Hong Kong Government Takes Over Management of Tai Po’s Hung Fuk Estate After Deadly Fire
Government dissolves estate committee after five-alarm fire According to Vision Times (看中国), following...
China’s Property Market in Free Fall: Prices Collapse Across 70 Cities as ‘Loan-Backed Home Sales’ Emerge
“Halfway through selling the apartment, the landlady just broke down crying. ‘It’s okay, it’s okay—this...
Costco Membership: 10 Little-Known Benefits That Can Save You Serious Money
When it comes to Costco, many consumers’ first associations are the $1.50 hot dog-and-soda combo, the...
Pope Leo XIV Warns Generative AI Is Undermining Human Identity and Social Relationships
By Yang Tianzi As much of the world celebrates the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence...
Cybersecurity Experts Warn of Rising AI Fake Videos, Outline Ways to Spot Them
As AI-generated videos spread rapidly across social media platforms, cybersecurity researchers are urging the public to remain cautious, warning that increasingly sophisticated forgeries are now being used for scams, misinformation, and impersonation. Researchers at Taiwan’s...
The War on Coffee (Qahwa)
Every morning begins in the same way: a cup of coffee, steam lifting gently, the surface dark and still. Before the day asserts itself with urgency and expectation, a reprieve and orientation are offered in...
China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Withholds Names of 66 Disciplined Senior Officials
By Jingyao Li Record investigations, missing names China’s top anti-corruption authorities announced on Jan. 17 that in 2025, a total of 115 officials at the provincial-ministerial level or above were placed under investigation, while 69...
Iran State Television Hijacked to Broadcast Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s Call for Military Defection
By Yang Tianzi A cyber intrusion into Iran’s state media Iran experienced a politically charged cyber incident on Jan. 18, when multiple channels of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the country’s state-controlled media...
Xi Jinping’s Military Inner Circle Shrinks as PLA Generals Vanish From Command Roles
By Jingyao Li China’s military convened an expanded meeting of the Central Military Commission (CMC)—the Chinese Communist Party’s top body overseeing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)—Discipline Inspection Commission on Jan. 16. Speaking at the meeting,...
The American Marten: The Most Adorable Predator You’ve Never Seen
If you were asked to name some fierce North American predators, you might come up with the coyote, grizzly bear, wolves and mountain lions right away; but chances are the American Marten would escape you....
‘Storming Huairen Hall:’ A Failed Coup Attempt and the Shockwaves Inside China’s Military
How the Cultural Revolution’s “February Adverse Current” exposed deep fractures within the Chinese Communist Party, triggered a purge of senior leaders, and left Mao Zedong obsessed with the specter of military defection. By He Zi...
The Vanishing CCDI Notice: What Zhang Youxia’s “Deleted” Purge Reveals About Xi Jinping’s Deepening Crisis
An unprecedented announcement—and abrupt retraction—of a Central Military Commission purge has exposed severe fractures at the apex of the Chinese Communist Party. The disappearance of an official disciplinary notice points not to consolidation of power,...