Editorial | European pressure won’t make the yuan appreciate faster

Agencies are promoting Vocational Training Council (VTC) courses to pregnant women in mainland China, touting packages cheaper than HK$100,000 (US$12,600) including commission as the lowest-cost route for the women to secure Hong Kong passports for their newborns, the South China Morning Post has found. The path would enable their children to get into top-tier mainland universities more easily and could even secure them a job as a civil servant in the future, the agencies claimed. But critics...

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Indonesia has not executed anyone in over a decade, with its new Criminal Code designed to make capital punishment a “last resort”. Yet the number of prisoners on death row continues to climb. A new report on the persistent use of capital punishment in Indonesia’s courts has raised questions about the rulings despite an unofficial moratorium on executions. There were 639 people on death row in Indonesia as of April, an increase from 596 as of August 2025, according to a report by the Indonesian.