The Hong Kong government will lift resale restrictions on replacement homes for flat owners displaced by the Tai Po fire and provide them with two-year vouchers to purchase second-hand subsidised housing, according to an official buy-back document seen by the South China Morning Post on Tuesday. The document states that original owners who opt for…
More than 20 local authorities say the government’s proposed minimum target for accessible housing is not ambitious enough and a higher proportion of accessible housing is achievable. Councils who responded to an Ageing Better survey overwhelmingly agreed that the proposed 40% minimum target put forward as part of reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework…
The Prince and Princess of Wales‘ home got quite the upgrade when they moved from Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor Home Park estate to Forest Lodge in October 2025. The family of five (the couple and their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis) went from their four-bedroom candy pink home to the…
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa was strengthening rapidly late Saturday, threatening to become a major hurricane and cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica. Melissa became a hurricane on Saturday, prompting forecasters to issue a hurricane warning for Jamaica, saying it could reach the island as a major storm early next…
SANDY — Mortgage rates have hit their lowest level in nearly a year. According to Freddie Mac, the weekly average rate hit 6.58%, which hasn’t happened since October. The drop has sparked an increase in mortgage applications nationally, but is it making any real impact on buyers in Utah’s difficult housing market? Trevor Thompson, a…
SALT LAKE CITY — For the last three years, Alleyways Amplified has organized a fashion show to highlight fashion designers and artists in the Salt Lake City area. On Friday evening, though, it brought attention to more than music and fashion. The group held a fundraiser in conjunction with their show for employees impacted by…
SALT LAKE CITY — You never know what you’re going to find when you’re cleaning up an office. That was certainly the situation for Janae Pettit and Natalie Workman, two fashion designers who shared a studio with the late local designer Afa Ah Loo. One week after his death — Ah Loo was shot and…
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft on Friday said it will stop using China-based engineers to provide technical assistance to the U.S. military after a report in investigative journalism outlet ProPublica sparked questions from a U.S. senator and prompted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to order a two-week review of Pentagon cloud deals. The report detailed Microsoft’s use…
WASHINGTON — Cybersecurity investigators noticed a highly unusual software crash — it was affecting a small number of smartphones belonging to people who worked in government, politics, tech and journalism. The crashes, which began late last year and carried into 2025, were the tipoff to a sophisticated cyberattack that may have allowed hackers to infiltrate…