Generations of alumni returned to the stage on Saturday to mark the 45th anniversary of the Student of the Year Awards, celebrating a decades-long history of recognising high-achieving Hong Kong pupils who have gone on to become distinguished professionals, from medical experts and acclaimed musicians to Olympic athletes. Among the returning alumni was Dr Chan…
A Ying Wa College pupil who took home the Student of the Year Awards’ grand prize was among 40 outstanding peers who received top honours on Saturday, as the event organiser announced a major expansion to mark its 45th anniversary. Starting next year, the awards scheme will feature a new category for artificial intelligence (AI)…
The South China Morning Post will host its China Conference in Kazakhstan’s capital in September, following a high-level Hong Kong delegation led by the city’s leader to Central Asia last month, marking the first such event organised by a local media outlet in the region. Announcing the move at the SCMP China Conference 2026 on…
Hong Kong’s high-quality economic development will be guided by its first five-year blueprint and the coming policy address, with AI as the “central plank”, the city’s leader has said. Speaking at the South China Morning Post’s China Conference 2026 on Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also said Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” advantages…
The launch of a marine war-risk pool by Hong Kong insurers is a prime example of how the city’s insurers can collaborate not just for the benefit of the local economy but for the entire nation, an industry veteran has said. At the South China Morning Post’s China Conference, themed “Intelligence at Scale: Hong Kong’s…
For decades, warnings of Hong Kong’s terminal decline have arrived in periodic waves. When Stephen Roach, the former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, ignited a firestorm with his February 2024 assertion that “Hong Kong is over”, he pointed to a toxic cocktail of domestic and external pressures. Roach, who doubled down on his “wake-up call”…
As we celebrate another year of the official establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, it is time to reflect once more on how far the city has come since 1997. Indeed, as an Australian academic, scientist, and internationalist who has called Hong Kong home for more than 11 years, I have witnessed this…
More Hong Kong students are turning to mainland China for summer internships as government and university schemes expand cross-border placements. Students said they were drawn by greater opportunities in different sectors, hands-on experience in a larger market and lower living costs, with some viewing cross-border exposure as a career asset. The Home and Youth Affairs…
The first phase of Hong Kong’s Hetao innovation hub, a key cross-border initiative under the Northern Metropolis megaproject, has been well received, with two of its wet laboratory buildings fully leased, its chairman has revealed. Permanent Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Kevin Choi Kit-ming, who also chairs the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park…
One of Thailand’s largest energy conglomerates has bought Caltex petrol stations in Hong Kong in a HK$2.1 billion (US$270 million) deal, which the firm will use as a springboard into North Asia. Semi-privatised Bangchak Corporation Public Company on Tuesday completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of the shares of Chevron Hong Kong from Chevron…