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7 h. ago Global Electric Car Sales Grew 15% YoY in August 2025; China Dominates While US Demand Expected to Contract

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4 d. ago Multimedia patent licensing complexity drives discussion at IPBC China 2025

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6 d. ago Tesla China Sales Fall 10% To 57,152 Units In August, Marking 6th Decline In 2025

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2 w. ago ‘State intimidation’: Iran executions surge to over 800 this year

More than 800 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said on Friday, decrying “a systematic pattern of using the death penalty as a tool of state intimidation”. The United Nations rights office said there had been a “major increase in executions during the first half of 2025”. “Iranian authorities have executed at least 841 people since the beginning of the year and up until August 28, 2025,” spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva, warning that “the...

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2 w. ago Eighth storm to trigger Hong Kong typhoon signal marks record for city

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong readers now get 50% off their first year of subscription until September 21, 2025. The Hong Kong Observatory issued the No 1 typhoon warning signal at 7.10pm on Thursday, marking the eighth storm to trigger an alert for the city in the first eight months of 2025, the most for the January-to-August period since records began nearly 80 years ago. The...

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2 w. ago ‘Videos from Hong Kong’s 2025 rainstorm’ actually show downpour in 2023

With the rise of social media and generative AI, how much of what we see online is true? In this new series, SCMP Fact-Check, the Post investigates claims circulating online and debunks viral misinformation impacting the daily lives of Hongkongers. As Hong Kong was battered by torrential rain in August, various clips circulated online misleadingly attributed to the extreme weather events. One was a Facebook reel, uploaded on August 5, 2025, that appeared to show the flooded interior of an MTR...

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3 w. ago James Shing, former executive of Hong Kong’s ATV, dies at 48 after cancer battle

James Shing Pan-yu, former executive of Hong Kong’s defunct free-to-air broadcaster Asia Television (ATV), has died at the age of 48 after a battle against liver cancer. Shing’s wife Michelle Chua revealed his death in the early hours on Monday, saying that he died peacefully at Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital in Happy Valley, surrounded by family. “To all our dear friends and family, our light, James Shing, passed away peacefully at 12.37am on August 18, 2025, in the arms of his loved ones at...

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