Beijing aims to harness state, private sectors to build ‘world-class firms’
China’s state-asset watchdog has urged the country’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to act as an anchor for strategic industries, while also calling for a predictable,...
China Says Armed Attack on Tajik-Afghan Border Kills 3 of Its Nationals
BEIJING–An armed attack killed three Chinese citizens in Tajikistan on the Central Asian nation’s border with Afghanistan, China’s embassy in the Tajik capital of...
ByteDance teams up with ZTE as China races to take on Apple in agentic AI phones
TikTok owner ByteDance has entered the race against Apple to define the future of smartphones by putting its artificial intelligence agent Doubao into a...
UK MP Tulip Siddiq, aunt Sheikh Hasina sentenced to jail in Bangladesh land case
Published: 2:52pm, 1 Dec 2025Updated: 3:27pm, 1 Dec 2025 A court in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to five...
Hong Kong’s Mandatory Provident Fund launches in 2000 – from the SCMP archive
This article was originally published on December 2, 2000 By Felix Chan Warning for MPF-dodging bosses Employers were warned on Friday (December 1, 2000),...
‘Weight gain subsidy’: China food tasters share videos, reveal new side to job
Chinese food tasters are going viral by sharing videos that reveal a job much tougher than its dreamy image, even if the task comes...
China halts Brazilian soy imports, disbelief over robot clip: 5 weekend reads
Advertisement SCMP Highlights World From portraits of courage from Hong Kong’s deadly fire to Brazilian soy imports, here are five stories you may have...
Unification Church leader denies knowing about gifts for Kim Keon-hee
The leader of one of South Korea’s largest cultlike churches stood trial on Monday accused of bribing the country’s former first lady with gifts...
Hanwha receives L-SAM production contract
Hanwha Aerospace announced on 28 November that it had received a KRW705.4 billion (US$482 million) contract for production of the Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (L-SAM)...