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US President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday that the ceasefire with Iran was “over”, hours after American forces launched fresh strikes on the Islamic Republic and as Beijing called for both nations to de-escalate and return to the negotiating table. “I think it’s over,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Ankara when asked whether the ceasefire was “done”. “I don’t wan...
US President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the ceasefire with Iran was “over”, delivering a blow to Tehran just hours after the US launched fresh military strikes on the Islamic Republic. “I think it’s over,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Ankara when asked whether the ceasefire was “done”. “I don’t want to deal with them any more.” Trump dismissed further engag...
US President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the ceasefire with Iran was “over”, delivering a blistering attack on Tehran just hours after the US launched fresh military strikes on the Islamic Republic. “I think it’s over,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Ankara when asked whether the ceasefire was “done”. “I don’t want to deal with them any more.” More to follow …
As another heatwave rolled across Europe, the warehouses emptied before the politics could catch up. Air conditioners and fans sold out across Spain, Italy and Germany, most of them Chinese. Fan sales in Spain alone on the retail platform of Alibaba Group Holding (which owns the South China Morning Post) nearly doubled last month while Midea Group’s air-conditioner sales in western Europe surged b...
Hong Kong Cantopop star Keung To has been disqualified from driving for three months after he accumulated 15 demerit points for various traffic offences last year. Eastern Court on Wednesday revoked Keung’s probationary driving licence and ordered him to surrender the document within 14 days. But a lawyer representing the 27-year-old artist, who was absent from the hearing for work-related reasons...
Hong Kong’s aviation watchdog has expressed “serious concern” and demanded a report from Cathay Pacific Airways after a passenger plane bound for London lost communication with air traffic controllers over Romanian airspace, triggering an intercept by Nato fighter jets. The city’s flag carrier said on Wednesday that at no time were the aircraft or people on board in danger. Flight CX257 departed H...
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways is investigating an incident involving a London-bound plane that was intercepted by Hungarian fighter jets when it briefly lost contact over Romanian airspace and triggered a Nato alert on Saturday. The city’s flag carrier also said on Wednesday that the safety of the aircraft or people on board was not compromised at any point. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisa...
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways is investigating an incident involving a London-bound plane that was intercepted by Hungarian fighter jets when it briefly lost contact over Romanian airspace and triggered a Nato alert on Saturday. The city’s flag carrier also said on Wednesday that the safety of the aircraft or people on board was not compromised at any point. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisa...
A London-bound Cathay Pacific Airways flight failed to establish contact over Romanian airspace at one stage on Saturday, prompting Hungarian fighter jets to respond to a Nato alert and intercept the flight. Cathay Pacific said on Wednesday that the incident was under investigation. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation activated a “quick reaction alert” after the Airbus A350-1000 temporarily fai...
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) assembler BYD has set its sights on Porsche’s supercars with plans to sell its Denza-branded new models in developed markets, the latest sign of its increasing heft in designing and manufacturing premium vehicles. The Shenzhen-based carmaker planned to unveil the Denza Z sports car featuring BYD’s self-developed intelligent DiSus body control system at the UK’s Goodw...
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British Columbia said on Tuesday it was preparing a lawsuit against OpenAI over the company’s failure to report violent ChatGPT activity by the person who committed a mass school shooting in the western Canadian province. OpenAI had banned an account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025, months before the 18-year-old transgender woman killed eight people at her home and a school in the tiny...
A secondary school in eastern China is at the centre of controversy for collecting the information of its fresh students’ parents, including what brand of car they drive and their values. Dongying No 1 Middle School in Dongying, Shandong province, distributed the information collection form in late June among students who were recently admitted, China Newsweek reported. Students were requested to ...
Hong Kong’s finance chief will lead another business delegation to Saudi Arabia later this year, announcing the news as the city hosted the first overseas edition of one of the kingdom’s top technology conferences as part of efforts to boost ties with the Middle East. Speaking at the opening ceremony of LEAP East 2026 on Wednesday, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also announced that the confer...
Hong Kong’s finance chief will lead another business delegation to Saudi Arabia later this year, announcing the news as the city hosted the first overseas edition of one of the kingdom’s top technology conferences as part of efforts to boost ties with the Middle East. Speaking at the opening ceremony of LEAP East 2026 on Wednesday, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also announced that the confer...
In May, Japanese fisherman Tadasuke Nakamura noticed he had an abnormally large haul of bluefin tuna in his set net off the Pacific coast of Hakodate, on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido. Hundreds of the prized sushi fish crowded the net, but he had to let many of them go. Japan has an annual catch quota and if Nakamura had kept the haul he would have had no quota left for the colder months wh...
