Will Hasina ever retake power in Bangladesh?
On August 5, two years to the day after a mass uprising drove Sheikh Hasina from power, she announced from India that she would return…
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Chinaβs WZ-X drone hints at an unmanned stealth bomber
Chinaβs WZ-X points to a future in which stealth, endurance, surveillance and strike converge in a new class of unmanned aircraft built for sustained operations…
Read full article βThe embedded AI inside βMade in Chinaβ
Western coverage of Chinese artificial intelligence still tends to treat the competition as a model contest: can a Chinese company match the best American system?…
Read full article β3 re-arrested for alleged sedition after marking anniversary of 2019 Prince Edward police storming
Police have re-arrested three people on suspicion of sedition, after previously apprehending them outside Prince Edward station on the anniversary of a 2019 incident when…
Read full article βAll in a dayβs reading, if youβre following innovation
One problem with following innovation is that the extraordinary now arrives disguised as the weekly. A frontier model trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, several…
Read full article βUkraine war update: It will be a brutal fall and winter
In a war, length is far more important than ferocity. Trying to keep a war from escalating might seem like a prudent thing (and academic…
Read full article βExplainer: Hong Kongβs national security crackdown β month 74
In August, two high-profile activists were found guilty in a national security case along with the organisation they once led β the now-dissolved Hong Kong…
Read full article βUniversity of Hong Kong student βDemocracy Wallβ replaced with digital displays
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has replaced its student βDemocracy Wallβ with digital displays, after the campus bulletin board was left largely empty for…
Read full article βGive us a Hong Kong-style Handover of Falklands from UK, says Argentinian leader
Argentine President Javier Milei has called for a Hong Kong-style Handover of the disputed Falklands from the UK. In an interview with The Economist published…
▶️ Watch →Chinaβs memories of Mao fade to nostalgia 50 years after his death
The crimson flags on Nanjie villageβs βEast is Redβ Square hang limp in the sweltering summer heat as a trickle of tourists take photos with…
Read full article βChinese guitar capitalβs stairway to export heaven
It doesnβt take long to guess the main industry of the Chinese town of Zhengβan. A giant guitar sculpture dominates the central square, guitar murals…
Read full article βChina artists quit S.Korea art show after organisers let βTaiwanβ be used in name of exhibition
Chinese artists withdrew from a major South Korean art show after organisers allowed βTaiwanβ to be used in the name of an exhibition, officials said…
Read full article βThree leaders, three agendas at SCOβs 25th anniversary
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) marked its 25th anniversary in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, with all the trappings a diplomatic milestone demands. There were…
Read full article βOpen season: killing the norm against leadership assassination
When the story of an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump during the NATO summit in Turkey emerged in the second week of August,…
Read full article βTaliban mining pitch to US is a political risk time bomb
Afghanistan is estimated to hold more than US$1 trillion in mineral resources. Rich stores of copper, lithium, gold, iron ore, rare earth elements, coal and…
Read full article βMoscowβs long paranoia about UK support for Russiaβs foes
Relations between London and Moscow reached another peak of tension in August over the UKβs support for Ukraine. The success of Ukraineβs long-range strikes against…
Read full article βWhy you wonβt be getting a flying car
Stripe Press was kind enough to send me several books it had published, and one of these was J. Storrs HallβsΒ βWhere Is My Flying Car?β.…
Read full article βHKFP Lens: βLove at last sightβ β bidding farewell to Hong Kongβs modernist General Post Office after 50 years
When the General Post Office was built in Central half a century ago, conservationists mourned the loss of the building it replaced. The old General…
Read full article βNo, we are not on the eve of World War III
Every few months, someone β a general, a think tank, a cable news panel β declares that the world is edging toward a third world…
Read full article βRuth Wang, Chinese lawyer for underground church, flees to Taiwan β rights group
Taiwan said Friday it has provided βtemporary accommodationβ to a Chinese citizen, after a rights group reported that a lawyer representing detained leaders of an…
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