China
The latest on trade decisions, technology restrictions, military posture — none of it stays contained to China for long, and every neighbor’s strategy has to account for it.
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Sep- 2026 -6 SeptemberScience
China’s telescope found starless clouds that shouldn’t exist
Two hydrogen clouds near the Whirlpool galaxy show no stars despite holding 3 million solar masses each, matching predictions for a theoretical dark-matter halo class—if they aren't just debris from…
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6 SeptemberScience
Hong Kong’s first astronaut will teach from orbit. Beijing is watching.
Lai Ka-ying, a 43-year-old former police superintendent, will broadcast live experiments from Tiangong to Hong Kong and Macau classrooms, signaling Beijing's strategy to anchor the city's youth in China's space…
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5 SeptemberScience
Deep learning found six hidden zones inside Earth’s core
Chinese researchers scanned two million seismic records and identified 174,929 faint signals near the core-mantle boundary, ten times larger than all previous catalogues combined.
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5 SeptemberPower
Taiwan’s drone budget stalls as legislature blocks its own defense plan
A record NT$63.4 billion in drone funding survived a 266-day budget delay, but the NT$210 billion special appropriation needed to build 200,000 unmanned systems remains blocked by opposition lawmakers wary…
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2 SeptemberSociety
Cambodia’s scam crackdown pushed the networks across Southeast Asia
The UN estimates $88–114 billion in annual losses across the region, yet analysts say the 12,000 Indonesian workers fleeing Cambodian compounds in 2026 signal relocation, not elimination.
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Aug- 2026 -31 AugustEarth
Nepal delayed foreign rescue teams as survival window closed
The government reversed its position on August 29, two days after the glacial flood killed nearly 800, requesting specialist tunnel rescue and DNA forensic help as diplomatic pressure from countries…
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31 AugustEarth
China flew 47 drones to Nepal’s border. Nepal asked for foreign ones.
A glacier collapse killed 669 people in Nepal on August 26. By August 30, China had deployed 47 drones and an airborne cell tower across the border in Tibet, while…
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30 AugustEarth
A glacier collapse left 41 Australians missing in Nepal. A second flood is coming.
Nearly 3,000 people remain unaccounted for after August 26 floods across the Nepal-China border, with a barrier lake holding 2 million cubic metres of water now threatening a second destructive…
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29 AugustEarth
A debris dam now threatens Nepal and Tibet more than the flood itself
Rescue teams paused operations after a 3 million cubic-metre barrier lake formed upstream, while over 1,400 people remain missing across the Nepal–Tibet border and monsoon rains continue.
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28 AugustEarth
A glacier collapse killed hundreds. Now China and Nepal must choose.
The August 26 rock-ice avalanche that destroyed Gyirong Port and killed roughly 270 people has forced a stalled trans-Himalayan railway back into discussion—but as a safety question requiring a binding…
