South Korean officials remove 80 tonnes of hoarded garbage from family home
City officials in Daegu, South Korea, have removed 80 metric tonnes (88 US tons) of garbage from the home of a family of hoarders,...
Is proposal to recognise same-sex partnerships in Hong Kong dead on arrival?
Published: 10:02pm, 4 Jul 2025Updated: 10:54pm, 4 Jul 2025 A proposal by the Hong Kong government to recognise same-sex partnerships in line with a...
Vietnam Signs Trade Deal With US Despite China’s Warnings, More Countries May Follow: Experts
After the United States and Vietnam signed a trade deal, Beijing again issued a warning of retaliation to other countries preparing to sign similar...
China on Ukraine war, US-Vietnam trade deal in spotlight: 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...
US stance on Taiwan crucial to possible Trump-Xi summit: expert
Published: 9:06pm, 4 Jul 2025Updated: 9:15pm, 4 Jul 2025 US President Donald Trump’s stance on Taiwan will be pivotal to the success of a...
Hong Kong’s AI ambitions take shape with 90% of supercomputing capacity now in use
Hong Kong’s ambition to create an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is bearing fruit, with more than 90 per cent of the city’s flagship supercomputing...
PM’s suspension reignites debate on ‘judicial activism’ of Thailand’s courts
The suspension of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has reignited debate over the Constitutional Court’s growing influence in Thailand’s democratic system, amid concerns electoral mandates...
Russia Officially Recognizes Taliban as Government of Afghanistan
Russia on Thursday became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban’s de facto government in Afghanistan, four years after the Sunni Islamist group...
Malaysia PM’s ex-son-in-law declared bankrupt over US$1.25million ‘friendly loan’
The bankruptcy of high-profile fashion designer Jovian Mandagie, the former son-in-law of Malaysia’s ex-prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, has brought renewed attention to the...