As Iran’s drones swarm Gulf, Ukraine’s wartime tech lands billion-dollar deals
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that his country had “undoubtedly changed the geopolitical situation” in the Middle East with a series of...
One rule for Israel and another for Iran risks nuclear disaster
Israel’s avowed goal in the Middle East war is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Yet the double standard associated with this is...
Malaysia’s Yong Zheng Xi on the ‘95% hard work’ behind his Bridgerton fame
From a law lecture hall to Barbie and later the glitzy ballroom of Bridgerton, Malaysian-born actor Yong Zheng Xi is quietly carving out a...
China proposes a new way to measure academic influence in a departure from impact factor
Chinese researchers have introduced a new methodology for evaluating medical and life science journals worldwide that does not rely on the “impact factor” traditionally...
As Cambodia’s scam crackdown deadline looms, criminal gangs flee
Young, naive and now sleeping rough on a plastic sheet outside their embassy in Phnom Penh, Indonesians Abdul* and Hafiz* are among the expendable...
Errors in Hong Kong Tai Po blaze hearing transcript raise transparency concerns
The official transcript of a public hearing into Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades has wrongly recorded several key details, the South China Morning...
China woman uses an old photo to find brother who was lured away with bread 33 years ago
Using only a childhood photograph, a woman in central China found her younger brother who had been lured away with a piece of bread...
Kyoto is eyeing taller buildings. Critics warn it will look like ‘every other city in Japan’
A proposal to scrap a ban on tall buildings in Kyoto to make way for towers and tourism infrastructure has drawn criticism that the...
How China is stepping into the cultural repatriation void left by a retreating US
As one of the biggest targets of wartime looting in centuries past, China is now positioning itself as a global pioneer in repatriating lost...