Hong Kong Arrests 13 Suspects Over Deadly High-Rise Blaze, as Death Toll Hits 151
The official death toll for the fire that engulfed an apartment complex in Hong Kong rose to 151 on Dec. 1, with authorities confirming...
Hong Kong Student Arrested After Launching Petition Over Deadly Fire
Hong Kong police have arrested a man who helped launch an online petition demanding government accountability for one of the city’s deadliest fires. According...
China Says Armed Attack on Tajik-Afghan Border Kills 3 of Its Nationals
BEIJING–An armed attack killed three Chinese citizens in Tajikistan on the Central Asian nation’s border with Afghanistan, China’s embassy in the Tajik capital of...
Tropical Storm Deaths Top 600 in Southeast Asia, Over 4 Million Affected
JAKARTA/BANGKOK—The death toll mounted to over 600 from floods and landslides caused by torrential rains across three countries in Southeast Asia, officials said on...
A ‘State Within a State’: Indonesian Minister Sounds Alarm Over Unsupervised Chinese-Owned Airport
A lack of oversight of the operations of a Chinese majority-owned and operated private airport in Indonesia’s nickel-processing region of Morowali poses a potential...
Death Toll Rises to 146 in Hong Kong Fire, Beijing Warns Against Protests
The death toll in the blaze that consumed an apartment complex in Hong Kong rose to 146 on Nov. 30, cementing the disaster as...
China’s Wingtech Appeals Nexperia Ruling at Dutch Supreme Court
Chipmaker Nexperia’s Chinese parent company, Wingtech, said on Nov. 28 that it has gone to the Netherlands’ Supreme Court to challenge a lower court’s...
This Chemist May Have Cracked America’s Rare Earth Problem
James Tour, chemist and nanotechnologist at Houston’s Rice University, in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Nov. 19, 2020. Tal Atzmon/The Epoch Times One flash is all...
PNG Cannot Fund Basic Services Despite Aussie Aid, Pledges $2 Billion Infrastructure Spend
Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) budget, presented earlier this week by Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey, has raised questions about Australia’s aid. Australia’s financial assistance will total...