How many non-local students are going to Hong Kong universities since quota rise?
Hong Kong public universities had more than 20,000 non-local undergraduate students in the second academic year since the government doubled quotas, a 17 per...
Great Barrier Reef calling: Chinese tourists make Australia a Lunar New Year hotspot
China’s travel industry is expecting a sharp increase in visitors to Australia during this month’s extended Lunar New Year holiday, as millions of tourists...
Public fury as China mental hospitals recruit people to impersonate patients in insurance scam
A number of psychiatric hospitals in central China have been exposed over a scam in which they lure healthy people to become patients in...
Flower sales in Hong Kong bloom as Valentine’s Day shoppers splash out on gifts
Some lovebirds in Hong Kong are expressing their affection this Valentine’s Day by spending hundreds of dollars on bouquets and gifts, while several vendors...
Philippine senators Go, Dela Rosa helped Duterte wage drug war: ICC prosecutors
Two sitting Philippine senators have been identified as “co-perpetrators” in former president Rodrigo Duterte’s crimes against humanity trial at the International Criminal Court, documents...
Indian author Arundhati Roy quits Berlinale after ‘stay out of politics’ Gaza comments
Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy has said she is withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival over jury president Wim Wenders’ comments that cinema should...
‘Unforgivable’: police chief slams lawyer, doctors linked to crash-for-cash scams
Hong Kong’s police chief has slammed the alleged involvement of a lawyer and doctors in a spate of so-called crash-for-cash scams as “unforgivable and...
FAA Mandates Airlines to Affirm Merit Hiring for Pilots
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing a new mandatory rule that requires all commercial airlines in the country to formally commit to merit-based...
US Announces Lethal Strike on Drug Boat in Caribbean
U.S. Southern Command said Friday that Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal strike on a vessel operated by drug traffickers in the...