Month: February 2026

The Philippines has fallen in a global corruption perception ranking, as allegations of financial wrongdoings and court cases surrounding a multibillion-peso flood-control programme have...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is at last showing a bit of spirit. While it might not yet be attacking the egregious economic and...

Chinese railway giants look set to scout Eurasia in the years ahead to build high-speed train lines as the domestic market matures and some...

Two China-based foreign influencers who hired a taxi driver to take them on a 4,000-kilometre trip from the south to the north of the...

Hong Kong authorities will spend about HK$6.8 billion (US$870 million) to buy back homes damaged in the deadly Tai Po fire from flat owners,...

Nepal’s Lumbini has long anchored the Buddhist pilgrimage map as the Buddha’s birthplace. Nearby, however, stand the fortified ruins of Tilaurakot – believed to...

Turning the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station has raised mixed emotions in his Austrian hometown. “It’s a double-edged sword,”...

The new 10 per cent global tariffs imposed by the United States will only have a “limited impact” on Hong Kong, the city’s treasury...