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At least 10 people have been injured after a minibus collided with a water tanker in Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong district. Police said on Monday that they received a report of a traffic accident at 12.21pm, near the Yue Man Square Public Transport Terminal, involving a minibus and a truck. The force said two male and eight female passengers in the minibus were […]

Hong Kong property developers are expected to report stronger first-half earnings in the coming weeks, buoyed by a rebound in home sales and improving development margins, as investors look for clues on whether the sector’s recovery is sustainable. Bank of America Global Research expected Hong Kong developers and conglomerates to post average core net […]

Air passengers continued to face disruption on Monday as at least a dozen departures were further delayed due to Typhoon Noul, with authorities saying they expected normal operations to resume in the morning after hundreds of flights were cancelled over the weekend. According to the airport website, as of 12.45pm, 12 departing flights initially scheduled […]

New Delhi [India], July 27 (ANI): Indian markets open in green on Monday morning, with BSE Sensex rising 549.21 points or 0.72 per cent to stand at 76,608.98 points, while the NSE Nifty 50 advanced 166.85 points or 0.70 per cent to reach 23,934.30 points.Highlighting the first quarter of FY27, Vikram Kasat, Head Advisory at PL Capital, noted, 'Over 300 […]

A 62-year-old worker has died after falling from a six-metre-high (20-foot) platform while conducting plane repairs at the Hong Kong International Airport, triggering an investigation by the Labour Department. Police received a report at 8.35am on Monday that a worker had been injured at a site operated by the Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company […]

GRODNO, Belarus, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Interregional cooperation between Belarus and China is showing broad prospects and moving toward a phase of more tangible and practical cooperation, Yuri Karayev, chairman of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee, said in a recent interview with Xinhua.The first Belarus-China Forum of Regions took place earlier this […]

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- China has begun deploying its first commercial constellation dedicated to space debris monitoring, a 120-satellite network that aims for round-the-clock all-orbit target detection.The first satellite of the Gande Constellation lifted off on Friday aboard a Lijian-1 commercial rocket from northwest China.The successful launch […]

Taipei [Taiwan], July 27 (ANI): Taiwan on Monday detected the presence of 7 PLAN vessels, four official ships and three sorties by PLA aircraft around its territory, as per Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND). Sharing the details in a post on X, it further noted that 1 out of 3 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's southwestern part […]

The University of Hong Kong’s (HKU) president and vice-chancellor Xiang Zhang has announced that he will be stepping down in 2028 after completing a second five-year term, according to an email seen by the South China Morning Post. In the email, sent to the university community in the early hours of Monday, Zhang described the past eight years spent […]

When Zhou Yuxiang, founder and CEO of Shanghai-headquartered Black Lake Technologies, wanted to sell his artificial intelligence (AI) automation solutions to millions of family-run factories across China, he came up with an unconventional strategy: hiring food delivery workers to make sales. His entire sales team, hired from various industrial cities, […]

Washington, DC [US], July 27 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) dismissed growing concerns that military stockpiles are reaching dangerously low levels, directly refuting reports that interceptor shortages are constraining American military strategy in the ongoing conflict with Iran.In a statement to The Wall Street Journal, Trump […]

Washington, DC [US], July 27 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) dismissed growing concerns that military stockpiles are reaching dangerously low levels, directly refuting reports that interceptor shortages are constraining American military strategy in the ongoing conflict with Iran.In a statement to The Wall Street Journal, Trump […]

Washington, DC [US], July 27 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) dismissed growing concerns that military stockpiles are reaching dangerously low levels, directly refuting reports that interceptor shortages are constraining American military strategy in the ongoing conflict with Iran.In a statement to The Wall Street Journal, Trump […]

Eighty per cent of success is showing up, as they say. So, all but one of Hong Kong’s 89 legislators joining a week-long “national affairs study visit” to Beijing made a good impression. Lawmaker Stanley Ng Chau-pei called it a “groundbreaking opportunity” for legislators to study and deepen their understanding of national conditions. Showing up […]

Islamabad [Pakistan], July 27 (ANI): A severe shortage of ventilators in Islamabad's major public hospitals has created a critical bottleneck in life-saving care, leaving intensive care units perpetually full and forcing doctors to manage an unending waitlist of critically ill patients.According to DAWN, the crisis recently claimed the life of journalist […]

