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How Benin is on the road to reshaping its cotton industry, with China’s help

For decades, moving Benin’s cotton harvest from the north of the country to its southern ports was a slow, difficult journey along unpaved roads. Benin is Africa’s largest cotton producer, but it lacked the infrastructure needed to connect its northern cotton-growing belt to the coast and processing

21 Jun, 02:00 pm
SCMP

Korean drama Teach You a Lesson serves up a reality check on education

Within a week of its release, Netflix’s new Korean drama Teach You a Lesson, directed by Hong Jong-chan, topped the platform’s global non-English rankings for the week of June 1 to 7. Adapted from the popular webtoon Get Schooled (2020), the 10-episode series about a government-backed vigilante unit

21 Jun, 01:30 pm
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Vance in Switzerland for US-Iran talks as Strait of Hormuz closed again

A new round of negotiations over the Middle East war was set to kick off on Sunday as Iranian negotiators and US Vice-President J.D. Vance arrived in the Swiss host city, even as Tehran said it was closing the Strait of Hormuz again over Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Before boarding his flight to Euro

21 Jun, 01:19 pm
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Hong Kong only place in China that can adopt model akin to SpaceX, CY Leung says

Hong Kong is the only place in China capable of replicating the financing model of US tech giant SpaceX, which leverages market forces to grow rapidly, former leader Leung Chun-ying has said, urging the city to develop professional services for the emerging aerospace industry. Leung, a vice-chairman

21 Jun, 12:49 pm
SCMP

Dear You gets 8 extra Teochew shows in Singapore after ‘overwhelming’ demand

Theatre chain Golden Village (GV) and film distributor Clover Films have added eight more screenings of Dear You in its original Teochew language in Singapore. The additional screenings will take place from June 25 to 29 at GVmax at GV VivoCity. Tickets will go on sale at 3pm on June 22 via GV’s box

21 Jun, 12:15 pm
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Hong Kong parents turn to summer school options in Asia amid soaring airfares

Hong Kong families are turning away from long-standing summer school favourites in Britain and North America amid soaring airfares, with education consultants reporting a sharp surge in demand for alternatives in Asia. Applications for British summer schools fell 35 per cent this year as Hong Kong p

21 Jun, 12:00 pm
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Singaporean men are fighting to be heard. A movement is letting them do just that

Danny Loong did not fully grieve his father’s death until he became a parent himself. For two decades after his father’s passing, Loong remembered him mostly as a provider and disciplinarian: a man who pushed hard, cared quietly and offered little by way of tenderness. “He would ask me, ‘How come yo

21 Jun, 12:00 pm
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Italy’s Meloni let Trump’s jibes slide for so long. Now, she’s hitting back

US Donald Trump has sparred with most of his fellow Group of Seven leaders at some point. But Italy’s Giorgia Meloni this week did something none of them dared: she escalated. Unlike Spanish Socialist Pedro Sanchez, one of the few leaders in Europe who has made political capital of being berated by

21 Jun, 10:02 am
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China-led team develops AI system to track radar-disrupting space hurricanes

A China-led team has developed an AI system to detect space hurricanes, a phenomenon in the Earth’s upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite signals, radar and radio communications. While the hurricane-like atmospheric phenomenon can have major space weather effects, detection has so far relied o

21 Jun, 10:00 am
HK Free Press

China says to impose 55% levy on Australian beef after quota hit

China said on Friday it will impose a tariff of 55 percent on beef imports from Australia after shipments from the country hit Beijing’s annual limit. The price of beef in China has trended downwards in recent years, with analysts blaming oversupply and a lack of demand as the world’s se

20 Jun, 03:26 pm
HK Free Press

Record haul for HKFP at SOPA journalism awards

Hong Kong Free Press won three honourable mentions at the prestigious Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards on Thursday night – a new record for the newspaper. HKFP photojournalist Kyle Lam’s five shots of the Tai Po fire tragedy were recognised in the Excellence in Photography&

19 Jun, 03:41 pm
HK Free Press

Beijing calls UK jailing of Chinese-Britons for spying ‘a farce’

China called Britain’s jailing of two dual Chinese-British nationals for spying on behalf of Beijing “a classic political farce” on Friday, urging the country to rectify its “erroneous actions”. A British court jailed former UK Border Force official Peter Wai and retire

19 Jun, 03:20 pm
HK Free Press

UK jails Chinese-Brits for spying on Hong Kong dissidents for Beijing

A British court on Thursday jailed two dual Chinese-British nationals after they were convicted of spying on Hong Kong dissidents in the UK on behalf of China. Former UK Border Force official Peter Wai, 40, was jailed for 10 years and retired Hong Kong policeman Bill Yuen, 65, was given an eight-yea

19 Jun, 10:55 am
HK Free Press

Hong Kong to relax rules on leasing subsidised flats

The Hong Kong government will make it easier for owners of subsidised flats to lease their properties in September by waiving the land premium requirement. The Housing Authority said in a statement on Thursday that it had approved a scheme allowing owners of subsidised sale flats to rent out their u

18 Jun, 03:37 pm