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• American maritime regulator calls for levy on Chinese ships at ports

  17-03-2025 06:00
  FMC chair says ‘fight fire with fire’ by taxing Chinese-built vessels docking in US to create domestic champions
  
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• China delays approval of BYD’s Mexico plant

  19-03-2025 03:12
  Beijing is concerned US proximity could lead to leakage of key smart car technology used by Tesla’s main rival
  
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• Chip sector supplier raises $3bn in Japan’s biggest IPO since 2018

  19-03-2025 01:46
  
  Semiconductor materials supplier JX Advanced Metals had cut price range amid tech sell-off
  
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• Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models

  19-03-2025 01:01
  
  The pace of Beijing’s open source push has been relentless
  
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• Chinese EV maker BYD says fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank

  18-03-2025 16:34
  
  BYD unveils platform with charging power of 1,000 kW, which would be twice as fast as Tesla’s superchargingCan BYD’s batteries really charge in five minutes?The Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has unveiled a new charging system that it said could make it possible for EVs to charge as quickly as it takes to refill with petrol.BYD’s Hong Kong-listed shares gained 4.1% on Tuesday to hit a record high of 408.80 Hong Kong dollars, as investors bet that the company could strengthe
  
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• Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner

  18-03-2025 15:17
  
  Maria Ressa says rules-based order ‘can perhaps still exist’ but social media is being used to undermine democracy around the worldThe arrest of Rodrigo Duterte is a welcome sign that the rules-based order continues to hold, the Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has said, even as the global order has been marred by the US “descending into hell” at the hands of the same forces that consumed the Philippines.Ressa’s remarks came after Duterte, the former president of the Phil
  
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• Hong Kong’s cargo sector faces a tariff test

  18-03-2025 14:18
  The city’s strategic position makes it increasingly vulnerable to escalating geopolitical tensions between the US and China
  
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• The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru review – British wartime tragedy told with potent empathy

  18-03-2025 14:00
  This enthralling Chinese documentary about the torpedoing of a Japanese freighter carrying 1,816 British PoWs in the second world war excavates the emotional wreckage on all sidesThis enthralling and shattering Chinese documentary benefits from superb material: a dark Boy’s Own yarn from October 1942 about the torpedoing of the wartime freighter Lisbon Maru, the attempted mass murder of the 1,816 British PoWs on board by their Japanese captors, and their rescue by Chinese fishermen from th
  
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• Curfew in India city after violence over Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's tomb

  18-03-2025 13:49 via bbc.com
  
  Police in Nagpur city say the situation is now under control and are asking people to maintain peace.
  
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• The ancient Chinese didn’t just invent gunpowder — they created the picnic

  18-03-2025 13:00
  
  A lively exhibition at Hong Kong’s Palace Museum explores the culture of feasting — including a centuries-old predecessor to Deliveroo
  
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• FT ranking: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2025

  18-03-2025 12:30
  
  Indian peer-to-peer lender tops seventh annual FT-Statista ranking
  
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• Costco leans on mainland China suppliers as US tariffs bite

  18-03-2025 12:00
  
  US companies at risk of scrutiny from Beijing as political tensions mount
  
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• Indonesian stocks tumble 4% on concerns over economy

  18-03-2025 10:39
  
  Jakarta index among world’s worst performers as slowing consumption and government spending rattle investors
  
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• 'Discarded like a dirty rag': Chinese state media hails Trump's cuts to Voice of America

  18-03-2025 10:09 via bbc.com
  
  State newspaper gloated that the network has "now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag".
  
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• Indonesian stocks tumble 7% on concerns over economy

  18-03-2025 08:03
  
  Jakarta index among world’s worst performers as slowing consumption and government spending rattle investors
  
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• India's Modi joins Trump-owned platform Truth Social

  18-03-2025 07:42 via bbc.com
  
  The Indian prime minister is one of the few world leaders on Trump's social media platform.
  
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• BYD shares hit record high on 5-minute EV charging claims

  18-03-2025 07:30
  
  Leading Chinese electric vehicle maker says latest models can charge up as fast as filling a petrol tank
  
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• Chinese state media celebrates Trump’s cuts to Voice of America and Radio Free Asia

  18-03-2025 06:55
  
  Global Times hails US president’s order to strip back government funding to news organisations he deems ‘radical’Chinese state media has reacted gleefully to the Trump administration’s decision to slash government funding to media organisations such as Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA).The Global Times, a daily English-language tabloid and Chinese Communist party mouthpiece, celebrated the cuts to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees broad
  
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• Once named world’s ugliest animal, blobfish wins New Zealand’s fish of the year

  18-03-2025 06:22
  Made up of blobby tissue and living deep in the ocean, the distinctive species beat the longfin eel and pygmy pipehorse in the annual contestIt was once crowned the “world’s ugliest animal” and now the disgruntled-looking gelatinous blobfish has a new gong to its name: New Zealand’s fish of the year.The winning species of blobfish, Psychrolutes marcidus, lives in the highly pressurised depths off the coasts of New Zealand and Australia and has developed a unique anatomy t
  
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• Jack Ma’s AI comeback

  18-03-2025 06:00
  Alibaba is establishing a lead in a fiercely competitive sector
  
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• Hong Kong’s best views? From the water 

  18-03-2025 06:00
  
  Set sail on a ferry, junk or yacht for some of HK’s most spectacular sights
  
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• Jury discharged in high-profile Australia beach murder

  18-03-2025 04:59 via bbc.com
  
  Rajwinder Singh, who is accused of murdering Toyah Cordingley in 2018, is likely to face another trial.
  
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• Asian defence stocks soar to record highs as Europe prepares to re-arm

  18-03-2025 04:53
  
  Japanese and South Korean contractors gear up after Donald Trump threatens to withdraw US security umbrella
  
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• India’s $1bn bet on the creator economy

  18-03-2025 02:30
  
  Also in this newsletter: a surge of new millionaires, and Ajit Dayal’s mantra
  
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• Why is China spending billions to get people to open their wallets?

  18-03-2025 01:00 via bbc.com
  
  Beijing hopes better wages and discounts can encourage spending and stave off greater economic trouble.
  
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• South v North: The battle over redrawing India's electoral map

  17-03-2025 23:35 via bbc.com
  
  Southern leaders urge mass mobilisation over concerns about redrawing electoral boundaries.
  
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• Trump says China’s Xi to visit US in ‘not too distant future’

  17-03-2025 23:04
  Hint at summit comes amid escalating trade conflict between Washington and Beijing
  
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• Trump says China’s Xi to visit the US in ‘not too distant future’

  17-03-2025 23:04
  
  Hint at future summit comes amid escalating trade conflict between Washington and Beijing
  
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• FirstFT: Berkshire Hathaway raises stakes in Japan’s trading houses

  17-03-2025 22:51
  
  Also in today’s newsletter, Trump hints at future summit with Xi, and HSBC and UBS expand India wealth management arms
  
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• ‘Under the pump’: the cost of living crisis defining Australia’s election

  17-03-2025 22:00
  
  Opposition blames government’s renewables policy for higher energy prices
  
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