China has denied requests for two US Navy ships to visit Hong Kong, the Pacific Fleet said on Tuesday, after the two countries engaged in a war of words over the city’s pro-democracy protests. Beijing today also accused some Washington politicians of being the ‘black hand’ behind the city’s violent criminals whom the Communist Party said were no different to ‘terrorists’. U.S.... 

Tens of thousands of people once again took to the streets of Hong Kong to protest an unpopular extradition bill. A Chinese government office was targeted in the rallies, which ended in clashes with police. About 400,000 people turned out for yet another protest in Hong Kong, according to the organizers’ estimates, while police put the number at 138,000. The people continue to voice their anger... 

Numerous Deutsche Bank employees around the globe were told to leave on Monday, with the German lender eliminating entire teams in Asia and Australia as part of its massive plan to “restart” some business operations. Cuts began on Monday morning in Sydney, Hong Kong and other locations in the Asia-Pacific region. In Asia alone, Deutsche Bank will close all operations, though the majority of the... 

Over 1 million Hong-kongers (according to the organizers; 240K according to the police), or one in seven, flooded Hong Kong’s streets on Sunday to oppose a proposed extradition bill that would allow Beijing to take people from Hong Kong to stand trial in mainland China. According to the SCMP, it was the most unified protest march in the city in more than a decade, with some calling it the ultimate... 

Police in Tokyo have arrested two Israeli Jews living in Japan for attempting to smuggle—by airmail—485 pounds (220 kilograms) of gold bars—the largest ever gold smuggling operation ever uncovered in that country. A report in the English-language Mainchi newspaper said the two Jews—named as Reuben Rosen, 58, an executive at a precious metals importer, and David Cohen, 55, were also held for... 

In yet another example of the hoax that is “modern art,” cleaners at the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel, where the “Harbour Art fair 2018” is being held, threw away one of the exhibits because they genuinely though it was trash. The exhibit, titled “Unhappy Meal” (a play on the McDonald’s “Happy Meal” menu) was a cardboard box with a “unhappy” emoji face, all in McDonald’s colors. According... 

A new city is being built on barren lands in India’s western state of Gujarat to give foreign investors easy access to its booming economy. Called Gujarat International Finance-Tec City, or GIFT City, it is planned to be on a par with global financial hubs. “Except for the fact that we are not sitting in Singapore and GIFT City is not Singapore, I think from a business perspective we have everything... 

Upon discovering that swarms of mush-like jellyfish are apparently a threat to its new aircraft carrier, The Liaoning, Beijing quickly moved to develop applicable methods on how to deal with the problem. One of the techniques, called a “jellyfish shredder” has lately been put to the test, according to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. The new counter-jellyfish mechanism consists... 

RealDoll is about to become primitive old news soon as Sophia the humanoid android with AI by Hanson Robotics has now expressed her desire to become a wife and even have a career… Now that’s interesting, beside of fulfilling your sexual fantasizes if this robot is able to go to work, you can just buy like 3-4 of these robots and not only you will be in paradise for having multiple women... 

Men who dream of becoming a father may want to make sure they’re living in a place with good air quality. A new study has found a link between air pollution and abnormal sperm, potentially leading to infertility. The research, led by scientists from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, studied the sperm of 6,475 male participants in Taiwan. All of the volunteers were between the ages of 15 and... 

Saudi Arabia has become the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The lucky machine is Sophia the Humanoid, who was designed to look like Audrey Hepburn. News of Sophia’s citizenship was announced at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. This comes shortly after Sophia’s UN speech which we written about yesterday. “I am very honored and proud for... 

Scientists from China, where paper was first invented about 2,000 years ago, say they have developed a new form of the material that is fire and water-resistant. A research team at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics led by Professor Zhu Yingjie developed the world’s first kind of paper that can resist both water and fire, even if its surface is scratched or physically damaged. The scientists added... 

Trading was suspended on Chinese markets after stocks tumbled 7 percent in the first trading of the year, triggering the new “circuit breaker” system limiting volatility, which was introduced in December. The fall from Asia led to a slump in European stocks as well. The 15-minute suspension happened about 90 minutes before market’s regular closure and followed a brief 15-minute halt early in... 

World stock markets plummeted on Monday as the Shanghai composite closed down 8.5%, marking the biggest slide in Chinese stocks since 2007. The brutal sell-off comes despite Beijing’s measures to arrest the decline. “This is a real disaster and it seems nothing can stop it,” Chen Gang, Shanghai-based chief investment officer at Heqitongyi Asset Management Co., told Bloomberg. “If we don’t... 

Chinese stock indexes rebounded Thursday. The Shanghai Composite added about 6 percent after the securities regulator made a bold move and stopped shareholders with more than a five percent stake in a listed company selling their stocks for six months. The Shanghai Composite Index closed 5.8 percent higher on Thursday and in Hong Kong the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index saw its biggest rise since...