Hong Kong’s Catholic Church leaders paid tribute to Pope Francis who died at age 88 on Monday, remembering him as an “inspirational leader” and a champion of world peace who always kept the city and Macau in his prayers. The Catholic diocese of Hong Kong also told worshippers it would arrange a service and a…
Beijing’s 22 million residents were asked to stay indoors on Saturday, as powerful winds swept across northern China. The winds toppled trees, disrupted travel and sports, and caused dust storms across the region. The winds, which in Beijing reached 101 miles per hour on Saturday afternoon local time, stemmed from a polar vortex in Mongolia…
YouTube star IShowSpeed has begun his visit to Hong Kong, drawing crowds of fans as he made his way around the popular shopping neighbourhood of Causeway Bay before seeing the pandas at Ocean Park. The 20-year-old American, dressed in a Hong Kong football team shirt, spent Friday morning taking part in a “villain-hitting” ritual in…
Taiwan ranked as the happiest place in Asia, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report. Thant Zaw Wai | Moment | Getty Images Taiwan is the happiest place in Asia, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report, published Thursday. Of the 147 places around the world that were ranked this year, it took the 27th…
It would not be unfair to suggest that the fact Hong Kong has a curling team is news to a few people, or at least it was before the past several days at the Asian Winter Games. Much like other sports needing ice and snow, curling is not something you would immediately think of in…
The Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year is a major celebration in many Asian countries and their diasporas around the globe. Chinese New Year, also referred to as the Spring Festival, is roughly a two-week-long celebration marking the first day of the Chinese calendar year, which lands on Wednesday this year. Each Chinese…
China’s record coal purchases last year were driven by big increases in supplies from Australia and Mongolia, while Russian cargoes actually fell. Now that Chinese demand is flattening, Mongolia could be best placed to hold or even grow its market share in its southern neighbor at Russia’s expense. Source link
Chinese soda maker Dayao is gearing up for a Hong Kong initial public offering as early as the second half of 2025, people familiar with the matter said, building on the city’s emerging recovery in new listings. The company, based in China’s Inner Mongolia, is working with advisers as it seeks to raise as much…
China executed a former official from Inner Mongolia over corruption charges totaling about 3 billion yuan ($412 million), a rare use of the death penalty for graft that comes with President Xi Jinping’s sweeping campaign to cleanse the Communist Party intensifying. Li Jianping, the former party chief of an economic development zone in Hohhot city,…
Rio Tinto will partner with China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) to demonstrate battery swap electric haul truck technology at the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia. Battery swapping technology allows a battery electric vehicle to quickly exchange a discharged battery pack for a fully charged one, instead of recharging the vehicle at a static…