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Hong Kong's history: From backwater to trading metropolis
Modern-day Hong Kong is best known for its sprawl of skyscrapers and role as a bustling financial hub and regional trade conduit off the southern coast of mainland China. Under British rule, Hong Kong transformed into a commercial and financial hub boasting one of the world's busiest harbours.
A promise kept or betrayal? Hong Kong 25 years on from handover
As midnight struck on June 30, 1997 and Hong Kong transitioned from British to Chinese rule, pro-democracy lawmaker Lee Wing-tat stood with colleagues on the balcony of the city's legislature, holding a defiant protest. So the minute the handover became effective, Lee and many of his colleagues became seatless, but remained within the legislature to protest their expulsion.
46 migrants found dead in tractor-trailer in Texas
At least 46 migrants were found dead Monday in and around a tractor-trailer that was abandoned on the roadside on the outskirts of the Texas city of San Antonio. The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years -- and came five years after a similar deadly incident in the same central Texas city, a few hours from the Mexican border.
Former Nazi camp guard, 101, faces German court verdict
A German court will give its verdict on Tuesday in the trial of a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to be charged with complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust. Separately in the northern German town of Itzehoe, a 96-year-old former secretary in a Nazi death camp is on trial for complicity in murder.
Asian markets' rally fizzles as rates, inflation fears return
Asian markets mostly fell Tuesday as investors struggled to maintain a recent rally while weighing central banks' inflation-fighting rate hikes and the possibility of a recession. But the global advance fizzled Monday in New York, and on Tuesday, Asian investors ran out of puff.
'Shoot them dead': Philippine president Duterte in his own words
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who steps down on Thursday, was infamous for his foul-mouthed tirades, off-colour jokes, and threats to kill people. On May 31, 2016, President-elect Duterte endorses the killing of corrupt journalists.
Macron seeks allies as new French parliament opens
France's lower house of parliament reopens Tuesday after an election upset for President Emmanuel Macron whose centrist allies are little closer to building a stable majority, putting Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's job potentially on the line.
Duterte unlikely to face court over Philippines drug war killings
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte often incited violence and ordered police to shoot dead suspects in a drug war that has killed thousands. Rights groups say Duterte created a climate of impunity and estimate that tens of thousands have been killed by police, hitmen and vigilantes, even without proof they were involved in drugs.
UN meet sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans
A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon this week with a flurry of promises to expand marine protected areas, ban deep-sea mining, and combat illegal fishing.
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