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Oct 23, 2026

China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia

Ren Xiaoping, who once vowed to perform the world’s first human head transplant, has operated on a patient’s severed spinal cord in a 12-hour landmark operation in Moscow, according to the Chinese surgeon and Russian state sources. Ren said the procedure was carried out at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine in Russia last week. “It was our Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Second Affiliated Hospital and the Russian team working together,” Ren told the South China...

Oct 23, 2026

Hong Kong constable paralysed in 2005 knife attack laid to rest with full honours

Hong Kong’s top government officials and police officers paid their final respects on Friday to a former constable who died 21 years after being left paralysed in an attack while on duty. Jacky Chu Chun-kwok, who died last month aged 52, was laid to rest following a service at the Universal Funeral Parlour in Hung Hom at 10.30am, which was attended by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung. The mood was sombre as family members, friends, colleagues and...

Oct 23, 2026

16 killed, 76 injured after M7.0 earthquake hits China's Xizang

Oct 23, 2026

Myanmar's Laukkai holds screening of CMG anti-fraud documentary

Oct 23, 2026

Typhoon Champi disrupts more than 70 flights between Hong Kong and Taiwan

More than 70 flights between Hong Kong and Taiwan have been cancelled as Typhoon Champi approaches the island ahead of a possible landfall later on Friday. As of noon on Friday, more than 30 flights between the city and Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport had been cancelled, according to a South China Morning Post check of the Hong Kong airport’s website. Nine outbound flights to Kaohsiung International Airport and Taichung International Airport were also cancelled. The affected services were...

Oct 23, 2026

China allocates 30 mln yuan for post-disaster work in Xizang

Oct 23, 2026

2 women arrested over alleged child abuse after girl, 11, posts plea for help

Two women have been arrested on suspicion of child abuse in Hong Kong after an 11-year-old girl posted videos on social media pleading for help. Police arrested the girl’s 61-year-old grandmother and a 43-year-old domestic helper in Wong Tai Sin on Friday on suspicion of ill-treatment or neglect by those in charge of a child or young person. The girl, found with red and swollen limbs, was sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei on Thursday and later transferred to the Hong Kong Children’s...

Oct 23, 2026

Hong Kong security chief vows accountability, reforms ahead of Tai Po fire report

Hong Kong’s Fire Services Department will bear “ultimate responsibility” for following up on fire safety complaints across the city, the security chief has said, as an independent committee report is expected to identify the department as among those responsible for last year’s deadly Tai Po blaze. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung made the pledge on Friday, a day after the judge-led committee submitted its final report to the government. The minister said a series of legal reforms...

Oct 23, 2026

Digital Xiongan: How AI is shaping the smart 'City of the Future'

Buildings have digital twins in the cloud-based platform, underground utility tunnels are monitored in real time, and traffic lights adjust to changing road conditions. In the Xiongan New Area in north China's Hebei Province, these futuristic scenarios have been part of everyday life.

Oct 23, 2026

Chinese envoy urges UNSC reform on fairer representation

The ultimate goal of UN Security Council reform is to change the situation where developed countries are over-represented, a Chinese envoy said on Thursday.