Hungry to expand, Chinese companies to dish out more dim sum bonds
Chinese companies will increasingly shift towards offshore yuan bonds and away from US dollar bonds for their offshore financing, according to panellists at S&P...
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How Laos plans to pay for its dam-building spree: cryptocurrency mining
Laos’ ambition to become the “battery of Southeast Asia” has left the country awash with surplus electricity, but burdened by soaring debts from a...
ByteDance chatbot Doubao still China’s top AI app as DeepSeek loses users
ByteDance-owned Doubao remains the most popular artificial intelligence app in mainland China, with 157 million monthly active users (MAUs) in August, as rival DeepSeek’s...
Ancients in southern China mummified their dead long before Egyptians: study
Hunter-gatherers across southern China and Southeast Asia were preserving human remains thousands of years earlier than better-known examples of mummification from ancient Egypt, according...
15 things to know about John Lee’s policy address 2025 – no pets were harmed
Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu has presented a comprehensive road map for the city as its battles an economy in the throes of...
AI-enhanced nutrition must enhance our agency, not undermine it
The way people eat, make nutritional decisions and monitor health is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation in Asia. Artificial intelligence (AI), wearables and...
Tiger found dead in car boot in Malaysia, 3 arrested for illegal poaching
Published: 4:26pm, 17 Sep 2025Updated: 4:45pm, 17 Sep 2025 Malaysian police have arrested three men on suspicion of poaching a critically endangered Malayan tiger,...
House Republicans Target 1975 Law, and Green Building, Appliance Energy Efficiency Rules
House Republicans want to unravel prior administration polices, they say, that eliminate fossil fuels as an energy option in building and appliance codes, raising...
China warns terrorists could use AI to create and fire their own weapons
China has warned that artificial intelligence will allow people to learn how to make their own world-destroying weapons, such as nuclear missiles and biological...