A symbol of harmony: Chinese scientists discover earliest dragon-phoenix pairing in ancient tomb
It sometimes guards kingdoms and empires; other times, it hoards treasures within a hidden cave. The dragon frequently s
ymbolises power, strength, and good fortune. In contrast, its counterpart, the phoenix, meets its end in a pile of ashes only to be reborn at the pinnacle of its beauty, symbolising grace, beauty, and...
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It sometimes guards kingdoms and empires; other times, it hoards treasures within a hidden cave. The dragon frequently s
ymbolises power, strength, and good fortune. In contrast, its counterpart, the phoenix, meets its end in a pile of ashes only to be reborn at the pinnacle of its beauty, symbolising grace, beauty, and...
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Hong Kong Police College becomes first government unit to roll out degree course
The Hong Kong Police College has become the first government department to offer a bachelor’s degree programme, with the
force set to roll out the course for rank-and-file officers by the end of this year. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming announced the development on Saturday, after the Hong Kong Council for Ac...
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The Hong Kong Police College has become the first government department to offer a bachelor’s degree programme, with the
force set to roll out the course for rank-and-file officers by the end of this year. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming announced the development on Saturday, after the Hong Kong Council for Ac...
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Elderly couple found dead in Ma On Shan flat after foul odour reported
Hong Kong police are investigating the deaths of a couple in their seventies after their bodies were discovered inside t
heir home in Ma On Shan. Police said officers were alerted at around 8pm on Friday to a strange odour emanating from a flat in Heng Yat House at Heng On Estate. Firefighters forced entry to the flat, ...
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Hong Kong police are investigating the deaths of a couple in their seventies after their bodies were discovered inside t
heir home in Ma On Shan. Police said officers were alerted at around 8pm on Friday to a strange odour emanating from a flat in Heng Yat House at Heng On Estate. Firefighters forced entry to the flat, ...
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Bodies from Philippine ferry arrive at port after fire killed at least 35
Thirty charred bodies found inside a burned passenger ferry in the western Philippines arrived at a port Saturday for id
entification after a ship fire killed at least 35 people and left more than 50 others missing earlier this week. Retrieval operations will continue as more bodies are still inside the MV June Aster, c...
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Thirty charred bodies found inside a burned passenger ferry in the western Philippines arrived at a port Saturday for id
entification after a ship fire killed at least 35 people and left more than 50 others missing earlier this week. Retrieval operations will continue as more bodies are still inside the MV June Aster, c...
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Hong Kong’s ethnic minority groups can play key role in belt and road, summit hears
Hong Kong’s ethnic minority communities can leverage their multicultural backgrounds and language skills to play an “imp
ortant role” in the city’s efforts to build ties with belt and road countries, the labour minister has said. Other speakers at the Zubin Foundation’s Ethnically Diverse Youth Leadership Summit on Satu...
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Hong Kong’s ethnic minority communities can leverage their multicultural backgrounds and language skills to play an “imp
ortant role” in the city’s efforts to build ties with belt and road countries, the labour minister has said. Other speakers at the Zubin Foundation’s Ethnically Diverse Youth Leadership Summit on Satu...
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Hong Kong’s contemporary artists deserve a bigger stage in its museums
There has been much hyperventilating over two recent controversies at M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture. The firs
t was a series of mahjong social nights charging museum members and patrons up to HK$2,500 (US$319) for a package including an exhibition tour, a meal and social tile-shuffling in the members’ lounge....
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There has been much hyperventilating over two recent controversies at M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture. The firs
t was a series of mahjong social nights charging museum members and patrons up to HK$2,500 (US$319) for a package including an exhibition tour, a meal and social tile-shuffling in the members’ lounge....
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Chinese men warned over bridal scams as marriage squeeze drives search for wives in Africa
A young Malagasy woman was stopped at Madagascar’s Ivato International Airport last month as she prepared to travel to C
hina for a proposed marriage, according to local media reports citing police. She had reportedly been promised 10 million ariary (US$2,300) once she arrived and married a Chinese man. The case led pol...
