HONG KONG: E-commerce giant Alibaba said Tuesday it will seek a primary listing in Hong Kong, potentially giving access to China’s vast pool of investors, as mainland officials indicate a long-running crackdown on the tech sector could be coming to an end. The move also comes as Chinese tech companies
TOKYO: Local authorities in Japan’s Yamaguchi city said Monday they are turning to tranquiliser guns to confront marauding monkeys that have injured 42 people in recent weeks. Japanese macaques are seen commonly across large parts of the country, and are a pest in some areas, eating crops and even entering
NEW DELHI: Droupadi Murmu was sworn in as India’s president on Monday, making her the first person from one of the country’s marginalised tribal communities to serve as head of state. The former school teacher and state governor was elected to the largely ceremonial position last week with 64 per
EUGENE, United States: Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis wrapped up the World Athletics Championships in Eugene in stunning fashion on Sunday, setting a new world record in the pole vault with the final act of the 10-day track and field bonanza. The gripping finale could not have been any better scripted for
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Seventeen suspected migrants from Haiti died in a boat accident off the coast of the Bahamas early on Sunday, officials from the two countries said. Human smugglers are known to use the Bahamas, a group of islands near the coast of the US state of Florida, as a jumping-off
MIAMI: A young man who gunned down 17 people at his former high school in Parkland, Florida goes on trial Monday, with jurors set to hand down either the death penalty or a life sentence. Nikolas Cruz took an AR-15 assault rifle into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Tuesday sued Elon Musk for breaching the $44 billion contract he signed to buy the tech firm, calling his exit strategy “a model of hypocrisy,” court documents showed. The suit filed in the US state of Delaware urges the court to order the billionaire to complete
KASHIHARA (Japan): Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe died in hospital on Friday, local media reported, hours after being shot at a political campaign event in an attack condemned as “absolutely unforgivable”. Citing a senior member of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, national broadcaster NHK said “former prime minister Abe died
SINGAPORE: Singapore hanged two drug traffickers today in what campaigners condemned as a shameful and inhuman punishment, taking to four the number of executions in the city-state since March. The latest executions come after the hanging of a mentally disabled man in April sparked widespread international outrage, with the European
SEOUL: South Korean police are investigating the Central African Republic’s sports minister over unspecified fraud allegations, authorities in Seoul said Thursday. Aristide Briand Reboas had travelled to the country at the invitation of the International Youth Fellowship, a Christian organisation, according to South Korea’s foreign ministry. He was questioned over
