South Korea’s new leader faces tightrope act between China ties, US alliance
Published: 11:00pm, 4 Jun 2025Updated: 11:45pm, 4 Jun 2025 Hours after Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as the president of South Korea early on...
Trump Says China’s Xi ‘Extremely Hard’ to Strike Deal With
President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social early on June 4 that Chinese leader Xi Jinping was “extremely hard to make a deal with,”...
Chinese researcher pathogen case ‘politicised’, risks further US talent exodus
The arrest of a Chinese researcher in the United States for allegedly importing an illegal biological pathogen that could kill crops was “politicised” by...
15 student suicides in Hong Kong so far this year, set to surpass 2024 rate
Published: 10:22pm, 4 Jun 2025Updated: 10:41pm, 4 Jun 2025 At least 15 students in Hong Kong are suspected to have died by suicide in...
Harvard speech sparks debate, China GDP growth outlook: SCMP daily highlights
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider...
China and EU schedule crunch talks to resolve economic deadlock
China and the European Union have agreed to hold a new round of trade talks to pave the way for a high-level leaders’ summit...
Is the common fungus Fusarium graminearum an ‘agroterrorism agent’?
Two Chinese scientists were charged with conspiracy and smuggling on Tuesday after attempting to clear US customs with a plant disease-causing fungus that officials...
2 arrested, 10 taken away as Hong Kong police ramp up June 4 patrols
Published: 9:13pm, 4 Jun 2025Updated: 11:01pm, 4 Jun 2025 Hong Kong police officers have taken away at least seven people holding flowers or candles,...
China’s top three EDA firms under spotlight after US ban on chip design tools
Chinese semiconductor design software vendors Empyrean Technology, Primarius Technologies and Semitronix are in the spotlight after Washington directed the world’s leading electronic design automation...