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How to preserve Europe’s liberty in the Trump 2.0 era
If Europe truly values liberty, it must build the means to defend it and start finally seeing the world as it is, not as it remembers it.
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How China can help Africa build human capital
9 Dec 2025 - 5:47PM
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How Hong Kong can distinguish itself as a climate finance hub
9 Dec 2025 - 9:30AM
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Why Hong Kong’s youth must be key part of city’s mental health support
When young people are involved in designing interventions, those interventions are more culturally relevant, better used and more sustainable.
9 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
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The number of students struggling with mental health issues rose 27 per cent between 2023 and 2024. Photo: Elson Li
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In reaching out to China, European states can’t keep acting alone
The idea of an autonomous bloc engaging Beijing from a position of strength and independence collapses when its toothless leaders visit.
8 Dec 2025 - 9:06PM
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Asia Opinion
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Asia’s housing affordability squeeze shows no signs of slowing
Some of the sharpest increases in property values are in economies facing major headwinds or those suffering from an acute shortage of affordable housing.
8 Dec 2025 - 5:23PM
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After Hong Kong fire, new lawmakers will have to hit the ground running
Lawmakers must reach out to their electorates, listen to grievances and frustrations and seek to understand people’s plight.
8 Dec 2025 - 5:05PM
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Legco election forums resume at the Lai Chi Kok Government Offices after the Tai Po fire on December 3. Photo: Nora Tam
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Despite their strong ties, Russia and China are emotional opposites
Moscow is haunted by a longing for Western approval in contrast to Beijing, which focuses on borrowing what works and changing what doesn’t.
8 Dec 2025 - 11:41AM
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Japanese PM Takaichi has learned how to do a Washington over Taiwan
“Strategic ambiguity” over the island used to be a benign doctrine, but now it is becoming as dangerous as what US hawks have called “strategic clarity”.
7 Dec 2025 - 10:30PM
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Why 2026 will be the year AI hype collides with reality
The reckoning ahead for the AI bubble promises to reprice expectations, force economic trade-offs and call out circular deals.
7 Dec 2025 - 8:30PM
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How China can ensure Tazara rail deal in Africa is a win-win
The Chinese-funded rail upgrade benefits Tanzania and Zambia while securing China a trade corridor and access to critical African minerals.
7 Dec 2025 - 5:38PM
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The Tanzania-Zambia railway in the Tanzania Mbeya region. Photo: Shutterstock
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Vietnam’s anti-drug police are speaking Gen Z, and it’s working
Ho Chi Minh City’s police have found a way to wrap dry state messaging in viral humour, mirroring China’s digital playbook.
7 Dec 2025 - 10:30AM
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Does AI’s rise have to mean job losses? East Asia tells a different story
Studies from Vietnam to South Korea show AI adoption has not cannibalised jobs. Instead of simple mechanisation, economies are synergising.
7 Dec 2025 - 9:30AM
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Time to cheer on our disabled athletes
The National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the Special Olympic Games have begun. Every effort must be made to ensure success.
7 Dec 2025 - 7:15AM
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Fashion industry must tailor climate plans to Asian suppliers’ reality
Efforts to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions in the fashion industry will not work if they rest on a Western design paired with Eastern sacrifice.
7 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
A worker holds a piece of clothing at a factory in Depok, Indonesia, on April 25, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/ADI WEDA
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The role of jurors in the legal system should be strengthened, not restricted
The UK has a shocking backlog of criminal cases. But a plan to cut back on jury trials will not necessarily solve the problem and might have far-reaching consequences.
6 Dec 2025 - 11:30PM
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Inflated asset prices show markets don’t always know best
With hyperinflated sectors across multiple asset markets, the next crash could be so severe that it prompts a restructuring of global finance.
6 Dec 2025 - 4:30PM
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After Hong Kong fire, new lawmakers will have to hit the ground running
Lawmakers must reach out to their electorates, listen to grievances and frustrations and seek to understand people’s plight.
8 Dec 2025 - 5:05PM
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Legco election forums resume at the Lai Chi Kok Government Offices after the Tai Po fire on December 3. Photo: Nora Tam
Asia Opinion
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Asia’s housing affordability squeeze shows no signs of slowing
Some of the sharpest increases in property values are in economies facing major headwinds or those suffering from an acute shortage of affordable housing.
8 Dec 2025 - 5:23PM
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In reaching out to China, European states can’t keep acting alone
The idea of an autonomous bloc engaging Beijing from a position of strength and independence collapses when its toothless leaders visit.
8 Dec 2025 - 9:06PM
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Why Hong Kong’s youth must be key part of city’s mental health support
When young people are involved in designing interventions, those interventions are more culturally relevant, better used and more sustainable.
9 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
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Thomas O. Falk
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How to preserve Europe’s liberty in the Trump 2.0 era
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Winston Mok
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How China can help Africa build human capital
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Lisa Sachs
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How Hong Kong can distinguish itself as a climate finance hub
9 Dec 2025 - 9:30AM
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Why Hong Kong’s youth must be key part of city’s mental health support
9 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa
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In reaching out to China, European states can’t keep acting alone
8 Dec 2025 - 9:06PM
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Asia’s housing affordability squeeze shows no signs of slowing
8 Dec 2025 - 5:23PM
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