Guinea’s vast Simandou mine on track to start delivering for Chinese investors
[South China Morning Post] - 02/5/2025
Locomotive deals worth more than half a billion dollars signal iron ore could start flowing to ports this year.
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Belgian police hunt 2 suspects after Brussels metro shooting
Nobody was injured in the shooting, which was probably drug-related, the prosecutor’s office said.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Guatemala strikes deal with Rubio to accept migrants deported from US
Under the ‘safe third country’ agreement, the deportees would then be sent back to their home countries at US expense.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Trump says he’s given instructions for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him
The US president made the remarks as he signed a memorandum to put ‘maximum pressure’ on Tehran to stop it from (…)
[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
China Future Tech webinar | How is DeepSeek shaping the race for AI supremacy?
A deep dive into China’s AI start-up, DeepSeek.
[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
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
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
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
Will Donald Trump’s new US sovereign wealth fund take aim at Chinese assets?
Analysts caution the recently authorised fund could compete with Chinese state investment or buy overseas holdings (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Hong Kong rescuers find 2 missing hikers after long helicopter search
Authorities locate boy, six, and his aunt in Pat Sin Leng early on Wednesday after pair separated from companions (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025