In a homecoming for Hong Kong’s artificial intelligence community, Cao Liangliang – former principal engineer and director at Google DeepMind, IEEE Fellow and architect of foundational AI systems at Google, Apple and IBM – has returned to the city after a two-decade absence. His appointment as Chair Professor of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) l...
In a homecoming for Hong Kong’s artificial intelligence community, Cao Liangliang – former principal engineer and director at Google DeepMind, IEEE Fellow and architect of foundational AI systems at Google, Apple and IBM – has returned to the city after a two-decade absence. His appointment as Chair Professor of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) l...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has broken his silence on China’s sanctions against his defence chief, in remarks seen as a closing of ranks that could complicate diplomacy between Manila and Beijing in the near term. Observers say the president’s public backing of outspoken Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro amounts to a “good cop, bad cop” approach that signals Manila’s resolve and may...
Hong Kong fertility clinics should be required to report serious incidents within 24 hours to the regulator for in vitro fertilisation (IVF), lawmakers have said, following a specimens mix-up at a centre that went undisclosed for weeks. They urged the government on Wednesday to close the regulatory gap, a day after it emerged that Heal Fertility in Central had mishandled embryo biopsy specimens fr...
Hong Kong fertility clinics should be required to report serious incidents within 24 hours to both the regulator for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and health authorities, lawmakers have said, following an embryo sample mix-up at a centre that went undisclosed for weeks. They urged the government on Wednesday to close the regulatory gap, a day after it emerged that Heal Fertility in Central had mish...
Hong Kong fertility clinics should be required to report serious incidents within 24 hours to both the regulator for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and health authorities, lawmakers have said, following an embryo mix-up at a centre that went undisclosed for weeks. They urged the government on Wednesday to close the regulatory gap, a day after it emerged that HEAL Fertility in Central had mishandled ...
Workers have started making emergency repairs to stabilise a Manhattan high-rise after buckled columns and sagging floors forced evacuations in and around the midtown construction site. The scene unfolded throughout Tuesday after the precarious conditions were spotted in the morning at the 1970s-era building, which is being converted into luxury flats. Construction workers at the site and people i...
Workers have started making emergency repairs to stabilise a Manhattan high-rise after buckled columns and sagging floors forced evacuations in and around the midtown construction site. The scene unfolded throughout Tuesday after the precarious conditions were spotted in the morning at the 1970s-era building, which is being converted into luxury flats. Construction workers at the site and people i...
Hong Kong stocks extended their gains on Wednesday afternoon as concerns over a wave of lock-up expiries, long seen as a major headwind for the city’s equities, showed early signs of easing, while surging rallies in tech heavyweights lifted broader market sentiment. The Hang Seng Index, which entered the noon break up 2.4 per cent, continued to climb in the afternoon session as of 1.30pm. The Hang...
Hong Kong stocks rebounded on Wednesday as concerns over a wave of lock-up expiries, long seen as a major headwind for the city’s equities, showed early signs of easing, while continued strength in technology stocks lifted broader market sentiment. The Hang Seng Index rose 2.4 per cent to 24,057 at the noon break, with technology shares leading broad-based gains despite renewed geopolitical tensio...
Joab Jorge runs Dream Latte Cafe, a speciality coffee shop and small-batch roastery, with his mother Ces out of their old ancestral home in Pilar, a town in Bataan province some 180km (112 miles) northwest of Manila. Rising electricity costs and frequent blackouts have put a strain on the business, which has already had to raise prices by 10 per cent to cover higher costs for goods and imported co...
A Google executive has told an Australian inquiry that a YouTube video falsely claiming a wounded survivor of an antisemitic massacre in Sydney was a crisis actor bloodied with make-up had met the platform’s standards and would remain online. Google Australia manager Rachel Lord was testifying on Tuesday at a government inquiry into the spread of antisemitism in Australia, including an attack by t...
A mainland Chinese court has claimed jurisdiction over an investor lawsuit against a Hong Kong-listed firm for the first time, with the move likely to increase scrutiny of corporate disclosures. Mainland investors filed the lawsuit with the Beijing Financial Court, alleging that an overseas-incorporated company had failed to disclose irregular loans, unauthorised guarantees and related-party trans...
Taiwan’s flagship “T-Dome” air defence programme is facing delays, after budget disputes left one of its critical indigenous missile systems without a clear funding source. The island’s opposition-controlled legislature approved a reduced NT$780 billion (over US$24 billion) special defence budget in May, rejecting a larger NT$1.25 trillion package proposed by the government. Among the excluded pro...
