Tag: Asia
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In greying Japan, killings of parents by elderly children spur soul-searching
Masato Watabe made no effort to hide the killing. A little over an hour after he held his hand over his victim’s mouth until she was no longer breathi…
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Fight’s over: YouTube becomes last major platform to accept Australia’s age rule
Google’s YouTube said it would obey Australia’s world-leading ban on social media accounts for children under 16, a capitulation which means all the m…
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Hong Kong will miss its most popular philosopher
Once, when pop diva Faye Wong was seen reading on a plane, the book reportedly on her lap was the perennial local bestseller Art of Thinking by Lee Ti…
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Residents of block return to fire-hit Hong Kong estate to collect belongings
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A New Chapter in Bilingual Excellence: YK Pao School Hong Kong Appoints its Founding Head
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] HONG KONG – 3 December 2025 – In a significant milestone in its founding, …
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Chinese man hides 2 gold bars in chilli sauce jar, sends to ‘friend’ for investment
A Chinese man has caused amusement online after he hid two gold bars inside a jar of chilli sauce and mailed them to another province as part of a sca…
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Hong Kong man, 87, with dementia found dead 9 days after going missing
An elderly Hong Kong man with dementia who had been missing for nine days was found dead in the countryside by volunteer search teams. Leung Woon-yew,…
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Beijing woos foreign firms as China seeks bigger role in global shipbuilding supply chain
Beijing is extending an olive branch to overseas companies as it seeks to build a more integrated global supply chain for the shipbuilding industry, i…
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South Korea proposes special court to address ‘mockery of judicial process’
A year after former president Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is pushing ahead with a bill to…
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US pauses all immigration applications from 19 countries
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it paused all immigration applications, including green card and US citizenship processing, filed by immigran…