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SEND ME (But Then Bring Me Feckin’ Home Again)

By Samantha Johnson / August 15, 2026
Breaking News

Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities

By Samantha Johnson / August 14, 2026
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How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart

By Samantha Johnson / August 14, 2026
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Corruption

Vietnam’s Evolving Strategy in a Challenging Indo-Pacific

By Samantha Johnson / August 14, 2026
Corruption

Kazakhstan alleges Big Oil corruption tainted $10.7 billion in contracts, delayed key oil project 

By Samantha Johnson / August 14, 2026
Current Affairs

How to help more of Hong Kong’s non-Chinese-speaking students reach university

By Samantha Johnson / August 17, 2026

The percentage of non-Chinese-speaking students who sat Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams and were admitted to the city’s public universities has remained…

Current Affairs

Japan eyes deeper defence ties with Australia, India to ease supply chain concerns

By Samantha Johnson / August 17, 2026

Japan is looking beyond the United States to enhance its defence capabilities, as mounting doubt over American munitions supplies pushes Tokyo to seek deeper industrial…

Current Affairs

Launch of Northern Metropolis flats attracts strong interest from Hong Kong homebuyers

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

Hong Kong homebuyers flocked to the first batch of units at a major residential project in the Northern Metropolis with 44 – or more than…

Current Affairs

Nirupama Rao and Lin Minwang on the great India-China face-off

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

Welcome to Open Dialogue, a series from the South China Morning Post where we bring together leading voices to discuss the stories and subjects occupying…

Current Affairs

Chokepoints and the cost of cutting off access

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

In 2022, Ukraine asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to activate Starlink coverage around Sevastopol to support an attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. He refused,…

Current Affairs

US Attorney General Blanche defends colleague after Trump’s reflecting pool slam

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

US Attorney General Todd Blanche said ⁠on Sunday that ⁠he backs top Washington prosecutor ⁠Jeanine Pirro, who was criticised by US President Donald Trump for…

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