Hongkongers wake up to winter’s chilliest day as mercury dips to 13 degrees
Published: 11:31am, 15 Dec 2024Updated: 11:38am, 15 Dec 2024 Hongkongers on Sunday woke up to the chilliest day of this winter so far as...
Hong Kong could be first to get Swiss start-up’s drug for diabetic eye disease
Hong Kong could be one of the first jurisdictions to use a novel treatment for diabetics suffering from a potentially blinding disease if a...
When a ferry crashed into a Hong Kong typhoon shelter, killing 3 – from the SCMP archive
This article was first published on December 16, 1989. Advertisement By Eammon Fitzpatrick and Jimmy Leung Mystery over death crash The Marine Department has...
Britain joins trans-Pacific pact in biggest post-Brexit trade deal
Britain officially became the 12th member of a trans-Pacific trade pact which includes Japan, Australia, and Canada on Sunday as it seeks to deepen...
Japanese Firms Continue to Exit China; Yakult Shuts Shanghai Plant, Leaving 4000+ Employees Jobless
Recently, Yakult Honsha, the parent company of the popular yogurt drink Yakult, announced the closure of its lactobacillus drink production facility in Shanghai, China....
Imran Khan continues to defy Pakistan’s government from jail as his wife leads protests
Despite being in jail since 2023, former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan continues to mobilise his supporters in a tug of war against the...
What Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can learn from China’s reformers
The Musk-Ramaswamy duet is gearing up for one of the most ambitious reform projects in US political history. Appointed to president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed...
Trump picks Richard Grenell as envoy for special missions
Published: 9:10am, 15 Dec 2024Updated: 10:22am, 15 Dec 2024 US president-elect Donald Trump on Saturday said his former intelligence chief Richard Grenell would run...
From Teresa Teng to Chiung Yao: Taiwan’s lost age of cultural sway over mainland China
When news broke earlier this month of the death of Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao, mainland fan Nicole Li was flooded with childhood memories of...