Seoul demands truth over student’s Cambodia torture death as tensions rise
South Korean police plan to conduct a joint autopsy with Cambodian authorities on a Korean college student who was kidnapped and allegedly tortured to...
What makes the Xinjiang-Tibet mega railway China’s ‘project of the century’?
Construction is set to begin next month on a monumental railway linking Hotan in Xinjiang with Lhasa in Tibet – one of China’s most...
Singapore singer praised for anonymous US$1.4 million donation to China’s deprived
Singaporean singer Stefanie Sun Yanzi has donated more than 10 million yuan (US$1.4 million) to a charity fund in China over the past decade,...
China’s car dealers feel squeeze between price war, e-commerce rivals
Chinese car dealers, once the beneficiaries of the country’s booming automotive market, are facing a bleak future as they fall victim to a brutal...
From privilege to purpose: Marina Mahathir’s fight for justice in Malaysia
Marina Mahathir readily acknowledges the privileges of her birth and says that being able to “get a foot in the door” only made her...
Hong Kong’s Paul Chan to attend IMF, World Bank events in US, a first since 2019
Published: 2:40pm, 12 Oct 2025Updated: 4:23pm, 12 Oct 2025 Hong Kong’s finance chief will attend the annual meetings of the IMF and the World...
Chinese-Dutch team discovers how single cell can give rise to new plant: study
Scientists in China and the Netherlands say they have discovered how a single plant cell can regenerate into an entirely new plant by flipping...
China AI professor goes viral over good looks, academic says she is ‘ordinary’
A young associate professor at a prestigious Chinese university has gone viral on social media after a video of her teaching generative artificial intelligence...
Philippines’ crumbling bridges hinder Marcos’ infrastructure clean-up push
The collapse of two bridges in the northern Philippines just months apart has cast a harsh spotlight on the country’s ageing infrastructure and stirred...