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Americans say they feel bad about the 130 billion pounds (60 billion kg) of food that the nation wastes every year. But not badly enough to...

The decision by bodies like the Hong Kong chapter of Amnesty International to criticise the convictions of Occupy activists casts groundles...

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Whatever the results of the Permanent Arbitral Court deliberations on the Philippine suit against China, which would be known after this col...

I certainly hope we won’t, or President Duterte’s term will see an economic downturn, a year or so after what this overexcited Solicitor G...

The US Justice Department is seeking to seize more than US$1 billion in assets including real estate, art and proceeds from the "Wolf ...

Putting Chinese nationalism in historical context.

The US and British governments fought bitterly over control of Iraq’s oil following the toppling of Saddam Hussein, the UK Chilcot report i...

Zhu Jianrong, a professor at Toyo Gakuen University, said that he had found several pieces of evidence – including a telegram and newspaper...

China views the Arbitral Tribunal as wrongly conceived, lacking jurisdiction to rule on territorial matters. But it remains open to negotia...

By February 2016, the U.S. “discovery” of a surface to air missile (SAM) capability on one of the Paracel Islands has been fielded as a new...

If the US were backed by international treaties rather than its maritime might, it might have a stronger case. Now it’s just a power play b...

In ignoring an upcoming verdict on the South China Sea, Beijing is following well-established precedent by great powers.

A British inquiry into the Iraq war strongly criticised former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his government on Wednesday, saying they had l...

Former British prime minister Tony Blair took his country into a badly planned, woefully executed and legally questionable war in Iraq in 2...

The reaction to the UK's vote to leave the European Union has been dramatic. Sterling has fallen to levels not seen since 1985, David C...

A decade ago, there were construction cranes everywhere in downtown Shanghai, and many market analysts were sounding alarms about overbuild...

China will launch the world’s first quantum satellite next month to demonstrate a series of advanced technologies such as hacker-proof comm...

The use of mobile phones at petrol stations will cause a fire, right? Wrong, say experts. It's just an urban legend, circulated via e-m...

US military and intelligence agencies have killed as many as 116 civilians in air strikes on militants since Obama took office, the White H...