NEW: China has spent years preparing civilian vessels for military uses, including gigantic passenger ferries, which strategists say could be key to moving an invasion force across the Taiwan strait telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

The biggest glut of copper in four years has built up in Chinese warehouses, with one analyst saying the excess metal 'simply cannot be consumed'. Manufacturers are pulling back on buying after a price spike and tepid consumer demand on.ft.com/4cvtJtv

After a long absence, How To Journalist is back! I've changed the focus to look more at technology, as well as privacy and security issues for media. Here's the first new posts, which focuses on why journalists should learn to use the command line. howtojournalist.beehiiv.com/p/use-command-…

Breaking: Taiwan's Constitutional Court rules that use of the death penalty is constitutional, but will limit the scope of its application (中） udn.com/news/story/124…

Thread on the implications of the death penalty ruling 🧶

I’m delighted to announce that this week I started a new job as an Asia finance and markets correspondent at Reuters!

ING economists: The employment sub-indices of the ISM manufacturing and services PMI reports, if weighted 90-10% to match the composition of the U.S. economy, “are historically consistent with non-farm payrolls dropping by more than 100,000” 😱

After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be leaving my colleagues, friends and the place I’ve called home.  fcchk.org/visa-denial-fo… I’ll be out of office for a while on maternity leave. Wherever I land, catch you on the other side

"A small number of extreme cases": The BBC has done a deep dive on why South Korean students are bringing their entire home office setups to local cafes, as Starbucks bans customers from setting up printers and external monitors bbc.com/news/articles/…

Today in “you can’t make this stuff up,” Meta has suspended my Facebook account because they suspect me of impersonating someone noteworthy

The Ukrainian pilots hunting Russian drones with a shotgun in a Yak-52 wsj.com/world/ukraine-…

Pop Mart 9992.HK up 0.06% in the premarket. It's so over 😭

🎸White light, aww tickle me down to three-year lows White heat, I tell you now goodness knows Hmm hmm, White heat Aww global butter everybody gonna go kill their mother 🎶 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

China opened its stock option market to selected foreign investors on Tuesday. The Shanghai bourse said qualified foreign institutional investors will be allowed to trade options for hedging purposes, and can submit applications immediately. reuters.com/world/china/ch…

NEW: Mongolia's sovereign wealth fund is preparing to appoint independent board members, hire external advisers and adopt a transparent investment strategy, its CEO told me on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore. reuters.com/markets/asia/m…

Personally if I were the CEO of Intel and had staked the company's future on a new advanced chip, when the time came to give it a catchy name I might go with something other than "Panther Lake" theverge.com/report/797146/… Especially now we have the tools to instantly visualise that

Stop this trolling Financial Times

Microsoft Copilot can't even provide basic tech support on *other Microsoft products* without hallucinating fake advice and falling down at the first hurdle. And yet we're expected to believe that AI slop machines are some enormous productivity boost for the global economy?