Tai Po fire: Hong Kong Bar Assoc. urges sweeping overhauls with ‘two-envelope’ tendering and safety blacklist

A task force on last year’s deadly Tai Po fire under the professional body for Hong Kong barristers has backed a move to criminalise bid-rigging…

The midterm races Asia’s AI industry should be watching

SINGAPORE – When it comes to the 2026 US elections, the congressional midterms draw most of the media attention. Will the Democrats take back the…

Hong Kong records hottest October in at least 142 years, with mean daily high of 30.5°C

Hong Kong has sweltered through its hottest October since records began nearly a century and a half ago, figures from the Hong Kong Observatory have…

Trump’s Republicans brace for a midterm shellacking

WASHINGTON, D.C.— US President Donald Trump’s Republicans enter Tuesday’s midterm elections facing a potentially punishing voter verdict. His approval rating stands at just 32% in…

Tourism Board axes controversial Peak lighting project following backlash

The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) has scrapped a controversial lighting project on The Peak following complaints from residents and trail users that it would…

Where’s the outrage when US leaders spew Islamophobia?

The Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate coming from the highest levels of our government are absolutely outrageous. From President Donald Trump to Health Secretary Robert F.…

How the US-Israeli war on Iran ends

The war that Israel and the United States launched against Iran on February 28 is in a lull, not at an end. Major combat has…

Michigan and Iowa just went off the rails

Pushed not jumped: What a 19th-century shipwreck reveals about Hong Kong’s political casualties

From an anthropological point of view, the government reaction to the Wang Fuk Court fire inquiry report makes for interesting reading. It criticised four arms…

Technopole to University Towns: Why Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis shifted focus from hi-tech to higher ed

Government ministers, academics, and business leaders gathered at a Hong Kong auditorium for a two-day summit last week to discuss an ambitious project: building three…

The moment they went full traitor

Doomsday warnings just went out

Are Americans gloomy about the economy or is something else afoot?

Polling is looking grim for Republicans ahead of the US midterm elections on November 3, 2026, due in large part to deep pessimism among the…

Empty arsenal, empty threat: how to fix America’s arms deficit

The Pentagon is starting to understand that the current arsenal of traditional and precision weapons is far too small to fight any prolonged war longer…

China state TV does not air first La Liga games since Mbappe furore

Chinese state television did not air on Saturday the first La Liga games since Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappe caused anger with a joke about…

Zhang Shengmin, Xi’s lone ‘hatchet man’ at the top of China’s military

Zhang Shengmin, the last general remaining in the highest echelon of China’s military, has received an unexpected promotion to the Politburo, the rarefied group of…

Trump only has 48 hours left

Elon panics after losing $48 billion

The moment they finally figured it out

Marianas midterm vote a referendum on China’s murky influence

While some watch election outcomes in Michigan, Texas and other high-profile campaigns, defense planners should closely watch election results in another part of the United…