JD.com founder bets on stablecoins to cut cross-border e-commerce payment costs
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com plans to make an international foray into stablecoins – cryptocurrencies backed by a reference asset, typically a fiat currency like...
Hong Kong police arrest 8 after fake concert tickets sold for HK$650,000
Published: 7:13pm, 18 Jun 2025Updated: 7:31pm, 18 Jun 2025 Hong Kong police have arrested eight suspects aged as young as 20 in a crackdown...
Heilongjiang in a Death Loop, 8 Million Fewer People, May Be Empty for Decades—China’s Future Too
Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang Province and its largest city. For a long time, it was the political, economic, and cultural center of...
Air India crash: safety focus at all-time high as competition takes backseat
The crash of Air India’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner has intensified scrutiny of the aircraft’s technical reliability and its manufacturer’s safety record, even as analysts...
Jeanine Pirro Nominated for Full Term as DC Federal Prosecutor
Former judge and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has been nominated to serve a full term as the U.S. attorney for the District of...
DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model matches Google, Anthropic in coding benchmark
The latest model update from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has matched the coding performance of industry heavyweights Google and Anthropic, according to...
TikTok fuelling rise of fascist youth movement in the Philippines, experts warn
Published: 6:00pm, 18 Jun 2025Updated: 6:36pm, 18 Jun 2025 In a TikTok video viewed more than 170,000 times, the eyes of senatorial candidates from...
Vibrant Chinese dining suffers from heavy-handed austerity control: state media
China’s ongoing austerity campaign has been taken too far at some local levels, People’s Daily has warned, a month after Beijing launched its latest...
China soldier saves 5 people from lake, even when exhausted, defies mum’s stop plea
A Good Samaritan in China who defied his worried mother’s pleas for him to stop saving people who were drowning in a lake has...