HONG KONG, Sept 8 - \"For the first time in history, we, the people of Hong Kong, will be master of our own destiny.\" On July 1, 1997, Tung Chee-hwa delivered his first speech as chief executive of the territory, following its handover from the United Kingdom to China.
No confidence motion withdrawn, but experts say volatility could undermine PM Wale’s pivot to Canberra, Washington.
Tung was a long-time friend of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew.
Eight people, including five journalists, set out on a speedboat to cover the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau.
LONDON, Sept 8 - Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has written to British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, asking him to reopen talks over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a spokesperson said on Tuesday in a statement.
BEIJING, Sept 8 - Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a positive tone in a phone call with Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Tuesday, saying that Beijing and London share greater common interests than differences.
She was found dead in August in a river in the Tenjin district of Fukuoka.
Their Sept 8 call was the first publicly known conversation between the two leaders.
Sept 8 - South Korea has sent an inspection team to assess the security situation in the Strait of Hormuz but no decision has been taken on sending troops, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.
South Korea said it had sent a fact-finding team to assess the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, but stressed that no decision had been made about potential troop deployment to the strategic waterway.
GENEVA, Sept 8 - Cluster munitions killed or wounded at least 1,063 people in 2025 — most of them in Ukraine — in the third-highest annual toll on record, according to a report released ahead of a conference reviewing a treaty banning the weapons.
The new mascot will be either a squirrel, a rabbit and an orange creature carrying a crossbody bag with a mole on it.
Rescue work continued in Nepal for a 14th day after the glacial and mountain collapse near the China-Nepal border swept away roads, bridges and homes.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 - A \"flying doctor service\" helicopter carrying five people, including medical staff, crashed in Malaysia on Tuesday near an airport on Borneo island, authorities said.
Experts remain cautious, however, about the precise role played by the heatwave.
MOSCOW, Sept 8 - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia will not consider Japan's request to dismantle a new World War Two memorial in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk.
Around 40 suspects accused of call centre scams have been arrested in Thailand since 2015.
The retimed flights affect the Jakarta and Kertajati routes.
Four Malaysian health ministry personnel and one pilot were on board the helicopter.
BEIJING, Sept 8 - A Chinese court on Tuesday handed Jin Xiangjun, former governor of the coal-producing province of Shanxi, a death sentence with a two-year reprieve over corruption, and found that he illegally accepted over 148 million yuan ($22.05 million).
At 25, Michael Walters had already endured unsuccessful lymphoma treatments in New Zealand. A Melbourne hospital quoted up to US$600,000 for CAR-T therapy. He paid less than half that in Shanghai and learned on August 18 that his cancer was in complete remission. CAR-T, or
Uzbekistan has confirmed that it operates Chinese J-10CE fighter jets — turning months of speculation into a significant development for Central Asia’s defense market. The purchase does more than modernize Tashkent’s aging combat fleet. It marks China’s entry into one of the
There have been accounts of friction between Israelis visiting Thailand and local communities.
Singapore's prime minister Lawrence Wong will see his annual pay rise to 3.6 million Singapore dollars ($2.8m; £2.1m).
Two Myanmars appeared on the world stage this month. In Geneva, the United Nations’ human rights chief, its Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, and the European Union told the Human Rights Council of a country whose civilians are bombed, tortured, conscripted and
The landslides followed days of torrential rains brought by Typhoon Saudel.
Dewi Sukarno is former Indonesian president Sukarno's widow.
At least 11 hydropower projects were engulfed when a glacier collapsed into a river on the Nepal-China border on Aug 26, burying the entrances to the tunnels of these projects under debris and mud and cutting off those trapped inside.
The unrest caused the deaths of 76 people and the downfall of the administration of K.P. Sharma Oli.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 - Malaysia's data centres are consuming more power as temperatures rise, leaving a 9 gigawatt gas-fired capacity gap for the government to fill by 2032, officials said on Tuesday.
Flights are gradually resuming after Anak Krakatau’s volcanic ash disrupted air travel across Indonesia.
The “ber months” – September, October, November, December – kick off a months-long countdown to the holiday.
The boxing legend was appointed head of the government’s anti-poverty agency.
MANILA, Sept 8 - Boxing great Manny Pacquiao spent decades throwing punches in the boxing ring. From Tuesday, the Filipino sports icon will direct his fight at a more enduring opponent: poverty.
The ongoing state palace crisis has ramifications for Malaysia’s constitutional monarchy.
The 35th Congress of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) — one of Indonesia’s largest and most influential mass Muslim organizations — has drawn to a consequential close. KH Abdul Hakim Mahfudz, affectionately known as Gus Kikin, was appointed Executive Council (PBNU) chairman for the
DAKAR, Sept 8 - Democratic Republic of Congo plans to tighten control over geological data that guides billions of dollars in mining exploration, potentially extending state influence over the development of future mineral discoveries.
The month-long closure is a potentially painful step in the build-up to the peak of tourism season.
Guo Degang “distorted and altered” the song Playing My Beloved Pipa, resulting in a “serious adverse social impact”, Wuhan authorities say.
Foreign influence operations in the Philippines have drawn increasing concern, ranging from soft power diplomacy to covert manipulation of institutions. Much of the alarm focuses on China, with analysts pointing to specific areas of penetration. Media manipulation is a
Wildfires ravaging Indonesian Borneo are choking communities as far away as Malaysia.
NEW DELHI, Sept 8 - India is witnessing an unprecedented food safety crackdown, with regulators forcing many local eateries and branded restaurants to suspend operations, while a push for front-of-pack warning labels has rattled the country's more than $100 billion packaged
A diplomat friend recently told me a small story that says more about Indonesian foreign policy than most position papers. President Prabowo Subianto was already traveling abroad when he decided, mid-trip, to add a stop in a neighboring country. The host government got short
The capital region of Metro Manila logged the highest jobless rate of 8.2 per cent.
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