STEM crisis in China’s universities; preliminary deal struck: 5 weekend reads

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is a real estate man.He knows when he’s being played – and the British are doing their best to play him over some Indian Ocean real estate that’s little known but immensely important to the United States. The Chagos Archipelago – which includes the atoll of Diego Garcia – has…

Hong Kong will “move with agility and steadiness” in the Year of the Horse to seize opportunities and overcome challenges, the city’s leader has said in a message to residents. The one-minute Lunar New Year video, broadcast on Monday, showed Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu dressed in a traditional red Chinese suit and admiring paintings…

Since the Iran war began late last month, it has threatened shipping across the Middle East’s two most important maritime chokepoints – the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb – through which much of Asia’s energy imports and manufactured exports flow. For Gulf states and their major trading partners in Asia, the conflict is…

Hong Kong can help Asia fill a staggering climate-financing gap by helping to tap a global pool of more than US$200 trillion to fund sustainable-infrastructure projects, according to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). There was a glaring disconnect between the vast amount of available capital and the low deployment of funds for climate action…

The Hong Kong government will set up a collaborative mechanism with the legislature to craft the city’s first five-year plan to align with national development, according to Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, who said the blueprint will be ready by the end of this year. Lee also stressed on Tuesday that the platform would reflect…