An explosion at a Chinese steel mill kills 4 and injures 5

Hiking, French toast and crochet are on the schedule for the 'Wheel of Fortune' fixture.

The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past decade from a mere industrial hub into a global metropolis. It is no surprise that its mixology scene has blossomed with innovation during this period. In the Futian business district stands the towering Mandarin Oriental, Shenzhen. Perched on the 79th floor, high above the city skyline and just below the helipad, is MO Bar, helmed by director of beverage Tiger Chang Ming-ru. Officially opened in early...

Multibillionaire and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has married his partner of 26 years, Diana Taylor. A spokesperson for Bloomberg wrote on X that the couple wed on Monday at their Upper East Side home in New York. They were joined by his daughters, Emma, 47, and Georgina, 43 – whom he shares with his ex-wife, Susan Brown – alongside other family members. The newlyweds later hosted around 15 guests for a celebratory lunch, People reported. “Twenty-six years after a chance seating...

Liz and Dave Murphy left successful jobs in radio for a new life in France - but there was one piece of the expat jigsaw missing when they thought about upping sticks...the grandparents.

One in four people has been prescribed a drug for which their genetics could affect treatment, according to a recent study. Genetic testing could help doctors choose safer, more effective drugs, but cost and other barriers currently limit its routine use in Canada, researchers say.

Two men moved into an elderly Toronto woman's home and began claiming to be like her sons. She quickly gave them powers of attorney and signed a will, leaving them everything. Then she died.

Some date back hundreds of years, others boast Michelin-starred restaurants and award-winning spas - but all have earned a place among the country's finest stays.

Leaving fans disappointed enough that concert organisers feel compelled to apologise and offer refunds is not how any star musician would want their performance to be remembered. Yet that was the fallout from the second of Chinese-American pianist Yuja Wang’s Hong Kong concerts with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra – part of Premiere Performances’ 20th anniversary season – after Alexander Tsfasman’s Jazz Suite for Piano and Orchestra was dropped at the last minute for “artistic reasons”. It was an...

Korean Air’s daily Boeing 777-300ER service comes to a route that United and Air Premia already fly The post Korean Air Returning to Newark With a Daily Nonstop From Seoul in May 2027 appeared first on Business Traveller.

Back in 2015, Loro Piana, the purveyor of the finest fabrics in the world, established the Loro Piana Cashmere of the Year Award. The maison created the competition to reward its partners in Inner Mongolia, and to motivate them to create the finest cashmere. One of the softest, finest and most precious natural fibres, cashmere mostly originates from goats raised in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, where herders with years of experience gather the material by combing and de-hairing the animals. Loro...

Crime may not pay, but it has historically dominated the Hong Kong box office. Local films exploring the treacherous underworld of triad gangs, criminals and police officers have captivated audiences since the 1970s, when foundational works such as Ng See-yuen’s Anti-Corruption (1975) and Leong Po-chih’s Jumping Ash (1976) ignited the genre. Many Hong Kong crime films have equivocated on moral issues, operating in a grey zone where police can be as bad as the criminals. That was never truer than...

During a Hong Kong workshop on the traditional Chinese diabolo, or Chinese yo-yo, a Korean father was reminded of the paengi, the string-whipped spinning top he played with as a child. An elderly woman even stood up from her wheelchair to try the diabolo herself. Such moments captured the spirit that the Chinese Culture Festival 2026 was created to inspire, according to Veron Lam, chief manager of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department’s Cultural Presentations Section. “What makes this...