Hong Kong minister backs city’s care teams despite critical viral video
[South China Morning Post] - 01/10/2025
Secretary for home and youth affairs defends teams in face of viral news clip in which officials duck requests for performance reports.
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China’s aviation sector in clear skies of profit after 4 turbulent years
Civil aviation in China returned to profitability in 2024, the industry’s first positive return after four years of (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Apple forms Shanghai data-processing venture as AI push in China still in limbo
The Shanghai unit of Apple will focus on software development, big data services, storage services and data processing.
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
China releases world’s most powerful electronic warfare weapon design software – for free
While similar US industrial software can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, a Chinese program has been released (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Huawei gets WeChat on board with HarmonyOS, a key step to challenge Android, iOS in China
The US-sanctioned Chinese company hopes to have 100,000 apps in its self-developed mobile operating system this year.
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Chinese actor Wang Xing rescued, Tibet earthquake, dementia tests: SCMP’s 7 highlights
From actor Wang Xing’s rescue to a clock-drawing test for dementia, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Philippine politicians worry about ‘warmonger’ Trump’s aggressive foreign policy
Several groups say Donald Trump poses a grave danger to the region and worry the US president-elect may involve the (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Tremors felt in Hong Kong as 4.2 magnitude quake strikes off Guangdong
Observatory says it received more than 10 reports of minor shaking, with duration of a few seconds.
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Will North Korea deploy up to 100,000 troops to help Russia’s war in Ukraine?
Pyongyang might have acquired advanced missile technology from Moscow in exchange for its involvement in the war, (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Top Chinese general pledges strict crackdown on military corruption for 2025
General He Weidong hails progress and calls on PLA to ‘punish evil’ as President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft crusade (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Malaysia and Japan to develop green energy projects, Ishiba eyes defence ties
Among their agreements, both countries will jointly develop hydrogen energy and partner in the post-war (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
China’s Fujian carrier shows signs of heavier flight deck activity after latest sea trial
The tyre marks may be signs of ‘touch-and-go’ landings and it is not known if the ship’s advanced catapult has been (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025