5 d. ago Suspect arrested in murder of former Ukraine speaker Paruby, Zelensky says

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said early on Monday that a suspect has been arrested in the murder of former parliamentary speaker Andriy Paruby, a crime that shook the war-torn country. “The suspect has given an initial testimony,” Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging app. “Urgent investigative actions are currently under way to establish all the circumstances of this murder.” Paruby, 54, was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on Saturday in what Zelensky called “a horrific...

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5 d. ago Suspect arrested in murder of former Ukraine speaker Parubiy

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said early on Monday that a suspect has been arrested in the murder of former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, a crime that shook the war-torn country. “The suspect has given an initial testimony,” Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging app. “Urgent investigative actions are currently under way to establish all the circumstances of this murder.” Parubiy, 54, was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on Saturday in what Zelensky called “a horrific...

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7 d. ago Can China’s US$22 trillion savings and global investors propel markets higher?

In the second instalment of the two-part series on the outlook for the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese stock markets, Zhang Shidong and Yulu Ao look at the catalysts that could underpin the rally. Read part one here When Chinese stocks hit a 10-year high this week, Jian Shi Cortesi saw it as a sign that the rally could continue as overseas investors returned to the nation’s onshore and offshore equities, which are worth a combined US$20 trillion. The Switzerland-based investment director at GAM...

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7 d. ago China’s retail investors armed with US$22 trillion are key to markets’ fortunes

In the second instalment of the two-part series on the outlook for the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese stock markets, Zhang Shidong and Yulu Ao look at the catalysts that could underpin the rally. Read part one here. When Chinese stocks hit a 10-year high this week, Jian Shi Cortesi saw it as a sign that the rally could continue as overseas investors returned to the nation’s onshore and offshore equities, which are worth a combined US$20 trillion. The Switzerland-based investment director at GAM...

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9 d. ago Chinese Spies Hit More Than 80 Countries in ‘Salt Typhoon’ Breach, FBI Reveals

Chinese Spies Hit More Than 80 Countries in ‘Salt Typhoon’ Breach, FBI Reveals  The Wall Street Journal

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1 week ago China challenges US freedom of navigation operations as having ‘no legal basis’

The Chinese government has hit out at US freedom of navigation operations in the first report of its kind. The report – “Legal Assessment of the United States’ ‘Freedom of Navigation’” – is the first official study of its kind published by Beijing and marks its growing desire to challenge what it characterised as “gunboat diplomacy”. “US ‘freedom of navigation’ lacks a basis in international law and seriously distorts the interpretation and development of international law,” the report said. It...

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1 week ago China’s server, chipmakers enter ‘super cycle’ as AI computing mushrooms

China’s domestic server and chipmakers are entering a “super cycle” as the country’s local governments spend lavishly on computing infrastructure to support artificial intelligence development. The AI Computing Power Concept Index, compiled by Chinese financial data provider Wind and comprising 54 component stocks, hit a record high on Monday, with an increase of 166 per cent over the past 52 weeks. The frenzy was stoked by DeepSeek’s hint last week that it has changed its data format to support...

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2 w. ago US sanctions ICC judges for probes into alleged American, Israeli war crimes

The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on the International Criminal Court (ICC) for pursuing investigations into US and Israeli officials for alleged war crimes. The State Department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on four ICC officials, including two judges and two prosecutors, who it said had been instrumental in efforts to prosecute Americans and Israelis. As a result of the sanctions, any assets the targets hold in US jurisdictions are frozen. The sanctions are just the latest...

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2 w. ago Studio behind Black Myth: Wukong plans new game featuring Taoist ghost hunter

The Chinese video game studio behind the global hit Black Myth: Wukong, which played a role in shifting Beijing’s attitude on the gaming industry, has begun developing a new title featuring a Taoist ghost hunter from Chinese folklore. Hangzhou-based Game Science, whose Wukong featured the Monkey King from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, said it had started developing a follow-up title called Black Myth: Zhong Kui. The announcement was made at Gamescom 2025 in Cologne,...

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3 w. ago Applied Materials’ forecast hit by weak Chinese demand, US export curb

Applied Materials’ forecast hit by weak Chinese demand, US export curb  South China Morning Post

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3 w. ago Hit Chinese film about Japanese war crimes highlights ‘forgotten history’

China’s latest blockbuster movie depicting one of Japan’s worst war crimes, the 1937 Nanking massacre, has been described by the director as part of an “invisible battle” as part to bring greater international recognition to the country’s suffering in World War II. Dead to Rights is based on the true story of how a young apprentice in a photo studio found and developed evidence of the atrocities in secret, which was later used in a war-crimes tribunal. The mass murder of civilians in the city,...

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3 w. ago Chinese woman jailed for killing lover who told her to hit him and not break up

A woman in China has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for causing the intentional injury of her boyfriend after she banged his head against a wall, causing his death. The woman, identified by the alias Ajuan, said she beat her boyfriend after he asked to hurt him in a bid to save their relationship after she suggested they break-up, according to the news outlet chinanews.com. Ajuan and her boyfriend, known as Aqiang, lived in a rented house in Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province in...

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4 w. ago China’s water paradox: rainfall drenches big cities while river run

Beijing and surrounding areas may have been engulfed in deadly torrential downpours in the past fortnight but a new study reveals a longer-term drying trend for the country’s major rivers. New research shows that despite many Chinese cities increasingly being hit by extreme rainfall, the volume of water in China’s rivers has fallen over 60 years, particularly in the country’s north. The researchers found that from 1956 to 2016, some 756 – or 72 per cent – of the 1,046 hydrological stations in...

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4 w. ago Chinese villagers hit by worst floods in generations say they had no warning

Chinese villagers hit by worst floods in generations say they had no warning  Reuters

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