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Oct 23, 2026

China's 1st AI hyper-realistic film 'Sanxingdui' hits theaters

China's first AI hyper-realistic film Sanxingdui opens in the country's theaters this Friday.

Oct 23, 2026

Typhoon Champi grounds hundreds of Taiwan flights, threatens Shanghai and Japan

Flight disruptions and cancellations surged across East Asia as Typhoon Champi approached Taiwan on Friday, prompting emergency precautions in eastern mainland China, including Shanghai, and in Japan during a large-scale joint military drill with the US. Taiwan’s transport ministry said 262 local flights and 715 international and cross-strait flights had been cancelled as of 10am on Friday. The island’s largest airports – Taiwan Taoyuan, Taipei Songshan, Kaohsiung and Taichung – faced widespread...

Oct 23, 2026

China’s humanoid robots hunt for work in South Korea as Seoul bets on physical AI

This article was first published by The Korea Times in a partnership with the South China Morning Post. Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in South Korea, moving beyond dance performances and showroom displays to factory trials and commercial deployments, as Seoul ramps up investment in physical artificial intelligence. A growing number of Chinese robotics companies – including Hong Kong-listed UBTech Robotics, start-up Anyverse Dynamics, Shanghai-based...

RTHK forges bond with Chengdu broadcaster

Oct 23, 2026

RTHK signed a memorandum of understanding with broadcaster Chengdu Radio and Television to carry out a series of events there next year, as well as step up people-to-people bonds and cultural connections between the two cities. Director of Broadcasting Angelina Kwan signed the MoU with Yang Xiaoyang, president of Chengdu Radio and Television and chair of the Chengdu Broadcasting (Group) Corporation, on Thursday during her visit to Sichuan's capital. “The two broadcasters will expand cooperation across a range of areas, including programme content exchanges, talent development and related exchanges, collaboration on new media platforms and the organisation of events,” they said in a statement. These include RTHK’s acclaimed signature projects – the “RTHK Vinyl Pop Up” – that will be staged in Chengdu in the second quarter of next year. It was previously held in Hong Kong, Qianhai and Shanghai. “RTHK expressed hopes that bringing the ‘RTHK Vinyl Pop Up’ to Chengdu would allow music to serve as a bridge for introducing Hong Kong's pop culture to a wider mainland audience, while helping to share the stories of both Hong Kong and Chengdu with the world,” the statement added. During the three-day visit that kicked off on Wednesday, the RTHK delegation also met with senior management of the Chengdu Media Group to exchange views and explore further opportunities for collaboration. Kwan said the Hong Kong broadcaster has long been committed to strengthening ties with media organisations across the mainland through broadcasting and cultural exchanges to foster people-to-people bonds between Hong Kong and the mainland. Edited by Aaron Tam

80m yuan earmarked for Xizang quake relief, recovery

Oct 23, 2026

The nation has allocated 50 million yuan in emergency disaster relief funds and earmarked another 30 million yuan for recovery efforts following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in southwest Xizang Autonomous Region. The earthquake struck Baqen County of the city of Nagqu at 10.33pm on Thursday, leaving 16 people dead and 76 injured. President Xi Jinping has called for all-out rescue efforts. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management jointly allocated 50 million yuan to support rescue operations and assistance to affected residents, while the National Development and Reform Commission earmarked the additional 30 million yuan from the central budget to help restore damaged infrastructure and public service facilities. The country has also upgraded its national earthquake emergency response from Level IV to Level III, while activating a separate Level-IV national natural disaster relief response. China's national comprehensive fire and rescue force has dispatched a total of 350 rescuers and 83 vehicles. The emergency management ministry has guided Xizang's emergency management department in arranging for Wing Loong drone deployment to the quake-hit area for disaster reconnaissance. As of early on Friday, 120 rescuers and 27 vehicles had arrived in the quake-hit area, while the remaining 230 rescuers and 56 vehicles from the Xizang fire and rescue corps were en route as reinforcements, having all entered Nagqu's administrative area. Earlier, as of 4.30am, authorities had mobilised relief supplies at the central, regional, municipal and county levels, and delivered them in batches to the affected area. These supplies included 1,000 prefabricated housing units, 3,239 tents, 2,821 folding beds and 4,280 quilts, among other essentials. (Xinhua) Edited by Aaron Tam

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...