The Malaysian pilot passed through several layers of checks at Kuala Lumpur International Airport before his departure to Jakarta
‘Savage abuse’: Hong Kong mother gets 22 years for starving boy, 5, to death
A Hong Kong mother who abused and starved her five-year-old son to death was sentenced to 22 years in prison, with the judge condemning a crime that exposed a “savage nature utterly devoid of the empathy inherent to motherhood”.
Madam Justice Susana D’Almada Remedios on Wednesday said she had to impose the heavy sentence on the 37-year-old mother, whom she said had committed the worst form of child cruelty and negligence, causing her son to die of starvation in September 20
‘Devastated’: Tung Wah College says sorry for false admission offers to 10,000 hopefuls
A tertiary institution in Hong Kong has apologised for mistakenly sending an email to all 11,139 of its applicants telling them that they had been admitted and asking them to pay an acceptance fee, saying the error was an administrative oversight.
The blunder involving Tung Wah College (TWC) in Kowloon on Wednesday sparked angry complaints online for briefly raising the hopes of candidates who had yet to receive university offers, only to dash them hours later.
More than 45,000 students using the city’
China’s AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs
Rising cost efficiency and rapidly advancing capabilities from players like DeepSeek and MiniMax have prompted Goldman Sachs to raise its run-rate revenue forecast for China’s artificial intelligence model market by 30 per cent to US$13 billion.
In a research note published on Monday, the US investment bank boosted its year-end annualised recurring revenue (ARR) projection for mainland Chinese AI models from US$10 billion, citing aggressive price cuts,
US-Japan trade thaw driven by shared yen for stronger currency
A rare joint intervention to stabilise the yen has given US-Japan relations a near-term lift, according to analysts. But whether that goodwill endures depends on how long the currency’s rebound can survive mounting market and policy pressures.
Friday’s operation, Washington’s first yen purchase since 1998, came after the Japanese currency had slumped to a four-decade low of almost 164 yen to the US dollar.
The intervention briefly lifted the yen to a three-month high of
PLA scientists say submarine cables carrying 99% of global data could be ‘easy target’
Cables that support US$10 trillion in daily cross-border transactions could be increasingly vulnerable to attack from uncrewed vessels
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The underwater cables that play a vital role supporting the international digital economy are increasingly vulnerable to attack from low-cost drones, Chinese military researchers have warned.
“The barrier to entry for undersea warfare is lowering,” Shi Guanglei and Shi Haiming from the National Defence University wrote in Science and
Man arrested for dangerous driving as woman jumps clear of swerving van
Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of dangerous driving after a video went viral showing his van swerving dangerously close to a woman.
A police spokesman confirmed that officers arrested a 37-year-old man on Wednesday and remains in custody.
The widely circulated video shows a van swerving at high speed, passing close to the female cleaner who was about to cross
Amid slowing hotpot growth in China, Haidilao takes on biggest American burger brands
China’s largest hotpot chain Haidilao International Holding is aiming to further diversify its business with hamburger stores – following the example set by American brands like McDonald’s and KFC – and has also opened up more sushi stores to tap new growth drivers, as its core hotpot business shows slowing momentum.
The country’s hamburger market is seeing intense competition, with US brand Five Guys opening its first two stores in Beijing on Monday. Hong Kong-listed Haidilao officially launched its burger outlet Fresh Burger in downtown Wuhan, in
Public outrage after Chinese woman gets just 3 years jail for abducting baby 35 years ago
A woman in China was sentenced to three years in prison for abducting a 10-month-old baby boy 35 years ago from the family who employed her as their maid.
The woman, identified by her surname Wang, confessed in court that she took the boy after being diagnosed with infertility, driven by her desire to become a mother, as reported by the Beijing News.
In early 1990, Wang, a 2
German airport diverts flights after security alert over unidentified object
Bomb disposal robot deployed at Leipzig-Halle as investigators probe potential threat to cargo hub
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German police said Wednesday that a “security related” incident involving an unidentified object found at an airport forced the diversion of flights and the deployment of a bomb disposal robot overnight.
The Bild newspaper said the object found at Leipzig-Halle airport was a drone