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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Hong Kong Ballet premiered last weekend a two-act ballet “Frida” by the Belgian-Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. Her last creation for the company in 2023 - “Coco Chanel ...

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 ...

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 ...