China test-fires missile in Pacific Ocean
A Chinese submarine test-fired a βstrategicβ missile carrying a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, Beijing said, drawing immediate condemnation from nations in…
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Power prevails but law still matters in the South China Sea
Across the Indo-Pacific, governments are increasing defense spending, strengthening alliances, and placing renewed emphasis on deterrence. Strategic competition has once again become the defining feature…
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Wang Fuk Court administrator to host ownersβ meeting across 4 venues via live broadcast
The administrator of the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court housing estate will host a special ownersβ meeting on July 19 at four different venues, after a…
Read full article βCompasses, not maps: China is building a different type of AI
Every few months, another Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough makes global headlines. A Chinese AI model closes in on American rivals, a Chinese research team…
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Labour groups demand minimum wage hike, higher food allowance for migrant domestic workers
Labour groups have urged Hong Kong authorities to raise the minimum wage for migrant domestic workers, increase the food allowance and require employers to provide…
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China frees jailed pastor Ezra Jin after Trump raised his case with Xi
China has released the founder of an underground church who has been detained since October, his church and family confirmed to AFP on Sunday, after…
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Full list of dog-friendly Hong Kong restaurants, as permits kick in from Thursday
After a decades-old ban, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department is granting permits to restaurants to allow pet dogs on to the premises. The scheme…
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Ex-employer ordered to pay HK$251k to family of late domestic worker fired over cancer diagnosis, NGO says process βunbearableβ
A Hong Kong court has ordered the former employer of a late Filipina domestic worker who was fired after a cervical cancer diagnosis in 2019…
Read full article βBarring a counter to oil damage, Russian economy seen in crisis
The long-range/mid-range Ukrainian strike campaign is continuing to grow, ominously for Russia. Some Ukrainian analysis just released about the damage to Russian oil production for…
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Taiwanβs ageing seaweed harvesters hope younger women wade in to keep tradition alive
By Joy Chiang and Sally Jensen Unfazed by the crashing waves, 72-year-old Wu Feng-chiao yanks fistfuls of brownish-purple seaweed she will process into jelly, one…
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Explainer: Hong Kongβs national security crackdown β month 72
Last month marked six years since the Beijing-imposed national security law took effect in Hong Kong. The crackdown continued in June: an independent bookshop was…
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Germany summons Chinese envoy over reported training of Russian troops
The Chinese ambassador in Berlin was summoned for urgent talks over media reports that Russian soldiers were being trained in China, the German foreign ministry…
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Chinese investors flock to Hong Kong as trading curbs tighten
Soon after disembarking at Hong Kongβs train station, Chinese private investor Feng was opening a stock trading account at a nearby brokerage, hoping to evade…
Read full article βChinaβs air-conditioned lesson for Europeβs killer heat wave
Europeβs scramble for Chinese air conditioners is not really a story about China, or even about trade. It is a story about what happens when…
Read full article βChinaβs truck drone launcher hides airpower in civilian traffic
Chinaβs mobile drone launcher is less a single weapon than a blueprint for dispersing airpower, exploiting civilian cover and exporting low-cost strike reach to states…
Read full article βAmericaβs AI war machine has no human stop rule
When the Pentagon made Palantirβs Maven Smart System a formal βprogram of recordβ in March, it did more than approve software. It gave long-term status…
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βThis could have been meβ: Chinese women throng Germany trials of βDriving Schoolβ rape network
By Pierrick Yvon German courts have been trying a group of mostly Chinese men accused of running a sexual abuse network that drugged victims and…
Read full article ββHonebuto shockβ: new term coined as Japan fiscal policy is probed
Japanese government long-term bonds brieflyΒ climbedΒ to 2.81% on Thursday, July 3 β their highest level in thirty yearsΒ β prompting one analyst toΒ referΒ to it as the βhonebutoΒ shock,β…
Read full article βHyundaiβs new steel mill sparks hopes and fears in Louisiana
On aΒ drizzly March day last year at the White House, President Donald J. Trump stood behind aΒ podium to make aΒ ββbeautiful announcement.β Hyundai, the Korean industrial…
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China accuses critics of ethnic unity law of βspreading falsehoodsβ as UN warns it threatens rights of minorities
China urged countries on Friday to βstop spreading falsehoodsβ about its new ethnic unity law, after US lawmakers, the United Nations and rights groups warned…
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