Published: 12:11pm, 17 Oct 2025Updated: 1:12pm, 17 Oct 2025
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing.
1. Images of hull sections suggest progress on China’s fourth aircraft carrier
China appears to be making progress on its fourth aircraft carrier at a shipyard in the country’s northeast, according to satellite images, another key part of the navy’s modernisation drive.
2. Sending a message: Beijing issues documents without Word format amid US tensions
China’s expansion of its rare earth export controls appeared to mark another escalation in the US-China trade war last week. But the announcements were also significant in another way: unusually, the documents could not be opened using American word processing software.
3. 2 missing Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong found after 12 days
Aleli Perez Tibay and Imee Mahilum Pabuaya were found in Sha Tin after they had been spotted in Lei Muk Shue Estate in Tsuen Wan on October 8.