Hong Kong start-up Syngular Technology has won a €100,000 (US$117,000) investment in the 2025 EQT Impact Challenge, after beating three other finalists in the pitch competition by impressing judges with its augmented-reality surgical system. By winning the challenge – designed to identify high-impact early-stage ventures in Hong Kong – the three-year-old company secured the investment…
Three car accidents in nearly the same spot on a Hong Kong highway have left at least seven people injured, including a 10-month-old baby. Police received a report at 4pm on Sunday that at least three cars had collided on the Kowloon-bound lanes of the Fanling Highway, near the Hong Lok Yuen flyover in Tai…
A robber who triggered a manhunt after he held a woman at knifepoint and stole HK$370,000 (US$47,180) from a Hang Seng Bank branch is a Hongkonger and has fled to mainland China, the Post has learned. A source said on Tuesday that police’s elite tactical unit, the Flying Tigers, was searching for the local man,…
Hong Kong police have launched a manhunt for a robber who held up a Hang Seng Bank branch with a knife and injured a staff member before fleeing with HK$370,000 (US$47,180). Wearing a face mask and cap, the man entered the bank alone at Fortune City One shopping centre on Ngan Shing Street at about…
A Hong Kong hospital is now using advanced mixed reality and 3D printing technology to improve the precision of orthopaedic surgery and provide patients with better treatment. Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin officially implemented the mixed-reality visualisation last year, applying head-mounted displays that allow virtual objects to be overlaid onto the real world….
Four people have been injured in a Hong Kong tunnel after a car collided head-on with a taxi and flipped it over, leading another vehicle to crash into the cab from behind. Police received a report at 4.04am on Monday and said the driver of the car which had hit the cab fled the scene…
A domestic helper in Hong Kong has been charged with child abuse after she was accused of scalding her employer’s one-year-old son with hot water. A police spokesman said on Thursday the force had received a report from the mother of the child the day before. Officers arrested a 43-year-old domestic helper in Ma On…
A driver of a Hong Kong school bus has died after losing control of his vehicle and crashing into a fence. No pupils were injured in the incident in Ma On Shan on Friday morning as the bus was empty as it travelled in the direction of Wu Kai Sha on Kam Ying Road at…
A former university professor brought two yoga balls filled with lethal gas to his Hong Kong home to exterminate shrews that had been attracted by the smell of Spanish ham, a court has heard in the trial over the alleged murder of his wife and daughter. Anaesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun, 60, told the High Court…
A former university professor allegedly devised a “sham” animal experiment in Hong Kong to obtain lethal gas to murder his estranged wife by releasing it from a yoga ball inside her car nine years ago, a court retrial has heard. Prosecutors said on Thursday that Malaysian Khaw Kim Sun, 60, was behind the “deliberate” and…