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China rallies Central Asian police chiefs on terrorism threats, energy and trade

Security ministers from five nations back Beijing initiative targeting extremism, border order and telecoms fraud.

Chinese Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong (third from right) attends the China-Central Asia ministerial conference on public security and internal affairs in Beijing on Monday. Photo: Xinhua

Policy

China targets fourfold boost in AI computing capacity by 2030 in major tech push

China Business

Hong Kong gaining lustre as bridge to China’s tech sector: HKEX CEO

Global Economy

Oil prices near US$100 a barrel as Saudi oil facility attack raises supply risk

Geopolitical tensions and strikes on energy infrastructure are tightening supply expectations, threatening to push oil higher and curb China’s appetite for imports.

The price of diesel is displayed at a petrol station in New York on Friday. The national average price of retail diesel hit a record high on Thursday as the cost of crude oil rebounded. Photo: Xinhua

Science

Chinese scientists propose turning abandoned coal mines into underground farms

Insulated from surface weather and natural disasters, mining tunnels could offer agricultural advantages amid climate change, scientists say.

Transforming decommissioned mines into farmland could aid in the treatment and use of polluted mine water, according to a Chinese research team. Photo: AFP

Global Economy

Why China’s sugar stockpiles may blunt an El Nino-fuelled global supply crunch

The major sugar importer is expected to lean on strong domestic supplies amid soaring international prices.

Farmers harvest sugarcane on March 18 in Guangzhou, China’s Guangdong province. Photo: Getty Images

Politics

Will Malaysia’s potential Huawei AI deal risk clash with US trade pact?

Choosing Huawei chips in a US$494 million sovereign AI project could breach export control assurances given to Washington.

The logo of Huawei Technologies is seen on the facade of a building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: EPA-EFE

Business

Why Hong Kong’s strategic advantages attract global talent

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Married couple Robert Lay and Emma Li, who are both finance industry veterans, moved to Hong Kong from New Zealand with their children in 2023.

Economics

Philippines wants to be a global semiconductor giant by 2030. Can it get there?

An ‘ambitious’ road map aims to more than double annual exports of chips and electronics to US$110 billion by 2030.

A staff of the Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines shows chips manufactured in the country. Photo: AFP

Society

Hong Kong’s first astronaut to give live space lecture to students on Wednesday

‘Tiangong Class’, set to begin at 10am, will also be attended by representatives from the youth sector and the innovation and technology community.

First Hong Kong astronaut Lai Ka-ying. Photo: Handout
(From left to right) Astronauts Lai Ka-ying, Zhang Zhiyuan and Zhu Yangzhu. Photo: Reuters

People

Malaysian woman who stabbed boyfriend to death over sex demand gets 12 years

An appeal court nearly doubled the woman’s jail term, calling the initial sentence ‘over-sympathetic’.

A woman in Malaysia has been convicted of culpable homicide not amounting to murder after stabbing her boyfriend to death at a hotel in Johor Bahru in 2022. Photo: Getty Images

South Asia

A year on, Nepal remembers 76 lives lost in protests that ousted government

The commemoration came as the country continues to mourn the vast loss of life from devastating floods two weeks ago.

People pay homage to victims who lost their lives in the 2025 protests during a memorial near Nepal’s old parliament building in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Photo: AFP
Police stand guard near the old parliament building in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Politics

Australian group calls for ties with US ‘war machine’ to be severed

The group linked to the ruling Labor Party argues that the US has ‘led Australia into wars of aggression’ for 50 years.

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth (right) stands with Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Richard Marles at the Pentagon in Washington last week. Photo: AFP

Tech Trends

Are Chinese AI stars Z.ai and MiniMax stuck in losses through 2030?

As both firms mature beyond early growth, an analyst says the industry is looking for a better metric for valuations.

The Zhipu AI logo, for the firm also known as Z.ai, is seen on a smartphone. Photo: Shutterstock

Politics

Vietnam’s To Lam visits Russia and France amid South China Sea tensions

Visiting Moscow and Paris in succession allows To Lam to rally support for Hanoi’s maritime stance without taking sides, analysts say.

To Lam, Vietnam’s president and general secretary of its Communist Party, waves to members of a welcoming delegation in Moscow on Monday. Photo: Reuters
Members of the welcoming delegation for To Lam hold flags in front of the headquarters of Russia’s lower house of parliament on Monday. Photo: Reuters
A member of a welcoming delegation for To Lam waves flags in front of the headquarters of Russia’s lower house of parliament on Monday. Photo: Reuters

Law and Crime

Hong Kong seizes HK$1.4b suspected drugs over summer as cartels target students

150 people aged between 18 and 68 arrested and 6.1 tonnes of suspected drugs seized between May and August.

Drug seizures at the airport between May and August jumped by 80 per cent to 3.3 tonnes compared with the same period last year while the number of arrests rose to 134, a nearly twofold increase. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Banking & Finance

To lure long-term capital, Hong Kong financial council calls for MPF expansion

Official think tank urges broader retirement-fund investments, more mainland institutional capital and reforms to boost listings, bonds and corporate restructuring.

The eMPF mobile app is the central electronic platform for managing Mandatory Provident Fund schemes in Hong Kong. The Financial Services Development Council suggests allowing a portion of MPF funds to be invested in more asset classes and infrastructure. Photo: Handout

People

Philippine ex-speaker stashed wealth ‘he could no longer hide’: prosecutors

Ex-House speaker Martin Romualdez is accused of buying mansions and shares in an attempt to hide ill-gotten gains.

House Speaker Martin Romualdez (right) speaks as Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr looks on at the House of Representatives in Quezon City last year. Photo: Getty Images

China Business

More Chinese developers of brain-computer interfaces move towards IPOs

Arfysica and Neuracle aim for Star Market listings amid what a Morgan Stanley analyst calls the ‘early stage of a multi-year IPO upcycle’.

The firms join a broader trend of hi-tech firms flocking to the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Nasdaq-style Star Market. Photo: Xinhua
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How Tokyo is widening regional defence ties to complicate Beijing’s Taiwan calculus

Tokyo is strengthening partnerships across the Indo-Pacific and beyond, possibly bolstering its ability to withstand a prolonged armed conflict.

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