What are the right lessons from Hong Kong’s worst fire in 7 decades?
As Hong Kong mourns the victims of the deadly Tai Po blaze and questions emerge on accountability, experts have called for much tighter supervision...
Russian drone strike kills 1 near Kyiv amid flurry of peace talks
A Russian drone attack has killed one person and wounded 11 on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, the regional governor said on Sunday....
Singapore becomes Plan B for Chinese travellers giving Japan a wide berth
Amid the diplomatic fallout between Tokyo and Beijing, Hunanese accountant Echo He feels relieved she has chosen Southeast Asia for her year-end trip with...
Why Chinese are cancelling their trips to Japan
Recent weeks have seen a sharp decline in Sino-Japanese people-to-people exchanges. All flights on 12 routes from mainland Chinese cities to Japan had been...
This Chemist May Have Cracked America’s Rare Earth Problem
James Tour, chemist and nanotechnologist at Houston’s Rice University, in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Nov. 19, 2020. Tal Atzmon/The Epoch Times One flash is all...
Beyond DeepSeek: Moonshot and MiniMax step up as China’s new frontier AI labs
Chinese artificial intelligence start-ups Moonshot AI and MiniMax have emerged as China’s strongest contenders to rival US frontier labs in 2025 – even as...
What is ‘second-hand fried chicken’; how snack became popular in Philippine slums
Published: 9:00am, 30 Nov 2025Updated: 11:08am, 30 Nov 2025 A decades-old staple in the slums of the Philippines, known as pagpag or “second-hand fried...
China Panics After Seeing Japan’s “Ace”: To Japan, China’s Navy Is Like Running Naked!
Why has the Chinese government been so vocal about Japan recently? On the surface, it seems like the “wolf warrior” diplomacy is back. But...
‘She kept crying for me to rescue her’: victims’ families mourn fallen in Hong Kong
The eight milk tea-coloured towers of Wang Fuk Court were special sentinels to many locals in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. Residents say that...