Eye on China: Japan reopens taboo debate over nuclear-powered submarines
With China flexing its naval power across the Pacific and bilateral tensions running high, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is weighing a move long...
Hong Kong to boost Huanggang Port capacity after Halloween, concert congestion
Hong Kong’s No 2 official has pledged to open extra clearance counters and vehicle lanes at the recently revamped Huanggang Port control point ahead...
War of words over Xinjiang erupts between Chinese and Turkish social media users
The debate over ethnic identity in Xinjiang has triggered an online clash between Chinese and Turkish social media users. The row began earlier this...
Louie Shum’s death: heart disease in Hong Kong and what to do in an emergency
Published: 8:50pm, 25 Oct 2026Updated: 10:57pm, 25 Oct 2026 The death of veteran Hong Kong stock market commentator Louie Shum Chun-ying has drawn public...
The West’s double standard on global unrest
In the early days of the student protests in France, mainstream Western media took the protesters’ claims about poor school facilities and declining resources...
China’s Liaoning carrier and USS Theodore Roosevelt may be in Philippine Sea at same time
Published: 8:13pm, 25 Oct 2026Updated: 8:45pm, 25 Oct 2026 China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier strike group sailed beyond the first island chain last week to...
US Marine indictment in Okinawa murder trial renews anti-base movement
Prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old US Marine on Sunday on suspicion of robbing and murdering a woman in Okinawa earlier this month as the case...
‘Really terrified’: how a blood test could spare cancer patients an agonising wait
In the second of a four-part Health Matters wellness series on frontier medicine in Hong Kong, Fiona Sun looks into how a new PCR...
Hong Kong seeks bigger role for yuan in regional trade, treasury chief says
Hong Kong officials held discussions with finance ministers and representatives from economies such as Brunei during last week’s Apec meeting on reducing reliance on...