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Communist Party diplomat Liu Jianchao pitches China’s vision for international relations while rejecting US rhetoric at World Peace Forum.
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Jakarta offers US ‘interesting’ opportunity to invest in critical mineral ecosystem, reforms trade policies to heed American demands.
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Alibaba seeks US$1.5 billion from exchangeable bonds for cloud, e-commerce push
The zero-coupon bonds maturing in July 2032 can be exchanged for Alibaba Health shares.
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Meet China’s first home-grown carrier, the Shandong, bridge to a blue-water future
The PLA Navy’s second carrier has become an instrument of Beijing’s long-range power projection past the first island chain.
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Uncertified devices for charging electronics are banned from domestic flights, leaving some people caught off guard at airports.
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Alibaba AI model-based agentic framework tops global ranking
DeepSWE, trained on the Qwen3-32B model, scored 59 per cent accuracy in the latest industry benchmark to outperform a DeepSeek-V3 variant.
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Chinese football team fined for channelling evil spirits to help beat rivals
Changchun Xidu found guilty of placing paper charms in opponents’ dressing room before matches.
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Clause positioning homosexuality as a crime alongside paedophilia and incest ‘has no place in a post-377A Singapore’, actor and blogger say.
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Potential Taiwan clash on the line as PLA, US military develop new fighter jets
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Trump’s Golden Dome: will the numbers add up to deter China in the Indo-Pacific?
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