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James Bernardo, 30, was delivering food on Teodoro street in Angeles City in the Philippines when a nine-storey building under construction on the opposite side of the road collapsed behind him. “What I heard behind me sounded like an aeroplane landing. The sound was unlike anything normal. When I looked at my side mirror and then turned around, what I saw were pylons falling and power lines spark...
A mainland Chinese mother who tried to secure a Hong Kong secondary school place for her son by offering a bribe to an assistant principal received a suspended jail sentence on Tuesday. Cai Yu, 39, was also accused of deleting evidence after anti-corruption authorities launched an investigation. The woman on Tuesday told acting principal magistrate Daniel Tang Siu-hung at Tuen Mun Court that she “...
A mainland Chinese mother who tried to secure a Hong Kong secondary school place for her son by offering a bribe to an assistant principal received a suspended jail sentence on Tuesday. Cai Yu, 39, was also accused of deleting evidence after anti-corruption authorities launched an investigation. The woman on Tuesday told acting principal magistrate Daniel Tang Siu-hung at Tuen Mun Court that she “...
While cleaning my basement, I found an old copy of Foreign Affairs dated September/October 2014. If you didn’t look at the publication date but only its table of contents, you would have thought it was a recent edition. Titled “See America: Land of Decay & Dysfunction”, the edition’s front cover is a painting of a crumbling Capitol Building that houses the United States Congress. Keep in mind we a...
Malaysian police arrested 51 men in a drug raid at a luxury Kuala Lumpur hotel, but their references to a “gay party” and “immoral activities” have drawn scrutiny from lawyers and rights advocates who say the language risked prejudicing suspects and stigmatising LGBTQ people. Bukit Aman narcotics chief Hussein Omar Khan said four raids were carried out between 2.35am and 5am on Sunday after police...
Even the most advanced aircraft radar systems cannot fully detect high-altitude turbulence, aviation experts have said, as Cathay Pacific Airways investigates an incident that injured 10 people on a Hong Kong-bound flight from Brisbane last week. Hong Kong’s flag carrier revealed on Tuesday that it had launched the probe following calls for an inquiry into the weather forecast relayed to the fligh...
Jonathan Andic, son of Mango founder Isak Andic, said on Tuesday he was stepping down temporarily as the fashion group’s vice chair after being named a suspect in an investigation into his father’s death, while strongly asserting his innocence. “The attention and focus that my defence in the judicial process currently requires do not allow me to maintain the high level of commitment demanded by my...
When Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Beijing in January, US conservative podcaster Alex Jones accused him of bowing to China’s leadership. In Canada, the opposition Conservative Party was no less scathing in its criticism. Party leader Pierre Poilievre questioned how Carney went “from saying China was Canada’s ‘biggest security threat’ before the election to announcing a ‘strategic par...
Hong Kong authorities have set a cap of 10,000 vehicles for ride-hailing service permits, marking a key step in their long-running effort to establish a regulatory framework, with applicants who have owned a private car for a certain period likely to be given priority. In a paper submitted to the Legislative Council on Tuesday, the Transport and Logistics Bureau said that the 10,000-vehicle cap wa...
Hong Kong authorities have finally set the quota for ride-hailing service permits at 10,000 vehicles as part of their long-winding push to introduce a regulatory regime, the South China Morning Post has learned. A source said authorities would submit a consultation paper to the Legislative Council as early as late Tuesday to seek lawmakers’ feedback before gazetting the proposal later. “They belie...
A Hong Kong primary school facing its third closure threat in two decades due to declining enrolment announced on Tuesday that it will merge with a neighbouring institution from the new academic year in September. The 57-year-old Fresh Fish Traders School in Tai Kok Tsui was among 15 institutions allocated zero Primary One classes for the coming term amid a persistent drop in the city’s student po...
A Hong Kong primary school facing its third closure threat in two decades due to declining enrolment announced on Tuesday that it will merge with a neighbouring institution from the new academic year in September. The 57-year-old Fresh Fish Traders School in Tai Kok Tsui was among 15 institutions allocated zero Primary One classes for the coming term amid a persistent drop in the city’s student po...
Shanxi, China’s top coal-producing province, has attempted to rebrand from a polluting, high-risk mining hub into a cultural and tourist destination. However, the country’s deadliest mining accident in nearly two decades has cast a shadow over this image. On Friday, a devastating gas explosion at the Liushenyu Coal Mine in Shanxi killed at least 82 people. The disaster, which industry insiders sai...
A Hong Kong police chief inspector has been jailed for 2½ years for accepting more than HK$1.1 million (US$140,400) in cash and gifts from a businessman in exchange for ending a criminal investigation against him and divulging details about two other cases. Tsuen Wan Court, which is now handling District Court cases, on Tuesday sentenced Ho Siu-tung on two counts each of accepting advantages as a ...
A Hong Kong police chief inspector has been jailed for 2½ years for accepting more than HK$1.1 million (US$140,400) in cash and gifts from a businessman in exchange for ending a criminal investigation against him and divulging details about two other cases. Tsuen Wan Court, which is now handling District Court cases, on Tuesday sentenced Ho Siu-tung on two counts each of accepting advantages as a ...
