Hong Kong’s banks gird for leaner times ahead as 9-month profit growth slows
[South China Morning Post] - 01/22/2025
Net interest margin narrowed to 1.5 per cent last year from 1.67 per cent in 2023, according to HKMA data.
In Chinese newspapers
Asia’s lowest birth rate is rising for the first time in years
South Korea has the world’s lowest fertility rates, but an uptick in pandemic-postponed marriages has sparked (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Indonesia’s US$1.4 billion fish start-up faked most sales, report claims
EFishery was a darling of the nation’s start-up scene. Then a whistle-blower alleged that the company’s accounts (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Accepting a nuclear North Korea was never US policy … until Trump 2.0?
Donald Trump’s convention-busting acknowledgement of North Korea as a nuclear power bucks years of US policy – and (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Hong Kong police arrest 5 for allegedly stealing HK$2.2 million of fish maws
Police say trucks loaded with stolen goods travelled to various locations in an attempt to disrupt surveillance.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Hong Kong may require minimum stay to obtain ‘local student’ university status
Minister says she will take reference from overseas as government responds to claims of talent schemes being abused (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
With China in focus, Rubio hosts Quad meetings on first day as US secretary of state
First meeting of Trump presidency for security group focused on Indo-Pacific voices opposition to altering status (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
China’s submarine-launched drones can do more than the US military thinks: study
Amid reports of a new US military plan for an underwater drone release, scientists say China has already done it better.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Donald Trump says he’s open to Elon Musk buying TikTok ‘if he wanted to’
Billionaire given green light by US president, whose executive order extended company’s deadline to find a (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Trump says he is mulling 10% tariffs on imports from China, starting February 1
The US president is framing the possible tariffs as a penalty for the flow of fentanyl from Canada and Mexico.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Tech titans join Trump for US$100 billion AI boost ‘to beat China’ in Day 2 pledge
OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle CEOs join the new president for White House launch of private sector joint venture Stargate.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
From TikTok to RedNote: a digital migration that defies geopolitics
The unexpected and spontaneous grass-roots response demonstrates the untapped potential for people-to-people (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025