East Timor has become a stable democracy after securing independence in 2002. But its finances are precarious, and nearly ...

Though start-ups like DeepSeek are winning headlines, a key pillar of China’s tech revolution is its massive state-directed research programme ...

The United States and its allies regularly pass through the 180km Taiwan Strait to reinforce its status as an international ...

Riyadh is concerned that Iran may be more inclined to pursue a nuclear weapon and hopes to leverage its close ties with Trump ...

In strategic materials and minerals, Beijing has gradually broadened its curbs to include both controlling exports of the key elements — such as rare earths, tungsten and tellurium, among others — to ...

President Xi Jinping first chaired a high-profile symposium for the private sector in late 2018, six years after he came to ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, ...

While the number of smokers in the world as a proportion of the population is dropping, lung cancer continues to cause almost ...

Negotiations aimed at freezing the conflict could finally put an end to the fighting – and lay the foundation for a new world ...

Bank of East Asia, Principal Trust Company and two other providers are set to join the pension plan’s digital platform as it ...

In February 2025, Air China has scheduled 11 non-stop flights in each direction between its secondary hub at Shanghai Pudong ...

HSBC, one of the city’s three currency-issuing lenders, unveiled on Wednesday new mortgage plans offering a fixed rate of 3.18 per cent for the first three years, or 3.03 per cent for the first five ...