Myanmar’s pro-junta party wins Aung San Suu Kyi’s former seat: ‘surprise no one’
Myanmar’s main pro-military party on Monday claimed victory in the parliamentary seat of sidelined democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an election being...
Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun names Philip Tinari its new head of art
Tai Kwun has named Philip Tinari as its head of art, bringing one of mainland China’s most high-profile art personalities to the Hong Kong...
Seats sell out on Hong Kong’s new high-speed rail routes to mainland China
Hong Kong’s expanded high-speed rail network has proved an instant hit among travellers, with trains to 16 newly added mainland Chinese destinations seeing several...
China pledges green-energy push with Global South, signals wider market opening
China has vowed to deepen cooperation in new energy and green minerals with the nations in the Global South, saying the move is in...
Alibaba’s Qwen family hits 700 million downloads to lead global open-source AI adoption
Alibaba Cloud’s flagship Qwen family of artificial intelligence models surpassed 700 million downloads as of January on the developer platform Hugging Face, which made...
Hong Kong DAB chief urges respect for Tai Po fire survivors’ community ties
The head of Hong Kong’s largest political party has urged authorities to respect the deep-rooted community ties of residents displaced by the deadly Tai...
Singapore teen who made peer soak genitals in chilli oil, drink urine, given probation
A Singaporean teenager who made another teenager perform degrading acts, such as soaking his genitals in chilli oil and drinking his own urine, was...
Chinese arms exporters may be the big winners in any Pakistan-Saudi JF-17 talks
Reported discussions between Riyadh and Islamabad over a potential deal involving fighter jets co-developed by China and Pakistan could be a “big win” for...
Malaysian police seize drug-laced drinks worth US$246,000, dealer may face death penalty
Drug-laced drinks worth almost 1 million ringgit (US$246,000) have been seized after a Malaysian narcotics bust that saw the arrest of one dealer. At...