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Hong Kong Economy

What experts say Hong Kong gets right and wrong in plan to tap ‘silver economy’

Blueprint marks ‘good start’ but government can adopt additional measures, such as flexible retirement age and insurance co-payment for employers hiring older workers, they say.

The number of people aged 65 and above in Hong Kong is expected to increase from 1.64 million in 2023 to 2.67 million in 2043, accounting for about 35 per cent of the population, according to official projections. Photo: Elson Li

Business

Ant International: numerical AI is the GPT of financial services

Singapore-based company says model accurately predicts trading volumes and reduces unnecessary hedging and risk-premium costs.

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A pedestrian passes in front of a currency mural on a shop’s gate in Hong Kong on December 26, 2024. Photo: Antony Dickson

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Technology can help as Hong Kong’s rainy season poses threat of landslides

City has made advances to guard against dangerous slopes, but with climate change affecting weather patterns, vigilance remains paramount.

A landslide is cleared by workers on a road leading to Shek O and Big Wave Bay in Hong Kong in September 2023. Photo: AFP

Economics

Families of Lion Air crash victims say proposed Boeing deal not ‘true justice’

Under the deal, Boeing would pay US$1.5 billion and avoid trial over its handling of 737 Max safety issues.

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Family members of those killed in the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 and Lion Air flight 610 crashes protest against Boeing at a hearing in Washington last year on the airline’s broken safety culture. Photo: Getty Images/AFP

China Economy

More than a show: China’s robot fights offer ringside view of tech advancements

China’s humanoid robotic firms are looking to KO the competition, and what they learn in the ring looks to advance the robotics industry by leaps and bounds.

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Humanoid robots square off in a fight on Sunday in Hangzhou. Photo: handout
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United States & Canada

SpaceX Starship launches on ninth test flight after last 2 blew up

The rocket system is the centrepiece of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s vision to ferry humans to Mars and expand his firm’s global dominance.

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This screengrab from SpaceX live shows the SpaceX Starship rocket launching from Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. SpaceX launched its next test flight of its Starship megarocket -- the linchpin of founder Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions -- after the vessel’s last two outings ended in fiery explosions. The launch window opened at 6:30 pm (2330 GMT) from the company’s Starbase facility near a southern Texas village that recently voted to become a city, also called Starbase. Standing 403 feet (123 meters) tall, Starship is the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built, and it carries Musk’s hopes of making humanity a multi-planetary species. (Photo by SPACEX / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / SPACEX “ - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Arts

He took up art while a Hamas hostage. It’s helped him heal the scars

Almost a year after his rescue, Andrei Kozlov reflects on his Gaza ordeal and the favour his captors did by giving him a notebook and pencil.

Andrei Kozlov, who was taken hostage by Hamas during the 2023 attack on Israel, looks at his painting One God. Photo: AP

Health & Environment

Pilot scheme offers hope to Hong Kong patients with degenerative knee disease

Combination of Western and Chinese medicine relieves pain of knee osteoarthritis amid long queues for joint replacement surgery.

Knee osteoarthritis cases are on the rise amid an ageing population, an expert says. Photo: Jelly Tse

Comment

Editorial | Tonic for Hong Kong as panda cubs named

Jia Jia and De De will continue to be huge draws for years to come and, with the right strategy, can boost the city’s economy in multiple ways.

Giant panda Ying Ying and her twin cubs Jia Jia and De De at Hong Kong‘s Ocean Park. Photo: Eugene Lee

Travel

Negronis with wontons? Only in Milan’s Chinatown

How Via Paolo Sarpi in Milan’s Chinatown became a cultural and culinary crossroads.

Milan’s Chinatown before the lunchtime crowds have descended. Photo: Shutterstock
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Middle East

Israeli troops fire warning shots as Palestinians rush into new Gaza food hub

Chaos erupted as gunfire sent people – some of whom had walked for kilometres to get aid – to flee in panic.

Palestinians rush to get aid boxes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

Football

Why are Manchester United playing in Hong Kong? Ex-stars debate ‘mad’ tour

Jens Lehmann, Raphael Varane and Graeme Souness discuss merits of post-season trip to Asia, with Arsenal and Liverpool to follow in July.

United players look on as coach Ruben Amorim addresses the fans after Sunday’s season closer at Old Trafford. Photo: Reuters

Entertainment

Who are Coco Austin’s mum and sister, Tina and Kristy?

Ice-T’s wife Coco Austin is clearly close with the women in her family – her mum, Tina, frequently appears on her Instagram, while her sister Kristy is divorced with 4 children.

Ice-T’s wife, Coco Austin, with her sister Kristy and mum Tina. Photo: @coco/Instagram

Diplomacy

‘Never right’: why there’s a war of words over Beijing’s English translations

Linguistic, cultural and political differences make interpretation difficult, but analysts also point to factors like the target audience.

