New discoveries raise China’s lithium reserves to second largest in the world
[South China Morning Post] - 01/8/2025
Recent finds, including a massive deposit in Tibet, will help meet demand for metal, which is key for EV batteries and other technologies.
In Chinese newspapers
China’s investors, tourists hit pause to size up risks of turmoil in Seoul
With the political crisis in South Korea unlikely to abate, analysts say China’s businesspeople and travellers are (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/01/2025
Award-winning migrant actor who faced deportation from France gets a work permit
Abou Sangare, an undocumented migrant who won a best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, gains French work (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/01/2025
Ex-professor Feng ‘Franklin’ Tao sues US university after China spying charges overturned
A former tenured professor of chemistry accuses the University of Kansas of discrimination and improperly (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 8/01/2025
20 Hong Kong students hospitalised after trolley set ablaze outside school
Police receive call just before 12.30pm on Thursday, investigating fire as case of suspected arson.
[South China Morning Post] - 9/01/2025
EU stays mum as Donald Trump eyes Greenland and Elon Musk courts far-right
Told to cease ‘lecturing and moralising’, Brussels officials ready for ‘strong transatlantic agenda’ as they (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/01/2025
Mexico’s president trolls Trump, suggests US be renamed ‘Mexican America’
Claudia Sheinbaum was responding to the US president-elect’s proposal to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 8/01/2025
Cathay expands European network with direct flights from Hong Kong to Rome
The service, which was suspended in February 2020, will be relaunched on June 5.
[South China Morning Post] - 9/01/2025
Ukraine fighting helps North Korea prepare to wage war in Asia, US warns
Pyongyang’s troops are gaining experience and Russian equipment that could be used against neighbouring countries, a (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 8/01/2025
‘Living in paradise’: Iraqi man shares love for China after fleeing war-torn homeland
Man takes refuge from war in country, forges careers in acting, modelling before learning Mandarin, attracting huge (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/01/2025
China EV giant BYD hits the skids in Brazil as ‘slavery-like’ claims run over labour force
China’s labour practices are driving a wedge between the world’s biggest EV maker and efforts to expand globally in (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 8/01/2025
Celebrities among those who lost homes in devastating Los Angeles fires
Celebrities flee Los Angeles fires, lose houses as Hollywood events are scrapped.
[South China Morning Post] - 9/01/2025