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Hong Kong’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.8 per cent over the past three months, with authorities expecting that stronger economic growth and local consumption will continue to support the labour market. Preliminary data released by the Census and Statistics Department on Tuesday showed that movements in the unemployment rate in different industry sectors varied for the October to December period, but the magnitudes were generally small. The underemployment rate rose slightly by 0.1...

Neither the Kremlin nor the US president has confirmed whether Putin has accepted the offer.

For the Korean American community, the first year of US President Donald Trump’s return to power has been defined by a sense of “pure fear”. According to Kim Dong-seok, head of the non-profit Korean American Grassroots Conference (KAGC), the institutional tolerance that once protected immigrants has vanished, replaced by a political environment that views non-citizens with a presumption of criminality. “Even though the US government says it distinguishes between lawful and unlawful immigrants,...

Former top Chinese intelligence official Gao Yichen has been expelled from the Communist Party for corruption after being accused of receiving bribes and interfering with judicial matters. Gao, 75, former vice-minister of the Ministry of State Security, was found to have “seriously violated party discipline”, according to an official announcement by top anti-corruption watchdog Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on Tuesday. He also served as deputy director of the party’s...

A tourist helicopter that went missing near an active volcano in Mount Aso's Nakadake crater, in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture, is believed to have been found

From Greenland to Venezuela, Iran to Ukraine, Donald Trump has shaken the world and reshaped global alliances to shore up a new world order under three kings, explains word affairs editor Sam Kiley

Official figures show that the pace of private sector wage growth slowed to the lowest rate in five years.

Police in South Korea are hunting a person claiming to be a commercial pilot who threatened to carry out a “suicide flight” over Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport, voicing resentment over the merger between the country’s two largest airlines. The alarming message – posted on an anonymous online forum popular with office workers – also mentioned a stabbing, prompting authorities to increase security around the airport and verify the poster’s identity, police and aviation officials said on...

Official figures show that the pace of private sector wage growth slowed to the lowest rate in five years.

Por IAIN SULLIVAN y JOSEPH WILSON ADAMUZ, España (AP) — España despertó el martes con las banderas a media asta en el primero de tres días de luto por las víctimas del mortal accidente de tren en el sur del país, mientras los equipos de emergencia continuaban sacando cuerpos de los restos. El número oficial […]

The criticism comes just one day after the UK prime minister called for calm between the US and Nato allies

Transatlantic relations aren't broken, though they are damaged. And if Europeans want to try to cut through with Trump, they'll have to stick together, writes Europe Editor Katya Adler