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A young Malagasy woman was stopped at Madagascar’s Ivato International Airport last month as she prepared to travel to C
hina for a proposed marriage, according to local media reports citing police. She had reportedly been promised 10 million ariary (US$2,300) once she arrived and married a Chinese man. The case led pol...
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Probe launched after body of mainland Chinese woman found in sea off Lamma
Hong Kong police are investigating after the body of a 53-year-old mainland Chinese woman was found in the waters near L
amma Island on Saturday morning. Police received a report at 10.19am after a body was spotted floating in the ocean near the Lamma Power Station. Firefighters were deployed to the scene to recover the...
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Hong Kong police are investigating after the body of a 53-year-old mainland Chinese woman was found in the waters near L
amma Island on Saturday morning. Police received a report at 10.19am after a body was spotted floating in the ocean near the Lamma Power Station. Firefighters were deployed to the scene to recover the...
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No ‘red line’ for approving assemblies but security threats remain: police chief
There is no “red line” set for approving public assemblies, Hong Kong’s police chief has said, while warning that nation
al security risks persist despite the landmark conviction and imprisonment of organisers behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil for inciting subversion. The Hong Kong government on Saturday a...
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There is no “red line” set for approving public assemblies, Hong Kong’s police chief has said, while warning that nation
al security risks persist despite the landmark conviction and imprisonment of organisers behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil for inciting subversion. The Hong Kong government on Saturday a...
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Police freeze HK$30 million in bank account of man who refused to share Mark Six prize
Hong Kong police have frozen HK$30 million (US$3.8 million) held in the bank account of a 36-year-old man who was arrest
ed on suspicion of theft after he allegedly refused to split a winning Mark Six jackpot with his colleagues. The arrest was made on Friday after a 53-year-old man reported to police on Wednesday that ...
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Hong Kong police have frozen HK$30 million (US$3.8 million) held in the bank account of a 36-year-old man who was arrest
ed on suspicion of theft after he allegedly refused to split a winning Mark Six jackpot with his colleagues. The arrest was made on Friday after a 53-year-old man reported to police on Wednesday that ...
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Alarm as Syria plans private jet hub on former torture site
Syrian government plans to turn a former military airport in Damascus into a hub for private jets are raising alarm amo
ng rights groups and residents who say redevelopment could disturb suspected mass graves and override private land claims. Syria’s civil aviation authority said last week it was preparing to reclassif...
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Syrian government plans to turn a former military airport in Damascus into a hub for private jets are raising alarm amo
ng rights groups and residents who say redevelopment could disturb suspected mass graves and override private land claims. Syria’s civil aviation authority said last week it was preparing to reclassif...
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US wants Taiwan to ‘serve as cannon fodder’ against mainland China: state media
“Separatists” and the United States are putting Taiwan in greater danger, state broadcaster CCTV warned on Friday after
Washington’s de facto ambassador said the island could convince a potential adversary that landing forces would be very difficult. Raymond Greene, the director of the American Institute in Taiwan, sai...
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“Separatists” and the United States are putting Taiwan in greater danger, state broadcaster CCTV warned on Friday after
Washington’s de facto ambassador said the island could convince a potential adversary that landing forces would be very difficult. Raymond Greene, the director of the American Institute in Taiwan, sai...
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330-gram premature Chinese baby defies the odds to reach 2.5kg in 105 days, heads home
A premature baby in southern China, weighing just 330 grams and measuring as large as an adult’s palm, was discharged fr
om the hospital in good health after a 105-day stay. The newborn baby boy was born on May 20, when his mother was only 23 weeks and four days pregnant, at Shenzhen Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospi...
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A premature baby in southern China, weighing just 330 grams and measuring as large as an adult’s palm, was discharged fr
om the hospital in good health after a 105-day stay. The newborn baby boy was born on May 20, when his mother was only 23 weeks and four days pregnant, at Shenzhen Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospi...
