Sunac’s onshore debt deal bodes well for China’s troubled property sector: experts
[South China Morning Post] - 01/22/2025
The deal could ‘provide a viable reference model for other embattled Chinese property developers’.
In Chinese newspapers
Wang Xing’s Myanmar escape signals more work ahead against thriving scam industry
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[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
China’s state media runs blow-by-blow account of Trump’s return, calls for ‘more bridges’
Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily cites ‘historical juncture’ in ties, while Global Times calls for ‘more (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
Australian cruise operator denies staff dressed as Ku Klux Klan for Christmas fun day
P&O Cruises Australia said the staff, who appeared in all-white jumpsuits and cone-shaped hats, were actually (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Turkey detains 9, including hotel owner, over ski resort fire that killed dozens
Turkey declared Wednesday a national day of mourning after a fire ripped through the Grand Kartal Hotel.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Panama audit of Hong Kong’s Hutchison aims to counter US canal narrative
‘The [Panama government] needs concrete data to counter this China is controlling the canal narrative,’ insider says.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
As the rules-based order declines, hegemony takes on a new form
From new development models to shifting norms, global power is now increasingly shared and contested across (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
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
Sri Lanka’s ex-leaders told to vacate luxury government homes amid austerity drive
The luxury bungalows are being converted into hotels or museums, with the Rajapaksas receiving a modest rent (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
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
South Korea seeks Iron Dome-like system as Trump touts friendship with Kim Jong-un
Seoul is aiming to build the US$330 million defence system to intercept rockets fired by North Korea.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025