China poses a threat to Americas senior citizens through drug supply chains, financial scams and data privacy, a congressional hearing highlighted on Wednesday, with lawmakers and witnesses framing it as a national security issue. Fifty years ago, we never would have given the Soviets the kind of leeway we give China: the access they have to our economy and ...

On a summer evening in 2011, two high-speed trains hurtling through the Chinese countryside met in a fireball of twisted metal and shattered glass. The Wenzhou disaster, as it came to be known, killed 40 people and injured nearly 200. The official inquiry traced the catastrophe to a lightning strike that had fried a trackside circuit, making one train ...

A male midwife in eastern China has won praise for his professionalism and striking looks while defying relatives who dismissed his career choice as embarrassing. Zhang Jintao, 25, from Yiwu in Zhejiang province, became a midwife at a leading provincial hospital after graduating from university. According to Southern Daily, men accounted for just three per ...

Iran and the US have signed a peace deal that will take immediate effect, with Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz and the US lifting its naval blockade, Pakistans Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced. Sharif, a chief mediator since the US and Israel entered the war with Iran at the end of February, made the announcement in a social media post on ...

Hong Kong and Macau can complement rather than compete with each other in tourism development, officials and industry leaders in the gaming hub have said, as it continues its decades-long push for economic diversification. Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, director of the Macau Government Tourism Office, said that the two cities had long worked together to ...

Japans push to build its own civil aviation sector and stay competitive in the technology race against China could receive a boost from a potential partnership with American aircraft giant Boeing. The country is already a key Boeing partner, possesses advanced manufacturing technologies and could benefit from a captive domestic market factors that analysts ...

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have been ranked among the top 20 in a global league table the first time two of the citys universities have achieved this simultaneously with CUHK making significant gains in its reputation among employers. The UK-based education information firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ...

A senior US official on Wednesday released the text of an agreement reached between Washington and Tehran to end the Iran war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after months of conflict had battered the global economy and sent oil prices soaring. The outline of the agreement, titled Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America ...

As national EU leaders meet in Brussels to thrash out a possible new China policy, speculation is high as to where they all stand amid fluid member-state dynamics. In the last part of this three-part series, we look at whether the conventional wisdom will be fundamentally changed in the EU and how the bloc could forge a united front in dealing with China. ...

Nobody knew how the tree grew popular online, but for about two months, villagers near Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province, found drones flying over their wheat fields. One video captured a tree in the middle of a farmers field, just as the fog was about to dissipate, like an ink painting, Beijing News said. Then people began flocking to the area to take ...

A top Huawei Technologies executives admission that the Chinese telecoms company illegally conducted business in Iran can be used in the coming US trial against Huawei, according to a judges ruling filed in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday. Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou made the admission as part of a 2021 deal to dismiss the criminal charges she ...

The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, but policymakers expect a hike in borrowing costs later this year amid growing concerns about inflation lodged above the US central banks 2 per cent target. New quarterly projections showed nine Fed officials now anticipate a hike in rates by the end of 2026, and an updated policy statement ...

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive in Manhattan, plans to argue at his murder trial that he was undergoing an extreme mental health crisis at the time of the alleged killing, a judge revealed at a hearing on Wednesday. The strategy poses steep legal hurdles but could lead to a jury convicting Mangione of the lesser ...

After decades waiting for justice, relatives of women murdered by New Yorks Gilgo Beach serial killer laid into him on Wednesday before he was sentenced to life in prison. He told them: I am responsible for the crimes. The words I would say would have no meaning, added Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect who lived a secret life of violence for years ...

From free marketeers to long-term interventionists, EU countries of all stripes are converging on the need for urgent action to prevent a Chinese-driven European deindustrialisation ahead of a key summit in Brussels, multiple sources said on Wednesday. A broad coalition of members now support the development of a tough new trade strategy that could involve ...

When Irans Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi announced the interim deal this week to end the war with the United States, he declared his country the victor. To many Iranians, it does not feel that way. More than three months of US and Israeli air strikes, and a blockade of Iranian ports, have poured new misery on a people already toiling under years of ...

The US Navy has redeployed an amphibious strike group originally bound for the Middle East to the South China Sea, a move experts say may signal Washington shifting its focus back to the Pacific region after months of distractions from the Iran war. The United States began turning its military attention to the Middle East early this year, moving global ...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said on Wednesday that his countrys negotiations with Israel in Washington were independent of the US-Iran deal to bring an end to the Middle East conflict. Lebanon and Israel have been holding direct talks in Washington since April, seeking to end the hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah and separate their conflict from ...

Officials from key US farm-belt states joined their Chinese provincial counterparts on Tuesday in a cooperation dialogue, the latest pivot towards closer engagement following President Donald Trumps visit to Beijing and ahead of the critical US midterm elections. The major subnational dialogue co-hosted by the Henan provincial government in central China ...

Government workers in different parts of Afghanistan have started switching off their smartphones, following an order imposed on Wednesday that they said came from Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. A letter announcing the ban on smartphones for all government employees started circulating on social media last week under the emblem of the Supreme Court, ...

Liu Ren, a central figure of a criminal group masterminded by Chinese tycoon Chen Zhi, has been extradited from Cambodia to China. Chinese police recently escorted Liu from Cambodia back to China, the criminal investigation department of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on Wednesday. The statement said Chen who was extradited to ...

Sexual abuse cases against children under 17 jumped 20 per cent in 2025 from the previous year in Hong Kong, with the security minister vowing to tighten laws that will better protect victims by next June. Police figures presented to legislators on Wednesday showed that there were 797 cases of sexual offences against children last year, up from 663 cases in ...

In 1996, the bestselling China Can Say No, co-authored by a group of intellectuals, reflected a nascent rejection of worship of the West and a rise in Chinese nationalism. Thirty years on, China is not just saying no to the West, it possesses the strategic leverage to hit back, underpinned by its dominance in global supply chains, rare earth minerals and ...

Chinese lithography and integrated circuit manufacturer Circuit Fabology Microelectronics Equipment (CFMEE) is set to launch a Hong Kong listing next week, as China continues its drive for semiconductor self-sufficiency amid US sanctions. The company, based in Hefei, Anhui province, said on Wednesday that it would offer more than 12.8 million H shares ...

The fatal shooting in eastern Poland of a Russian artist known for his caricatures of Russian President Vladimir Putin was likely politically motivated, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday. All indications are that this is a political murder, Tusk said of the killing of Semyon Skrepetsky, whose real name is Robert Kuzovkov. If it was ...