Sayonara, soy fish: Australian state bans plastic containers in world first
South Australia has become the first place in the world to ban fish-shaped plastic soy sauce packets. Advertisement The ban took effect on Monday...
Unfinished construction works at Hong Kong school trigger safety concerns
Published: 12:32pm, 1 Sep 2025Updated: 12:33pm, 1 Sep 2025 Parents sending their children to a new Hong Kong government school with unfinished construction projects...
Protests in Indonesia escalate, Xi calls for India-China reset: 5 weekend reads
Advertisement SCMP Highlights World From the Singaporean PAP’s dominance to a US ruling on Trump’s tariffs, here are five stories you may have missed...
China, India Pledge to Mend Ties Amid US Tariffs; Analysts Cast Doubts on Effects
Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to enhance cooperation and put aside the decades-long border disputes that soured relations between...
Deadly Indonesia Protests Force U-turn on Lawmakers’ Perks
JAKARTA—Indonesian political parties have agreed to cut lawmakers’ benefits, President Prabowo Subianto said on Sunday, in a bid to calm anti-government protests that have...
Flood of anger: why Filipinos turn to social media to expose ‘nepo babies’
As public scrutiny intensifies over anomalous flood control projects in the Philippines, Filipinos have turned to social media spaces such as Reddit to expose...
Major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan leaves at least 500 dead: report
Published: 11:19am, 1 Sep 2025Updated: 1:45pm, 1 Sep 2025 Around 500 people have been killed and 1000 more injured in an earthquake that struck...
US Government Makes It Harder for Samsung, SK Hynix to Make Chips in China
The federal government is making the process of building semiconductors in China for chipmakers such as Samsung and SK Hynix more difficult by rescinding...
China’s Xi pushes SCO bank as Putin deflects Ukraine blame – as it happened
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