UN designates African slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday designated the transatlantic African slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”, despite opposition by the United States...
US airport wait times longest in history after hundreds of unpaid officers leave
The Transportation Security Administration warned that US airport security was under severe strain as a weeks-long Department of Homeland Security funding shutdown drives staffing...
6 injured in explosion at Hong Kong recycling yard
Six people have been injured, some with serious burns, in an explosion at a recycling yard in northern Hong Kong, with more than 100...
Man dies after getting electric shock from lamp post near Lantau beach
A man was killed after receiving an electric shock from a lamp post while wet following a visit to a beach on Hong Kong’s...
China opens world’s largest ship data set that could be used to train drones
A Chinese military research team has released what it described as the first publicly available visible light-infrared ship detection data set, a resource that...
South Korea’s drying booze culture leaves bars parched: ‘I just order cola’
“I hardly drink at all – one or two glasses of beer at most.” Kim Min-ha, a 21-year-old student at Sookmyung Women’s University, recently...
China’s weight-loss drug makers take on global giants as Novo Nordisk patent expires
At least 10 weight-loss injections and oral pills are lining up for regulatory approval in China, in a market projected to reach about US$14...
Police hotline ‘busy’, piles of rubbish at estate, residents say in Tai Po fire hearing
A public evidential hearing by an independent committee into a fire that killed 168 people at a Hong Kong estate has entered its fourth...
Euro, Chinese yuan to end US dollar dominance, top economist says
Professor Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University has repeatedly warned that the US dollar is approaching a crisis of legitimacy. Having written extensively on the...