“She was a schoolteacher in Hong Kong and now works as a cashier in a supermarket in Britain. I think she and her husband would like to come back but it is a question of face. How would she ...

North Korean soldiers sent by the government to fight Ukrainians were not told they were going to war and their parents do not know where they are. They were not prepared for drone warfare and ...

Over the past decade, the amount of waste produced by Hong Kong residents has remained high. According to government data, the per capita municipal solid waste disposal rate per day in Hong Kong ...

“We have brands here for every taste and requirement,” said Wang Limei at a grocery store in a popular tourist town. “The cheapest cost 13 yuan a packet, the workers buy those. The most ...

In 2018, China paid 255 million pounds to buy the former Royal Mint in London with the aim of turning it into the largest embassy in Europe. Fierce objections from the local government, NGOs and ...

What makes or breaks a world-class city? Some would posit the answer rests with infrastructure – the more modern and advanced the hardware, the more developed the software. Others would advocate ...

When the board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) scheduled its first ever board meeting in the United States this week, next to the giant plant it is building in Phoenix ...

In September 1938, Britain and France agreed to give Nazi Germany control of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia without a fight. It was called the Munich Agreement, or the Munich Betrayal by ...

With the return of Donald Trump to the White House on January 20, negotiations to end Russia’s three-year invasion of Ukraine are imminent. The most difficult subject will be the future of the ...

In 2024, China posted a trade surplus of US$990 billion. It was both a record for China and also a record in world history, exceeding the surpluses of the U.S., Japan and Germany in comparative terms.