Malaysia, Indonesia Block Musk’s Grok Amid Explicit Content Scrutiny
Malaysia and Indonesia have announced a decision to block access to Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, amid scrutiny over...
Taiwan targets Beijing-linked infiltration with push for stricter punishment
Taiwan’s legislature is weighing amendments to an anti-infiltration law that would impose a minimum one-year prison term on Beijing-linked influence and infiltration activities, while...
DeepSeek founder’s High-Flyer ranks among China’s top hedge-fund firms in 2025
High-Flyer Quant, co-owned by DeepSeek founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng, recorded a return of 56.6 per cent last year to rank second among China’s...
Europe’s real threat is its own inner ‘demon’, not Russia: former Chinese envoy
Europe made a “misjudgment” in categorising Russia as its top security threat and instead the continent’s real danger lay in Europeans’ inner “demon”, according...
Hong Kong judges doubtful if Jimmy Lai’s health justifies sentence reduction
Three Hong Kong judges who found Jimmy Lai Chee-ying guilty in his national security trial have raised doubts about whether the former media boss...
US action in Venezuela fuels Asia’s fears of collapsing rules-based order
America’s capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro in a special operation sent shock waves across the world. With characteristically bombastic rhetoric, US President Donald...
Singapore takes stock of lessons from Hong Kong’s Tai Po blaze
Singapore has begun reviewing early findings from the investigation into Hong Kong’s deadly Tai Po high-rise blaze, with ministers signalling that lessons from the...
UK regulator launches probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s ‘disgusting’ sexualised AI imagery
Britain’s media regulator launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday to determine whether sexually intimate deepfakes produced by its Grok AI chatbot...
Court lifts anonymity order for Hong Kong barrister accused of molestation
A Hong Kong court has lifted a temporary anonymity order and ruled that a barrister cannot keep his identity hidden in criminal proceedings over...