US soybean farmers’ plea; death of leading AI scientist: SCMP daily highlights
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Taiwanese increasingly reluctant to give lives to defend island, poll finds
Growing numbers of Taiwanese are unwilling to give their lives to defend the island, according to a new opinion poll. Advertisement In a recent...
China expands frontiers in space, deep sea, poles amid fierce geopolitical race
China’s geopolitical rivalry with the West is expanding into new frontiers – including the polar regions, outer space, cyberspace and the deep sea –...
Historic Vietnam cities of Hue, Hoi An flooded after heaviest ever rainfall
Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, with rivers swelling and submerging homes, farmland and tourist destinations including the historic cities of...
China’s development model is reverberating around the world
“We do not need to chase [after other countries], we are the road,” said President Xi Jinping after inaugurating a major scientific project in...
Hong Kong ranks second in Asia in economic resilience to US global tariff shocks
Published: 8:18pm, 28 Oct 2025Updated: 9:58pm, 28 Oct 2025 Hong Kong ranks second among five major Asian economies in resilience to US global tariff...
Meet the young engineers steering Alibaba’s AI future at Tongyi Lab
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen family of large artificial intelligence models is currently the world’s largest open-source AI ecosystem. Advertisement At the core of the Chinese...
Netanyahu says Hamas returned remains from previously retrieved body
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Hamas handed over human remains that did not belong to missing Israeli hostages – an announcement...
China urges Japan’s new administration to take solid ‘first step’ in relations
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Japan’s new administration to take a constructive “first step” in engaging with Beijing and to properly address sensitive...