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14 October 2024

  • Four products from Chinese online site Temu which failed Australian consumer advocate Choice's safety tests. Clockwise from top left: a projector watch with an easily lost screw; a spinning top with launcher with no safety alert symbol on the packaging; an electronic pet game with an easily losable screw; and a tutu skirt with lights operated by lithium batteries that were easily removable.

    Battery-operated items from Temu tested by Choice fail Australian safety standards

    Consumer advocate says results a ‘worrying reminder’ products can put children at risk, with most items having insecure battery components that are not child-safe
  • A person films a fighter jet.

    China conducts military drills around Taiwan in warning to island’s president

    PLA and Chinese coastguard approach Taiwan by sea and air in move linked by state media to ‘separatist’ National Day speech
  • Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty

    The Audio Long Read
    Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China – podcast

    Our twins spent two years at primary school in Chengdu. Their lessons featured alarming cautionary tales and stories of Chinese superiority, but there was fun and irreverence, too. By Peter Hessler

13 October 2024

  • A cyclist passes an unfinished apartment block in Beijing.

    China’s plan to boost flagging growth is the very definition of economic insanity

    George Magnus
    For the fourth time in 16 years, ‘bazooka’ stimulus aims to reset the economy – but China’s problems demand structural solutions

12 October 2024

  • From left to right, Myanmar Foreign Ministry Permanent Secretary Aung Kyaw Moe, Philippine's President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, Thailand's Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Laos' Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Indonesian Vice President Ma'ruf Amin and East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao hold hands during the 14th ASEAN-U.N. Summit in Vientiane, Laos, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

    Russia and China accused of blocking Asean statement due to dispute over South China Sea

    Russian foreign minister says final declaration not adopted because of attempts by US, Japan, South Korea, Australia and NZ ‘to turn it into a purely political statement’
  • Books sold by Lam Wing-kee, a former Hong Kong bookseller who counted senior Chinese Communist officials among his old customers.

    China cracks down on Communist party officials for reading banned books

    Hillary Clinton and Hannah Arendt thought to be among authors of books procured by officials, as Xi Jinping tightens grip on Communist party
  • Tsai Ing-wen, pictured closeup in a head-and-shoulders view, smiles as she speaks with Lai Ching-te, who has his back to the camera

    Foreign Office ‘asked for UK visit by Taiwan ex-president to be deferred’ to not anger China

    Exclusive: Request to postpone Tsai Ing-wen’s trip came before ‘goodwill visit’ to China by David Lammy next week

9 October 2024

  • Shanghai, China, cityscape at night

    Chinese stocks suffer worst fall in 27 years over growth concerns

  • a farm of solar panels set over a small fish farm lake in China

    China to head green energy boom with 60% of new projects in next six years

8 October 2024

  • A man (out of focus) walks past bottles of Martell-branded brandy on a supermarket shelf

    China puts tariffs on EU brandy in escalating trade row with Brussels

  • Paula Badosa in action against Coco Gauff at the China Open earlier this month.

    Spanish tennis star Paula Badosa apologises after being accused of racism

  • Team of surgeons at work

    Scientists create surgical stitch to aid healing by electrical stimulation

  • Mother and adult daughter sit on a bed, with childhood toys visible

    A Long Journey Home review – family pressures reach boiling point in a shocking documentary

7 October 2024

  • The US secretary of state Antony Blinken (left) shakes hands with the Angola president, João Lourenço, in New York

    Biden to visit Angola as global powers vie for African influence

  • The Japanese wrestler Yuki Kamifuku (right) fights her opponent ‘Crystal’ of the Philippines in Shanghai, China.

    From the agencies
    Inside China’s pro wrestling scene – in pictures

  • The Baloch Liberation Army claims it carried out a vehicle-borne attack targeting Chinese nationals near Karachi airport in southern Pakistan

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    Police investigating after explosion near Karachi airport – video

  • Blast furnace four at the Tata works in Port Talbot

    UK steel industry calls for protectionist measures over glut driven by China

6 October 2024

  • Lai Ching-te, the Taiwanese president

    Communist China not the motherland, says Taiwan’s president, because our republic is older

    Lai Ching-te argues the reverse may be true because the Republic of China – the mantle that nationalists carried with them to Taiwan – predates the People’s Republic
  • Paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a road by the site of an explosion

    Two killed in explosion near Karachi airport targeting Chinese nationals

    Baloch Liberation Army claims it carried out the vehicle-borne attack in the southern Pakistani city
  • Camel riders in a detail of a wall painting from the south wall of the Hall of the Ambassadors, from Samarkand State Museum in Uzbekistan.

    The Silk Road still casts a spell, but was the ancient trading route just a western invention?

    Two dazzling new exhibitions at the British Library and British Museum show the riches of the supposed east-west link but also highlight problems with the whole idea
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