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1. 3 paths to stability in a conflict-ridden world

   The reshaping of the global economic system we are witnessing has entered an acute phase. This raises several questions. When will the world return to a more stable condition? No less importantly, what places will key countries occupy in the new configuration? To answer these questions, it is useful to view current events through the prism of systemic interstate conflicts, which are among the...

2. Bangladesh seeks more ‘diplomatic room’ with Pakistan outreach amid India concerns

   For many years, India was a key training ground for many of Bangladesh’s senior officials, as well as a source of support and regional guidance. Now, some are being trained in Pakistan, a symbolic shift that has unsettled New Delhi and offered an early clue to how Dhaka’s new government wants to deal with its neighbours. A delegation of 12 senior Bangladeshi bureaucrats attended an executive...

3. Hong Kong principal who swore at Singapore security guards resigns

   A Hong Kong secondary school principal filmed swearing at security guards during a student trip to Singapore has resigned, days after being suspended from the position. Lee Cheuk‑hing tendered his resignation on Thursday as principal of San Wui Commercial Society Secondary School in Tuen Mun, school manager Edmund Wong Chun‑sek confirmed. Wong, a former lawmaker, said the school’s board of...

4. 1 in 12 secondary students socially disengaged on campus, survey finds

   One in 12 Hong Kong secondary school students is socially disengaged on campus, according to a survey by a social welfare organisation, which is calling for early identification and better support for these “invisible students” before they drop out. The Hong Kong Christian Service (HKCS) surveyed 1,958 Form One to Form Five students aged between 11 and 19 in February and March to identify those...

5. 3 wounded in blade attack at Swiss railway station

   An attacker wounded three people with a bladed weapon at a railway station near Zurich on Thursday morning, before being arrested, Swiss police said. “Shortly after 8.30am, a man injured three people with a bladed weapon” at the station in the city of Winterthur, northeast of Zurich, police for Zurich canton said in a statement. They said the suspected perpetrator – a 31-year-old Swiss man – had...

6. China slams US commander’s ‘dagger’ label for South Korea

   China has criticised the commander of the US Forces Korea (USFK) after he described South Korea as a “dagger” and Japan as a “shield” in countering China’s growing regional influence. This comes as Washington seeks to expand the scope of its South Korea-based command for a greater presence across the Indo-Pacific in what Beijing views as an effort to contain it. During a podcast interview hosted...

7. Germany, Netherlands to set up Nato command centre in Baltics

   Germany and the Netherlands will set up a joint tactical headquarters in the Baltics this year to command forces on Nato’s eastern flank and help deter Russia, Berlin said on Thursday. The joint German-Dutch command centre known as 1GNC will “assume a command role on Nato’s eastern flank, specifically in the region of Estonia and Latvia” in coming months, the German defence ministry said in a...

8. Mainland Chinese patient first to be moved north under cross-border ambulance scheme

   A mainland Chinese woman injured while travelling in Hong Kong has become the first patient transferred from the city to the mainland under the Hospital Authority’s cross-border ambulance pilot scheme. The patient, who requested to continue her treatment on the mainland, was transferred from Tuen Mun Hospital to Zhuhai People’s Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Hospital Authority...

9. Mainland Chinese react as Hong Kong tightens access to offshore investment accounts

   As news spread on Wednesday that Hong Kong banks were tightening scrutiny on mainland Chinese clients opening savings and investment accounts, Zhe Ye – an auctioneer based in the southwestern province of Yunnan – was stunned. The former asset appraiser had been planning a trip to Hong Kong to open an account, hoping to buy overseas assets ranging from the Nasdaq and S&P 500 to shares in newly...

10. Alibaba, Tencent lead pivot from chatbots to embodied AI for robotics

    Chinese tech companies are racing to deploy artificial intelligence models into robots, shifting the battleground for generative AI from digital chatbots to physical autonomous systems. Alibaba Group Holding’s Qwen3.7-Max model, launched last week, features “tool-calling” capabilities that allow the AI model to act as a digital brain to trigger external software and hardware components. The...