Atomic scientists adjust Doomsday Clock closer than ever to midnight
Published: 11:38pm, 28 Jan 2025Updated: 11:40pm, 28 Jan 2025 Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their “Doomsday Clock” closer to midnight than ever before, citing...
Hong Kong worshippers seek good fortune at annual Lunar New Year ritual
A veteran actress, a Japanese actor and a Hong Kong teenager are among the worshippers who have flocked to one of the city’s largest...
Hong Kong-bound plane catches fire at South Korea’s Busan airport
Published: 10:55pm, 28 Jan 2025Updated: 10:55pm, 28 Jan 2025 The tail of a passenger aircraft caught fire at an international airport in South Korea’s...
What will it take for China to produce the next DeepSeek-style disrupter?
In the wake of DeepSeek’s stunning success, observers said China was likely to produce more hi-tech “surprises”, but maintaining an open innovation ecosystem would...
Congo’s M23 rebels control Goma airport, embassies attacked
Dead bodies lay in the streets, gunfire rang out and hospitals were overwhelmed in east Congo’s largest city Goma where M23 rebels backed by...
14 food poisoning cases in Hong Kong from Cafe de Coral’s Lunar New Year dish
Published: 9:31pm, 28 Jan 2025Updated: 9:34pm, 28 Jan 2025 Fourteen people have fallen ill with food poisoning in Hong Kong after eating a festive...
What DeepSeek’s success means for Nvidia and costly GPU-driven AI growth
Published: 9:00pm, 28 Jan 2025Updated: 9:03pm, 28 Jan 2025 The first major casualty of the success of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has...
Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek, Lunar New Year travel hotspots: SCMP daily catch-up
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and economy stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting,...
Hong Kong florists cut prices as buyers sniff out Lunar New Year fair deals
Vendors at Hong Kong’s largest Lunar New Year fair are slashing their prices on flowers and other goods to clear stock, reporting weaker sales...