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Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsHong Kong woman duped out of HK$1 million by fake AI investment app
A Hong Kong woman has lost more than HK$1 million (US$127,636) after being lured into a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme disguised as an artificial intelligence-powered trading ap…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
Geopolitics‘Extremely violent’: 2 students among 4 dead in Belgium after train hits school bus
A crash between a bus and a train travelling at high speed in northern Belgium killed four people, including two children aged 12 and 15, and injured five other children, official…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsSenior police officer gets 2½ years’ jail for taking HK$1.1 million in cash, gifts
A Hong Kong police chief inspector has been jailed for 2½ years for accepting more than HK$1.1 million (US$140,400) in cash and gifts from a businessman in exchange for ending a c…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsShanxi mine disaster casts shadow over province’s shift from coal to culture
Shanxi, China’s top coal-producing province, has attempted to rebrand from a polluting, high-risk mining hub into a cultural and tourist destination. However, the country’s deadli…
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Geopolitics57-year-old Hong Kong school to merge after third closure threat in 2 decades
A Hong Kong primary school facing its third closure threat in two decades due to declining enrolment announced on Tuesday that it will merge with a neighbouring institution from t…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsHong Kong sets ride-hailing permit cap at 10,000 under regulatory push
Hong Kong authorities have set a cap of 10,000 vehicles for ride-hailing service permits, marking a key step in their long-running effort to establish a regulatory framework, with…
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GeopoliticsWhy US and Canadian conservatives backed Trump’s China trip but slammed Carney’s
When Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Beijing in January, US conservative podcaster Alex Jones accused him of bowing to China’s leadership. In Canada, the opposition Co…
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GeopoliticsMango founder’s son steps down as vice-chair amid probe into father’s death
Jonathan Andic, son of Mango founder Isak Andic, said on Tuesday he was stepping down temporarily as the fashion group’s vice chair after being named a suspect in an investigation…
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GeopoliticsHigh-altitude turbulence tricky to detect, experts say, as Cathay investigates case
Even the most advanced aircraft radar systems cannot fully detect high-altitude turbulence, aviation experts have said, as Cathay Pacific Airways investigates an incident that inj…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsMalaysia police’s ‘gay party’ label sparks debate after hotel drug raid
Malaysian police have arrested 51 men in a drug raid at a luxury Kuala Lumpur hotel, describing the scene as a “gay party” with “immoral activities” committed. The language has dr…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsTrump makes everything worse but he didn’t start it
While cleaning my basement, I found an old copy of Foreign Affairs dated September/October 2014. If you didn’t look at the publication date but only its table of contents, you wou…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsMainland Chinese mum who offered bribe for son’s Hong Kong school place spared jail
A mainland Chinese mother who tried to secure a Hong Kong secondary school place for her son by offering a bribe to an assistant principal received a suspended jail sentence on Tu…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsDeadly building collapse shocks Philippine city: ‘like an aeroplane landing’
James Bernardo, 30, was delivering food on Teodoro street in Angeles City in the Philippines when a nine-storey building under construction on the opposite side of the road collap…
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GeopoliticsTanker hit by explosion near Hormuz hours after US strikes on Iran
An explosion damaged a tanker close to its waterline as it sailed off Oman, a marine monitor said on Tuesday, as tensions remained high around the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. The …
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GeopoliticsConcerns mount in China’s space sector that Musk’s Starship will be a failure
There are growing doubts within China’s space sector that Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket being developed by SpaceX in the United States, will ever overcome its enginee…
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GeopoliticsWest Bank settlers steal Palestinian family’s sheep herd ahead of Eid festival
Palestinian shepherd Sameeha Rasheed was planning for the sacred ritual of sacrificing her family’s sheep for the Eid al-Adha holiday, one of the holiest occasions in Islam, but W…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsHuawei’s new chip scaling law aims to sidestep ASML chokepoint but hurdles remain: analysts
Huawei Technologies has engineered a workaround to one of China’s most crippling chipmaking bottlenecks, but analysts warn that the nation’s path to semiconductor independence is …
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsHong Kong unveils proposed overhaul of fire safety laws as consultation begins
Hong Kong authorities have launched a public consultation on overhauling fire safety regulations, six months after the city’s deadliest inferno in decades, proposing to expand fir…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsIndonesia bans Polymarket following bets on Prabowo presidency end date
Indonesia has blocked predictions market Polymarket as part of its crackdown on online gambling, its communications and digital ministry said, days after the site took bets on a …
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsTrump moves to punish US government workers who leak information to reporters
US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed asking federal employees to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDA) with the goal of preventing them from sharing confi…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsBad-mannered or racist? Debate rages over Hong Kong principal’s Singapore clash
Debates continued to rage online after a Hong Kong school principal was filmed verbally abusing two South Asian security guards in Singapore, with viewers divided over whether his…
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GeopoliticsTrump, near 80, has third medical exam amid questions on health: ‘maybe junk food is good’
Donald Trump said an annual medical check-up had gone “perfectly” on Tuesday, as the health of the oldest US president ever to take the oath faces growing scrutiny with the approa…
