Hong Kong - Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong accused HSBC of "political censorship" on Wednesday after the bank rejected his application for a joint account for his new party as well as a personal account for himself.Wong, 19,...
Beijing - China has expanded its presence in the contested South China Sea by switching on a lighthouse atop a reconstructed reef also claimed by Vietnam and the Philippines, state media said.The 55m-high facility on Subi Reef in the...
A child fell out of a moving minivan and got run over by a vehicle on a busy highway in Zhaotong city, Yunnan.Shocking footage shows the child tumbling out of a minivan just as it speeds across a crossroad,...
BEIJING - China has begun operating a lighthouse on one of its artificial islands in the South China Sea near which a U.S. warship sailed last year to challenge China's territorial claims.China claims most of the energy-rich waters of...
MUMBAI - It began as a school project, became a citywide campaign, and is now a national social media campaign aimed at getting communities to address child labour in India.Kunaal Bhargava, 17, a student at the American School in...
MUMBAI - India's all-singing, all-dancing movie hits capture the attention of hundreds of millions of fans - but they generate precious little in box office profits for the world's largest cinema industry.Now, with smartphone sales booming and India preparing...
Guo Boxiong, a former senior military leader, will be charged with corruption, China announced on Tuesday while pressing ahead with its anti-graft campaign.Investigations by military prosecutors found that Guo, who was vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission before...
Yangon - The retired junta general who steered Myanmar's last five years of reforms has temporarily become a monk, according to state media, days after he ceded power to a new government led by Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy...
South China Morning Post announced on Tuesday (April 5) it is giving free access to its online and mobile editions with immediate effect, as Chinese Internet giant Alibaba takes ownership of the popular Hong Kong English-language newspaper.The 113-year-old daily...
YANGON - Myanmar foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi met her Chinese counterpart in Naypyidaw Tuesday, an official said, as relations with Beijing take centre stage in the first diplomatic foray of her newly installed pro-democracy government.The Southeast Asian...
