61 m. ago Your Next Lawn Chair Is Coming From Vietnam, but It’s Still Kind of Chinese

Your Next Lawn Chair Is Coming From Vietnam, but It’s Still Kind of Chinese  MSN

Society

94 m. ago China’s exports accelerate in June as US trade truce creates opening

China’s exports registered a sizeable acceleration in June as exporters took advantage of the 90-day tariff truce to speed up their shipments, beating market forecasts. The world’s top merchandise exporter saw its outbound shipments rise by 5.8 per cent year on year to reach US$325.2 billion in June, according to customs data released on Monday. The figure follows a reported 4.8 per cent rise in May and eclipses the 3.6 per cent increase forecast in a market survey from Chinese financial data...

Politics

2 h. ago Top AI medical scientists Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann leave Germany for China

Top German medical scientists Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann have joined Fudan University in Shanghai as full-time faculty members, according to the Chinese institution’s website. The married couple joined the university in April, their arrival marking another milestone in China’s growing ambitions in artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine – a field that Eils and Lehmann have helped to pioneer. Eils earned his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Heidelberg in 1995, and was elected...

Science

3 h. ago Hong Kong trails Singapore, London as priciest city for the rich: Julius Baer

Hong Kong has become relatively cheaper for wealthy individuals over the last year, dropping from second to third on a list of the costliest world cities for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), according to Julius Baer. Singapore retained the title of the most expensive city, while London and Hong Kong swapped places from a year earlier, according to the 2025 Julius Baer Global Wealth and Lifestyle Report on Monday. The sixth annual study by the Swiss lender compared a basket of goods and...

Politics

3 h. ago Shopaholic Chinese woman spends US$280,000, rents flat to store unopened packages.

A 66-year-old woman in Shanghai who spent two million yuan (US$280,000) shopping online and even rented a flat to store her unopened packages has trended on social media. The behaviour of the woman, identified as Wang, has also triggered a heated discussion about the mental health of senior citizens. Wang lives alone in a flat in the Jiading district of Shanghai. Over the past few years, she has spent more than two million yuan buying items from online platforms, according to the news outlet Kan...

Economics

4 h. ago Tech takes centre stage as Chinese students weigh up major choices

Like millions of Chinese students, 18-year-old He Junjie is anxiously waiting to see which university and major will admit him after last month’s intensely competitive National Higher Education Entrance Examination, or gaokao. After evaluating his score and studying the universities and programmes he qualified for, He focused on engineering when submitting his applications a few weeks ago. Information and communications technology, as well as vehicle engineering, were the top choices, the young...

Politics

5 h. ago Phone scams in Hong Kong up 22% in first 5 months of year but losses down

The number of phone scam cases in Hong Kong rose by nearly 22 per cent between January and May compared with the same period last year, but losses fell by almost two-thirds to HK$430 million (US$54.8 million) as fewer mainland Chinese students were cheated, police said. Chief Inspector Grace Wong Chi-man of the force’s Anti-Deception Coordination Centre said police had recorded 2,574 phone scams in the first five months of 2025, with a 45 per cent year-on-year drop in cases involving mainland...

Politics

8 h. ago Chinese Grad Student in India Sheds Light on How India Talks About China Behind Closed Doors

Chinese Grad Student in India Sheds Light on How India Talks About China Behind Closed Doors  The China-Global South Project

Politics

15 h. ago Chinese satellites appear to dock in orbit for historic refuelling mission

Two Chinese satellites may have docked in geostationary orbit for a historic refuelling mission, an autonomous satellite servicing feat the United States has yet to achieve. China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 “appeared visually merged in optical sensor data” between July 2 and July 6, US-based space situational awareness software provider COMSPOC said on Saturday in a social media post. “Given the prolonged RPO time, SJ-21 and SJ-25 may have docked,” it said, using the acronym for “rendezvous and...

