US defence experts to work inside Taiwan military HQ under reported pact
Published: 4:45pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 7:31pm, 5 Oct 2026 A reported plan to station US defence personnel inside Taiwan’s military headquarters would take mutual...
Why protecting home values is Beijing’s new priority
For decades, China’s property sector was defined by spectacular scale: farmland transformed into suburbs, skylines rising across regional hubs and, more recently, the prominent...
Southeast Asia starts to rethink its AI data centre boom: ‘at what cost?’
Southeast Asian governments are learning some hard truths about the data centre boom they spent years working to attract, analysts say – it promises...
Spain’s prime minister calls early election as housing becomes a national flashpoint
Published: 4:04pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 4:13pm, 5 Oct 2026 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising...
Hong Kong lawmakers say 5-year tax incentive too short to entice major innovative firms
Hong Kong lawmakers have backed the government’s proposed tax incentives for large innovative companies, but many said on Monday that the planned five-year concession...
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety...
8 more firms from Belt and Road Initiative countries apply for IPOs in Hong Kong
Published: 3:55pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 4:27pm, 5 Oct 2026 Eight more companies from countries belonging to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative have applied to...
Chinese doctors shrink lung tumour for baby still in mother’s womb, using needle
Published: 3:34pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 4:05pm, 5 Oct 2026 Chinese doctors have performed an unprecedented surgery to save an unborn child who developed a...
Days after Xi-Trump summit, top Taiwan diplomat opens de facto consulate in the US
Published: 3:13pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 6:28pm, 5 Oct 2026 Taipei’s top diplomat is in Arizona this week to open a de facto consulate and...