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China shoppers swap boutiques for bargains, fuelling US$30 billion luxury resale boom

At a shopping centre in Shenzhen’s coastal business district, a store’s entrance feels more like a security checkpoint than a…

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China cuts US Treasury holdings to lowest level since 2008 amid debt ceiling fears

China reduced its US Treasury holdings in October to its lowest level in 17 years, as mounting concerns over US…

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Surviving the shocks: what China and the US learned from 2025’s trade war

It has been a turbulent year for the fraught US-China relationship. In the second story in this new series, we…

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Why South Korea is becoming China’s new bargain travel hotspot amid Japan spat

As Chinese tourists pull back from visiting Japan amid a diplomatic row, a slumping won is positioning South Korea as…

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New entrants steady Hong Kong retail property sector in absence of luxury giants

Taiwanese brand Nap Tea drew long lines when it opened its first Hong Kong store in Mong Kok in February.…

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Macroscope | From climate change to health, global problems need investors to step up

People love to hate governments, and they loathe having to pay taxes. However, from now on, we’ll have to embrace…

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US rare earth firm outlines strategy to build China-free supply chain for minerals

US-based rare earth firm REalloys believes it has a road map to build a North American supply chain for critical…

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‘Major breakthroughs’: Chinese biotech firms plan global expansions after domestic success

With their domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search…

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DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng makes the cut in top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’

The Nature’s 10 profile of Liang recognised the disruption caused in January by the release of DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model…

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As US, EU and Japan boost defence spending, is stimulus their true intention?

More than six decades after British historian AJP Taylor termed war the “mother of invention”, economies around the world appear…

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