OpenAI’s rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers say
AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites…
How a billion-dollar sanctions dodge kept Chinese goods flowing to Iran
Iran has used a barter-like arrangement to bypass sanctions on its oil…
Hefei’s boom reveals limits of China’s state-led manufacturing push
In the suburbs of Hefei, the flagship city of China’s high-tech ambitions, factory assembly…
HONG KONG
Tung Chee-hwa expected to receive state funeral attended by top national official
Hong Kong’s first Chief Executive and former vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Tung Chee-hwa is expected…
CLP mourns Tung Chee-hwa, citing selfless dedication to HK
CLP Group has paid tribute to the passing of Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first Chief Executive, saying the city will long remember his selfless dedication. …
Proposed building ordinance amendments risk venue shortages and higher fees, lawmaker warns
Lawmaker Chan Hok-fung has expressed overall support for the proposed amendments to the Building Management Ordinance, but warned that implementation details could place operational and…
Youth suicide rate rises despite overall citywide decline, HKU study finds
Hong Kong’s suicide rate among youth under 15 saw an uptick last year despite a decline in the city’s overall suicide rate, according to a…
HK could face stronger winds and rough seas over weekend
Hong Kong is expected to see squally showers, thunderstorms and rough seas this weekend as a broad low pressure system in the South China Sea interacts with…
Henry Cheng mourns Tung Chee-hwa: A life dedicated to serving the nation and HK
Henry Cheng Kar-shun, chairman of Chow Tai Fook Group, has expressed deep sorrow over the passing of Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first Chief Executive, and…
Xia Baolong visits Jiangmen to discuss HK, Macau integration into 15th Five-Year Plan
Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council, conducted a research visit to Jiangmen in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau…
HK, Shenzhen customs chiefs hold meeting on new Huanggang port operations
Hong Kong Customs Acting Commissioner Mark Woo Wai-kwan and Huanggang Customs Commissioner Shi Hongtu held a working meeting on Wednesday to discuss operational arrangements for…
MACAU
Macau CE hails Tung’s support for national integration and regional cooperation
Macau Chief Executive Sam Hou-fai has expressed deep condolences over the death…
Uber shortens HK–Macau cross-border booking window to 8 hours, launches WeChat mini program
Uber is stepping up its cross-border and regional offerings ahead of the…
Industry veteran urges backup plan for HZMB seamless clearance rollout
Ringo Lee Yiu-pui, honorary life president of the Hong Kong, China Automobile…
Pansy Ho shares candid memories of late father Stanley Ho and friendships with Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui
Hong Kong business leader Pansy Ho offered a rare glimpse into her…
Hong Kong-Macau scheduled helicopter flights suspended as operator pivots to charter model
Cross-border air passenger transport between Hong Kong and Macau has undergone a…
Macau August gross gaming revenue down 1.2pc in third monthly decline
Macau’s monthly gross gaming revenue fell 1.2 percent year-on-year to 21.89 billion…
CHINA
How a billion-dollar sanctions dodge kept Chinese goods flowing to Iran
Iran has used a barter-like arrangement to bypass sanctions on its oil sales and buy billions of dollars’ worth of goods from China, including military…
Hefei’s boom reveals limits of China’s state-led manufacturing push
In the suburbs of Hefei, the flagship city of China’s high-tech ambitions, factory assembly lines churn out electric vehicles, display panels and semiconductors and engineers plot the…
China buys 1 million tons of US soybeans ahead of Xi visit, sources say
China bought 14 to 15 cargoes of U.S. soybeans this week, or around 1 million metric tons, four traders told Reuters, as the world’s top oilseed buyer steps up purchases ahead of Chinese…
Xi’s India visit to help diplomatic thaw, but business ties bound by suspicion
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s much-anticipated visit to New Delhi this week, his first to India in seven years, should further the diplomatic thaw between the…
9 Chinese nationals held in Cambodia scam bust, villa rented from court official
Cambodian police have arrested nine Chinese nationals in a telecom fraud raid at a villa in Koh Kong province, with the property rented from a…
North Korea nears completion of bridge with China, analytics firm says
North Korea is completing work on its section of the long-stalled New Yalu River bridge with China, suggesting an imminent opening after more than a…
China’s WeChat makes fix after US firm shows AI hack risk
The operator of Chinese mega-app WeChat said Wednesday it had fixed software weaknesses flagged by a US cybersecurity firm that demonstrated how AI could be…
Washington accuses Chinese AI firms of ‘systematic’ theft from US rivals
Washington accused top Chinese artificial intelligence labs including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI of systematically stealing the capabilities of American models on Tuesday as the two…
‘Long live Chairman Mao’: Supporters pay respects to founder of Communist China
Fifty years after his death, diehard fans of the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong lined up Wednesday in his hometown to pay homage, holding portraits,…
