Chinese man, 106, embraces ‘reverse schedule’, celebrated alongside wife as ‘model couple’
A 106-year-old man in eastern China has inspired many online with his unconventional lifestyle and enduring marriage. Wa
ng Dinggao, from Rui’an in Zhejiang province, remains remarkably independent despite experiencing some hearing loss, according to the mainland media outlet Daxiang News. In contrast to most people, he...
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A 106-year-old man in eastern China has inspired many online with his unconventional lifestyle and enduring marriage. Wa
ng Dinggao, from Rui’an in Zhejiang province, remains remarkably independent despite experiencing some hearing loss, according to the mainland media outlet Daxiang News. In contrast to most people, he...
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Can a US$6 trillion South Korea-Japan economic bloc succeed?
A fraying global economic order could push South Korea and Japan towards deeper trade integration, with business leaders
and analysts saying the two neighbours stand to benefit from such a partnership despite lingering historical wounds. The two countries could draw closer as the era of relatively open global trade giv...
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A fraying global economic order could push South Korea and Japan towards deeper trade integration, with business leaders
and analysts saying the two neighbours stand to benefit from such a partnership despite lingering historical wounds. The two countries could draw closer as the era of relatively open global trade giv...
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What’s a Northern Metropolis-like project doing in Malaysia? Lessons for Hong Kong?
Deep in the southern border zone of Johor, Malaysia, separated from Singapore by a narrow strait, a steady flow of commu
ters moves seamlessly between the two sovereign neighbours. Beyond the immediate checkpoints, a short 30-minute train ride connects visitors to regional hubs such as Kulai, where a vastly different dy...
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Deep in the southern border zone of Johor, Malaysia, separated from Singapore by a narrow strait, a steady flow of commu
ters moves seamlessly between the two sovereign neighbours. Beyond the immediate checkpoints, a short 30-minute train ride connects visitors to regional hubs such as Kulai, where a vastly different dy...
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Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly routed user requests to Claude, Anthropic claims
American artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused its Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot on Thursda
y of covertly routing customer requests to its Claude models, then showing users the responses as if they were from their own models. The new allegations mark a further escalation in US criticism of C...
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American artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused its Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot on Thursda
y of covertly routing customer requests to its Claude models, then showing users the responses as if they were from their own models. The new allegations mark a further escalation in US criticism of C...
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Several dead in Dutch coach crash in Switzerland
Several people were killed and injured when a coach carrying Dutch tourists in eastern Switzerland crashed, police said
on Thursday. The accident happened at about 4.45pm between the communes of Susch and Zernez in the far-eastern canton of Graubunden. The coach hit a safety barrier before overturning and plunging down...
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Several people were killed and injured when a coach carrying Dutch tourists in eastern Switzerland crashed, police said
on Thursday. The accident happened at about 4.45pm between the communes of Susch and Zernez in the far-eastern canton of Graubunden. The coach hit a safety barrier before overturning and plunging down...
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Hong Kong home prices headed for 15% gain this year, Midland forecast says
Hong Kong’s home prices will end the year 15 per cent higher than a year earlier, but still 16 per cent below their high
-water mark in 2021, according to local property agency Midland Realty. Underpinning the positive forecast, the city’s banks were not likely to follow an increase in US interest rates by the Federal R...
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Hong Kong’s home prices will end the year 15 per cent higher than a year earlier, but still 16 per cent below their high
-water mark in 2021, according to local property agency Midland Realty. Underpinning the positive forecast, the city’s banks were not likely to follow an increase in US interest rates by the Federal R...
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Princess Diana’s ‘revenge dress’ to be up for auction for first time in decades
The “revenge dress” worn by the late Princess Diana in 1994 is up for auction at Sotheby’s for the first time in nearly
three decades. The black silk evening dress by Greek designer Christina Stambolian is estimated to fetch as much as £220,000 (US$298,110) when it goes on sale on December 9 during Sotheby’s Luxury Wee...
