Foreign carmakers offer steep discounts on petrol-powered cars in cutthroat Chinese market
Foreign carmakers have been slashing the prices of petrol-powered cars they make in China by more than 20 per cent to survive in a...
Chinese man, 106, embraces ‘reverse schedule’, celebrated alongside wife as ‘model couple’
A 106-year-old man in eastern China has inspired many online with his unconventional lifestyle and enduring marriage. Wang Dinggao, from Rui’an in Zhejiang province,...
Can a US$6 trillion South Korea-Japan economic bloc succeed?
A fraying global economic order could push South Korea and Japan towards deeper trade integration, with business leaders and analysts saying the two neighbours...
What’s a Northern Metropolis-like project doing in Malaysia? Lessons for Hong Kong?
Deep in the southern border zone of Johor, Malaysia, separated from Singapore by a narrow strait, a steady flow of commuters moves seamlessly between...
Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly routed user requests to Claude, Anthropic claims
American artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused its Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot on Thursday of covertly routing customer requests to its...
Several dead in Dutch coach crash in Switzerland
Several people were killed and injured when a coach carrying Dutch tourists in eastern Switzerland crashed, police said on Thursday. The accident happened at...
Hong Kong home prices headed for 15% gain this year, Midland forecast says
Hong Kong’s home prices will end the year 15 per cent higher than a year earlier, but still 16 per cent below their high-water...
Canada unveils US$254 million air defence package for Ukraine
Canada has agreed to a C$350 million (US$254 million) aid package for Kyiv to acquire air defence interceptors, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on...
Chinese scientists boost hydrogen fuel cell power fourfold with new design
Chinese scientists have developed a way to generate a fourfold increase in power output of hydrogen fuel cells, an advance that could broaden their...