‘Systematically dismantled’: Hegseth’s new offensive against China’s Confucius Institutes
Just weeks before Donald Trump’s second trip to China this year and his third meeting with President Xi Jinping, whom he has called a...
33 held in crackdown on credit card theft ring targeting Hongkongers in Shenzhen
Published: 5:00pm, 24 Oct 2026Updated: 9:16pm, 24 Oct 2026 Hong Kong and mainland Chinese police have arrested 33 people in a joint crackdown on...
Thousands evacuated and flights grounded as Typhoon Champi hits eastern China
Typhoon Champi continued to batter China’s eastern coast on Saturday, grounding over a hundred flights and prompting the authorities to relocate tens of thousands...
Populist Czech government pushes through media funding changes
In a rare overnight vote, the Czech ruling coalition pushed public media funding changes through a first parliamentary hurdle despite criticism that they could...
Seoul’s useless placation is a warning for all US trade partners
Zhou Xiaoming is a senior fellow at the Centre for China and Globalisation in Beijing and a former deputy representative of China’s Permanent Mission...
Chinese students in Paris hunker down as city braces for more mass protests
France is bracing for another day of mass protests on Saturday, with the government promising that 70,000 police and gendarmes will be deployed across...
4 pilots killed in mid-air collision of Philippine military planes
Published: 3:42pm, 24 Oct 2026Updated: 3:46pm, 24 Oct 2026 Two Philippine Air Force aircraft crashed during a training flight at an air base south...
Hong Kong urged to revive growth, drive reforms with government’s ‘visible hand’
Published: 3:04pm, 24 Oct 2026Updated: 6:49pm, 24 Oct 2026 Hong Kong authorities should act as a “visible hand” to break down barriers erected by...
Israel launches major operation in West Bank after soldiers killed
Israel’s military launched an operation in the occupied West Bank on Friday it said would last several days and include searches and building demolitions,...