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Twenty teams were expelled from the last Subroto Cup schools football tournament for fielding over-aged players. Photo: Getty Images
Doping in sport

Indian sport battles ‘endemic’ menace of age fraud, experts want stiffer sanctions

Country’s chaotic birth registration system has allowed older children to compete against younger ones, potentially earning great rewards.

Hong Kong society

CNBC to close Hong Kong operations, scrap international shows in major overhaul

Defence

India targets weapons self-reliance with fully local assault rifle

Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s talk of joining an ‘Islamic Nato’ raises red flags in India

Joining the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani security alliance offers Dhaka leverage, but could also threaten its non-aligned stance.

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (right) shakes hands with his Bangladeshi counterpart Khalilur Rahman during a meeting in New Delhi in April. Photo: AFP
Global monetary policy

Macroscope | Asia is not on the edge of a new 1997-style financial crisis

While risks to Asia’s financial stability exist, they have nothing to do with the policy and structural weaknesses behind the 1997 crisis.

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China trade

What Xi’s tour of Egypt and Central Asia reveals about China’s trade strategy

Presidential tour highlights strategy of shifting manufacturing abroad, shielding domestic exporters from growing global barriers.

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SCO

SCO takes landmark stand on nuclear security as Iran comes under renewed attack

The bloc underscores members’ rights to peaceful nuclear development in broader pushback at Western powers, analyst says.

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The SCO has released its first dedicated declaration on nuclear safety and security. Photo: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
Narendra Modi

Has India’s Modi found new mediator clout?

Analysts say while India could act as a potential bridge in engaging parties locked in conflict, ensuring a resolution works will be harder.

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US, Israel war on Iran

Iran wins SCO backing against US strikes. Will it be enough?

Despite strong rhetoric out of Bishkek, support from groupings like the SCO and Brics may be more symbolic than substantial, analysts say.

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United States

India defies Iran war oil shock to keep 8% growth on track

With tax cuts and a factory boom offsetting oil volatility, analysts expect momentum to hold – if El Nino doesn’t wreck the harvest.

A cyclist rides past the Indian rupee symbol outside the Reserve Bank of India’s headquarters in Mumbai last month. Photo: EPA
SCO

Opinion | 25 years on, the SCO’s pragmatic strategy is working better than ever

The SCO’s significance is practical: it gives those who do not want their future defined in Washington a forum to coordinate and hedge.

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Heads of state attend a session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on September 1. Photo: Reuters
Singapore

Singapore jails Indian man who hid US$154,000 diamond in mouth during heist

Serasiya Milan Ramnikbhai and his accomplice were caught at the airport following the Chinatown robbery.

SCO

‘Aloof’ but engaged: what India’s SCO comeback reveals

New Delhi’s re-engagement with the China-led bloc serves as a reminder to the US that it has other options, analysts say.

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Banking & finance

Citi boosts headcount, Invesco names new executive in Asia expansion

US financial firms Citigroup and Invesco are continuing to expand in Asia even amid geopolitical uncertainties.

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A Citibank building in New York. Photo: AP
Fifa

India line up Brazil, Uruguay friendlies, but domestic football chaos continues

Trio of international friendlies over next several weeks provides some light in a gloomy time for game in the country.

Hong Kong’s Yue Tsz-nam and India’s Anwar Ali clash during the an AFC Asian Cup qualifier at Kai Tak Stadium. Photo: Elson Li
China-India relations

Opinion | India’s conflicted stance on China is unlikely to bear economic fruit

New Delhi’s approach has gone from welcoming economic engagement with Beijing to containment to the latest calibrated reopening.

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Pakistan

India rejects ruling on water-sharing treaty with Pakistan by Hague court

The court says India must uphold the treaty and curb work on a hydroelectric plant in Kashmir pending a neutral expert’s assessment.

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Banking & finance

Hong Kong leads Asia in start-up potential, ranks fifth globally: study

City shows growing strength in nurturing scalable ventures and unicorns, CB Insights study says.

A general-purpose intelligent robot works in Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong, on August 31. Photo: Dickson Lee
SCMP Highlights

China-Nepal floods, Japan to deploy fighter jets to India: 5 weekend reads

From foreigners missing in the China-Nepal disaster to Canada ending a migration path for Hongkongers, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.

China's military weapons

Uzbekistan confirmed as second foreign operator of China’s J-10CE fighter

Uzbekistan’s defence ministry released official footage of the fighters on Sunday, which was also broadcast on state television.

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Accidents and disasters in China

China-Nepal floods: 261 foreigners missing in Tibet, online rumours targeted

Nepalese and Indians account for more than half of nationals from 23 countries missing after devastating glacier collapse four days ago.

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Chinese rescue teams search the Gyirong border crossing that was destroyed in Wednesday’s floods and mudslides. Photo: Xinhua
Nepal

Nepal floods: rescuers send air pipe into tunnel with trapped workers

There could be over 100 survivors stuck inside the tunnels, and the breakthrough raises hopes that rescue teams will be able to reach them.

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Nepal Army personnel rescue a survivor from a hydropower tunnel on Friday, following flash floods in Rasuwa District. Photo: Nepal Army via EPA
China-Japan relations

What Japan’s coming fighter jet deployment to India means for China

The historic move signals Tokyo’s desire to strengthen defence ties with ‘like-minded’ Indo-Pacific powers, analysts say.

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Singapore

Temasek backs Singapore Airlines’ Air India investment

News of the funding request prompted a lawmaker from Singapore’s opposition to urge that Temasek’s funds not be used.

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Kashmir

‘Important part of India’: the phrase rattling US-Pakistan ties

Whether a slip or a calculated trade tactic, Sergio Gor’s remark upended decades of studied American neutrality on Kashmir.

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A paramilitary policeman waves India’s national flag in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, on the eve of Independence Day celebrations this month. Photo: Reuters
Nepal

US families hold out hope for relatives lost in Nepal floods

About 90 Americans are among those unaccounted for, according to the US State Department.

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People look at photographs of missing people following flash floods at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Friday. Photo: EPA
China-India relations

Asian Angle | India-China ties are warming, the time to capitalise is now

The post-Galwan freeze is over. Rebuilding economic dialogue offers both nations a win-win path forward.

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ChatGPT and other generative AIs

‘ChatGPT is not judging you’: Indians turn to AI gurus for answers

The chatbots are powered by large language models using sacred texts such as Hinduism’s ‘Bhagavad Gita’.

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