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An extensive study of 16,000 shark fin samples taken from Hong Kong retail markets has found that 6.5 per cent of them were globally protected species, surpassing the figure officially declared by local authorities under a Geneva-based international agreement. The study published in Science Advances on Monday also revealed a shocking disparity: the volume […]

Researchers from Baptist University have discovered two new coral species in Hong Kong’s southeastern waters, underscoring the area’s biodiversity despite being close to urban territory. The university announced on Monday that a team of its marine scientists had identified two new soft coral species – previously unknown worldwide – in rocky reefs […]

Hong Kong homeowners should be vigilant against handing over their voting rights to strangers, a property management professional and a legislator have warned, saying proxy harvesting remains a rampant threat to building safety amid a major corruption crackdown. The warning was made on Monday amid heightened scrutiny of building management after last […]

This article was first published on January 6, 2006 By Ng Kang-chung South Pole in the bag ... next stop Greenland Fresh from a history-making expedition to the South Pole, Hong Kong adventurer Chung Kin-man is already planning his next great challenge. Chung, 52, who with 54-year-old Shenzhen entrepreneur Wang Shi became the first Chinese to climb the […]

Washington [US], January 5 (ANI): US Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday (local time) claimed that Indian Ambassador to the US Vinay Mohan Kwatra spoke to him last month about India buying less Russian oil and asked him to tell US President Donald Trump to relieve the 25 per cent tariff.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One alongside Trump, Graham said, […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 5 (ANI): The domestic stock markets opened on Monday on a mixed note, with the Nifty 50 index starting the session marginally higher, while the BSE Sensex opened in the red amid cautious early trade.The Nifty 50 index opened at 26,333.70, registering a marginal gain of 5.15 points or 0.02 per cent. In contrast, the BSE […]

HONG KONG: China has begun taxing contraceptive drugs and devices from the start of 2026, ending a tax exemption that had been in place for more than three decades as authorities intensify efforts to reverse the country's long-running decline in births. From January 1, condoms and contraceptive pills are subject to a 13 percent value-added tax, the standard […]

Newly Hong Kong-listed biotech firm Insilico Medicine is expected to receive up to US$888 million from a French drug maker under a partnership using Insilico’s proprietary artificial intelligence platform to discover and develop novel cancer drugs. The deal comes just days after the US company’s shares debuted following its initial public offering […]

Washington [USA], January 5 (ANI): U.S. President Donald Trump ignited controversy after making sharp and unprecedented remarks about Colombia during a brief exchange with reporters. The statements, delivered without elaboration or policy detail, raised concerns about the tone and direction of U.S. rhetoric toward one of its long-standing allies in Latin […]

A 20-year-old man was injured after a basketball post collapsed and struck him while he was playing with a friend at a court near a Hong Kong public housing estate. Police received a report of the incident at Kau Pui Lung Road Playground, located near Lok Man Sun Chuen estate in To Kwa Wan, at 10.22pm on Sunday. The force said the victim, surnamed Choi, was […]

Washington, [DC], January 5 (ANI): US President Donald Trump has once again said that the United States needs Greenland for national security reasons, a day after strikes on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday night, Trump said Greenland was critical to US […]

More than 150 residents have been evacuated from a Hong Kong housing estate in Tsuen Wan after a fire broke out in a flat, less than 24 hours after a separate blaze in a Sham Shui Po residential block resulted in one death. Police received a report at 2.22am on Monday that a flat on the 33rd floor of Tsuen Wan Centre’s Tai Yuan House had caught fire, with […]

Washington, DC [US], January 5 (ANI): US President Donald Trump has held out a fresh warning to India over raising tariffs if continued imports of Russian oil, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi was aware of his displeasure on the issue.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday (local time), Trump said it was important for India to keep him […]

Amravati (Maharashtra) [India], January 5 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) national president Asaduddin Owaisi on has criticised the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, during a press conference held in Amravati.He referred to recent reports that claimed people's identities were being determined through mobile phones. Owaisi […]

