The Frontier Express: when Samsung gets money
For most of the past thirty years, the semiconductor industry ran on a remarkably clean division of labor. Everybody knew their place. The caricature was…
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PTI opposition jailed as Trump embraces Pakistanβs Asim Munir
As US President Donald Trump deepens his ties with Pakistanβs powerful military chief Asim Munir, the nationβs government has detained the elected leadership of the…
Read full article βFirefighters receive 179 reports of people trapped in lifts after sudden voltage dip
Hong Kong firefighters have received over 200 reports of people trapped in lifts and falsely triggered fire alarms after a sudden drop in voltage along…
Read full article βChina sentences to death Myanmar scam clan members
A Chinese court sentenced three members of a criminal gang to death on Tuesday for operating a network of brutal scam centres in Myanmarβs Kokang…
Read full article βChina-linked hackers hit Fiji: US embassy
Hackers with links to China compromised a regional organisation in Fiji, the Pacific nationβs US embassy said Tuesday, warning that governments and telecommunication networks in…
Read full article βNew Huanggang checkpoint logs 79,500 first-day trips as transport chief says contingencies ready for long weekend
The newly redeveloped Huanggang Port border checkpoint between Hong Kong and Shenzhen saw 79,500 trips on its first day of operation, Shenzhen border authorities have…
Read full article βHong Kong enacts pneumonia checks for arrivals from Russia after mystery lab death
Hong Kongβs Centre for Health Protection (CHP) has stepped up checks for arrivals from Russia after a lab worker in Siberia died from severe pneumonia…
Read full article βTrump aligns with Putin yet again, squeezing Ukraine and Europe
The deal struck by Donald Trump with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on October 9 to allow Russia to sell millions of tonnes of diesel…
Read full article βIndiaβs superpower dream is just another recycled Modi slogan
Famous Indian author Shashi Tharoor was famously quoted as saying: βEverything in India is recycled, even the dreams β In October 2010, The Economist ran…
Read full article βThe seven stages of American decline
When Donald Trump went to Joint Base Andrews on September 23 to greet Xi Jinping in person, strategic analysts took notice. American presidents rarely wait…
Read full article βHong Kong actor Angela Yuen calls for eradication of film industryβs βmisogynisticβ culture
A Hong Kong actor has urged for the βeradicationβ of sexual harassment and what she called βmisogynisticβ behaviour in the local film industry in a…
Read full article βIran war-depleted arsenal making US a less potent power
The Iran conflict has exposed a glaring blind spot in US war strategy. America can escalate in hours, but it can take years to rebuild…
Read full article βUS turning B-52 bomber into long-range China ship killer
While the US is arming its long-serving B-52 with potent ship-killing missiles to take on Chinaβs expanding navy, severe munition constraints and operational vulnerabilities could…
Read full article βHong Kong police launch AI-powered national security platform for school pupils
Hong Kong police have launched an artificial intelligence-powered national security education platform for pupils. The NSmarties AI Interactive Platform was officially launched last week at…
Read full article βFCC product testing ban deepens US-China tech decoupling
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving to bar every Chinese lab from testing electronics for the US market, a sector China dominates. And…
Read full article βTrump is free at last to be what he has always been for Putin
Poor Donald Trump. For the last 21 months he had to do a great deal of lying. He had to pretend at times that he…
Read full article βThe AI risk no bank can manage alone
The most unsettling failure in digital payments may not be a black screen. Imagine a fraud-detection model that remains online but suddenly flags thousands of…
Read full article βBalkan countries show the dangers in obsession with βheritageβ
I write from Dubrovnik, a historic and heavily touristed city on Croatiaβs Adriatic coast. Visiting here and other parts of Croatia and its next-door neighbor…
Read full article βNew Huanggang border checkpoint opens with single-queue joint clearance system for HK and mainland authorities
The revamped Huanggang Port border checkpoint between Hong Kong and Shenzhen has officially opened after six years of redevelopment, featuring the first joint clearance facility…
Read full article βPutinβs scorched-city policy hits Ukraine hard
During a quarter-century in power, Vladimir Putin has led Russia into three wars, in part aimed at restoring his countryβs status as a world power…
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