Events

16 h. ago Opinion | For Chinese firms going out, global success requires truly ‘going in’

Opinion | For Chinese firms going out, global success requires truly ‘going in’  South China Morning Post

Politics

16 h. ago Government breaks silence on Chinese engineers leaving iPhone maker Foxconn’s plant: ‘Apple has alternati

Government breaks silence on Chinese engineers leaving iPhone maker Foxconn’s plant: ‘Apple has alternati  Times of India

Politics

16 h. ago Frugal Chinese man spends under US$1 per meal, saving to buy flat, car for parents

A 29-year-old Chinese man has stunned many online with his extreme frugality, revealing that he spends only a few yuan (under US$1) per meal, and this habit has enabled him to save 1.3 million yuan (US$180,000) in just six years. Known online as “Little Grass Drifting North,” he is a live-stream host at a major internet company in Beijing and manages a self-media business. His exact earnings remain undisclosed. Recently, he disclosed that he has limited his monthly food expenses to under 500...

Economics

16 h. ago Chinese team says carbon dioxide can be turned turned into sugar

Chinese scientists have developed a method to turn the alcohol methanol into white sugar, which they say could allow captured carbon dioxide to be converted into food. The team’s biotransformation system produces sucrose without the need to grow sugar cane or sugar beets – crops that require large amounts of land and water resources. Their method to convert methanol – which can be derived from industrial waste or made by hydrogenating carbon dioxide – into sucrose using enzymes was also adapted...

Politics

18 h. ago China and Japan trade barbs after latest close encounter between warplanes

China and Japan have traded accusations after a series of close encounters between their warplanes last week. On Sunday the Chinese defence ministry accused Japanese reconnaissance aircraft of “repeatedly” entering China’s air defence identification zone in the East China Sea. The comments followed a Japanese statement issued three days earlier that accused a Chinese JH-7 fighter-bomber of making “unusual approaches” towards a Japanese YS-11EB electronic-intelligence aircraft. on Wednesday and...

Events

21 h. ago Filipino film that China wanted to cancel wins at New Zealand festival

A Filipino documentary spotlighting the daily struggles of fishermen, naval cooks and coastguard personnel in the contested South China Sea has earned international recognition, with its director telling This Week in Asia that the award was a validation of honest storytelling in the face of political pressure from Beijing to cancel its screening. Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea took home the Tides of Change prize at the Doc Edge Festival in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 3....

Culture

22 h. ago Meituan’s daily orders hit record 150 million amid rivalry with JD.com, Alibaba

Meituan, mainland China’s top on-demand delivery giant, said on Sunday that daily orders on its platform have surged to another all-time high – a sign that the company has managed to fend off competition from rivals like JD.com and Alibaba Group Holding. The Beijing-based company said daily transactions had reached 150 million, just days after surpassing 120 million last week. The firm’s record daily orders for both food and retail goods delivery comes at a time when major Chinese e-commerce...

Events

23 h. ago China widens kindergarten lead poisoning probe as central government weighs in

China has expanded the probe into a kindergarten lead poisoning scandal that has shocked the nation, with the central government getting involved in a rare intervention in a provincial investigation. On Saturday night the authorities in Gansu said the investigation would be led by provincial leaders working alongside a task force from the State Council, the country’s cabinet. Last week, Chinese media reported that 233 of 251 children at the kindergarten in Tianshui, a second-tier city in the...

Politics

25 h. ago China’s AI glasses market takes shape as Xiaomi’s entry inspires early adopters

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi’s entry into the country’s burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) glasses market is likely to benefit from the gadget maker’s expansive ecosystem and supply chain strength, according to early adopters and analysts. Several users who bought the Xiaomi AI frames when they were released last month found the first-person video recording and AI features useful for documenting personal moments and assisting with office tasks, although there were improvements and missing...

Politics

26 h. ago Maths star Hong Wang targeted by China’s cyber nationalists for English lectures

It was a golden opportunity for academic exchange when Chinese mathematician Hong Wang, a contender for a top award, gave lectures at universities in Beijing last month, but instead her overseas experience and use of English made her an unexpected victim of rising nationalism in China. The 34-year-old mathematician earned global attention last year when a paper she co-authored solved the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture – a century-old problem in geometric measure theory. The study, with...

Events

27 h. ago Hongkongers use driving schools over border to get cheap licences illegally

Mainland Chinese middlemen are offering Hongkongers driving lessons and tests at nearly half the price of city rates and showing them how to convert permits into local licences, a practice that authorities have deemed illegal. Checks by the Post on popular mainland social media platform RedNote have found that a driving school in Shenzhen is offering tailor-made packages for Hong Kong residents, including ways to circumvent legal requirements. It charges 6,800 yuan (HK$7,422) for a driving...

Events