Hong Kong ombudsman slams bad ‘attitude’, resource use of care homes after probe
Published: 5:25pm, 9 Oct 2025Updated: 5:47pm, 9 Oct 2025 Hong Kong social welfare authorities should strengthen supervision of care homes and review their resource...
Radioactive shrimp link prompts Indonesia to ban scrap metal imports
Indonesia has halted imports of scrap metal after tracing radioactive contamination found at an industrial site and in shrimp shipments to the US to...
Alibaba Cloud inks landmark multi-year collaboration with NBA China
Alibaba Group Holding’s artificial intelligence and cloud computing unit on Thursday inked a multi-year collaboration with the National Basketball Association (NBA) in China, a...
‘I only care about Thailand’: PM snubs Trump’s Cambodia border mediation
Donald Trump has urged Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to pursue a peaceful resolution to the country’s simmering border conflict with Cambodia, as the...
China sanctions US defence firms, chip data provider in latest curbs
Published: 4:22pm, 9 Oct 2025Updated: 5:34pm, 9 Oct 2025 Beijing has announced sanctions on a slew of Western companies and institutions in the defence...
Hong Kong medical student pleads guilty to filming 2 male schoolmates in shower
Published: 4:19pm, 9 Oct 2025Updated: 4:51pm, 9 Oct 2025 A Hong Kong medical student has pleaded guilty to covertly filming two male schoolmates while...
Plan to privatise Hang Seng Bank elicits mixed reactions from customers
On Thursday afternoon, hours after HSBC Holdings announced a plan to privatise subsidiary Hang Seng Bank, the local lender’s headquarters in Central was crowded...
China says foreigners are using its rare earth exports for military purposes
China has accused unnamed foreign organisations and individuals of processing its rare earths for military purposes as it announced further export controls on Thursday....
China sees uptick in ‘super golden week’ spending amid record travel surge
Published: 4:02pm, 9 Oct 2025Updated: 4:05pm, 9 Oct 2025 China logged a welcome uptick in spending on services during the just-concluded eight-day “super golden...