US says strike on another alleged drug boat in Pacific kills 4
Published: 9:13am, 30 Oct 2025Updated: 9:15am, 30 Oct 2025 The US military on Wednesday struck another boat in the eastern Pacific it claimed was...
Chinese man still wed to US woman with PhD 20 years after massage parlour meeting
The story of a moderately educated man from rural China who has been married to an American woman with a PhD degree for 20...
Hong Kong customs seizes HK$9 million of ketamine hidden in buckets, arrests 2
Hong Kong customs has arrested two men in connection with the seizure of 20kg (44lbs) of suspected ketamine worth HK$9 million (US$1.2 million) concealed...
HKEX’s Riyadh office will act as ‘bridge between mainland China and Middle East’
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s (HKEX) new office in Saudi Arabia, which opens this year, reflects its determination to expand in the Gulf and...
Hong Kong family offices launch US$100 million fund to tap global investors
Five local family offices will jointly launch a US$100 million fund on Thursday to capture the new business opportunities arising from the government’s newly...
‘Stop the fawning’: Takaichi divides Japan over high-flattery wooing of Trump
Published: 8:00am, 30 Oct 2025Updated: 9:33am, 30 Oct 2025 When Sanae Takaichi welcomed Donald Trump to Tokyo this week, she did so with a...
Hong Kong follows US in quarter-point rate cut to lower lending cost
Published: 7:00am, 30 Oct 2025Updated: 7:30am, 30 Oct 2025 Hong Kong’s de facto central bank cut the base interest rate for the second time...
Applications for Hong Kong’s expanded medical fee waiver to open on Monday
An expanded medical fee waiver mechanism under public healthcare reforms in Hong Kong will open for applications from patients on Monday, months before the...
Democrats urge Trump not to ease national security restrictions for a trade deal
Democrats in the US House of Representatives and Senate are urging President Donald Trump not to ease national security restrictions on China for a...