Beijing bets on AI, China’s ‘doll economy’ boom: SCMP daily highlights
Advertisement SCMP Highlights China From China’s ‘doll economy’ boom to the possible expansion of the ‘Great Green Wall’ to Mongolia, here’s a round-up from...
China’s server, chipmakers enter ‘super cycle’ as AI computing mushrooms
China’s domestic server and chipmakers are entering a “super cycle” as the country’s local governments spend lavishly on computing infrastructure to support artificial intelligence...
China travel risk ‘unchanged’ for US citizens despite exit bans: trade group
Published: 9:00pm, 25 Aug 2025Updated: 9:04pm, 25 Aug 2025 China’s recent exit bans on two American businesspeople do not raise the travel risk for...
Hong Kong ombudsman creates global academy to help fight sloppy administration
Hong Kong’s ombudsman has established an international academy to help prevent maladministration, as a minister urged officials to respond to residents’ complaints with an...
Abrego Garcia faces deportation again as he surrenders to ICE
Published: 8:37pm, 25 Aug 2025Updated: 8:46pm, 25 Aug 2025 Kilmar Abrego Garcia surrendered to US immigration authorities in Baltimore on Monday and faces possible...
Alaska summit heralds change of direction for global diplomacy
When Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump on August 15, in Anchorage, Alaska, the geographic significance of the event was not...
Missing Hong Kong father, young son ‘were in Shenzhen, now back home’
Published: 8:15pm, 25 Aug 2025Updated: 8:50pm, 25 Aug 2025 A Hong Kong father and his young son, who were reported missing two weeks ago,...
‘Arrogance of power’: Taiwan’s Lai suffers sharp defeat as both recall bids fail
Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has suffered his sharpest political defeat yet, as two waves of recall votes against opposition lawmakers collapsed in a...
Protests erupt in Jakarta over Indonesian lawmakers’ ‘excessive pay’
Police fired tear gas and used a water cannon to push back hundreds of demonstrators trying to break into Indonesia’s parliament building on Monday...