Legislative clashes over opposition’s accountability bills are likely to add to Lai’s challenges in his first term, analysts said.
Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong presents credentials at ceremony in New Delhi, filling 18-month vacancy as tensions grow along disputed Himalayan border.
Responding to US defence chief’s speech at Shangri-La Dialogue, PLA lieutenant general describes Taiwan Strait situation as ‘grim’ and suggests there will be more drills.
Tommy Tam of the Society of IATA Passenger Agents says Cathay has ‘unshirkable responsibility’ to provide more direct flights to 8 new locations.
Josep Borrell tells Shangri-La defence forum that avoiding tension in the South China Sea is ‘of the utmost importance’ for the bloc because of strong trade links.
The death of Raisi in a helicopter crash last month has triggered a race among hardliners to influence the selection of Khamenei’s successor.
Campaign does not have Beijing’s official support, but there has been no apparent effort to stop it and it echoes previous propaganda campaigns.
Company’s move coincides with government’s plan to make city a biomed centre, with policies including a ‘1+’ mechanism to speed up approval of new drugs for life-threatening or rare diseases.
Indonesia’s president-elect, at Asia’s top defence forum in Singapore, reiterates commitment to “comprehensive and permanent ceasefire” in the Middle East.
The price of AI services in China plummeted in May after ByteDance kicked off a price war by pricing access to its LLMs at 99.8 per cent below GPT-4.
Hydrogen power sector has been regarded as a source of new economic growth following China’s success with electric vehicles, lithium batteries and solar cells, but a recent setback reflects how nascent the industry is.
Despite skirmishes, “vast bulk of interactions that the Chinese navy has with Australia’s are safe and professional”, Australia’s defence minister Richard Marles says.
Director general Alpha Lau tells Post during California trip some American tech companies expressed interest in investment opportunities in Greater Bay Area.
Katrin Jakobsdottir, who stepped down as prime minister to run for president, is neck-and-neck in polls with equality advocate Halla Tomasdottir.
Despite granting sexual minorities equal protection in the constitution, some rights advocates claim Nepal’s queer movement is not entirely inclusive.
National Data Resources Survey Report 2023 released at digital economy summit finds 22 per cent of Chinese firms surveyed have no data management system.
Vietnam swore in a new president on May 22 – its third in under 18 months. Yet amid all the political upheaval, analysts expect Hanoi’s China ties to endure.
Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike is widely expected to contest the election against Renho Saito from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
Food culture academic says dining restrictions amid Covid-19 pandemic helped to normalise shops offering affordable choice of Cantonese favourites as an option for everyone.
Finance chief confident that candid exchanges with US businesses during four-day visit helped improve mutual understanding
Unifications always won with ‘carrot and stick, and the carrot must be sweet’, policy adviser Zheng Yongnian tells seminar on cross-strait exchanges and warns of ‘dangerous cognitive war’ by US.
Ambassador to Washington delivers video speech as slew of agreements announced on Wednesday in Berkeley at the China-US High-level Event on Subnational Climate Action.
Wanda Group founder Wang Jianlin turned to a ‘light-asset’ model in 2017, helping him avoid the same fate as Hui Ka Yan, the embattled founder of indebted real estate developer Evergrande Group.
Shen Zhihua warns about the economic decoupling that sent US-Soviet relations spiralling into confrontation.
A landmark national security trial of Hong Kong’s opposition figures will conclude this week with the judges handing down a verdict on whether 16 of them had committed subversion by taking part in an unofficial election they called a primary. The aim of the election was to maximise the opposition’s chances of gaining control of the Legislative Council and bringing down the government.
Negative media coverage abroad, harsh pandemic restrictions have combined to deter visitors, experts say.