Thailand’s workers in Israel hunker down as Iran strikes targets across Gulf
With memories still raw from the deaths of scores of its nationals during the Gaza war, Thailand has issued an alert to its estimated...
China’s AI power play: Beijing banks on clean-energy boom to triumph over US
China’s rapid push into artificial intelligence and its simultaneous energy transition are central to overtaking the United States in technological supremacy, according to a...
Rainy Tuesday expected in Hong Kong, with temperatures dipping to 16 degrees Celsius
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Hong Kong’s new cash-for-residency scheme draws US$12 billion in first 2 years
Hong Kong’s cash-for-residency scheme has attracted about HK$95 billion (US$12 billion) from more than 1,700 investors over the past two years, with around two-thirds...
Where will Fukushima’s nuclear waste go? Japanese governors reject tainted soil
None of Japan’s prefectural governors are willing to accept soil collected in decontamination work near the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex without further safety...
Asia faces oil shock as US-Iran war chokes Strait of Hormuz
Oil prices surged by the most in four years on Monday as the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei amid a widening...
How much for foreign prestige? China says no to some Western science journal fees
China’s top research body has banned its scientists from using government funds to publish in some pricey Western journals, as the country rethinks how...
China growing trend among couples has them calling each other ‘teammate’ or ‘roommate’
Married couples in China are referring to each other as “teammate” and “roommate” to avoid being too schmaltzy, but single people are shunning the...
ATLAS unmanned combat vehicle passes its latest trials
The ATLAS 8×8 unmanned combat vehicle from BAE Systems Australia, fitted with a Vantage turret, has successfully completed the latest series of in-house field...