Could China ‘militarise’ cryptocurrencies to beat financial sanctions?
Digital currency is emerging as a powerful, disruptive tool in global geopolitics, fundamentally reshaping the financial battlefield in times of conflict, according to a...
Post-Plenum Freefall: China’s Triple Lock
The Taiwan Affairs Office climbed over the Great Firewall to do external propaganda and got roasted; an underground-church pastor was arrested and disappeared; the...
Unexploded ordnance in Gaza wounds children despite ceasefire
The Shorbasi family was sitting in their severely damaged house in Gaza City, enjoying the relative calm of the ceasefire. Then they heard an...
Trump Says He’ll Talk to Xi About Taiwan and Imprisoned Activist Jimmy Lai
President Donald Trump said he plans to raise the issues of Taiwan, imprisoned Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, and Russia’s war in Ukraine...
Chinese President Xi Jinping puts personal stamp on 5-year plan
Chinese President Xi Jinping put his personal stamp on the national master plan for the next five years, with state media describing the plan’s...
Malaysia’s tigers in crisis due to poachers, habitat loss
For two years, Malaysian conservationists tracked a tiger named “Bulan” as she raised four cubs. Then a fatal traffic accident made her another statistic...
Buckle up on the road: Hong Kong to enforce seat belt rules across the board
Published: 10:01pm, 25 Oct 2025Updated: 10:06pm, 25 Oct 2025 Footage of a police undercover crackdown on minibus commuters in Hong Kong has gone viral...
China unveils ‘ghost’ drone for stealth underwater surveillance
Chinese scientists have created a ghostlike jellyfish robot that can carry out covert underwater missions. Advertisement Described as an “underwater phantom”, the bionic jellyfish...
UK police search London for asylum seeker after mistaken release
British police said on Saturday they were scouring hours of closed-circuit TV recordings to find an asylum seeker sentenced for sexual assault who was...