Starting in 2027, any newly registered three-wheeled vehicles and small trucks must be electric, with two-wheelers following the next year
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Ex-Cathay employee gets 20 months’ jail for taking bribes in human smuggling case
A former customer services officer with Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific has been jailed for one year and eight months for accepting at least HK$18,000 (US$2,295) in bribes to help smuggle mainland Chinese travellers overseas 17 years ago.
Tsui Ying-kit, 45, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to four counts of conspiracy for an agent to accept advantages at Tsuen Wan Court, which now handles District Court cases.
The defendant had been on the run since jumping
Windsurfer Lee Lai-shan wins Hong Kong’s first Olympic gold in 1996 – SCMP archive
This article was first published on July 30, 1996.
Our golden girl
by Nazvi Careem and Scott McKenzie
Cheers and tears swept Hong Kong yesterday (July 29, 1996) on the back of the golden victory for Olympic windsurfer Lee Lai-shan.
The 25-year-old from Cheung Chau won a gold medal for herself and glory for Hong Kong after 44 years of fruitless Olympic competition when she crossed the finish line at Savannah, Georgia, at 5.5
Chinese passenger takes wheel as driver collapses from severe pain, rushing him to hospital
When a ride-hailing driver suddenly experienced severe stomach pain and requested his passenger to take over the wheel to exit the highway, she instead drove him directly to the hospital.
On July 14, He Shimin, a blogger, arranged a ride-sharing service as she planned to travel from Guangzhou to Shunde, both located in southern Guangdong province.
While on the highway, the driver, surnamed Wang, suddenly spoke in a weak voice
China’s Pop Mart opens new store in Singapore’s Sentosa amid slowing domestic sales
Chinese toymaker Pop Mart International ramped up its global expansion on Wednesday by opening a new store on Singapore’s Sentosa Island – alongside its first overseas Pop Bakery dessert store in the same venue – with observers predicting that more overseas locations would help drive growth, especially those in underpenetrated markets.
The launch comes amid softer domestic sales and normalising demand after a strong intellectual property (IP) cycle in 2025. Analysts said improved inventory availability has also reduced the scarcity-driven traffic that helped form the brand’s
Hong Kong doctor acquitted 15 years after complaint as watchdog drops case
A Hong Kong ophthalmologist has been cleared of professional misconduct after the city’s medical watchdog decided to offer no evidence against him, 15 years after a complaint was lodged over his handling of laser eye surgery procedures.
The three disciplinary charges against Dr Yiu Man-kit stemmed from a complaint submitted in 2011 by a patient, Chan Man-chi, over a bilateral Lasik surgery performed on her in May 2010 and a subsequent keratectomy on her right eye in September that year.
Yiu had
Pentagon official hails ‘stronger’ military ties with PLA at anniversary event
Nayan Seth in Washington and Han Li in Washington, DC
A senior Pentagon official on Tuesday said US-China military communication was “stronger than it has been in years”, marking a rare bright spot in the broader strategic rivalry between the world’s two most powerful countries .
“Under the leadership of Secretary [Pete] Hegseth, we are actively repairing
Asian scam gangs snare educated English speakers with fake job ads: UN agency
The UN ’s migration agency is warning that criminal networks have been trafficking hundreds of thousands of people – many of them educated English speakers – to work in online scam centres , and the caseload is growing.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says victims are often lured by fake job advertisements – mostly through social media – promising work abroad, only
Japan quake death toll rises to 13 after newly reopened Aeon Mall collapses
The June 13 reopening was supposed to be a fresh start for the Kumamoto shopping centre, which had been damaged in a deadly tremor in 2016
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