Hong Kong legislators within their rights to reject same-sex couples bill
In his seminal work Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, the constitutional theorist A.V. Dicey discussed parliamentary sovereignty in the...
Man sues actress Song Ha-yoon for US$7 million over alleged school bullying
A man who accused actress Song Ha-yoon, 38, of school bullying two decades ago has returned to South Korea and announced plans to file...
In a first, US-China team turns plastic waste into petrol in 1 step
Published: 9:00am, 27 Aug 2025Updated: 9:04am, 27 Aug 2025 Scientists in the US and China say they have developed a one-step method to safely...
China court cancels auctioning of cat to repay owner debts, feline gets loving home
A court in eastern China which was set to auction a cat to repay its owner’s debts has cancelled the event, and the animal...
New US envoy Julie Eadeh to arrive in Hong Kong this month: sources
Julie Eadeh, the new US consul general for Hong Kong and Macau, is set to arrive in the city at the end of this...
China’s ceramics-and-furniture hub Foshan bets on robotics with new funds
The city of Foshan, the country’s furniture and ceramics manufacturing hub in southern Guangdong province, has rolled out multiple initiatives to support the robotics...
Despite no evidence Mount Fuji may erupt, Japan issues ‘alarmist’ CGI video
Tokyo shrouded in midday darkness, trains derailed, roofs collapsing under volcanic ash: this is the vision Japan’s Cabinet Office laid before the public this...
Pony.ai eyes ‘sizeable fleet’ in Hong Kong, unfazed by Tesla robotaxi competition
Published: 7:00am, 27 Aug 2025Updated: 7:46am, 27 Aug 2025 Chinese autonomous driving technology firm Pony.ai expects to deploy a fleet of robotaxis in Hong...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro under 24-hour police watch over ‘flight risk’
A Brazilian judge on Tuesday declared ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest while awaiting the verdict in his coup trial, a “flight...