South China Morning Post - December 04, 2025

NETTING ORDERED DOWN AT 200 BUILDINGS

Takaichi moves to ease tensions with Beijing over Taiwan remarks

DeepSeek may soon spur ‘code red’ at OpenAI

POSTS FROM THE PAST

Police tell of using their hands in search at flats

EXPERTS DIVIDED ON FIRE PROBE COMMITTEE

Helper on second day of work when she saved baby

Watchdog to act on any management breaches

On the Labubu trail

204%

RESIDENTS MAKE EMOTIONAL RETURN TO SOLE BLOCK SPARED

Election rivals push insurance reforms, easier fire claims

Insurers identify 8,700 life and property policies held by estate residents

Beijing slams ‘hostile forces’ for exploiting disaster

HK$2.6b

FIRST REUSABLE ROCKET MAKES MAIDEN VOYAGE

Shanghai gags property market doom-mongers

Training of AI tool to support national port operations

Drone model display shows advances in technology

Surveillance ‘upgraded’ in island outposts

40,000

Agreements France is hoping for from presidential mission

Russia joins stand against ‘Japanese militarism’

Polar supply chain

E.U. TRADE ON AGENDA AS MACRON ARRIVES

Wife of gay man killed in accident shrugs off ‘fake’ claim during estate dispute

Life expectancy rises to 79 thanks to better healthcare

LEGAL FIGHT BEGINS IN JANE WU CASE

Retail revelry

Whereabouts of boy unknown after ICE detention

Military issues rules to ‘prioritise strict political discipline’

US plays up ‘ban’ on soybeans from Brazil

CALLS TO SAVE FORESTS AFTER CYCLONE TRAGEDY

Thailand, Cambodia in UN face-off amid fragile truce

Floods ‘reveal cost of climate inaction’

Signs of ‘protest fatigue’ as Philippine corruption scandal rally crowds dwindle

1,400

S KOREANS DESERVING OF PEACE PRIZE, LEE SAYS

YouTube to comply with Australia’s age rule on social media

Cybersecurity app plan for new phones scrapped

Malaysia to resume search for missing jet

Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation at 10-year high

Cheers as Thailand relaxes afternoon sales of alcohol

78,000

U.S.-RUSSIA TALKS ON UKRAINE FALTER

Hope amid heartache

Trump frees former Honduran leader jailed over cocaine

Faberge’s ‘Mona Lisa’ sells for record HK$236.1m

Former top EU diplomat charged in fraud investigation

Migrants hit as US pauses applications

U.S. MAY ATTACK ‘ANYBODY SELLING DRUGS’

China’s credit reset

HARRY’S VIEW ON TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN > A11

Yuan internationalisation is helping in climate finance

Helpers deserve city’s praise for heroism during Tai Po fire

Asia needs to step up flood control efforts

An unwinnable fight

How China went from drug factory to biomedicine hub

Commercialisation of public venues must come with a caveat

The city’s brave firefighters deserve to have their own day

Clickbait news reporting has no place in Hong Kong

Where history f lows

China woos foreign firms in shipbuilding push

QWEN TOPS RIVAL A.I. APPS IN USER GROWTH

Ex-banker in HK$525,000 a month Peak lease deal

JD.com supply-chain tech unit launches share offer in city to raise HK$3.2b

HSBC names Nelson as group chairman

$319m

HONG KONG ‘CAN BE TREASURY HUB FOR CHINA GLOBAL PUSH’

Tesla sales surge 41% as subsidies set to expire

LingGuang becomes big hit as users create millions of flash apps in two weeks

MAINLAND STOCK GROWTH ‘HINGES ON EARNINGS’

The Star Wars of Netflix

Films to bring light in darkest of hours

FILM REVIEWS

SWIMMER MAKING WAVES AT 50 PROVES AGE NEVER A BARRIER

New chapter opens on the gripping life of literary great Eileen Chang

Digital version of a da Vinci for price of a Lamborghini

Universal Crossword

Daily Crossword

Kokonotsu Supersudoku

Bridge

Sudoku

Target

Yesterday’s solution:

Double delight for Crawford, Fownes

Lessons for Chan as ex-champ Coll survives scare

HK HAPPY TO TAKE ON GIANTS OF THE GAME

New league aims to bring fencing into modern era

Lam lifts eventing silver again with inspired late surge

IOC chief urges end to ‘divide’ on doping