A snap probe of most Starbucks stores in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi found further food-safety concerns following an undercover media investigation that exposed expired ingredients being used and…
In our imaginations, the collapse of human civilisation is typically attributed to invading forces, economic collapse or governmental rot; but a team of scientists recently suggested that we are missing…
Singaporean academic Dickson Yeo, who has been detained under the Internal Security Act since last year for acting as a paid agent of a foreign state, was released on Tuesday.The…
Authorities need to boost domestic demand, including consumption and investment, to counter the property slump and any slowdown in exports, Zhang Bin and Zhu He, research fellows at China Finance…
China’s “aggressive actions” in the Indo-Pacific have worried governments across the region, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Indonesia on Tuesday, as he denied that Washington was trying…
The United States is testing satellite resiliency to threats from China and Russia miles above the Earth’s surface, just weeks after Russia shot down an ageing communications satellite.The computer-aided simulations…
Australia’s bid to develop a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines will cost more than US$80 billion and take decades in the “most complex” project the country has ever embarked on, a…
A man was found guilty of having stolen 150,000 yuan (US$23,568) from his ex-girlfriend by lifting her eyelids while she slept to use her irises to get past the facial…
China’s northern Inner Mongolia region is aiming for a fivefold increase in rare earth production value by 2025. This comes as the country’s near-total dominance of global supply raises concerns…
China has reported its first case of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, a patient in Tianjin who returned from overseas last week.The patient was classified as an asymptomatic carrier upon arrival…