China presses France to drop ‘protectionist’ anti-fast fashion law
China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) said on Thursday it had held talks with French companies operating in China and re
iterated calls for France to stop using its “anti-fast fashion law” to undermine the rights and interests of Chinese enterprises. According to ministry spokesperson Huang Ling, public reports suggeste...
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China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) said on Thursday it had held talks with French companies operating in China and re
iterated calls for France to stop using its “anti-fast fashion law” to undermine the rights and interests of Chinese enterprises. According to ministry spokesperson Huang Ling, public reports suggeste...
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Hong Kong watchdog investigates Cloudbreak Pharma for ‘rigged’ IPO, suspends its shares
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has directed the stock exchange to suspend trading of US-based biote
ch firm Cloudbreak Pharma pending an investigation into its US$78 million initial public offering (IPO) last year. “The SFC has serious concerns that Cloudbreak’s initial public offering may have been...
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Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has directed the stock exchange to suspend trading of US-based biote
ch firm Cloudbreak Pharma pending an investigation into its US$78 million initial public offering (IPO) last year. “The SFC has serious concerns that Cloudbreak’s initial public offering may have been...
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Wildfires threaten Indonesia’s new capital as carrier ordered in
Indonesia’s wildfires are creeping towards Nusantara, the country’s new capital under construction on Borneo island, cha
llenging its promise of becoming an eco-friendly “smart forest city”. The Southeast Asian nation is battling what officials call its most intense wildfire season in 11 years. Nearly 202,000 hectares (...
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Indonesia’s wildfires are creeping towards Nusantara, the country’s new capital under construction on Borneo island, cha
llenging its promise of becoming an eco-friendly “smart forest city”. The Southeast Asian nation is battling what officials call its most intense wildfire season in 11 years. Nearly 202,000 hectares (...
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China’s Xi Jinping to make first trip to India in 7 years for Brics summit
China has confirmed that President Xi Jinping will travel to New Delhi for the Brics summit this weekend, his first visi
t to India in close to seven years and the latest leg of the Chinese leader’s busiest run of summitry in years. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Xi would attend the summit at the invitation of...
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China has confirmed that President Xi Jinping will travel to New Delhi for the Brics summit this weekend, his first visi
t to India in close to seven years and the latest leg of the Chinese leader’s busiest run of summitry in years. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Xi would attend the summit at the invitation of...
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Far-right AfD party won big in Saxony-Anhalt. Will it affect Germany’s approach to China?
With its sweeping victory in a key state election, the far-right Alternative for Germany is putting pressure on the ruli
ng federal coalition and could nudge Berlin towards a more pragmatic approach to China, analysts said. By securing 43.8 per cent of the vote in the September 6 election in Saxony-Anhalt – more than do...
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With its sweeping victory in a key state election, the far-right Alternative for Germany is putting pressure on the ruli
ng federal coalition and could nudge Berlin towards a more pragmatic approach to China, analysts said. By securing 43.8 per cent of the vote in the September 6 election in Saxony-Anhalt – more than do...
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Palace plot in Malaysia’s Negeri Sembilan entangles Umno leaders
Malaysia’s Umno has been drawn deeper into a royal row in Negeri Sembilan, after the president of the dominant Malay nat
ionalist party denied attending a meeting reportedly linked to a bid to remove the state’s ruler. The controversy has put the new Umno-led state government under pressure barely six weeks after taking...
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Malaysia’s Umno has been drawn deeper into a royal row in Negeri Sembilan, after the president of the dominant Malay nat
ionalist party denied attending a meeting reportedly linked to a bid to remove the state’s ruler. The controversy has put the new Umno-led state government under pressure barely six weeks after taking...
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DeepSeek says new Flash AI model beats Kimi K3 on cyber, coding benchmarks
DeepSeek has released its V4.1 Flash model, claiming it outperforms its previous flagship while cutting inference costs
and boosting speeds – the latest salvo in China’s aggressive price-and-performance war. The Chinese artificial intelligence developer said on Thursday that V4.1 Flash used a new “Causal-Encoder-Decode...
