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1. China found something strange on far side of moon no one ever saw occur naturally before

   Tiny carbon nanotubes with walls just one atom thick found on the far side of the moon have provided the first confirmed evidence that a material long thought to require sophisticated human engineering could also be produced naturally. They were found in rocks collected by China’s 2024 Chang’e-6 mission, the first probe to land on the far side of the moon and bring samples back to Earth. Using...

2. Thai woman dates twin brothers at once, gains family support, sparks mixed reactions online

   A woman in northeastern Thailand who has been dating a pair of twin brothers at the same time has received support from both families. The 24-year-old from Nakhon Phanom, known as Fah, recently shared her unconventional relationship on social media. Fah, who had been single for more than a year, was not seeking a relationship until the twins, Suea and Sing, reached out to her. The younger twin,...

3. As cold spell grips Hong Kong, homeless shun shelters that ‘feel like prison’

   As a cold spell grips Hong Kong, scores of homeless residents are choosing to endure the chill rather than take refuge in government shelters, where they say it feels “like being imprisoned”. When the Post visited the 5.5-hectare Tung Chau Street Park in Sham Shui Po – one of the most popular spots for street sleepers – on Tuesday night, around 70 people were found staying there in about seven...

4. Will ‘one-man model’ work for Vietnam as To Lam looks set to consolidate power?

   Vietnam’s Communist Party five-yearly congress is set to consolidate more power for General Secretary To Lam, whom observers say has behaved like he “expects a mandate”. But term and age limits on the leadership are expected to remain, they add, leaving Lam as just a “first among equals” when the conclave concludes on Sunday. The congress – where the one-party state’s highest decisions are made...

5. World’s oldest cave art discovered in Indonesia

   A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said on Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to Australia. The cave art dates back at least 67,800 years, according to research published in the journal Nature by a team of Indonesian and Australian archaeologists. “We have been working in Indonesia for a...

6. European MPs debate actions to punish Hong Kong after Jimmy Lai conviction

   European lawmakers have renewed their calls for the bloc’s executive arm to revoke Hong Kong’s special trade status, and to sanction the city’s chief executive and officials to protest the conviction of former media boss Jimmy Lai on national security charges. During the debate in the European Parliament on Thursday, Hong Kong time, some MEPs stressed the importance of the EU taking concrete...

7. China’s flying car makers target deliveries this year as passenger flights near reality

   China could see its first flying car begin carrying paying passengers in 2026, as government backing and a growing pipeline of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle makers push the country’s “low-altitude economy” closer to commercial reality. Seven eVTOL manufacturers were expected to start delivering products before the end of this year, according to CCID Consulting. Local...

8. Trump’s decision to sell AI chips to China under pressure as House bill against deal advances

   A move to curb US President Donald Trump’s power to sell advanced AI chips to China moved a step closer on Wednesday when a Republican-led congressional panel joined hands with their Democratic counterparts, brushing aside objections from the White House and chip giant Nvidia. The action has put Representative Brian Mast, the Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on a...

9. Google study finds DeepSeek, Alibaba AI models mimic human collective intelligence

   New Google research into DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud’s artificial intelligence models has found that powerful reasoning models capable of “thinking” demonstrated internal cognition resembling the mechanisms underpinning human collective intelligence. The findings published on Thursday suggested that perspective diversity, not just computational scale, was responsible for the increasing...

10. Greenland meltdown: what does Trump’s quest mean for the global order and China?

    US President Donald Trump’s accelerated push to seize Greenland has transformed a once-quirky idea into a full-blown diplomatic crisis, with observers warning it could deal a near-fatal blow to the post-war transatlantic order. Trump’s refusal to rule out the use of America’s military to control the autonomous Danish territory – coinciding with the US-led Group of Seven’s effort to de-risk from...