Key Takeaways: A woman was seriously injured in an alleged stabbing attack in Bara Police arrested the suspect, her husband, two days after the incident The victim underwent su...

China’s top legislature passed on Friday a landmark law targeting cross-border corruption, equipping Beijing with expansive new tools to pursue illicit offshore assets while countering foreign attempts to investigate wrongdoing in China. The Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law was approved at the close of the 25th session of the 14th National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) and took effect immediately, according to the state news agency Xinhua. The statute establishes formal mechanisms...

KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 6Continuing its humanitarian activities, the 7 Summits Foundation has conducted an initial Helicobacter pylori screening campaign at Tapting village in Solukhum...

The rebel LIV Golf tour is shutting down and liquidating its assets after failed relaunch efforts.

The US military has expanded its cybersecurity presence in Hawaii and set up a regional centre to better detect threats and disruptions to its Pacific communications networks. The new initiatives come amid US accusations of Chinese cyber operations targeting critical infrastructure, including on Guam, and concerns about the security of undersea cables linking the Pacific to the US mainland. Neither initiative has been explicitly linked to China. Brigadier General Michael Smith, US Pacific...

Key Takeaways: Ministry forms a five-member committee to investigate suspected fake student records Nearly 200,000 questionable entries identified in the IEMIS database Suspect...

Key Takeaways: A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck Humla on Thursday morning The epicentre was reported around Thehe The tremor occurred at about 7:10am No immediate reports of...

The briefing at the Information Fusion Centre-Indian Ocean Region focused on Maritime Domain Awareness, regional security challenges and strengthening cooperation between India and ASEAN nations.

Of the 59 monitoring stations across the city, 30 recorded severe air quality at 9 am, while the remaining stations were in the very poor category.

We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. US midterm shift could squeeze China on AI, bring clarity to bilateral talks Beijing has vowed to continue working with Washington towards a “constructive relationship of strategic stability” following the Democrats’ sweeping victory...

Weeks after the European Union and China struck a deal aimed at averting a looming trade war, the two sides remain at loggerheads over what is wrong with their relationship, how to fix it and who is to blame. At an event in Brussels this week, threats were exchanged and differences rose to the surface. With the ink barely dry on their fragile trade peace, it was clear that both were still preparing for a trade war. “If the EU insists on adopting restrictive and discriminatory measures against...

The revision covers employees under the 2024 Revised Pay Scales as well as retired personnel and family pensioners across Karnataka

MIAL’s proposal faces resistance from foreign airlines over connectivity, competition and unilateral capacity cuts

In the space of roughly 10 days, the two largest democracies in the Americas delivered setbacks to the populist right. In Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva staged a narrow but remarkable comeback, defeating Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, in a run-off election after trailing in the first round. This week, American voters handed control of both chambers of the US Congress to Democrats in a sharp rebuke of candidates riding on US President Donald Trump’s “Make America...

Inside Jiaolong: A simulated dive into China's deep-sea exploration

2026 World Ocean Week opens in Southeast China's Xiamen

Blue is the new green in Xiamen

Tanvi Patri won a historic silver medal in women's singles at the ongoing Youth Olympic Games in Dakar.

China passes law to prevent, punish cross-border corruption

Chinese scientists have cooled a cloud of rubidium atoms aboard China's space station to an equivalent temperature of 9.7 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero, a record low according to the research team.

At their October meeting in South Korea last year, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, recognising mutual vulnerability to export restrictions, agreed to suspend some of the most draconian measures they had imposed on each other: US port fees on Chinese-built vessels and Chinese export controls on rare earths. They also announced further summit-level talks. The leaders have since met twice: Trump visited Beijing in May, Xi visited Washington in September. They are...

China launched a group of remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday.

Beijing has hinted at the new leadership line-up in its military theatre commands, with fresh faces emerging during last week’s party conclave in the seating area reserved for key commanders, filling vacancies left by China’s anti-corruption drive. The fifth plenum of the Communist Party’s 20th Central Committee, which concluded last Thursday, focused on party discipline and political loyalty, confirming the expulsion of 33 full and alternate Central Committee members, including 16 senior...

Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang on Thursday called for joint efforts to achieve balanced trade through greater market openness, deeper investment cooperation, innovation and the removal of trade barriers.

Hear from Dr. Gina Ferrie, Vice President of Collections and Conservation, about how her team at Zoo Atlanta have prepared for the public unveiling of the beloved species from China.

Atlanta is ready for pandas

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said he will “not back down” against a “lame duck” US Congress, and that the calls for his impeachment will “not work” in his first reaction after the Democrats’ landslide victory in Tuesday’s midterm elections. In a video uploaded by the Pentagon on Thursday, Hegseth said that “a disgruntled, defeated congressman, along with all his Democrat allies”, have been submitting “sham” bills for his impeachment, resembling that of the similar attempt against US...

Stock markets down today: Wall Street's post-election rally quickly turned into a major sell-off as the Dow plunged 1,753 points and the Nasdaq entered correction territory. Fears that Democratic victories could slow AI data-center expansion triggered heavy losses in Nvidia, AMD, Micron and other technology stocks, wiping out Wednesday's gains.

JPMorgan Chase’s banking relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be probed by the Democrats after they take control of Congress early next year, a report said. The Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee want to know how top executives at JPMorgan dealt with Epstein. Senator Ron Wyden will chair the panel in January next year.

As of late June, an impressive 769,000 people had exceeded $1 million in their workplace retirement accounts. Fidelity revealed that the average 401(k) balance was pegged at $155,800, while the median was notably lower at $35,800. In the second quarter, thanks to a 14.9% increase in the S&P 500, many account holders saw significant recovery.