Indonesian woman fatally stabbed in central Japan flat
Published: 11:18pm, 6 Jul 2026Updated: 12:36am, 7 Jul 2026 A 20-year-old Indonesian woman was stabbed to death in her flat in Hamamatsu, central Japan,...
Hong Kong cancels red rainstorm signal after hour as suspected waterspout spotted
Published: 10:07pm, 6 Jul 2026Updated: 11:05pm, 6 Jul 2026 This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please...
Don’t assume US decline will lead to its fall, warns Chinese scholar
Published: 10:00pm, 6 Jul 2026Updated: 10:29pm, 6 Jul 2026 Although the US is in decline, underestimating the country could still prove a “fatal mistake”,...
Hamas dissolves Gaza governing body amid Israel ceasefire, disarmament still a question
Published: 9:05pm, 6 Jul 2026Updated: 12:24am, 7 Jul 2026 Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas announced on Monday the dissolution of the body that has governed...
China’s asteroid hunter closes in on target after 400-day trip, though size is a surprise
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured its first close-up image of a near-Earth asteroid, revealing that the target is even smaller than anticipated – a...
Why Peru wants to shift its relationship with China beyond raw mineral supplies
Published: 8:54pm, 6 Jul 2026Updated: 9:10pm, 6 Jul 2026 Peru wants to move to the next phase of its economic relationship with China to...
Huawei’s next smartphone chip taps new scaling law for performance boost: paper
Huawei Technologies’ coming smartphone processor is on track for a performance boost, without the need for more advanced processing nodes or lithography technology, according...
EU should think twice before weaponising its market against China
For much of the post-Cold-War era, the European Union understood economic interdependence as a source of mutual prosperity. Open markets, free trade and multilateral...
Former Chinese official sentenced to death in US$323 million bribery case
A court in eastern China has handed down a rare death sentence to a former municipal official convicted of taking more than 2.2 billion...