Many Hong Kong shoppers remain undaunted by a mainland Chinese investigation into the food safety practices of popular supermarket Sams Club in neighbouring Shenzhen, saying they will still shop for bargains but more selectively. Despite reports that Chinese regulators had summoned the warehouse retailer over frequent food safety issues on Monday morning, ...

An enterprising 19-year-old student in China heads a start-up tech company and is also a philanthropist who donated 100,000 yuan (US$15,000) to sanitation workers at his school. Wei Siyuan graduated from Baoan Middle School in Shenzhen, southern Chinas Guangdong province, last year and was admitted to Hunan University. He also has another identity: the ...

Taiwans new website for mainland Chinese to securely report intelligence-related information has sparked debate over whether it is workable. The self-governed islands National Security Bureau (NSB) on Sunday said it had established a contact window to collect political, military, economic and social intelligence from mainland China. The bureau said the ...

The custody of a Hong Kong couples four-year-old daughter remains in the balance after a Swedish court threw out their attempted appeal against the local social welfare administrations application to transfer her legal guardianship to a foster family. The Swedish Social Welfare Committee said in a report dated June 3 that the child, Lily, had to be ...

Iranian Americans streamed into the Los Angeles stadium where Iran play their first match at the 2026 World Cup on Monday, with some calling for Iranians to band together and forget politics while others bore symbols protesting the government. The team arrived at the stadium, having flown into the US on Sunday from their training base in Tijuana, Mexico, ...

North Koreas latest spirited defence of its nuclear arsenal signals a strategy that goes beyond rejecting international calls to disarm and instead leans into mounting global superpower rivalry to legitimise its weapons build-up. The verbal offensive comes as North Korea could soon face renewed pressure to return to the negotiating table. Analysts say the ...

New homes that Hong Kong developers will launch in the coming days and weeks will serve as a crucial test of the impact of Beijings latest capital-control measures, amid signs of recovery in the citys residential property market. Seemingly, a number of developers have turned more cautious in launching primary projects of late, said Jack Tong, director of ...

Eight people are believed to be dead after a B-52 bomber crashed soon after take-off on Monday morning at a US Air Force base in Southern Californias Mojave Desert, the US military said. Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable, Edwards Air Force Base posted on social media. The cause of the crash is under investigation, officials said. ...

As trade tensions between Beijing and Brussels continue to rise, Chinas firms in the European Union have been forced to walk a delicate tightrope: expanding their presence in the lucrative market while grappling with heightened regulatory hurdles and rapid geopolitical shifts. In the first part of this three-part series, we look at a new, complex EU carbon ...

British prosecutors have charged with sanctions contravention offences the Indian captain of an interdicted alleged Russian shadow fleet vessel seized in the Channel, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Monday. It follows British armed forces on Sunday intercepting the sanctioned oil tanker Smyrtos said to belong to Russias shadow fleet in a dramatic ...

When it comes to the performance of real estate markets in the Asia-Pacific, Japan reigns supreme. Asias second largest economy is the deepest, most widely traded, and the safest market in the region. Last year, Japan accounted for 28 per cent of direct investment in Asia-Pacific commercial real estate, data from MSCI shows. The average vacancy rate for ...

Most Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) adults believe the United States used to be a great place for immigrants but no longer is, according to a survey released on Monday ahead of the 250th anniversary of American independence next month. Forty-one per cent of AAPI adults say they have started carrying proof of immigration status or citizenship, or ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he intends to run in elections scheduled for later this year, as he faces domestic criticism over his wartime leadership. Netanyahu, who is Israels longest-serving prime minister, has led his country through three years of war on multiple interconnected fronts and is currently on trial for corruption. ...

Argentinas top central banker sat down with his Chinese counterpart in Shanghai, a quiet overture towards Beijing months after Buenos Aires moved to unwind a currency lifeline that Washington had pushed it to abandon. Santiago Bausili, president of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, met Peoples Bank of China governor Pan Gongsheng on the sidelines ...

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musks artificial intelligence company, xAI, that accused rival Sam Altmans OpenAI of stealing trade secrets for chatbots. US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco, California, said xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced former xAI senior engineer Xuechen Li, a Chinese national, to divulge confidential ...

Hungarys parliament approved a constitutional amendment on Monday that allows prime ministers to serve for a maximum of eight years, effectively barring former premier Viktor Orban from holding the role again. Prime Minister Peter Magyar ousted Orban in an election in April after 16 years, gaining a two-thirds majority in parliament that allows his party to ...

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Last Tuesday (9 June), Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new campus on a slope site at the junction of Sheung Shing Street and Fat Kwong Street in Ho Man Tin, marking the official commencement of the new campus development project and a ...

The European Unions top diplomat Kaja Kallas said the bloc has verified reports that Chinas military has been training Russian military personnel to fight in Ukraine, a development that could deepen tensions between the two sides. Kallas, speaking after chairing a meeting of the EUs 27 foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, said that the EU was ...

The US-Iran peace deal is likely to bring immediate relief but not yet reassurance for Asia, as leaders across the region watch whether the Strait of Hormuz reopens, oil prices ease and the agreement can withstand the nuclear talks and geopolitical distrust still ahead, analysts say. The agreement, mediated by Pakistan and scheduled to be signed on Friday ...

A sample collected from a wet market in Hong Kong has tested positive for bird flu H9, days after a two-year-old boy who visited the venue contracted a mild strain of the infectious disease. But the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said on Monday that the risk of a serious bird flu outbreak was low. The boy, who lives in Sha Tin, became ill after visiting ...

As plunging oil prices signal broad market optimism following an initial deal between the United States and Iran, attention has turned to whether Chinese firms sanctioned for Iran-related business will see immediate relief, though analysts remain cautious. New purchases of Iranian oil ostensibly wouldnt be subject to fresh sanctions, but at the same time, I ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni agreed on Monday to deepen cooperation in advanced technologies such as semiconductors and strengthen supply chains for critical minerals to bolster economic security while advancing defence ties. The two leaders also welcomed a preliminary agreement between the United States ...

A Polish doctor has been taken into custody after 34 human fetuses were found buried in the garden of her former home, the authorities said on Monday. Magdalena H. a 57-year-old medical pathologist with no previous criminal record is suspected of using the fetuses to perform experiments and now faces up to 12 years in prison. Her case has whipped up a ...

One of Chinas largest defence contractors displayed a model of a drone assembly line at a leading international defence exhibition, hinting that the firm is planning to make more of the weapons overseas. The state-run North Industries Group Corporation (Norinco) displayed the model during this years Eurosatory, one of the worlds largest exhibitions of army ...

Fox Corp is buying Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about US$22 billion in a bet that pairing its sports and news programming with a top TV streaming platform will strengthen its position as audiences shift online. The deal, announced on Monday, gives Fox access to the more than 100 million households using Rokus streaming platform, potentially ...