Harvard speech sparks China debate on elite education access, privilege
Emotional remarks by a Chinese student who delivered this year’s Harvard University commencement speech have sparked a debate in China about barriers to elite...
China is working on an ultra-fast torpedo powered by AI for submarine warfare
In the recent Chinese blockbuster Operation Leviathan, an American nuclear submarine uses hi-tech acoustic holograms to bamboozle Chinese torpedoes and their human operators. Advertisement...
Triangular diplomacy a risky play for rising powers in a multipolar world
Middle and major powers are using trade, investment and technology as weapons of influence in pursuit of triangular diplomacy, a stratagem of Cold War...
Faulty prostate cancer tests leave 406 Hong Kong patients with nervy wait
Published: 12:12am, 4 Jun 2025Updated: 12:42am, 4 Jun 2025 Hong Kong public hospitals are reviewing blood test results of more than 400 patients after...
A tale of two cities: why views of China differ so much in Barcelona and Prague
In a gleaming white technology campus half an hour’s drive north of Barcelona, Josep Maria Gomes wants to turbocharge an already thriving partnership between...
What is the Genius Act, and can it really cement US dollar supremacy?
Published: 10:00pm, 3 Jun 2025Updated: 10:35pm, 3 Jun 2025 At last week’s Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, there was one phrase on everyone’s...
US sanctions Philippine tech firm over ‘pig butchering’ romance scams
A Philippine tech company has been sanctioned by the United States for allegedly enabling online romance scams known as “pig butchering”, which US authorities...
Will a calmer approach to US-China relations work out for Beijing?
On January 20, Xie Feng, China’s ambassador to the United States, appeared at Donald Trump’s second inauguration, accompanying Vice-President Han Zheng. Advertisement Beyond this...
80% of Hong Kong’s disadvantaged children suffer nutritional imbalance: survey
Eight in 10 children from low-income families in Hong Kong suffer from serious nutritional imbalance, with less than 14 per cent getting enough dairy,...