They’re prepping retreat

Japan’s drone sprint poised to hit an industrial wall

Japan’s rush to field interceptor drones marks a sharp break with its traditionally slow-moving defense procurement system as it prepares for a battlefield increasingly dominated…

Planned Star Ferry fare hike must consider public acceptance and importance of icon, transport advisor to gov’t says

Plans to hike fares for Hong Kong’s iconic Star Ferry must take into account its status as an “important asset” as well as the public’s…

Hong Kong fisherman, 67, dies after suspected lightning strike on sampan off Tseung Kwan O

A Hong Kong fisherman has died after his sampan was suspected of being struck by lightning off the coast of Tseung Kwan O during a…

Vietnam’s ‘justice tree’ tests the limits of online dissent

In August 2026, a fatal traffic accident from the previous year became one of the biggest trending topics on Vietnamese social media. Nguyen Sy Cuong,…

Taiwan lawmakers approve $7.6 bn drone budget as China threat grows

Lawmakers in Taiwan approved a $7.6 billion budget for locally made drones on Thursday as the island democracy seeks to strengthen its defences against a…

Tsunami of dirt: what caused Nepal’s deadly glacial flood?

More than 150 people are dead and hundreds more missing after an enormous wave of water, ice, mud and rock cascaded more than 170 kilometres…

100 signs of Silicon Shock

We are biased. Given our faith in the rapidly rising utility of AI that can only be done on a completely new type of hardware,…

3 people arrested for fighting after elderly woman filmed slapping 5-year-old girl in Kwun Tong mall

Three women have been arrested over an altercation at a Kwun Tong shopping mall on Wednesday, after a viral video showed one of them slapping…

Hong Kong to unveil Policy Address alongside debut 5-year plan on Sep 16

Hong Kong will unveil its first-ever five-year plan and its annual Policy Address jointly on September 16, Chief Executive John Lee has announced. Lee told…

Can Democrats seize on how much everyone hates Trump’s Iran war?

Amidst the tragifarce of President Donald Trump’s apparently off-the-top-of-his-head war on Iran may lie a silver lining for the 2028 presidential election — a silver…

Indonesia’s green transition has a glaring social blind spot

There is a harsh paradox in today’s sustainability debate. The tools for understanding environmental risk are becoming more sophisticated: financed emissions, climate-risk models, taxonomies, transition…

USS Abraham Lincoln fiasco demands a congressional probe

The USS Abraham Lincoln is on its way home. This is welcome news after hearing of its abhorrent conditions. Yet, the situation lived by sailors…

US transshipment claims in Southeast Asia rest on thin data

Washington’s August 13 report, The Great Transshipment Scam, puts Southeast Asia at the center of a widening US campaign against tariff evasion worldwide. Indonesia, Malaysia,…

Search for 1,000 missing after deadly Nepal-Tibet floods

Rescue teams rushed Thursday to find more than 1,000 people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 165…

America’s lost Chinese students are staying home instead

The most telling number on American campuses this month is the one that didn’t show up. New foreign enrollment at US universities fell 20% this…

Wild pigs and pampered pooches: Hong Kong’s complex relationship with animals

“Some we love, some we hate, some we eat,” was the title of a best-selling exploration of the relationship between humans and animals, with subtitle…

Mystery shrouds CIA chief Ratcliffe’s urgent visit to Moscow

There is very little information on CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow. Even so, there is enough information to make some observations. One reason…

Time to cut them off

Hong Kong taxi driver jailed 8 weeks, fined HK$3,000 after overcharging undercover officer and fleeing scene

A taxi driver has been sentenced to eight weeks in prison and fined HK$3,000 after he was caught overcharging an undercover police officer and then…