Europeans referred to East Asians as white until the end of the 18th century But as the Chinese and Japanese resisted cultural assimilation they darkened – both in Western eyes and their own How did East Asians come to be referred to as yellow-skinned? It was the result of a series of racial mappings of the world and had nothing to do with the actual colour of people’s skin. In fact, when complexi

A young mother from central China secretly donated parts of her liver to her young daughter suffering from a rare disease without telling most of her family after her parents opposed the move, according to a television news report. Jiang Liuxin, 22, from Yidu in Hubei province, had to steal her own ID documents from her parents to get approval for the transplant for her seven-month-old daughter on

The wreckage of a double-decker bus in Hong Kong that crashed on Saturday leaving 19 people dead and more than 60 injured was removed from the crash site for further inspection on Sunday morning. All lanes of Tai Po Road between Chek Nai Ping and Tsung Tsai Yuen in Tai Po were reopened to traffic at 6.40am. All bus routes travelling along the motorway have resumed normal services. Police have laun

The recent news of a Japanese journalist who died from exhaustion after clocking up 159 hours of overtime in a month will resonate with many Hongkongers. The city’s workers are no strangers to putting in overtime; according to recent statistics we do more of it than any other workforce in Asia. A 2015 survey by Regus, an international office space provider, found that 20 per cent of Hongkongers pu