Why scrapping Nepal’s ‘dollar fare’ could leave locals grounded
A plan to make Nepal’s domestic flights cheaper for foreign visitors could end up making them more expensive for citizens, according to airline operators...
Vietnam jeweller rattled by ex-official’s arrest over India-Hong Kong gem-smuggling ring
Phu Nhuan Jewellery, Vietnam’s largest listed jeweller, is facing a crisis of confidence after police detained the former head of its gem certification subsidiary...
Tai Po fire: inquiry slams ‘unacceptable’ claim by China Status – as it happened
An independent, judge-led committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades will hear closing submissions from legal representatives, following 27 sessions of evidential hearings....
Hong Kong issues amber rainstorm warning, urges public to take precautions
Published: 10:22am, 15 Jul 2026Updated: 11:27am, 15 Jul 2026 The Hong Kong Observatory issued an amber rainstorm warning at 10.05am on Wednesday and urged...
Supreme Court Justice Kagan Condemns Court Leaks
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said on July 14 that leaks of confidential court deliberations endanger the justices and undermine the public trust that...
Xiaomi’s Brutal Layoffs: 9-Year Employee Loses Job, Cries Alone In Her Car
A top-performing Xiaomi employee who had worked at the company for nearly nine years recently left her job. In a video she posted, she...
Lonsdale Warns US Patent Disclosures Give China a Technology Opening
Technology investor Joe Lonsdale said actors in China are reviewing patent applications filed by U.S. artificial intelligence and life science startups to extract technical...
China Detains American Citizen on Spying Charges
China has detained a U.S. researcher for nearly two years on spying allegations, his family and supporters revealed on July 14. Chen Youlin, a...
Ancient Chinese lord buried with bells meant to silence ancestral war rituals
Imagine, for a moment, that you lived in ancient China, with a rival state threatening your people’s very existence. In the quest for any...