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1. Trump attacks female reporters, who he called ‘piggy’ and ‘terrible’

   Donald Trump ripped into a reporter from the US network ABC News on Tuesday, just days after calling another woman journalist “piggy” after she asked a question related to the convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump threatened ABC’s broadcast license after reporter Mary Bruce posed questions during a White House visit by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The earlier...

2. Hong Kong PolyU’s top AI expert Yang Hongxia eyes ‘last mile of generative AI’

   Chinese artificial intelligence scientist Yang Hongxia, a professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), is seeking to democratise large language models (LLMs) by empowering hospitals and various enterprises to train their own AI systems. Yang, who previously worked on AI models at ByteDance and Alibaba Group Holding’s Damo Academy, said in a recent interview with the South China Morning...

3. Chinese economist calls on Beijing to add consumption target to long-term goals

   China should add a quantitative target for consumption growth as part of its long-term modernisation goals to help sustain growth momentum as the country’s population declines, a prominent Chinese economist said. “In addition to setting a gross domestic product growth per capita target through 2035, we should also establish a target for the household final consumption rate – meaning the share of...

4. Cockroach coffee: China museum assures drinkers that US$6 insect brew is safe

   A museum in Beijing has launched a creepy-crawly coffee brew which has ground-down cockroaches sprinkled on the surface of the drink. Aside from the insect powders, the caffeine pick-me-up is laced with dried yellow mealworms. Drinkers say it has a “burnt and slightly sour” flavour, the news outlet The Cover reported. The roach coffee is on sale at the coffee shops of an insect museum in the...

5. Hong Kong registers low of 13.2 degrees Celsius, coldest so far this autumn

   This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong has woken up to temperatures as low as 13.2 degrees Celsius (55.8 Fahrenheit), the coldest so far this autumn, according to the weather forecaster. The mercury dipped as the Hong Kong Observatory recorded a minimum temperature of 13.2 degrees...

6. What experts say Hong Kong’s new medical school must do to succeed

   The new medical school set to be run by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) should ride on the institution’s unique technological strengths and catch up on clinical research to become a leading institution, experts and lawmakers have said. Their comments followed the government’s announcement on Tuesday that HKUST had emerged as the top choice to operate the city’s third...

7. Why are tensions between China and Japan running so high now?

   While failing to see eye to eye is hardly new to Beijing and Tokyo, Sino-Japanese relations have been especially strained this month and are at risk of worsening even further. The trigger for the downturn was Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments to the Japanese parliament on November 7 that the use of force against Taiwan could be perceived as a “survival-threatening situation”,...

8. Can a ban on violent games protect Indonesia’s kids from bullying and extremism?

   Indonesia’s latest plan to clamp down on violent video games in the wake of a mosque bombing has reignited a long-running debate over the impact of digital media on young minds and whether regulation alone can stem an apparent rise in bullying and online radicalisation. President Prabowo Subianto called for restrictions on games that “normalise violence” following a November 7 blast at a North...

9. In blow to Trump, US court tosses redrawn Texas election map

   A US district court, in a setback for President Donald Trump, struck down a congressional map on Tuesday redrawn by Republicans in Texas that was intended to give the party five more likely seats in the House of Representatives. The court ruled that the new map, which weakened five Democratic districts, could not be used in the 2026 midterm elections, where Republicans are seeking to safeguard...

10. Xpeng’s founder headlines SCMP Live’s 2025 Business Awards

    Xpeng’s CEO He Xiaopeng is among three corporate founders who have been shortlisted as finalists in the 2025 Business Awards organised by SCMP Live, in a reimagination of a series of accolades first introduced in 1990. A total of 43 nominations were received for the awards in six categories, honouring the most noteworthy business owner, corporate executive, company, small-and-medium-sized...