‘Show must go on,’ Trump tells scaled-back press gala 3 months after assassination attempt
Published: 12:14pm, 25 Jul 2026Updated: 12:30pm, 25 Jul 2026 US President Donald Trump told the White House press corps at its annual gala dinner...
Xinjiang growing as tourist destination for Hongkongers amid travel sector push
Hong Kong student Angel Lau Yin-kwan, 16, has wanted to visit China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for some time, to learn more about the...
Can China’s aerospace industry overcome ‘execution gap’ in modernisation goals?
Chinese defence suppliers are hitting a wall when it comes to translating national strategic goals into effective enterprise-level actions, according to an analysis by...
Singapore’s young workers cling to side hustles to survive the AI age: ‘it’s exhausting’
By day, Adele Lee juggles schedules and administrative work as a personal assistant to a senior director at a financial advisory firm. Three evenings...
Putting the ‘K’ back in K-pop: how Rescene charmed South Korea
In an industry built on going global, K-pop’s freshest phenomenon has succeeded by doing the exact opposite: staying home. Rescene, a five-member girl group...
Trump cites ‘white, male, Christian’ audit in Smithsonian disclaimer push
US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to install signage that warns visitors of inaccurate historical information inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum...
Indonesia’s Bali financial hub ‘a matter of survival’: economic tsar
Bali has “aura” and political titan Luhut Pandjaitan wants to channel it to transform Indonesia’s famed resort island into an international financial centre. But...
Saudi strikes Houthi sites in Yemen as conflict flares
Saudi Arabia struck Houthi military targets in Hodeida on Friday with rebel media reporting two injured after the Iran-backed group announced a maritime blockade...
Amid Hormuz woes, China tests Central Asian land corridors to bypass maritime chokepoints
Beijing is doubling down on overland trade routes across Central Asia as continued disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider region expose...