CL Retirees losing savings to impersonation scams is not a new story in Hong Kong, but it remains one the city keeps failing to solve. The scammers know the profile well: people who built their lives on a degree of institutional trust, who grew up answering calls from banks and officials without hesitation. What gets taken is not only the money.-- CL

MB Washington is running a ceasefire, a naval escort operation that Iran says violates it, and simultaneous threats of additional strikes, all in pursuit of the same stated goal. China is defying the sanctions regime openly, which is less defiance than a statement about which rules Beijing considers binding. The incoherence here is not mutual; only one party appears uncertain what it is doing.-- MB