A crash between a bus and a train travelling at high speed in northern Belgium killed four people, including two children aged 12 and 15, and injured five other children, officials said on Tuesday. The injured children were hospitalised in serious condition, said Lisa De Wilde, spokeswoman for the East Flanders public prosecutor’s office. The collision happened at a level crossing during the morni...
Four people, including two teenagers, were killed in Belgium on Tuesday when a train crashed into a school bus on a level crossing near the town of Buggenhout, RTL TV reported, citing Transport Minister Jean-Luc Crucke. The victims also included the bus driver and an adult accompanying the pupils, RTL quoted Crucke as saying. Two other people were also severely injured. The accident occurred ear...
A Hong Kong woman has lost more than HK$1 million (US$127,636) after being lured into a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme disguised as an artificial intelligence-powered trading app, with police reporting that over 70 similar scams had been recorded in the past week alone, resulting in total losses exceeding HK$50 million. Details released on the police’s CyberDefender page on Tuesday showed that t...
Customers of Hong Kong’s CLP Power are set to pay higher power bills next month, as the company increases its fuel costs for a third consecutive month to 42.6 HK cents (5.4 US cents) per unit of electricity, up 5.4 per cent from May. CLP Power, which serves over 80 per cent of Hong Kong’s population, announced its fuel cost for June at 42.6 HK cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on Tuesday, up from 40.4...
Customers of Hong Kong’s CLP Power are set to pay higher power bills next month, as the company increases its fuel costs for a fourth consecutive month to 42.6 HK cents (5.4 US cents) per unit of electricity, up 5.4 per cent from May. CLP Power, which serves over 80 per cent of Hong Kong’s population, announced its fuel cost for June at 42.6 HK cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on Tuesday, up from 40....
The Indonesian government’s decision to accept a US proposal to turn an underused airport into a maintenance hub for Lockheed C-130 Hercules military aircraft has stirred up a familiar debate: how far can Jakarta deepen defence ties with Washington while preserving its non-aligned stance? The plan, which would make Indonesia home to the first facility of its kind in Southeast Asia, emerged alongsi...
A moderately educated young man in China spent 10 days and just 3,000 yuan (US$440) to make a short film using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. His efforts have won him the favour of a Hollywood director who even offered him a job. The work, called Zombie Scavenger, was released on mainland social media websites on May 9 by Liu Ziyu, 29, who lives in Xinping County in southwestern Yunnan p...
A high-level American defence industry delegation arrived in Taipei on Tuesday for a four-day visit aimed at expanding the US role in the island’s military modernisation process and the joint production of weapons systems. The party includes 41 senior executives, and the visit was organised by the US-Taiwan Business Council, which has long served as a bridge for the defence industry. The trip unde...
A section of an overpass under demolition in the South Korean capital of Seoul collapsed on Tuesday, killing three people who were conducting a safety inspection and injuring three others, fire and city officials said. Television footage showed emergency workers conducting a search-and-rescue operation as a long segment of the structure lay collapsed on the street below, near a railway crossin...
Chinese billionaire Leaf Li lost more than a quarter of his fortune on Friday after Beijing announced a crackdown on online brokerages offering unauthorised cross-border trading. Li’s wealth fell by US$1.7 billion, to US$4.7 billion, amid a stock rout for Futu Holdings, the company he founded and runs as chief executive officer, Bloomberg News said, citing its billionaires index. The tycoon’s fort...
Malaysia’s jailed former prime minister Najib Razak has become the unlikely face of a new prison food campaign, after an animal rights group urged Kajang Prison to serve him and other inmates vegan meals. In a letter sent on Tuesday to Kajang Prison Director Mohd Sharin bin Hj Sabtu, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) said a vegan meals policy could help reduce costs, improve inmat...
Malaysia has seen growing numbers of sexual harassment complaints involving male victims in recent years, reflecting what advocates describe as the slow erosion of the stigma that has long kept many men silent. More than 1,000 complaints involving male victims have been lodged through the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry’s complaints mechanisms since 2024, Minister Nancy Shukri sai...
The Xi-Trump summit in Beijing unfolded much more cordially than the tense truce in Busan. In the six months since the leaders met in the South Korean city, America’s bargaining position has weakened considerably from developments both domestic and international. From a reluctant respite in tensions, US-China relations have evolved to what may be the beginning of a reconciliation. The two great po...
Singapore is committed to keeping the Strait of Malacca open, the city state’s top diplomat Vivian Balakrishnan has told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during talks in Beijing. According to the Chinese government, the Singaporean foreign minister said on Monday that keeping the critical global shipping lane open was in the interest of all parties. Balakrishnan also voiced Singapore’s support for ...
Singapore is committed to keeping the Strait of Malacca open, the city state’s top diplomat Vivian Balakrishnan told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during talks in Beijing. According to the Chinese government, the Singaporean foreign minister on Monday said that keeping the critical global shipping lane open was in the interest of all parties. Balakrishnan also voiced Singapore’s support for free...
