5 ParknShop and contractor staff who forged pay claims plead guilty to fraud
Five former employees of Hong Kong supermarket chain ParknShop and its contractors have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud by falsifying workers’...
Why less visibility into how OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra ‘thinks’ is sparking safety concerns
Published: 6:31pm, 4 Sep 2026Updated: 6:33pm, 4 Sep 2026 OpenAI’s new model, GPT-6 Astra, has less direct visibility into how a model thinks, a...
Inspired by childhood surgery, Chinese man now works alongside saviour surgeon 19 years later
A young Chinese man recently became colleagues with the doctor who saved him from a congenital heart defect 19 years ago, prompting many to...
Malaysia declares emergency in Sarawak town as haze pollution level hits 521
Malaysia declared an emergency on Friday in a town in Sarawak state on Borneo Island after air pollution breached the country’s emergency-level threshold linked...
India’s push to secure place in global chip supply has ‘secret weapon’: its people
India is betting big on domestic manufacturing of semiconductors – the microscopic brains that power everything electronic from cars to AI processing – in...
Chinese armed trainer jets drive away Philippine aircraft over Scarborough Shoal
Published: 6:00pm, 4 Sep 2026Updated: 6:12pm, 4 Sep 2026 China sent armed trainer jets to drive away Philippine light aircraft over the disputed Scarborough...
Malaysian prince ‘more than happy’ to pay US$1.6 billion levy linked to Singapore land deal
The son of Malaysia’s king has dismissed a report that a potential tax bill of more than S$2 billion (US$1.6 billion) is complicating his...
Louis Koo’s production firm disputes HK$149m lawsuit, says claim ‘incomplete’
Published: 5:09pm, 4 Sep 2026Updated: 5:12pm, 4 Sep 2026 Hong Kong film actor and director Louis Koo Tin-lok’s production company has defended against allegations...
How natural disasters are putting China’s neighbourhood diplomacy to the test
Cross-border disasters along China’s frontiers are putting Beijing’s neighbourhood diplomacy to the test as climate shocks grow and expose strategic vulnerabilities. The stakes were...