After being tricked into selling her Singapore home and traveling to China to invest the proceeds, Mary Seow eventually found herself homeless in Hong Kong, having lost touch with her family. Nearly five
According to the South China Morning Post, as of 9.30pm yesterday, the turnout rate hit 43.65 per cent, higher than the rate of 38.54 per cent at the same time
Snowstorms swept across a vast area of north China yesterday, disrupting traffic, grounding flights and slowing down bullet trains in Beijing, Tianjin and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Six highways passing through
China yesterday told other countries not to “deliberately stir up trouble” in the disputed South China Sea, while insisting it has no intention of militarizing the strategically vital area even
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged an additional USD14.5 million to fund the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared more than a year ago with 239 people aboard. Li
China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, wants a legally binding agreement to be reached at a world climate summit in Paris that begins on Nov. 30. China hopes the summit will
Australia blocked the sale of the nation’s largest private landowner to an overseas buyer, saying the location of one of the company’s 10 cattle ranches in a weapons testing area
President Xi Jinping condemned the Islamic State’s execution of a Chinese national, an act that raises pressure on China to take a greater role in resolving Syria’s civil war. Xi issued
A wealthy Chinese businessman told police that kidnappers forced him to kill a woman and then tried to blackmail him about it, officials and news reports said. Police in Yibin city in Sichuan
The Islamic State group said yesterday that it has killed Chinese and Norwegian captives after earlier demanding ransoms for the two men. The extremist group published two images of the men
McDonald’s has opened an outlet in a historic residence in east China’s Zhejiang Province, sparking heated debate about whether such sites should be used for commercial purposes. The burger chain began
Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday sought to reassure regional economic and political leaders that his government will keep the world’s No. 2 economy growing. In a speech to a business conference
President Barack Obama called on China to halt land reclamation and construction in the disputed South China Sea in his latest show of support for Southeast Asian nations unnerved by
China’s hopes of reaching the 2018 World Cup were dealt a huge blow yesterday as it was held to a 0-0 draw in Hong Kong in a tense Group C encounter. The result means
The leaders’ meetings, including the 18th leaders’ meeting between China and the ASEAN; the 18th ASEAN-China, Japan and Republic of Korea leaders’ meeting; and the 10th East Asia Summit, should
The U.N. refugee agency criticized Thailand yesterday for deporting two refugees who were about to be resettled in a third country. Rights groups identified the two as Chinese pro-democracy activists. The
With a towering warship behind him, President Barack Obama announced yesterday that the U.S. will hand over two ships to the Philippine Navy to boost its maritime security capabilities, in
Tensions with China and the Paris attacks could upstage trade issues at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, being held under extra-heavy security in the Philippine capital this week. President Barack Obama and
Coal: Can’t live with it and can’t live without it — at least not yet. It is the biggest source of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that negotiators around the world hope to
Lighthouses have for centuries guided the world’s seafarers, preventing ships from striking rocks and reefs and helping fishermen find their way home. In the disputed South China Sea, they may
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