An undercover investigation by state-run China Central Television (CCTV) has cast a harsh light on a controversial practice in a nascent industry: the poisoning of artificial intelligence models with fabricated information. The report showed how techniques of generative engine optimisation (GEO) the AI version of search engine optimisation (SEO) could be ...

Hong Kongs finance chief has likened the powerful AI agent OpenClaw to an efficient digital employee, saying it should not be dismissed but rather improved to address security risk concerns. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-pos remarks on Monday followed the Digital Policy Offices recent advisory urging government departments to avoid installing OpenClaw or ...

The arrest of a 17-year-old stateless teenager during a school outing to buy Eid clothes at a Sabah mall for allegedly failing to show valid residence papers, has returned scrutiny to Malaysias treatment of undocumented people. Niko Ansboy, a student at Borneo Komrad, an alternative school for stateless children, was waiting outside a store during a school ...

Luxury residential property on Hong Kongs Peak Road owned by businessman Chan King-wai has been put up for sale by public tender, several years after he acquired it from companies linked to CK group. Marketing agent JLL said on Monday that the adjoining sites at 86, 88 and 90 Peak Road are being offered for joint sale by tender. The residential lots have a ...

Beijing has increased its inspections on Panama-flagged vessels entering Chinese ports, a source from the shipping industry said, an action intended to raise the Latin American countrys stress level after its courts voided the operating rights of Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison in the Panama Canal. Port state control (PSC) the inspection regime ...

The Peoples Liberation Army ramped up aircraft sorties near Taiwan over the weekend, ending two weeks of relative calm just as a defiant speech by Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te drew a strong rebuke from Beijing. From 6am on Saturday to 6am on Sunday, Taiwan detected 26 PLA aircraft sorties operating around the island. Sixteen of these entered the ...

The Philippines ranks among Asias most gender-equal societies by several international measures. Yet ask Filipino women where they truly belong and most will still tell you: at home. A new survey has found that 83 per cent of Filipino women agree being a housewife is just as fulfilling as working for pay, up from 70 per cent when the same question was posed ...

Iran plans to convert the girls school that was bombed on the first day of the war into a museum commemorating the nearly 200 victims of the strike. This school is a living document of the Americans willingness to commit crimes and must be registered and documented for preservation in the historical memory of the Iranian people, the Iranian government said ...

Tech giant Google will gradually roll out its generative AI services to all users in Hong Kong starting with the Gemini web app before introducing a mobile version for the chatbot and virtual assistant. The move is expected to eliminate the barriers that previously forced many residents to use virtual private networks (VPNs) or third-party platforms to ...

Ethnic minority groups in China have long relied on a gruesome method to predict their fortunes: beating a rooster to death and reading its femur bones, a practice that has lasted for centuries. Tracing back to the Tang (618907) and Song (9601279) dynasties, the custom is known as Dajibu, meaning chicken divination. It originated from ancient spiritual ...

Maritime tracking data showed that no ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, marking the first full day since the Middle East conflict began without any confirmed commercial traffic in either direction. Crossings dropped to zero, below the previous seven-day average of 2.57 daily transits, according to maritime analytics firm Windward. ...

Missiles and drone attacks hit across the UAE on Monday, with a drone-related incident sparking a fuel tank fire near Dubai airport that disrupted travel, while a missile killed a civilian in Abu Dhabi. In the eastern emirate of Fujairah, a drone attack on oil infrastructure sparked a fire, just one day after smoke was seen rising from a major UAE energy ...

Malaysias government has been forced onto the defensive over its much-touted tariff deal with the United States, after a minister walked back an earlier claim that the agreement had been rendered null and void by a US Supreme Court ruling. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahims administration signed the deal in October, promising US$240 billion in investments and ...

A senior Hong Kong police officer has denied molesting a government clerk at the forces headquarters more than a year ago. Ian Chow Ngai-kong, 50, on Monday stood trial at Eastern Court on three counts of indecent assault over the alleged incidents at the police headquarters in Wan Chai on June 19 and November 1, 2024. The court heard the complainant, a ...

Two boats carrying 21 people capsized on Monday off Henoko, a controversial relocation site for a US military base off Japans southern island of Okinawa, throwing all into the water and leaving two of them dead, officials said. The Japan Coast Guard said 18 of them were students from a Kyoto high school on two boats, 10 on Heiwa Maru and eight on the ...

A team of scientists in China has developed a way to freeze and revive organs for transplant, extending their viability from as little as six hours to several days, according to a peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Medical Devices. While the technology is still at the experimental stage and has not yet progressed to human trials, it could one ...

Lingan bin Man pulls up to the fishing jetty in the early afternoon, guiding his small boat towards a narrow strip of wooden planks as waves crash against the dock. On board are his wife and toddler. Together, the Malaysian family inspects the days catch: 2kg (4.4lbs) of clams after three hours at sea. I can sell this for US$7, the 52-year-old said. For ...

The Formula One (F1) Chinese Grand Prix drew record crowds over the weekend, another indication the wide-ranging efforts from host city Shanghai to raise its profile as a global sports and event destination are paying off. The three-day event, which concluded on Sunday, attracted more than 230,000 cumulative spectators, the highest attendance headcount ...

China is counting on artificial intelligence (AI) to help the 450 million people living in rural areas left behind by the nations economic boom. Farmers are already benefiting from the technology, using AI offerings such as DeepSeek or ByteDances Doubao for help with issues like pig rearing, pest control and government subsidies. The State Councils No 1 ...

Five years after armoured vehicles rolled through the streets of Myanmars capital and the generals tore up an election result they did not like, a new parliament sat for the first time on Monday. The legislature that convened in Naypyidaw was stacked almost entirely with allies of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the coup leader who ousted the elected ...

Nine people have been injured after a car mounted the pavement on a Hong Kong street. Police were called to Lam Hing Street in Kowloon Bay at about 12.40pm on Monday following reports of a car veering onto the walkway. The vehicle, which has both local and mainland Chinese number plates, sustained damage to its left front door and window, as well as its ...

Resource-rich African nations are increasingly asserting control over critical minerals to maximise domestic returns, sending global prices soaring and exerting pressure on Chinese supply chains. Zimbabwe, Africas largest lithium producer, last month abruptly suspended exports of raw lithium minerals and concentrates, moving its 2027 deadline forward. ...

Twenty Thai crew members of a cargo ship attacked in the crucial Strait of Hormuz arrived in Thailand on Monday, with three of their colleagues still stranded on the vessel in the Gulf. The Thai-registered Mayuree Naree was hit by two projectiles on Wednesday while transiting through the Gulf waterway, after departing a port in the United Arab Emirates. ...

Young people in China are contributing to a fake account generated by artificial intelligence (AI) to lecture their parents about healthy and scientific life values. A social media account called Lao Zhao jiang dao li, or Mr Zhao talks sense, went viral recently, amassing over 200,000 followers in just two months. The man surnamed Zhao, based in ...

With his peroxide blond hair, dark moustache and luxuriant eyebrows, London-born curator and writer James Taylor-Foster is easy to pick out among the tourists and selfie-takers in the courtyard of Yick Cheong Building, also known as the Monster Building, in Hong Kongs Quarry Bay neighbourhood. The South China Morning Post is meeting the 33-year-old here ...