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China warned residents of risks connected with buying insurance products in Hong Kong after previously tightening restrictions on such purchases as part of efforts to control capital outflows. Products denominated in
grandchildren in 90th birthday portraits by photographer Annie Leibovitz. One of the images, released yesterday by Buckingham Palace, shows the queen with two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The queen cradles Prince William’s
The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film of the jazz great in a recording studio after it was discovered in a storage facility. The 33-minute film captures
Taiwan says its delegation was ejected from a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s steel committee after China complained, part of an apparent hardening of Beijing’s attitude toward
Parliament in Brazil yesterday has voted to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff over charges of manipulating government accounts. The “yes” camp comfortably won the required two-thirds majority in the
Kenya shocked Fiji 30-7 in the final of the Singapore Rugby Sevens yesterday to claim its first World Series title. Collins Injera scored two of six tries as Kenya won the
Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been disbarred, a further step in what rights groups call a relentless crackdown by Beijing on efforts to establish an independent rule
American troops involved in a bar brawl with Filipino policemen face possible disciplinary sanctions in an incident earlier this month that the Philippine military says has no bearing on ongoing
Prosecutors in Michigan are seeking a five-year prison sentence for a Canadian man who says he smuggled more than 1,000 turtles to China to help pay for his college education. Kai Xu is
GCHQ, the UK’s surveillance agency, intervened to help prevent the sixth Harry Potter installment leaking online, the book’s publisher has said. Bloomsbury’s Nigel Newton said GCHQ contacted him in 2005 after
Wong and several other young activists who led pro-democracy protests that gripped Hong Kong for 79 days in late 2014 said their new party is called Demosisto. The teenager was the
Chinese author Cao Wenxuan and German illustrator Rotraut Susanne Berner have been awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for children’s literature. The biennial awards were announced this week during the Bologna
A partner at Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm at the heart of a huge leak of confidential financial data, says it was the victim of a hack. Ramon Fonseca, co-founder
Officials in Thailand say they seized 315 kilograms of African elephant tusks worth an estimated USD800,000 at Bangkok’s international airport. Thai Customs said that the haul of 87 ivory tusks
As our readers might know by now, the news we published on the back page of our Friday edition (April 1, “ATM gone crazy, people pocket thousands”) follows a long-lasting
A street ATM machine downtown started to spit out HKD1,000 bills last night after a customer used it to withdraw three thousand Hong Kong dollars. Bystanders, including many tourists, eventually turned
The Houston Rockets will return to China next fall to play two preseason games against the New Orleans Pelicans. The teams will play Oct. 9 in Shanghai, followed by a game
Archeologists in Boston are digging at a boyhood home of Malcolm X in an effort to uncover more about the slain black rights activist’s early life. The two-week archaeological dig begins
Gongbei Customs will hold an auction for 30 kg of smuggled gold today. There will be 30 gold items up for bidding. Two years ago, Gongbei Customs seized the gold from
Rescuing a bank has proved costly for Portugal’s efforts to balance its books, with the National Statistics Institute estimating the country’s 2015 budget deficit at 4.4 percent — way above
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