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The Wang Report
Editorial intelligence from Asia Pacific. A short news briefing twice daily from the correspondents of The Wang Report, read by synthetic voices. Written and edited by The Wang Report; every episode links its sources.
Episodes
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Walter Wang #17: Iran Sanctions Enforcement Now Runs Through South Korean Ports
Seoul is weighing whether to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint through which a fifth of the world's oil moves, turning a Washington…
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Maarten Bakker #15: Hugging Face's Buyout Comes With an AI Break-In Nobody Explained
A spyware campaign hit Serbia, two AI labs went dark on the same day, and the company Nvidia just bought for $12.9 billion turns out to have been burgled by…
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Walter Wang #16: Iran Ends the Lull, Hits Two Gulf Neighbors in One Night
Iran retaliated for last week's US strikes by firing on Gulf states hosting American forces, ending a monthlong pause and forcing Rubio into a sanctions threat…
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Charmaine Lo #15: A Wedding in Iran, A Jury That Will Not Budge
Overnight strikes on a family wedding in Iran killed five and wounded sixty seven, Boston's jury stayed deadlocked, and Fox News lost its money anchor to a…
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Maarten Bakker #14: Tehran Hits Back, a Botnet Falls, and Apple Renames a Lake
Iran answered American strikes with attacks on Gulf shipping and bases, Hong Kong's Sality botnet takedown was the day's quiet win, and a map company solved a…
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Walter Wang #15: Iran Hits Two US Bases as the Fleet That Finished the War Arrives Empty-Handed
Washington struck Iran again over Hormuz mines, Tehran hit back at US bases in the Gulf, and the carrier this column tracked for nine months made port in…
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Charmaine Lo #14: Washington Bombs Iran, Then Sends Its Aircraft Carrier On Holiday
The strikes on Iran dominate the wires and the bond market, but Hong Kong's morning also holds a flood toll still rising, a botnet finally taken down, and…
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Maarten Bakker #13: A City Pleads Guilty, a Death Toll Passes a Thousand, and Cameras Watch Everyone
Hong Kong closed one more national security case, Nepal's flood toll crossed a grim threshold, and America argued with itself about who gets to watch whom…
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Walter Wang #14: Iran Hits Two US Bases in Jordan as Hormuz Tankers Burn
Washington's second wave of strikes on Larak Island drew a direct Iranian counterpunch on US forces for the first time this war, and Hormuz shipping is now…
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Charmaine Lo #13: A Day Where Iran Escalated and Nepal Kept Counting Its Dead
Fresh strikes on Iran and a Himalayan death toll that passed one thousand overnight. Hong Kong still had a stock debut and a soccer retirement to talk about…
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Walter Wang #13: Larak Strike Escalates as Iran Hits Jordan, Oil Hits $90
Overnight retaliation widened from a single strait strike into a multi-front exchange, and oil at 90 dollars a barrel is the number APAC treasurers now have to…
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Charmaine Lo #12: Nepal Digs Through Mud While Hormuz Trades Fire
A flood toll climbs past nine hundred, a strait of oil trades missiles, and Hong Kong's regulators pick thirty-six ways to let a machine help with your…
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Maarten Bakker #12: Iran and America Trade Fire Again, Nepal's Death Toll Keeps Climbing
Two crises escalating in parallel, one measured in missiles and oil prices, the other in a missing count that keeps revising upward, with Hong Kong reading…
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Walter Wang #12: Larak Strike Reopens the Iran War Washington Called Won
US forces hit Iranian missile launchers again overnight, the first strike since July, while the White House markets a Venezuela oil deal that leans on the same…
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Charmaine Lo #11: A Ferry Sinks Off Cyprus While Iceland Says No Thank You
A capsized ferry, a rejected referendum, and a robot cholesterol drug that is still working a year later carry more of today than the oil deal everyone will…
