Hong Kong needs a civil service fit for a changed world
Hong Kong’s civil service has long enjoyed a reputation for efficiency, professionalism and probity. It has also been a pillar of stability, particularly during...
School bullying cases in Hong Kong rise 32% to nearly 500 a year
Hong Kong schools handled an average of 496 bullying cases each academic year from 2022 to 2025 – a 32 per cent jump compared...
Singapore embraces AI for cyber defence, with one caveat: breach transparency
Singapore is turning to major technology firms to strengthen its cyber defences, even as it presses them for greater transparency over security breaches –...
Obama blasts Trump’s ‘chaos and cruelty’ while campaigning for Democrats
Published: 6:50am, 25 Oct 2026Updated: 7:43am, 25 Oct 2026 Former US president Barack Obama delivered a scathing critique of his successor, Donald Trump, at...
China’s next generation of leaders waiting in the wings for more senior roles
Published: 6:00am, 25 Oct 2026Updated: 6:31am, 25 Oct 2026 Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are...
Trump, a critic of early voting, votes early in Florida
US President Donald Trump cast his ballot for the midterm elections in Palm Beach on Saturday, opting to vote early in his adopted home...
How to share AI wealth? Neither the US nor Asia has the answer
On October 18, Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory preparing one of the largest listings in history, committed 5 per cent of its shares...
Musk admits he throttled Ukraine’s Starlink speeds, as access is restored
Published: 2:00am, 25 Oct 2026Updated: 5:20am, 25 Oct 2026 Elon Musk said on Saturday that his company SpaceX had throttled the Starlink satellite internet...
German man detained after fire wrecks Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ mountain retreat
Firefighters battled on Saturday to put out flames that tore through Adolf Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” mountain retreat while police detained a suspect who investigators...