Former South Korean President Given Suspended Jail Term for Lying During Election Campaign
A South Korean court has handed former President Yoon Suk Yeol an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for three years, for lying during an election...
Philippines’ Marcos uses national address to promise relief, but funding questions loom
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr used his 2026 State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday to promise relief from taxes, electricity charges and...
China’s localised data centre push drives AI ambitions amid overbuilding concerns
Published: 10:00pm, 27 Jul 2026Updated: 12:38am, 28 Jul 2026 Despite their strikingly different approaches to developing and deploying artificial intelligence, one aspect is common...
Why use rare earths in rubber production? Chinese scientists are engineering tougher tyres
Chinese researchers have completed trials of a new rare earth-based synthetic rubber production facility, industrialising a major raw material for manufacturing electric vehicle and...
Hong Kong banks in early stages of preparing for quantum computing threats, HKMA says
Hong Kong’s banking sector is still in the early stages of preparing for cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computing, the city’s de facto central...
Hong Kong’s wild boar population halves under capture-and-kill strategy
Published: 9:37pm, 27 Jul 2026Updated: 11:50pm, 27 Jul 2026 The number of wild boars in Hong Kong has declined by more than half in...
Is Kim Yo-jong’s rebuke a sign North Korea is ditching Asean diplomacy?
A rare rebuke of Asean by the powerful sister of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un signals the bloc’s waning relevance to the nuclear-armed state,...
Singapore detains 3 ‘self-radicalised’ teens over planned attacks
Singapore authorities said on Monday they had arrested three teenagers over separate plots to carry out shooting, stabbing and bomb attacks, warning of the...
CIA Obtained Secret Information About Wuhan Lab, Fauci Diary Shows
CIA officials obtained secret information about the high-level laboratory in Wuhan, China, that is located near where the first COVID-19 cases appeared, according to...