FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho
Macau,
CHINA The Shanghai Composite index jumped 5.5 percent after President Donald Trump announced he was extending a deadline for escalating tariffs on Chinese imports. CHINA
CHINA Hospitals are using facial recognition to identify people who sell doctors’ appointments at an illegal markup, the latest application of an emerging technology that is
HONG KONG’s de facto central bank is bidding farewell to its chief after a decade, starting the search for a successor at a time when the city
CHINA is barring foreign travelers from Tibet over a period of several weeks that includes a pair of sensitive political anniversaries. Travel agencies say foreign tourists would not
CHINA The Iranian foreign minister’s passionate defense of his country’s interests at the Munich Security Conference has made him “a famous person” in China, his Chinese counterpart
CHINA The daughter of a Swedish publisher detained in China said two Chinese businessmen said her father could be released if she stopped talking to the media.
INDONESIA Plantation companies fined for burning huge areas of land since 2009 have failed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties meant to hold them accountable
PHILIPPINES The head of a Philippine online news site who was arrested by government agents in a libel case accused President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration yesterday of acting like
EAST TIMOR An American missionary who was a hero in East Timor for founding children’s shelters that have operated for more than two decades has been expelled from
VENEZUELA’s opposition is calling supporters into the streets across the country in a campaign to break the military’s support of President Nicolas Maduro. CHINA Members of
CHINA Concerns about potentially HIV-tainted blood products produced by a state-backed company, followed by conflicting information from regulators, is undermining confidence in mainland’s drug industry as it
TAIWAN A strike among pilots at Taiwan’s flag carrier China Airlines dragged into a third day yesterday, resulting in further flight cancellations. INDONESIAN police have acknowledged officers
PHILIPPINES Five suspected Abu Sayyaf militants accused of involvement in a deadly suicide attack at a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines have surrendered to authorities,
PHILIPPINES Soldiers clashed with Abu Sayyaf gunmen in fierce jungle fighting that left five soldiers and three militants dead, as the military pushed forward with a fresh offensive
INDONESIA’s volatile Mount Merapi volcano on the island of Java has unleashed a river of lava that flowed 1,400 meters down its slopes. BANGLADESH More than 5,000
PHILIPPINES A grenade was thrown into a mosque in the southern Philippines where Muslim teachers were sleeping early yesterday morning, killing two of them and injuring four, authorities
CHINA-JAPAN Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged he will further expand his country’s already improving ties with China but said Japan still needs to bolster its defense
PHILIPPINES Muslims in the southern Philippines overwhelmingly approved in a referendum the creation of a new autonomous region in hopes of ending nearly half a century of unrest,
MALAYSIA Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah of central Pahang state was named Malaysia’s new king yesterday, replacing Sultan Muhammad V who abdicated unexpectedly after just two years on
INDONESIA Torrential rains overwhelmed a dam and caused landslides that killed at least eight people and displaced more than 2,000 in central Indonesia, officials said yesterday. MALAYSIA
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