Hong Kongs first post-colonial leader, Tung Chee-hwa, has been lauded as a pioneer of one country, two systems, a staunch patriot and a close friend of the Chinese Communist Party who also contributed to US-China relations, according to a eulogy delivered by a senior Beijing official. In his remarks at Tungs state funeral on Sunday, seen by the South China ...

Hong Kong authorities should shoulder a larger share of the cost of facilities jointly used by institutions at the Northern Metropolis university towns, a varsity president has said, while calling for dedicated research funding to encourage collaboration among campuses. Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung, president of the private Saint Francis University, ...

Ukraine launched what Moscows mayor called the biggest ever drone attack on the Russian capital on Sunday, in what he said was an unsuccessful attempt to disrupt the final day of a parliamentary election that President Vladimir Putin has cast as a test of support for Russias war in Ukraine. Two people were killed in the surrounding Moscow region and the ...

The United States Congress has reportedly launched a probe after a shipment of sensitive F-35 fighter jet parts was said to have been unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong and went missing, with the citys authorities declining to comment on the case. A spokesman for the Hong Kong government said over the weekend that it would not comment on individual cases, a ...

Hong Kongs first five-year plan will give businesses greater certainty to make long-term investment decisions amid a volatile external environment, the citys finance chief has said. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said the plans targets and timelines would allow companies to see the citys direction over the next five years and better align their plans ...

Chinese firms have shown very strong interest in investing in Oman across the Strait of Hormuz from Iran as they aim to tap the lucrative Middle East market while minimising risks, an Omani official said. Banks, asset managers and law firms from China were getting in touch every day to ask about setting up in the International Financial Centre Oman, a ...

Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak said on Sunday that he would remain in Kajang Prison as he and his legal team study the conditions attached to his conditional pardon, including the payment of a 50 million ringgit (US$12.3 million) fine before he can be transferred to house arrest. In a statement issued on his behalf by Messrs Shafee & Co on ...

I grew up in Delhi. Not Lutyens Delhi, that quieter, greener stretch of tree-lined avenues and high-walled colonial bungalows where the VIPs live. But close enough to know that two cities share one name. One Delhi is generally messy. Rubbish piled into small mountains by the roadside. No footpaths to walk on. Narrow streets marked as one way, with every ...

As heatwaves become more frequent and intense across Asia, the region faces a dangerous power paradox. Soaring demand for air conditioning threatens to push electricity grids closer to failure just as extreme heat puts the infrastructure under greater strain, raising the risk of cooling disappearing when people need it most. That risk has been visible ...

Some Western politicians are seeking conflict between Nato and Russia after a failed strategy to defeat Moscow in its war with Ukraine, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday. Long-time Slovak leader Fico, who has kept up warm relations with Russia and refuses military aid for Ukraine, said this week that Europe was closer than ever to a ...

A man in eastern China filed a lawsuit against an AI company after he followed a chatbots recommendation for his mothers burial date, which he later claimed was linked to a family misfortune. According to Jimu News, Shi, from Jiashan county in Zhejiang province, lost his mother to a sudden illness in April. As the youngest of five siblings, Shi sought an ...

Malaysias Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim caused a bit of a stir in India recently with his spirited rendition of a Bollywood classic a lighthearted moment that also neatly captured his broader push to deepen ties with the South Asian giant. A video of Anwar singing, from memory, Kishore Kumars 1965 hit ballad Khwab Ho Tum Ya Koi Haqeeqat (Are you a dream or ...

Zhang Dongdong has been fielding ever more requests for legal advice from jittery entrepreneurs, nervous government officials or their desperate relatives. They usually do not tell him the whole story, and sometimes say it happened to a friend, but most want to know the same thing: what to do when they are targeted by Chinas corruption busters. Some had ...

In late August, I took my parents to see Once Upon a Time in the Middle East in their small-town cinema on the mainland. Built around an unnamed conflict widely understood to be the US-led Iraq war, the film has become the kind of phenomenon no marketing budget could buy, projected to reach 2.5 billion yuan (US$372.5 million) largely through word of mouth. ...

Ed Sheeran opened a solo concert in Philadelphia on Saturday with comments about Gaza, saying what is happening is catastrophic and unjustifiable. My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians lives, of childrens lives, Sheeran said in the night at Lincoln Financial Field. Sheeran also said he wants his music and shows to be ...

Hong Kong is bidding farewell to its first post-colonial chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, on Sunday at a state funeral only the third time a Hongkonger has received such an honour since the 1997 handover. Tung, who died at the age of 89 on September 8, led Hong Kong through a series of ups and downs, including the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2003 Sars ...

When Jordan Seow joined OpenAI in June 2025, he became the companys first locally hired forward-deployed engineer in Asia-Pacific, joining a Singapore office that then had fewer than 20 employees. The 29-year-old is now part of a fast-growing workforce built in Singapore by the worlds leading artificial intelligence companies. Experts say the city state is ...

A former Australian officials use of a hypothetical aggressive Indonesia to make the case for Aukus at a public inquiry has been called clumsy diplomacy by analysts, who say the comments risk reviving old suspicions as Jakarta and Canberra try to strengthen security ties. Michael Pezzullo, a former deputy secretary of strategy in Australias defence ...

On September 12, Chinese President Xi Jinping met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Brics summit in New Delhi. In their talks, Xi said China approached the relationship from a strategic and long-term perspective. He called for an objective and rational strategic perception. That means the two sides should treat each other as ...

Yemens Houthis said they attacked sensitive sites in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday with missiles and drones, hours after flames and a large plume of smoke were seen near the citys main airport. Saudi Arabia had sent alerts overnight warning of potential danger around Riyadh, amid an escalation in attacks by the Houthis in the kingdom. Reuters video ...

Hong Kongs political and business elite bade a solemn farewell to Tung Chee-hwa, the citys first chief executive, at a vigil on Saturday, as Beijing leaders sent wreaths ahead of his state funeral and members of the public streamed into community centres to sign condolence books. Hundreds of wreaths lined the pavement at the Hong Kong Funeral Home in North ...

Denmarks government was cautiously optimistic on Saturday following US President Donald Trumps announcement of a deal on Greenland to bolster US military presence there but keep the island under Danish control after months of threats by the US president to seize the semi-autonomous territory of a Nato ally. The Arctic islands top leaders echoed that stance ...

An airport is an unlikely place to search for national origins but researchers say they have uncovered the tomb of the woman behind the man who unified China next to a major city runway. The researchers said the tomb was believed to belong to Empress Dowager Huayang, the adoptive grandmother of Qin Shi Huang, who unified the warring states more than 2,200 ...

Nigerias food and drug regulator on Saturday said alcoholic concoctions tainted with methanol killed 48 people and sickened 182 in recent weeks. The deaths occurred in three districts of Nigerias southwestern Ondo state after victims consumed the locally brewed mixture, which local media said is known as Monkey Tail. Methanol is highly toxic and causes ...

For more than a decade, China has deployed warships to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia. For much of that time, piracy in the region has been in sharp decline. Now, however, with attacks at their highest reported level since 2013 and other naval forces engaged in crises elsewhere, Beijings long-running escort mission is being tested. The renewed ...