China and South Korea accuse each other of undermining key principles
China and South Korea have exchanged formal protests over the highly sensitive Taiwan question and Korean unity. The two countries have been trying to...
2 Reform UK advisers to Farage step down amid donation scandal
Britain’s populist Reform UK said two senior advisers to leader Nigel Farage stepped down on Friday after an undercover investigation alleged the party had...
Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel to close from October 12 for major renovation
Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel will temporarily close from October 12 for a comprehensive renovation and upgrade, with no completion date announced, as the resort...
5 ParknShop and contractor staff who forged pay claims plead guilty to fraud
Five former employees of Hong Kong supermarket chain ParknShop and its contractors have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud by falsifying workers’...
Why less visibility into how OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra ‘thinks’ is sparking safety concerns
Published: 6:31pm, 4 Sep 2026Updated: 6:33pm, 4 Sep 2026 OpenAI’s new model, GPT-6 Astra, has less direct visibility into how a model thinks, a...
Inspired by childhood surgery, Chinese man now works alongside saviour surgeon 19 years later
A young Chinese man recently became colleagues with the doctor who saved him from a congenital heart defect 19 years ago, prompting many to...
Malaysia declares emergency in Sarawak town as haze pollution level hits 521
Malaysia declared an emergency on Friday in a town in Sarawak state on Borneo Island after air pollution breached the country’s emergency-level threshold linked...
India’s push to secure place in global chip supply has ‘secret weapon’: its people
India is betting big on domestic manufacturing of semiconductors – the microscopic brains that power everything electronic from cars to AI processing – in...
Chinese armed trainer jets drive away Philippine aircraft over Scarborough Shoal
Published: 6:00pm, 4 Sep 2026Updated: 6:12pm, 4 Sep 2026 China sent armed trainer jets to drive away Philippine light aircraft over the disputed Scarborough...