Displaced residents of the fire-hit blocks at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court may be allowed repeated trips back to their flats to collect belongings, after officials softened their stance amid an online petition appealing for greater flexibility. Deputy Chief Secretary Warner Cheuk Wing-hing said on Monday that residents who wished to go back and forth…
Russian soldiers at home have been killing, maiming, raping and looting at record rates since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Moscow’s garrison military courts have seen a more than tenfold increase in murder cases involving servicemen in the past few years. They received 729 such cases between 2022 and 2025, compared to…
The move would make Musk the first ever person to lead two publicly traded companies worth more than $1 trillion. AUSTIN, Texas — Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX appears to be taking a major step towards going public. According to reporting from Bloomberg, the Texas-based company confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…
Coffee and panties aren’t two items that usually go together — but this influencer says otherwise. Fitness coach and content creator Tara Woodcox has gone viral for a TikTok in which she advised her followers to clean their dirty underwear in hotel coffee makers. In the video, which was originally posted on November 9 of…
A Verizon truck driving down Beach Road in Tisbury. —Eunki Seonwoo Verizon, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the nation, has sued Chilmark after the town denied upgrades by the cellular company that would have expanded cell coverage to its customers. The federal lawsuit, filed by Verizon on March 16 in the U.S. District…
An orthopaedist has been issued a public warning letter and reprimanded by Hong Kong’s medical watchdog after performing an unconventional bunion surgery without a patient’s informed consent. The Medical Council on Monday found Dr Daniel Wu Yiang guilty of professional misconduct on four charges after the patient at Hong Kong Adventist Hospital underwent a syndesmosis…
Sotiomake/Shutterstock Almost five years after the Xbox Series X and S were released, Microsoft raised the price of Xbox consoles in 2025. Despite this, there were reportedly over two million new sales of Xbox consoles for the year. This puts the lifetime sales of Microsoft’s current-generation consoles…
Robotaxi passengers in China became stranded on busy roads after their driverless cars came to a sudden halt in heavy traffic. A “system malfunction” caused more than 100 Apollo Go vehicles to stall in the city of Wuhan, according to local police. While no injuries were reported, it did cause traffic chaos in some cases….
China’s National Immigration Administration (NIA) is bracing for an unprecedented swell of cross-border traffic during the upcoming Qingming Festival long-weekend (4–6 April). In a notice issued late on 1 April, the agency forecast more than 2.3 million inbound and outbound movements per day—an 11.1 percent jump on last year. The spike will be fuelled by…
One of the key pillars of investing is diversification. This means investing in companies across different industries, sizes, and regions around the world. When it comes to different regions, one of the best ways to get exposure is to invest in thousands of them at once through an international exchange-traded fund (ETF). That’s why I’m…