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As US pursues mine deals, Xi warns African resources are not tools for ‘rivalry’
Africa’s resources should not be used as a tool for geopolitical rivalry, Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned, as the US challenges Chinese dominance of…
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China and North Korea to open border bridge after unexplained 12-year delay
A bridge between China and North Korea that was completed 12 years ago will finally open on Thursday. The two countries will hold an opening ceremony to mark…
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Abby Choi’s ex-mother-in-law urged delay in calling police until ransom from ‘kidnappers’, court hears
The former mother-in-law of slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung tried to prevent her family from reporting her disappearance to police by suggesting…
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C919 set to lead way as Chinese aircraft forecast to secure 5% of world market in 20 years
China’s chief civilian aircraft builder will command 5 per cent of the world’s fleet allocation by 2045 as global demand for narrowbody jets and the domestic…
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Hong Kong bus operators seek fare increases of up to 17.7% amid fuel price surge
Four Hong Kong franchised bus operators have applied to raise fares by up to 17.7 per cent, citing “significant financial pressure” from soaring fuel prices…
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Small acts, shared dreams: students find purpose in helping children in need
About 300 Hong Kong students applied this year for roughly 30 places on an overseas programme to help children in need, up from about 50 applicants last year…
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Russia batters Ukraine’s power facilities amid Kyiv’s growing strain with US
Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of wilfully flouting Donald Trump’s purported “energy ceasefire” and passing up an opportunity to ease hostilities, after a…
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China tests a Dune-like iron-harvesting crawler robot in the Taklamakan Desert
Chinese researchers have built a self-propelled crawler robot that harvests iron from sand and have tested the device in the dunes of the vast Taklamakan…
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No rush to T+1: Hong Kong exchange won’t hurry settlement-time change, sources say
Participants in Hong Kong’s stock market may need to wait longer for shorter transaction settlement times, as market participants want more time to prepare for…
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Asia must guard against repeat of 1997 financial crisis: Philippine central bank chief
Asian countries must remind themselves about what happened during the region’s financial crisis in the late 1990s and guard against a recurrence of such…
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Global deforestation fell in 2025, but Congo Basin losses surged
Deforestation slowed worldwide last year, but the improvement is unlikely to last as the situation deteriorates in Central Africa and an exceptionally strong…
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13 years in prison for former care home warden who raped intellectually disabled woman
A Hong Kong court has sentenced a former assistant warden at a care home for people with intellectual disabilities to 13 years in prison for raping a female…
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Submerged to save Bangkok: rural Thais bear brunt of capital’s flood defences
Stilt houses in villages north of Bangkok are no longer high enough to stay dry as Thai authorities deliberately flood riverside communities to spare the…
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Young Malaysians’ US$1.3bn short-term credit spree sparks warning over bad debt
Malaysians aged 30 and below bought some 5.4 billion ringgit (US$1.32 billion) worth of goods and services on short-term credit in the first half of this year…
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Unexpected path, lasting impact: hearing loss setback leads to decades of teaching
Hearing loss made it difficult for Ivan Fung Wing-hong to find work in Hong Kong’s construction industry after graduation. Nearly three decades later, that…
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Chinese team finds 11,700 new viruses in world’s biggest seabed metal deposit
Up to 6,000 metres (19,700 feet) beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii, billions of potato-shaped metallic nodules are scattered…
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Indonesia’s Bali hit by fuel crisis as huge queues form at petrol stations
Motorists have been left queuing for hours at petrol stations across Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in recent days amid reports of a crippling fuel…
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Helper’s arrest over death of elderly woman sparks calls for carer support
The arrest of a domestic helper over the suspected murder of an elderly woman has dominated Hong Kong headlines, with police investigations revealing that the…
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Police in Germany seize robot after teen girl is allegedly groped
German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl…
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Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: mental health advocate who saved suicidal teen
Hongkongers can be struggling with severe mental health problems but still not be considered urgent cases, according to mental health advocate Minal Mahtani…
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24 luxury houses at One Stanley sold amid probe into alleged construction defects
Around two dozen luxury houses at One Stanley have been sold since Hong Kong authorities launched an investigation into alleged structural defects in March…
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More than 300 hopefuls sign up for Hong Kong’s Election Committee poll
More than 300 people signed up for Hong Kong’s Election Committee poll as the nomination period opened on Wednesday, vying for seats on the body that chooses…
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Why China’s export engine may hit a ceiling as trading partners face limits
While China’s export engine still has room to grow, many of its trading partners may be approaching the limit of how much more they can absorb, which could…
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Can ‘neutral’ Malaysia stay above the fray in the US-China tech rivalry?
