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Kazakh Agriculture Vice-Minister Yermek Kenzhekhanuly (left) and Liu Huanxin, head of China’s National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, pose at the signing for the creation of a grain-trading platform, in Astana, Kazakhstan, on May 21. Photo: Handout
China food security

Opinion | How Asian food security is shifting away from the West

The platform offers a future where Asian nations are less dependent on maritime chokepoints and Western-aligned supply chains.

Hong Kong housing

Opinion | Hong Kong housing: small shoebox flat wins not enough to fix big issues

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TV shows and streaming video

‘It’s a Geena-sance’: Geena Davis on Netflix’s The Boroughs and Coachella skit

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2026 Xi-Trump summit

Opinion | Xi-Trump summit: what ‘strategic stability’ means for US-China ties

The main question isn’t whether the summit resolved the China-US rivalry but if it created common ground for addressing disputes.

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Illustration: Craig Stephens
Climate change

Opinion | How bad water management is turning up the heat on South Asia

Regional governments should stop blaming shortages on the failure of treaties, diverting attention from much-needed internal reforms.

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Food and Drinks

Asian-American mother challenges tough Chinese traditions for new mums

Clarissa Wei’s cookbook ‘Sitting the Month’ puts a modern spin on the traditional Chinese foods typically given to post-partum mothers.

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TV shows and streaming video

Q&A | Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer talk motherhood in Margo’s Got Money Troubles

The Hollywood actresses join co-star Nick Offerman to discuss their new show about love – and OnlyFans – in a dysfunctional family.

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Michelle Pfeiffer (left) and Elle Fanning in a still from Margo’s Got Money Troubles. Photo: Apple TV
Food and Drinks

Meet the women in whiskey breaking the glass ceiling in male-dominated industry

A growing number of women are becoming leaders in the traditionally male-dominated US whiskey industry, from making it to promoting it.

China society

Opinion | By voicing their needs, Chinese women are normalising them

In films and on social media, women in China are openly advocating for themselves and fighting taboos around women’s health.

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Hong Kong politics

Opinion | Hong Kong increasingly seen as a safe haven in troubled world

The city’s role is evolving and detractors must now acknowledge its strengths.

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Illustration: Craig Stephens
Chinese culture

Opinion | Chinese youth are embracing Ching Ming with cultural confidence

Young people visiting the graves of historical figures reflects a cultural shift and the pursuit of a sense of continuity with the past.

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People tend to graves at Diamond Hill Cemetery in Hong Kong on April 3 during the Ching Ming Festival. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Opinion | Tai Po fire hearings reveal broken promises to Hongkongers

The hearings have exposed gaps in the enforcement of safety rules and an attitude of avoiding blame among government departments.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Can Hong Kong hitch a ride on China’s commercial aerospace wave?

The city can play to its existing strengths and become the premier service, financing and governance platform for the nation’s space‑related services.

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Artificial intelligence

Opinion | Why Bangladesh could be last hurrah for Asia’s development model

The question is not if AI will eventually reach developing countries’ factories – it is whether anyone will build those factories at all.

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A worker sorts underwear in the packing section of a garment factory in Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 19, 2025. Photo: Reuters
West Kowloon Cultural District

Opinion | To realise Hong Kong’s cultural potential, a global vision is essential

The city can rise beyond a regional hub, but only with sustained investment and a coherent, long-term vision for arts development.

Illustration: Craig Stephens
China society

Opinion | China’s OpenClaw mania driven by fear of missing next tech gold rush

Fear of missing out and people riding new technology waves to success are familiar narratives, but how will AI agents turn potential into profits?

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US, Israel war on Iran

Opinion | How America’s Iran miscalculation hands China a strategic advantage

A preventive war waged without allied consensus risks undermining Washington’s legal and moral standing – strengthening Beijing’s hand.

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Hong Kong politics

Opinion | Hong Kong must keep pace with China’s development push

In the run-up to and during China’s ‘two sessions’, Beijing leaders have made it clear to the Hong Kong government that it must improve its governance and efficiency.

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Pedestrians cross a busy intersection in Hong Kong’s Central district on February 25. Photo: AFP
Two Sessions 2026

Opinion | China’s ‘two sessions’ show plans for resilience in a stormy world

Beijing signals it is prepared to recalibrate its development model rather than cling to the habits of the boom years.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Girlfriends: Fish Liew and Jennifer Yu reunite for tender lesbian romance

Tracy Choi’s semi-autobiographical, episodic drama gives an intimate portrait of a woman searching for her place at different stages of life.

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Disease

Opinion | Nipah and mpox expose Asia’s urgent need for stronger disease surveillance

Many Asian countries face barriers in building effective disease surveillance networks, including relying on shrinking external funding.

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A passenger is checked with a thermal imager at Indonesia’s Soekarno Hatta International Airport, after India confirmed two cases of the deadly Nipah virus, in Tangerang near Jakarta, Indonesia, on January 30. Photo: Reuters
Wellness

It’s not ‘all in your head’: women’s pain really lasts longer, study finds

Myth-busting findings that immune system differences cause chronic pain to persist longer for women highlight the need for better treatment.

Women’s pain has often been overlooked as “more in the mind”. But a new study has found chronic pain to be more exacerbated for women than for men, and the biological reason behind it. Photo: Shutterstock
Education in Hong Kong

Opinion | Bridging East and West, Hong Kong offers talent the best of both worlds

The Study in Hong Kong Week will showcase how the city’s globally ranked universities and access to the mainland give students a competitive edge.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong’s finance chief must return to his original aspirations

As the financial secretary prepares his budget speech, he would do well to remember his initial focus on using the city’s wealth to help the needy.

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US-China relations

Opinion | Pax Sinica vs Pax Silica: how China-US mineral war is taking shape

The US approach of deploying capital and diplomatic leverage must make up for China’s years-long head start in building its reserves.

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An employee of Chinese company CMOC holds a form of cobalt hydroxide produced at the Tenke Fungurume mine, one of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 17, 2023. Photo: AFP
Chinese culture

Opinion | Lunar New Year doesn’t need a home-cooked feast to be full of flavour

The most important thing isn’t if you cooked the food yourself or followed tradition to the letter – it’s being with people you care about.

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People enjoy their reunion dinner at a restaurant in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district on February 12, ahead of the Lunar New Year. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong politics

Opinion | Government must reflect on its failures as we enter Year of the Horse

The past year has been a difficult one and it is important for the administration to assess its performance and embrace change.

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Tourism

Women-only travel tour to Vietnam sparks adventure and sisterhood

Amid growing demand for safe, small-group female travel, 17 women travelled with US-based AdventureWomen to explore Vietnam’s treasures.

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