South Korean scientists have identified a potentially promising new pathway for treating ischemic stroke, long considered one of the most difficult challenges in modern medicine. According to the South Korean team, doctors in China are interested in a partnership and learning more about an experimental drug that it has developed to combat the disease. The ...

More than 300 families have been evacuated after massive amounts of ash billowed from the Mayon volcano over the weekend due to the collapse of lava deposits from its slopes, Philippine officials said on Monday. There was no explosive eruption from Mayon, which has been erupting mildly on and off since January, but huge deposits of lava on its southwestern ...

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Judges in Shenzhen Chinas Silicon Valley processed 50 per cent more cases last year than in 2024 with the help of a pilot system powered by AI technology, according to the citys Intermediate Peoples Court. It said the artificial intelligence-driven system would now be introduced in the courts of dozens more Chinese cities. In a social media post on ...

Select FamilyMart convenience stores in Japan have installed boxes to collect used clothing and household goods for reuse, joining similar initiatives taken by retailers, as a step to reduce waste and attract more customers. In a trial launched jointly with Bookoff Group Holdings, which buys and sells used goods, boxes were installed in around 30 FamilyMart ...

Malaysias anti-corruption agency on Monday questioned former economy minister Rafizi Ramli over a billion-ringgit semiconductor deal with British chip designer Arm Holdings, escalating a politically sensitive inquiry that has swept up ministers, senior officials and one of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahims most outspoken former allies. Rafizi, the Pandan MP and ...

Ultra-low-priced Hong Kong tour packages reliant on commissions and pushing mainland Chinese visitors to make additional purchases remain prevalent despite tighter government regulations, the South China Morning Post has found. The business model has come under renewed scrutiny after the Travel Industry Authority revoked the licences of a travel agency and ...

A United Airlines plane hit a light pole and a delivery truck on a New Jersey highway while landing Sunday at Newark Liberty International Airport, officials said. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials said the Boeing 767 landed safely after arriving from Venice, Italy, and the agency would investigate the incident. No injuries were reported on ...

Hong Kongs Exchange Fund, the war chest used to defend the local currency, reported its smallest investment gain in five quarters as the Middle East crisis weighed on stock market performance. The fund gained HK$34.5 billion (US$4.4 billion) in the first quarter, 56 per cent lower than HK$79.2 billion a year earlier, according to data released by the Hong ...

Hong Kong universities are rapidly gaining favour among mainland Chinese families as they shun the intense domestic competition of the gaokao and uncertainties stemming from Sino-US tensions, embracing the citys generous non-local admission quotas. The Blue Book on Mainland Students Studying in Hong Kong released late last month underscores this trend, ...

On a quiet March morning at Incheon International Airport, the head of a government agency responsible for administering industrial accident insurance stood before a memorial adorned with flowers and a photo of Nguyen Van Tuan. The 23-year-old Vietnamese worker had died 10 days earlier in a conveyor belt accident at a gravel factory in Icheon, Gyeonggi ...

Congratulations to Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po for getting the citys budget to sail through the Legislative Council. It wasnt always such smooth sailing and Chan would do well to acknowledge as much. When Chan was first given the keys to the citys coffers, they were full. Successive financial secretaries faced political pressure of a very different ...

A bride from eastern China slipped into a coma after a botched cold treatment, but she awoke and smiled at her fianc just two days before her wedding. Wang Ranran, 24, from Taian in Shandong province, had been in a six-year relationship with her fianc, Zhang Xirui. After registering their marriage at the end of last year, they eagerly planned their wedding ...

A Hong Kong policeman turned public relations adviser will be promoted to lead the governments Information Services Department, the South China Morning Post has learned. John Tse Chun-chung, who has served as the governments information coordinator since 2024, is expected to take up the post as early as Tuesday. Tse, 49, joined the police force in 1999. He ...

Hong Kong should develop its shipping insurance and management capabilities, among other areas, to strengthen its status as a global maritime hub amid intensifying geopolitical tensions, former city leader Leung Chun-ying has said. Leung, in his capacity as co-founder and honorary adviser to the Hong Kong Chamber of Shipping, said in a wide-ranging ...

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalised and is in critical but stable condition, his spokesman said on Sunday. The spokesman, Ted Goodman, did not immediately provide more details about Giulianis condition or how long he has been hospitalised. Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering ...

AI skills are becoming a clear salary advantage for Singapores software engineers, with those who have such capabilities earning up to 25 per cent more than their peers, according to a new salary report by NodeFlair. The Singapore-based tech talent platform said its findings came from more than 230,000 verified data points and showed software engineers with ...

Investment scams targeting Hong Kongs elderly rose by 17 per cent in the first quarter of 2026 against a year ago, despite an overall decline in the number of cases, with police warning that better-educated retirees with more investment experience were more vulnerable to fraudsters. Superintendent Theodora Lee Wai-see of the forces commercial crime bureau ...

One Palestinian man was killed and four others seriously wounded during an Israeli military raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Health Ministry said the mans wife was in labour at a local hospital when she was informed of his death. The Red Crescent said five ...

Bai Chongen is a prominent Chinese economist and government adviser. He is the dean of Tsinghua Universitys School of Economics and Management and serves concurrently as vice-chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. From 2015 to 2018, he was a member of the Chinese central banks monetary policy committee. Here, he discusses how China ...

Two US service members are missing in southwestern Morocco after taking part in annual multinational military exercises in the North African country, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Sunday. The service members are US Army soldiers who went missing while on a hike, a US defence official told Associated Press on condition of anonymity as ...

Three people have died on a cruise ship in the Atlantic, the WHO said Sunday, one a confirmed case of hantavirus an illness usually transmitted to humans from rodents. The outbreak occurred on the MV Hondius, travelling from Ushuaia in Argentina to Cabo Verde, formerly known as Cape Verde. To date, one case of hantavirus infection has been laboratory ...

Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leading figure in the hard-left France Unbowed (La France Insoumise) political party, will stand in next years presidential election, he said on Sunday. Yes, I am a candidate, Melenchon told TF1 TV. Melenchon, 74, has been a fixture of the French left for decades, holding ministerial posts in past governments when he was a Socialist ...

A cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz has reported being attacked by multiple small craft, the British militarys United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre said on Sunday, marking at least two dozen attacks in and around the strait since the Iran war began. All crew on the unidentified northbound carrier were safe after the attack off Sirik, Iran, ...

Beijings point man on Hong Kong affairs has called on the alumni of the prestigious Tsinghua University to help the city better serve national development with their patriotism, pragmatism and global networks. Adding to the remarks by the director of the central governments liaison office on Sunday, city leader John Lee Ka-chiu also expressed hope that more ...