Hong Kong bus operators seek fare hikes of up to 17.7% amid fuel price surge
Published: 2:34pm, 14 Oct 2026Updated: 2:50pm, 14 Oct 2026 Four Hong Kong franchised bus operators have applied to raise fares by up to 17.7...
Small acts, shared dreams: students find purpose in helping children in need
About 300 Hong Kong students applied this year for roughly 30 places on an overseas programme to help children in need, up from about...
Russian strikes kill 6 in Ukraine, knocking out power across Kyiv
Heavy overnight Russian strikes killed at least six people in Ukraine and cut power to large parts of the capital Kyiv, authorities said on...
China tests a Dune-like iron-harvesting crawler robot in the Taklamakan Desert
Published: 2:00pm, 14 Oct 2026Updated: 3:23pm, 14 Oct 2026 Chinese researchers have built a self-propelled crawler robot that harvests iron from sand and have...
No rush to T+1: Hong Kong exchange won’t hurry settlement-time change, sources say
Participants in Hong Kong’s stock market may need to wait longer for shorter transaction settlement times, as market participants want more time to prepare...
Asia must guard against repeat of 1997 financial crisis: Philippine central bank chief
Asian countries must remind themselves about what happened during the region’s financial crisis in the late 1990s and guard against a recurrence of such...
Global deforestation fell in 2025, but Congo Basin losses surged
Deforestation slowed worldwide last year, but the improvement is unlikely to last as the situation deteriorates in Central Africa and an exceptionally strong El...
13 years in prison for former care home warden who raped intellectually disabled woman
Published: 1:11pm, 14 Oct 2026Updated: 1:18pm, 14 Oct 2026 A Hong Kong court has sentenced a former assistant warden at a care home for...
Submerged to save Bangkok: rural Thais bear brunt of capital’s flood defences
Stilt houses in villages north of Bangkok are no longer high enough to stay dry as Thai authorities deliberately flood riverside communities to spare...