Hong Kong inquest verdict into ferry crash ‘will be ellipsis … not full stop’
Alice Leung Shuk-ling has spent more than a decade seeking the truth behind a ferry crash in 2012 that killed her younger brother and...
South Korea probes if spies funded drones flown into North by student
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday ordered an investigation into claims that the country’s military intelligence command supported a civilian accused of...
New Zealand Minister Blames ‘Ethnic Vacuum Cleaner’ for Stripping Beaches of Sea Life
Growing concern over people stripping beaches of sea life has motivated New Zealand’s government to look at ways of preventing the practice, but since...
China’s consumers refuse to open their wallets. Is ‘luxury-phobia’ the problem?
As China struggles to boost consumer spending, a professor at one of the country’s top universities has argued that authorities first need to overcome...
Opinion: Maharashtra’s emergence as an investment destination
In the week of the World Economic Forum, Devendra Fadnavis, chief minister of Maharashtra, shares investment opportunities such as AI, infrastructure, mobility and renewables,...
Hong Kong strives to be ‘fortress’ that safeguards digital security, I&T minister says
Hong Kong is striving to become a “fortress” that safeguards digital security, the city’s innovation and technology (I&T) minister has said, noting that cyber...
Trump threatens 200% wine tariff to push France to join ‘Board of Peace’
US President Donald Trump said he will impose a 200 per cent tariff on French wines and champagnes, a move he claimed would push...
Squire Patton Boggs signs Singapore corporate team
Philip Lee has joined the global law firm from DLA Piper’s financial services practice with a team of three. Read More
Trump Tells Norway He No Longer Feels Obligation to ‘Think Purely of Peace’ in Acquiring Greenland
U.S. President Donald Trump told Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store that he no longer feels obligated “to think purely of peace” in his...