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A Hong Kong man has lost more than HK$2.8 million (US$357,000) in an online investment scam in which fraudsters claiming to be employees of electricity…
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No immunity: how Xi’s anti-corruption fighters are zeroing in on fresh targets
The South China Morning Post has launched a major data project diving into President Xi Jinping’s signature anti-graft campaign. In the second part of an…
Book about Putin’s private life which ‘reads like a spy novel’ wins French literary prize
A taboo-breaking book about Vladimir Putin’s rise to power and private life, written by two exiled Russian journalists, won a newly established French literary prize…
Africa knows who its true friends are – and they’re not in Washington
The gaffe at last month’s Aids 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, where a US State Department presentation displayed a map of Africa with every…
Trump says China is driving anger at US data centres. These residents disagree
On the tree-lined streets of Sterling, northern Virginia, Lindsay Shaw’s home sits across from an industrial neighbour that has consumed the past several years of…
US Secret Service aware of Iranian video threat to assassinate Barron Trump
The US Secret Service is aware of a video broadcast by Iranian state television discussing a potential plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump’s youngest…