Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui has retained its title as Asia’s priciest luxury retail strip, commanding £16,160 (US$22,000) per square metre in annual rents, as the city remains among the world’s most active markets in terms of new high-end store openings, according to Savills. London’s Bond Street replaced Tsim Sha Tsui as the top global…
CHINA He’s having a ball. A 22-year-old man from China won the World Snooker Championship in England this week. Wu Yize, who dropped out of school at 16 to pursue the sport professionally, is the second youngest to ever be crowned the winner. In his first public appearance in the country after his victory, he…
Keir Starmer vowed Friday to remain as Britain’s prime minister after disastrous local elections saw his centre-left Labour party humiliated across the UK, with disillusioned voters backing hard-right and nationalist parties. Issued on: 09/05/2026 – 08:02 2 min Reading time Thursday’s ballots — Starmer’s biggest electoral test since Labour ousted the Conservatives in 2024 —…
The operations of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in London will remain unaffected by a UK spying verdict, observers have said, arguing that the British government is unlikely to seek its closure so as to maintain relations with Beijing. A British court on Thursday found Bill Yuen Chung-biu, the London HKETO’s manager,…
Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Janice Tse Siu-wa has emerged as the biggest landlord among Hong Kong ministers after declaring that she has 25 properties in her name in the city, mainland China and the UK. The 61-year-old constitutional affairs chief also revealed that she or her family held shareholdings of more than 1…
A British court has convicted two men linked to an Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) of spying on activists from the city on behalf of Chinese authorities. Bill Yuen Chung-biu, the London office’s manager, and Peter Wai Chi-leung were found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service on Thursday, two years after their…
Fewer than 5 per cent of Hong Kong flights have been cancelled for May and June combined, and about 1 per cent during the peak July travel period, the Airport Authority has said, despite a global fuel crisis triggered by the Middle East war, adding it would review charges to ease the industry’s burden. Responding…
HSBC, Hong Kong’s largest lender, reported broadly flat first-quarter profit as lower interest rates and provisions linked to the Middle East conflict offset solid growth in its wealth management business. Net profit for the first three months of 2026 rose 0.14 per cent year on year to US$6.94 billion, or 41 US cents per share,…
London, Two months into the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz is still mostly shut. Vessel traffic is running at a fraction of pre-war levels, with the patchwork of ceasefires, blockades and re-closures since February 28 not restoring confidence on the bridge of any tanker. What alternatives do Gulf states have to Strait of…
new video loaded: North London Stabbing Is Being Treated as Terrorism, Police Say transcript Back transcript North London Stabbing Is Being Treated as Terrorism, Police Say Two men were stabbed in north London on Wednesday, in an area that is home to just over half of Britain’s 300,000 Jewish residents. The city’s main police force…