France, Spain make headway against wildfires but new heatwave looms
Published: 12:01am, 29 Jul 2026Updated: 2:21am, 29 Jul 2026 Firefighters raced on Tuesday to subdue huge wildfires that have forced unprecedented evacuations of tens...
Lindsey Graham eulogised as an ‘American original’ at memorial service
Published: 11:44pm, 28 Jul 2026Updated: 2:18am, 29 Jul 2026 Senator Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of...
Hongkonger in Japan’s quake-hit Kumamoto describes shock: ‘I was quite scared’
Published: 11:24pm, 28 Jul 2026Updated: 2:45am, 29 Jul 2026 A Hongkonger has described being “quite scared” as a 7.1-magnitude quake shook Japan’s southern Kumamoto...
Exclusive: The Jacob Helberg interview
NEWSCMP US Series In this exclusive interview, US Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg discusses the AI battle between Washington and Beijing,...
Record Chinese biotech out-licensing meets rising US scrutiny
China’s emergence as a global biotechnology innovation hub has become a source of strategic concern in the United States, prompting policymakers in Washington to...
Telling Hong Kong judge to retire early is sufficient penalty for plagiarism: experts
Telling a Hong Kong judge found to have plagiarised submissions in his judgments to retire early is a sufficient penalty, as he has already...
Singapore growth to hold firm but AI boom a ‘major uncertainty’: central bank
Published: 10:30pm, 28 Jul 2026Updated: 2:51am, 29 Jul 2026 Singapore’s economic growth should remain firm in the second half of 2026 although a major...
Footprints in Kenya shed light on prehistoric human cousin Paranthropus
Published: 10:15pm, 28 Jul 2026Updated: 3:05am, 29 Jul 2026 Footprints left on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.43 million years ago are...
The Philippines, sovereignty and the Pax Silica Industrial Hub – how US’ Helberg sees it
The struggle between the US and China over who will lead in artificial intelligence is one of the defining competitions of our time. In...