Image credit: Ka Ho Ng/Unsplash Living in a city known for its high living expenses, Hong Kong citizens are again facing significant public service fee adjustments as prices are set to rise in 2026. This includes parking, healthcare, and education, except for a reduction in the electricity fee. These adjustments aim to reflect operational costs…
Leeds United striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin has been named the Premier League Player of the Month for December 2025, with Aston Villa’s Unai Emery taking home the monthly managerial prize. The festive period began with Leeds in the relegation zone and on the cusp of parting ways with manager Daniel Farke, but a switch to a…
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Nvidia’s (NVDA) China business continues to face geopolitical hurdles, which could pose longer-term competitive risks for the AI chipmaker. Ongoing US-China tensions have upended Nvidia’s sales in what was one of its largest markets. In the company’s most recent quarter, revenue from China, which includes Hong Kong, dropped 45% from a year ago to about…
The coming Lunar New Year fireworks display in Hong Kong will feature the theme of galloping horses to welcome the Year of the Horse, with the Jockey Club sponsoring the event for the first time. Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges said on Friday that the fireworks show, titled “Prosperity gallops across Hong Kong”, would…
First concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 1 at Phase I of the Xuwei nuclear power project in China’s Jiangsu province. The plant will supply both industrial heating and electricity by coupling a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor with two Hualong One pressurised water reactors. Xuwei Phase I was among 11 reactors…
Morning opening: Greenland working group off to rocky start Jakub Krupa After meeting with the US vice-president JD Vance and state secretary Marco Rubio on Wednesday, the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced a new diplomatic channel to discuss their “fundamental” disagreements over Greenland: namely, a working group with the US. The US flag is…
Hadrian/Shutterstock The inaccuracy of the speedometers used by most vehicles, even those in cars with the coolest gauge clusters, is well known. The good news is that most speedometers report speeds higher than the actual speed the vehicle is traveling. This is so that inconsistencies in tire…
Hong Kong’s Ma On Shan residents will get a new cinema at a recently vacated site of its sole theatre, bucking the trend of closures that began during the pandemic. CineArt Cinema said on Friday it would open a new branch at MOSTown, a shopping centre in Ma On Shan, before Lunar New Year. While…
Key Points The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite delivered outsize returns during Trump’s first term in the White House — and they continued this trend during the first year of his second term. The president’s policies are having an undeniable impact on corporate America. Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act…