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    China

  • China agriculture minister urges pig breeders to reduce capacity as prices fall
    BEIJING – China's Agriculture Minister Han Jun urged the hogs industry to meet production-capacity reduction targets and scale the breeding sow herd to a reasonable level, the ministry said late on Friday (April 17), as hog prices languished at low levels.Han met with industry representatives with a message to coordinate... Read more »
  • Chinese regulator fines, confiscates $671m from food delivery platforms
    BEIJING – China's market regulator on Friday (April 17) fined and confiscated a total of 3.6 billion yuan (S$671 million) from seven e-commerce platforms over food delivery safety violations, an official statement showed.The companies fined include Pinduoduo, Meituan, JD.com, ByteDance's Douyin and Alibaba's food delivery service, Taobao Shangou.Investigations showed the... Read more »
  • China humanoid robot half-marathon to showcase technical leaps
    BEIJING – More than 300 humanoid robots participating in China's second robot half-marathon on Sunday (April 19) will be facing tougher terrain designed to test their technical advancements, as Beijing seeks to develop the industry into a major pillar of its economy.Over 70 teams, almost five times as many as... Read more »
  • Apple's iPhone shipments in China surge 20% in Q1, data shows
    BEIJING — Apple's iPhone shipments surged 20 per cent in China in the first quarter, for the strongest growth among major vendors, despite an overall decline as rising prices of memory chips boosted costs, data from Counterpoint Research showed.Overall smartphone shipments dropped four per cent in the world's largest smartphone... Read more »
  • China turns Taiwan's own voices against it in information war
    TAIPEI — As Chinese warships and fighter jets staged massive drills around Taiwan in December, a parallel action was unfolding on smartphone screens.On Douyin, China's version of TikTok, a news outlet run by the Chinese Communist Party posted a 51-second video of Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun accusing President Lai... Read more »
  • China offers loans, technology for Vietnam railways
    BEIJING — China has offered to boost ties with Vietnam on railway infrastructure, from loans and technology to training and industrial capabilities, a joint statement issued by its foreign ministry showed on Friday (April 17).China said it would guide enterprises to participate in railway construction projects in its smaller neighbour,... Read more »
  • China to further diversify energy imports, boost reserves, state planner says
    BEIJING — China will continue to diversify its energy imports and boost energy reserves to help enhance its capacity to cope with an "emergency situation", Wang Changlin, vice chair of the country's state economic planner, said on Friday (April 17).The world's energy supply has been disrupted by the Iran war... Read more »
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    Asia

  • Philippines, US to build industrial hub to strengthen supply chain security
    MANILA – The United States and the Philippines will build a 4,000-acre (1,620-hectare) industrial hub after Manila joined a Washington-led initiative to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains, the US State Department said in a statement.The Philippines becomes the 13th country to join Pax Silica, a programme seeking to safeguard... Read more »
  • Record number of Rohingya refugees died at sea last year, UNHCR says
    GENEVA – Nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported missing or dead in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal in 2025, making it the deadliest year on record for the route, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday (April 17).More than one in seven of the estimated 6,500 Rohingya... Read more »
  • China calls passage of Japanese warship through Taiwan Strait a 'provocation'
    BEIJING – China said it monitored a Japanese warship's transit in the Taiwan Strait on Friday (April 17), calling the move "a deliberate provocation" as Beijing's ties with Tokyo remain fraught.Japanese destroyer JS Ikazuchi transited the Taiwan Strait from 4.02am to 5.50pm, and the Chinese military's naval and air forces... Read more »
  • Iran declares Strait of Hormuz 'completely open'
    Iran has declared that passage for all commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz is "completely open".This was announced by Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi in a X post at 8.45pm (Singapore time) on Friday (April 17)."In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels... Read more »
  • Family in Thailand accidentally leaves daughter behind at petrol station, drives home 130km away
    It was a normal visit to a beach at Cha-am, Petchaburi province, for a Thai family.But it turned bizarre after they stopped at a petrol station for a toilet break.They accidentally left behind their six-year-old daughter at the kiosk and drove home in Nong Prue district, more than 130km away,... Read more »
  • China turns Taiwan's own voices against it in information war
    TAIPEI — As Chinese warships and fighter jets staged massive drills around Taiwan in December, a parallel action was unfolding on smartphone screens.On Douyin, China's version of TikTok, a news outlet run by the Chinese Communist Party posted a 51-second video of Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun accusing President Lai... Read more »
  • China offers loans, technology for Vietnam railways
    BEIJING — China has offered to boost ties with Vietnam on railway infrastructure, from loans and technology to training and industrial capabilities, a joint statement issued by its foreign ministry showed on Friday (April 17).China said it would guide enterprises to participate in railway construction projects in its smaller neighbour,... Read more »
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