
Is Japan becoming unsafe? Public fear rises despite lower violent crime
[South China Morning Post] - 03/10/2025
An expert says media coverage of crime and societal changes could have influenced a poll showing residents felt less safe in the past decade.
In Chinese newspapers
Hong Kong’s active ‘seenagers’ are redefining retirement. Can authorities keep up?
Financially secure older residents are working out, travelling overseas for conferences and enrolling in classes. (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
China shop boss discovers he was adopted in family row, real sister lives 500 metres away
Adoptive mother reveals truth about 34-year secret in fit of anger, shocked business owner embarks on eventually (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Indonesia’s electric dream? A race to EV supremacy
Government incentives are driving a surge in sales, but will they be enough to shift consumer habits in Southeast (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
China temple ‘high-5 cat’ raises paw to greet visitors, draws crowds seeking luck
Pet moggy decked out in gold chain goes viral on mainland social media by offering a human-style greeting to queues (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Hong Kong homebuyers deliver brisk weekend sales for developers, as small flats favoured
Strong results for Sun Hung Kai Properties and Henderson Land show improving sentiment after a stamp-duty cut, (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
China’s January-February CPI falls 0.1% days after annual inflation control target lowered
February consumer inflation fell 0.7 per cent year on year, while prices at the factory gate were down 2.2 per cent.
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Arrival jailed for 6 months in Hong Kong over 41,400 undeclared cigarettes
Search of baggage uncovers 41,400 cigarettes, with an estimated market value of HK$186,000 and duty potential of (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Thousands in Nepal want monarchy back, decry government corruption
Protests in 2006 forced the king to give up his authoritarian rule, and two years later the parliament voted to (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Chinese ‘3-knives girl’ martial arts prodigy, guardian for ‘country, family, myself’
Skilled teenage girl shows remarkable dexterity with ornamental knives, says she is determined to preserve China’s (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/03/2025
Xpeng chairman sees Hong Kong as launch pad for self-driving EVs
He Xiaopeng says company will introduce two models in the city this year in a launch ‘not just for Hong Kong, but (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Germany’s Merz wants European nukes to boost US umbrella
Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said he would like to speak with France and Britain about sharing their nuclear (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025