The Hong Kong Observatory cancelled the amber rainstorm warning on Monday morning, hours after the Education Bureau announced classes at all morning and full-day schools were suspended. The weather forecaster cancelled the signal at 9.15am after earlier downgrading the warning from red to amber at 7.47am. It urged residents to stay alert to potential river […]

Enrolment at Hong Kong’s international and private schools grew for a third consecutive year following the introduction of a government talent scheme in 2022, despite an overall decline in the city’s student population, according to official statistics. Latest Education Bureau data showed that kindergartens and local public primary schools bore the […]

Tehran accused the Ukrainian leader of seeking to drag Europe into a war with RussiaIran has claimed that Ukraine attacked one of its commercial vessels in the Caspian Sea at Israel's behest.Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky stated earlier that the vessel struck on Saturday was transporting military cargo. Iran, which has denied involvement in the fighting […]

The long-awaited earthquake in Hong Kong’s taxi and ride-hailing scene is almost upon us and the questions are how big the initial shock will be, and how many aftershocks we can expect. The important thing in the coming months will be to keep the focus on protecting the interests of the travelling public. More than a decade after Uber first set up in Hong […]

Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], July 27 (ANI): Arunachal Pradesh Home Minister Mama Natung on Sunday refuted claims of Chinese encroachment in the State as 'just rumours', urging the media to verify before releasing such statements in the public domain. Speaking to the reporters on the sidelines of the Kargil Vijay Diwas celebrations here, Natung […]

Hanoi [Vietnam], July 26 (ANI): Vietnam on Sunday thanked China for its assistance in search and rescue operations after a Vietnamese cargo vessel, sank in the South China Sea, with 45 of the 62 people on board rescued as search efforts continued for the remaining crew, according to Xinhua news agency.The Vietnamese vessel, 'Khoi Nguyen 18', was carrying 62 […]

New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Sunday, congratulated Anahat Singh on her historic World Junior Squash Championships triumph, saying her gold medal and becoming the first Indian to win the prestigious title would inspire a new generation of squash players.Anahat scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win the […]

SAN FRANCISCO, California: Nvidia, Microsoft and dozens of technology companies and industry groups have urged U.S. lawmakers to support open-source artificial intelligence models, arguing that broad restrictions could hurt competition and push innovation outside the United States. The appeal came in a letter posted on X by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and […]

SANSHA, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A total of 46 crew members of a sunken Vietnamese ship were rescued in waters near Yongshu Reef of the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea as of 9 p.m. Sunday, including one person rescued by the Vietnamese side, authorities in the south China city of Sansha said.At 8:05 p.m., the Chinese side transferred 41 rescued personnel […]

More than 700,000 people have been evacuated and over 1,800 flights grounded after Hongxia battered southern China with destructive winds and torrential rainTyphoon Hongxia, internationally known as Noul, made landfall in southern China's Guangdong Province early Sunday, triggering mass evacuations, widespread transportation disruptions, and torrential rain […]

More than 700,000 people have been evacuated and over 1,800 flights grounded after Hongxia battered southern China with destructive winds and torrential rain Typhoon Hongxia, internationally known as Noul, made landfall in southern China's Guangdong Province early Sunday, triggering mass evacuations, […]

(260726) -- HAIKOU, July 26, 2026 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on July 23, 2026 shows diplomatic envoys attending a banquet in Maona Village of Shuiman Township, Wuzhishan City, south China's Hainan Province. At the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, more than 30 ambassadors and senior diplomats visited Sanya, Wuzhishan, […]

New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed Anahat Singh's historic World Squash Junior Championships triumph, saying her landmark achievement will popularise squash among the youth.Anahat scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win the World Squash Junior Championships title, defeating Egypt's Ruqayya Salem 3-0 […]

Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], July 26 (ANI): Chinese authorities have resumed demolitions at Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the world's largest Tibetan Buddhist institute, targeting around 1,060 monastic quarters belonging to Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns, according to a report by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).As […]

Munich [Germany] July 26 (ANI): The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), in its latest weekly brief, highlighted a series of developments concerning the rights of Uyghurs, including a submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), opposition to China's newly enforced Ethnic Unity Law, the deportation of a Uyghur asylum seeker from […]

