The family office of Henderson Land Development co-chairman and managing director Peter Lee Ka-kit has signed a deal with Kazakh authorities to advance a range of green energy projects in the Central Asian country. The cooperation was confirmed on Tuesday during Lees visit to Kazakhstan and his meeting with Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov, following Chief ...

Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has reported a 71 per cent year-on-year rise in net profit to HK$6.24 billion (US$802 million) for the first six months of 2026, driven by stronger demand. Cathay Group chairman Guy Bradley, who delivered the interim results for the first time since taking up the role earlier this year, said jet fuel prices had ...

Sanctioned and wanted for war crimes in the West and reviled at home by the millions fighting his army, Myanmars leader Min Aung Hlaing is this week set for a red-carpet welcome in Thailand, as the diplomatic deep freeze begins to thaw. The former general toppled Aung San Suu Kyis elected government in a 2021 coup, sparking a civil war that has killed an ...

The likelihood of a typhoon warning signal being issued in Hong Kong over the weekend is low, as tropical cyclone Kujira is set to weaken under the influence of Dolphin. The latter, though downgraded from a super typhoon to a severe typhoon, has nonetheless prompted airlines to cancel at least 18 flights between the city and Japan. The Observatory said ...

Guatemala remained on alert Tuesday after evacuating hundreds of people following an eruption of the Fuego volcano, which is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and one of Central Americas most active volcanoes. The countrys disaster management agency said 659 people were evacuated from eight villages in the danger area and are being housed in nearby shelters. ...

Much of the global debate on Chinese military power focuses on hardware but a vital part of the modernisation process is in the niche field of software verification. Wang Ji, a computer science researcher at the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT), is mentoring a new generation of scientists to treat the software code in national defence ...

Frances offer to share nuclear expertise with the Philippines could potentially boost Manilas long-term energy security, as analysts say any push to revive nuclear power in the country would have to overcome safety and governance concerns. Marie Fontanel, the outgoing French ambassador to the Philippines, said last week that France was ready to share its ...

The United States has revoked the visa of Brazils ambassador, a State Department official said Tuesday, in a mounting diplomatic row just months before elections in Latin Americas largest nation. The move would be reversed, the official said on customary condition of anonymity, if Brazil granted its approval of US President Donald Trumps nominee to be ...

North Korea said it will pursue unspecified additional military options in response to Japans expanding defence capabilities, accusing Tokyo of reviving the ambitions of a war criminal state. Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said that Pyongyang would not remain a passive onlooker to what she described as Japans accelerating ...

The sweeping anti-corruption drive in Chinas military appears to have cleared the way for a new batch of officers to quietly assume de facto leadership of key Peoples Liberation Army bodies. According to a South China Morning Post analysis of official insignia and protocol seating from state media coverage of recent meetings, dozens of fresh commanders have ...

About 34 per cent of students who applied through Hong Kongs university admissions system have secured tertiary education places this year, marking a slight drop from last year amid stiffer competition. When the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (Jupas) results were shared on Wednesday, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the ...

A silver Montblanc fountain pen owned by Singapores founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is up for auction with a starting bid of S$20,000. Singapore auction house Hotlotz said on Wednesday that the pen, engraved SM Lee Kuan Yew, was previously sold at the Lee Kuan Yew Family Collection charity auction in July 2003. Hotlotz has valued the silver Montblanc ...

Chinas Politburo has just set the countrys economic priorities for the second half of the year. The meeting took place against the backdrop of gross domestic product growth slowing to 4.3 per cent in the second quarter, its weakest since late 2022, and an increasingly K-shaped economy: strong exports and fast-growing hi-tech industries on one side, with ...

A recent interview featuring English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, 51, has struck a chord with Singaporeans, for the unlikeliest of reasons. On Saturday, British publication The Telegraph uploaded a clip of its interview with Oliver, where he declared that if he could ban one thing, it would be chewing gum. I was walking up the street the other day and the ...

A deep-dive interview between filmmaker Christopher Nolan and Chinese doctoral student podcaster Zhongshu about his new film, The Odyssey, has gone viral worldwide, amassing over 20 million views. Building on his Oscar-winning success with Oppenheimer, Nolan has turned his attention to Homers Odyssey, a cornerstone of Western literature. His latest film ...

Chinas Ministry of Finance is set to raise 15 billion yuan (US$2.22 billion) through a sovereign bond auction in Hong Kong, tapping international capital just days after the city launched a long-awaited tool designed to help global investors hedge against mainland bond market risks. The sale marks the fourth tranche of Beijings 84 billion yuan sovereign ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subiantos push to reorganise Southeast Asias largest economy around a stronger, more interventionist state has put him increasingly at odds, analysts say, with the countrys so-called Nine Dragons. Known locally as Sembilan Naga, the label is a loose shorthand for some of Indonesias richest tycoon families many of them Chinese ...

A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last year is on track to smash into the moon at high speed early on Wednesday morning. The school bus-sized object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace towards the moon in January 2025. Weighing four tonnes (4,000kg), the rocket body is due to ...

Having marked its 99th anniversary on August 1, the Peoples Liberation Army is now just a year away from its centenary goals, with its evolution highlighting the past, present and future of Chinas military strategy. In the fourth part of a series, Amber Wang looks at the PLAs pursuit of emerging technologies. In an influential book published nearly three ...

A viral clip renews the headlined question for me. Jameela Jamil, a British actress of Pakistani and Indian descent, caused a public row in the UK for her interview last month on Yestergays, a pop culture podcast. She said: Americans think British people are so sweet, which is crazy because British people are truly the most evil people in history. Like, ...

A 1 million (US$1.15 million) lottery ticket was recovered from the trash in Italy after the frantic winner called on garbagemen to help her retrieve it, the waste management company said. The instant win ticket was miraculously still in one piece after garbage workers combed through mounds of trash on their truck, said Roberto Nicola Toscano, the ...

The coastguard rescued the crew of an Indian-flagged commercial ship that sank in the Red Sea on Tuesday after an attack, a local official in the Yemeni city of Mokha said, with New Delhi condemning the unprovoked aggression. Yemens internationally recognised government blamed the Iran-backed Houthi rebels for the attack, according to the official Saba news ...

Latin American countries should resist pressure to choose between the United States and China and use their vast reserves of lithium, copper and other strategic resources to strengthen their negotiating power, according to a high-level commission co-chaired by former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and former Colombian president Ivan Duque. But the ...

Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russia of committing a war crime after a video was released showing a drone chasing down and wounding a vegetable seller in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. Footage released by Ukrainian police shows the drone pursuing a man around a van being used as a street stand before exploding as he dives for cover behind the vehicle. ...

It started with Instagram posts that suggested Spains border with Morocco was opening up. Then came Facebook users tracking coastguard patrols and TikTok videos showing where to swim. After many shares and comments, thousands of Moroccans became convinced that Europe was suddenly within reach. Within hours, young people began heading towards the border with ...