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1. Ex-NBA player with deadly brain cancer turns to Singapore for new treatment

2. Sea change: China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after ChatGPT shock

3. EU fears China’s role in Russia’s war on Ukraine is deepening

4. US green tech retreat echoes mistake of China’s Qing dynasty before collapse

5. ‘It’s all in English now’: South Koreans fall out of love with K-pop



Chip prodigy returns to China, coal waste used for critical minerals: 7 science highlights

Japan’s Russia concern, businesses choose Malaysia over Singapore: 7 Asia highlights

Chinese archaeologist pleads guilty, firms flee Singapore’s costs: 5 weekend reads you missed

China doubts Musk’s Starship future; ex-TSMC chip prodigy returns: SCMP’s 7 highlights

SCMP Highlights

China-US AI gap narrows, South Koreans snub K-pop: 5 weekend reads you missed

Moonshot AI released last month Kimi K2 Thinking, a reasoning variant of its open-source K2 model. Photo: Shutterstock


Jason Collins (right), then a player with the Brooklyn Nets, at a match against the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles in 2014. Collins has been diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. Photo: AFP

Illustration by Lau Ka-kuen

Ukrainian recruits complete basic military training amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: 65th Mechanized Brigade of Ukrainian Armed Forces via AFP

Illustration: Henry Wong

Members of K-pop act BTS attend the 2022 Grammy Awards in Las Vegas. Photo: TNS

Role reversal: Meta adopts Qwen as Chinese AI becomes industry foundation

The Qwen logo is seen in this illustration taken, January 29, 2025. Photo: Reuters

Meta released its flagship Llama family of AI models in February 2023. Photo: Shutterstock Images

 Qwen and DeepSeek alone captured 14 per cent of open-model downloads in the past year. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Miss Finland loses her crown due to anti-Chinese racism scandal

Miss Finland Sarah Dzafce wears a swimsuit during the 74th Miss Universe 2025 preliminary competition in Thailand in November. Photo: EPA

Dzafce is seen making the racist gesture in an undated photo shared on the social media app Jodel. Photo: Jodel 

Tara Lehtonen (left) and former Miss Finland Sarah Dzafce attend a press conference in Helsinki on Thursday. Photo: Lehtikuva/AP

China husband makes wife kneel, beg him to buy down jacket in shop, sparking public outrage

A man from Hubei, China, sparked outrage after he made his wife kneel and beg him to buy her a down jacket priced at just 299 yuan. Photo: Douyin

Wuhan is a modern megacity with a relatively high female labour force participation rate compared to the global average. Photo: Xinhua/Cheng Min

A view of Wuhan city at dusk, featuring the illuminated Yellow Crane Tower (Huanghelou), a landmark in central China’s Hubei province. Photo: Xinhua  

A lawyer based in Henan stated that if the incident is authentic, the woman could have grounds to sue her husband and pursue a division of their shared assets. Photo: Baidu

Winter in Hubei, especially around its capital, Wuhan, can feel exceptionally cold and harsh, with temperatures often plummeting to freezing or below. Photo: Xinhua/Song Wen

China’s copper heartland vows to build US$28 billion empire, dominate in global market

Employees wind copper rods in July at a workshop that recycles copper in China’s Anhui province. Photo: AFP

Copper wiring is seen at a workshop in China’s Anhui province. Photo: Getty Images

A screengrab of copper smelting at the Yanggu Xiangguang Copper facility in Yanggu, Shandong province. Photo: Weibo

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From EU concerns about China’s involvement in Ukraine to decisions in green tech, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From EU concerns about China’s involvement in Ukraine to decisions in green tech, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.


China-US AI gap narrows, South Koreans snub K-pop: 5 weekend reads you missed

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From EU concerns about China’s involvement in Ukraine to decisions in green tech, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend

1. Ex-NBA player with deadly brain cancer turns to Singapore for new treatment

From EU concerns about China’s involvement in Ukraine to decisions in green tech, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend