Hong Kong’s Primary Six students cheered and shed tears of joy on Tuesday as they received their secondary school allocation results after years of hard work, with some already looking ahead to future university subjects or the possibility of studying overseas. Joy and relief filled the hall at Yaumati Catholic Primary School (Hoi Wang Road)…
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce is calling for an investigation into whether China’s missile test this week is linked to the Telstra outage affecting phone services and critical infrastructure across Australia. The country’s biggest telecommunications firm on Wednesday experienced network problems “affecting some mobile calls and data connections”. The outage, which was 90 per cent…
A Hong Kong tour group on an aurora-chasing boat ride near an island in Australia saved two fellow city residents who went missing while scuba diving, in a dramatic rescue the agency said “shone light on the brilliance of humanity”. WWPKG Tours detailed the rescue on Sunday in a Facebook post and commended tour group…
While most Hong Kong children find sanctuary at home, Bobo* spent her primary and secondary school years constantly on high alert, always looking for a new place to hide in her flat. “Every single day I had to figure out how to avoid that person, how to find another safe spot inside the flat,” said…
Australia has raised concerns about Beijing’s maritime activities near Taiwan directly with Chinese officials, as reports suggest a changing strategy in the region. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, sent coast guard ships last month into the waters off Taiwan’s east coast for what it called a “special maritime traffic law-enforcement…
The world’s largest buyer of biopharmaceutical royalties has set up its first Asia-Pacific base in Hong Kong, joining a string of multinational corporations in the pharmaceutical sector establishing offices in the city as out-licensing deals by mainland Chinese biotechnology firms hit record highs. Royalty financing gives drug developers an alternative way to raise capital even…
Customers with one of Hong Kong’s top energy firms have been forced to bear the brunt of steeper supply costs after the conflict in the Middle East cut off gas from Qatar earlier this year, the company’s CEO has said. HK Electric’s Francis Cheng Cho-ying said on Sunday that the firm had not received any…
The global higher education landscape has shifted markedly over the past five years, with universities across Asia, particularly in Hong Kong and mainland China, climbing international rankings while more than 70 per cent of US institutions slipped, a South China Morning Post analysis has found. UK-based education data firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) said the trend…
Thousands of spectators and paddlers have descended on Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui promenade to cheer and compete as the 50th anniversary of the city’s annual International Dragon Boat Races gets under way. More than 220 teams from 16 jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, Australia and Qatar, are competing in the two-day event starting on Saturday,…
Late Hong Kong actress Barbara Chan Man-yee embodied “unconditional love”, her son said at her memorial service on Thursday, attended by leading figures from the city’s entertainment industry, including director Johnnie To Kei-fung and actress Ada Choi Siu-fun. A private service for the veteran actress was held at St Andrew’s Church in Tsim Sha Tsui,…