Hong Kong head coach Andrew Wright has hailed an “awesome” development after his athletes were granted unlimited access to a high-performance altitude centre in the mainland Chinese province of Yunnan. Wright’s bosses this week penned a memorandum of understanding with the Yuxi Municipal Education and Sports Bureau, which established a training site roughly 1,630 metres…
Wudingloong wui lived in what is now Yunnan, China, around 200 million years ago (Early Jurassic epoch). Reconstructed skeleton and representative bones of Wudingloong wui. Individual scale bars – 5 cm. Scale bar of the reconstructed skeleton – 50 cm. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-12185-2. Wudingloong wui was a small- to medium-sized non-sauropodan…
On a typical weekday in Hong Kong, as a typhoon loomed, customers braved the rain outside a Bakehouse branch in Causeway Bay, waiting to enter the social-media viral bakery, known for its sourdough egg tarts, artisanal breads and fresh pastries. It was a stark contrast to just weeks earlier in June, when Hong Kong’s four-decade-old,…
In an unprecedented show of China’s advanced civilian drone technology, a swarm of heavy-lift unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has carried 180 tonnes of construction materials up a remote mountain in the country’s southwest, according to state media. State broadcaster CCTV reported last Thursday that the aerial operation had taken place in May at a solar…
Home » AIRLINE NEWS » China And Hong Kong Connected Like Never Before With Hong Kong Airlines’ New Lijiang Travel Service, Bringing Heritage And Nature Together Thursday, July 24, 2025 On September 8, 2025, Hong Kong Airlines will begin operating a new service between Hong Kong and Lijiang, providing travellers the option of experiencing two…
A student from northwestern China who was tricked into a scam in Myanmar was unexpectedly released after the gang learned he had a “bright future”. Peng Yuxuan, 19, from Hanzhong City in Shaanxi province, had just retaken China’s national college entrance exam known as the gaokao in June. His scores and intended university have not…
Chinese police are investigating at least five cases of missing teenagers believed to have been caught up in scam centres, including some who have lost contact with their families after travelling to Myanmar. Police in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province in central China, issued a notice on Wednesday, confirming the disappearance of an 18-year-old…
The earliest tools used by humans were made of stone, followed by bronze, then iron, and finally steel. But was there a “Wood Age”? This question has been difficult to answer as wood decomposes easily, leaving behind little evidence of ancient wooden tools – especially in East Asia. However, a study published in the top…
Like many children, Emilia Li loves arts and crafts and hanging out at the beach. But what makes the Hong Kong eight-year-old stand out from the crowd is Shek O Beach Club, a tie-dye fashion brand she founded with the help of her mother, Jillian Xin. “I called it Shek O Beach Club because Shek…
Neanderthals might have lived in today’s southwestern China during the Middle Stone Age, newly discovered tools similar to those previously found only in Europe and the Middle East suggest. An international scientific team unearthed some 3,500 stone artefacts at a site in Yunnan province, and dated them to between 60,000 and 50,000 years old. Some…