BBC Business
Shein's Hong Kong debut flopped harder than a knockoff handbag, as investors question whether ultra-cheap fashion can survive tariffs, regulations, and the end of the de minimis loophole.
The Guardian
A new graphic novel dares to suggest that romanticising authoritarianism might be a teensy bit misguided, while also delivering a mother-daughter bonding moment at a comic festival.
The Guardian
Asia's record heatwave is turning crops into mush, inspiring new weather categories, and proving that even lions aren't immune to climate change.
The Guardian
Typhoon Dolphin crashes the party, forces a million evacuations, breaks Shanghai's rainfall record, and turns streets into canals - because climate change is now a travel agent for extreme weather.
The Guardian Europe
Hong Kong raids on bookstores turn a T-shirt slogan into a viral protest and send a book on Xi Jinping's ideology flying off shelves in Taiwan.
BBC World
Lam Wing-kee, the bookseller who sold banned books and fled to Taiwan, has died at 70 - his life a testament to free expression, a staged TV confession, and why authoritarian regimes really hate bookshops.
The Good Times
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