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GeopoliticsIran restores partial internet access after record months-long blackout
Iran started restoring access to the internet – a sign that the longest shutdown of its kind in history is easing amid a diplomatic push to end the war with the US. Monitoring gro…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsExceptionally early heatwave shatters records and brings deaths in Europe
The UK smashed a century-old temperature record for the second time in 24 hours on Tuesday as a spring heatwave continued to scorch parts of western Europe, triggering government …
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsLouvre heist to be turned into film by French director Romain Gavras
Last year’s brazen robbery of the Louvre – when thieves made off with jewellery worth some US$100 million – is set to become a film, a publisher said on Tuesday. French director R…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsQuad foreign ministers fight for relevance in New Delhi as leaders’ summit remains elusive
The foreign ministers of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, nations gathered in New Delhi on Tuesday in a coordinated display of unity aimed at reaffirming the bloc’s r…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsChina’s Wang Yi tells UN multilateralism must be protected in swipe at US policies
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi took a swipe at the United States at a press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday as he touted the need to safeguard multilateralism and th…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsThe 4 trilateral frameworks defining northeast Asia’s future
When Washington, Beijing and Moscow begin to treat one another as bargaining partners again, northeast Asia feels the pressure. Taiwan, Korea, sanctions, energy routes, nuclear ri…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsCrumpled chemical tank lays bare scale of deadly US paper mill disaster
A massive chemical tank holding nearly 3.4 million litres of a corrosive liquid imploded and collapsed Tuesday at a Washington paper mill, killing at least one worker and leaving …
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsUS weighs offensive space tactics as China satellite rivalry intensifies
The US is preparing offensive weapons to blind China’s military satellites in any future conflict, even as the two sides lack reliable channels to manage risks in an increasingly …
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsBack on the rails: Dandong’s border traffic hints at a China-North Korea thaw
Dandong, the Chinese border city that faces North Korea across the Yalu River, is a barometer of ties between Beijing and Pyongyang. While lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemi…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsUS to seek public comment on which Chinese goods qualify for lower tariffs, Greer says
The US government will shortly issue a formal call for public comment on which Chinese products should qualify for lower tariffs under a newly established bilateral “Board of Trad…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsPanama encourages dialogue and bridge-building at UN as canal tensions with China simmer
Panama’s foreign minister used a United Nations Security Council debate on Tuesday to call for dialogue over confrontation, saying his country was “born to connect oceans, contine…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsHong Kong firm that makes medical implants to expand into Central Asia
A Hong Kong medical technology firm manufacturing tailor-made body implants will expand research initiatives and explore setting up a factory in Central Asia, in a further collabo…
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GeopoliticsRFK Jnr posts video of him grabbing 2 snakes, as his wife asks ‘why?’
A video of Robert F. Kennedy Jnr wrangling two snakes bare-handed captured the internet’s fascination on Tuesday, the latest animal encounter the US health secretary has shared pu…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsNasa lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list
Nasa is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar fly-around. The space agency outli…
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GeopoliticsCan Japan lead push to halt space militarisation as nuclear rivalry heats up?
The collapse of UN talks on the future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has sharpened concern in Japan that outer space could become the next arena for nuclear and military…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsPassengers praise efficiency as Hong Kong airport’s Terminal 2 opens
Passengers have praised the expanded second terminal at Hong Kong airport for its efficiency upon reopening, but say more convenient boarding arrangements are still needed. Hong K…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsInsilico teams up with US firm to build AI models predicting disease decades ahead
Hong Kong-listed artificial intelligence drug-discovery company Insilico Medicine has struck a collaboration with US-headquartered Human Longevity to co-develop what they describe…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsHow Hong Kong’s first astronaut triggered a space education race
Lai Ka-ying’s selection as Hong Kong’s first astronaut has sparked a more than threefold surge in aerospace and satellite-design course inquiries at a learning centre, while indus…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsChinese man who suffered painful urination for 3 years discovers 1.3kg stone in bladder
A Chinese man who endured three years of intense pain while urinating finally went to the hospital and discovered he had a 1.3kg stone in his bladder. The man, 56, from southern C…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsEU firms in China starting to feel less gloomy as Beijing offers stability: report
European companies’ confidence in the Chinese market is showing signs of rebounding for the first time since 2022, as Beijing is increasingly perceived as a “champion” of stabilit…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsTrump-endorsed Paxton wins Texas primary run-off, ousting veteran senator
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ousted four-term US Senator John Cornyn on Tuesday, riding President Donald Trump’s endorsement to a run-off victory for the Republican Senate …
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsBeyond visitor numbers: Hong Kong must track the full worth of its art and culture
Hong Kong’s M+ museum recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Centre Pompidou in France, cementing a multi-year partnership that will cover collection, resear…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsSouth Korea’s lonely, stressed Gen Z find comfort in apps that do nothing
At 2am, Kim, a 25-year-old office worker, opens a site designed to look like a food delivery app, though he has no plan to order. He chooses menu items, drops them into a cart and…
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