Hong Kong issues ‘very hot weather’ warning as temperature set to hit 33 degrees
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No Cantonese, no career? Can Hong Kong do more to help ethnic minority groups?
Published: 8:30am, 24 Jul 2025Updated: 8:57am, 24 Jul 2025 In the second of a two-part series on Hong Kong’s ethnic minority groups, Connor Mycroft...
Japan’s ruling LDP tips into crisis mode with PM’s expected exit
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is grappling with an identity crisis, its decades-long political dominance rattled first by a humiliating electoral defeat and...
Could China’s Tibet mega dam help boost its sway with South Asian neighbours?
China’s latest mega dam on the Tibetan Plateau could help draw neighbouring countries closer into its economic orbit by supplying electricity and boosting growth,...
Trump administration issues plan to limit AI exports to China
The White House on Wednesday released proposals to restrict exports of American AI equipment and limit the spread of Chinese AI models as part...
Which countries will pick sides in a US-China conflict over Taiwan?
There has been much speculation as to which third parties might get involved if war broke out between China and the United States in...
Hong Kong police investigate Cambodian scam farm link to missing girl
Hong Kong police are investigating whether a teenage girl who went missing for several weeks had been involved in cross-border scam farm activities, with...
UK made ‘Armageddon scenario’ plan for mass Hong Kong exodus in handover run-up
Published: 12:19am, 24 Jul 2025Updated: 12:36am, 24 Jul 2025 The UK government prepared a secret contingency plan dubbed “the Armageddon scenario” in the lead-up...
China-EU relations at 50
NEWSCMP China Series This year marks half a century of formal diplomatic relations between China and the European Union as well as the 25th...