Tropical Storm Toraji may have seemed largely a non-event to those braced for violent weather. What set it apart is that the city’s stock exchange broke with past practice by trading normally. By contrast, the Jockey Club abandoned the last three races of a nine-race card at Happy Valley on Wednesday night ahead of a…
A Chinese fashion design student hailed as a “genius” for her score in a national maths competition achieved the results with her teacher’s help, according to investigations by her school and the event organiser, who said she “did not win a prize”. The Lianshui Secondary Vocational School in eastern Jiangsu province said on Sunday that…
Vendors that will set up shop at Hong Kong’s largest Lunar New Year fair have expressed concerns over profit amid lacklustre consumer spending as 12 stalls failed to earn bids at auction and one insider estimated prices had fallen to their lowest level in 17 years. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department held the three-day…
Two much-awaited pandas gifted to Hong Kong by Beijing have completed their 30-day quarantine and set foot in their new Ocean Park home for the first time after arriving last month. The park said on Saturday a thorough consultation confirmed An An and Ke Ke were in good physical health, meeting all the requirements set…
Beijing is moving to boost the country’s talent ranks in the fields of science and technology by creating more doctoral programmes in key areas such as medicine, engineering and emerging fields. The State Council – China’s cabinet – and the Communist Party’s Central Committee issued guidelines on Sunday calling on education authorities and universities to…
The opening ceremony of the inaugural World Games Series in Hong Kong welcomed 88 athletes from 35 countries and regions on Friday, with a senior government official praising the role of the event in helping to promote sport in the city. Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong Wai-lun, speaking at the event’s opening ceremony at the…
Seventy-year-old Hongkonger Cheng Hon-fai can perform fitness feats most people cannot even fathom doing. With nothing more than the modest playground equipment at a park in Hong Kong’s Tin Shui Wai, the retiree can swing his body around a horizontal bar over a dozen times in a row and carry himself up a pole while…
A major football competition in Hong Kong has rejected a school’s appeal to accept its late enrolment, despite an emotional plea from the institution’s principal, with the organiser citing a need to keep the contest fair. The principal of Ma On Shan’s Yan Chai Hospital Tung Chi Ying Memorial Secondary School, famous long-time annual contest…
Seventy-year-old Hongkonger Cheng Hon-fai can perform fitness feats most people cannot even fathom doing. With nothing more than the modest playground equipment at a park in Hong Kong’s Tin Shui Wai, the retiree can swing his body around a horizontal bar over a dozen times in a row and carry himself up a pole while…