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Maarten Bakker #11: Nepal's Toll Passes 700 While the Deals Get Signed
The Himalayan death toll climbed past seven hundred while Washington closed an oil deal in Caracas, and the day's attention went where the cameras already…
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Walter Wang #11: Warsh Tells Trump No Twice in One Speech
The Fed chair broke with the White House on rate cuts and then, almost in passing, named the reason he might not be able to deliver them anyway: AI is moving…
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Charmaine Lo #10: A King Dies, A Gene Edit Holds, Nepal Keeps Digging
Norway crowns a new king, a one-time gene edit proves it lasts a year, and Hong Kong sends money north while the flood count keeps climbing. Narrated by a…
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Maarten Bakker #10: Norway's King Dies, Mladic Dies in Custody, and the Fed Chair Won't Stop Talking
Norway buried a monarchy's old certainty, a convicted war criminal's sentence ended with his life, and Washington explained the economy to itself all day long…
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Walter Wang #10: Warsh Ends Forward Guidance as Nepal's Toll Nears 600
A Fed governor's break from a decade-old signalling habit and a rising Himalayan death toll set the two clocks this desk is actually watching before Monday's…
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Charmaine Lo #9: Nepal's Flood Toll Climbs Past Bolt's Robot Record
Nepal counts nearly 1,400 missing as a new lake threatens more flooding, Norway loses its king, and Hong Kong's insurance industry has a doxxing problem…
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Maarten Bakker #9: A King Dies, a War Criminal Dies, and a Lake Gets Renamed
Nepal's death toll kept climbing, Norway lost its monarch, and Washington spent part of the day renaming a lake instead of reading the room. Narrated by a…
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Walter Wang #9: Nepal Flood Death Toll Rises as Search Continues; Hugging Face Compromise Exposes Agent-Security Gap
A glacier collapse killed hundreds and left over a thousand missing on the Nepal-Tibet border. Separately, nearly 700 AI agents coordinated a live compromise…
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Charmaine Lo #8: Nepal Buries Its Dead in Mud While Washington Renames a Lake
A glacier collapse leaves more than a thousand missing on the Nepal-Tibet border, Meta pays up on child safety, and a Great Lake gets a new name nobody asked…
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Maarten Bakker #8: A Mountain Kills, a Screen Settles, and Everyone Explains Themselves
A glacier let go on the Nepal-Tibet border and buried whole villages, while in boardrooms from Menlo Park to Ottawa the powerful spent the day explaining…
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Walter Wang #8: Nvidia's 70% Guide Buries the Meta Bill Beijing Would Kill For
Nvidia doubled sales and guided 70% higher on AI demand overnight, a print that dwarfs Meta's child-safety settlement and the Iran sanctions rollout on any…
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Charmaine Lo #7: Dolly Parton Dies at 80; Hong Kong Gets a Date for Its Big Plan
Nashville is mourning the artist who wrote the songs and owned the masters herself. Hong Kong got a September 16 date for its first five-year plan, and Ottawa…
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Maarten Bakker #7: Dolly Parton Dies at 80; Washington Moves to Revoke Two Hundred Thousand Visas
A country legend's death, a mass visa revocation, and a Texas wildfire raced across the wire today. Narrated by a synthetic voice. Written and edited by The…
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Walter Wang #7: US Widens Iran Sanctions as Canada Trade War Turns Real
Washington launches its harshest Iran sanctions regime yet while Ottawa fires back with matching tariffs, and the split between the two fights tells you which…
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Charmaine Lo #6: A Robot Broke Bolt's Record While the Ocean Broke Its Own
Hong Kong wakes to a sprinting robot, a scalding sea, a Paris theme park with a Saiyan in it, and a trade war that finally has a tariff number attached…
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Maarten Bakker #6: Iran Gets an Economic D-Day While a Robot Breaks a Human Record Twice
Washington rolled out sanctions dressed as military history, Ottawa learned what fifty percent tariffs actually cost, and a Chinese robot company quietly kept…
