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1. South Korean man admits killing girlfriend over insults, storing body in fridge

   A man in South Korea has confessed in court to killing his girlfriend for belittling him, storing her body in a kimchi fridge and impersonating her in text messages to family members for nearly a year. The defendant, in his 40s and who was not named by local media, strangled his girlfriend of four years on October 20 last year at a home in Gunsan, North Jeolla province, after she berated him for...

2. Race for first private space station heats up as Nasa plans 2030 ISS retirement

   With Nasa’s International Space Station set to come out of service in 2030, American aerospace firm Vast has stepped into a frenzied race for the world’s first commercial space station. Haven-1 - a mini station scheduled for launch in May 2026 - has been designed for comfort, according to Andrew Feustel, a former Nasa astronaut now an adviser at Vast. “It has a three-year lifespan, and over that...

3. Hong Kong medical student gets 1 year probation for filming men in dorm showers

   A medical student from Hong Kong’s top university has been sentenced to a year’s probation after admitting to secretly filming two hallmates while they were showering in a dormitory bathroom. Chung Chun-yu, 23, earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of voyeurism and told Principal Magistrate David Cheung Chi-wai that his act of using a mobile phone to film other students through a hole in a...

4. Evergrande liquidators set month-end deadline for bids on property services unit

   Liquidators for the delisted China Evergrande Group have asked “selected bidders” to submit their offers by the end of the month for a property management unit they have been seeking to sell, according to a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Friday. The deadline for the offer, as well as identifying bidders for China Evergrande’s stake in Evergrande Property Services (EPS), comes as...

5. Debates welcomed at Hong Kong Legco election forums, but no smearing: Eric Chan

   Hong Kong’s No 2 official has said that debates are welcomed at government-run Legislative Council election forums while defending campaign initiatives as efforts to elect high-quality candidates without them smearing each other. Chief Secretary Eric Chan Kwok-ki also said on Friday that he hoped all employees could cast their vote on December 7 even if they had work obligations and that no one...

6. US designates 4 left-wing groups in Europe as terrorists

   The United States on Thursday designated four entities in Germany, Italy and Greece as global terrorists, accusing them of being “violent Antifa groups” as US President Donald Trump takes aim at left-wing groups. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement he had designated German-based Antifa Ost as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists”, along with three other groups in Greece and...

7. China’s rare earths breakthrough, Fujian carrier’s naval genius: 7 highlights

   We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. In world first, Chinese scientists find rare earth minerals from a living plant A Chinese-led team of scientists says it has found a...

8. China’s housing slide deepens as October prices fall at fastest pace in a year

   The decline in China’s home prices is accelerating, with new home prices in October – traditionally a peak month for sales – falling at the fastest pace in 12 months across the country despite government support, as the economy slows and job prospects remain uncertain. New home prices fell 0.5 per cent month on month on average across 70 sampled cities, according to National Bureau of Statistics...

9. Meet the Muslim trans woman whose 50-year-old secret reshapes Malaysian history

   For 50 years, Sari Kartina Abdul Karim kept a secret that would reshape Malaysian history. In 1974, at the age of 26, she became one of the region’s earliest Muslim trans women to undergo gender-affirming surgery and, in a rare moment of religious recognition, married with the approval of a Johor mufti. For five decades, she kept her story to herself. But now she says that silence has finally...

10. How Chinese scientists turned a giant kite into a flying power plant

    China has successfully deployed the world’s largest power-generating kite, capable of harnessing the potential of energy-dense, high-altitude winds to provide cheaper power than traditional surface turbines. The 5,000 square-metre (53,820 square-foot) high-altitude wind power capture kite was unfurled at a test site at Alxa Left Banner in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Wednesday,...