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The Pink Suitcase Nobody Looked At Twice
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Last week a little girl in my building rolled a pink suitcase out of the lift. She was six, maybe. The suitcase was nearly as…
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The Times Says He Was Arrested for Covering a Hong Kong Gathering. Read What the Police Actually Alleged.
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I read the New York Times over milk tea on Tuesday morning, which was my first mistake. “Hong Kong Journalist Arrested After Covering Gathering Linked…
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China Regulated the AI Girlfriend. The BBC Asked a Better Question Than Usual.
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The BBC’s long read on China’s new AI companion rules opens with a young man in Huangshi. In early 2024, the article says, he reportedly…
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DHL Express Hong Kong gets a new boss, but the harder question is what he walks into
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Julian Neo takes the helm from Andy Chiang as Hong Kong’s air cargo picture turns patchy, with European lanes cratering and automation bets still to…
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Taiwan Reunification at APEC 2026: Let Hong Kong Go First
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On September 9, a reporter from the People’s Daily asked the spokesman of Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office about an associate professor in Changhua. Li Ci-ze,…
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Hong Kong’s airport is becoming a relay station, and Washington is watching the relay
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Hong Kong’s exports just logged their second-best month on record, yet its airport shipped fewer export tonnes than a year ago. The growth is in…
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My AI Intern Built a Tool. He Would Like You to Know He Built It.
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I was fact-checking a passage from Narrative Immunity, the essay I published in December 2025 about how foreign coverage of Hong Kong gets built, when…
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C.H. Robinson’s Carrier of the Year Problem
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On September 17, 2025, C.H. Robinson published its Carrier of the Year winners. In the category for fleets of more than 1,000 trucks, the list…
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Want to Stop a Trump Statue in Adams? It’ll Cost You Ten Dollars.
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The boiler in the basement of Turn Hall in Adams, Massachusetts, was cast in Westfield and installed in 1902. The members call it the Beast.…