New insurance pays Indian workers to stay home when heat turns deadly
Clothes seller Lata Solanki used to face a devastating choice when India’s summer heat hit dangerous levels: risk her health going door-to-door for sales,...
Hong Kong rugby player denies molesting woman at bar, but admits vandalism
Published: 12:55pm, 11 May 2026Updated: 1:11pm, 11 May 2026 A Hong Kong professional rugby player has denied molesting a patron at a bar, but...
SMBC appoints Elaine He as head of DCM Apac ex-Japan
The Hong Kong-based banker has most recently been head of Morgan Stanley’s Apac debt syndicate. Read More
Xi’s leverage ahead of Trump meet, Hong Kong schools: 5 weekend reads you missed
Published: 12:30pm, 11 May 2026Updated: 1:22pm, 11 May 2026 We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed...
How Philippine prison kingpins ran Japan, South Korea crime rings
The prison cell, it turns out, is no obstacle to running a criminal empire. All you need is a smartphone, an encrypted messaging app...
A big step forward for optical core of China’s Taiji gravitational wave project
In the sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, humans build “gravitational wave antennas” to broadcast to the cosmos. Now, Chinese scientists have made a step...
Indonesian Police Arrest 321 Foreigners in an Operation to Crack Down on Banned Online Gambling
JAKARTA, Indonesia—More than 300 foreign nationals were arrested in a raid on an alleged online gambling operation in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, police...
Bodies Retrieved From Indonesian Volcano After Eruption Kills 3 Hikers
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Rescuers on Indonesia ’s remote island of Halmahera found the bodies of two Singaporean hikers on Sunday, two days after they were caught...
Teenager charged after assault on Singaporean blogger Amos Yee at anime event
A teenager was charged on Monday with assaulting controversial blogger Amos Yee over the weekend at an anime convention in Singapore. Bosco Chun Ho...