Erdogan wants Turkey-Saudi Arabia-Pakistan defence pact to draw more countries
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he hoped more countries would join a defence agreement signed last week between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and...
Hong Kong baby food producer recalls pastas over rice weevil scare
Published: 11:12pm, 12 Aug 2026Updated: 11:22pm, 12 Aug 2026 A Hong Kong baby food producer has voluntarily recalled several products from store shelves as...
China is sending scientists to Iran for rare earth ‘exploration and processing’
Published: 11:00pm, 12 Aug 2026Updated: 11:42pm, 12 Aug 2026 China is expanding its scientific collaboration with Iran into the strategically sensitive field of rare...
Fearing deflated China demand, US soybean growers pivot to new buyers and biofuel
US soybean growers are “adapting” to a steep decline in China-bound exports by selling to third countries and the American biofuel sector, compensating enough...
Hong Kong’s subdivided flats are turning into heat traps. But what’s the fix?
Retiree Yang Fangxin’s 72 sq ft rooftop home, located on the ninth floor of a 62-year-old building in Sham Shui Po, has become a...
‘I’ll be first in line to buy your bonds’: how Zhu Rongji put steel in Hong Kong’s spine
Published: 10:10pm, 12 Aug 2026Updated: 11:16pm, 12 Aug 2026 In late 2002, then Chinese premier Zhu Rongji visited Hong Kong and sought to put...
How Africa is becoming a ‘strategic hub’ for Chinese industrial expansion
For decades, resource-rich African nations operated on a straightforward pit-to-ship model whereby foreign operators extracted raw ore, loaded it onto cargo ships and exported...
Hong Kong college finance chief, wife and contractor held over HK$41m theft
Published: 9:41pm, 12 Aug 2026Updated: 9:45pm, 12 Aug 2026 The finance director of a private college in Hong Kong has been remanded in custody...
Putin warns of retaliation for Western seizures of Russian commercial ships
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday threatened retaliation for Western seizures of its commercial vessels, describing them as “piracy.” Speaking on a visit to...