Italy’s Meloni let Trump’s jibes slide for so long. Now, she’s hitting back

Russia frees 24 Filipinos after Marcos speaks with Putin

Motorcyclist dies after collision with double-decker bus in Hong Kong

Concerns raised as Hong Kong stops compiling voter turnout data by age and sex

At least 30 deaths at DR Congo camp show Ebola could be spreading fast

How Singapore’s most notorious mall found God

Last professional letter writer in Chinese city pens 100,000 missives over 59 years

How ‘lying flat’ went from a niche subculture to mainstream phenomenon

China-led team develops AI system to track radar-disrupting space hurricanes

Hong Kong considers expanding priority care scheme to better flag high-risk cases

How Benin is on the road to reshaping its cotton industry, with China’s help

How a prize-winning Taiwanese novel could stoke Beijing’s worries over history

Guinea pushes Simandou on iron ore exports to feed China’s ‘green steel’ mills

And Apec makes 4? Trump pencils in another ‘big’ China trip as US midterms loom

Residents in 2 villages can turn houses fully into tourist sites under pilot scheme

Japan’s G7 rare earth proposal risks further regional tension

Cross-border biotech deals grow more complex as US targets China investment links

Vance in Switzerland for US-Iran talks as Strait of Hormuz closed again

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash in France

South Korea jostles with Germany for US$39 billion Canadian submarine deal