Chinese ‘Coffee Grandma’ learns brewing to save son’s cafe, inspires female independence
An 86-year-old grandmother in China has become a social media sensation for operating a coffee shop for over a decade – a business she...
Brazil-China ties in focus as Bolsonaro gets election edge over Lula
Brazil is set for a presidential run-off after right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro won a surprise first-round victory, threatening Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s grip...
Nobel Medicine Prize awarded to US-German trio for work on optogenetics
Published: 5:45pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 6:09pm, 5 Oct 2026 The 2026 Nobel Prize season opened on Monday with the Medicine Prize being awarded to...
HKMA licenses Bakai Bank, city’s first from Central Asia
Published: 5:42pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 5:51pm, 5 Oct 2026 Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has granted a banking licence to Bakai Bank, marking the...
China’s finance minister on fiscal policy
This article was translated from Chinese into English using Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Plus, then checked and tweaked for accuracy by a South China Morning Post journalist....
Ex-prince Andrew takes UK police to court to ‘quash’ Epstein affair search warrants
Britain’s disgraced former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has launched a High Court challenge “to quash search warrants” obtained by police ahead of his arrest earlier...
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...