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China is poised to reap rewards as energy shock heats up the race for renewables
The US war on Iran may have inadvertently triggered a global transition that will favour Beijing’s green leadership, analysts predict.
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Science
China builds world’s first ‘coal battery’ with zero emission
New technology developed by Chinese scientists achieves higher energy efficiency than burning while eliminating carbon dioxide emissions.
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Diplomacy
China warns EU to remove firms and citizens from Russian sanctions list
Commerce ministry said Brussels would ‘bear the consequences’ after 27 mainland and Hong Kong firms were added to the latest blacklist.
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Society
Can parents, children playing video games together level up their relationship?
Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong calls for new approach to supervise children’s gaming activity, after surveying families’ attitudes to video games.
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Chinese travellers flock to Central Asia as flight bookings soar by 120%
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Trump escapes unharmed as gunman opens fire at White House press dinner hotel
Secret Service swarms Washington Hilton and apprehends suspect; Trump invokes Lincoln after repeated assassination attempts.
26 Apr 2026 - 1:47PM
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China backs Myanmar’s push to ease diplomatic isolation, stamp out telecoms scams
Foreign Minister Wang Yi caps five-day Southeast Asia tour also urging both sides to ‘open up new prospects for bilateral relations’.
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China Business
Li Auto targets BMW and Mercedes with premium SUVs in Middle East, Asia-Pacific
Beijing-based EV maker expects overseas deliveries to account for 30 per cent of its total by 2030, president Ma Donghui says.
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Lingxi Games’ Three Kingdoms Tactics hits target with global audience
Chinese game company’s flagship title among raft of nation’s simulation games to resonate with players at home and abroad.
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OpenClaw adds DeepSeek V4 models as tech world assesses Huawei tie-up
The popular AI agent adopts the Chinese firm’s V4 Flash and its flagship V4 Pro models and also integrates other capabilities.
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Southwestern China’s busiest airport hit by massive hailstorm
Flights grounded and aircraft damaged in Kunming as ‘unusually severe’ weather spawns hailstones as big as fists.
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Why Shenzhen may be first to climb out of China’s property slump
Shenzhen’s housing inventory drops to a seven-year low, offering an early signal that China’s property downturn may be nearing a turning point.
26 Apr 2026 - 12:00PM
Military
Could Russian missiles help India counter its arch-rival’s Chinese weapons?
‘Force multiplier’ could allow New Delhi to target Pakistani support planes such as surveillance and refuelling aircraft.
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What’s behind the surge in South Koreans travelling to China?
Wave of content creators documents life on mainland, with one saying ‘the window has opened and everyone wants to take a look inside’.
26 Apr 2026 - 10:00AM
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From supply chain to record growth: Shenzhen dominates China’s robotics sector
The output of the city’s robotics industry hit a record in 2025, rising 20 per cent year on year to over US$35.4 billion.
26 Apr 2026 - 2:25PM
United States & Canada
Who is Cole Allen, the suspect linked to Trump’s press gala shooting?
Allen, accused of opening fire at the White House correspondents’ dinner, is a computer programmer from California.
26 Apr 2026 - 2:02PM
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Middle East
Syria begins long-awaited first trial of Assad-era officials
Atef Najib was head of the Political Security Branch in southern Syria’s Daraa province under Assad. He faces charges related to the arrest and torture of teenagers in 2011.
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Southeast Asia
2 US citizens killed in raid on Philippines communist stronghold
The two Americans, Lyle Prijoles and Kai Dana-Rene Sorem, arrived in Negros Occidental province about a month before they were killed.
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Press dinner shooting casts fresh spotlight on Trump’s security
The attack suggests that even the most extensive personal security apparatus in the US has vulnerabilities.
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Behind the viral rise of China’s ‘cyberpunk city’
Chongqing gained online fame as the ‘8D city’ due to its urban areas built on mountainous terrain, and has become a global tourist hotspot.
26 Apr 2026 - 9:15AM
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Middle East shipping crisis elevates China-Europe railway’s profile
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For the US dollar, a subtler shift than a ‘petroyuan’ order is underfoot
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Trump’s oil crisis is accelerating the end of the fossil fuel era
26 Apr 2026 - 3:00PM
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US-Israel war on Iran
Iran war: is the US shifting away from its strategy of precision strikes?
As the conflict has intensified, more energy and civilian sites have been targeted in what is seen as a broader approach.
9 Apr 2026 - 9:26AM
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What is the war on Iran teaching China about the United States’ resilience?
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‘Saying you’re a geopolitical actor doesn’t make it so’: Sven Biscop on Europe
The Belgian political scientist on what the Iran war and the transatlantic collision reveal about Europe’s place in a fast-changing world.
20 Apr 2026 - 10:05AM
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What an ancient Chinese map reveals about global history: Sheng-Wei Wang
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu and maritime artefacts prove China explored the world earlier than Eurocentric accounts suggest, scholar argues.
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Andrew Tilton on China’s economic trajectory in wake of Iran war
Goldman Sachs’ chief Asia-Pacific economist says worst is over in terms of property slump’s impact on China’s economic growth.
6 Apr 2026 - 10:01AM
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Kenneth Rogoff on why China’s yuan will be a reserve currency within 5 years
Harvard economist explains why cryptocurrencies will never take the US dollar’s place, despite their popularity in underground economies.
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Can ‘token exports’ give China an edge in the AI era?
As AI tokens emerge as a new commodity, China’s cost advantage is reshaping global model competition, though monetisation gaps remain.
22 Apr 2026 - 11:20PM
China Business
Li Auto targets BMW and Mercedes with premium SUVs in Middle East, Asia-Pacific
Beijing-based EV maker expects overseas deliveries to account for 30 per cent of its total by 2030, president Ma Donghui says.
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Underwhelming or underrated? DeepSeek V4 shows “impressive” gains
Benchmark shows V4 trailing Kimi and US frontier models, though gains raise hopes of another R1-style breakthrough.
25 Apr 2026 - 4:51PM
China EVs
Xpeng sets August goal to overtake Tesla’s self-driving tech in China
Carmaker bets on training AI in China’s dense urban roads to build a competitive advantage for expansion into Europe and Southeast Asia.
25 Apr 2026 - 12:47PM
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Prognosis positive: how AI could help China bridge the medical resources gap
Hospitals, medical professionals and patients stand to benefit as country pushes to integrate AI into healthcare sector.
25 Apr 2026 - 11:06AM
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As DJI duels Insta360, China sharpens global hardware edge amid US scrutiny
Western competitors like GoPro face shrinking footprints as strategic shifts of Chinese firms disrupt the status quo while navigating FCC-led national security bans.
25 Apr 2026 - 6:40AM
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Hong Kong
How fire safety failures worsened Hong Kong’s deadly inferno
The second round of hearings from April 8 to April 17 exposed a series of failures that allowed the fire equipment and alarm system in Wang Fuk Court to be deactivated for months, and eventually contributed to the heavy death toll.
23 Apr 2026 - 6:04PM
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Hongkongers find value, space and style in Shenzhen’s new cultural hotspots
Short cross‑border getaways emerging as the ‘quick escape’ of choice, with the newly opened Shenzhen Bay Culture Square adding to appeal.
24 Apr 2026 - 8:35AM
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