New 200-berth marina, clubhouse planned in Hong Kong revamp of Aberdeen site
A section of Hong Kong Island’s southwest coast at Aberdeen will be revamped into a new marina with 200 berths, a clubhouse and about...
Pinduoduo operator PDD’s profit slides as Chinese firm cites higher reinvestment
PDD Holdings, the Chinese e-commerce group behind Pinduoduo and global budget marketplace Temu, on Wednesday reported an 11 per cent drop in quarterly profit...
Middle powers are taking up the mantle of multilateral leadership
For much of the post-war era, the architecture of global governance rested on the simple assumption that the United States would support the systems...
Zhang Dongmei named new deputy director of office overseeing Hong Kong affairs
Beijing has selected Zhang Dongmei, a former vice-president of the All-China Women’s Federation, as a new deputy director of the top office overseeing Hong...
China names trillions of AI tokens after the yuan. Should the US worry for the dollar?
China has officially designated ciyuan as the translation for “token” – the computational units that power tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini –...
Iran Scoffs at Diplomacy, Expands Strikes on Israel, Gulf States
Iran’s military on March 25 dismissed the idea of negotiating with the United States to end the war, as Tehran launched fresh missile and...
Former defence exec Tan Ruisong given death sentence for ‘exceptional’ corruption
Tan Ruisong, the former boss of China’s top military aviation company, has been given a suspended death sentence for reaping over 613 million yuan...
China Mobile bets on Hong Kong as gateway for global computing flows
China Mobile has invested nearly HK$10 billion (US$1.28 billion) over five years to help turn Hong Kong into a global computing hub, integrating the...
Minister caught in Malaysia’s ‘corporate mafia’ saga denies US$2.4 million bribe claim
A Malaysian minister on Wednesday denied he was the unnamed politician at the centre of fresh allegations in the country’s so-called corporate mafia controversy,...