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Shanghai has become the first Chinese city to write down what happens when a 40-year commercial land lease runs out: no automatic renewal, an application three years ahead — and a minimum fee of 70% of the land's benchmark value at expiry. Owners of the city's commercial 'apartments' are doing the arithmetic.

News & Politics

Flydubai Cockpit Attacker Had Been Barred From Flight Training Over 'Radical Views'

The Omani co-pilot who attacked his captain aboard a Flydubai flight to Israel had spent two years posting misogynist screeds — and had already been pulled from flight training once over 'radical views'. Chinese outlets have now read his full deleted account.

Sports

South Korea Weighs Scrapping Its Athlete Draft Exemption After Footballers' 'I Won't Enlist' Comments

South Korea's under-23 footballers won a fourth straight Asian Games gold — then told reporters, with varying degrees of tact, that the medal mattered mainly because it excuses them from military service. The candour ignited an argument at home, and a lawmaker now wants the exemption itself abolished.