Whatever happens in Trump’s White House, EU and China to remain rivals, top envoy says
Published: 8:00pm, 4 Dec 2024Updated: 8:00pm, 4 Dec 2024 The EU’s trade tensions and rivalry with China are likely to persist, Brussels’ top envoy...
Hong Kong residents reticent to get latest Covid-19 jab, Moderna survey finds
Hong Kong residents’ willingness in taking the latest Covid-19 vaccine is lower than in Singapore, but higher compared with other Asian markets, according to...
China retaliation for US protectionism, while ‘never a good choice’, may be just starting
With little option in the face of mounting protectionist measures from Washington, and coupled with a need to “give the public an account” of...
Jimmy Lai says Hong Kong ‘beyond redemption’ after national security law took effect
Published: 7:30pm, 4 Dec 2024Updated: 11:11pm, 4 Dec 2024 Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has said he abandoned his “fight for freedom” after...
Hong Kong products expo eyes 30% jump in attendance after return of multiple-entry visas
The organiser of one of Hong Kong’s largest annual bazaars has said it expects stronger attendance numbers and a higher percentage of mainland Chinese...
Japanese court convicts Australian who says she was tricked into smuggling drugs
A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced an Australian woman who says she was tricked amphetamines into the country to six years in prison, despite...
Tencent launches its answer to OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool
Chinese video gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings has launched a text-to-video generation tool based on its Hunyuan artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model,...
Is Indonesia ready for Prabowo’s dream of phasing out fossil fuels?
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has announced an ambitious goal to phase out coal and fossil fuels in the next 15 years, a target analysts...
Scientists in China achieve ‘invisibility’ in chameleon-like colour breakthrough
Chinese researchers say they have developed a material that changes colour at a molecular level based on the surrounding light, creating a new form...