2025 Veteran lawmakers Tommy Cheung Yu-yan and Chan Kin-por have announced that they will not run...
Survivors of Philippine twin quakes despair: ‘nowhere to sleep, nothing to eat’
Dazed survivors of a pair of major earthquakes in the southern Philippines awoke on Saturday to scenes of devastation, after hundreds of aftershocks rocked...
Research reveals mismatch between China’s fertility incentives, local birth rates
How much do financial incentives and other means of support influence the decision to have children, or how many to have? In China, the...
What on earth is a 1,900-year-old Roman grave marker doing in a US garden?
An American family cleaning up their overgrown backyard in New Orleans made an extremely unusual find: under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet...
Trump’s latest tariffs trigger record cryptocurrency liquidations
Cryptocurrency market traders have been hit by record liquidations just days after bitcoin hit a fresh all-time high, with volatility triggered in large part...
Tariff War Reignites: Trump Slaps 100% Tariffs on China, Accuses Beijing of Blackmailing the World
On October 10, President Trump made a surprising move. He sharply criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for trying to dominate the world and...