It should come as no surprise that China and Hong Kong have been revealed in the Panama Papers as being among the most prolific in hiding entities that use offshore financial centers and tax havens. This partly stems from...
THIMPHU - Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived on Thursday in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, where they will meet its glamorous young royal couple for the first time.Prince William and wife Kate touched down at Bhutan's...
Sydney - The father of a Down's syndrome baby at the centre of a surrogacy scandal did not abandon him in Thailand and can keep his twin sister despite being a convicted paedophile, a court ruled Thursday.Australian couple David...
YANGON - Myanmar appeared to have escaped with only minor damage to buildings including pagodas after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that rattled its remote north, police said Thursday, as early reports said there not had been any casualties.The quake,...
Around 450 Vietnamese drug addicts have escaped from a rehabilitation centre where many were held for compulsory treatment, an official said Thursday.The detainees attacked guards, climbed walls, and broke down the main gate at the centre in the Vietnam's...
HONG KONG - Jasmine Li was still a student when she opened her first offshore bank account through Mossack Fonseca Hong Kong, but the shady world she entered that day had been part of the city's underbelly for decades.The...
BEIJING - Chinese legal authorities on Thursday formally disbarred a prominent rights lawyer who was handed a suspended sentence last year for writing Internet posts the government said incited ethnic hatred, ending his career.Activists have said the three-year suspended...
SEOUL - South Korean President Park Geun-Hye's ruling conservative party was reeling Thursday from a shock electoral defeat that broke its 16-year parliamentary majority and threatened its chances of retaining the presidential Blue House in 2017.Voters punished the party...
SHANGHAI – Australia will trial new visa rules for visitors and students from China, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday, as the country seeks to boost tourism and education amid an economy struggling with the demise of a...
SHANGHAI - Infant milk formula imports to China through international websites will need official approval by 2018, the finance ministry said, a reprieve for firms who were concerned the rules would have immediate effect.China raised tariffs on online retail...