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DeepSeek has released its V4.1 Flash model, claiming it outperforms its previous flagship while cutting inference costs
and boosting speeds – the latest salvo in China’s aggressive price-and-performance war. The Chinese artificial intelligence developer said on Thursday that V4.1 Flash used a new “Causal-Encoder-Decode...
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‘Heavy casualties’ after foreign cargo ship catches fire in China’s Qingdao
A foreign cargo ship caught fire on Thursday morning while docked for repairs in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao, ca
using heavy casualties, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The report did not mention the number of killed or injured. President Xi Jinping has given orders to find those missing in the fire. More to fo...
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A foreign cargo ship caught fire on Thursday morning while docked for repairs in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao, ca
using heavy casualties, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The report did not mention the number of killed or injured. President Xi Jinping has given orders to find those missing in the fire. More to fo...
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Hong Kong to roll out plain cigarette packs from March, full enforcement by December
Hong Kong will introduce standardised cigarette packaging from March next year, with a nine-month transition period befo
re full enforcement in December, as the city strips all branding and decorative design from packs and updates health warnings to reduce smoking rates. The Department of Health announced on Thursday th...
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Hong Kong will introduce standardised cigarette packaging from March next year, with a nine-month transition period befo
re full enforcement in December, as the city strips all branding and decorative design from packs and updates health warnings to reduce smoking rates. The Department of Health announced on Thursday th...
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Thais take to streets in rare protest against Israel: ‘not for sale’
Hundreds of Thais, led by a veteran political activist, rallied outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok on Thursday in a
rare public protest against a group of foreign nationals. The protest follows months of complaints about illegal landholding, disrespect towards local culture and proliferation of religious houses for...
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Hundreds of Thais, led by a veteran political activist, rallied outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok on Thursday in a
rare public protest against a group of foreign nationals. The protest follows months of complaints about illegal landholding, disrespect towards local culture and proliferation of religious houses for...
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Cop31: Forget climate pledges, countries like Nepal need actual cash
Every climate summit now runs on the same illusion: the next pledge will be the one that finally saves us. It will not.
The money the rich world has promised the poor world is not coming at anything like the scale advertised, and pretending otherwise has become the main business of climate diplomacy. Barely nine weeks ...
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Every climate summit now runs on the same illusion: the next pledge will be the one that finally saves us. It will not.
The money the rich world has promised the poor world is not coming at anything like the scale advertised, and pretending otherwise has become the main business of climate diplomacy. Barely nine weeks ...
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Hong Kong signs 2 MOUs with Greater Bay Area partners to commercialise aerial technology
Hong Kong signed two milestone memorandums of understanding with partners in the Greater Bay Area to harmonise standards
and commercialise advanced aerial technology as the city accelerated its integration into national development plans. Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong Wai-lun said on Thursday the cross-border...
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Hong Kong signed two milestone memorandums of understanding with partners in the Greater Bay Area to harmonise standards
and commercialise advanced aerial technology as the city accelerated its integration into national development plans. Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong Wai-lun said on Thursday the cross-border...
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Developing knowledge with social values in mind
The educational ethos of “cultivating values and nurturing people” is based on a classic Chinese saying that emphasises
building good morals and a sense of social responsibility alongside academic and technical knowledge. At the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), this ethos drives the institution’s approach to ...
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The educational ethos of “cultivating values and nurturing people” is based on a classic Chinese saying that emphasises
building good morals and a sense of social responsibility alongside academic and technical knowledge. At the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), this ethos drives the institution’s approach to ...
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China’s global expansion offers German firms opportunity, but they see window narrowing
While German companies operating in China increasingly view the global expansion of local firms as a chance to collabora
te, the window of opportunity is narrowing as Chinese firms quickly adapt, according to a new report. The internalisation of Chinese companies has emerged as the most frequently cited business opportu...
