Thursday 18 April 2024
Hong Kong tourism sector optimistic over prospects during mainland China’s Labour Day ‘golden week’ holiday
- ScmpEx-Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam needs office costing HK$9 million annually to match status, admin chief tells sceptical lawmakers
- ScmpBaidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot, in sign that generative AI investments are paying off
- ScmpIsrael-Gaza war: as Singapore investigates latest anti-Israel protest, is there a ‘paradigm shift’ in domestic views?
- ScmpMore than 45,000 Hong Kong students sit inaugural university entrance exam for citizen and social development subject
- ScmpSingapore’s incoming PM, Lawrence Wong, says current leader Lee Hsien Loong to serve as senior minister
- ScmpFitch cuts outlook for China’s state-owned banks from stable to negative citing Beijing’s limited capacity to support them
- ScmpPhilippines’ Marcos Jnr says any Filipino death due to ‘foreign power’ could activate defence treaty with US
- ScmpHong Kong’s bitcoin, ether ETFs seen as attractive to Asian buyers, but ‘child’s play’ compared with scale of US market
- ScmpMalaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad challenges anti-corruption authorities to prove alleged abuse of power
- ScmpVeteran Hong Kong film star Tony Leung urged to make way for younger talent by top city movie director, sparking debate
- ScmpOfficials promote China-led cyber governance to Belt and Road members during the Digital Silk Road forum in Xian
- ScmpMassive fire topples spire at Copenhagen’s 17th-century old Stock Exchange, reminiscent of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral
- ScmpElectric vehicles: China’s Chery Automobile enters UK’s car rental business as its Omoda EVs are leased out by Octopus
- ScmpHong Kong lawmakers slam HK$3.75 million monthly bill for 6 Covid isolation facilities on standby
- ScmpIndia’s Bishnoi gang members arrested for shooting at Bollywood star Salman Khan’s home, in payback for antelope killings
- ScmpChinese police arrest over 1,500 for online rumours in campaign targeting influencers, bloggers and live-streamers
- Scmp‘He won’t budge an inch’: South Korea’s humbled yet defiant Yoon ploughs on despite electoral drubbing
- ScmpChina Evergrande: PwC refutes letter claiming fraud tied to indebted developer, vows to investigate ‘fabricated’ claims
- ScmpJohn Lee vows to showcase Hong Kong as ‘city of hospitality’ in push to attract more tourists during golden week holiday
- ScmpHong Kong man jailed for petrol bomb offences during 2019 social unrest and for trying to escape justice by fleeing in boat to Taiwan
- ScmpSingapore gives workers right to request 4-day weeks, more work from home under new flexitime guideline
- ScmpTech war: how Chinese scientists rigged a low-cost AI computer chip to power a hypersonic weapon
- ScmpHong Kong ‘to speed up legislative efforts to clamp down on ignored fire safety orders’, after fatal blaze in Kowloon
- ScmpCase review of rural China doctor jailed for treating sex workers in 2012 sparks medical ethics debate on social media
- ScmpBeijing accuses UK of ‘repeating old tricks’ over report slamming Hong Kong’s national security laws
- ScmpEx-TVB artist Lee Lung-kei’s fiancée hit with extra charge related to overstay in Hong Kong, bringing total to 7
- ScmpChinese breakthroughs in chip tech, air pollution controls headline top science award nominees
- ScmpIndonesia-Israel relations: why normalising ties for an OECD seat would be ‘political suicide’ for Jakarta
- ScmpEven the ‘man in the street’ can set up a family office in Hong Kong if their money is legitimate, John Lee says
- ScmpAfter air attacks Iran tells China it will not escalate violence against Israel as Wang Yi holds Mideast calls
- ScmpChina ‘invisible man’ painter blends into surroundings with chameleon body colouring to promote love of nature
- ScmpAttacks on a nuclear plant in Russian-controlled Ukraine put the whole world at risk, warns IAEA
- ScmpChina’s energy trade with Middle East set to surge since Beijing brokered last year’s Iran-Saudi deal, UBS says
- ScmpFrom consumption to tourism, China’s middle class holds the key to revving up economic engine, but can they turn it?
- ScmpBiden hosts Iraqi leader after Iran’s attack on Israel throws Middle East into greater uncertainty
- ScmpHong Kong slams latest British government report on city, saying London is putting politics above the rule of law
- ScmpAnnual operating costs for offices of ex-Hong Kong leaders reach HK$21 million, with Carrie Lam’s workplace accounting for 44%
- ScmpApple CEO Tim Cook visits Vietnam as US tech giant’s supply chain shift stirs unease in China
- ScmpChinese tea shop giant Sichuan Baicha Baidao aims to raise US$330 million in Hong Kong’s biggest IPO of 2024
- ScmpHong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai wanted to convince radical protesters to show restraint as chaos, damage had ‘ruined picture’, court told
- ScmpHong Kong airport keeps top spot as world’s busiest for cargo volumes but still lags pre-pandemic levels
- ScmpHong Kong doctor in liver patient death case says he failed to prescribe key drug as he had been ‘distracted’
- ScmpEx-Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s South China Sea ‘deal’ with Xi sparks calls for treason charges
- ScmpAverage cost of Hong Kong supermarket goods went up by 1.9% last year, Consumer Council survey finds
- ScmpHong Kong’s first spot bitcoin and ether ETFs get conditional approval as city stakes a lead on such products
- scmpFirst China transgender clinic deals with ‘visitors’ as it embraces country’s 4 million people with body dissatisfaction
- ScmpHong Kong must remain vigilant to national security threats that can ‘spread like viruses’, city leader John Lee warns
- ScmpAfghanistan’s first female Olympian urges Paris Games ban for country over Taliban’s rights record
- Scmp‘I felt bad for your butt’, France’s Emmanuel Macron tells diver who fell, crashed into water
- ScmpIn China, Germany’s Olaf Scholz calls for ‘open and fair’ competition as differences weigh on trade
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