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1. What’s cooking? Hong Kong restaurants thinking outside the box in bid to survive

   Scroll through Tam Jai International’s mobile apps and you will encounter a wave of perks, menu offerings and other choices laid out to tempt you to the Hong Kong restaurant group’s staple offering, noodles. The apps are among several strategies, along with filling all dining segments from breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner with new menu items, that the chain has introduced in the past few months...

2. China pushes slow bull run with tightened margin financing rules to fight overheating

   China’s move to raise margin requirements for leveraged stock trading signalled regulators’ push to steer clear of boom-and-bust cycles, while strengthening the stock market’s role in funding the country’s tech self-sufficiency efforts, according to analysts. “The signal from regulators was crystal-clear: guide the market towards a stable transition to a slow bull run,” said Wang Jun, a...

3. Japan’s next-generation fighter jet project set for boost as European rival stalls

   Japan’s Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), its next-generation fighter project in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Italy, may be given a boost now that the development of a similar aircraft has been put on hold. Germany, France and Spain have indefinitely postponed the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), prompting suggestions that some or all participants may instead turn to the rival...

4. Brazil judge orders ‘immediate’ transfer of Bolsonaro to a better-equipped prison

   A Brazilian judge on Thursday ordered the immediate transfer of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro to a prison with “more favourable” conditions. The 70-year-old former leader will move to a special detention unit with a kitchen, private outdoor area and a double bed at a prison complex in the capital Brasilia, according to a ruling seen by Agence France-Presse. Brazil’s Supreme Court...

5. Exiled crown prince’s plan for Iran seen as mostly aimed at Trump

   No pursuit of nuclear weapons. Confronting drug trafficking. An immediate recognition of the state of Israel. Exporting copious amounts of oil and gas. Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi laid out his aspirations on Thursday for Iran if its theocracy is toppled – and experts say they sound exactly like what US President Donald Trump wants to hear. That plan is probably aimed at trying to secure...

6. Banks and brokerages’ growing demand for space buoys Hong Kong’s retail property sector

   Hong Kong’s banking and finance sector is tipped to lead retail property leasing activity, with massive uptake by firms like Forthright Securities, Futu Holdings and HSBC providing support to landlords struggling through a multi-year real estate slump. Forthright Securities leased three storeys totalling 14,000 sq ft at Golden Centre in Sheung Wan for its first flagship branch in the city,...

7. Lutnick warns Taipei to keep Trump ‘happy’ as US chip deal draws Beijing rebuke

   Blending economic nationalism with geopolitical leverage, US President Donald Trump’s top trade official delivered a pointed message to Taiwan shortly after Washington announced an ambitious deal on Thursday to bring critical technology manufacturing, including semiconductors, back to the United States. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick framed the massive reshoring initiative as not just a...

8. US bill approving US$300 million for Taiwan’s military passed in House

   A US spending bill approving US$300 million in cash assistance for Taiwan’s military has passed the House of Representatives and is expected to become law. On Wednesday, the House passed a two-bill government spending package that would fund the Departments of the Treasury and State through September, along with other federal agencies, bringing the total to eight of 12 annual spending bills...

9. Venezuela’s Machado says she ‘presented’ Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal

   Venezuelan ‍opposition leader Maria Corina Machado ⁠said she “presented” US President Donald ‍Trump with her ‍Nobel Peace Prize ‌medal during their meeting ‍on Thursday. “I presented the president of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado told reporters outside the US Capitol. She did ‌not answer ⁠reporters’ questions as to whether he ‌accepted it. Machado was visiting...

10. China’s Zhejiang targets 3- to 7-nanometre AI chip breakthroughs to counter US chokehold

    China’s eastern tech powerhouse Zhejiang, home to giants like Alibaba and the humanoid robotics start-up Unitree, has set clear targets to develop cutting-chips and chipmaking equipment over the next five years. The province is the latest locality to prioritise innovation under its new five-year plan. It joins other hubs, including Shenzhen and Shanghai, that have thrown their weight behind...