Olympian Theo Chan Ming-tai said well-funded Hong Kong athletes were “the luckiest in the world” and he had no complaints being given an ultimatum to retain healthy support from the city’s sports institute. The long jumper set his city record leap of 8.12 metres in 2016, the same year as his “magical” introduction to elite…
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Backed into a political corner, with a hostile parliament and tanking approval ratings, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol opted for the nuclear option. In a late-night televised address, the beleaguered president and former prosecutor announced he was imposing martial law. “To safeguard a liberal South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea’s communist…
TOKYO/SEOUL — When Japan decided to get back into the chipmaking game, trading house Sojitz saw a chance to grab a piece of the action. The Tokyo-based company is looking to build a plant in Kyushu, the same region where chip titan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is building its first Japanese factory, to process fluorspar…
Chinese President Xi Jinping laid down red lines during his talk with American counterpart Joe Biden, in what’s being viewed as a message for the incoming Trump administration. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, in Lima, Peru, on Saturday for their third and likely final meeting. Xi’s…
Amid the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, there is one notable casualty: the nuclear non-proliferation movement. Over the last few years, conflicts in both regions have been shaped by the fact that Russia and Israel possess nuclear weapons but their adversaries in the immediate neighbourhood do not. Russian President Vladimir Putin has used…
A Hong Kong woman has been barred from leaving South Korea’s Jeju Island for more than two months after being arrested for taking photos at a traditional bathhouse. The 67-year-old woman was visiting the western part of the popular resort island as part of a tour package with three friends on July 7 when the…
A Hong Kong woman has been barred from leaving South Korea’s Jeju Island for more than two months after being arrested for taking photos at a traditional bathhouse. The 67-year-old woman was visiting the western part of the popular resort island as part of a tour package with three friends on July 7 when the…
China is continuing to erode the United States’s military superiority in Asia, but Beijing’s overall power in the region has plateaued, new analysis finds. The latest version of the Lowy Institute’s Asia Power Index, which measures the relative strength of 27 states and territories, has found that the US remains the most powerful country in…