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Zhao Ziyang, who sympathised with the student-led Tiananmen democracy movement three decades ago, was finally laid to rest on the outskirts of Beijing on Friday – 14 years after his death.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam held a Facebook Live event on October 17 fielding questions from netizens. Despite her recent policy address, which focused heavily on measures to solve the city’s housing crisis, many of the comments were about concerns over police use of force and the five demands of the anti-g…
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s annual policy address was delivered via video on October 16, 2019, after opposition lawmakers twice disrupted her attempts to deliver the speech live inside the Legislative Council chamber.
“A grand bargain” on trade between the United States and China is unlikely to be achieved in “days, weeks or months”, said Clete Willems, partner at law firm Akin Gump. Willems was,until recently, deputy director of the National Economic Council, US President Donald Trump’s economic policy forum. Instead, Willems ba…
A female student who claims to have been sexually assaulted by Hong Kong Police officers, confronted a top university official during a panel discussion about the institution’s support for students arrested during protests in the city.
Junzi Kitchen, a fast-casual Chinese restaurant, has grown from its first storefront at Yale University to three stores in Manhattan, New York since 2015. Lucas Sin, the chef of Junzi, which means integrity, talks about how Chinese food deserves a role in the evolution of an ethnic cuisine renaissance in New York.
Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria days after the Trump administration announced it would pull US troops away from the area. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the aim was to eliminate what he called a ‘terror corridor’ on Turkey’s southern border. Turkey had b…
Protesters vandalised businesses and railway stations on October 2, 2019, to express their outrage over the shooting of a school pupil during violent clashes a day earlier.
Secondary school student protester Tsang Chi-kin was shot by a police officer during clashes in Hong Kong’s Tsuen Wan district as weeks of violence continued in the city on October 1, 2019.
More than 500 people were arrested after clashes between student protesters and riot police in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on September 30, 2019. The clashes were part of nationwide protests which have been under way since September 23.
This video shows the lead up and aftermath of the incident in Tsuen Wan where a police officer shot a student protester.
On September 28, 2014, pro-democracy activists and student leaders in Hong Kong started what would become a 79-day occupation of major roads in the city to demand universal suffrage in elections for the city’s chief executive.
A 21-year-old Indonesian student is one of two people who reportedly have been killed during ongoing protests in Indonesia.
Student union of the Chinese University of Hong Kong organised martial arts training sessions to help students and others learn how to make “shields” and get equipped for the ongoing protests.
Professor Janice Lee from the Asian School of the Environment is saying one way Indonesia could tackle its persistent forest fires is to develop better policies to help sustain land use.
A group of pupils from a Hong Kong high school have created a music video that is being described as the first student-led production of Glory to Hong Kong, a song composed by an internet user in August 2019 that has since become the anthem for ongoing anti-government protests in the city.
Dozens of children in Riau province, Indonesia, have been hospitalised with severe breathing problems caused by the haze that has hung over the region for weeks. Riau is one of the most affected areas in Indonesia. Hundreds of schools have been closed because of the toxic smog.
The line between robot and human is set to become increasingly blurred, according to Osaka University’s Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro. He works at a secretive research institute in Japan and predicts a future where robots not only look like humans but are self-conscious.
A student inventor in rural India is hoping to get an all-clear to fly a helicopter he assembled using old motorcycle parts and junk.
Toilet rolls printed with a long list of English words, beside their corresponding Chinese translations, were sold at Tsinghua University’s art museum in Beijing.
A teacher at a school in southern China’s Guizhou province was filmed removing make-up from the faces of a number of students at the school’s gate.
Thousands of Hong Kong school pupils and alumni formed human chains on the morning of September 9, 2019, as part of ongoing protests to pressure the government to meet their demands.
As an overseas Chinese, Wang Gungwu has dedicated his life’s work on helping the western world better understand China and Asia. In an interview with This Week in Asia on June 1, 2019, Wang shared his life memories and his views on Hong Kong’s future
More than 100 people took part in a protest outside a Hong Kong secondary school on September 4, 2019, amid concerns that students taking part in an anti-government class boycott class could be punished. The protesters vandalised facilities outside the Chinese Foundation Secondary School (CFFS) in northeastern Hong …
On the front line of increasingly violent Hong Kong protest clashes are mostly young people, many of them students or fresh out of school. Without clear leadership in the movement, these leaderless demonstrators are figuring out their own ways to make their voices heard.