Hong Kong’s biotech fundraising momentum is expected to extend into 2026, as licensing deals and strong post-initial public offering (IPO) trading last year persuaded investors that China’s drug developers are worth backing again – even before they generate revenue. “Chinese innovation drugs expanding into overseas markets have become the industry […]

China’s humanoid robot and artificial intelligence hardware makers are expected to be out in force next week at CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas, to show their latest innovations to a global audience amid an escalating US-China tech rivalry. Nearly a dozen well-known humanoid robot manufacturers – including Unitree Robotics, […]

HOHHOT, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- When life retreats from the bitter cold, the frozen lake in Yakeshi, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, comes back to life with the revving of engines, morphing into a vast test track where the world's carmakers confront nature's most extreme conditions.The giant slab of ice covering the lake in the Miandu River […]

Taipei [Taiwan], January 5 (ANI): Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence reported that three sorties of Chinese PLA aircraft, eight PLAN vessels, and one official ship were operating near its waters as of 6 am on Monday (local time).All three aircraft crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's southwestern air defence identification zone (ADIZ), prompting […]

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu swore in the new Legislative Council on January 1 without issue, even though a few lawmakers had to redo their oaths. And the first order of business for them is to elect the council president in a vote expected on January 8. Whether Lee’s message to Legco members – calling on them to be “representatives of […]

BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- China always opposes the use or threat of force, as well as any imposition of one country's will on another, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday when speaking of the situation in Venezuela.Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks when holding […]

Veteran actor, filmmaker and television executive Eric Tsang Chi-wai has confirmed he will step down as TVB general manager, bringing an end to months of speculation about his future at Hong Kong’s leading free-to-air broadcaster. The 72-year-old made the announcement at the TVB Anniversary Awards 2025 ceremony, broadcast live from the Grand Lisboa Palace […]

Hong Kong’s police chief has pledged to ramp up collaboration with Asean countries to fortify the force’s role as a “superconnector” in law enforcement, as the city gears up to host Interpol’s top annual meeting in November for the first time. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming, who worked at Interpol’s Lyon headquarters as a criminal […]

Hong Kong’s battered office sector showed cautious signs of life in 2025, supported by improved take-up in core districts and a slower pace of rental declines and –. while analysts said that trend was set to continue into 2026 – rents were unlikely to rise over the next six months. The coming year was expected to build on the market’s momentum, with […]

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) expects to work with other financial regulators to promote artificial intelligence adoption in various sectors over the next five years and further advance fintech development, according to the head of the city’s de facto central bank. Under the five-year plan called Fintech 2030 that starts this year, the HKMA […]

Trump says U.S. needs Greenland "for defense" following strikes on VenezuelaU.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday stressed that the United States needs Greenland "for defense," claiming that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to U.S. intervention, according to The Atlantic."We do need Greenland, absolutely," Trump said in a phone interview with […]

(Photo credit: Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)Oregon looks to sweep its first two-game Big Ten road trip this season when the Ducks face Rutgers on Monday in Piscataway, N.J.The Ducks (8-6, 1-2 Big Ten) opened their lone East Coast swing with a 64-54 win on Friday at Maryland without preseason all-Big Ten point guard […]

Washington DC [US], January 4 (ANI): US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday defended Washington's military action in Venezuela, during which it captured the country's president and deposed dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, saying that it was aimed at protecting US national interests in the Western Hemisphere and preventing adversaries from […]

(Photo credit: Mike Frey-Imagn Images)Felix Auger-Aliassime and 19-year-old Victoria Mboko gave Canada a 3-0 sweep of China on Sunday at the United Cup in Australia.In the opener, played in Sydney, Mboko rebounded from an opening-set loss to defeat Lin Zhu 2-6, 6-2, 6-0, and Auger-Aliassime followed by dropping Zhang Zhizhen 6-4, 6-4. It was the first […]

(260104) -- BEIJING, Jan. 4, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, holds the Seventh Round of China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar in Beijing, capital of China, […]

Loyal customers and bargain hunters crowded a landmark department store in Hong Kong on Sunday as it closed its doors after three decades of operations. The closure of Sincere Department Store’s Sham Shui Po branch, a neighbourhood fixture for 30 years, leaves the chain with only two remaining outlets. Founded in 1900, Sincere was the first Chinese-owned […]

