Some 43,347 day-school candidates are sitting Hong Kong’s Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exam this year, but there are only about 12,000 subsidised undergraduate places at the city’s eight public universities. So what options do the tens of thousands of remaining students have? According to a survey by education authorities, 85 per cent of Form…
An animal welfare charity has apologised after facing a backlash for asking Hong Kong police to help remove videos of a dog and its pups being killed in mainland China, with the group accused of undermining efforts to raise public awareness of the case. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) issued…
NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — China sent coast guard vessels to patrol the Pacific Ocean east of Taiwan in June and weeks later test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile from the South China Sea to the Pacific. While the two maneuvers answered different security-related activities by U.S. allies in Asia, experts say China used both to…
Hong Kong’s observatory has warned of heavy showers and squally thunderstorms over the city in the coming week, but said it remains uncertain whether the low-pressure trough driving the storms will develop into a tropical cyclone. A spokesman for the Hong Kong Observatory said on Sunday that convective clouds associated with a broad trough of…
Typhoon Bavi was downgraded to a severe tropical storm on Sunday after making landfall in eastern China, where authorities had evacuated nearly two million people in its path. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Before reaching China, the storm lashed northern Taiwan and Japan‘s remote southwestern islands, toppling trees and leaving tens of thousands…
Typhoon Bavi made landfall in Zhejiang province in eastern China late Saturday, bringing strong winds after nearly 2 million people took shelter. There was no immediate word on damage or casualties. The typhoon, which first roared ashore in Yuhuan city, brought winds up to 144 kilometres an hour, Chinese state media Xinhua reported. Zhejiang provincial…
Last Updated:July 11, 2026, 21:45 IST China has evacuated more than 1.7 million people and issued high-level weather alerts as Typhoon Bavi approaches. The storm has already claimed at least 17 lives in Philippines. A person looks on as large waves crash against the coast as Typhoon Bavi passes off. PHOTO: AFP China has evacuated…
By Go Nakamura, Xihao Jiang and Ella Cao WENZHOU, China, July 11 (Reuters) – China evacuated more than 1.8 million people on Saturday as Typhoon Bavi churned toward the major eastern city of Wenzhou after pummelling Japan’s southern Sakishima island chain with heavy rain and violent winds and brushing past northern Taiwan. Even as Bavi…
By Joseph Campbell, Angie Teo and Yimou Lee ISHIGAKI, Japan/TAIPEI, July 11 (Reuters) – Typhoon Bavi pummelled Japan’s southern Sakishima island chain with heavy rain and violent winds on Saturday as it headed towards Taiwan, prompting authorities to warn of the risks of floods and landslides. On the island of Ishigaki, part of Okinawa prefecture,…
Hong Kong will be “extremely hot” and hit by occasional showers as Typhoon Bavi moves across the seas east of Taiwan towards Guangdong on the weekend, with unstable offshore weather already disrupting a number of flights. The city’s Observatory said that as Bavi moved across Taiwan and then towards the vicinity spanning northern Fujian and…