Cathay Pacific to nearly double fuel surcharge on Wednesday as costs surge
Cathay Pacific Airways will nearly double its fuel surcharges from next Wednesday, following a similar move by another Hong Kong carrier as rising fuel...
In South Korea, witnesses describe chain of failures as Itaewon crowd crush inquiry begins
South Korea’s long-awaited public inquiry into the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush opened on Thursday with tearful testimony from survivors and heated exchanges between police...
US-Israeli war on Iran may spark nuclear arms race, Carnegie scholar says
Zhao Tong is a senior fellow with the Nuclear Policy Programme at Washington-based think tank the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and its East...
Life under fire: a Tehran resident shares her story as Iran is attacked
A Tehran resident in her 30s agreed to share her thoughts with Agence France-Presse about the ongoing war and daily life. Her identity has...
6,000 Filipino sailors stranded by Strait of Hormuz closure: ‘bored and a little scared’
Filipino sailor George Miranda was racing to help a stricken vessel aboard the tugboat Mussafah 2 when he last spoke to his wife and...
Philippines’ Marcos ‘angry’ over ‘mistreatment’ of Bahrain-based OFWs by official
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has ordered an investigation after watching a viral video showing an employee from the Migrant Workers Office in Bahrain...
Group warns plain packs hinder Hongkongers’ efforts to detect smuggled cigarettes
Nearly 90 per cent of Hong Kong smokers cannot distinguish smuggled cigarettes from duty-paid ones under the government’s proposed plain packaging, a survey by...
From net worth of US$580 to US$580 million, China school dropout builds steamed bun empire
A school dropout from eastern China who survived a violent attack and bankruptcy has built a steamed bun empire that generates 180 million yuan...
Trump’s ‘racist hate speech’ fuelling rights violations in US, UN panel says
A UN-backed panel of independent experts focusing on racial discrimination has said that racist hate speech by US President Donald Trump and other American...