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The “revenge dress” worn by the late Princess Diana in 1994 is up for auction at Sotheby’s for the first time in nearly
three decades. The black silk evening dress by Greek designer Christina Stambolian is estimated to fetch as much as £220,000 (US$298,110) when it goes on sale on December 9 during Sotheby’s Luxury Wee...
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Maduro trial: ex-Venezuela first lady seeks release from US jail, citing heart problems
Venezuela’s former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on US drug-trafficking c
harges. Cilia Flores, the wife of ex-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, “deserves the opportunity to await her trial while on home confinement” while dealing with a heart condition that has only got...
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Venezuela’s former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on US drug-trafficking c
harges. Cilia Flores, the wife of ex-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, “deserves the opportunity to await her trial while on home confinement” while dealing with a heart condition that has only got...
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Tech, EV and aerospace executives likely to join Xi’s US trip to mirror Trump team
Beijing is weighing plans to send a group of top tech, electric vehicle and aerospace executives to accompany Chinese Pr
esident Xi Jinping to Washington later this month, as the two sides race to finalise details for the closely watched visit. The South China Morning Post first reported on August 28 that Chinese and US...
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Beijing is weighing plans to send a group of top tech, electric vehicle and aerospace executives to accompany Chinese Pr
esident Xi Jinping to Washington later this month, as the two sides race to finalise details for the closely watched visit. The South China Morning Post first reported on August 28 that Chinese and US...
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China rebuts top US diplomat Marco Rubio over ‘Communist Party-backed projects’ in Peru
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held talks in Peru on Thursday on countering Beijing’s growing footprint around the st
rategic Chancay megaport, drawing a sharp response from China’s embassy in Lima, which defended its investments and took aim at Washington’s strict visa rules. Rubio met President Keiko Fujimori at th...
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held talks in Peru on Thursday on countering Beijing’s growing footprint around the st
rategic Chancay megaport, drawing a sharp response from China’s embassy in Lima, which defended its investments and took aim at Washington’s strict visa rules. Rubio met President Keiko Fujimori at th...
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The Global South cannot afford to let its maritime border disputes fester
The ocean looks like peace from afar and truth up close, they say. But beneath the waves, the map of the world’s oceans
is far less settled than it looks. Today, dozens of sea borders remain unresolved. Like so many conflicts, they owe their origins to complicated questions of where one country’s territory ends, and an...
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The ocean looks like peace from afar and truth up close, they say. But beneath the waves, the map of the world’s oceans
is far less settled than it looks. Today, dozens of sea borders remain unresolved. Like so many conflicts, they owe their origins to complicated questions of where one country’s territory ends, and an...
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Switzerland publishes 200-page dossier on Nazi doctor Mengele, known as ‘Angel of Death’
The Swiss federal intelligence service on Thursday published a 200-page dossier on the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef
Mengele, the German doctor known as the “Angel of Death” for conducting horrific medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. During World War II, Mengele served at the Auschwitz extermination camp...
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The Swiss federal intelligence service on Thursday published a 200-page dossier on the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef
Mengele, the German doctor known as the “Angel of Death” for conducting horrific medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. During World War II, Mengele served at the Auschwitz extermination camp...
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Canada unveils US$254 million air defence package for Ukraine
Canada has agreed to a C$350 million (US$254 million) aid package for Kyiv to acquire air defence interceptors, Prime M
inister Mark Carney said on Thursday, after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Kyiv is running critically low on US-made Patriot interceptors capable of stopping Russia’s ballistic missi...
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Canada has agreed to a C$350 million (US$254 million) aid package for Kyiv to acquire air defence interceptors, Prime M
inister Mark Carney said on Thursday, after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Kyiv is running critically low on US-made Patriot interceptors capable of stopping Russia’s ballistic missi...
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Chinese scientists boost hydrogen fuel cell power fourfold with new design
Chinese scientists have developed a way to generate a fourfold increase in power output of hydrogen fuel cells, an advan
ce that could broaden their use from road vehicles to space missions. Hydrogen is widely viewed as a promising clean energy source for a low-carbon future. Fuel cells convert the chemical energy in hy...