Beijing has demanded that Washington release the South American country's democratically elected president The Chinese Foreign Ministry has slammed the US attack on Venezuela and capture of Nicolas Maduro, calling them "hegemonic." On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that his administration w

New Delhi [India], January 4 (ANI): 2026 began with whispers of US hegemony in Latin America. The years of confrontation over power, oil, elections and alleged criminal activity -- tensions climaxed into US military action in Venezuela on January 3, 2026, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.The US military launched a targeted […]

The military incursion and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro shows how normalized the outrageous has becomeAfter five months - really two-and-a-half decades - of ever-escalating preparations by increasing diplomatic, economic, and clandestine warfare, the US has finally executed a full regime-change invasion in Venezuela. The final attack, focused on kidnapping […]

HARBIN, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The first high-speed train with the theme of the Harbin Ice-Snow World began service from Harbin West Station in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Sunday, heading for Wuhan City in central China's Hubei Province. Featuring unique interior and exterior decorations of the Harbin Ice-Snow World, the themed high-speed train […]

Hong Kong ranked fourth in a university study on air transit connectivity at 16 aviation hubs across the Asia-Pacific in 2023. Researchers from the National Taiwan Ocean University’s transport science department also said Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou experienced declines in connectivity following the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper, published in the Asian […]

Hong Kong police have arrested three people, including a local singer, after seizing drugs with a market value of HK$7.7 million (US$988,118) from a village house in Yuen Long on Saturday. Sources identified the singer as Kris Law Kai-chung, 35, who made his debut in 2015 and rose to fame in 2018 on ViuTV’s reality show “Good Night Show – King […]

Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], January 4 (ANI): The New Year began on a positive and healthy note, as the 55th edition of the nationwide Fit India Sundays on Cycle saw massive participation across 5000 locations in the country led by Vadodara in association with special partners 'Swachhta Senanis' and Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation, Gujarat […]

Beijing [China], January 4 (ANI): China has conducted one of its most wide-ranging military exercises around Taiwan in recent years, a show of force that analysts say reflects not only external intimidation but also growing instability within the upper echelons of the Chinese armed forces. Observers argue that China is projecting strength outward to mask […]

HARBIN, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The first high-speed train with the theme of the Harbin Ice-Snow World began service from Harbin West Station in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Sunday, heading for Wuhan City in central China's Hubei Province.Featuring unique interior and exterior decorations of the Harbin Ice-Snow World, the themed high-speed train […]

(260104) -- SYDNEY, Jan. 4, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada celebrates after winning Zhang Zhizhen of China in the Group B round robin match between China and Canada at the 2026 United Cup tennis tournament in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 4, 2026. (Xinhua/Ma Ping)

Taipei [Taiwan], January 4 (ANI): Taiwan has sharply condemned China for what it described as blatant transnational repression after Chinese state-linked media and social media accounts circulated private details of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Puma Shen, including satellite images identifying his home and workplace in Taipei. The incident […]

by Chris SherrardChina's economic outlook is often framed abroad as a question of how much growth Beijing can stimulate -- and how quickly. Yet recent policy signals tell a different story -- one of strategic transformation, resilience and sustained fiscal progress.That was clear from the annual Central Economic Work Conference in Beijing, which laid out […]

Hong Kong police have arrested a 50-year-old man who allegedly posed as a government officer and stole HK$20,000 (US$2,570) from unsuspecting elderly residents in three separate burglaries. Police on Sunday said they had arrested the man, surnamed Chan, in Ta Kwu Ling on Saturday in connection with three burglaries that occurred in December in Cheung Sha […]

(260104) -- BEIJING, Jan. 4, 2026 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 9, 2025 shows the snow-covered Helan Mountains seen from an amusement park in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)

(260104) -- BEIJING, Jan. 4, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Tourists visit the Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring Scenic Area in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, Jan. 2, 2026. A total of 142 million domestic travel trips were made during the three-day New Year holiday period which ended on Saturday, with total tourism spending reaching nearly 84.8 billion […]