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We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Why Chinese youth are turning to an 84-year-old Cambridge professor for support 2. Chinese officials rattled by White House chaos weeks ahead of Xi-Trump summit 3. How Southeast Asia’s monarchies ...
Vietnam targets natural sex ratio at birth by 2035, draft government plan shows Reuters
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is seeking a P643.95-billion budget for 2027, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ’s last full year in office. Under the Marcos administration, the DPWH’s proposed budgets have often been significantly higher than the amounts ultimately approved by Congress and the President. But the agency’s funding came under greater scrutiny...
President Xi Jinping presides over a grand ceremony in Beijing on Monday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of former state leader Jiang Zemin, who served as the country’s top leader between 1989 and the early 2000s and died in 2022. Xi is addressing thousands of officials and delegates from various sectors at the ceremony, held in the Great Hall of the People, delivering a speec...
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's industry minister has said that Seoul a...
The percentage of non-Chinese-speaking students who sat Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams and were admitted to the city’s public universities has remained persistently low over the past five academic years, with no clear signs of a change in sight. Veteran educators who teach such pupils, classified by the government as NCS students, attributed the trend to three main factors...
Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji died aged 97 on Wednesday (Aug 12), five days before former President Jiang Zemin’s birth centenary. The convergence puts renewed focus on their reform-era legacies - and Beijing’s balancing act in celebrating them, analysts say.
MANILA, Philippines — Manila Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr. on Sunday said senators should explain how the supposed P24-billion “leadership fund” was allocated to them in the 2025 national budget. Abante made the call after former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan revealed the Senate leadership fund during a Sandiganbayan hearing last
• Kushner meets Hamas. • In Egypt for talks. • Revive Gaza plan.
Hamas on July 30 said that it would hand over its weapons to a new Palestinian governing body as part of the latest stage in a Gaza ceasefire declared by Mr. Trump, who hailed their agreement as a "major milestone".
The current policy says that children can only get a place on the bus if they attend their nearest school.
Employees flag poor implementation of well-being policy at workplaces: Report BusinessLine
A leading Communist Party research group has invoked the legacy of China’s former leader Jiang Zemin in a call to rally round President Xi Jinping. The article by the Institute of Party History and Literature, published on Sunday in the party’s mouthpiece People’s Daily, formed part of the commemorations of the centenary of Jiang’s birth and highlighted the importance of supporting the leadersh...
Participants called for more transparency in land-use decisions and voiced concerns over the loss of green spaces, days after the government said it would retain more greenery at both sites.
Bloomberg News Middle East Reporter Dan Williams is on Bloomberg This Weekend discussing how the expiration of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding is unlikely by itself to trigger a return to all-out fighting, with diplomatic efforts over the Strait of Hormuz continuing despite repeated attacks on commercial vessels. Williams explains to hosts Joe Mathieu and Carol Massar that the Trump adm...
The suspects were intercepted and arrested on Saturday. Police IG Douglas Kanja speaks when he appeared before the Senate Departmental Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations on April 23, 2026. PHOTO | COURTESY | NPS Police have arrested 15 people along the Kisumu-Kericho Road over allegations of planning to disrupt political activities in the area. In a statement issued o...
Tensions between Beijing and Manila appear to have spilled over from the South China Sea to immigration, just as Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr indicated he wanted to “reset” ties. Manila on Sunday dismissed Beijing’s criticism of Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jnr over his role in the arrests of Chinese workers at a steel plant in Misamis Oriental in May. A Chinese embassy offic...
