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Beijing hails Taiwanese scholar’s rare proposal on reunification

Detailed plan on how ‘one country, two systems’ could be applied to the self-ruled island sent to mainland platform on cross-strait issues.

Beijing’s stance is that Taiwan should reunite with mainland China under "one country, two systems". Photo: AFP

Economy

Cosco Shipping arm clears China IPO path amid global shipbuilding boom

A container ship arrives at the Lianyungang port, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP

Politics

Beijing puts a total ban on drones in update to regulations after deadly crash

UAVs will be banned entirely throughout the Beijing metropolitan area, in a response to the incident in June when a small aircraft damaged the Citic Tower, also known as China Zun. Photo: Reuters

Society

Hong Kong consumer watchdog questions supermarkets’ buy one, get one free deals

Consumer Council urges shoppers to compare unit prices after finding some promotional offers gave smaller-than-expected discounts or no savings at all.

A Consumer Council survey has found that some supermarket promotions offered less value than their labels suggested. Photo: Edmond So
SERIES: Open Questions

Open Questions | Veteran investor Fang Fenglei on why China’s ‘investibility’ remains a certainty

Influential financier who helped found CICC says arguments against China investment ‘do not hold water’.

Illustration: Brian Wang

Companies

In Focus | Cast out: why China’s young workers see sacking saga as sign of unsettling times

The outlook for China’s young jobseekers could worsen further, after an ugly fallout from Xingyu’s mass dismissal of university graduates.

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Illustration: Huy Truong

Politics

How an AI plot targeted Malaysia’s elections and exposed deep data risks

Anthropic’s discovery of an AI election campaign in Malaysia shows how weak data safeguards exacerbate the risk of political manipulation.

A woman casts her vote at a polling station during a state election in Malaysia in 2023. Photo: AFP

Lifestyle

What drives 4 Shaw Prize laureates in pursuit of scientific discovery

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Four of this year’s Shaw Prize laureates: (from left) Ken’ichi Nomoto, Stanford Woosley, Camillo De Lellis and Emmanuel Candes.

Science

China’s self-powered neural device helps stroke survivors walk naturally

Prosthesis developed by mainland China and Hong Kong team uses electrical current to flex the wearer’s ankle while walking.

The device has helped to increase stride length and walking speed in stroke survivors. Photo: Nature Communications

People

Malaysian teenager acquitted of killing schoolmate

The court also ordered the boy, who was 15 at the time of the attack, to be sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.

Pedestrians pass by a mural of the Malaysian national flag in Kuala Lumpur. The killing happened at a time of heightened public scrutiny of student safety and child protection measures in schools across Malaysia. Photo: EPA-EFE

Law and Crime

Apple to review Hong Kong iPhone orders amid HK$14.7m of unauthorised transactions

Lawmaker Johnny Ng says company should be accountable for losses after more than 700 reports of unauthorised charges linked to pre-orders of latest phones.

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Hong Kong police received more than 700 reports of unauthorised credit card transactions worth HK$14.7 million linked to pre-orders for Apple’s latest phone models. Photo: Jelly Tse

South Asia

Himalayan ‘glacier bankruptcy’ threatens water security for 2 billion in Asia

Glacier mass loss is causing the region to approach ‘peak water’, the point when river flows stop rising and start declining.

A hydropower project in northern India is damaged after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier breaks off on February 7, 2021. Photo: AP
Water flows past the remains of a bridge pier in Dhading district, Nepal, on Monday after the structure is washed away by deadly flash floods and a mudslide. Photo: Reuters
People collect water from a glacier at Everest base camp in Nepal on April 13, 2025. Photo: Reuters

China Business

Chinese traders hold collective breath ahead of Xi-Trump meeting

Hope for material results is slim, but investors remain wary of volatility as banks forecast ‘fragile detente’ will continue.

President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump arrive at a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14. Photo: AP Photo

Southeast Asia

Indonesia’s Prabowo replaces finance minister with deputy

Suahasil Nazara ‌had been deputy finance minister since 2019.

Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto at the Brics summit in New Delhi on Sunday. Prabowo has ‌made ‌several cabinet changes since ‌taking office almost two years ago. Photo: AFP

World

Hong Kong Mark Six jackpot dispute, Brics finds common ground: 5 weekend reads

From China urging US to ‘stop all’ spying to India-Pakistan water row, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.

The September 5 draw was a “Mark Six 50th Anniversary Snowball” with a record jackpot of HK$228 million. Photo: Nora Tam

Arts

The Louvre looks East to help fund €1 billion makeover

To offset the costs of a major upgrade, Christophe Leribault, president of the Louvre Museum, would ‘love to have some sponsors from Asia’.

The Louvre Pyramid, designed by I.M. Pei, in 2025. The Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance project has been proposed to resolve overcrowding and reimagine the visitor experience at Paris' Louvre Museum. Photo: Reuters

Politics

Are Chinese students learning English just to ‘tell China’s story’?

With revised textbooks focusing more on Chinese culture, critics worry students are losing sight of the broader world.

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The new English textbooks for Chinese primary and middle-school students focus more on Chinese culture, such as the Dragon Boat Festival. Photo: Xinhua

Economics

US-led Luzon corridor in Philippines faces growing scrutiny over real local benefits

Filipinos, especially Gen Z, are concerned that the corridor and other US-led projects are ‘more exploitative than beneficial’, analysts say.

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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr delivers a speech during the Luzon Economic Corridor Investment Forum in Manila on Thursday. Photo: EPA
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr (centre) stands with representatives from the US, Philippines and Japan during the Luzon Economic Corridor Investment Forum on Thursday. Photo: EPA
United States Trade and Development Agency Deputy Director Thomas Hardy delivers a speech during the Luzon Economic Corridor Investment Forum in Manila on Thursday. Photo: EPA

Health & Environment

Why men account for 80% of suicide deaths in the Philippines

Filipino men rarely seek help for mental illness, despite making up 80 per cent of suicide deaths. Advocates say it’s time for change.

Men push a small boat along a flooded street after intense monsoon rains in Quezon City, the Philippines, last month. Photo: AP
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Diplomacy

Brics summit ends with Xi’s AI offer, Modi’s warning on critical minerals

Bloc united on US curbs but Xi Jinping’s open-source AI pitch and India’s warning on weaponised tech reveal internal friction, analysts say.

Xi Jinping pictured at Sunday’s session of the Brics summit in New Dellhi, India. Photo: AP
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