Shenzhen customs retrieves problematic maps from overseas

Customs authorities in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, have retrieved more than 260,000 problematic maps from the Netherlands. Shenzhen Customs said Monday they have detained four

Chinese analyst says Bay plan difficult to achieve

Chinese economic analyst Su Yue, from the Economist Intelligence Unit, believes it will be very difficult for Chinese government officials to achieve the goals of the Outline

Taiwan commentator | ‘GBA means disappearance of SARs’ subjectivity’

Taiwan independent commentator Ze-Yuan Chiu said that the introduction of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) entails the “disappearance of Hong Kong’s and Macau’s subjectivity,” referring to the

Aviation | Boeing 737 crisis imperils Norwegian’s cut-price US routes

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA’s reliance on the fuel- saving Boeing Co. 737 Max to underpin its ultra low-cost trans-Atlantic strategy has exposed the loss- making carrier as

Xi says China-Italy pact offers closer ties in strategic sectors

Chinese President Xi Jinping, brushing aside U.S. and European concerns ahead of his visit to Rome (more on p11), offered Italy a “global strategic partnership” stretching from

Trade dispute | High-level talks with US to resume next week

Top U.S. trade and economic officials will visit China late next week for another round of negotiations, a White House official said yesterday . Treasury

Buy-bust | Philippines seizes drugs in upscale area, arrests 4 Chinese

Philippine authorities said yesterday that they have seized methamphetamine concealed in tea wrappers and biscuit cans in their second-largest drug haul this year in a sign of

Vatican makes overtures on eve of Italy visit by Xi

The Vatican is greeting the visit to Italy of Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week with a new round of overtures and says the “door is

Kazakhstan | Leader hands over presidency, puts daughter in contention

Kazakhstan began a new political era, at least formally, as Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was sworn in as president yesterday, succeeding leader-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev. One of his first acts

LGBT | Japan urged to stop requiring surgery for ID gender change

Rights Watch urged Japan yesterday to drop its requirement that transgender people be sterilized before their gender is changed on official documents. A 2004 law

Taliban kill 6 paramilitary troops in southwestern Pakistan

Pakistani authorities say militants overran a remote security outpost in southwestern Baluchistan province, killing six members of the paramilitary forces. The Pakistani Taliban — known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan —

EU fines Google USD1.7 billion for abusing online ads market

European Union regulators have fined Google USD1.7 billion for abusing its dominant role in online advertising, the third big antitrust penalty they’ve given the internet giant

UK’s May asks EU to delay Brexit until June 30

Prime Minister Theresa May formally asked the European Union on yesterday to postpone Britain’s departure from the bloc — due in nine days — until June

Immigration | Asylum seekers waiting in Mexico seek to stay in US

Several asylum seekers who are being forced to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration court told a judge yesterday that they are

Offbeat | Works by Jay-Z, Lauper, RFK being added to Recording Registry

Songs performed by Jay-Z, Cyndi Lauper and a Robert F. Kennedy speech are among 25 recordings being inducted to the National Recording Registry. The Library of Congress

This Day in History | 1984 – EEC summit collapses over rebate row

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has come under attack for the breakdown of negotiations at the European Economic Community common market summit in Brussels. Mrs Thatcher returned

Rugby Academy | Bats ups and downs at Hong Kong Festival

Macau Bats played their final Hong Kong festival last weekend. Hosted by the Hong Kong Football Club at Happy Valley, the Bats were keen to bounce

Motorsports | Danica Patrick to join NBC’s Indy 500 team

Danica Patrick will join NBC Sports’ inaugural coverage of the Indianapolis 500 as an analyst alongside host Mike Tirico. Patrick retired from racing after last

Super Rugby | Reports suggest Sunwolves out after this season

Super Rugby’s governing body plans to issue a statement on Friday over the future of the 15-team competition with speculation that the Tokyo-based Sunwolves will be cut

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CHINA-US Top U.S. trade and economic officials will visit China next week for another round of negotiations, a White House official said. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and

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