Vietnam’s fake cooking oil scandal shakes trust in food safety
Vietnam’s food safety authorities have issued a nationwide public health warning following a local police bust of a large counterfeit oil operation secretly selling...
Hong Kong Palace Museum to host city’s largest showcase of Egyptian artefacts
Published: 5:32pm, 26 Jun 2025Updated: 5:37pm, 26 Jun 2025 The Hong Kong Palace Museum has signed a historic agreement with Egypt’s custodian of its...
Person connected to HSBC banker buys luxury property for US$15.9 million
Published: 5:30pm, 26 Jun 2025Updated: 5:54pm, 26 Jun 2025 A person connected to veteran HSBC banker Peter Wong Tung-shun bought a luxury unit in...
How are stricter sanitation checks at border affecting China’s durian imports?
Published: 5:04pm, 26 Jun 2025Updated: 5:06pm, 26 Jun 2025 China’s imports of fresh durians have fallen this year because of stricter sanitation checks at...
OpenAI: Zhipu AI is fuelling China’s global push for US tech alternatives
OpenAI said its analysts found that Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Zhipu AI had made “notable progress” in providing infrastructure solutions to governments and...
Chinese scientists develop gene-editing tool to target incurable diseases
Chinese researchers have made a major advance in the science of gene editing by developing a new way to treat diseases that cannot be...
Police break up Hong Kong loan shark syndicate that hired teen debt collectors
A loan shark syndicate in Hong Kong recruited young people through chat groups to vandalise debtors’ homes with red paint and paid them up...
Rare earths ‘THE thing’ for EU agenda planners ahead of China leaders’ summit
China’s chokehold on the global supply of rare earth elements – and its recent willingness to weaponise it – will have top billing when...
US-China trade deal is near, expert says: ‘they are going to stabilise this’
The United States and China could reach a trade agreement as early as next week, according to a Harvard scholar, who has offered clues...