US senator warns of Indo-Pacific risks as Hegseth stresses ‘quiet’ tactics
America’s latest defence strategy worryingly downgraded the importance of the Indo-Pacific, a US senator warned on Saturday, even as the Pentagon chief delivered a...
US man asserts if simple teacher and China farmer can grow a forest, world leaders can find peace
A retired American teacher is planning to travel to China in late summer for a reunion with a female farmer he assisted decades ago....
Hong Kong to target flavoured tobacco in next phase of controls: health chief
Published: 3:58pm, 30 May 2026Updated: 4:00pm, 30 May 2026 Hong Kong authorities will crack down on flavoured tobacco substances in the next phase of...
Hong Kong cuts emergency mobile alert activation time from 1 hour to 15 minutes
Published: 3:22pm, 30 May 2026Updated: 3:23pm, 30 May 2026 Hong Kong authorities have slashed the time needed to send emergency mobile alerts to residents...
How US defence chief Hegseth softened his tone towards China after Xi-Trump meeting
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth softened his tone towards China in his speech on Saturday to the Shangri-La defence forum compared with the previous...
Professor disciplined after saying ‘8 in 10 Korean women’ engaged in prostitution
A professor at a private university in South Korea’s Daejeon has been disciplined and removed from all teaching duties after allegedly making sexually inappropriate...
Unicorn born in record time amid ‘arms race’ among China’s robotic hand developers
Venture capitalists and industrial giants in China are aggressively backing developers of dexterous robotic hands – the toughest bottleneck in the global humanoid hardware...
Trump’s ICE blitz cost 668,000 jobs, creating ‘chilling effect’ on US firms
The Trump administration’s immigration surge into US cities last year resulted in 668,000 job losses, creating a “chilling effect” that pervaded local economies, hurt...
Singapore security union backs guards after row with swearing Hong Kong principal
Singapore’s Union of Security Employees (USE) said on Thursday that it “stands firmly behind” the security guards involved in a confrontation with a Hong...