Thousands of students across Hong Kong cut classes on the first day of the new school term to participate in anti-government rallies.
Thousands of secondary school pupils across Hong Kong joined anti-government protests on the first day of school on September 2, 2019.
American warehouse retailer Costco opened its first physical store in China on August 27. Low prices and a lenient return policy drew crowds of aggressive shoppers to the Shanghai store, which was forced to close early on its opening day amid chaotic scenes.
Twenty four students from vocational education institutes in Hong Kong recently travelled to Russia to take part in the WorldSkills competition.
Hundreds of Hong Kong secondary school pupils gathered at Edinburgh Place, Central, to voice their demands before the start of another academic year. They are calling for a student strike on the first day of school on September 2.
Researchers in Singapore have invented clothes that can boost connectivity and save battery life on wireless devices such as headphones and smart watches. The team from the National University of Singapore worked on the technology for over a year.
Thousands attended an assembly on Friday (August 16) with the aim of “Stand with Hong Kong. Power to the people.” The event is co-organised by 11 student unions and netizens from LIHKG, a local Reddit-like forum.
With GCSE students having received their exam results, many will be considering their options for further study, including vocational qualifications such as BTecs.
Wang Weitian, a 17-year-old student in central China’s Hunan province, is a street workout enthusiast. After more than two years of practise, he has learnt to “escape gravity” as he works out on the bars. His antics have attracted more than 12 million likes online.
A Filipino teacher broke into tears when his students presented him with a new pair of leather shoes.
Hundreds rallied at Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui and aimed laser beams at the Hong Kong Space Museum to demand the release of a student arrested for having laser pointers.
Tensions ran high in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po district for a second consecutive night on August 6, 2019, when hundreds of people gathered outside the local police station after 9pm to demand the release of a student leader.
China claims that most detainees have left controversial re-education camps in the nation’s western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Beijing expressed support for Carrie Lam’s government and Hong Kong police in a press conference held by its top policy body on Hong Kong. Yang Guang, spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said the central government will continue to resolutely support the Lam administration. He also praised the city…
Minneapolis police released files on their investigation into the alleged rape of a student by Chinese tech tycoon Richard Liu. Liu, the 46-year-old CEO of China’s e-commerce giant JD.com, was arrested in August last year. He was accused of raping Liu Jingyao, a 21-year-old Chinese undergraduate at the University of…
Pro-Hong Kong and pro-Beijing students have clashed during a protest in Brisbane, Australia against Hong Kong’s controversial extradition law on July 24. The protest at the University of Queensland, organised by Hong Kong international students, turned violent when scuffles broke out between opposing groups.
Samer Al Moubayed, the CEO and co-founder of Furhat Robotics, a Swedish start-up developing robotic applications, says there could be hundreds of uses for human-like service robots, from job interviews to vocational training to customer servicing worth billions of dollars in the next two decades. He envisioned that …
A boy who fell asleep in his kindergarten class had a very sudden awakening, after his teacher enlisted his classmates to prank him.
High school students received their results for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) on July 10, 2019. Twelve of the highest performers in Hong Kong’s main university entrance exams come from nine elite schools.
A primary-school art teacher’s chalk landscapes have wowed millions online. Each masterpiece takes the teacher, from northern China’s Shanxi province, about two weeks to complete.
US student Brendt Christensen was found guilty on June 24 of kidnapping and killing Zhang Yingying, a Chinese scholar studying at the University of Illinois. The 12-member jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting Christensen, a former PhD student. The same jury will determine if Christensen will be…
While many organisations and world leaders have been pushing for better STEM education for the next generation, one 10-year-old girl from Hong Kong is teaching herself and others on her YouTube channel. Using her online name, Purple Oranji introduces other kids to the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and…
A teenage boy from a single-parent family thanks his mother on his knees outside an examination hall in eastern China’s Anhui province, after completing “gaokao”, a nation-wide university entrance exam.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong over the past two weeks to protest against a controversial extradition bill. Many of them were teenagers and university students. Some said the protests were not just about the bill itself, but also the autonomy and freedom of their home -- Hong …
A Cambodian boy who shot to internet fame after a tourist posted video showing him speaking a dozen languages has gone from hawking souvenirs on the street to getting a formal education in a Chinese classroom.
