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1. A Pakistani strike killed her son in rehab. Now an Afghan mother demands answers

   Samira Muhammadi hopes an international investigation can “extinguish” her pain after a Pakistani bombing killed her son and hundreds of other Afghans in the capital Kabul last month. The March 16 attack hit a drug treatment centre and killed 411 people, according to Afghan officials. A United Nations source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they had verified at least 250 killed, with...

2. South Korea eases Chinese travel visas but Southeast Asia rivals, Iran war cloud outlook

   Repeat short-haul visits by Chinese travellers to South Korea are expected to rise after Seoul eased multiple-entry visa rules, but analysts say the immediate impact may be limited because of growing competition from Southeast Asia and higher airfares linked to the US-Israeli war in Iran. The South Korean embassy in Beijing announced that Chinese nationals who had previously visited South Korea...

3. Dying Chinese man, 61, leaves US$43 million fortune to young wife, enrages ex-wife’s family

   A terminally ill Chinese man left 300 million yuan (US$43 million) to his wife who is 28 years younger than him, causing a dispute with his ex-wife’s family. The 61-year-old from the southern Chinese island of Hainan, surnamed Hou, reportedly left all his fortune to his young wife, Liyuan, who is 33. Liyuan said she had been with him since she was 21. They married 10 years ago and have a...

4. How a US clampdown affected mainland Chinese, Hong Kong student visa numbers

   A US clampdown on visas for mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students last May led to year-on-year declines of 42 per cent and 35 per cent in the number of permits granted, but a consultant has said the impact has been short-lived. One PhD student from the mainland said US President Donald Trump’s actions had led to him giving up an offer to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...

5. Japan’s knife crime wave lays bare tragic cost of youth mental burnout

   The day that Taiki Hirokawa stabbed his former girlfriend to death in a Pokemon store in Tokyo had started like any other, his mother told police. She and her son had breakfast together and nothing appeared out of the ordinary. Hours later, security camera footage caught 26-year-old Hirokawa walking straight into the store, pulling out a knife, going behind the counter where Moe Harukawa, 21,...

6. DR Congo is latest African nation to receive third-country deportees from US under deal

   DR Congo will receive some migrants as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country programme, its government said on Sunday, the latest such African nation to receive migrants being deported from the United States. The deportees will start arriving in Democratic Republic of Congo this month, the Congolese Ministry of Communications said in a statement, without further...

7. Andrew Tilton on China’s growth prospects, economic trajectory in wake of Iran war

   Andrew Tilton, chief Asia-Pacific economist at Goldman Sachs, speaks to the South China Morning Post about the long-term future of China’s economy after the “two sessions” in Beijing and ahead of an expected Xi-Trump summit – all during an oil crisis sparked by the US-Israel war against Iran. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. What impact will the oil shock arising...

8. Appeal court reinstates US$656 million judgment against the PLO and Palestinian Authority

   A US$656 million judgment against Palestinian authorities has been reinstated by appeal judges, following a US Supreme Court ruling in favour of Americans killed or wounded in attacks in Israel. The decision from the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals comes a decade after it first tossed out a verdict against the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority on the grounds...

9. Global South nations are insulating themselves from the heat of US actions

   The US-Israeli strikes on Iran and ensuing conflagration offer a window into how the US-led order works. For all its contributions, it functions like an air conditioner – cooling the American centre by pumping hot air into the periphery. Aggressive interest rate hikes export inflation to emerging markets. Proxy wars outsource geopolitical risk to distant theatres. The United States stays cool...

10. Zelensky in Syria to discuss security cooperation with President Ahmed al-Sharaa

    Ukrainian ⁠President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to ⁠work for enhanced security in ⁠talks on Sunday with his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa, as Kyiv seeks to promote its military expertise across the region following the outbreak of the war in Iran. Zelensky, continuing his tour of Middle East countries, also said Ukraine wants to contribute to ‌food security in the region. In recent weeks,...