Philippine elections: will overseas Filipinos sway the vote?
Published: 3:00pm, 22 Apr 2025Updated: 3:46pm, 22 Apr 2025 With midterm elections just weeks away in the Philippines, analysts say overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)...
Hongkongers gather at Cathedral of Immaculate Conception to mourn Pope Francis
Published: 2:51pm, 22 Apr 2025Updated: 2:59pm, 22 Apr 2025 Mourners in Hong Kong have flocked to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to commemorate...
What Trump should be making great again are the lives of Americans
US President Donald Trump’s trade wars are the result of a reckoning with the accumulated contradictions arising from globalisation. Instead of addressing the polarisation...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lobbies Japan to generate more power to fuel AI development
Nvidia Corp chief executive Jensen Huang met Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday to push for more electricity generation to meet the needs...
Southeast Asia’s scam gangs go global as crackdown bites
Transnational organised crime groups in Asia are spreading their lucrative scam operations across the globe in response to increased crackdowns by authorities, according to...
UK criticised for damaging tourism with ‘barriers to travel’
The UK government has been accused of “sabotaging” the country’s tourism industry as analysis found spending by international visitors was more than 2.2 billion...
China’s critical metal exports plummet as trade war curbs take effect
China’s curbs on shipments of critical metals to the United States are already having a visible effect, with exports of the minerals plunging and...
Chinese teacher fired for faking identity to date students, pressures one into an abortion
A teacher at a university in eastern China has been fired and expelled from the Communist Party after he faked his identity to date...
Chinese families look to Malaysia, South Korea’s AI sex crime scourge: 7 Asia highlights
Advertisement SCMP Highlights Asia From Chinese scholars urging peace with Manila to a fight in Pattaya, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent...