Malaysia tackles illegal foreign-owned firms, as regional crackdown widens
Malaysia ordered a crackdown on Monday against illegal businesses run by foreigners, joining a growing list of Southeast Asian nations rocked by similar operations...
‘Overwhelming’: Hong Kong’s dog-friendly restaurant scheme twice oversubscribed
Published: 8:49pm, 8 Jun 2026Updated: 10:12pm, 8 Jun 2026 A licensing scheme allowing dogs in Hong Kong restaurants has attracted an “overwhelming” 2,100 applications,...
China’s EV giants challenge Tesla in race to commercialise humanoid robots
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers are opening a new front in their battle with Tesla: humanoid robots. After spending years competing on electric cars...
Why Hong Kong matters to Kazakhstan’s financial ambitions
As part of its decades-old “multi-vector” foreign policy, based on balancing relations between major powers such as China, Russia, the United States and the...
Hong Kong data centres outpace global average for carbon footprint: UN study
Hong Kong ranks among the world’s largest data centre hubs but has a carbon footprint exceeding the global average, according to a global think...
WHO chief visits Ebola-hit Uganda after virus spreads from DRC
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday visited Uganda, where a deadly Ebola outbreak has killed two people after spreading from the...
Life sentences for Hong Kong pair who suffocated man with tape in village temple
Two Hongkongers have been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a man by suffocating him with tape in a village temple and burying his...
Mindanao quake exposes Philippines’ vulnerability to ‘Big One’ tremor in Metro Manila
A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck southern Mindanao on Monday morning served as a stark reminder of the Philippines’ vulnerability to a major...
China Suffers Huge Defeat! Ukraine Just Did Something Deadly, Foiling China’s Taiwan Plot
Ukraine’s recent transfer of battlefield technologies and tactics to Taiwan has significantly disrupted Beijing’s strategic calculus, effectively neutralizing China’s options for a successful military...