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While German companies operating in China increasingly view the global expansion of local firms as a chance to collabora
te, the window of opportunity is narrowing as Chinese firms quickly adapt, according to a new report. The internalisation of Chinese companies has emerged as the most frequently cited business opportu...
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Kimi maker Moonshot AI to explore dual Hong Kong and Shanghai IPOs to boost capital: sources
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI, developer of the popular Kimi K3 model, may explore options for du
al listings in Hong Kong and Shanghai in pursuit of greater capital and exposure, according to two people familiar with the matter. Since a meeting with its financial backers in July, when the Beijing...
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Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI, developer of the popular Kimi K3 model, may explore options for du
al listings in Hong Kong and Shanghai in pursuit of greater capital and exposure, according to two people familiar with the matter. Since a meeting with its financial backers in July, when the Beijing...
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Indonesia orders Netflix to pay US$4.3m in music royalties or face shutdown
Indonesia is demanding that Netflix pay an estimated 75 billion rupiah (US$4.3 million) in royalties accumulated since i
ts launch in the country or risk being shut down. The National Collective Management Organisation (LMKN), a government-supported agency overseeing the country’s royalty system, said the streaming plat...
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Indonesia is demanding that Netflix pay an estimated 75 billion rupiah (US$4.3 million) in royalties accumulated since i
ts launch in the country or risk being shut down. The National Collective Management Organisation (LMKN), a government-supported agency overseeing the country’s royalty system, said the streaming plat...
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Why is surrogacy in China proving so difficult to ban despite the crackdown?
Two laboratories in central China have been shut down for alleged surrogacy activities, an underground practice that per
sists despite repeated crackdowns. On Wednesday, the health bureau in Changsha, Hunan province, said six people were detained after a tip about a “laboratory that illegally uses assisted reproductive ...
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Two laboratories in central China have been shut down for alleged surrogacy activities, an underground practice that per
sists despite repeated crackdowns. On Wednesday, the health bureau in Changsha, Hunan province, said six people were detained after a tip about a “laboratory that illegally uses assisted reproductive ...
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HKU raises alarm over suicide rate among under-15s, warns of social media impact
The suicide rate among under-15s in Hong Kong rose to a decade-high in 2025, going against a downward trend overall, wit
h social media activity strongly predictive of cases among young people, according to research from a local university. The Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong al...
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The suicide rate among under-15s in Hong Kong rose to a decade-high in 2025, going against a downward trend overall, wit
h social media activity strongly predictive of cases among young people, according to research from a local university. The Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong al...
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2 men jailed for up to 38 months over pro-independence group’s secession plot
A Hong Kong court has sentenced two men with autism to up to three years and two months in prison for their involvement
in a pro-independence group seeking to separate the city from Chinese sovereignty. District Court Judge Ernest Lin Kam-hung on Thursday found that courier Chan Tai-sum, 27, and waiter Ng Chi-tung, 25,...
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A Hong Kong court has sentenced two men with autism to up to three years and two months in prison for their involvement
in a pro-independence group seeking to separate the city from Chinese sovereignty. District Court Judge Ernest Lin Kam-hung on Thursday found that courier Chan Tai-sum, 27, and waiter Ng Chi-tung, 25,...
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Apple enters a crowded foldable smartphone market in China – can it beat Huawei?
Apple’s long-awaited entry into the foldable smartphone market, the iPhone Duo, has drawn immediate attention in China o
ver its eye-watering price tag and exclusive dual-eSIM design, as the American tech giant targets entrenched domestic rivals Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi. Unveiled on Wednesday, the iPhone Duo – App...
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Apple’s long-awaited entry into the foldable smartphone market, the iPhone Duo, has drawn immediate attention in China o
ver its eye-watering price tag and exclusive dual-eSIM design, as the American tech giant targets entrenched domestic rivals Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi. Unveiled on Wednesday, the iPhone Duo – App...
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