Stream to screen: ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ breaks rules in reverse journey
Netflix’s gargantuan hit film KPop Demon Hunters has captured the global zeitgeist this summer, smashing streaming and music chart records. Now it is coming...
Award-winning HIV scientist Shan Liang exits US for Chinese research institute
Published: 11:00am, 23 Aug 2025Updated: 11:24am, 23 Aug 2025 Award-winning HIV scientist Shan Liang, a tenured associate professor at the Washington University School of...
Is it a sports car? A boat? Vessel on Hong Kong waters raises legal concerns
Published: 10:51am, 23 Aug 2025Updated: 11:00am, 23 Aug 2025 Viral footage of what appears to be a sports car gliding across Hong Kong waters...
Prabowo’s silence deepens doubts over Indonesia’s new capital
Nusantara was meant to embody Indonesia’s future: a green, modern capital rising from Borneo’s forests. But amid funding cuts and political indifference, the US$28.6...
Malaysia flexes rare earth muscle as mineral-hungry US seeks non-Chinese sources
Malaysia’s ban on exports of unprocessed rare earth metals this week signals that the Southeast Asian country has a realistic shot – on its...
Hong Kong tops the US as IPO venue for mainland Chinese start-ups
In the first of a two-part series about Hong Kong’s market for initial public offerings, Zhang Shidong and Ao Yulu report that more Chinese...
Meet the man on a mission to revive Malaysia’s indie music spirit
Ahmad Faris was still a teenager when he began chasing the music that once defined Malaysia’s cultural heartbeat. Advertisement Growing up in suburban Kuala...
Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ faces closure. What happens now?
A US federal judge has put a stop to further expansion of the immigration detention centre built in the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator...
Hong Kong teahouses cherish their dim sum trolleys, but how long can they last?
As a cloud of steam billows from the kitchen of Hoi Lin Restaurant, Chung King-pui, 56, places a large bamboo steamer stacked with colourful...