US trade report keeps China on priority watch list as Blinken visit begins
Intellectual property protection infringements along with technology transfer, counterfeiting and other concerns cited....
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'Lo Wu will be busy during Golden Week'
Immigration officials on Thursday said they expect Lo Wu will be the busiest border crossing during the mainland's "Golden Week" holida...
read moreChina preps for clampdown on financial crimes with new version of anti-money-laundering law
China is readying a revision of its law on money laundering, signalling a hardening of penalties for financial crimes and a desire to keep practices i...
read moreHong Kong customs arrests 2 ex-company directors, as shoppers claim HK$400,000 in undelivered goods after abrupt store closure
More than 450 customers complain they never received prepaid purchases of clothing, beauty and cosmetic products, food, and household items....
read moreNon-plastic utensil firms show off their products
Companies supplying alternatives to plastic cutlery on Thursday demonstrated how their products fare, with one showing how to put its straw into a sea...
read moreTwo arrested for failing to supply pre-paid products
Customs officials on Thursday said they arrested two former directors of an online household product store on suspicion of failing to supply pre-paid....
read moreHong Kong should divert more dental patients to private clinics to ease public service demand: lawmaker, concern group
Joint call for public-private partnership to ease dental service shortage follows city’s auditor push for shake-up of appointment system at governme...
read moreHong Kong plastics ban: takeaway sushi can be consumed in plastic boxes at supermarkets, environment authorities say
Environmental Protection Department post clarification after complaints over ‘hit-and-miss’ approach emerge regarding consuming Japanese takeaway ...
read moreDemand for AI memory chips propels SK Hynix to its fastest sales growth since 2010
Sales at the South Korean firm, the world’s No 2 maker of memory, more than doubled in the March quarter, beating estimates....
read moreNuctech raids leave Chinese businesses reeling as new EU foreign subsidies regulation shows its teeth
Dramatic search for evidence of financial help from Beijing stuns businesses and competition lawyers in Europe....
read more'Anti-migrant sentiment pushes domestic workers away'
Migrant domestic worker activists have called for a stop to people who accuse workers of prematurely terminating their contracts to change employers,....
read moreApple still leads high-end smartphone sales in China, but Huawei and Honor are catching up
Apple is still No 1 in China’s premium segment, which consists of handsets priced over US$600, but it is losing market share to Honor and Huawei, ac...
read moreWhy physically active children tend to be better at their studies, time management and overcoming adversity
Young athletes learn time management and are more able to cope with adversities and challenges, resulting in better academic performances, says Todd P...
read moreHeavy rainfall in mainland China forces Hong Kong to dial back high-speed rail services
Guangzhou South-bound routes G6528, G6516, G6530 and G6536 all suspended on Thursday, as well as Hong Kong-bound routes G6527, G6515, G6529 and G6535....
read morePlastic packaging ok for now: environment bureau
The Environment and Ecology Bureau clarified that shops could still use plastic containers to pack takeaway food, after a supermarket chain was found....
read moreBad weather disrupts high-speed rail services
The Transport Department said some high-speed rail services to and from the mainland were cancelled on Thursday due to bad weather conditions. Trains....
read moreAs Gaza protests spread at US universities, House Speaker Johnson suggests calling in National Guard
House Speaker Mike Johnson said US President Joe Biden should take action, and suggested sending in the National Guard to ‘bring order’ to campuse...
read moreHong Kong police probe 2 accidents involving drivers killed by their own vehicles
Unrelated incidents both took place on Wednesday, when school bus rolled over driver in Wong Tai Sin and trucker was pinned by vehicle in Tin Shui Wai...
read moreArizona indicts Trump allies Giuliani, Meadows, 16 others in 2020 election scheme
The felony indictments, which allege a conspiracy to award Arizona’s slate of electors to Donald Trump, are the latest effort by a state to hold acc...
read moreThe Chinese lesson to India: how can air pollution make or break your economy?
China’s example could be the helping hand India needs in fixing its pollution problem, while not affecting GDP....
read moreHong Kong treasury chief tells UK minister BN(O) passports invalid as proof of identity, in bid to sort pensions confusion
Treasury chief Christopher Hui seeks to clear up confusion over whether residents on UK citizenship pathway can withdraw pensions at meeting with visi...
read moreExplorers venture to uncharted rivers, forests, mountains and glaciers to protect Earth for future generation
How explorers and conservationists protect our planet along Africa’s Zambezi River, on Canada’s Mount Logan, Swiss Alps’ glaciers, and plains of...
read moreHK buyer snaps up 'lost' Klimt for US$32mn
Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Miss Lieser", a painting of a young woman left unfinished when the Austrian artist died, was bought by a Ho...
read moreChinese student in Boston gets 9 months in prison for threatening pro-democracy schoolmate
Xiaolei Wu, who was studying jazz at the Berklee College of Music, will be deported after serving his sentence in a US prison, a federal judge orders....
read moreIsrael says Rafah assault looms, as massive Gaza air strikes end weeks of relative calm
40,000 tents have been bought for the evacuation of civilians, and all that remains is for PM Benjamin Netanyahu to give the order, an Israeli officia...
read moreRussia and US clash at UN over nuclear weapons in space
Moscow vetoed a resolution to prevent an orbital arms race, prompting the US to ask if Russia was hiding something....
read moreLong-lost Gustav Klimt painting sold to Hong Kong bidder for US$32 million at Vienna auction
The intensely coloured Portrait of Fraulein Lieser is one of the last works by the Austrian modernist artist....
read moreTwo drivers die in separate vehicle-roll incidents
Police say the driver of a school bus died after he accidentally fell from the vehicle, which then rolled over him in Diamond Hill on Wednesday, while...
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