Amy Zhang is dressed in full sportswear, with sunglasses and a lightweight hiking backpack. She is one of many visiting Hong Kongs Dragons Back following the social media craze in mainland China over in-depth travels in the city. The beautiful merging horizon and skyline make good photos for my friend circle on WeChat and RedNote, the 30-year-old education ...

Up to 10,000 foreign nationals linked to the controversial Philippine offshore gaming operations (Pogos) remain in the country despite a ban on the sector last year, with calls from lawmakers mounting to track down those at large and quickly deport them. Presidential Anti-Organised Crime Commission (PAOCC) chief Gilbert Cruz revealed the numbers mostly ...

Stock investors are capitalising on the spending power of Chinas Generation Z consumers, who splurge on everything from gold jewellery to low-priced drinks, delivering multifold returns on so-called new consumer stocks. The ascent of Pop Mart International Group, Mixue Group and Laopu Gold is one of the few bright spots in Chinas sluggish consumer industry, ...

This years escalation of the US-China trade war has led many Chinese companies to rethink their overseas expansion strategies, with accessing the American market no longer their top priority when considering building factories in foreign countries, industry insiders said. There had been a drastic downshift in inquiries from Chinese companies seeking land to ...

Wang Ruoshuo, a 21-year-old student from Hefei, the capital of central Anhui province, is searching for a flat in Hung Hom in southern Kowloon, which is close to her university and the company where she interns. As a first-time renter, however, she has been taken aback by the high prices. Wang and her friends are looking for a two-bedroom unit, budgeting ...

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMPs journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. A No 3 typhoon warning will remain in force in Hong Kong throughout the early afternoon on Sunday, with local winds expected to ease slightly later in the ...

Younger generations of Hong Kong dads are increasingly eager to engage more with their children, but often face challenges due to limited time and parenting skills, an NGO has said ahead of Fathers Day on Sunday. Allen Ha Wing-on, co-founder of the DADs Network, said that traditional expectations and busy schedules posed obstacles for local fathers. ...

A group of tourists who pulled out the hair of a tiger at a zoo in China, thinking it would ward off evil spirits, have sparked outrage online. On June 8, a viral video showed several visitors at a zoo in Liaoning province, northeastern China, pulling hair from the big cats belly and tail through a metal fence. The incident took place in a special zone ...

Goku Technologies, a Shanghai-based quantitative trading fund, is expanding its ambitions beyond finance, looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a means to overcome challenges faced by humanity, according to CEO Wang Xiao. In an interview with the Post, Wang said the firms AI initiatives were driven by a vision that transcended short-term commercial ...

Newly elected South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has signalled a desire to ease tensions with North Korea, halting propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts along the border, and he has turned to China for support. In a 30-minute phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, six days after taking office, Lee urged China to play a constructive role in ...

Hong Kong travel agencies have launched cheaper outbound group tours this summer, driven by increased flight capacity amid a shift in tourists preference away from Japan due to increased earthquake concerns. Several tour operators have reported that prices for their summer group tours are either lower or have remained stable, adding that popular ...

The spotlight is back on the so-called Squad minilateral grouping of nations aimed at countering Chinas influence in the Asia-Pacific, after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth hailed the bloc as the most strategically positioned to manifest deterrence. Observers, however, are mixed on such a stance, pointing to Washingtons transactional approach and ...

This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMPs journalism by subscribing. Get faster notifications on the latest updates by downloading our app. For the first time in more than three decades, the United States is holding a major military parade in the nations capital on Saturday fulfilling ...

Hong Kong authorities should appeal against the light penalties imposed on two property owners for erecting illegal structures at their luxury Redhill Peninsula homes, experts have said, warning that the fines are not hefty enough to deter offenders. The specialists weighed in after the two property owners were told to pay more than HK$110,000 (US$14,015) ...

He Jiankui looked a little tired and worn as he contemplated his future. With no home and no institution to host his research, the 41-year-old biophysicist and self-proclaimed pioneer of gene editing was weighing up what to do next while staying at an upmarket hotel in Beijing late last month. He, who caused a global uproar in 2018 with his announcement of ...

Hong Kongs coordination office for the National Games is studying whether to adopt a real-name system for tickets at prices ranging from a few dozen Hong Kong dollars up to about HK$500 (US$64). Yeung Tak-keung, head of the National Games Coordination Office, said on Saturday that tickets would be sold from August on a unified platform for events to be held ...

Canadas new government will invest more in mining at a time when the countrys economy and manufacturing sector are facing challenges related to Chinas curbs on rare earth exports, Bill Morneau, former Canadian finance minister, told the Post. One of the challenges for Canada is that we will need to increase our own mining, Morneau, who was in office between ...

China has become the second country in the world to advance invasive brain-computer interface technology to a human trial, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday. The trial is on a 37-year-old man who had to have all of his limbs amputated after a high-voltage electrical accident more than a decade ago. In March, researchers implanted a device roughly ...

For two decades, it was popular for many Chinese families to send their children on study tours overseas most often to the United States during the summer. The programmes generally involved summer camps jointly organised by American universities and language institutions, as well as visits to colleges, museums and tourist attractions. In 2019, before the ...

More than a decade after Club Bboss was closed, a new nightspot has launched on the same site where the once-glamorous establishment operated for 28 years, with the goal of attracting tourists and young revellers eager for a glimpse of Hong Kongs 1980s clubbing heyday. The new spot known as Big Boss Generation (BBG) opened for business on Saturday in the ...

During thorny human rights talks with China on Friday, the European Union voiced concerns about what it called a deterioration of fundamental freedoms in the country. The EU cited government interference in the succession plan for the Dalai Lama, an ongoing crackdown in Hong Kong, and jailed Uygur and Tibetan activists as examples in its statement on the ...

A group of school pupils in China have moved internet users by supporting an electric bicycle and picking up lunchboxes left scattered on the road after a food delivery worker crashed while working. The touching scene was filmed by a camera worn on the chest of delivery man Dong Ziheng while he was riding the electric bike in an alley in Xingtai, northern ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the ruling Communist Party to learn from the legacy of early party figure Chen Yun a pioneer of Chinas economic planning in remarks on Friday to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the late statesmans birth. Xi called on the party to have unwavering confidence when facing chaotic and complex turbulence, and to ...

Hong Kong corporate governance activist David Webb has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his nearly three decades of contributions to the city, with the Briton saying he felt touched by the many tributes during his final battle. The former investment banker posted on his Webb-site platform on Saturday that he was delighted the ...

Hong Kongs Urban Renewal Authority will examine whether legislation should be introduced requiring landlords to create periodic maintenance plans for their blocks and ensure sufficient funds for the work. The study would also cover the possibility of creating a new statutory body to supervise building restoration and maintenance, according to the authoritys ...