Video of a robot leading a mass escape stokes laughs and fears over AI in China
Published: 11:00am, 26 Nov 2024Updated: 11:52am, 26 Nov 2024 In what looks like a scene from a dystopian nightmare, a robot built by a...
Hong Kong court upholds 3 rulings granting equal housing, inheritance rights to gay couples
Published: 10:51am, 26 Nov 2024Updated: 11:03am, 26 Nov 2024 Hong Kong’s top court has upheld three landmark judgments granting equal housing and inheritance rights...
Trump threatens new anti-drug tariffs on ‘day one’ for China, Canada, Mexico
US president-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that he will impose new tariffs on goods from China using an executive order on the first...
Yeh Chia-ying, China’s ‘daughter of poetry’, dies at the age of 100
Yeh Chia-ying, a revered figure in Chinese classical poetry and education, died at the age of 100 in the northern port city of Tianjin...
China’s visa-free initiative shows it is choosing openness over isolation
China’s visa-free policy for visitors, introduced last year, is quickly becoming its largest visa liberalisation since the founding of the People’s Republic. Last week,...
Amid talk of more US-China decoupling, second supply-chain expo offers trade opportunities
Tensions over supply-chain decoupling between the United States and China are set to be at the forefront of discussions at a high-profile expo this...
Man in China finds dice lodged in nose for 20 years that caused chronic sneezing
Published: 9:00am, 26 Nov 2024Updated: 10:32am, 26 Nov 2024 A young man, who had been experiencing persistent sneezing and a runny nose, was shocked...
South Korean man convicted of evading military service by binge eating
A South Korean man was found guilty of evading military service by deliberately putting on weight. Advertisement A court in Seoul sentenced the 26-year-old...
Beijing official’s speech signals Hong Kong has never been ‘independent’, experts say
A senior Beijing official’s remarks that the “Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong” guiding principle implies oversight by central authorities are a reminder that...