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For good or ill, AI is changing modern love
Millions of Chinese are downloading AI companions to feel connection but my time spent with one app shows even chatbots have character flaws.
16 Jan 2025 - 9:30AM
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Manila and Beijing can still choose cooperation over conflict
16 Jan 2025 - 6:02AM
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Even some Five Eyes now want better relations with China
15 Jan 2025 - 9:00PM
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US-China tech war’s next front will be autonomous vehicles
Autonomous driving is not just the next frontier; it is a strategic arena where AI, semiconductor capabilities and geopolitics converge.
15 Jan 2025 - 9:54PM
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A man rides his bicycle beside a self-driving taxi in Daxing district in Beijing, China, in September 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Trump’s plans could trigger liquidity crises across Europe and Asia
Inflationary pressure and a growing deficit would turn the US into a liquidity-sucking force.
15 Jan 2025 - 4:46PM
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Tap Hong Kong cinema and horse racing to drive cultural wave
Hong Kong should promote its cultural heritage with the same passion as South Korea or risk being left behind in a competitive tourism market.
15 Jan 2025 - 9:30AM
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Get balance right on offices of Hong Kong’s ex-leaders
Former Hong Kong chief executives still have a role to play, but there is also a need to spend wisely during difficult financial times.
15 Jan 2025 - 7:30AM
One Pacific Place in Admiralty. The office of Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, former Chief Executive, is located on the eighth floor of the building. Photo: Dickson Lee
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How Asia’s gig economy can become a driver of economic innovation
The gig economy has the potential to transform lives across Asia, but only if regulators, insurers and platforms rise to the moment.
15 Jan 2025 - 5:43AM
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Robust exports show China is embedded in global supply chain
As Trump administration looms, record trade performance for 2024 will fuel talk of overcapacity and increase pressure on Beijing to rebalance the economy.
15 Jan 2025 - 5:21AM
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21st-century geopolitics is expanding beyond US, China to a four-party game
As the global strategic framework moves on from the uneasy period of US hegemony and China’s rise, a critical quadrilateral is forming.
14 Jan 2025 - 9:49PM
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Tibet’s quake is a seismic warning to China and India over their mega dam ambitions
Just as border tensions seemed to be easing, the Yarlung Tsangpo River project raises new questions between the two countries.
14 Jan 2025 - 9:45PM
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The project in Tibet will dwarf the Three Gorges Dam. Photo: Xinhua
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US-China quantum contest winner will shape the world’s future
On top of technological supremacy, the quantum race could reshape the very nature of international relations and global power dynamics.
14 Jan 2025 - 5:29PM
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How Taiwan’s Quemoy symbolises shared but diverging memories
Taiwan’s ‘Cold War Disneyland’ offers both a window into the bleakness of war and a reminder of the benefits of cross-strait detente.
15 Jan 2025 - 12:21AM
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Cooperation best on flu jabs for Hong Kong’s children
With peak influenza season nearing and cases on the rise in Hong Kong, it makes sense for the young and elderly to get vaccinated.
14 Jan 2025 - 7:30AM
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China’s tech upgrade keeps export machine roaring despite US tariffs
The proliferation of e-commerce and other technologies has helped China maintain its resilience amid trade barriers.
14 Jan 2025 - 7:00AM
A cargo ship loaded with containers sails out of Qingdao Port in east China’s Shandong province. Photo: AFP
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China is not only winning the tech war. It’s also rewriting the rules
As the US attempts to block China’s tech growth, the world’s second-largest economy has two points of leverage undercutting those efforts.
14 Jan 2025 - 5:30AM
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Trump’s Greenland gambit spotlights geopolitical tussle over the Arctic
As climate change accelerates Arctic ice melt, opening up new shipping routes and resource extraction opportunities, Greenland’s geopolitical value has soared.
13 Jan 2025 - 8:30PM
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Hong Kong is sleeping on a cultural and tourism resource: trams
Instead of prioritising one-off events, tourism planners should add value to its cultural treasures by embracing new technology and new ideas.
8 Jan 2025 - 9:35AM
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The body frame of a tram is seen at the Witty Street tram depot in Hong Kong’s Sai Wan district on August 15. Photo: Eugene Lee
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Hongkongers deserve credit for getting through a tough 2024
If John Lee had hoped to rally people to rise to the challenge of 2025 in his New Year’s address, he should have learned from Xi Jinping’s focus on people.
6 Jan 2025 - 9:30AM
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Why the H-1B visa has divided Trump supporters
Tensions within the president-elect’s coalition over high-skilled immigration are symptomatic of larger problems in the US economy.
6 Jan 2025 - 11:00AM
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Vietnam’s ‘Chubby Bear’ approach to TikTok reveals double standards
Vietnam’s TikTok strategy involves enforcing censorship while exploiting youth-centric trends to promote pro-leader narratives.
5 Jan 2025 - 10:00AM
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Phoebe Zhang
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For good or ill, AI is changing modern love
16 Jan 2025 - 9:30AM
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III
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Manila and Beijing can still choose cooperation over conflict
16 Jan 2025 - 6:02AM
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Even some Five Eyes now want better relations with China
15 Jan 2025 - 9:00PM
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Zhen Zhang
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US-China tech war’s next front will be autonomous vehicles
15 Jan 2025 - 9:54PM
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Trump’s plans could trigger liquidity crises across Europe and Asia
15 Jan 2025 - 4:46PM
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Jason Leung Yeuk-ho
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Tap Hong Kong cinema and horse racing to drive cultural wave
15 Jan 2025 - 9:30AM
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