This photo released on the official Facebook page of the movie “Back to the Past” shows a poster of the movie. LOS ANGELES – Hong Kong historical sci-fi action film Back to the Past opened Friday in a limited theatrical release across North America. Distributed by Well Go USA Entertainment, the time-travel film is screening…
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways and its budget arm carried more than 36 million passengers in 2025, up 27 per cent from the previous year, on the back of growth in tourist numbers. Cathay Group said on Wednesday that the number of passengers handled by its premium carrier grew by 26.5 per cent to 28.87…
Passenger trips at the Hong Kong International Airport reached 61 million in 2025, marking a 15 per cent year-on-year increase, after a full year of operation with the facility’s third runway. The Airport Authority said on Thursday that the strong figures came on the back of a busy Christmas season, which saw over 200,000 daily…
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…
Nike is running out of time to prove its China playbook works. The U.S. sportswear giant’s sixth straight quarterly sales decline in the country – including a 20% drop in footwear – underscores how a market once seen as a growth engine has become its biggest pressure point. CEO Elliott Hill admitted on Thursday’s post-earnings…
Both Afghans as well as general asylum seekers were left reeling over the weekend after the Trump administration announced further measures to severely restrict immigration in response to the shooting on Wednesday of two National Guard troops in Washington D.C. by a gunman officials identified as a 29-year-old man from Afghanistan. West Virginia National Guard…
Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, in conversation with Srijana Mitra Das (ET Evoke), outlines the path to global sustainability and its drivers: Q. COP30 concluded with a weaker note on fossil fuel phase-out than expected — what does this mean for the global sustainability drive? A. The upside here…
Bill Gates’s suggestion for a pivot away from emissions reduction and toward lessening human misery makes a kind of sense; it’s easier to get an emotional boost from helping children with malaria than from reducing CO2 emissions by a fraction of a percent (“Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions…
Could China’s new K visa reshape the global competition for top talent? Beijing certainly aims to do just that. Officially rolled out this month, the visa is aimed at young foreign professionals in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. It targets graduates and professionals with at least a bachelor’s degree in STEM from…
For years, many democracy experts have warned that U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing the country toward authoritarianism. During his first term, they raised alarm bells as Trump repeatedly tested democratic guardrails with unprecedented and, at times, incendiary actions—particularly his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. When Trump was reelected last year,…