A 243kg bluefin tuna has smashed records by selling for £2.4m at Tokyo’s first fish auction of the year. The fish was bought at the Toyosu market on Monday by Kiyomura Corp, operator of the Sushi Zanmai restaurant chain. “The year’s first tuna brings good luck,” Kiyoshi Kimura, the company’s president, also known as the…
Hong Kong ranked fourth in a university study on air transit connectivity at 16 aviation hubs across the Asia-Pacific in 2023. Researchers from the National Taiwan Ocean University’s transport science department also said Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou experienced declines in connectivity following the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper was published in the Asian Journal of Shipping…
Twice as many mainland Chinese visitors arrived in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day compared with the same day in 2025, with one lawmaker attributing the surge to a three-day holiday across the border this year. Alan Chan Chung-yee, a legislator and chief operating officer of Miramar Group, also said on Friday that deteriorating relations…
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China builds a record-breaking hypergravity machine to compress space and…
Samuel Chow Tsz-hong left a teaching career behind to chase his dreams of lacrosse success with Hong Kong, and one day he hopes those he is now coaching replace him in the men’s senior team. The 24-year-old took charge for the first time at last weekend’s Hong Kong International Lacrosse Sixes, leading a youthful squad…
China is expected to solidify its position as a hi-tech manufacturing powerhouse over the next decade as it edges closer to “innovation and excellence” alongside the United States, Germany and Japan, according to new reports issued by Chinese institutions. The documents, published on Tuesday, stated that China had achieved its “strategic goal” of becoming the…
On December 18, China made a bold move on the global economic chessboard. It launched a massive free-trade experiment by turning the entire island province of Hainan – an area, comparable in size to Belgium, whose gross domestic product was US$113 billion last year – into a duty-free customs zone. A new narrative has now…
China has held two-day military drills – Justice Mission 2025 – around Taiwan, marking the sixth round of large-scale war games since 2022, when then-Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited the island. The exercise included 10 hours of live fire drills on Tuesday as Chinese forces practised encircling Taiwan and…
The city’s men and women both recorded their best-ever finishes at the Hong Kong International Lacrosse Sixes, despite missing out on bronze medals on Monday. An agonising 10-9 defeat saw the women fall just short against Japan’s JAL Sixes R&D Squad, while the men were well beaten 17-3 by the same club’s men’s team in…
China has moved its army, naval, air force and rocket force units to surround Taiwan for military drills, warning outside forces against supporting Taiwanese independence. The operation, dubbed “Just Mission 2025”, aims to test Beijing’s combat readiness, and will involve live-fire exercises on Tuesday. China’s Eastern Theatre Command said five zones surrounding Taiwan would be…