Chinese tourists ousted over attire, Singapore exec’s 19kg loss: 7 highlights

Beijing has slammed a Panamanian Supreme Court ruling that nullified Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings’ right to operate two major ports at the country’s canal as “legally unfounded”, warning the Central American nation that it could pay a heavy political and economic price. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said in a commentary on…

Thousands of residents fled their homes along the Pacific seaboard of the Philippines on Saturday as Tropical Storm Fengshen made landfall, triggering warnings of coastal flooding. The storm barrelled into the municipality of Gubat at the southeastern tip of the main island of Luzon late afternoon, with gusts of up to 80km (50 miles) an…

The US Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling striking down President Donald Trump’s tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, is a landmark decision not just for American constitutional law, importers and citizens, but for every trading partner that spent the past year negotiating under the weight of those duties. For Southeast Asian…

There has been a recent rush of countries to formally recognize the state of Palestine. Affirming Palestinian sovereignty marks a historic diplomatic milestone, yet the exact layout of its territory, a central requirement under international law, remains fiercely contested from every hilltop in the West Bank to the ruins of Gaza. To grasp what this…

As armedfederal agentsroam the streets of American cities and amidthreatsto declare the Insurrection Act and use military force to quellprotestsin Minneapolis, PresidentDonald Trumpsaid once again that the next elections should be canceled because he expects his party to lose. “It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,”…