Hong Kong education authorities have expressed serious concerns over the alleged secret filming of a 13-year-old boy by his classmates during a mainland study tour. The incident reportedly took place in March of last year while pupils from a Kwai Chung school were on a study tour in Shenzhen, the Post has learned. Classmates allegedly…
Hong Kong residents made 1.84 million outbound trips between Thursday and Saturday, the second day of the Easter long weekend, representing a 10 per cent increase from the same period last year. A catering industry representative forecast a potential 30 per cent decline in business during Easter compared with last year, attributing the fall to…
Hong Kong residents made 1.84 million departure trips between Thursday of last week and the second day of the Easter break, representing a 10 per cent increase from the same period last year. Figures from the Immigration Department highlighted the increase from 2024, when residents had made 1.68 million trips by the end of the…
Semiconductor industry veteran Yin – who previously worked in the US at Applied Materials, Lam Research and Intel – identified as a US citizen in AMEC’s annual reports for 2022, 2021 and 2020. AMEC did not state Yin’s nationality in the firm’s 2023 report. The change of citizenship for Yin, 81, is the latest sign…
China’s Huawei Technologies has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure architecture that is reportedly set to rival US chip giant Nvidia’s offerings in addressing computing power bottlenecks. Introduced last week, the CloudMatrix 384 Supernode was described as a “nuclear-level product” that matched Nvidia’s NVL72 system in alleviating computing bottlenecks for AI data centres, STAR…
China’s depreciating yuan against the US dollar is music to the ears of Hong Kong shoppers heading over the border, but economists have warned that the move will exacerbate the downturn in the city’s retail, food and drink consumption and hammer the economy. The People’s Bank of China allowed the yuan to further weaken against…
The barrage of retaliatory tariffs from China and the US could end quickly once talks start, given that both sides are open to dialogue. That was the assessment of a number of observers after an exchange of escalating duties in the past week. On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump raised levies on Chinese goods to…
China has disclosed details about a 60 billion yuan (US$8.2 billion) state fund aimed at early-stage investments in artificial intelligence (AI) projects, underscoring Beijing’s commitment to advancing the industry through state-led investments. Zhang Jianhua, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology overseeing the fund, said at a conference in Shenzhen that the…
US President Donald Trump’s senseless trade war has sparked a sell-off that wiped trillions of dollars off global bourses and led to concern the global economy would tip into recession. Mainland China and Hong Kong stock markets have received welcome support from Beijing’s sovereign wealth fund to soothe rattled investors who saw their net worth…
Hong Kong will offer “any possible help” to social media influencers who want to promote the city through live streams, the chief executive has said after YouTube star IShowSpeed’s visit, which some saw as a missed opportunity to highlight signature local features. John Lee Ka-chiu said on Tuesday that he paid close attention to IShowSpeed’s…