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A father in China who has been criticised for locking his naked toddler son in an iron cage claims the pen was purely used to prevent the boy from wandering. On June 16, several naked toddlers were spotted on a red tricycle parked by the roadside in Hainan province, southern China, and one of them…
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’s forecaster is considering cancelling the No 1 typhoon signal between 2pm and 5pm on Thursday as severe weather threats gradually…
Donald Trump has indicated he will consider providing more of the Patriot missiles that Ukraine needs to defend against mounting Russian strikes, adding that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “really has to end that war”. The US president’s remarks came after a 50-minute meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday on the sidelines of a…
Washington — A federal judge on Thursday continued to block the Trump administration from moving forward with its plans to lay off thousands of government workers at more than 20 federal agencies, providing federal employees a lifeline as a legal challenge to President Trump’s bid to restructure the federal government moves forward. The preliminary injunction…
The emergence of advanced AI agents has recently transformed the global artificial intelligence landscape. Starting with DeepSeek, a Chinese foundational model notable for its efficiency, the AI community is now witnessing a new wave of innovation with companies like Butterfly Effect Pte. Ltd. Their flagship product, Manus, is gaining recognition as the first truly autonomous…
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that “great progress” was being made to end the war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, reported AFP. US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC on Tuesday, June 24(Bloomberg) “I think great progress is being…
Several executions are expected to take place in the United States this week, with two scheduled Tuesday and one each on Thursday and Friday. The executions were ordered in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina. If all of the procedures are carried out as planned, the inmates’ deaths will bring the national total of executions…
What are the origins of China’s leverage in the trade war? And why are China’s exports disrupting markets across the world? That China has a strong hand is largely because it has picked up lessons from Silicon Valley and deployed the tactics at every level of the supply chain. Just as Silicon Valley companies “hacked”…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hong Kong’s de facto central bank has intervened in foreign exchange markets to defend the city’s currency peg. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority said it used HK$9.4bn ($1.2bn) of its reserves to buy Hong Kong…