Hong Kong father, son arrested after parking ticket thrown at traffic wardens

A view of Sam Shing Estate in Tuen Mun. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong police have arrested an elderly man and his son for allegedly assaulting public officers after they threw a parking ticket at two traffic wardens in Tuen Mun, the South China Morning Post has learned.

A source said on Sunday that police arrested the 61-year-old man and his 31-year-old son outside cooked food stalls in Sam Shing at 11.40 am.

Earlier, at around 11


Hong Kong man, 54, dies after e-bike plunges from goods platform

Police and paramedics who arrived at the scene confirmed the man had died on the spot. Photo: Handout
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Cancer-on-a-chip pioneer Chen Weiqiang returns to China from New York University

Chen Weiqiang has joined the school of biomedical engineering at Nanjing University as a distinguished professor. Photo: Handout

Chen Weiqiang, formerly a tenured professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at New York University (NYU), has joined the school of biomedical engineering at Nanjing University as a distinguished professor.

“Professor Chen has long been deeply engaged in top overseas universities, achieving remarkable results in cutting-edge fields such as cellular biomechanics and organ chips,” Nanjing University assistant president Jiang


China’s Iran strategy an exercise in power without projection

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Wenran Jiang, the founding director of the China Institute and Mactaggart Research Chair Emeritus at the University of Alberta, is an adviser at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy.

The spectacle of US President Donald Trump thanking China for staying “neutral” with regard to the US-Israeli war against Iran would have been unthinkable a year ago.

Yet at the Group of Seven summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 17,


KMT accuses DPP of targeting Taiwan’s farmers over trade ties with mainland

The island’s administration has launched investigations into agricultural exporters that reportedly took part in the Straits Forum

Since its launch in 2009, the Straits Forum in Xiamen has served as a major platform for cross-strait people-to-people engagement. Photo: Xinhua

Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) has hit out at the island’s government for launching investigations into five agricultural groups over participation in a mainland forum .
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) referred the five groups to the Ministry of Agriculture for investigation after they were accused of signing cooperation deals at the Straits Forum in southeastern

Israeli ‘smear campaign’ targets journalists, threatens safety, Al Jazeera says

Al Jazeera on Sunday rejected Israeli accusations that one of its journalists, killed in Gaza a day earlier, was a Hamas operative, as family and colleagues mourned the cameraman in the Palestinian territory.

The Qatar-based network said in a statement that it “condemns the Israeli occupation army’s baseless accusations, which seek to justify its crimes against Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in Gaza, most recently the killing of cameraman Ahmed Wishah”.

The Israeli military said in a statement issued late on Saturday that Wishah was killed in


Hong Kong TV host Lillian Sze loses battle with ovarian cancer

A Hong Kong television host who spoke four languages and frequently emceed fan meetings for Korean stars has died from ovarian cancer, less than a month after revealing her diagnosis.

The death of former ViuTV host and content creator Lillian Sze was announced on her social media page on Sunday, sending shock waves online and prompting an outpouring of tributes from celebrities and fans.

“Lillian faced everything in life with a positive attitude, whether at work or in her daily life. Even in the face of illness, she continued to encourage herself


What signal is China sending with footage of DF-17 hypersonic missile launches?

The footage included the launch of DF-17 missiles. Photo: CCTV

China’s state broadcaster CCTV has aired footage showing the launch of a DF-17 hypersonic missile , a weapon that analysts believe could strengthen deterrence across the first island chain.

On Saturday, a military news programme carried footage of two live-fire exercises, one of which showed a Dongfeng-17, or “east wind”, missile launcher by the side of a road, followed by a vertical launch.

The other segment


No more painful biopsies? How a new blood test will transform cancer detection in Hong Kong

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

In the fourth instalment of a six-part Health Matters wellness series on cancer in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Cheung examines how city researchers are developing new blood tests to detect the disease earlier, and what they could mean for screenings and diagnoses.

Retired Hong Kong businessman Peter Wan Ying-keung still remembers the uncertainty and discomfort of his months-long journey to a prostate cancer diagnosis 13 years ago.

It began with a routine blood test in


Colombians vote for president amid corruption fears, polarisation

A deeply divided electorate will choose Colombia’s next president in a run-off on Sunday that pits a progressive against a conservative outsider, with both candidates tapping into fears of renewed internal conflict in the country.

Voters will choose between businessman and lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and Iván Cepeda, a lawmaker and heir to the political movement of outgoing President Gustavo Petro, the nation’s first leftist leader. The two defeated nine other contenders in a May 31 vote.

Both are pitching strategies that they say