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Brussels should listen to Europe’s CEOs who want closer China ties
Amid a hail of US tariffs, a strong showing of CEOs from Europe and UK at China Development Forum reflects a desire to stay invested in China.
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Will Vietnam’s trade charm offensive be enough to placate Trump?
30 Mar 2025 - 12:00PM
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Why Hong Kong must change its tax-funded healthcare model
30 Mar 2025 - 10:49AM
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Major powers’ race for quantum supremacy inspires awe – and fear
With no rules in place, a breakthrough that shreds our system underpinning security will bring chaos and deepen the global tech divide.
30 Mar 2025 - 5:30AM
The Zuchongzhi 3.0 processor features 105 qubits, the highest count achieved so far in superconducting quantum devices. Photo: Handout
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Successful Sevens can score for Hong Kong in the international arena
Impressive new stadium, exciting rugby action and fans full of fun are tough match for rivals who dare try to win Hong Kong sporting crown.
30 Mar 2025 - 1:18AM
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World is ready to cut US dollar down to size – but not too quickly
The US dollar is too central to the global financial system for the so-called Mar-a-Lago Accord to find traction outside the US. But the search is on for alternatives.
29 Mar 2025 - 5:31PM
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Data centres are booming in Johor. Now comes the hard part – job creation
Talent creation, retention and lucrative pay offered by firms in neighbouring Singapore pose challenges to the state’s thriving sector.
29 Mar 2025 - 12:00PM
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Visitors at the groundbreaking ceremony for Malaysia’s first Google data centre in Kuala Lumpur last year. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Asia can’t afford to wait for the US to wake up to its climate duty
As the US walks away again, Europe, China and others need to fill the climate reparation funding gap, not out of charity but responsibility.
29 Mar 2025 - 9:30AM
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Trump’s Maga ambition may be more audacious than we think
Outrageous? Yes. But a United States of all Americas and including Greenland would be the first truly planetary North-South superpower.
29 Mar 2025 - 5:30AM
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China’s austerity is very different to that in US
Beijing is targeting wasteful spending on projects and misuse of public money by officials, not savings to finance tax cuts.
29 Mar 2025 - 3:04AM
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How Western classics are now weaponised against the West
Since the Tiananmen crackdown, a generation of mainland public intellectuals and scholars have turned classical study on its head.
28 Mar 2025 - 9:00PM
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Students gather outside the library building in Tsinghua University in Beijing. Photo: Shutterstock
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Outraged by Trump, Canada scrambles to define what makes a nation
Threatened with annexation, Canadians reluctant to be absorbed nevertheless find it hard to say what distinguishes them from Americans.
28 Mar 2025 - 8:30PM
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Trump’s executive orders will be no match for markets in grip of fear
Investors’ behaviour promises to thwart Trump’s economic agenda, just as they have forced past administrations to scramble for rescues.
28 Mar 2025 - 4:30PM
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Flags on Malaysian school uniforms a badge of honour or a burden to parents?
The onus to keep flags ‘clean and not faded’ falls on the parents, some of whom are already struggling with day-to-day expenses.
28 Mar 2025 - 10:30AM
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Why tossing out bamboo scaffolding would be a mistake on many levels
Worker safety is of utmost priority. But cultural and holistic aspects to our love affair with bamboo scaffolding must also be considered.
28 Mar 2025 - 11:45AM
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Workers set up a bamboo scaffold to repair billboards in Sheung Wan in 2024. Photo: Elson Li
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US-China clash ‘inevitable’? Why it’s time to get talking about Pericles’ walls
Athens’ Long Walls prompted distrust and eventual war 2,500 years ago. Nato is the most obvious ‘Pericles Wall’ of our times.
28 Mar 2025 - 9:00AM
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US treatment of Indo-Pacific allies could de-escalate ties with China
Donald Trump is likely to keep projecting power in Asia but his focus on other priorities will reshape regional dynamics.
28 Mar 2025 - 7:46AM
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Why the future looks so promising for luxury property in Asia
With clear benefits for stakeholders, the region’s branded residences are poised to boost liquidity and set high transparency standards.
24 Mar 2025 - 4:30PM
A woman poses for a photo at a gold plated infinity pool of a luxury hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2020, after the government eases a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown. Photo: Reuters
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Kai Tak venue fiasco must not be repeated at Hong Kong Sevens
If Kai Tak Sports Park’s early days are any indication, the government must be hands-on to ensure Hong Kong avoids further embarrassment.
24 Mar 2025 - 9:30AM
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Beijing is upset, but why is it limiting criticism of Hutchison’s Panama deal?
Closer look at Beijing’s mixed ‘semi-official’ approach to voicing disapproval shows what is at stake in saga involving Li Ka-shing’s conglomerate.
23 Mar 2025 - 7:30PM
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How Hong Kong can dig itself out of recurring deficits
As the city borrows money to fund development, it risks depleting its savings unless policymakers act decisively to find new sources of revenue.
23 Mar 2025 - 4:30PM
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Major powers’ race for quantum supremacy inspires awe – and fear
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Successful Sevens can score for Hong Kong in the international arena
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World is ready to cut US dollar down to size – but not too quickly
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