A sea of 500 tents covered the white sands of remote Ham Tin Wan in Sai Kung during a recent holiday, turning one of Hong Kong’s most scenic beaches into a makeshift campsite for crowds of overnight visitors. Some of the campers had joined tours from mainland China for the Labour Day “golden week” holiday,…
Hackers are excited. Surveillance advertising corporations are elated. Political thought-police are enraptured. China has just approved the world’s first brain-computer chip. And they’ve beaten billionaire tech-bro and MAGA evangelist Elon Musk to market. The coin-sized device, called NEO, is the first surgical implant to pass clinical trials for commercial sale. Version one is optimised to…
An Australian man, who claimed to be a lawyer, has been fined HK$2,000 (US$255) and given a suspended sentence by a Hong Kong court for repeatedly leaving restaurants without paying. Samuel Anthony Monkivitch, 50, was also ordered to pay HK$2,039 in compensation to two Shangri-La hotels in Admiralty and Tsim Sha Tsui, as well as…
China has warned Australia it could be slapped with an additional 55 per cent tariff on beef imports within days if it exceeds new shipment quotas. Starting this year, Beijing introduced new quota and tariff arrangements for major beef-importing countries, including Australia, in a bid to protect local farms and beef producers. Australia’s annual import…
Australia and its partners in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a rare joint notice warning about Chinese spies aggressively using LinkedIn and other job platforms to “lure” recruits with access to sensitive information. “China’s military intelligence services are using an increasingly wide array of professional networking sites and online job platforms to target…
A Hong Kong-born biomedical imaging expert and founding dean of a US institution has been appointed to head the city’s third medical school. According to the University of Science and Technology on Monday, King Li King-chuen, dean emeritus of Carle Illinois College of Medicine, said he would draw on his experience to work closely with…
Over seven in 10 regional companies operating in the Greater Bay Area are maintaining a “cautious stance” on expansion, planning to hire no more than 30 new staff over the next three to five years, a survey has found. There is, however, strong demand in the market for hybrid professionals who can blend technology and…
It is very often said that the common law is one of Hong Kong’s greatest assets. It provides us with a corpus of law which shares common origins with those of many established jurisdictions. It enables conversations to take place between our legal professionals and with our counterparts elsewhere. As the only common law jurisdiction…
Jardine Matheson, an investment company headquartered in Hong Kong, announced on Monday the A$3.4 billion (US$2.4 billion) acquisition of the entire stake of an Australian diagnostic and teleradiology group. The acquisition of I-MED Radiology Network, which spans 215 diagnostic imaging clinics across metropolitan and regional communities in Australia and New Zealand, is one of Jardine…
Hong Kong’s airport is set for a shift in volume this summer after airlines quietly swapped jet sizes and reduced scheduled flights to manage costs amid a global fuel crisis and following a jump in economy passenger fares to Europe. Some airlines told the South China Morning Post they would operate all scheduled flights beyond…