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1. US, Syrian soldiers injured in shooting on joint patrol in ancient city: state media

   Several Syrian and American soldiers were wounded when shots were fired at a joint military delegation in the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria on Saturday, state media said. The incident is the first of its kind to be reported since Islamist-led forces overthrew long-time Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad in December last year, and rekindled the country’s ties with the United States. “Several...

2. China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after initial ChatGPT shock

   US start-up OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT on November 30, three years ago, sent China’s technology industry scrambling to get up to speed on the latest artificial intelligence developments. Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from Tsinghua University, to provide briefings on the implications of generative AI technology, according to people...

3. Filipino helper killed in Hong Kong fire ‘was going home for good to be with son’

   A domestic helper who died in Hong Kong’s devastating Tai Po fire last month planned to return home permanently to the Philippines to be with her 10-year-old son and was due to leave on Saturday, the Post has learned. Maryan Pascual Esteban, 39, died with her ward, five-year-old Hannah, in the inferno at the Wang Fuk Court housing estate, which killed at least 160 people and displaced more than...

4. Belarus frees opposition figure Kolesnikova, Nobel laureate Bialiatski, for US sanctions relief

   Belarusian authorities have released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from prison, Pavel Sapelka, human rights advocate with the Viasna rights group, confirmed to Associated Press. Their release comes as authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko seeks to improve relations with Washington. The US earlier on Saturday announced lifting...

5. Hong Kong launches professional services platform for mainland Chinese companies

   Hong Kong authorities have launched a professional services platform to provide support for mainland Chinese companies expanding overseas, while boosting business opportunities for local sectors. Speaking at the launch ceremony for the Hong Kong Professional Services GoGlobal Platform on Saturday, Deputy Secretary for Justice Horace Cheung Kwok-kwan said the sectors’ international outlook,...

6. How an American family’s wartime bond with China is bringing the countries together

   When Elyn MacInnis first moved to Nanjing in the late 1980s, she was greeted by a wholly unexpected connection. Local elderly residents would look at the American newcomer, pause and tell her she resembled Minnie Vautrin: a middle-aged woman with round glasses and centre-parted hair often pinned up. MacInnis, who goes by the Chinese name Mu Yanling, knew the name only vaguely then. Vautrin was...

7. More than 30 people evacuated after warehouse catches fire in Hong Kong

   A warehouse in northern Hong Kong caught fire on Saturday, forcing more than 30 people including dozens of residents of a nearby nursing home to evacuate. Police received multiple calls about the fire breaking out in the warehouse on Ma Liu Shui San Tsuen’s Lung Ma Road in Sheung Shui at around 5.27pm. Firefighters extinguished the blaze within an hour, and no injuries were reported. A manager...

8. China’s Wang Yi urges UAE to help close free-trade deal with Gulf Cooperation Council

   China is looking to the United Arab Emirates to help speed up negotiations for a free-trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), according to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Wang met his Emirati counterpart in Abu Dhabi on Friday, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on its website. He told Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan that China supported the UAE’s...

9. Iran seizes foreign oil tanker suspected of smuggling fuel

   Iran said it seized a foreign oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman it suspects of carrying smuggled fuel, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday, citing the chief justice of the southern Hormozgan Province. Mojtaba Ghahremani said 18 crew members have been detained and the vessel was carrying about 6 million litres of fuel, roughly 37,000 barrels. He did not specify the cargo’s...

10. Is China testing submarine drones that could threaten US west coast or Panama Canal?

    Underwater drones being tested by China could be used to blockade the Panama Canal or even the US west coast, an American defence publication has claimed. The drones, referred to as XXLUUVs (Extra-Extra-Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicles), are highly classified and little is known for certain about them. However, some clues have been gleaned from satellite imagery, eyewitness photographs and a...