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When Canton Tower lit up on 1 July to celebrate Lingnan University’s achievement as the world’s top university for SDG 4: Quality Education in the Times Higher Education (THE) Sustainability Impact Ratings 2026, the display marked more than a single accolade. Coinciding with the 29th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR, it also
The tougher enforcement, which took effect on Wednesday after a six-month grace period, gives patrol teams from the Penang Island City Council and Seberang Perai City Council powers to record offences at public hotspots across one of Malaysia’s best-known tourist states.
Penang local government committee chairman H’ng Mooi Lye
Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong has been restructured, with the economic department split into two and its district-level groups expanded, a move that an analyst said reflected the central government’s greater focus on financial, youth, and district work.
A comparison of the office’s organisational chart on its website on Thursday with internet archive records showed that the number of departments had been reduced from 24 to 23, even as its Economic Department was split into two entities, the Economic and Financial Department
Top diplomat will try to gauge commitment to Brussels’ increasingly hardline stance during rare tour of Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway
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Hong Kong’s stock exchange ranked second globally by capital raised in the first half of 2026, with total proceeds from initial public offerings and secondary listings rising 84.3 per cent year on year to US$26.4 billion.
Among the 84 new listings during the period, mainland Chinese issuers accounted for 98.5 per cent of the total, with the majority concentrated in advanced technology and consumer staples.
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Hong Kong labour unions have urged worksite supervisors to step up risk assessments and precautionary measures to strengthen work safety culture, as the city reported at least 62 industrial accidents, including 24 fatal cases, in the first half of this year.
The calls on Wednesday followed the case of a worker who was killed when an excavator toppled at a Ho Man Tin construction site two days earlier, and of a man who died after being struck by a road roller at a Kowloon Bay refurbishment site on Friday.
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Doctors said Wednesday they feared the aftermath of Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes could trigger a widening medical crisis marked by untreated injuries, infectious diseases and a healthcare system already on the brink.
Thousands of displaced Venezuelans are sleeping in crowded shelters or outside without access to clean water amid dismal sanitary conditions following the June 24 earthquakes which officials say killed at least 2,295 and left more than 11,000 injured.
Aid workers said the aftermath of the quakes has become a major medical crisis that
Southeast Asia’s haze is on the way back and this year’s event is expected to be “severe”, according to the Singapore Institute
For women and girls trying to end unwanted pregnancies, access often depends on online sellers,
