Hong Kong August visitors plunge 40% year-on-year, hotels half-full: finance chief
Hong Kong visitor arrivals plunged nearly 40% in August from a year earlier, deepening from July’s 5% fall, the finance secretary said as sometimes violent...
German minister prepared to meet Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday welcomed the release of Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong from police custody and said he was prepared to meet...
Alibaba set for ‘big challenge’ as flamboyant chairman Ma departs
Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma will step down from the Chinese firm on Tuesday, leaving his handpicked successor a daunting task of steering the $460...
Iran moves toward enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges: UN watchdog
Iran has begun installing more advanced centrifuges and is moving toward producing enriched uranium with them even though that is forbidden under its nuclear deal...
Shoot them? Hang them? – Filipino heavyweights hanker for death penalty return
If he gets his way, Filipino senator and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao would have drug criminals executed by firing squad....
British Airways cancels 1,700 flights as pilots strike
British Airways (BA) pilots began a two-day strike on Monday, grounding nearly all of its flights and disrupting thousands of passengers in a dispute over...
Slovakian biotech firm in tentative Alzheimer’s drug hope
An Alzheimer’s vaccine developed by a privately held Slovakian biotech firm showed early signs of efficacy in a mid-stage trial, in a rare step forward...
Ferrari to lift lid on new F8 Spider and 812 GTS to maintain fast track growth
Ferrari revealed on Monday its two new releases as the Italian premium automaker pursues an aggressive roll-out of new models to sustain its turbo-charged core...
Nivea-maker Beiersdorf launches brand for tattooed skin
German consumer goods firm Beiersdorf is launching its first new brand for more than 30 years – a line of body creams specially for tattooed...
Secret Taliban peace talks at Camp David floated, scrapped within a week, U.S. officials say – NBCNews.com
Secret Taliban peace talks at Camp David floated, scrapped within a week, U.S. officials say NBCNews.com How Trump’s Plan to Secretly Meet With the Taliban Came...
