Wealthy Chinese millionaires, in what is likely a strategy to protect their assets in a “safe haven”, are buying up luxury apartments in Singapore worth millions of Singapore dollars. Sales have hit an 11-year high, according to the Singapore Straits Times and property consultants OrangeTee & Tie.
A remix of Sia's hit "Chandelier" has become a popular protest song in Hong Kong
The Soviet-allied East German authorities built the Berlin Wall from August 1961 to stop a flood of defections to the democratic West through the city
UBS hold out for a trade deal between the U.S. and China.
One more expert adds his voice to many others predicting a U.S. recession by 2020 on account of Trump's trade war.
The meeting between Pompeo and Lavrov will come after the US and Russia scrapped their 1987 INF disarmament treaty that limited the use of nuclear and conventional medium-range weapons
Groups of masked protesters vandalised ticket machines in Sha Tin's subway
Hong Kong's international airport has become a frequent target for a protest movement pushing for greater democratic rights and police accountability
The Yangon-Dala bridge construction site in Dala township
View earlier this month of a damaged area of the Amazon rainforest after illegal mining took place in southeastern Peru where the Amahuaca indigenous people say they are besieged by gold miners and loggers
US President Donald Trump proclaims friendship with China's President Xi Jinping but their trade war is giving the world jitters
Riot police and protesters in Hong Kong fought brief skirmishes near the Chinese border on Saturday, the latest clashes during huge pro-democracy protests that have battered the financial hub for more than three months.Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at small groups of hardcore activists who had built barricades in the outlying town of Tuen Mun, some of them lobbing bricks and at least one Molotov cocktail.
Thousands of volunteers wielding nets and bin bags scoured coasts, parks and riverbanks across the globe Saturday, in a litter-picking drive highlighting the vast quantity of trash dumped worldwide, a day after mass international climate protests.Campaigners took part in World Cleanup Day from Manila to the Mediterranean, as hundreds of thousands of people across the world take part in demonstrations and activities calling for urgent action on the environment.
As Trump and Modi meet on Sunday for the "Howdy Modi!" rally in Texas, the two leaders may be eyeing a trade deal to end a tariff battle.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is now part of US President Donald Trump's circle of conservative allies
Climate activist protest near the UN headquarters on August 30 in New York
US stocks tumbled amid reports a Chinese delegation canceled a planned trip to a Montana farm, but USTR said trade talks in Washington continue
Market liquidity tends to spike when options and futures on indexes and stocks expire, spurring trading volume as large derivative positions roll over.
Police fired tear gas at protestors demonstrating near the Hong Kong government headquarters on August 31, 2019
The 140 million-euro mission will study the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, ecosystem and natural processes
Is Night Mode on the iPhone 11 Pro really that good? A professional travel photographer believes it to be so.
James Bullard, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, voted for a bigger interest rate on September 18 cut to "provide insurance" against a slowing economy