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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.…

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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…

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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,…

Did China’s ‘beauty stratagem’ find a new victim in Jensen Huang?

Extramarital activities have led to the resignation of one of America’s most influential tech bosses, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The saga has also raised the…

Asia’s way out of the Hormuz deadlock

On November 11, Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said the Strait of Hormuz will “never return” to its pre-war status, that Tehran has reached…

Midterms showed US voters want to break up with Israel

On the very morning of the critical US midterm elections, President Donald Trump made what seemed like a shocking announcement: no more aid to Israel.…

All five defendants in San Po Kong subversion case intend to plead guilty, court hears

Two men have told a Hong Kong court that they intend to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit subversion after they were arrested on suspicion…

China’s demographic challenge becoming its biotech advantage

Is biotechnology becoming the next space race? The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) appears to think so. This month, it urged Washington to adopt a comprehensive…