Hong Kong should refer to past pay cuts for officials amid deficit: ex-minister
[South China Morning Post] - 02/4/2025
Anthony Cheung urges lawmakers and top officials to ‘proactively show their readiness to go through the difficult times with ordinary people’.
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Tech war: China’s chip firms embrace DeepSeek in AI self-sufficiency drive
From Moore Threads to Iluvatar Corex, China’s leading chip designers are rushing to adopt DeepSeek’s latest models.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Sweden mourns victims of deadliest shooting, but gunman’s motive remains unknown
Police say there was no evidence that suspect – named as Rickard Andersson, 35 – had ‘ideological motives’ for the (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Room with a seal view: Dutch hotel gets unusual guest
The seal had become ‘quite grumpy due to its disturbed beauty sleep’ and animal rescue moved it to a more usual (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Physical gym closure, Messi and waste charging dominated Hong Kong consumer news
Consumer Council reveals results of survey about biggest news stories of year, which attracted record-high 14,429 (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Countdown to quit: thousands of US federal workers accept Musk’s ‘buyout’ offer
About 1 per cent of the US federal workforce have signed up for a deferred resignation deal as Thursday’s deadline (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of world’s Ismaili Muslims, dies at 88
Both a business magnate and a philanthropist who donated billions, he moved between the spiritual and the worldly (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
ByteDance’s new AI model goes viral for its deepfake capabilities that animate photos
Clips from the TikTok owner’s new OmniHuman-1 multimodal model have gone viral for their lifelike appearance and (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Indonesia’s nickel sector faces headwinds from Trump’s electric vehicle curbs
The move by US President Donald Trump to revoke electric vehicle incentives may also widen China’s dominance in (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Russians told not to panic over ‘gas cloud’ near Ukraine-hit plant
The gas was the result of work to restart the plant near Astrakhan, which has a population of about 475,000 people, (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
How is China retaliating against US tariffs, and what impact will it have?
China has announced a basket of measures including tariffs, export restrictions and sanctions on US companies.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough ‘is biggest shock to come out of China in 185 years’
Leading scientist Rao Yi argues that the significance of the tech’s challenge to US dominance lies in ‘how (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025