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1. US Institute of Peace renamed after ‘greatest dealmaker’ Trump

   The Trump administration has renamed the US Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and has planted the president’s name on the organisation’s headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute’s control. It’s the latest twist in a see-saw court battle over who controls the US Institute of Peace, a non-profit think tank that focuses on peace initiatives. It was an early target of...

2. Hong Kong’s connectivity, talent can foster legal cooperation: justice chief

   Hong Kong’s connectivity and talent pool could help facilitate international legal and economic collaboration, the justice minister and an expert have said, as they joined representatives from more than 25 jurisdictions this week at an annual forum in the city. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the five-day Hong Kong Legal Week forum on Monday, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam Ting-kwok said...

3. Most Europeans want to keep same distance between US and China, poll finds

   A majority of Europeans want to maintain an equal distance from the United States and China rather than aligning with one of the two superpowers over the other, a survey published on Thursday shows. While just 4 per cent of Europeans polled would prioritise alignment with China over the US, 55 per cent preferred to keep “the same distance between the two”, according to the result of the...

4. Why China-India border thaw faces fresh test from 17th century Dalai Lama

   The fragile rapprochement between China and India faces a fresh test as New Delhi looks to promote its links with the sixth Dalai Lama, observers have warned. India is hosting the first international conference of the 17th century Tibetan spiritual leader at his birthplace in today’s Tawang, a mountain town in an area that India governs as the border state of Arunachal Pradesh and China claims...

5. TikTok to invest more than US$37 billion in Brazil data centre

   ByteDance’s TikTok will invest more than 200 billion reais (US$37.7 billion) to build a data centre in Brazil, marking its first project in Latin America. TikTok would partner with data centre developer Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, one of Brazil’s leading renewable energy providers, in a data centre in the northeastern state of Ceara, Monica Guise, head of public policy at TikTok Brazil, said on...

6. Oxford slammed for not naming Indonesian researchers in rare flower find

   A recent rediscovery of the extremely rare Rafflesia hasseltii, a giant parasitic red flower, in a forest in Indonesia’s West Sumatra has sparked backlash following an initial social media post by Oxford University that left out local researchers involved in the search and credited only its scientist. The uproar has exposed the perceived lack of equal recognition for Western researchers and...

7. China urged to boost innovation to drive development at home and abroad

   China should focus on technological innovation to drive domestic and global development, a forum this week has heard. China would push for high-quality development and opening up to the outside world, Li Shulei, head of the Communist Party’s publicity department, told the 2025 Understanding China Conference in Guangzhou on Monday. The event, which ran between Sunday and Tuesday, was attended by...

8. Singapore’s Pritam Singh loses appeal against conviction for lying

   Singapore’s highest court has upheld a S$14,000 (US$10,820) fine handed to opposition leader Pritam Singh for lying to a parliamentary committee. In February, the Workers’ Party (WP) chief was found guilty of two counts of giving false testimony to a committee scrutinising a lie told by Raeesah Khan, a former member of parliament for the party. Singh, who pleaded not guilty, received the maximum...

9. Escaped Malaysian reveals torture, rape inside Cambodia job scam centre

   A Malaysian businessman escaped from the clutches of a job scam syndicate in Cambodia after his wife lodged a police report and a 6,000 ringgit (US$1,456) ransom was paid, but some 700 others are still trapped there. Many are facing torture in captivity, said Muhammad Syafiq Pubalan Abdullah, 40. The victims aged between 17 and 35 were often beaten up, he said. He, too, was beaten up daily...

10. How China engineered the rapid rise of its drug innovation industry

    China’s pharmaceutical industry is on the brink of enormous growth and transformation. In just a few years, it has moved on from being the world’s cheapest source of active pharmaceutical ingredients to becoming a major hub for pharmaceutical innovation – a place where new, more effective drugs are born. It is now the second-largest developer of drugs, trailing only the United States. In the...