Munich [Germany], July 26 (ANI): The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) have strongly condemned the deportation of a 21-year-old Uyghur man, Arafat Adil, from Germany to China, describing the move as a violation of international human rights obligations and warning that it exposed him to the risk of arbitrary detention, […]

SHENZHEN, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The first council meeting and inauguration ceremony of the International Mangrove Center was held in Shenzhen of south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday. Representatives from member states, signatory countries and observer institutions of the center attended the meeting, during which a series of institutional documents […]

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- China's office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) have dispatched a work team to northwest China's Gansu Province on Sunday to guide local relief efforts after a flash flood caused casualties.The headquarters has activated a Level-IV flood prevention […]

(260726) -- CHANGZHOU, July 26, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Kim Won Ho (L)/Seo Seung Jae communicate during the men's doubles final match between Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Shohibul Fikri of Indonesia and Kim Won Ho/Seo Seung Jae of South Korea at the China Open 2026 badminton tournament in Changzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, July 26, 2026. (Xinhua/Sun Fei)

The Dutch maker of Friso, a popular powdered infant formula brand, has stressed that tests show its product is safe, despite a recall of a product batch in Hong Kong and Macau after excessive levels of lead were found in samples. In a statement on Sunday, Royal FrieslandCampina said: “We have conducted additional third-party quality testing on the […]

(260726) -- CHANGZHOU, July 26, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Gold medalist Chou Tien Chen (R) and silver medalist Toma Junior Popov pose on the podium during the awarding ceremony after the men's singles final match between Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei and Toma Junior Popov of France at the China Open 2026 badminton tournament in Changzhou, east China's Jiangsu […]

(260726) -- SHENYANG, July 26, 2026 (Xinhua) -- A visitor view exhibits at the exhibition "Smiles: Imprints of the Chinese Spirit in Cultural Relics" at the Liaoning Provincial Museum in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, July 26, 2026. The exhibition opened here on Sunday, showcasing more than 300 artifacts from 38 museums and cultural […]

(260726) -- SHENZHEN, July 26, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Representatives talk at the venue of the first council meeting of the International Mangrove Center in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, July 26, 2026. The first council meeting and inauguration ceremony of the International Mangrove Center was held here on Sunday. Representatives from member states, […]

TOKYO, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A clip of a past debate featuring current Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who was then a lawmaker, surfaced on social media in Japan recently and has drawn heavy domestic criticism for her revisionist views of the country's conduct in World War II.Takaichi, during the live political talk and news debate show aired in 2002 […]

(260726) -- MACAO, July 26, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Dong Yuhan (R) of China spikes the ball during the 3rd Place match between China and Italy at the Women's Volleyball Nations League (VNL) 2026 Finals in Macao, south China, July 26, 2026. (Xinhua/Cheong Kam Ka)

In the third of a five-part Health Matters wellness series on ageing in Hong Kong, Victor Ting looks at how advances in early screening and new drug therapies are offering fresh hope for Alzheimer’s patients, as experts say the city must expand support efforts to meet rising demand. For years, Hong Kong retiree Mary Chan* lived with a quiet fear that […]

The countrys industrial sector is losing around 15,000 jobs every month, according to manufacturing association BDIGermany is rapidly losing industrial jobs and competitiveness, Federation of German Industries (BDI) chief Tanja Goenner has warned, describing the situation as "critical."The BDI, Germany's main industry association, represents around 39 […]

NEW YORK, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Densely drumbeat-paced movements of lion dancers and hip-hop rhythms converged at a Chinese Arts Week at New York's Lincoln Center, showcasing the cultural vitality and diversity of contemporary China.The street dance show stood out in the festival celebration Thursday evening with its kung fu elements. It followed a lion dance […]

Hong Kong restaurant operators have hit out at a scheme requiring them to have permits to run dog-friendly venues, saying they had already been allowing pets in their outdoor seating areas but were now barred from doing so without the new licence. Businesses said they had been forced to turn away dog owners who were previously welcomed, even as the […]

When Hongkonger Tara Fung brought her eight-month-old Munchkin cat, Yuen Yuen, to a clinic to get spayed in March 2025, she was told two hours later that her pet had died from an allergic reaction to a sedative. “Who would have thought she would go in and never come out … I never got to see her again,” she told the South China Morning Post. Fung […]