7+ hour, 5+ min ago   (483+ words) SAPTARI: For 10 days Sanjay Sah lay in darkness inside a flooded hydropower tunnel in Nepal, drinking muddy water and losing all sense of time. When a disaster response team reached him on Sept 4, his first question showed how far the…...

9+ hour, 26+ min ago   (359+ words) Presented by the government as a "new economic engine" for around 2.5 million residents and 650,000 jobs, the project will link Hong Kong more closely with Macau and the nine mainland cities that make up the Greater Bay Area. But the vision…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (235+ words) BEIJING: The death toll from a fire that erupted on Thursday on a foreign-flagged cargo ship docked in a Chinese port has risen to 25, including five people who had been listed as missing, state media said. Ocean Melody is a…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (634+ words) China’s AI chipmakers raise prices as high-bandwidth memory shortage bites kuwaittimes.com China’s AI chipmakers raise prices as high-bandwidth memory shortage bites BEIJING: Chinese AI chipmakers including Huawei Technologies and Cambricon have sharply raised prices for current and next-generation AI…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (150+ words) Heavy casualties in fire on ship at China port Kuwait Times BEIJING: A fire on a foreign-flagged cargo ship docked in an eastern Chinese port caused "heavy casualties" on Thursday, state media said, with President Xi Jinping calling for urgent…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (244+ words) With Trump constitutionally barred from seeking a third term, Republicans interviewed by Reuters said the question is which elements of Trumpism should endure, with divisions emerging over tariffs, foreign intervention and the scope of his populist agenda. It is a…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (329+ words) BEIJING: The operator of Chinese mega-app WeChat said Wednesday it had fixed software weaknesses flagged by a US cybersecurity firm that demonstrated how AI could be used to exploit them. WeChat is ubiquitous among Chinese speakers worldwide, used by more…...

4+ day, 45+ min ago   (639+ words) kuwaittimes.com Tung Chee-hwa, first Hong Kong chief executive, dies at 89 HONG KONG: Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first leader after the city's return to Chinese rule, has died aged 89, his office said on Wednesday. He was a divisive figure, with…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (240+ words) KATHMANDU: Nepali rescuers clung to hopes of finding survivors trapped in hydropower tunnels on Wednesday, two weeks after deadly flooding triggered by a glacial mountain collapse. The Aug 26 tsunami-like surge of water, mud and debris, which began on the China-Nepal…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (241+ words) De la Espriella, a flamboyant 48-year-old millionaire, was elected in June on an anti-establishment platform, defeating a left-wing candidate in the runoff on a promise of ending peace talks with drug-running armed groups and tackling crime. Rubio is to meet…...