Russia’s close ties with North Korea and Iran represent diverging goals
[South China Morning Post] - 02/4/2025
Key differences in comprehensive strategic partnership treaties with Pyongyang and Tehran give insight into Moscow’s diplomatic strategy.
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Southeast Asia’s poorest nation says ‘holding off’ Chinese interest in huge gas field
East Timor would prefer to work with Australia and Japan over Chinese firms that have expressed interest in the (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Monkeys attack tourists at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, egged on by YouTubers, officials say
At Angkor Wat and other temple ruins nearby, macaque monkeys fed by YouTubers creating videos are stealing visitors’ (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Restaurants Eggslut, The Ark to shut Hong Kong outlets amid retail upheaval
Burger joint The Ark is closing its Russell Street outlet later this week and plans to relocate to Shenzhen to (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Zelensky says he is willing to negotiate with Putin
In addition to Ukraine and Russia, the US and Europe should also be involved in the talks, Zelensky told British (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Alibaba’s updated Qwen AI model overtakes DeepSeek’s V3 in chatbot ranking
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen2.5-Max comes in seventh on Chatbot Arena, beating out DeepSeek-V3 in ninth place, but trailing (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
OpenAI’s video generation tool Sora sees Hollywood resistance amid data, labour concerns
OpenAI has spent months talking to the industry’s largest studios such as Disney and Warner Bros but faces a hard (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Concern, confusion as US stops taking parcels from Hong Kong, mainland China
Move is related to Washington’s earlier decision to impose tariffs on Chinese products, experts say.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Service disruptions on Hong Kong’s East Rail line easing as train fault fixed
MTR Corporation says faulty sensor on engineer’s train had to be fixed before it could be moved safely.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Battle of the bots: China, US scrap for top of the humanoid heap
China, fuelled by recent successes from DeepSeek and Unitree, is making a play for pole position in humanoid robots. (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 4/02/2025
India PM Modi’s BJP seeks to oust anti-corruption party in state polls
The BJP is up against the AAP, which runs New Delhi and has built a vast support base on its welfare policies and an (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Minitrue Plus Five: February 4, 2020 – Entertaining and “False” Content
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to (…)
[China Digital Times] - 5/02/2025