US calls for AI poisoning to sabotage China’s model distillation

Beijing has threatened to retaliate if Washington moves to curb Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firms over accusations that they used a technique called distillation to…

Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists jailed for up to 7 years, 3 months for inciting subversion, group fined HK$1.5 million

Three activists who once organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown crackdown have been sentenced to up to seven years and three months…

This AI panic just went viral

Suicide rate among children under 15 tripled last year, as researchers urge schools and media to do better

A university research centre has urged schools to strengthen mental health awareness among students after statistics revealed a rise in the suicide rate for children…

The next crisis just started

World can’t stop laughing at Trump’s $5000 bribe

Nearly 40% of Hong Kong’s elderly face medium to extreme heat risk – Greenpeace

Nearly 40 per cent of Hong Kong’s elderly live in districts with medium to high or high-extreme heat risk, a new study has found. NGO…

The questions China won’t answer about the Tibet-Nepal flood disaster

For years, analysts and observers have warned about the dangers of China’s relentless infrastructure push in Tibet, particularly its dam-building ambitions on the Brahmaputra River,…

Indonesia’s bold bid to set the world’s critical mineral prices

In the global supply chain, Indonesia sits at the epicenter of the market for nickel and other critical minerals. Yet the value of that natural…

Australia jails marketing executive who compiled reports for China

An Australian man convicted of reckless foreign interference for compiling reports for Chinese intelligence was sentenced to more than three years in jail by a…

China says US accusations of AI theft are ‘groundless’

China said on Wednesday that US accusations of Chinese labs stealing the capabilities of American models were “groundless”, as the two countries race for tech…

2 men with autism jailed for 3 years over joining a Taiwan group that advocated independence for Hong Kong

Two young men have been jailed for 36 months and 38 months over their participation in a Taiwan-based group which called for Hong Kong independence…

BREAKING: Wall St Journal publisher guilty of preventing ex-reporter Selina Cheng from running for press union chair

A Hong Kong court has convicted the Wall Street Journal’s publisher of attempting to prevent a former reporter from taking up leadership of an embattled…

25 years of war was the exact wrong response to 9/11

The lesson of 9/11 should be that war is not the answer to any of the problems facing the United States. After inflicting violence and chaos on country…

There’s a history to what Trump’s up to regarding troops in Korea

US President Donald Trump’s decision to reduce US participation in military exercises with South Korea raised eyebrows in the face of North Korea’s ongoing belligerence,…

No one showed up

Will – and can – the Iranian people revolt over the costs of war?

Asia Times editors’ note: Context for the following article is provided by new reporting from investigative reporter Seymour Hersh saying that the US Operation Economic…

Hong Kong political leaders and grandees pay tribute to ‘visionary’ leader Tung Chee-hwa

Hong Kong leader John Lee has joined a chorus of senior politicians and local grandees paying tribute to Tung Chee-hwa, the city’s first leader after…

They’re gambling with our lives

iPhone foldable is here… but there’s a catch