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1. China woman aims to look her best as bridesmaid resorts to extreme diet, suffers prediabetes

   A young Chinese woman who was determined to look her best as a bridesmaid at her best friend’s wedding lost 15kg in just two months through extreme dieting. The crash diet eventually led her to develop prediabetes, sparking shock online. The 26-year-old known by the pseudonym Xiaoyu is an office worker based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, southeastern China. She is 160cm tall and once weighed...

2. US asset manager Federated Hermes joins wave of finance firms setting up in Hong Kong

   Federated Hermes, a New York-listed asset-management firm, plans to set up a Hong Kong office to seize opportunities in Asia’s markets amid ongoing global geopolitical tensions. The company confirmed the move a year after CEO Chris Donahue said at the Asian Financial Forum (AFF) that the Pittsburgh-headquartered firm was considering a presence in the city. The plan had now won board approval and...

3. Philippines will take ‘at least 10 years’ to make proficiency grade

   It will take 10 years to fix the Philippines’ growing learning gap and reform the education sector, a national commission has said, as related groups warn of a deepening proficiency crisis. Only four in 1,000 senior high school students are proficient in areas such as problem-solving, managing and communicating information and analysing data to form ideas, according to findings by the Second...

4. Time’s ripe to go paperless on arbitral decisions, Hong Kong think tank says

   A Hong Kong think tank under the chief executive says now is the right time for the city to go paperless on arbitral decisions, a move that could boost its edge as an arbitration hub. The recommendation by the Chief Executive’s Policy Unit (CEPU) follows a recent forum with leading figures from the legal, academic and business sectors exploring pathways to digital arbitration. The CEPU said...

5. US treasury secretary amplifies Trump’s threat to Canada over China dealings

   The United States will impose 100 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports should Ottawa finalise a new trade deal with China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday, amplifying a similar threat from US President Donald Trump a day earlier. “We can’t let Canada become an opening that the Chinese pour their cheap goods into the US,” Bessent said on ABC’s This Week. During a visit to Beijing...

6. UK plans to create a ‘British FBI’ national police force

   The British government said on Sunday it will unveil plans this week to create a new national police force, dubbed the “British FBI”, to take charge of complex investigations such as counterterrorism, fraud, online child abuse and criminal gangs. The National Police Service will bring under the same umbrella the work of existing agencies dealing with terrorism and crime, police helicopters and...

7. Jeffrey Ding on why diffusion, not innovation, is the secret to victory in the AI race

   Jeffrey Ding is an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University. He is the author of Technology and the Rise of Great Powers, an award-winning book exploring the impact of technology on geopolitical competition, as well as the founder of the ChinAI newsletter, which tracks developments in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry. In this interview, Ding explains...

8. Israel launches ‘large-scale operation’ to locate remains of last hostage in Gaza

   Israel said on Sunday its military was conducting a “large-scale operation” to locate the last hostage in Gaza, as Washington and other mediators pressure Israel and Hamas to move into the next phase of their ceasefire. The statement came as Israel’s cabinet agreed to a “limited reopening” of Gaza’s key Rafah border crossing with Egypt, and a day after top US envoys met Prime Minister Benjamin...

9. Talk of digital yuan challenging dollar dominance misses real power shift

   As China prepares its digital yuan for wider domestic and cross-border use, the global debate has turned again to a familiar question: is Beijing trying to challenge the US dollar’s dominance? But this misses the more consequential point. The significance of China’s digital currency push lies not in substitution, but in the transformation of the infrastructure that underpins international...

10. Close to a million US households without power in severe winter storm

    A severe winter storm in the United States has already left hundreds of thousands of people without power before it was expected to hit New York, Philadelphia and Washington later on Sunday. Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas are among the states worst affected, with some 983,000 households hit by outages nationwide, according to website PowerOutage.us. Some outages were also being...