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Taiwan Indigenous farmer revives climate-resilient millet

Indigenous farmer Banu Ismahasan walks through a golden field of tall stalks in southeastern Taiwan, harvesting by hand the grain heads of an ancient crop…

How a housing safety disaster was averted, four decades before the Tai Po fire tragedy

According to the Wang Fuk Court fire inquiry, residents of the doomed estate made no fewer than 180 efforts to ward off the danger presented…

The elites just went on bunker alert

Elon wants you to “buy” a Tesla Cybercab

Their emergency order doesn’t add up

Chinese tip in Aceh meth bust makes a case for three-way policing

On a quiet street in Aceh, a shophouse that looked like every other one on the block was hiding a meth lab. When Indonesian agents…

Vietnam real trade test lies beyond Trump’s tariffs

As US President Donald Trump heads to Manila for the ASEAN Summit, then on to Shenzhen to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at APEC, Southeast…

Ethereum’s ERC-8415 tests tokenization’s ownership gap

On November 23, OKXICE, a joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange, plans to let eligible US investors…

Spies and silicon chips: Alice Huang’s tangled corporate web

Singapore-based tech group Megaspeed dealt in billions of dollars’ worth of the world’s most advanced AI chips, but its office was an empty shell when…

Weather sovereignty: the new geopolitics of atmospheric intervention

As private capital moves into solar geoengineering and Washington and Beijing begin framing atmospheric modification as a matter of national security, the capacity to cool…

Trump, Xi, Putin to hold historic meeting in China: White House

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will hold the first ever three-way meeting between the leaders of the United States, Russia and China at…

Hong Kong’s Sikh temple lit in blue for ‘Day of Liberation’ festival

Wan Chai’s historic Sikh Gurudwara has been lit in blue for Bandi Chhor Divas, meaning “Day of Liberation” – a Sikh celebration coinciding with Diwali.…

Most F**&* Up Friday 13th ever

Hong Kong receives 16 expressions of interest for Northern Metropolis logistics cluster

A planned logistics cluster in the Hung Shui Kiu/Ha Tsuen development area in Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis has received 16 expression-of-interest submissions, the government has…

Nationwide emergency order just issued

Now they’re going after family

They’re all going to jail

Huang’s fall exposes contradictions in America’s China strategy

Jensen Huang’s resignation as Nvidia chief executive this week followed a convergence of corporate governance concerns, intelligence allegations and scrutiny of semiconductor exports to China.…

Migrant worker activists push back against Hong Kong visa rejections over ‘job-hopping’

Migrant worker activists have pushed back against the government’s rejection of domestic workers’ visas over concerns that they had a history of “job-hopping,” saying that…

US demand that Iraq disarm brigades misreads the security reality

Iraq marked Sovereignty Day on September 30, 2026, by holding a four-day national holiday in celebration of the departure of US-led international forces. American troops,…