Bank Indonesia drama shows why rupiah is plunging

TOKYO — Investors hoping President Prabowo Subianto might learn from Indonesia’s past economic mistakes should get used to disappointment. Since taking office in October 2024,…

More than half of fire-hit Wang Fuk Court homeowners have signed contracts to sell flats to gov’t, Hong Kong leader says

More than half of homeowners of the fire-hit Wang Fuk Court have signed contracts selling their flats to the government under a buyback plan, the…

The final exit is you

Why the Korea domino just fell

Hard power, hard choices: UK’s reckoning a lesson for US

Andy Burnham walked into 10 Downing Street last week as Britain’s seventh prime minister in ten years. He takes over a country still absorbing the…

Press group says 5 journalists dismissed at BBC Hong Kong amid bullying claims, urges review

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged the BBC to investigate reports of bullying at its Hong Kong bureau after five long-serving journalists were…

Al-Qaida and Islamic State adopting AI – but not the same way

Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier. That is the central argument of…

Canada’s GCAP fighter move tests limits of US diversification

Canada’s entry into the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) highlights a broader strategic dilemma: how to modernize its air force without deepening dependence on any…

Vietnam’s smart-port push opens another door to Washington

Vietnam’s effort to modernize Da Nang’s maritime infrastructure may look at first like another Asian port-development project, but it is considerably more important than that.…

Taiwan detains Nvidia worker in chip smuggling probe: source familiar with case

Prosecutors in Taiwan have detained an Nvidia employee as part of an investigation into the smuggling of the US tech giant’s AI chips to China,…

Over 30% of sanitation workers not informed by employers about heat stress warnings, survey finds

Over 30 per cent of sanitation workers are not being informed by employers when the Labour Department’s heat stress warnings are raised, a survey has…

Beijing accuses US firms of training AI models on Chinese examples

Beijing accused US artificial intelligence companies on Monday of using Chinese examples to train their models, days after Washington threatened sanctions on Chinese firms for…

Riyadh’s bomb-in-waiting: inside the US-Saudi nuclear deal

“Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as…

Ex-Hong Kong opposition leader Wu Chi-wai granted 6-month stay in UK after border detention, thanks supporters

The ex-leader of Hong Kong’s opposition Democratic Party, Wu Chi-wai, has been allowed to stay in the UK for six months, following reports that he…

Why the AI crash is going viral

Hung Hom ParknShop ordered to rectify hygiene issues after viral video of rat infestation

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) has conducted a spot inspection after reports of a rat infestation at a Ka Wai Estate ParknShop supermarket…

North Korea’s missile pipeline to Russia paying strategic dividends

North Korea’s renewed ballistic missile exports are helping Russia sustain its campaign in Ukraine while accelerating weapons development and military learning that may ultimately reverberate…

Novel follows 5 lives changed forever by Iran Islamic revolution

In The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran, shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize, the 1979 Islamic Revolution is the primary force propelling the story…

India’s Gen Z: the generation Modi couldn’t silence

You can kill a revolutionary but never kill the revolution. A revolutionary can be silenced, imprisoned or exiled but ideas have a remarkable ability to…

​​With spirit of Anchorage dead, no new ideas to end Ukraine War

On the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting in Manila, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The…