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...
Malaysia’s Anwar turns charm and wit into diplomatic wins for Asean
Few were ready for the zinger that followed when Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim leaned into the microphone and said, with a suitably dramatic...
Caught between China and the US, Europe stumbles towards its independence day
In a dramatic speech in Berlin on Saturday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen painted a dystopian picture of today’s world as she...
Most Asian countries don’t see China as a security threat: Singapore’s ex-PM
The security situations in Asia and Europe are very different because of each region’s respective dynamics with China and Russia, Singapore’s former prime minister...
Asean seeks to ‘future-proof’ economies, fate closely entwined with China
Southeast Asia’s economic future remains entwined with China despite the attention lavished on the region this week by United States President Donald Trump, experts...
Hong Kong biotech firm to back controversial sanitary pad HPV test with evidence
Published: 6:37pm, 28 Oct 2025Updated: 7:38pm, 28 Oct 2025 A Hong Kong biotechnology company behind a controversial human papillomavirus (HPV) screening method involving sanitary...
‘Everything is true’: Japanese gunman admits to killing Shinzo Abe
The gunman accused of killing Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty on Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked...