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United States

Opinion | How Trump’s assault on US universities is reshaping rivalry with China

In purging individuals and ideas from US universities, Donald Trump’s new ‘red scare’ will only diminish America’s ability to attract top tech talent.

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Thailand

‘Scared of dark skin’ no more? Young Thais reject stigma as beauty norms evolve

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American cinema

Does Disney’s Snow White remake stand a chance amid the backlash?

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Icons and Influencers

Meet House Speaker Mike Johnson’s teacher and pastor wife, Kelly Johnson

As a pastoral counsellor, Kelly started a company that equated homosexuality with bestiality and incest, and claimed being transgender was forbidden by the Bible – she is also a mother of 4 children.

Meet House Speaker Mike Johnson’s teacher and pastor wife, Kelly Johnson, pictured here with Donald Trump. Photo: @SpeakerJohnson/X
South Korea

Biased against ‘dark-skinned’ workers: Samsung hit by racism row in US, Korea

According to a lawsuit, a former senior engineer alleged that he was wrongfully dismissed after reporting racial discrimination.

Australia

Terrorism or trickery? Australia’s antisemitic crime wave may have been a hoax

Police say an explosives-filled caravan they found was part of a ‘criminal con job’, with those arrested motivated more by money than hate.

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Crime

Judge rules US spa shooter’s statements post-arrest can be used in death penalty trial

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty and a hate crimes sentencing enhancement for 2021 killings.

Robert Aaron Long appears at Fulton County Superior Court in downtown Atlanta, Georgia in 2021. Photo: Atlanta Journal Constitution via AP
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Having more women on boards makes business sense. Hong Kong gets it

In this increasingly complex world, it is vital for businesses to embrace gender diversity, and diversity more broadly, for long-term success.

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United States

Trump cuts grants to Columbia University over antisemitism accusations

The Ivy League school has been at the centre of protests calling for an end to US support for Israel due to civilian deaths in the Gaza war.

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United States

Andrew Tate and brother under criminal investigation in Florida

The influencer siblings have just returned to the US from Romania, where they faced rape and human trafficking charges.

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate arrive in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday. Photo: AP
Millionaires and billionaires

Meet Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, the first woman to lead a major US bank

Fraser spent her teenage years in Australia and has 2 master’s degrees, from Cambridge and Harvard; her Cuban-born husband quit his job as a banker to support her as a stay-at-home dad.

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, the first woman to lead a major United States bank. Photo: SCMP Archives
Viral stories

Japan woman says ‘racist’ Singapore cabby polite after realising she was not Chinese

Rude Lion City taxi driver treats woman badly on way to airport, then starts to ‘treat her like a queen’ when it became clear she was Japanese.

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Books and literature

Rewriting history? The delicate balance of sensitivity and censorship in books

Sensitivity readers can be a valuable resource for authors navigating complex issues of race, culture and sexuality, but at what cost? Writers appearing at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival explore this question.

Hong Kong culture

Opinion | Like the US, Hong Kong’s challenge is to balance progressive ideals

As the US roils from a rollback in diversity policies, Hong Kong must beware of overcorrection in its patriotism push.

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A sign outside US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office in Washington on February 25, 2021. Trump’s efforts to roll back diversity policies and defend women’s rights against the transgender lobby are rippling through US society. Photo: Reuters
Fame and celebrity

Who’s Kevin Blatt, the guy threatening to release Kanye West’s sex tape?

Following the ‘Power’ rapper’s antisemitic meltdown on X (formerly Twitter), Blatt, who is Jewish, began selling his own ‘F Kanye West’ merchandise and threatened to release the rapper’s sex tape.

Hollywood fixer Kevin Blatt (right) is threatening Kanye West with a sex tape he helped hide in 2012 in response to the rapper’s recent antisemitic tirade. Photo: Kevin Blatt/Facebook
Donald Trump

Who is Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser, TV evangelist Paula White-Cain?

The newly appointed senior adviser to the White House Faith Office became a Christian in the 1980s, then claimed she’d had a vision from God – but many take issue with her ‘prosperity theology’.

Fame and celebrity

Kanye West’s Yeezy website goes down after Nazi T-shirt sales

A US$20 white T-shirt with a black swastika on the front was the only item available before the brand was removed from Shopify.

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Singapore

Singapore detains teen ‘East Asian supremacist’ for planning attacks on Muslims

Ethnic Chinese Singaporean Nick Lee Xing Qui was radicalised online and aspired to carry out a Christchurch-style attack, investigators said.

Mourners pray near a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, that was targeted in the 2019 attacks. Nick Lee Xing Qui had role-played as the Christchurch mosque shooter, investigators said. Photo: AP
Celebrity Families

Who is Cully Pratt, older brother of Marvel’s Chris Pratt?

The big brother of the Parks and Recreation star retired from the Solano County Sheriff’s Office in 2022, following a 2021 expose linking him to the extremist group the Three Percenters.

Australia

Australia roiled by antisemitic attacks amid claims of foreign influence

The government has approved measures in the House of Representatives for new hate crime offences protecting race, religion and gender.

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Singapore

Singapore enacts new controls on ‘race-based’ groups to promote cohesion

The bill is the latest in a string of legislation in recent years to clamp down on foreign influence and misinformation.

People walk past a display for the Lunar New Year of the Snake at the Marina Bay Sands shopping centre in Singapore. Photo: AFP
Africa

Trump claims South Africa ‘treating certain classes of people’ badly, cuts funds

The US president has surrounded himself with powerful Silicon Valley figures who came of age in apartheid-era southern Africa.

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A supporter waves a South African flag during a cricket match between South Africa and Pakistan in Cape Town last month. Photo: AFP
Japan

In Japan, a Muslim community’s wish to bury its dead stirs wave of hostility

Misleading reports and social media attacks have sought to block plans for a Muslim cemetery in the town of Hiji in southern Japan.

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Britain

Make England Great Again: jailed far-right figure sparks rival London rallies

Supporters invoking Trump and Elon Musk demanded the activist’s release, while a large group of counterprotesters gathered in opposition.

Australia

Australian cruise ship operator denies staff dressed in Ku Klux Klan fancy dress

P&O Cruises Australia said the staff, who appeared in all-white jumpsuits and cone-shaped hats, were actually dressed as ‘snow cones’.

A still from a social media video shows staff strolling across the deck of an Australian cruise liner in all-white jumpsuits and cone-shaped hats evoking the distinctive white robes and masked hoods worn by the racist Ku Klux Klan. Photo: X/LidZen5
Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration

Trump calls Washington bishop ‘nasty’ after criticism from cathedral pulpit

The US president was forced to sit through a sermon by a bishop who begged him to have ‘mercy’ on gays and poor immigrants.

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US President Donald Trump stands near Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde as he attends the National Day of Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters
Malaysia

‘Shameful’: outrage in Malaysia as disabled man assaulted in video as people watch

The video shows men attacking the victim, kicking him in the face, prompting a debate on the treatment of vulnerable people in Malaysia.

Taliban

‘Injustice’: Taliban deputy urges group to scrap female education ban

Sher Abbas Stanikzai urged the group’s leaders ‘to open the doors of education … we are committing an injustice’.

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