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Europe

Italy’s mafia joining forces, turning to Chinese ‘shadow banks’, report says

Violent turf wars have given way to collaboration in drug trafficking, prostitution rings and money laundering, an anti-mafia agency says.

An image obtained in January 2024 shows banknotes seized in an operation against tax fraud, with the money laundered through a system of so-called Chinese shadow banks in Ancona, Italy. Photo: Guardia di Finanza Press Office via Reuters
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World Opinion

Opinion | Why UK-Mauritius deal over military base is more than a legal milestone

Once seen as a relic of colonialism, the Chagos Archipelago has evolved into a flashpoint in global strategic competition.

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Diplomacy

WeChat denounced for complicity in US fentanyl crisis by North Carolina official

Jeff Jackson, the US state’s attorney general, says Chinese social media app facilitates money laundering that helps fuel illicit trade.

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Vials of fentanyl pills at a US Drug Enforcement Administration research laboratory in Virginia. Photo: AP

Food & Drink

4 rising Asian chefs in Vancouver and the secrets to their success

Talented Asian cooks are pairing the best of British Columbia’s produce with recipes and cooking styles from home.

Sharon Chan, founder of Mama in the Kitchen. Photo Bernice Chan

Americas

Judge in Maradona homicide trial steps down amid scandal

Julieta Makintach was one of three judges in the trial of seven medical team members accused of negligence in the football legend’s death.

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Judge Julieta Makintach arrives at the courthouse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Russia & Central Asia

Trump says Putin ‘playing with fire’ as he weighs Russia sanctions

The US president says ‘really bad things’ would already have happened to Russia if not for him, as he shows frustration with stalled talks.

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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday. Photo: Sputnik via AFP
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China

Trump officials say tariffs pushed China to talk, halted India-Pakistan conflict

Commerce chief calls ‘tenuous ceasefire’ between South Asian rivals a direct result of president’s power to use levies as a diplomatic tool.

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US President Donald Trump (centre) with two of his administration’s top officials, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Photo: AP

Diplomacy

US to pause student visa interviews ahead of new social media vetting: reports

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says no new appointments should be added, though those already scheduled can go ahead.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington on May 22. Photo: AFP

United States & Canada

King Charles hails ‘strong and free’ Canada as Trump threat looms

The UK royal’s ‘speech from the throne’ was the first by a monarch in nearly half a century.

Britain’s King Charles delivers a speech from the throne to open the first session of the 45th parliament of Canada in Ottawa on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

United States & Canada

Trump admin moves to cut all remaining US federal contracts with Harvard

The government has already terminated US$3 billion in grants and tried to block the Ivy League university from enrolling foreign students.

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A view of Harvard’s Business School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April. Photo: Reuters

Society

German scientist wins Hong Kong’s Shaw Prize for pioneering 3D imaging work

Professor Wolfgang Baumeister awarded Shaw Prize in life science and medicine for pioneering development and use of cryogenic electron tomography.

(From left) Images of John Richard Bond, George Efstathiou, Wolfgang Baumeister and Kenji Fukaya are displayed on screen at an announcement of the Shaw Prize winners. Photo: Nora Tam
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China Economy

Will US dollar doubts, risk of ‘triple whammy’ give rise to yuan’s renaissance?

In the wake of tariff turmoil and Washington’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, analysts are questioning safety of US assets while yuan’s resilience turns heads.

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China’s yuan has been on a steady upward trajectory – gaining 1 per cent against the US dollar since April 2, when US President Donald Trump announced his unprecedented “Liberation Day” tariffs. Photo: dpa

Education

More Hong Kong schools at risk of closing as authorities tighten class size rules

Education Bureau to step up requirements for minimum enrolment and reduce number of alternative arrangements for survival.

Secondary school students in Cha Kwo Ling. The Education Bureau estimates the number of Form One students aged 12 will drop from 58,800 in 2025 to 49,800 in 2031. Photo: Sam Tsang

Europe

Police probe if car driver tailgated ambulance before Liverpool parade crash

Liverpool mayor Steve Rotheram said the vehicle should not have been on the street and the ‘big question’ was how the incident happened.

Police officers work at the scene on Water Street in Liverpool on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Diplomacy

Will Trump’s China policy become more unpredictable after security shake-up?

The dismissal of 100 members of the National Security Council could lead to a policy ‘less bounded by established norms’, one analyst said.

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Donald Trump is shrinking the size of the National Security Council as part of a wider shake-up of the federal government. Photo: Reuters

Politics

‘Concerned’ Asean leaders fail to issue fresh condemnation of Myanmar’s junta

Southeast Asia’s leaders reaffirm the bloc’s backing of a so-called five-point consensus as a road map for resolving Myanmar’s crisis.

Southeast Asian leaders pose for a family photo at the Asean summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE