Why a Communist Party boss had a coffee shop date with Chinese content creators
Published: 10:01am, 10 Oct 2026Updated: 10:44am, 10 Oct 2026 The setting may have been casual but the choice was not when the Communist Party...
Chinese police crack real-life ‘Breaking Bad’ drug lab, arresting ex-chemistry professor
Police in eastern China recently dismantled a cross-border drug-trafficking gang that allegedly involved a retired chemistry professor and a master’s degree holder in producing...
Malaysia urged to police its firms in Indonesia as haze shuts schools
Malaysia is facing renewed pressure to clamp down on its companies over their alleged links to forest fires abroad, as recurring haze from Indonesia...
Japanese brewer designs “wobbly” beer glass to encourage responsible drinking
A craft beer producer in central Japan is hoping that its U-shaped “wobbly” glass will encourage people to drink water along with their beer,...
Modi and Xi can’t bridge the India-China divide by themselves
Last month, President Xi Jinping travelled to New Delhi to attend the Brics summit – his first visit in seven years. On the summit’s...
India’s ‘cockroach’ movement leader detained as capital locks down
Published: 9:13am, 10 Oct 2026Updated: 9:33am, 10 Oct 2026 Central Delhi was sealed on Saturday, with thousands of police and paramilitaries on patrol, metro...
Lack of heat action plan leaves Hong Kong’s vulnerable residents at risk, experts warn
Environmentalists and academics have criticised the omission of a systemic heat-health action plan in Hong Kong’s first five-year plan and latest policy address, warning...
New Taipei-Hong Kong subsea route opened to cut risk and meet AI demand
One of the world’s biggest network service providers has opened a new subsea route between Taipei and Hong Kong to strengthen the system against...
Anthropic AI model sent fake murder tip to US police, hit government sites
Published: 8:51am, 10 Oct 2026Updated: 9:26am, 10 Oct 2026 An artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved murder...