Nobel Medicine Prize awarded to US-German trio for work on optogenetics
Published: 5:45pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 6:09pm, 5 Oct 2026 The 2026 Nobel Prize season opened on Monday with the Medicine Prize being awarded to...
HKMA licenses Bakai Bank, city’s first from Central Asia
Published: 5:42pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 5:51pm, 5 Oct 2026 Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has granted a banking licence to Bakai Bank, marking the...
China’s finance minister on fiscal policy
This article was translated from Chinese into English using Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Plus, then checked and tweaked for accuracy by a South China Morning Post journalist....
Ex-prince Andrew takes UK police to court to ‘quash’ Epstein affair search warrants
Britain’s disgraced former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has launched a High Court challenge “to quash search warrants” obtained by police ahead of his arrest earlier...
US defence experts to work inside Taiwan military HQ under reported pact
Published: 4:45pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 7:31pm, 5 Oct 2026 A reported plan to station US defence personnel inside Taiwan’s military headquarters would take mutual...
Why protecting home values is Beijing’s new priority
For decades, China’s property sector was defined by spectacular scale: farmland transformed into suburbs, skylines rising across regional hubs and, more recently, the prominent...
Southeast Asia starts to rethink its AI data centre boom: ‘at what cost?’
Southeast Asian governments are learning some hard truths about the data centre boom they spent years working to attract, analysts say – it promises...
Spain’s prime minister calls early election as housing becomes a national flashpoint
Published: 4:04pm, 5 Oct 2026Updated: 4:13pm, 5 Oct 2026 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising...
Hong Kong lawmakers say 5-year tax incentive too short to entice major innovative firms
Hong Kong lawmakers have backed the government’s proposed tax incentives for large innovative companies, but many said on Monday that the planned five-year concession...