Hong Kong to make written taxi driver test easier as technology changes job
A written test for Hong Kong’s aspiring taxi drivers will be made easier from November, with the number of questions related to prominent locations...
China’s first emperor really did look to Tibet in search of immortality: experts
Published: 9:40pm, 16 Sep 2025Updated: 9:55pm, 16 Sep 2025 A stone inscription found on the Tibetan Plateau recording a hitherto unknown expedition sent by...
Alibaba’s Tmall merchants enter Southeast Asia via subsidiary Lazada’s platform
Alibaba Group Holding is looking to ramp up its cross-border e-commerce strategy by getting merchants on its premium Tmall shopping site to sell to...
Hong Kong could issue T1 warning between Wednesday night, Thursday morning
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Hong Kong to explore boosting tokenised gold trading in city
Published: 9:01pm, 16 Sep 2025Updated: 9:58pm, 16 Sep 2025 Authorities are looking into boosting tokenised gold trading in Hong Kong as a step forward...
Peeling into TikTok deal, analysts see layers of leverage, tariffs and soybeans
Despite its vague wording, the new China-US framework deal on popular video-sharing app TikTok represents an important step in advancing bilateral talks and keeping...
DeepSeek evaluates AI models for ‘frontier risks’, source says
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has conducted internal evaluations on the “frontier risks” of its AI models, according to a person familiar with the...
Hollywood icon Robert Redford dies at 89
Published: 8:35pm, 16 Sep 2025Updated: 8:50pm, 16 Sep 2025 Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather...
Why Charlie Kirk’s killing could herald calmer US-China relations
Many people in the United States and elsewhere are still in shock over the killing of Charlie Kirk. The young conservative influencer, renowned for...