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Sector hardest-hit by property curbs; some sellers leasing out units instead

The days of rapid growth in China’s real estate sector are over, but the government’s urbanisation drive will continue to drive demand for t...

Roads are the new runways for a tribe of chic cyclists, who have elevated the mode of transportation into a hipster lifestyle.

Ordering an unnecessary pacemaker, urging a woman to be hospitalised for a sore throat -- a doctor's allegations of corruption spotlight...

Just months before his retirement, Thai army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday took control of the country eight years after the previous mi...

The National Security Agency has never said what it was seeking when it invaded the computers of Petrobras, Brazil’s huge national oil compa...

For example, the United States spies regularly for economic advantage when the goal is to support trade talks; when the Clinton administrati...

The United States denies spying for commercial advantage, though documents released by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Sno...

Singapore billionaire Peter Lim, the new owner of Valencia, has realised a long-held dream by buying a top European football club -- and wil...

Briton Anton Casey, who fled to Australia in January after being slammed for denigrating public transport commuters, has made headlines agai...

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Hundreds of Singaporeans rallied Thursday to denounce the government's immigration and labour policies amid a fresh wave of anti-foreign...

China has released previously confidential Japanese wartime documents, including some about comfort women forced to serve in military brothe...

Forcing women into sex slavery and setting up “comfort stations” were official actions of the invading Japanese army during World War Two in...

China on Saturday published more than 110,000 confidential Japanese documents from wartime to expose Japan's history of invasion.

   

More than five years after the financial crisis, the average American is still wary of the stock market, according to a survey released Mond...

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A classified U.S. Senate report found that the CIA's legal justification for the use of harsh interrogation techniques that critics say ...