Capture of drug lord Naw Kham shows China’s clout in region

The hunt for Naw Kham highlights how China’s influence reaches far beyond its borders and into the nations that make up the Golden Triangle

Marine Corps Sgt Goes Ballistic Over a Civilian Driver

Long-standing myth of double standards haunts multinationals

Onus is on big foreign firms to work together to clear up misconceptions among mainlanders about compromises in production-line quality

No stamp duty relief for singles switching homes

A single person who buys a home to live in will be hit with the additional buyer’s stamp duty (ABSD) if he does not dispose of his existing residence first.

Officials go underground to defeat moves to curb their lavish feasting

Officials dodge Xi Jinping's curbs on luxury by turning canteens into five-star restaurants and meeting businessmen away from public gaze

Curbs on 2nd home purchases in Beijing

Single-person households cannot buy second home, minimum down payment raised for buyers

Chinese visitors to Paris hit by mass muggings

France vows to find the perpetrators; attacks may affect tourist numbers

Big cities announce capital gains tax on second-hand properties

Beijing, Chongqing and Shanghai will levy a 20 per cent capital-gains tax on second-hand property transactions, officials in the three cities said yesterday.

Outrage at photo of Danish tourists urinating on Shanghai highway

Chinese internet users expressed their anger after six Danish tourists were witnessed urinating in the middle of a busy overpass in Shanghai.

Singapore's old order ready for fall, says candidate Tan Jee Say

Opposition candidate says ruling People's Action Party may lose the 2016 elections in a backlash against influx of foreign workers

New study reveals how lack of sleep leads to weight gain

People whose slumber was limited to five hours ate far more than those allowed nine hours in bed, gaining an average of about 1kg in a week

US hasn't learnt lesson on danger of groupthink

Ten years ago, America invaded Iraq; somehow, our political class decided that we should respond to a terrorist attack by making war on a regime that, however vile, had nothing to do with that attack.

LTA to install CCTVs at 30 locations to deter illegal parking

China's Cabinet

UN says US drones violate Pakistan's sovereignty

 
The head of a United Nations team investigating casualties from United States drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the attacks violate Pakistan's sovereignty.