Nostalgia hinders Takaichi’s vision for Japan

Two themes dominate Japan’s elite thinking at present: a blend of awe and fear about the ambitions of Japan’s powerful prime minister, Sanae Takaichi; and…

Hong Kong dentist says she lost job after staging solo demo on the 2019 mob attack anniversary

A Hong Kong dentist has said she was fired days after she staged a solo protest on the seventh anniversary of a notorious mob attack…

Elon Musk selling Tesla to China?

China’s DUV lithography still lags ASML by four generations

Media reports published earlier this week about China’s plan to start making its own immersion deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines have caused a sharp sell-off…

Forced selling just started

Suicide among children and teens hit ten-year high last year, but overall figures decline – NGO

The suicide rate among Hong Kong children and teens hit a 10-year high last year, an NGO has said, as it urged the government to…

US economy just got crushed

Chip boom’s dirty secret hiding in Samsung’s record earnings

Samsung just posted an operating profit of 89.5 trillion won, roughly US$62 billion, for the second quarter. That’s a jump of 1,814% from a year…

The Washington dissensus on Myanmar

US President Donald Trump has remade American foreign policy into a dangerous mix of belligerence, atrocity crimes and incoherent lunacy. The broad elements of the…

Why South Korean stocks just crashed

Explaining stock market movements is always a little bit of a fool’s errand; no one really understands why stocks boom or crash on a given…

Netanyahu’s Trump meeting suggests his star is waning in Washington

Appearing increasingly isolated and weakened, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Washington this week, where he had a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump –…

Myanmar’s junta slowly but surely winning its war with ASEAN

The multidimensional crisis that has gripped Myanmar since the military coup on February 1, 2021, has entered a new chapter — one increasingly complex and…

3 ex-HSBC staff face anti-corruption watchdog charges over alleged bribes for bank account openings

Three former HSBC staff have been charged over allegedly accepting bribes to assist customers in opening bank accounts without joining the queue. Each customer was…

Official criticises ‘anti-China bias’ after ex-banker calls Hong Kong ‘just another big Chinese city’

A top official has hit back at remarks by a former Morgan Stanley Asia chair who said Hong Kong has become “just another big Chinese…

Tai Po fire: Renovation directors denied knowledge of combustible materials and bid-rigging despite contrary evidence

Two directors at the renovation firm that oversaw works at Wang Fuk Court when a deadly fire broke out last November denied knowing that substandard,…

US Congress hasn’t authorized Trump’s Iran war—or ended it

On July 23, the House of Representatives voted 214-208 to direct President Donald Trump to remove US forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress authorizes them. Hours later, the…

New Zealand foreign minister in racism row with Chinese ambassador

New Zealand’s top diplomat Winston Peters drew the ire of Beijing’s ambassador in Wellington on Thursday after telling a lawmaker of Chinese descent to “go…

Chinese humanoids birthing new Asian business models

Before a Chinese humanoid can take on ground-handling work at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, JAL Ground Service has to decide which jobs are suitable and what…

Derek Williams dies after decades filming the frontlines of Asia

Longtime CBS News cameraman Derek Williams, who spent four decades covering some of Asia’s most pivotal events, from the Vietnam War to the Tiananmen Square…

China accuses US of suppression over humanoid robot ban

Beijing accused the United States on Wednesday of seeking to “suppress” Chinese companies, after Washington banned imports of humanoid and quadruped robots manufactured abroad. Most…