3 h. ago Typhoon Wipha: Hong Kong emerges with dozens hurt, travellers frustrated

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. Hong Kong started getting back to normal on Sunday night after being battered by Typhoon Wipha which triggered the highest-level No 10 warning signal, bringing the city to a standstill, injuring dozens of people, toppling hundreds of trees and leaving tens of thousands of air travellers...

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9 h. ago Typhoon Wipha topples trees and causes major flight disruptions in Hong Kong and southern China

Typhoon Wipha topples trees and causes major flight disruptions in Hong Kong and southern China  AP News

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14 h. ago Keeping the faith: Thai monks ‘ordain’ trees in deforestation fight

On the morning of July 11, three saffron-robed monks and a dozen devotees gathered in a dense forest of Thailand’s Chaiyaphum province. After chanting prayers, they encircled a towering tree, draping it in a vivid orange cloth – the same used to robe ordained monks. This was no ordinary Buddhist ritual, but part of a growing practice called tree ordination – a symbolic act that “ordains” endangered trees as monks to protect them from logging and development. Part spiritual blessing and part...

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18 h. ago From TikTok to Huawei, Chinese tech giants flock to Arab tech hub Dubai

Chinese tech giants from ByteDance and Huawei Technologies to Alibaba Group Holding are playing an increasingly important role in Dubai’s burgeoning tech industry, as the emirate seeks to diversify its economy beyond its historical reliance on oil. Central to that transformation is the Dubai Internet City (DIC) – a tech park near the upscale neighbourhood of Palm Jumeirah, a palm tree-shaped archipelago – which hosts global Big Tech companies including Microsoft, Google and Amazon.com, along...

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37 h. ago Here’s how you can prepare for typhoon as Wipha heads towards Hong Kong

Tropical Storm Wipha is edging nearer to Hong Kong and is expected to keep intensifying, bringing strong winds and torrential rain. The Post explains how you can prepare for the coming bad weather, with Wipha forecast to be closest to the city on Sunday. 1. What’s the situation for domestic helpers? Under local labour laws, domestic helpers are entitled to at least one rest day in every seven-day period. Employers cannot compel them to work on their rest day or offer payment in lieu of granting...

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51 h. ago Trump says he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, but not everyone agrees

In a world barely able to keep up with the headlines that US President Donald Trump generates with policies that routinely challenge convention, he is revving up on another front that will guarantee global chatter: a bid for a Nobel Peace Prize. Last week, Trump expressed gratitude after a USA Today columnist argued that he was “the last person the Norwegian Nobel Committee would honour with its Peace Prize. Yet, it should.” “Thank you USA TODAY. So nice!” he wrote on his Truth Social account....

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52 h. ago Chinese firms in Mexico expected to keep US free trade perks despite rivalry

Chinese-funded factories in Mexico are “very unlikely” to be excluded from preferential treatment under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) despite the free trade deal being up for review next year, a Mexican envoy said on Thursday. “There is no indication that there are going to be restrictions targeting Chinese companies,” David Trujillo, deputy commercial counsellor at the Mexican Embassy in China, told the Post on the sidelines of the China International Supply Chain...

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57 h. ago Investors look to Politburo meeting for signs of fighting overcapacity

Equity investors are shifting their attention to China’s coming Politburo meeting for any clues on whether top leaders will introduce measures to fight back against overcapacity in some of the nation’s emerging industries. All eyes will be on how the gathered leaders address hyper-competition in industries including solar, lithium batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and e-commerce. The summit was expected to be convened later this month and the 24 members of the Communist Party’s decision-making...

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59 h. ago China expected to keep lending rates steady, focus turns to Politburo meet

China expected to keep lending rates steady, focus turns to Politburo meet  Reuters

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63 h. ago Tropical Storm Wipha: Hong Kong Observatory to issue T1 signal at midnight

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. The Hong Kong Observatory will issue a No 1 typhoon signal at midnight as Tropical Storm Wipha edges closer to the city, with the forecaster warning of strong winds and torrential rain over the weekend. The forecaster said at 4pm on Friday that the storm, the name of which comes from a Thai...

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3 d. ago Starmer’s statesmanship abroad no substitute for vision at home in Britain

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Britain is a nation in slow drift, outwardly composed but inwardly unravelling. His resolute backing of Ukraine and vocal commitment to European security have restored a measure of Britain’s standing on the world stage. However, this diplomatic poise conceals a glaring domestic void. Behind the polished speeches and choreographed handshakes lies a country buckling under stagnation. Its economic pulse is weakening, its public services are fraying and its faith in...

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4 d. ago Toyota has a new secret weapon to cut costs and keep pace in China’s EV race

Toyota has a new secret weapon to cut costs and keep pace in China’s EV race  Electrek

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4 d. ago Naked US man rescued from Bangkok sewer after chaotic struggle

A naked American man who accidentally got stuck in a drain in Thailand tried to crawl deeper into the sewer and fight off his rescuers, biting and spitting at them when they finally broke through the concrete to get to him. The chaotic rescue on Monday morning started with a phone call from the residents of a block of flats along Kalpapruek Road in Bangkok. They told the police that a man had fallen through a gap in the concrete slabs covering a drain separating the building from a canal, the...

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4 d. ago China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool

China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool  Scientific American

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4 d. ago Opinion: Opinion | China, Pakistan, And The Trouble With Keeping Snakes In Your Backyard

Opinion: Opinion | China, Pakistan, And The Trouble With Keeping Snakes In Your Backyard  NDTV

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5 d. ago China’s Growth Momentum Offers Xi Rare Window to Fight Deflation

China’s Growth Momentum Offers Xi Rare Window to Fight Deflation  Bloomberg.com

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5 d. ago China is about to shock the U.S. economy again. Economists who predicted the first offer a plan to fight back.

China is about to shock the U.S. economy again. Economists who predicted the first offer a plan to fight back.  MarketWatch

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6 d. ago Hong Kong care home resident arrested on suspicion of murder after man dies

A resident of a care home for the mentally disabled in Hong Kong has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another man in the facility died following a fight. A dispute broke out between two male residents, both in their fifties, at Ming Sum Home for the SEN in Wong Uk Tsuen, Yuen Long, and the confrontation turned physical at about 5.40pm on Monday. One of the men was believed to have hit and kicked the other, a police source said. The injured resident was rushed to Pok Oi Hospital in Yuen...

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6 d. ago Thailand defrocks 6 monks as sex and blackmail scandal engulfs Buddhist clergy

Six senior monks in Thailand have been defrocked and two others are missing after authorities uncovered tens of thousands of pornographic images and videos allegedly featuring a woman in sexual acts with high-ranking clergy – a scandal that has rocked the kingdom’s conservative Buddhist establishment. The investigation began after the sudden disappearance of the abbot of Wat Tritossathep, a prominent temple in Bangkok, raised suspicions of misconduct. Eleven monks have so far been implicated,...

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6 d. ago America Must Fight Like an Insurgent to Defeat Communist China

America Must Fight Like an Insurgent to Defeat Communist China  The Daily Signal

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