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Apple enters a crowded foldable smartphone market in China – can it beat Huawei?

The new iPhone Duo flagship handset is trending on Weibo but faces fierce domestic competition and local hurdles.

Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo is unveiled during Apple’s special event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park in Cupertino, California, United States, on Wednesday. Photo: EPA

Science

J-50 design team reveals leapfrog tech for China’s next-gen stealth fighters

Politics

In Focus | Why softer focus on national security in Hong Kong’s 5-year plan won’t happen

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Big Tech

Apple takes on Chinese brands by unveiling first foldable iPhone

Apple is attempting to break into China’s foldable phone market, the world’s largest and most competitive, dominated by Huawei Technologies.

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Apple’s unveils its foldable iPhone Duo at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on Wednesday. Photo: EPA

China Economy

Gold jewellery loses its lustre as Chinese switch focus to bars and coins

High prices and decline in marriages cited as reasons for one-third drop in jewellery sales in first half of year.

Gold bars at a precious metals dealership in Munich, Germany. Photo: dpa

Economy

China rejects US AI model distillation allegations, warns of retaliation

The commerce ministry says distillation is ‘neutral’ and widely used by companies around the world, including American firms.

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The DeepSeek name is displayed in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on June 16, 2026. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Politics

Pritam Singh questions if high pay attracts top talent to Singapore politics

The Workers’ Party chief said ‘no amount of money will persuade’ some people to trade their plush offices for grass-roots work.

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Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh. 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.

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When Hong Kong films embraced sex, sugar’s link to dementia: 7 Lifestyle stories

From Hong Kong’s Category III era to a Korean auteur’s new masterpiece, here are seven stories from SCMP’s recent reporting.

Amy Yip in a still from Sex and Zen (1991). Photo: Golden Harvest

China Business

Hong Kong investors face volatility without prospect of state help

State buying appears to quash panic selling in mainland China-listed shares, but Hong Kong’s unsettled market can’t expect government intervention.

Bull statues overlook Exchange Square in Hong Kong on February 3. Photo: Reuters

United States & Canada

‘Too fast’, ‘too low’: pilot pressed on with landing despite warnings in Miami crash

NTSB releases transcripts of recordings from Amazon cargo plane that skidded off runway, killing five.

The wreckage of the Amazon Prime Air cargo plane that overran a runway at Miami International Airport. Photo: NTSB via Reuters
A drone view of skid marks left by the aircraft. Photo: NTSB
Workers inspect the wreckage. Photo: AP
Investigators inspect the cockpit. Photo: NTSB via Reuters
An investigator works with the flight data recorder. Photo: NTSB via Reuters

Society

Toddler with heart and brain conditions dies after being found unresponsive

The 23-month-old girl was found unconscious, not breathing and without a pulse at Hong Kong flat before being certified dead in hospital.

Police are investigating after a 23-month-old girl was found unresponsive at her family’s Kai Tak flat and later certified dead in hospital. Photo: Sam Tsang

Politics

Is the Philippine military ‘massively underfunded’?

Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jnr has warned there could be no military recruits next year due to budget cuts.

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Philippine soldiers load ammunition into an Israeli-made howitzer during a live-fire exercise in Capas town, Tarlac province, in 2024. Photo: AFP
Philippine troops take part in a live‑fire exercise in Aborlan, Palawan, in April during the annual Balikatan military drills between the US and the Philippines. Photo: Reuters
A Philippine soldier peers from a viewing deck in Philippine-occupied Thitu Island in the disputed South China Sea in February. Photo: Reuters

World

August was hottest month ever recorded globally, scientists say

UN warns of ‘spiralling price’ of fossil fuels after Earth’s record-shattering summer temperatures.

The sunrise on Glastonbury Tor during extreme hot weather in Britain in August. Photo: Reuters
A woman stands in front of a hose spraying a mist of water in Cologne, Germany. Photo: dpa
A person cools off in front of a fan in the Colosseum in Rome, Italy. Photo: EPA
A thermometer reading 35 degrees Celsius in Montreuil, France. Photo: AFP

Diplomacy

Trump touts ‘most successful’ presidency, promises US$5,000 to voters in speech

The US president spoke for nearly two hours at the launch of the Republican Party’s unusual midterm convention in Texas.

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US President Donald Trump addresses the Republican Party’s midterm convention on Wednesday. Photo: AP

China

Brazil scraps tax on small parcels as Chinese platforms lose US and EU access

Congress cleared the measure days before it expired, handing Shein, Shopee and AliExpress a tariff-free lane into Latin America’s largest economy.

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Brazil has seen a surge in low-value overseas purchases since scrapping a federal tax on small international parcels. Photo: Shutterstock

Politics

Japan’s protest over Russian soldier statue aggravates ‘summer of tension’

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is under pressure from conservatives to take firm action, including helping Ukraine in its war against Russia.

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The unveiling of a Soviet soldier smashing an imperial-era border marker bearing the emblem of the Japanese royal family in the Russian city of Khabarovsk has angered Tokyo. Photo: X/MFA Russia

Banking & Finance

Pooling power: how AIIB plans to quadruple capital for Asia’s infrastructure

The bank is building a pooled-capital platform to draw insurers, pension funds and other investors into Asia’s infrastructure debt.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is developing a new platform to pool capital from institutional investors. Photo: Xinhua

Americas

Rubio defends US strikes on boats, warns of drug cartel ‘cancer’

US Secretary of State pledges continued military operations against suspected drug traffickers in Latin American waters.

According to Pentagon figures, dozens of drug boat strikes have killed more than 200 people. Photo: US Southern Command via AFP
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Over 65% of cars sold in China are now EVs as Iran war drives electric shift

China’s electric vehicle adoption rate has hit yet another record high, as rising fuel prices accelerate the pivot away from petrol cars.

Traffic is gridlocked during the morning rush hour on a sunny day in Beijing. Photo: Reuters
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