An EgyptAir plane missing with 66 people on board probably crashed into the sea, officials from the airline and the Egyptian civil aviation said today.
In mid-March, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), part of the sister company to The Economist magazine, published its latest list of risks facing the global economy.
The new chairman-designate at Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, Yi Huiman, looks set to deepen ICBC's push into digital banking as well as strengthen its “for-profit” focus, in a clear distinction from the “national duty” expected of state-owned banks, say analysts who have followed Yi's career and leadership changes at the world’s largest bank.
Philippine anti-poaching patrols have detained two Chinese and three Vietnamese fishing vessels along with more than three dozen crew members in the extreme north of the country, officials said Tuesday.
A seismic shift from petrol and diesel vehicles to electric ones, especially in China, could mean the world would enter an era of oil surplus in as early as a decade, says French bank BNP Paribas.
The family of Lei Yang, a Beijing-based environmental scientist who died while in police custody, has filed a request to open an official investigation into the officers who handled the case.
South Korea’s defence ministry said Tuesday it was pushing to scrap nearly all existing exemptions to mandatory military service, citing a shortfall in the number of conscripts.
Scientists studying the earthquake that struck southern Japan in April have identified a number of seismological factors that made the tremor so destructive – and warn that should the same factors combine beneath a major city it could bring down a skyscraper.
In Cambodia, riverbeds are dry and cracked and the wind feels like a gust from an oven. An extreme heatwave has followed a poor rainy season drying wells, killing cattle and causing water shortages.
They like fast fashion from Zara and H&M. They work out to be seen as much as to exercise. They drink cappuccinos to show how cosmopolitan they are. Some have had their eyelids done to make them look more western.
Judicial authorities in Iran have launched a crackdown on modelling, arresting at least eight people, mostly women, for activities deemed “un-Islamic”.
Hong Kong’s graft-buster has warned of increasing risks of malpractice and corruption in the city’s retail sector amid intensified competition in the current economic downturn.
While some youngsters in their 20s may struggle to make ends meet, there are also some top sales agents of a similar age that can earn million-dollar commissions by selling insurance policies to mainlanders.
Demonstrations in Jiangsu and Hubei provinces over university admission quotas have exposed deep-rooted challenges in reforming the centralised education system, researchers say.
A man from eastern China has been arrested for allegedly killing hundreds of dogs with a crossbow and poison darts, according to a news website report.
The problem of some kindergartens charging excessively high application fees has prompted an official investigation by the Ombudsman after the Education Bureau gave around 40 schools the green light for such charges last year.
Hongkonger Tommy Lam Wai-yin, 45, went missing along with three others after they set off for the Tip of Borneo on May 2.
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