Guided-missile destroyer Nanning and frigate Hengyang will be open to the public at Ngong Shuen Chau Barracks on Saturday and Sunday
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Chinachem Group steers first-of-its-kind blueprint for Hong Kong’s green and silver future
Like other advanced cities, Hong Kong faces a range of clearly defined challenges that must be directly addressed in the next few years.
Two that stand out are the effects of climate change and the consequences of an ageing population, which, one way or another, will impact every section of society. This means concerted action and practical solutions are required from each branch of industry – and every government department.
The route to real and rapid progress is through constant and meaningful cross-sector exchanges. This enables the ready sharing of
Funding option: royalties giant opens Hong Kong base as mainland China biotech deals surge
The world’s largest buyer of biopharmaceutical royalties has set up its first Asia-Pacific base in Hong Kong, joining a string of multinational corporations in the pharmaceutical sector establishing offices in the city as out-licensing deals by mainland Chinese biotechnology firms hit record highs.
Royalty financing gives drug developers an alternative way to raise capital even as US investment restrictions loom, according to an expert.
“Chinese biotech firms would need royalty financing as an alternative,” said Kenneth Sun, who spent more than a decade at Wall Street
How Philippine ube farming can cash in on ‘purple gold rush’
Esmeraldo Maligsa, a farmer and president of the Bohol Ube Growers Association, harvests 2,000kg (4,400lbs) of ube, the purple tuber native to the Philippines , every seven months.
He and the other farmers in his group manage a collective yield of between 5 tonnes and 8 tonnes, fetching prices of 90 to 100 pesos (US$1.50 to US$
Hong Kong positioned to link Asean, Greater Bay Area amid geopolitical shifts: John Lee
Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to connect Asean with the Greater Bay Area and build a “powerful and complementary partnership” amid a shifting geopolitical landscape, the city’s leader has said.
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu made his remarks at the South China Morning Post’s GBA-Asean Summit 2026 on Tuesday, which also saw the launch of a new chamber of commerce for the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the city.
The summit brought together government officials, business leaders
Hong Kong IPOs ride China’s tech wave, but Nasdaq leads way with SpaceX tsunami
Hong Kong has surrendered its IPO fundraising crown to Nasdaq following SpaceX’s blockbuster listing earlier this month, but it did so while seeing its IPO proceeds register a year-on-year rise of about 84 per cent in the first half of 2026 – consolidating the region’s position as a primary offshore financial hub for Chinese issuers.
A total of 83 companies raised US$26.42 billion on the Hong Kong stock exchange’s main board from January to June, according
Just how far are China’s local officials going in falsifying performance data?
The cases are the clearest examples yet of the behaviour Beijing is targeting in its campaign on the ‘correct view of political performance’
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Beijing has publicised three cases of local governments falsifying achievements to boost their records, which involved manipulating revenue data, misusing special-purpose government bonds and concealing off-balance-sheet debt .
Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday that a central working group and the Communist
Japan aims to catch up on drone warfare by tapping Ukraine’s experience
Japan is accelerating plans to acquire and develop drones for its military by stepping up cooperation with Ukraine and learning from Kyiv’s wartime experience against Russia as it seeks to deploy more unmanned systems across its territory in the Pacific.
To complement this strategy, Japanese companies are boosting cooperation with their European counterparts to manufacture anti-submarine drones.
“The entire international community has witnessed how warfare has changed since the outbreak of the Ukraine war and Japan, like other countries, is now very much focused on the development of drones that
Time to establish workplace support for Hong Kong’s high-risk carers
Dicky Chow , Curtis Lam and Esther Loh
Nearly a year has passed since Hong Kong launched the first phase of its carer support data platform last July, linking the Social Welfare Department, Hospital Authority and the Housing Authority into a single alert system for “high-risk carers”.
These include those receiving a living allowance as low-income carers of the elderly, carers of the disabled and carers of those who live in public housing estates.
Prime suspect: Australia sues Amazon over ‘unfair’ streaming ad terms
The competition regulator said Amazon charged an extra US$2.10 for ad-free streaming on top of the annual subscription
Australia ’s competition regulator said on Tuesday it had taken Amazon ’s Australian unit to court, alleging its Prime subscription contracts contained unfair terms that allowed the company to add advertising to its video streaming platform.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleged that between November 2023 and August