‘Let us return’: some Tai Po fire survivors petition government for on-site rebuilding
A group of survivors of the deadly inferno in Hong Kong last month has petitioned the government to redevelop the Wang Fuk Court site...
Nuclear game changer: China builds crab-walking electric ICBM mobile launcher prototype
Published: 10:00pm, 29 Dec 2025Updated: 10:38pm, 29 Dec 2025 Researchers in China have developed a fully modular, intelligent electric-drive heavy-duty vehicle that could be...
Putin signs law allowing Russia to ignore foreign court rulings on Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law changes that give Russia the right to ignore judgments in criminal cases issued by foreign and...
Ukraine’s Zelensky asked Trump for ‘historic’ 50-year guarantee against Russia at Mar-a-Lago
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he asked Donald Trump for US security guarantees lasting as long as half a century to help deter against...
PLA holds Taiwan drills, China powers up record ‘air battery’: 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...
Trump to Meet Netanyahu for Talks on Gaza and Regional Security
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Dec. 29, extending a series of high-level talks that have...
Taiwan’s leader seeks T-Dome ‘connectivity’ network to defend against Beijing attack
Taiwan is seeking to fuse satellite, radar and drone data into a “connectivity” network as part of Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te’s multibillion-dollar bid...
ByteDance’s Volcano Engine lands exclusive AI cloud slot at Spring Festival Gala
Volcano Engine, the cloud computing unit of Chinese tech giant ByteDance, said on Monday it has secured an “exclusive AI cloud partnership” with the...
China has logged a US$1 trillion trade surplus. Where is all that money going?
Recent data on China’s external accounts presents a conundrum: while the country’s trade surplus has broken records, surpassing the US$1 trillion benchmark in the...