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American donated US$5,000 to China farmer for tree planting decades ago invited to view forest
A Chinese woman who has planted trees in the deserts of Inner Mongolia for decades has contacted an American man who donated US$5,000 to her…
US Navy signals pause in Taiwan arms sale, drawing swift reaction from Beijing
Beijing reaffirmed its opposition to arms sales to Taiwan after the acting secretary of the US Navy said Washington was pausing a US$14 billion weapons…
China’s views on achieving ‘constructive, strategic and stable ties’ with US
This report was translated from Chinese into English using Alibaba’s Qwen3, then checked and tweaked for accuracy by a South China Morning Post journalist. It…
Over 4,300 Southeast Asian species face extinction threat
The Javan and Sumatran rhinos are down to their last few dozen, just like the Cat Ba langur of Vietnam, while the soala living in…
China’s AI start-up funding triples to US$16b in first quarter amid bets on LLMs, robotics
Funding for China’s artificial-intelligence-related start-ups jumped nearly threefold year on year in the first quarter, as investors poured capital into large language models (LLMs) and…