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People brave the rain at Wan Chai promenade while a black rainstorm warning is issued by the Hong Kong Observatory on August 14, 2025. Photo: Nora Tam
Climate change

Editorial | Community preparation is key as Hong Kong braces for extreme weather

As the city explores green infrastructure and AI forecasting as mitigation solutions, residents must also take up the mantle of safety.

Science

China team mulls hitting typhoons with an energy beam from space

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Mainland China

Tributes paid to 6 firefighters killed in China after truck veers off cliff

Mainland China

12 killed in China’s second deadly Lunar New Year fireworks explosion

The blast in Hubei came days after a similar incident in Jiangsu that prompted calls from the government to prevent a repetition.

The incident was the second deadly fireworks incident over the current holiday period. Photo: Handout
Lunar New Year

8 dead in fireworks shop blast at start of China’s Lunar New Year holiday

Urgent call for all regions to step up safety checks on pyrotechnics, which are at their most popular at this time of year.

Mainland China

8 dead in biotech workshop blast in central China

Emergency crews remain at the site in Shanxi province as smoke continues to billow from the wreckage.

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Mainland China

Recovery of missing workers brings China bridge collapse fatalities to 5

Two people pulled from the wreckage died soon after from their injuries, with a search for three co-workers ending tragically on Tuesday.

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The main span of the unfinished bridge in Yancheng City, eastern China gave way without warning at 5.46pm on Monday. Photo: CCTV
Rare earths

Death toll rises to 9 after explosion at north China rare earth steel plant

The safety practices of Baotou Steel Group, the factory’s owner, have frequently come under criticism from authorities.

Environment

How Beijing’s clean air success left China’s rural farmers in the cold

In neighbouring Hebei province, rural residents say they cannot afford to heat their homes enough after switch from coal.

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Trail running and hiking

‘Strictly forbidden’: China warns hikers off Aotai Line after 3 die on trail

Group reportedly switched phones to flight mode while in restricted area, hampering emergency contact and rescuers’ attempts to find them.

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Rescuers and mountaineering officials in China’s General Administration of Sport warn that hikers should not be walking the Aotai Line after three people died on the trail recently. Photo: CCTV
Jimmy Lai

How will Jimmy Lai’s conviction affect China-UK ties, Starmer’s planned visit?

Outcome of ex-media tycoon’s Hong Kong trial poses stern test for Labour government’s balancing act with Beijing, observers say.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to visit Beijing and Shanghai in late January. Photo: EPA
Trending in China

China teen girl risks life to save boy from icy lake, tells dad watering cart soaked her

Fearless 13-year-old tells anxious mother of drowning boy, 4, that she is ‘rather light’, ignoring danger to crawl onto thin ice.

Hong Kong

12 killed after fire hits residential building in southern China’s Shantou city

Tuesday night's accident was the first of its kind since the fire in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district killed 160 people last month.

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Science

China-born architect Wang Fei dies in suspected car crash in London

Tributes to the ‘distinguished architectural educator, scholar and curator’ from Syracuse University say he was killed on Monday.

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The China Academy of Art has confirmed that Wang Fei, who taught at Syracuse University in New York state, died on Monday. He was 45. Photo: Handout
Malaysia Airlines flight 370

Chinese court orders Malaysia Airlines to pay families of 8 MH370 victims

The airline must pay over US$410,000 per passenger in China’s first formal compensation ruling on flight that vanished 11 years ago.

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Chinese relatives of flight MH370 passengers take part in a prayer service in Beijing in April 2014. Photo: AFP
Trending in China

China woman marries rescuer who plucked her from under quake rubble when she was 11

Decade after deadly tremor, fate brings pair together in restaurant; initial meeting sparks ‘excitement and embarrassment’, then love blossoms.

Trending in China

China mum cares for daughter-in-law in vegetative state round-the-clock

Liu’s son and Yuanyuan, high school sweethearts, have been married for 15 years and share two children.

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Mainland China

Chinese media demands answers as scandal hits US$1 billion hydropower project

National Energy Administration is said to be investigating claims of cost-cutting and defects at flagship dam in Fujian province.

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The Yongan power station in Fujian province is a priority project under China’s national pumped-storage development goals. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Blast-scarred Tianjin takes ‘profound lessons’ from deadly Hong Kong blaze

‘Seven strict’ noes and ‘six musts’ listed in fire safety push by Binhai New Area district, where chemical blasts took 173 lives in 2015.

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Corruption in China

Deadly boat accident cover-up reveals corruption in China’s fishing industry

Investigations following capsizing unearth bribery and other illegal acts by officials, boat owners, crew and port operators in Liaoning.

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Mainland China

11 killed, 2 hurt after test train crashes into workers in southwestern China

Chinese news outlet says preliminary investigations indicate crash may have occurred when workers headed onto the track early.

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An undated photo of Luoyangzhen Station in Kunming where a test train crashed into railway workers early on Thursday morning. Photo: Handout
Indonesia

5 Chinese nationals killed, 8 others injured in Bali car crash

Driver of minibus carrying 13 Chinese citizens is said to have lost control of vehicle, veering off asphalt road and into a community garden.

The wreckage of the minibus that carried Chinese tourists in Bali, Indonesia, on Friday. Photo: AP
Mainland China

Video | Fire engulfs 1,500-year-old temple in eastern China

The site was featured in the classical Chinese poem ‘Spring on the Southern River Shore’ as one of the ‘480 splendid temples’.

Infrastructure

Section of new bridge collapses in China’s Sichuan province

No casualties reported as officials note that a crack in the bridge and slope led to traffic closure a day before the incident.

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Trending in China

China ‘underpants man’ hailed for rescuing neighbours from fire in briefs

‘Frightened’ Good Samaritan school pupil acts ‘without thinking’ on discovering blaze sparked by exploding electric wheelchair battery.

A secondary school pupil has been nicknamed “underpants man” after he rescued his elderly neighbours from a fire while wearing only his briefs. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Mainland China

China’s double threat: Shanghai sinks as sea level rises fastest in 4,000 years

Researchers from Britain, China and the US warn in Nature article about increased flood risks from subsidence induced by human activity.

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China faces an average of US$1.5 billion in annual economic losses because of subsidence, with Shanghai alone accounting for more than US$3 billion in damages between 2001 and 2020. Photo: NurPhoto via Getty Images
Mount Everest

Editorial | Everest rescue shows danger of taking risks for social media glory

The experience should serve as a lesson about the importance of preparedness and vigilance against complacency, no matter the conditions.

Asia travel

800 people rescued in China after being stranded by Everest blizzard

Snow that crushed climbers’ tents and cut off all descent routes from the base camp.

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