Over the past decade, the amount of waste produced by Hong Kong residents has remained high. According to government data, the per capita municipal solid waste disposal rate per day in Hong Kong ...

In 2018, China paid 255 million pounds to buy the former Royal Mint in London with the aim of turning it into the largest embassy in Europe. Fierce objections from the local government, NGOs and ...

What makes or breaks a world-class city? Some would posit the answer rests with infrastructure – the more modern and advanced the hardware, the more developed the software. Others would advocate ...

“We have brands here for every taste and requirement,” said Wang Limei at a grocery store in a popular tourist town. “The cheapest cost 13 yuan a packet, the workers buy those. The most ...

Liang Sicheng ( 梁思成) was the Father of Architecture in China. During the 1930s and 1940s, he and his wife travelled to more than 200 counties in the interior and found 2,738 ancient buildings.

In 2024, China posted a trade surplus of US$990 billion. It was both a record for China and also a record in world history, exceeding the surpluses of the U.S., Japan and Germany in comparative terms.

A few weeks back, I watched one of the most widely anticipated releases of 2024 – Conclave, a riveting political thriller directed by Edward Berger. Without giving too much away, I would settle ...

I had the pleasure of perusing ‘Revolusi’ – an exceptional work by David Van Reybrouck – over the Christmas and New Year holidays. The book proved to be a riveting tour de force, taking ...

As North Korean casualties in Russia mount, so does the alarm of China. It increasingly fears the uncontrollable behaviour of a Kim Jong-un emboldened by Russian missile and nuclear technology and ...

There are unpopular presidents, popular presidents, and great presidents. Jimmy Carter, who died last Sunday December 29 at the age of 100, was an unpopular one-term American president. A small ...