Some Hongkongers have pressed ahead with trips to Japan on Saturday morning despite “slight worries” about a widely discussed prediction that a mega-earthquake will hit the country today. While travellers told the Post they would pay more attention to the local news, they acknowledged being unprepared for potential earthquakes. “I felt a little uncomfortable at…
The Observatory says the Standby Signal No. 1 will remain in effect for the rest of Saturday. At 11 am, tropical storm Danas was estimated to be about 400 kilometres east-southeast of Hong Kong and was forecast to gradually intensify and move north slowly. The forecaster said chances of issuing higher warning signals is rather…
Hong Kong is back. So I was told, over and over again, when I arrived in the city in January 2023, having decided to move my life to a place I had never even visited. I heard it from government officials in speeches. I heard it from friends who couldn’t wait to start walking Hong…
The main talking point for Hui, the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, has been a new law, enacted in May, that sought to make it easier for overseas companies to reincorporate in the city. Just a few days after the law came into force, Hui flew to Canada to meet senior executives from…
Leung kwok-hung understands the power of images. One of Hong Kong’s most famous pro-democracy lawmakers for two decades, he spurned suits for t-shirts emblazoned with the face of his idol, Che Guevara. The side of his van bore a large cartoon of Mr Leung kicking the bottom of one of the city’s former leaders. In…
The Observatory on Saturday said the chance of issuing higher tropical cyclone warning signals was rather low. It said tropical storm Danas was moving slowly over the north-eastern part of the South China Sea and that it would skirt around 400 kilometres southeast of Hong Kong for the rest of Saturday and Sunday morning. The…
In the second of a two-part series on Hong Kong’s efforts to boost its tourism industry, the Post takes a look at other attractions the city can offer beyond the nine hotspot products the government has floated. Read part one here. Even as Hong Kong has kick-started efforts to promote nine “tourism hotspots” identified by…
A Hong Kong court has allowed an Indonesian tourist to return home while waiting for authorities to decide whether to continue with his prosecution over a fallen tumbler that hit another visitor at The Peak. Merchant Satnauli Bangun, 44, was not required to enter a plea on a count of allowing an object to fall…
Leading Hong Kong forensic pathologist Dr Philip Beh Swan-lip, who dedicated his career to helping families that had lost loved ones find closure and co-founded the city’s first sexual violence crisis centre, has died. Beh was also involved in a high-profile inquest into the death of a 15-year-old girl whose naked body was found at…
Hong Kong’s ambition to create an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is bearing fruit, with more than 90 per cent of the city’s flagship supercomputing centre at Cyberport now in use, according to officials. The AI Supercomputing Centre, which began operations in December, is a cornerstone of the government’s strategy to foster a vibrant local AI…