A second tropical storm has swept into southern China, lashing Hong Kong and Macau with heavy rain and strong wind as the region reels from the strongest typhoon in decades that left at least 22 dead.

At least 16 people have been killed in the most powerful typhoon to hit the southern Chinese region in more than half a century.

Support services group DCC paid out over €3m in performance-related bonuses to its top three executives last year, driving combined executive pay levels up from €8.54m to just under €11.5m. 

Shares in DCC slipped by as much as 3% yesterday despite the group posting strong annual earnings for 2016 and forecasting further good growth this year.

DCC is to spend over €140m on buying Shell’s commercial fuel business in Hong Kong and Macau, marking its first expansion in the energy services market outside Europe.

The body of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is still in Malaysia, a minister has said.

North Korea has denied that its agents masterminded the assassination of the half-brother of leader Kim Jong Un, saying a Malaysian investigation into the death is full of "holes and contradictions".

A dispute over custody of the body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother is raging between Malaysia and Pyongyang as inquiries continue into his apparent assassination.

The mystery of what happened to the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as he waited for a flight in a Malaysian airport only deepens.

A second woman has been arrested in connection with the killing of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un's half brother at a busy airport.

The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been assassinated at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, according to Malaysian officials.

Shares in Adidas fell the most in four months as currency swings and in-store spending crimped profitability in the third quarter, even as the sports kit maker reported sales that met analysts’ estimates on sales in Europe, the US and China.

A Chinese lawyer has been jailed for seven years in the third in a series of subversion trials demonstrating the ruling Communist Party's determination to silence independent human rights activists and government critics.

Animal rights activists will protest outside Curraheen Park Greyhound Track’s regular weekend meet in Cork tonight to highlight the scandal of greyhound exports from Ireland to win-or-die races in China.

Following a meeting between the greyhound industry, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and welfare members of the International Greyhound Forum (represented by Dogs Trust and the ISPCA), it was re-iterated that the well-being of greyhounds, including their physical and social environment, is at the core of Ireland’s greyhound industry.

Protests are to be held in Dublin and London tomorrow against the export of Irish greyhounds to China.

We are writing as a concerned group of leading animal welfare organisations including Dogs Trust, Europe’s largest dog welfare charity, and two of Ireland’s oldest and largest animal welfare charities, the Irish SPCA and the Irish Blue Cross.

French luxury handbag maker Hermes International reported full-year profit that beat analysts’ estimates even after the November terrorist attacks in Paris damped tourist spending in its home market.

US billionaire and major Republican Party donor Sheldon Adelson said he met presidential candidate Donald Trump earlier this week, describing the current front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination as “very charming.”

Niall Turner feared his career would be cut short by injury not once but three times in the last four years.

A former president of the UN General Assembly has been arrested and charged with accepting over $1m in bribes from a billionaire Chinese property mogul and other businesspeople to pave the way for lucrative investments.

Formerly a travel writer - and a person apparently accustomed to excelling in pretty much every area he delves into - British novelist Lawrence Osbourne is something of a throwback to the classic 1930-50 literary period, a time when the likes of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene were in their prime, setting standards few could ever hope to attain, let alone emulate. 

ENGLAND: Mortgage everything, get locked up in jail, and avoid Park Lane if you want to win Monopoly, according to the UK and Ireland champion.

Marks & Spencer is to close five stores in China and shrink its Shanghai head office as part of a strategic shake-up, the British retailer said today.

A Hong Kong ferry captain has been jailed for eight years over the death of 39 people in the city’s biggest maritime disaster in decades.

Manny Pacquiao defended his WBO welterweight title after securing a unanimous points victory against American Chris Algieri in Macau.

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China’s parliament said it will tightly control the nomination of candidates for a landmark election in Hong Kong in 2017, a move likely to trigger mass protests in the city’s Central business district by disappointed democracy activists.

Police have fined one of Australia’s richest businessmen and a top television executive AUS$500 each for a high-profile street fight in an exclusive Sydney beachside suburb.

Police in Australia are investigating a very public fight between one of the country’s richest businessmen and a top television executive in an exclusive Sydney beachside suburb.

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The owner of League Championship football side Birmingham City has been jailed for six years for money laundering.

Rejecting the adrenalin junkie option of hurling herself from the top of one of the world’s tallest buildings, Isabel Conway takes a multicultural tour of Macau’s many attractions.

Have you ever wondered which country has the largest amount of gold reserves or how Ireland's youth unemployment rate compares with the rest of the world?

Former footballer David Beckham has signed on to help promote Las Vegas Sands’ properties in Singapore and the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau.

The Rolling Stones have announced a series of live dates for next year.

Manny Pacquiao showed he remains one of the planet’s classiest fighters as he bounced back from his shocking knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez with a unanimous points victory over Brandon Rios.

Manny Pacquiao might be fighting to save his future but his thoughts are with typhoon victims in his native Philippines as he prepares to face Brandon Rios in Macau tonight.

Consider a couple of scenes from the golf world this year, with emphasis on ‘world’.

World number six Rory McIlroy produced some dazzling golf on the back nine to overcome a sniffling Tiger Woods by one shot in their lucrative ‘Match at Mission Hills’ in China yesterday.

Tesco is to merge its 131 stores in China with the second-biggest hypermarket chain in the country, ending almost a decade of independent operations as sales decline.

Former pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will return to the ring in November following successive defeats to take on hard-hitting Brandon Rios in Macau.

Nearly 40 minutes have been chopped from the Hollywood film 'Cloud Atlas' for Chinese audiences, deleting both gay and straight love scenes to satisfy censors.