China Dulong ethnic women tattoo faces to stop abduction, drink alcohol not water
Women in one of China’s smallest ethnic groups, the Dulong, are required to tattoo their faces to protect themselves from abduction. Advertisement Equally striking...
Henderson Land’s Augustine Wong launches Hong Kong Legco election bid
An executive director of leading Hong Kong property developer Henderson Land has declared his intention to run in the coming Legislative Council election, brushing...
63-year-old Hong Kong restaurant stays open by working out deal with landlord
Published: 1:50pm, 30 Oct 2025Updated: 1:55pm, 30 Oct 2025 A Chinese restaurant serving Hakka cuisine for more than six decades in Hong Kong has...
Daughter demands answers after mum left behind on Australian cruise dies
Published: 1:22pm, 30 Oct 2025Updated: 1:31pm, 30 Oct 2025 The daughter of an octogenarian passenger found dead on a remote island in Australia after...
Doubts surface over Trump’s South Korea nuclear submarine plan
President Donald Trump’s declaration that he was allowing South Korea to build nuclear-powered submarines is being met with caution and scepticism. Analysts say the...
No ‘authorised absences’ allowed for election events, Hong Kong civil servants told
Published: 1:09pm, 30 Oct 2025Updated: 1:32pm, 30 Oct 2025 Hong Kong government employees are not allowed to apply for “authorised absences” to attend official...
Trump greenlights South Korea nuclear submarine plan ahead of Xi meeting
US President Donald Trump said he had approved plans for South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine in Philadelphia – praising Seoul as a...
CUHK’s culturally tailored predictive tool cuts risks for diabetics in Hong Kong
Researchers from Hong Kong and the United Kingdom have together developed a new predictive model that can estimate the lifetime risk of diabetic patients...
Harvard HIV scientist Xie Zhenfei joins China’s national virus lab in Wuhan
Award-winning Xie Zhenfei, a Harvard University rising star in cutting-edge research aimed at an HIV vaccine, has left the US and joined China’s leading...