The messaging application, which took China by storm, posted its slowest active user growth on record as it struggles to attract new customers in Western countries. Shenzhen-based Tencent is cutting
One of the groups disappointed by police behavior is Hong Kong’s expat community. Following a police check on Wednesday night at the popular Mes Amis bar in Mongkok by about
Chinese leaders pledged for the first time to cap the country’s decades-long growth of greenhouse gas emissions. Since China emits more carbon and other heat-trapping gases than any other country, the pledge
President Barack Obama received a hero’s welcome two years ago during his historic visit to Myanmar, whose rapid rebirth after decades of repression was a source of hope for the region
The United States and India said yesterday they had resolved a dispute over stockpiling of food by governments, clearing a major stumbling block to a deal to boost world trade. India
The doctor who conducted sterilization procedures after which 13 women died in central India was arrested, but insisted he didn’t do anything wrong — even though he said he used to
The European Space Agency yesterday published the first image taken from the surface of a comet, and said that its Philae lander is still “stable” despite a failure to latch
Accelerated clinical trials will be launched in West Africa to speed the search for a treatment for the deadly Ebola virus, Doctors Without Borders announced yesterday. The international humanitarian group said
Anti-American protesters shouting “Yankee, go home!” roughed up three U.S. Navy sailors Wednesday in Istanbul near where their warship was docked on an inlet of the Bosphorus Strait in the
Both demonstrations passed off peacefully. The biggest was in London where protesters rallied in Hyde Park. About 350 vehicles were stopped by police from entering the centre of the city. Drivers parked their
The London-based Bonhams auction house sold off a collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts Wednesday over the objections of the Mexican government, which says at least half the pieces are fake and
Qualifying for the largest-ever European Championship in 2016 was supposed to be a simple task for the continent’s top teams. It’s not turning out that way. World champion Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands
France coach Philippe Saint-Andre has named an unchanged side to face Australia in tomorrow’s test match after last weekend’s 40-15 rout of Fiji. The 21-year-old Teddy Thomas again starts at left
One of those statistics in Macau that isn’t what it is: unemployment, 1.7% (Q3)! MDT’s award- winning cartoonist with an eye to the absurd saw the jocularity in the topic (MDT
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