Ford, US transportation chief spar over company’s China deals
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday slammed Ford Motor Company over its reliance on Chinese technology, accusations that the Detroit-based automaker dismissed as “wrongheaded.”…
TAIWAN
Taiwan flexes chip diplomacy at SEMICON trade show, faces pressure to share AI wealth with allies
Taiwan flexed its chip diplomacy muscles at a major trade…
HK man with Tourette syndrome assaulted in Taipei after shouting
A 28-year-old Hong Kong man with Tourette syndrome was assaulted…
Taiwanese Bakery Chain 85°C rumored to exit HK amid sudden store closures
Taiwanese bakery chain 85°C Bakery Cafe is reportedly preparing to…
Heavy rain forecast as Typhoon Saudel girds towards Japan and Taiwan
Medium-strength Typhoon Saudel moved towards southern Japan and northern Taiwan on Tuesday where it is expected to bring heavy rain, as Taiwan reported one…
Taiwan issues indictments over alleged illegal export of AI servers to China
Taiwan prosecutors said on Monday they had indicted nine people,…
Nvidia worker among 9 charged in Taiwan chip smuggling case
Nine people in Taiwan, including a Nvidia worker, were charged…
WORLD
OpenAI’s rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers say
AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators…
North Korea leader salutes ‘overseas’ troops
Leader Kim Jong Un praised troops in “overseas military operations” during a speech marking North Korea’s founding anniversary, state media reported Thursday, an apparent nod…
Mount Fuji ends hiking season with landslide, two rescues
A landslide struck a car park on Japan’s Mount Fuji, with the final day of the volcano’s summer climbing season on Thursday marred by downpours…
Trump says Iran war to end after US midterm elections, threatens to attack Pickaxe Mountain
President Donald Trump said he expected the war with Iran to end after the November U.S. midterm elections and threatened again to attack a site…
Women quit South Korea’s grind for diving tradition
Jin So-hee had to suffer to join the centuries-old tradition of South Korean women diving to harvest seafood. But she is now part of a…
Singapore says Iran-backed militia commander sought to enter city-state
A commander of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia who allegedly plotted attacks against Jewish targets in Europe, Canada and the United States tried to enter Singapore…
Online and undercover: saving trafficked wildlife in Thailand
Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopards,…
Trump offers $5,000 to every American if Republicans win midterm elections
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would pay every American adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if Republicans retain control of Congress in November’s midterm…
Trump says activity seen at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, urges Tehran ‘not to get cute’
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States may hit Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, urging Tehran to be cautious. “We notice there’s a little activity…
Israeli-made film about Gaza civilian deaths to debut in Venice
A new documentary from two Oscar-winning Israeli filmmakers that promises to shed light on Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza is set to premiere at…
GREAT BAY AREA
Xia Baolong visits Jiangmen to discuss HK, Macau integration into 15th Five-Year Plan
Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs…
HK, Shenzhen customs chiefs hold meeting on new Huanggang port operations
Hong Kong Customs Acting Commissioner Mark Woo Wai-kwan and Huanggang…
MTR exports signature station retail model to Chengdu as global expansion gathers steam
MTR Corporation is accelerating its global and regional expansion by…
Uber shortens HK–Macau cross-border booking window to 8 hours, launches WeChat mini program
Uber is stepping up its cross-border and regional offerings ahead…
Industry veteran urges backup plan for HZMB seamless clearance rollout
Ringo Lee Yiu-pui, honorary life president of the Hong Kong,…
Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou cluster ranks first globally in WIPO Global Innovation Index 2026
The Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou innovation cluster has claimed the top spot…
ECONOMY & FINANCE
Baidu to join Hang Seng SCHK New Economy Index and two others
Hang Seng Index Company said on Wednesday that Baidu (9888) will be added to three indexes after market close on October 23. The tech giant…
UNI Residence in Sha Tin sold a total 187 units for over $1 bn
UNI Residence in Sha Tin, jointly developed by Vanke Hong Kong and Wing Tai Properties (0369), has sold 187 units to date, nearly 80 percent of…
AI adoption hits 72 percent in pharmaceutical R&D: Citi Research
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimental technology to scaled deployment within pharmaceutical research and development, with 72 percent of experts already scaling or fully scaling…
Bessent challenges yen traders, declaring ‘I am the house’
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dared traders to challenge his determination to strengthen the yen, adding that any market prediction he makes is supported by…
China oil demand to fall 8.9pc in 2026, Sinopec research says
China’s oil demand is expected to fall by 600,000 barrels a day in 2026, or 8.9 percent from the previous year, marking a third straight…
China halts key debt-to-equity restructuring tool for ailing developers, Bloomberg says
