As Cambodia’s scam crackdown deadline looms, criminal gangs flee
Young, naive and now sleeping rough on a plastic sheet outside their embassy in Phnom Penh, Indonesians Abdul* and Hafiz* are among the expendable...
Errors in Hong Kong Tai Po blaze hearing transcript raise transparency concerns
The official transcript of a public hearing into Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades has wrongly recorded several key details, the South China Morning...
China woman uses an old photo to find brother who was lured away with bread 33 years ago
Using only a childhood photograph, a woman in central China found her younger brother who had been lured away with a piece of bread...
Live Filter Fails! Chinese Beauty Turns into Granny, 140k Fans Run Away!
A video of an influencer’s livestream failure recently went viral on Instagram. The female influencer was elegantly posing in the livestream when, dramatically, the...
Kyoto is eyeing taller buildings. Critics warn it will look like ‘every other city in Japan’
A proposal to scrap a ban on tall buildings in Kyoto to make way for towers and tourism infrastructure has drawn criticism that the...
China to Require Retirees to Pay Into Long-Term Care Insurance
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has unveiled a long-term care insurance program that will require pensioners to continue contributing premiums, marking a significant shift...
How China is stepping into the cultural repatriation void left by a retreating US
As one of the biggest targets of wartime looting in centuries past, China is now positioning itself as a global pioneer in repatriating lost...
AI infrastructure on the front line: Lessons for Asean from the Iran war
On March 1, after Israel and the United States initiated attacks against Iran, Amazon Web Services reported drone strikes against data centre facilities in...
US Likely Doesn’t Have to Be There for NATO, Trump Says
President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States likely doesn’t have to be there for NATO, noting that the alliance has provided little...