South Korea’s Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja jailed 2 years for bribing officials
A South Korean court sentenced the leader of the secretive and powerful Unification Church on Monday to two years in prison on charges of...
Student admits forging reference letter for PhD place at Education University
A student has admitted forging a reference letter to secure admission to a doctoral programme at a university in Hong Kong, after repeatedly failing...
Police arrest suspect after gravestone of film star Linda Lin Dai found damaged
Published: 3:20pm, 31 Aug 2026Updated: 3:58pm, 31 Aug 2026 Hong Kong police have made an arrest after the gravestone of late movie star Linda...
Hong Kong students, high-risk cases can get flu vaccines 1 week early this year
Hong Kong school students and other residents deemed at risk can receive their influenza vaccines one week earlier this year, after the government diversified...
Malaysia’s air quality turns hazardous as Indonesian wildfires burn
Air pollution in Malaysia’s Bornean state of Sarawak has surged into hazardous territory, with the air pollutant index (API) topping 400 in the worst-hit...
Indonesia-US joint military drills with allies kick off with 4,700 soldiers
Indonesia, the United States and more than a dozen allies launched annual joint military exercises on Monday to boost defence capabilities and “deter aggression”...
China’s 6 biggest state banks post rare shared growth as margins show tentative rebound
China’s six largest state-owned banks recorded their first simultaneous rise in first-half revenue and net profit since 2022, according to interim results released last...
China’s AI chip drive: MetaX and Iluvatar swing to profit, as Biren narrows losses
Published: 2:30pm, 31 Aug 2026Updated: 2:40pm, 31 Aug 2026 China’s home-grown artificial intelligence chipmakers are starting to cash in on Beijing’s self-reliance drive, but...
Rescue work intensifies as death toll in China-Nepal disaster approaches 1,000
Published: 2:05pm, 31 Aug 2026Updated: 2:38pm, 31 Aug 2026 Rescuers from China and Nepal continued searching landslide- and flood-affected areas on Monday while efforts...