President Xi Jinping will be guest of honour at the giant May 9 military parade in Moscow to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe. He will see soldiers from the People ...

October 29, 1929 was “Black Tuesday”, the day the New York Stock Market crashed. On June 17, 1930, U.S. President Herbert Hoover passed the Hawley-Smoot Act, imposing tariffs on 20,000 ...

In 19th century Hong Kong, families abandoned thousands of girls whom they could not or would not bring up. They faced death, disease, a life of domestic service or prostitution. But the Sisters ...

The Western world, including half of the population in the United States, are in a state of shock and disbelief at President Donald Trump, who took office just two months ago. He is signing ...

“After I surrendered to the Ukrainians, the Russians dropped on us an explosive with gas. I started to breathe it and thought I was going to die. I lost consciousness. Then a Ukrainian soldier ...

Founded in 1962, The Australian Ballet is a major international ballet company and has 79 dancers in total. It has toured China eight times already, the last tour was in 2015, but it still has not ...

Christopher Wood, head of global equity strategy at Jefferies, says China can be a cyclical bull market comeback, but the key is for consumer mindsets to change from pathologically cautious to ...

On March 3, less than six weeks after taking office, a beaming Donald Trump stood in the White House and announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) would invest US$100 ...

“I export 80 per cent of my output to the United States. What am I going to do?” Liang Lin manages a shoe factory in Foshan. “I cannot afford to pay my workers, so I have let most of them go ...