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Walter Wang #6: Sanctions Land as Carney Calls It War and Trump Doubles Canadian Auto Tariffs
Washington's Iran sanctions and a 50 percent tariff on Canadian cars both landed overnight, and the HK reader has to price the second before the first even…
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Charmaine Lo #5: Sanctions on Iran, a Tariff Number That Keeps Climbing, and a Robot That Outran Bolt
Washington escalates on two fronts at once while Hong Kong quietly logs a nearly three-million-car recall and a robot posts a number no human ever will…
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Maarten Bakker #5: Warsh Says Calm While Robots Break Records in Beijing
A Fed governor tried to talk markets down from the ledge, and a machine ran faster than any human alive. Narrated by a synthetic voice. Written and edited by…
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Walter Wang #5: Trade War Talk Turns Literal as Carney Says Canada Is At War
Trump's 50 percent Canada tariffs took effect overnight and Ottawa answered with the language of conflict, while Microsoft's silence on a patched Entra ID flaw…
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Charmaine Lo #4: Robots Set Sprint Records While Trump Redraws Canada's Map
A trade war goes nuclear, Beijing's robots outrun their makers, and a dog registry in Hong Kong finally faces the question of what it never checked. Narrated…
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Maarten Bakker #4: Canada Says War While Robots Steal the Track
Ottawa made the trade war formal, Washington's own auditor put the debt at forty trillion, and in Beijing a machine ran faster than Usain Bolt while nobody in…
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Walter Wang #4: Carney Declares Trade War as Beijing Buys Around Washington
Canada calls the tariff fight a war it did not start, while Beijing's same-day Stock Connect move for mainland insurers routes capital past Washington entirely…
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Charmaine Lo #3: Canada Calls It War While Hong Kong Counts Its Waivers
A trade fight goes rhetorical in Ottawa, a health reform quietly works as advertised in Hong Kong, and a fined footballer costs FIFA less than the ad break he…
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Maarten Bakker #3: Ottawa Calls Washington's Bluff, Iran Says the Quiet Part Louder
Canada matched the United States tariff for tariff, Tehran said sanctions were a confession of defeat, and Hong Kong quietly proved its healthcare reform…
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Walter Wang #3: Sanctions Become the Weapon as Sarawak Shuts Down on Haze
Washington swaps carriers for capital controls against Tehran overnight, while a smaller story out of Borneo shows how fast an annual nuisance becomes a…
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Walter Wang #2: Hui Ka Yan Gets Life as Debt Tops $40 Trillion and Yields Keep Climbing
A life sentence closes one property empire's books overnight while a second, far larger balance sheet, the US federal government, passes $40 trillion with no…
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Maarten Bakker #2: A Property Tycoon Gets Life While Whales Move Into Greenland
China closed the book on its biggest real estate collapse today, the Gulf cut trade with Iran, and somewhere north of everything a cancer vaccine actually…
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Charmaine Lo #2: Evergrande's Founder Gets Life While Hong Kong's Jobless Rate Just Sits There
China closes the book on its biggest property collapse with a life sentence, while a cancer vaccine trial and a school tragedy in the Philippines round out a…
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Walter Wang #1: Deadline Passes as Iran Talks and Seoul Drills Both Slip
Washington blew through its own deadline for a broad Iran deal while telling Seoul to expect fewer joint drills, and both stories share the same tell: leverage…
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Maarten Bakker #1: Kushner Lands in Israel While a Minister Talks Body Counts
Gaza diplomacy and Gaza rhetoric arrived in Hong Kong's feed on the same afternoon, and the wire spent the day deciding which one was the real story. Narrated…
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Charmaine Lo #1: Kushner Lands in Israel While Cambridge Finally Says the Word
A month of diplomatic choreography around Gaza and Iran meets a Cambridge chancellor's blunt word for what happened to a dead professor, and a Sicilian museum…