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1. Labrador lost on China beach found 1,500km away 3 months later, reunited with owner

   A pet dog in China has been miraculously found 1,500km from home and reunited with her owner three months after she went missing. September the Labrador was lost on August 13, at a beach in Qingdao, in eastern China’s Shandong province. According to her owner, surnamed Gao, the dog walked out by herself while playing in her garden. By the time she noticed, September was already missing. She...

2. Xiaomi open-sources AI model spanning autonomous driving and robotics

   Xiaomi has open-sourced a new foundation model that integrates autonomous driving and embodied artificial intelligence, as the Chinese smartphone and electric-vehicle (EV) manufacturer seeks to enhance its AI capabilities. MiMo-Embodied, which comes after Xiaomi’s first large language model MiMo launched in April, was described as the “first open-source vision-language model” that combined...

3. Can a single vote save Bangladesh from a return to authoritarianism?

   With ex-leader Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity, Bangladesh is turning its focus towards a referendum aimed at reforming its political system and rebuilding its democratic institutions. Interim leader Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate who assumed office after last year’s uprising, earlier this month pledged to hold a national vote on the blueprint for...

4. Hong Kong to ‘radiate’ mainland China’s strengths to aid belt and road nations

   Hong Kong’s chief executive has pledged to harness the city’s unique advantages to bring mainland China’s strengths, technology and compassion to belt and road nations while fostering people-to-people ties at the launch of a charity’s headquarters founded by former leader Leung Chun-ying. “Hong Kong has been leveraging its ‘hard power’ in professional services and ‘soft power’ in social cohesion...

5. Petition filed in Japan over K-pop act Aespa’s singer posting atomic bomb image

   More than 103,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that K-pop girl group Aespa be banned from taking part in a New Year music event in Japan over an image posted by one of its singers that protesters claim depicts the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The petition, on Change.org, points out that the singer posted a picture of an “atomic bomb model light” on a social media...

6. Hong Kong sets sights on bay area bid for Olympics after National Games success

   Sports officials have hailed Hong Kong’s success in co-hosting the National Games and said the city will explore running more athletic events with its Greater Bay Area neighbours after the region was named as a possible candidate for staging the Olympics in the future. Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law Shuk-pui described the concluded 15th National Games in Hong Kong as a...

7. Siobhan Haughey dives in as Hong Kong Victoria Harbour race seeks expanded entry

   Organisers of the Hong Kong Victoria Harbour Race are considering recruiting mainland Chinese lifeguards to increase the participant limit to beyond 10,000 after more than 3,700 swimmers, including National Games medallist Siobhan Haughey, joined Saturday’s annual event. Hong Kong China Swimming Association President Ronnie Wong Man-chiu told the media after the event that the key factors in...

8. Ireland business chamber welcomes Chinese investment despite US, EU pressures

   Chinese investment is still being actively welcomed in Ireland, the head of a major business organisation said, even as the wider European Union adopts a more cautious attitude and Dublin walks a tightrope to maintain ties with both the US and China amid a wide-ranging rivalry between the world’s two largest economies. “We’re firmly open for business within the EU rules, that is an unambiguous...

9. What Chinese phrase ‘wearing small shoes’ means, how it links to painful bridal shoes

   In modern-day office politics, Chinese people use the phrase “wearing small shoes” to describe someone who abuses their power or position to deliberately make things difficult for others. The term originates from an ancient marriage folklore in which the bride was forced to wear embroidered shoes that were intentionally made too small to torment her. Shoes hold a deep significance in Chinese...

10. China’s UN envoy pours fresh scorn on Japan’s ‘unrepentant’ Takaichi

    China’s ambassador to the United Nations has doubled down on his criticism of Japan, calling Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi’s earlier comments on Taiwan “highly dangerous” and damaging to the post-war international order. According to state broadcaster CCTV, Fu Cong said in a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday that Japan was “unrepentant” for the “blatantly provocative”...