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Chinese scientists have developed a way to generate a fourfold increase in power output of hydrogen fuel cells, an advan
ce that could broaden their use from road vehicles to space missions. Hydrogen is widely viewed as a promising clean energy source for a low-carbon future. Fuel cells convert the chemical energy in hy...
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Huawei racketeering trial enters second day of testimony
Key witnesses are expected to testify in Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies’ landmark criminal case on Thursday in B
rooklyn, New York, as it enters its second day of testimony. It comes after a US government lawyer told federal jurors on the opening day that Huawei engaged in criminal activities to achieve “growth ...
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Key witnesses are expected to testify in Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies’ landmark criminal case on Thursday in B
rooklyn, New York, as it enters its second day of testimony. It comes after a US government lawyer told federal jurors on the opening day that Huawei engaged in criminal activities to achieve “growth ...
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US existing home sales hit weakest pace in over a year
Sales of previously owned homes in the United States slowed last month to their weakest pace in more than a year, as wou
ld-be buyers waited for relief on mortgage rates before purchasing. Contract closings slipped 2 per cent to an annualised rate of 3.98 million in August, data released on Thursday by the National Asso...
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Sales of previously owned homes in the United States slowed last month to their weakest pace in more than a year, as wou
ld-be buyers waited for relief on mortgage rates before purchasing. Contract closings slipped 2 per cent to an annualised rate of 3.98 million in August, data released on Thursday by the National Asso...
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Huawei racketeering trial turns to alleged trade secret theft from Japan’s Fujitsu
A key witness is expected to testify on Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies’ alleged theft of trade secrets from Japa
nese rival Fujitsu on Thursday as the company’s landmark criminal trial in Brooklyn, New York, enters its second day of testimony. It comes after a US government lawyer told federal jurors on the open...
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A key witness is expected to testify on Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies’ alleged theft of trade secrets from Japa
nese rival Fujitsu on Thursday as the company’s landmark criminal trial in Brooklyn, New York, enters its second day of testimony. It comes after a US government lawyer told federal jurors on the open...
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Mainland Chinese pay tribute to Tung Chee-hwa for opening door to Hong Kong
Mainland Chinese have paid tribute to Hong Kong’s first chief executive, the late Tung Chee-hwa, for introducing a solo-
travel scheme more than two decades ago that opened the city to millions of travellers and created indelible memories for middle-class families. The Individual Visit Scheme has grown from a handful of...
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Mainland Chinese have paid tribute to Hong Kong’s first chief executive, the late Tung Chee-hwa, for introducing a solo-
travel scheme more than two decades ago that opened the city to millions of travellers and created indelible memories for middle-class families. The Individual Visit Scheme has grown from a handful of...
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ICAC charges ex-HKEX vice-president over alleged failure to declare assets
A former vice-president of Hong Kong’s stock exchange operator has been charged by the city’s corruption watchdog with a
llegedly failing to comply with a statutory order to declare his assets during a probe. Geoffrey Tong Po‑hang, 39, former vice-president of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), faces a count of fa...
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A former vice-president of Hong Kong’s stock exchange operator has been charged by the city’s corruption watchdog with a
llegedly failing to comply with a statutory order to declare his assets during a probe. Geoffrey Tong Po‑hang, 39, former vice-president of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), faces a count of fa...
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US producer inflation tops expectations as energy costs jump amid Iran war
US wholesale inflation picked up more than expected in August, government data showed Thursday, driven by higher energy
costs in the month – particularly for diesel – as the US war with Iran continued. Rising prices at the pump are squeezing US households and businesses weeks ahead of key midterm elections, pressuring ...
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US wholesale inflation picked up more than expected in August, government data showed Thursday, driven by higher energy
costs in the month – particularly for diesel – as the US war with Iran continued. Rising prices at the pump are squeezing US households and businesses weeks ahead of key midterm elections, pressuring ...
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