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China’s factory-gate prices growth slows to 3.5% in July amid lower fuel prices

Amid lower domestic fuel prices and weak domestic demand, the national consumer price index rose 0.5 per cent last month.

A staff member examines electric tricycles before shipment in China’s Shandong province on July 30, 2026. Photo: AFP

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Red alert: Shanghai cancels 60% of flights as Typhoon Dolphin closes in

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Is China’s Communist Party newspaper highlighting women’s role as mothers?

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Politics

Northern Metropolis can ‘diversify’ housing for young Hongkongers: John Lee

City leader also pledges to create more conducive environment for cultural sector to build globally recognised ‘Hong Kong brand’.

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Chief Executive John Lee (centre) attends the second town hall on his policy address 2026 and Hong Kong’s first five-year plan. Photo: Edmond So
Chief Executive John Lee (centre) attends the second town hall on his policy address 2026 and Hong Kong’s first five-year plan. Photo: Photo: handout
Chief Executive John Lee (centre) attends the second town hall on his policy address 2026 and Hong Kong’s first five-year plan. Photo: handout

Middle East

Iran thinks it has Trump cornered – but what are the risks?

Dwindling US arms stockpiles, inflation woes and looming midterms mean time is on Tehran’s side. Trouble, however, is brewing at home.

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Pedestrians walk past a hoarding in Tehran in July depicting US President Donald Trump being grabbed by the neck alongside the message “Revenge is inevitable” in English and Farsi. Photo: AP

Military

How Beijing’s hypersonic ‘carrier killers’ could distract US in a Taiwan conflict

Beijing said to be producing anti-ship missiles to hold US Pacific Fleet at distance so PLA can settle matters wherever contingency might be.

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Footage released by Chinese state media on July 29 shows a YJ-20 missile launching from a Type 052D destroyer at an undisclosed location. Photo: CCTV

Politics

Maldives’ plea to restart South Asian bloc hits India-Pakistan brick wall

Calls for reviving Saarc are likely to fall on deaf ears as long as the two neighbours are at loggerheads, analysts say.

Pakistani hardline organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa supporters burn a poster of then Indian home minister Rajnath Singh as he arrives in Lahore for a Saarc summit in Lahore on August 3, 2016. Photo: AFP
Indian army soldiers keep vigil near the Line of Control between Pakistan and India, in Poonch sector of India’s Jammu region, on May 20, 2025. Photo: AFP

Business

How UOB is turning regional scale into customer relevance

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UOB aims to become the primary bank for all of its customers by providing a single point of contact for financial needs ranging from everyday transactions to wealth planning. Photo: UOB

Science

What is a glueball? Chinese-led team finds rare particle made entirely of force

After 15 years of research, scientists discover definitive evidence of glueballs using the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II.

The Beijing Spectrometer III of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II has helped prove the existence of “glueballs”. Photo: Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Science

China’s lunar research station could be guarded by robot watchdogs: scientists

Custom-designed machines could identify hazards on the moon and help astronauts collect rock samples, source water ice, researchers say.

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Chinese researchers have drawn up blueprints that could see robot dogs helping astronauts scout hazards, collect rock samples and undertake detailed scientific work. Photo: CCTV

Economics

Vietnam pays the price at home for sending workers abroad

Between 130,000 and 150,000 Vietnamese go abroad to work annually, leaving seafood and garment sectors scrabbling for labourers.

Workers stitch clothes at a garment factory in Vietnam’s Thai Nguyen province last year. Photo: AFP

Australasia

Jetstar plane brakes suddenly to avoid colliding with Boeing 777 in Sydney

An investigation was launched into the ‘near collision’ that also injured a cabin crew member.

A Jetstar plane and a Qatar Airways flight were involved in a near miss at Sydney airport on Sunday. Photo: X/itsdanibrown

Southeast Asia

‘I felt like ‌we weren’t going to survive’: how Thai school shooting unfolded

Eyewitness accounts reveal chaos as students barricaded classrooms and hid near the windows during the mayhem.

Relatives of a Thai teacher killed in the Debsirin Nonthaburi School shooting weep as they collect the body for funeral rites at a hospital in Bangkok on Saturday. Photo: EPA
The wife (centre) of a Thai teacher who was killed in a school shooting is led to an ambulance in Nonthaburi province on Friday. Photo: AFP
Policemen patrol outside the school in Thailand’s Nonthaburi province on Friday. Photo: AP
Children are evacuated from around the Debsirin Nonthaburi School on Friday. Photo: AP

United States & Canada

Joe Biden’s prostate cancer is spreading and causing him pain, son Hunter says

The former US president revealed his diagnosis in May last year, less than four months after he left the White House.

Former US president Joe Biden looks out at the crowd during the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Centre in Chicago in June. Photo: AP

Health & Environment

Climate change in Malaysia turns up heat on youth

Unicef survey shows young people reporting significant concerns including worsening illnesses and heat-related health problems.

A pedestrian carries an umbrella crosses a street in front of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday. Photo: AP

Europe

German arms giant boss says no ‘chickening out’ amid alleged Russian threats

‘These jobs must be done and anyone that can’t take the pressure doesn’t belong in this job,’ Rheinmetall’s Armin Papperger says.

Bavaria’s state Premier Markus Soeder holds a grenade launcher as Rheinmetall’s CEO Armin Papperger (left) watches during a ceremony in southern Germany last month. Photo: AFP

Military

Taiwan’s William Lai rehearses late-night emergency escape during military drill

As part of annual Han Kuang exercise, the island’s leader is evacuated in a drill simulating a potential PLA decapitation strike.

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Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te (left) wears a bulletproof vest and helmet as he walks through a tunnel to a command centre in Taipei on August 5 as part of the Han Kuang military exercise. Photo: AFP / Presidential Office of Taiwan

Africa

1,500 couples tie the knot at mass wedding in Nigeria

The two-day ceremony in Kano State was aimed at people who, for financial reasons, would otherwise struggle to afford a wedding.

Nigerian brides and grooms attend a mass wedding ceremony in Kano, Nigeria, on Saturday. Photo: AP

United States & Canada

Privacy fears drive ‘patriotic Americans’ to destroy licence plate cameras

Grass-roots activists across the US are smashing Flock’s surveillance devices, saying the cameras can be used to infringe on privacy.

An American flag flies behind a Flock Safety camera mounted to a light pole in Burbank, California. Photo: Getty Images via AFP
A Flock Safety camera is mounted to a light pole in Beverly Hills, California. Photo: Getty Images via AFP
A car drives by a Flock Safety camera mounted to a light pole in Beverly Hills, California. Photo: Getty Images via AFP
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Why foreign workers are still climbing mountains of paperwork for a job in China

Beijing’s rigid visa points system and strict sponsorship rules frustrate young expats, but most are still undeterred in their job search.

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Slapped with reality: why Huawei’s top chip scientist embraces war-hero mindset

In viral interview, Liao Heng talks navigating US curbs to make Ascend processors, placing innovation over nanometres for chip self-reliance.

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