Ageing Asia needs domestic helpers, but can it keep them safe?
In March last year, Erica Cheong and her husband, Harris Zainol, welcomed their firstborn son, Isaac. Like many new Malaysian parents living and working...
Myanmar military-backed party leads in election’s first phase by wide margin
Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, early results cited by state media...
Fire caused by short circuit of phone charger in Hong Kong flat injures 4, kills cat
A fire triggered by a mobile phone charger that short-circuited in a Hong Kong residential building has killed a cat, injured four residents and...
Singapore’s animal shelters struggle with costs, falling adoption
At the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in Singapore, it was yet another busy Monday as volunteers cleaned cages and...
Tech war: China takes confident strides to develop more AI innovation in 2026
On the last day of 2025, DeepSeek published a new technical paper, with founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng among the 19 co-authors, about “manifold-constrained...
Yemen’s separatists announce constitution, UAE withdraws all its troops
Yemen’s separatist movement on Friday announced a constitution for an independent nation in the south and demanded other factions in the war-torn country accept...
Temperature in Hong Kong falls to 11.4 degrees Celsius, the lowest this winter
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China vows to ramp up west-to-east power output as AI, hi-tech manufacturing fuel demand
China aims to expand its west-to-east power transmission network to more than 420 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, increasing the share of renewables to about...
Fleming: Facebook User Data Guaranteed to Go to Beijing With Meta’s Recent Deal | China in Focus
Washington is taking aim at one of Maduro’s close allies, China, adding four Chinese companies that transport Venezuelan oil to its sanctions list. Meanwhile,...