Kazakh sovereign fund issues Central Asia’s first panda bond in ‘milestone’ sale
A leading sovereign wealth fund from Central Asia has cast a vote of confidence in Chinese debt and the country’s currency by becoming the...
Love and compassion in China: Moroccan student saves drowning woman, long-ago pen pals reunite
A Moroccan man studying in eastern China has been hailed as a hero by local residents and received an award for saving a drowning...
Advisory body to be given power to probe government department heads for serious offences
A statutory advisory body in Hong Kong will be given new powers as early as June to investigate government department heads over “serious, widespread...
Hong Kong’s basketball betting U-turn ‘aligns with Beijing gambling clampdown’
Hong Kong’s sole legal betting operator and lawmakers were caught off guard by the government’s abrupt decision to suspend the rollout of legal basketball...
Turkey school shooting wounds 16, attacker dead
A former student opened fire at his former high school on Tuesday in Turkey, where school shootings are rare, wounding 16 people including students...
UN warns 8 million in Asia-Pacific risk poverty if Iran war drags on
The United Nations has issued a grim warning about the costs to the Asia-Pacific region of a prolonged conflict in Iran, forecasting job losses,...
Xi calls on Spain to jointly resist ‘law of the jungle’ in a turbulent world
China and Spain should work closely to resist “the law of the jungle” and defend true multilateralism in a turbulent world caught in “a...
Nepal’s trekking trade looks east as Iran war disrupts Western tourist flow
Nepal’s tourism industry is scrambling to offset a sharp fall in Western visitors during the peak spring trekking season, with operators and officials turning...
Israel envoy protests Japanese TV commentator’s remarks about Kushner’s Jewish identity
Israel’s ambassador to Japan and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre have condemned a Japanese political commentator over remarks he made on a morning news programme...