China has rejected the registration of some mandatory convertible bonds that helped several major property firms, including Country Garden (02007), avert liquidation proceedings, according to…
HK explores central counterparty clearing introduction for bond repurchase in phases: SFC
Hong Kong is studying the introduction of central counterparty clearing for bond repurchase in phases, as well as the establishment of a dedicated settlement system,…
Google to invest US$15 billion in AI infrastructure and buy nuclear power in Finland
Alphabet’s Google will invest at least €13 billion (US$15.1 billion) in artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland over the next two years and has signed its…
Hang Seng closed down 42 points on Wednesday, Haidilao plunges 9 percent
Hang Seng Index closed down 42 points on Wednesday. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 42 points, or 0.17 percent, to 25,274 points, bringing the…
Chester II oversubscribed by 21.5 times by Wednesday
Henderson Land Development’s (0012) Chester II in Hung Hom has received 3,100 checks as of Wednesday 8pm for its first round of sales of 138…
BUSINESS
Xia Baolong visits Jiangmen to discuss HK, Macau integration into 15th Five-Year Plan
Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs…
HK, Shenzhen customs chiefs hold meeting on new Huanggang port operations
Hong Kong Customs Acting Commissioner Mark Woo Wai-kwan and Huanggang…
MTR exports signature station retail model to Chengdu as global expansion gathers steam
MTR Corporation is accelerating its global and regional expansion by…
Uber shortens HK–Macau cross-border booking window to 8 hours, launches WeChat mini program
Uber is stepping up its cross-border and regional offerings ahead…
Industry veteran urges backup plan for HZMB seamless clearance rollout
Ringo Lee Yiu-pui, honorary life president of the Hong Kong,…
Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou cluster ranks first globally in WIPO Global Innovation Index 2026
The Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou innovation cluster has claimed the top spot…
SPORTS
Gong sounds at Happy Valley as racing’s tourism boom rolls on to city track
Racing fans will “strike the gong” at Happy Valley tonight,…
HKJC wraps up landmark 10th global philanthropy forum with gala dinner
The Hong Kong Jockey Club wrapped up the landmark 10th…
HK esports squad sends record 43 players across 10 events to Nagoya Asian Games
Hong Kong will field a 43-member esports delegation across ten…
New China badminton chief vows to fight graft after predecessor removed
China’s new badminton chief vowed Tuesday to crack down on…
Rosanna Law meets Yao Ming, says she felt like a hobbit
Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law shared a…
HKJC launches $134m youth basketball initiative across Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Jockey Club has approved a donation exceeding…
Jason Gunawan sweeps teammate Lee Cheuk-yiu to capture historic China Masters badminton title
Hong Kong rising badminton star Jason Gunawan made history on…
HK couple edges out worldwide rivals to triumph at WDSF World Cup Latin Adult
Hong Kong’s Latin dance duo has twirled past worldwide rivals…
John Lee kicks off HKJC’s new racing season as crowds flock to Sha Tin Racecourse
The new Hong Kong horse racing season got off to…
Renowned European equestrian show CAVALLUNA makes Asia debut in Hong Kong this Sep
Europe’s acclaimed equestrian production, “CAVALLUNA – Gate to the Otherworld,”…
Swimming prodigy Yu Zidi among bumper China team for Asian Games
Yu Zidi, the 13-year-old swimming sensation, will be among a…
China names 815-athlete squad for Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya
China named an 815-athlete squad for this month’s Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on Friday as the country aims to…
WEEKEND
Israeli-made film about Gaza civilian deaths to debut in Venice
A new documentary from two Oscar-winning Israeli filmmakers that promises…
Can dogs sniff cancer? AI joins the hunt in India
When rescue dog Chloe is not tumbling across the grass…
Global Sources Hong Kong Shows return with 4,200 Asian suppliers and AI sourcing focus
The Global Sources Hong Kong Shows will return newxt month,…
Heritage Museum hosts major exhibition to mark Leslie Cheung’s 70th birthday
Hong Kong Heritage Museum will host a memorial exhibition starting…
WestK and Rolex showcase rising Xiqu talent after intensive masterclasses
WestK Performing Arts and Rolex presented a special showcase at…
EdUHK study shows ‘4S’ program significantly boosts children’s financial literacy and well-being
Research findings from an evaluation led by The Education University…
Egyptian TV presenter Sarah Khalifa sentenced to death in drug trafficking case
An Egyptian court has sentenced television presenter Sarah Khalifa and…
St Paul’s Co-ed primary admission briefing draws 1,200
St Paul’s Co-educational College Primary School held its Primary One…
CUHK kicks off new academic year with flag-raising ceremony
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) officially marked the…
CityU researchers develop smart device to give retired electric vehicle batteries a second lifeNEWS11 hours ago
A research team from the City University of Hong Kong…
HK Disneyland Hotel pauses for glow-up but holiday treats await
A full slate of seasonal delights will keep the magic…
Pansy Ho shares candid memories of late father Stanley Ho and friendships with Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui
Hong Kong business leader Pansy Ho offered a rare glimpse…