Despite Malaysia’s insistence that its long-standing non-alignment policy extends to cyberspace, analysts say the country’s reliance on American and Chinese…
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Sri Lanka’s ex-first lady arrested in charity corruption probe
Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption authority arrested former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa on Wednesday over allegations that her charity misused donations collected…
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India-born US citizen drives research into light at sanctioned Chinese school
“Science has no borders,” Arup Neogi, an India-born scientist who works at a US-sanctioned university, told Chinese state media. Neogi’s speciality is…
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Hong Kong and Indonesia can deepen green finance ties, Jakarta envoy says
Hong Kong and Indonesia can deepen cooperation in green finance as their ties strengthen, the country’s special envoy for international trade has said, adding…
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US and China must set rules before autonomous fighters cross paths
In December 2022, a Chinese J-11 fighter came within metres of a US RC-135 surveillance plane over the South China Sea, according to the US military, which…
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Yemen’s Houthis attack Aden airport as fighting intensifies
Yemen’s Houthis attacked Aden’s international airport with ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones on Wednesday, the country’s transport ministry said…
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Why do Hong Kong’s Election Committee polls matter as nominations open?
The nomination period opened on Wednesday for election to the 1,500-member body responsible for choosing Hong Kong’s next chief executive and 40 lawmakers. The…
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Hong Kong police arrest 17 more over HK$137 million ‘crash-for-cash’ scam
Hong Kong police have arrested 17 more people linked to a suspected “crash-for-cash” scam syndicate as authorities investigate 669 suspicious claims totalling…
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14 years after Nirbhaya gang rape horror, has India progressed on women’s safety?
Bhavya Gupta was a Grade 4 student when the 2012 horrific gang rape and murder of a medical college intern who was on a private bus in New Delhi, which sparked…
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Chinese consortium to build Latin America’s longest cable-stayed bridge in Brazil
Chinese contractors will build Latin America’s longest cable-stayed bridge, a trans-bay span in Brazil, as their latest stamp on new infrastructure overseas. A…
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Abby Choi gave HK$2m for waffle shop to ‘bootlicker’ ex-brother-in-law, trial told
The mother of slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung has told a court that her daughter’s former brother-in-law was a “bootlicker” who coaxed her into…
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‘No more dumping, no more spying’: European Parliament hardens line on China
The European Parliament voted for a significantly tougher China position on Wednesday, despite strong and long-standing lobbying from Beijing to tone down its…
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‘Nothing is left’: deadly floods slam Thai economy and strain Bangkok ahead of IMF meeting
Monsoon floods in Thailand have killed 60 people since mid-September, officials said, as surging waters exact an increasing economic toll – destroying homes…
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Hong Kong tech index to harness fast-growth companies in bid for better performance
Hong Kong’s stock index compiler will add 10 fast-growing companies with at least HK$500 million (US$64 million) in annual sales into the city’s…
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Russia glosses over Stalin-era repression in reinvented museum
In a Moscow museum that once housed evidence of Stalin-era repression, serene family scenes flickered on a screen as a narrator hailed the tranquillity of…
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Hong Kong’s Wine and Dine Festival to feature extended hours, 10% more booths
The annual Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival in late October will extend its opening hours until 1am on two nights and feature 10 per cent more booths, with the…
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60% of Hong Kong’s suspected student suicides involved children aged 15 or below
Hong Kong education authorities have revealed that at least 60 per cent of suspected student suicide cases in the last three academic years involved children…
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How will new longer-range aircraft boost Manila’s South China Sea surveillance?
