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1. Malaysian ex-ministers resign from Anwar’s party, snap election rumoured

   Two prominent ⁠former Malaysian ministers said on ⁠Sunday they would vacate their parliamentary seats ⁠and resign from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling coalition party to join a small party that they would take over. The move by Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, who resigned from cabinet last year after losing leadership posts in internal party elections, ‌could create a challenge for...

2. A sinking ship? Why the EU and China could be heading for a trade war

   Sparks flew in a Beijing conference room this week, as diplomats, officials and experts from Europe and China clashed over their deepening trade problems. Chinese speakers were accused of dismissing Europe’s long-standing complaints and ignoring the harsh economic reality of an increasingly lopsided trading relationship. EU diplomats were accused of “bullying”, while the bloc’s policies were...

3. Hong Kong’s elite pay tribute to philanthropist Maisy Ho at memorial service

   Hundreds of Hongkongers, including prominent business and political figures, have attended a memorial service for Maisy Ho Chiu-ha, the daughter of late Hong Kong and Macau tycoon Stanley Ho Hung-sun, remembering her as a low-profile philanthropist. Mourners dressed in black streamed into the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt in Wan Chai on Sunday for Maisy Ho’s memorial service, with many prominent...

4. China ramps up building a national computing power network as AI token demand surges

   China is stepping up construction of a “national computing network”, aiming to turn artificial intelligence infrastructure into a public utility as token usage surges and telecoms operators seek new growth engines beyond mobile data and phone bills. The push was highlighted by national broadcaster China Central Television and state-backed Xinhua news agency, which described the network as a...

5. Xi-Trump summit: what ‘strategic stability’ means for US-China ties

   One formulation emerging from the summit between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in Beijing merits particular attention: the reference in China’s official readout to a “constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability” that should guide ties “over the next three years and beyond”. The wording is noteworthy, and not simply because it points to an effort to stabilise a...

6. Why does the PLA object to Japan’s drone plans for its southern islands?

   The People’s Liberation Army has accused Japan of taking a “dangerous gamble” with its plan to deploy satellite-aided drones to its southwestern islands near Taiwan. In a commentary on Sunday, the PLA Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese military, said that while Tokyo maintained that it was building a multilayered coastal defence system, the equipment had a “distinct offensive nature”. “While...

7. Drone targets UAE nuclear power plant, straining Iran war ceasefire

   A drone strike targeted the United Arab Emirates’ Barakah nuclear power plant on Sunday, setting an electrical generator ablaze on its perimeter and again straining the shaky ceasefire in the Iran war. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which caused no radiological release nor injuries, authorities in the UAE’s capital, Abu Dhabi, said. However, suspicion immediately fell...

8. Did Chinese scientists simulate what could be the ‘end of the universe’?

   If a certain tiny bubble suddenly appeared somewhere in the cosmos, physicists say, it could expand and erase everything in its path. Known as “false vacuum decay”, the scenario has been one of the most unsettling ideas in theoretical physics for nearly half a century. Now, researchers at Tsinghua University say they have recreated the core mechanism behind the phenomenon using a programmable...

9. Hung Shui Kiu industrial park operator eyes bond issuance, tax cuts for firms

   Hong Kong’s Hung Shui Kiu industrial park operator will consider issuing bonds to finance its future operations and propose tax concession measures to the government to attract enterprises to set foot in the area. Veteran industrialist Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung made the remarks on Sunday, two weeks before he was due to start his three-year term on June 1 as the chairman of the Hung Shui Kiu Industry...

10. China’s motorsports industry continues to rev up with country’s first race-grade fuel

    China’s first domestically developed fuel designed for motor racing has made its debut at a rally in the western deserts in what state media hailed as a milestone for the country’s oil refining industry. As the first of its kind to be mass-produced in China, the fuel was described by state broadcaster CCTV as “filling a gap” in the domestic market, ending a long-standing reliance on imported...