Facing China with Quiet Pragmatism 
Pharma giants pay millions to Russian distributor entangled in corruption allegations to win cancer drug business 
Xi emerges powerful from Beijing meeting, but maybe not all-powerful Indefinite time in psychiatric ward for Hong Kong man who fatally stabbed 2 in mall
A Hong Kong man with a mental disability has been sentenced to an indefinite period in a psychiatric hospital for stabbing two women to death…
Samantha Johnson
Who needs a degree? South Korea’s chip boom rewires university-obsessed culture
Inside a brightly lit cleanroom at Chungbuk Semiconductor High School in South Korea, a group of teenagers in head-to-toe protective suits carefully handled silicon wafers,…
Cambodia hosts anti-scam summit as scepticism lingers
Cambodia is set to present the outcome of its crackdown on scams to global governments and security agencies gathering in Phnom Penh this week.
Yet questions…
‘Do teachers not have families?’: kindergartens’ Mid-Autumn events draw backlash
At least four Hong Kong kindergartens will hold Mid-Autumn Festival open days and parties on reunion night, sparking criticism that teachers are being forced to…
Man shot by ICE in Texas says bullet still inside him
A Venezuelan national shot and wounded by a US immigration agent in Texas was jailed with the bullet still inside his body, his lawyer said…
China breaks ground on the world’s first supercritical CO2 and molten salt energy plant
China has broken ground on the world’s first utility-scale combined supercritical carbon dioxide power generation and molten salt energy storage project, which could help reduce…