The Philippine Coast Guard will receive three longer-range aircraft from the US, two of them modified for improved surveillance, giving Manila greater reach…
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Anti-terror arrests in Indonesia highlight challenge of combating ‘virtual’ groups
The recent arrests of 11 suspected terrorists by authorities in Indonesia underline how terrorism remains a persistent security challenge, with analysts…
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‘Ensuring dignified life’: how an app keeps advanced cancer patients out of hospital
Advanced-stage cancer patients could spend half as long in hospital and avoid more than a third of unplanned admissions if a symptom-tracking mobile app is…
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Like father, like son: Chinese duo build mini national engineering marvels in home lab
A Chinese father-and-son duo established a home laboratory to create miniature models of China’s significant national strategic hardware, captivating many…
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Hong Kong’s third-quarter GDP grows, but external risks persist: Paul Chan
Hong Kong’s economy continued to expand in the third quarter of this year, driven by strong exports and tourism, the finance chief has said, while warning of…
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Despite rising yields and political gridlock, France not facing a debt crisis: analysts
Despite the recent surge in French borrowing costs that pushed the country’s 10-year bond yield spread with Germany to a level unseen since the euro zone…
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Kagan, Soai win Nobel Chemistry Prize for solving chemical asymmetry puzzle
Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a long-standing riddle of asymmetric “mirror image” molecules, a…
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Ex-Buddhist monk who founded Thai Aids hospice convicted of embezzlement
A former Buddhist monk in Thailand was convicted on Wednesday of misusing donations to a highly praised hospice he established for people with HIV/Aids and…
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Nasa releases striking image of dawn on Mars
Nasa has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years…
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Why Morgan Stanley sees more upside in Hong Kong offices than New York towers
Higher interest rates have weighed on property markets in both Hong Kong and New York, but Morgan Stanley sees greater upside potential in the Asian financial…
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How closer China-US ties – and more Xi-Trump summits – could work in Iran’s favour
China and the US – Iran’s key partner and its chief adversary – found firmer common ground on Tehran at the Washington summit last month, and further…
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US risks ceding AI governance leadership to China and the EU
Standing alongside prominent technology executives, US President Donald Trump announced a voluntary agreement under which major artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Israel continues demolishing buildings in Gaza a year after ceasefire
It’s perhaps the most dramatic wound inflicted on the Gaza Strip by Israel’s military campaign over the past three years: the city of Rafah, once home to a…
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Renault’s plan for Chinese EV motor assembly in small French town sparks job loss fears
In the industrial heartland of Normandy, more than 100km (62 miles) away from Paris, lies the small town of Cleon. Home to fewer than 5,000 residents and a…
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Travellers must use authorised buses, taxis at Huanggang Port, Hong Kong authorities say
Travellers heading to and from the revamped Huanggang Port must use authorised public transport services only, including pre-booked licensed taxi fleets, as…
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China’s missile lidar model; world’s most accurate atomic clock: 7 science highlights
We have put together stories from our coverage on science from the past two weeks to help you stay informed. If you would like to see more of our reporting…
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Singapore to charge American man over perfume theft spree at Changi Airport
A 47-year-old man will be charged on Thursday over a series of perfume thefts at Changi Airport, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said on Wednesday. The thefts…
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Malaysia’s Melaka sets election date as BN, PAS near alliance against Anwar
Malaysia’s Melaka will hold a state election on November 14 as the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition nears a pact with Islamist rivals, leaving Prime…
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Singapore must be able to say ‘no’ to US, China to preserve trust: foreign minister
Singapore occupies a “peculiarly sensitive existential point” as it seeks to retain strategic options amid a great power rivalry, Foreign Minister Vivian…
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Russian strikes kill 11 across Ukraine after Zelensky warning
At least 11 people were killed in Russian strikes on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, including five when a missile destroyed a…