Sara Duterte’s ally Marcoleta arrested hours before her impeachment trial in Philippines
Rodante Marcoleta is likely to be the third Duterte supporter to be unable to join the opening of the vice-president’s trial
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A Philippine senator who is an ally of Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio was arrested on Monday on a plunder charge, hours before the Senate begins a high-stakes impeachment trial that could
Hong Kong police arrest 13 in drink and drug driving crackdown during World Cup
Hong Kong police have arrested 13 people in a three-day operation targeting drink- and drug-driving during the World Cup.
The force said on Monday that its Traffic Kowloon East enforcement and control division conducted the operation, code-named “Quickchaser”, from July 3 to 5 on major thoroughfares in the area, netting 10 men, a 17-year-old boy and two women.
The suspects, aged 17 to 62, were arrested on suspicion of trafficking in dangerous drugs,
Nuclear-powered Chinese submarine fires test missile in the Pacific
It is the PLA’s first known submarine-based missile test since 1982, and the first known to be fired from a nuclear-powered submarine
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A nuclear-powered People’s Liberation Army submarine fired a test missile on the high seas in the Pacific on Monday, according to Chinese state media.
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Venezuela quakes survivor shares ordeal after 8 days buried alive
Security guard recalls surviving darkness, aftershocks and walls shifting before his miraculous rescue from a collapsed building
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Noted scientists leave US for China, America turns 250: 5 weekend reads you missed
From scientists leaving the US for China to Asian-Americans on Independence Day, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend
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Celebrated neurobiologist Chih-Ying Su, who specialises in research on the sense of
Outgunned Philippine Air Force takes on South China Sea defence
For decades, the Philippine Air Force hunted communist rebels and Islamist militants in the country’s forests and southern islands.
Now, amid seemingly intractable tensions in the South China Sea , it is being reshaped into an armed service meant to defend one of Asia’s most contested maritime frontiers – even as analysts rank it the weakest air arm among Southeast Asia’s
China’s Biren seeks US$900m to fund GPU push and challenge Nvidia amid AI boom
The company says 60 per cent of the fresh capital will be for commercialisation and mass production of next generation general-purpose GPUs
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Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaking champion Shanghai Biren Technology is raising HK$7 billion (US$892.5 million) to boost production of its graphics processing units (GPUs), joining a fierce domestic battle to capture Nvidia’s market share in the country amid a
Russia strikes Kyiv with deadly barrage on eve of Nato summit
Russia struck Ukraine’s Kyiv region with ballistic missiles on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, authorities said, on the eve of a Nato summit in Turkey.
The assault was the second on the capital and its surroundings in less than a week and came as both sides increased long-range attacks, underlining the growing reach of the war more than four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky are expected to discuss the war on the
Malaysia’s Anwar to lean on ‘good friend’ Li Qiang to rescue durian farmers as prices fall
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has promised durian growers in Johor that he will raise their falling prices with his “good friend” Chinese Premier Li Qiang during a visit to Beijing next month, as a nationwide glut leaves farmers struggling to sell the famously pungent fruit at sustainable prices.
Speaking during a political campaign stop in Johor, where a state election will be held on Saturday, Anwar said growers had complained to him during his two-day swing through the southern state that they were being forced to sell durians too cheaply after
