Unfinished construction works at Hong Kong school trigger safety concerns
Published: 12:32pm, 1 Sep 2025Updated: 12:33pm, 1 Sep 2025 Parents sending their children to a new Hong Kong government school with unfinished construction projects...
Protests in Indonesia escalate, Xi calls for India-China reset: 5 weekend reads
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Flood of anger: why Filipinos turn to social media to expose ‘nepo babies’
As public scrutiny intensifies over anomalous flood control projects in the Philippines, Filipinos have turned to social media spaces such as Reddit to expose...
Major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan leaves at least 500 dead: report
Published: 11:19am, 1 Sep 2025Updated: 1:45pm, 1 Sep 2025 Around 500 people have been killed and 1000 more injured in an earthquake that struck...
China’s Xi pushes SCO bank as Putin deflects Ukraine blame – as it happened
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Eric Trump heads to Tokyo after Hong Kong for bitcoin firm meeting
Eric Trump is expected to attend a shareholder meeting of Japanese bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet in Tokyo on Monday, as the US president’s family...
Man arrested in Australia after crashing car into Russian consulate in Sydney
A man was arrested on Monday after a car crashed into the Russian consulate in Sydney, Australian police said. Advertisement New South Wales police...
2 Hong Kong public hospital doctors arrested over patient data leak
Published: 9:19am, 1 Sep 2025Updated: 9:27am, 1 Sep 2025 Two public hospital doctors have been arrested in Hong Kong for allegedly leaking patient information,...
Will China boost defence posture as Vietnam deepens footprint in Spratlys?
Published: 9:02am, 1 Sep 2025Updated: 9:16am, 1 Sep 2025 Beijing may be prompted to fortify its defences in the disputed South China Sea, observers...