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Hong Kong to table cooling-off period bill for beauty, fitness deals by mid-2027
The Hong Kong government will table a bill at the Legislative Council in the first half of 2027 to introduce a statutory
cooling-off period for prepaid beauty and fitness contracts, the commerce chief has said. Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau Ying-wah revealed the timeline on Saturday, two ...
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The Hong Kong government will table a bill at the Legislative Council in the first half of 2027 to introduce a statutory
cooling-off period for prepaid beauty and fitness contracts, the commerce chief has said. Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau Ying-wah revealed the timeline on Saturday, two ...
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Unvaccinated children, elderly face much higher risk of major flu complications: official
Unvaccinated children and elderly people are four to five times more likely to face serious complications or mortality f
rom flu infections than those who receive vaccinations, a Hong Kong health official has warned, as influenza cases in the city continued to rise. Director of Health Ronald Lam Man-kin issued the warni...
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Unvaccinated children and elderly people are four to five times more likely to face serious complications or mortality f
rom flu infections than those who receive vaccinations, a Hong Kong health official has warned, as influenza cases in the city continued to rise. Director of Health Ronald Lam Man-kin issued the warni...
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Foie gras, puppies, water parks: North Korea gets a glow-up
Coffee bars. Water parks. Retail therapy. North Korea – a country few would associate with leisure or pleasure – is exp
eriencing an unlikely outbreak of fun. Leader Kim Jong-un, himself no stranger to indulgence, is orchestrating new ways for his citizens to spend their wealth. North Korea’s imports of massage equip...
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Coffee bars. Water parks. Retail therapy. North Korea – a country few would associate with leisure or pleasure – is exp
eriencing an unlikely outbreak of fun. Leader Kim Jong-un, himself no stranger to indulgence, is orchestrating new ways for his citizens to spend their wealth. North Korea’s imports of massage equip...
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State funeral for Hong Kong’s first leader Tung Chee-hwa set for September 20
The state funeral for the city’s first chief executive, the late Tung Chee-hwa, is scheduled for next Sunday, the South
China Morning Post has learned. A source confirmed on Saturday that the funeral would take place on September 20, with details being arranged. State leaders and central government officials are expect...
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The state funeral for the city’s first chief executive, the late Tung Chee-hwa, is scheduled for next Sunday, the South
China Morning Post has learned. A source confirmed on Saturday that the funeral would take place on September 20, with details being arranged. State leaders and central government officials are expect...
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Bhutan banks on high-altitude hazelnuts to remake mountain farming
Farmer Pema Dema had never even heard of hazelnuts when she was first recruited to begin growing them on her land in Bhu
tan’s Thimphu region. “I wondered what sort of a nut it was,” the 58-year-old said with a laugh, looking out over the deep valley and terraced rice fields that unfold below her farm. Now she has more ...
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Farmer Pema Dema had never even heard of hazelnuts when she was first recruited to begin growing them on her land in Bhu
tan’s Thimphu region. “I wondered what sort of a nut it was,” the 58-year-old said with a laugh, looking out over the deep valley and terraced rice fields that unfold below her farm. Now she has more ...
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Hong Kong is lagging in the AI race – can it raise its game, and how?
In the third of our series of previews on the five-year plan and policy address, to be announced on September 16, Leopol
d Chen and Theodora Yu look at how the city can raise its game and expand the adoption of artificial intelligence. Read part one here and part two here. Spotting bags of construction waste illegally d...
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In the third of our series of previews on the five-year plan and policy address, to be announced on September 16, Leopol
d Chen and Theodora Yu look at how the city can raise its game and expand the adoption of artificial intelligence. Read part one here and part two here. Spotting bags of construction waste illegally d...
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China targets ‘toxic’ traffic as viral sensations upend daily life and public services
Authorities in China are taking content creators, fan groups and online platforms to task as their aggressive pursuit of
online traffic upends lives and public services across the country. State media and local authorities have called on these parties to exercise restraint and stop attention-seeking behaviour from gett...
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Authorities in China are taking content creators, fan groups and online platforms to task as their aggressive pursuit of
online traffic upends lives and public services across the country. State media and local authorities have called on these parties to exercise restraint and stop attention-seeking behaviour from gett...
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