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1. Machado’s Nobel event called off, Peace Prize winner’s whereabouts unknown

   The Norwegian Nobel Institute cancelled a planned press conference on Tuesday with this year’s Peace Prize laureate, Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado, ahead of Wednesday’s award ceremony in Oslo. Machado, 58, has been subject to a decade-long travel ban imposed by the government of President Nicolas Maduro and has been in hiding for more than a year. Her whereabouts were not immediately known. A...

2. Judge approves release of Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case records

   The US Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the long-time confidant of Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge said on Tuesday. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ruled after the Justice Department in November asked two judges in New York to unseal grand jury transcripts and exhibits from Maxwell and Epstein’s cases, along with...

3. Code talker 2025? PLA frontline troops are testing portable quantum radio devices

   The People’s Liberation Army is testing what could be the world’s first portable quantum radio device in its border patrol troops, according to the official Science and Technology Daily. The PLA’s Information Support Force said its miniaturised prototype of quantum communication, weighing 3kg (6.6lbs), had successfully received radio signals from tens of kilometres away. The team was able to...

4. Hundreds of Hong Kong tourists safe after powerful earthquake rocks Japan

   Hundreds of Hong Kong tourists were in Japan when a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck late Monday night, but local authorities said all were reported safe with no requests for help received so far. The Travel Industry Council on Tuesday said that about 20 Hong Kong tour groups – with about 300 people – were in the country when the quake hit northern Japan at 11.15pm, triggering a warning...

5. ‘Could go extinct here’: orangutans at risk as Indonesia floods devastate habitat

   Before the deadly landslides and floods hit Indonesia about two weeks ago, Amran Siagian, 39, frequently met Tapanuli orangutans on a hill in the region of Sipirok, North Sumatra province. Siagian, who has been working as a ranger to protect the endangered animal at the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) for at least five years, remembers how the orangutans were fond of eating durian and other...

6. US-China tech thaw? Trump clears Nvidia H200 exports – why it matters

   US President Donald Trump’s green light for Nvidia to sell H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips in China signals a calculated shift to export older technology, according to analysts who see the move as aiming to fortify the US market share while dampening China’s urgency for self-reliance. But some predict an ongoing policy tug of war in the US between advocates of this week’s relaxation and...

7. Tokyo ‘monitoring’ Beijing backlash; Taiwan’s RedNote ban: SCMP daily highlights

   Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Tokyo ‘closely monitoring’ backlash from China, Japanese PM tells lawmakers One month after the Taiwan contingency remarks that set off the diplomatic firestorm with China, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Japan would “closely monitor” the...

8. China’s AI developers to welcome Nvidia’s H200 chip shipments, analysts say

   China’s artificial intelligence developers are expected to welcome Washington’s go-ahead for Nvidia to ship its H200 AI chips to approved customers on the mainland, according to analysts, even as Beijing continues to drive the country’s tech self-sufficiency efforts. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, US President Donald Trump said he had informed his Chinese counterpart, Xi...

9. Eyeing mainland China, Taiwan passes stiffer penalties for undersea cable damage

   Taiwan has moved to deter what it sees as an alarming rise in deliberate damage to its undersea cables, revising its laws to impose stiffer prison sentences of up to seven years. The legal changes approved by Taiwan’s legislature on Tuesday come as the island accuses Beijing of sabotaging its submarine cables, describing such acts as “grey-zone” pressure tactics. Mainland authorities have...

10. Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court rebuilding faces consensus, rights hurdles: experts

    The issue of property rights and gaining consensus from more than 2,000 households of Hong Kong’s blaze-ravaged Wang Fuk Court will complicate rebuilding efforts, lawmakers and building experts have warned as new sites for redevelopment are proposed. Legislative Council members said on Tuesday that authorities should listen widely to the views of Wang Fuk Court homeowners before deciding whether...