Hong Kong’s securities market regulator has defended a HK$1 billion (US$128 million) settlement with an accounting firm at the centre of an auditing scandal involving developer China Evergrande Group, saying it has unfettered powers to enforce discipline and a duty to protect the interests of independent investors.In a judicial review hearing on Wednesday, lawyers for the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) asked the High Court to dismiss a challenge by the developer’s liquidators, who are...
An open call for photographers to submit their photos to the Retoucher of the Year has been put out, with the competition searching for photographers who wouldn't mind someone else editing their images.
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It is not yet clear what caused the two vehicles to crash into each other in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

台北市衛生局今(19)日發布6月生鮮蔬果抽驗結果,共計 50 件檢驗的生鮮蔬果產品中,高達 15 件不合格、不合格率占了 3 成。其中香菜、荔枝各占4件,白蘿蔔也有2件,並有香菜農藥殘留達標準的51倍,這些違規產
The Pakistani government challenged on Wednesday a Supreme Court order to move jailed former prime minister Imran Khan to a private hospital, a petition filed with the court showed.The move could dash the hopes of Khan’s party and family, who have been calling for him to be given access to healthcare and visitation rights, and also spark public discontent over the treatment of the hugely popular cricketer-turned-politician.Khan, 73, has been in jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi since...