Chinese scientist’s sodium battery leap; petition to boot Argentina: SCMP’s 7 highlights

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Chinese scientist’s sodium battery leap; petition to boot Argentina: SCMP’s 7 highlights

From Hong Kong’s exceptional IB results to Louis Vuitton suing China’s trademark regulator, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting

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Lu Yaxiang received a China Youth May Fourth Medal for her work on energy storage. Photo: Sohu

SCMPPublished: 12:34pm, 17 Jul 2026We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing.

1. The young Chinese scientist behind ‘impossible’ breakthrough on sodium batteries

Scientist Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade working to make sodium-ion batteries commercially viable.

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