Telling a Harbin Z-20 and a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk apart can be challenging the two helicopters look almost identical and their dimensions are very similar. The striking resemblance underscores Chinas decades-long effort to close the technological gap with the United States and Russia in the important aviation sector of helicopters. Yet, there are ...

Hong Kong police have arrested an elderly man and his son for allegedly assaulting public officers after they threw a parking ticket at two traffic wardens in Tuen Mun, the South China Morning Post has learned. A source said on Sunday that police arrested the 61-year-old man and his 31-year-old son outside cooked food stalls in Sam Shing at 11.40 am. ...

Bolivia began showing signs of returning to normalcy on Sunday, a day after President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency to resolve a 50-day social crisis that had blocked the nations main highways. Early on Sunday, the Legislative Assembly overwhelmingly approved Pazs decree, which aimed to restore transit and supply essential goods after protesting ...

Chen Weiqiang, a tenured professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at New York University (NYU), has joined the school of biomedical engineering at Nanjing University as a distinguished professor. Professor Chen has long been deeply engaged in top overseas universities, achieving remarkable results in cutting-edge fields such as cellular ...

A 54-year-old Hong Kong man died after reportedly losing control of an electric bike and falling from an unloading platform in Yuen Long early on Sunday, with the incident only discovered more than five hours later. Police received a report at 9.21am that a man was lying unconscious on Tong Yan San Tsuen Road. Officers arrived at the scene and found the ...

Taiwans main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) has hit out at the islands government for launching investigations into five agricultural groups over participation in a mainland forum. Taiwans Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) referred the five groups to the Ministry of Agriculture for investigation after they were accused of signing cooperation deals at the Straits ...

Al Jazeera on Sunday rejected Israeli accusations that one of its journalists, killed in Gaza a day earlier, was a Hamas operative, as family and colleagues mourned the cameraman in the Palestinian territory. The Qatar-based network said in a statement that it condemns the Israeli occupation armys baseless accusations, which seek to justify its crimes ...

A Hong Kong television host who spoke four languages and frequently emceed fan meetings for Korean stars has died from ovarian cancer, less than a month after revealing her diagnosis. The death of former ViuTV host and content creator Lillian Sze was announced on her social media page on Sunday, sending shock waves online and prompting an outpouring of ...

In the fourth instalment of a six-part Health Matters wellness series on cancer in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Cheung examines how city researchers are developing new blood tests to detect the disease earlier, and what they could mean for screenings and diagnoses. Retired Hong Kong businessman Peter Wan Ying-keung still remembers the uncertainty and discomfort of ...

Chinas state broadcaster CCTV has aired footage showing the launch of a DF-17 hypersonic missile, a weapon that analysts believe could strengthen deterrence across the first island chain. On Saturday, a military news programme carried footage of two live-fire exercises, one of which showed a Dongfeng-17, or east wind, missile launcher by the side of a road, ...

A deeply divided electorate will choose Colombias next president in a run-off on Sunday that pits a progressive against a conservative outsider, with both candidates tapping into fears of renewed internal conflict in the country. Voters will choose between businessman and lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and Ivn Cepeda, a lawmaker and heir to the political ...

Two taxis and a private car have collided on Hong Kongs Shenzhen Bay Bridge, injuring four people and resulting in the partial closure of a slip road leading to the nearby land border crossing. A police spokesman said officers were alerted at 2.36pm on Sunday about the crash, which caused the private car to overturn, leaving four people, including the two ...

Less than three years ago, residents of a small rural township in the US state of Michigan packed a community hall to celebrate what many saw as a victory for local democracy over a Chinese-headquartered battery manufacturer. The residents of Green Charter Township prayed, cheered and congratulated one another for overturning a town board that had supported ...

Three fully laden India-linked supertankers have re-emerged in the Gulf of Oman, adding to increased reports of traffic moving both ways across the northern and southern routes of the Strait of Hormuz, while conflicting narratives over the status of transits persist. The Desh Vibhor, Desh Vaibhav and Sanmar Herald were observed in the Gulf of Oman and the ...

Hong Kong families cheered for Japan as it beat Tunisia 4-0 during a Sunday lunchtime broadcast of the Fifa World Cup, making for a memorable Fathers Day that combined the family tradition of yum cha with live football. The occasion highlighted the catering sectors creative efforts to boost business, as a World Cup match coincided with a major family ...

The artificial intelligence competition is by nature an energy competition. The conventional narrative focuses on faster chips, yet training and inference consume vast amounts of power. The harsh geographic paradox is that the regions most advanced in artificial intelligence (AI) often face the most acute power constraints. Hong Kong has emerged as a ...

Top negotiators from the United States, Iran and Pakistan have arrived in Switzerland ahead of talks that aim to secure the fragile ceasefire and reach a deal on the future of Irans nuclear programme. The US team was led by Vice-President J.D. Vance, who arrived in Burgenstock, the resort hosting the talks on Sunday. He joined special envoy Steve Witkoff ...

A taxi driver in central China won widespread praise online after racing an unconscious child to the hospital, running red lights and driving against traffic. The incident unfolded in Wuhan, Hubei province, on June 5, according to the mainland media outlet Ping An Hubei. The three-year-old girl, identified by the pseudonym Yanyan, had developed a fever at ...

Mainland Chinese technology giants in cutting-edge fields are increasingly treating Hong Kong as a strategic adaptation ground to transform themselves into global multinational enterprises, the citys finance chief has said. Following his trip to attend a forum and visit tech companies in Shanghai and Nanjing last week, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po ...

Hong Kong will consider expanding priority community care to include dementia patients and carers aged over 60 of people with severe disabilities, the citys welfare chief has said, in a bid to better identify high-risk cases vulnerable to tragedy. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said on Sunday that authorities were actively reviewing the ...

Hong Kong residents living in the villages of Ho Sheung Heung and Yin Kong in Sheung Shui will be allowed to convert their entire houses into restaurants, guest houses or shops without prior application under a pilot scheme aimed at boosting rural tourism. The relevant urban planning work is scheduled to begin in the third quarter this year, and the ...

The South Korean government and defence players are making last-ditch efforts to win Canadas next-generation submarine project worth up to 60 trillion won (US$39.14 billion), as Ottawa is expected to select a preferred bidder by the end of this month. Under the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project, the Royal Canadian Navys ageing fleet of four Victoria-class ...

For decades, moving Benins cotton harvest from the north of the country to its southern ports was a slow, difficult journey along unpaved roads. Benin is Africas largest cotton producer, but it lacked the infrastructure needed to connect its northern cotton-growing belt to the coast and processing plants in the Glo-Djigb Industrial Zone (GDIZ) near Cotonou, ...

Within a week of its release, Netflixs new Korean drama Teach You a Lesson, directed by Hong Jong-chan, topped the platforms global non-English rankings for the week of June 1 to 7. Adapted from the popular webtoon Get Schooled (2020), the 10-episode series about a government-backed vigilante unit trying to fix the wrongs in schools has quickly become a ...

A new round of negotiations over the Middle East war was set to kick off on Sunday as Iranian negotiators and US Vice-President J.D. Vance arrived in the Swiss host city, even as Tehran said it was closing the Strait of Hormuz again over Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Before boarding his flight to Europe, Vance told reporters he hoped to make progress on the ...