APTOPIX Hong Kong Independant Bookstore Closure

Mar 30, 2024

Visitors browse books on the last day of business of independent bookshop 'Mount Zero' in Hong Kong, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Hundreds gathered on Sunday to bid farewell as the independent bookstore closed its doors, citing weekly government inspections prompted by anonymous complaints. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

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DFI Retail, the food and beverage unit of Hong Kong-headquartered conglomerate Jardine Matheson, is looking to sell its mall at The Peak, one of the city’s wealthiest neighbourhoods. The entire commercial portion of the Dairy Farm Guildford Road Shopping Centre will be sold via a public tender closing at noon on November 19, according to sole agent CBRE. The property is near The Peak campus of the German Swiss International School. The mall consists of a two-storey retail podium with a gross...

Wellcome operator DFI Retail seeks buyer for fully leased shopping centre on The Peak

Hong Kong outlines 4-step AI talent plan to help graduates navigate job market

Hong Kong has unveiled a four-step artificial intelligence (AI) “talent ladder” strategy to counter entry-level job shock and foster industry leaders, viewing the technology as a “catalyst, not a threat”. Permanent Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Kevin Choi Kit-ming warned on Monday that the “entry-level shock” was real because AI performed well in many routine tasks that once made up a graduate’s first job, such as basic coding and first-line customer service. Speaking at the...

Hong Kong outlines 4-step AI talent plan to help graduates navigate job market

China develops plant to extract hydrogen, fresh water and uranium from the sea

Chinese scientists have built a small, stable co-production plant that uses one system to extract hydrogen and fresh water from seawater, while also recovering uranium and bromine and improving electricity use efficiency by about 15 per cent. The team, led by Deng Dehui and Liu Yanting from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, improved on an existing technology that is both costly and power hungry, according to a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature...

China develops plant to extract hydrogen, fresh water and uranium from the sea

Kai Tak Hospital opens this week: what you need to know before visiting

Hong Kong’s largest public hospital, built on the former airport site in Kai Tak, will begin its first phase of operation on Monday after more than a decade of planning and preparation. The South China Morning Post looks at the new hospital’s key features and what its opening means for the city’s healthcare development. 1. What makes Kai Tak Hospital special? With a gross floor area of about 500,000 square metres and 2,400 beds, Kai Tak Hospital will be Hong Kong’s largest public hospital. It...

Kai Tak Hospital opens this week: what you need to know before visiting

Is Hong Kong’s drive to eliminate substandard housing doing more harm than good?

Housewife May and her three children were overjoyed last September when they moved into a 200 sq ft subdivided flat in Kwai Tsing, a Hong Kong district with one of the city’s lowest average monthly household incomes. For years, the 50-year-old single parent had lived in a squatter hut with her son and two daughters, where they had to climb hundreds of stairs daily. They later moved into a 100 sq ft subdivided flat before securing their current place. Located on the 15th floor of a lift-equipped...

Is Hong Kong’s drive to eliminate substandard housing doing more harm than good?

Temu took the world by storm – but has the shopping app lost its thunder?

In February 2023, the budget shopping platform Temu announced itself on the world stage in the brashest way possible: becoming one of the youngest ever brands to buy a Super Bowl advertising spot. “Download the Temu app and shop like a billionaire,” a voice proclaimed in the 30-second commercial, as a woman danced on screen and ordered a series of outlandishly cheap items: from a US$8.99 dress to a US$4.99 wig. The commercial – which aired twice during the game, costing Temu an estimated US$14...

Temu took the world by storm – but has the shopping app lost its thunder?

HKU eyes Northern Metropolis expansion to boost research capacity, attract talent

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is looking to secure more laboratory space in the Northern Metropolis university town to expand its research capacity and attract talent, its new vice-president for research has said. Professor Anderson Shum Ho-cheung, who took up the vice presidency in August, also called for more government funding, saying grant applications took time and returns on investment could be slow. Shum said the university’s research development would align with the government’s...

HKU eyes Northern Metropolis expansion to boost research capacity, attract talent

Rigid goals not set in Hong Kong’s 5-year plan to allay fears of planned economy: Tse

Hong Kong refrained from setting overly rigid economic indicators in its first five-year plan to avoid fuelling concerns that it was moving towards a planned economy, according to the city’s constitutional affairs minister. The current priority should be hitting targets instead of dwelling on accountability mechanisms for potential shortcomings, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Janice Tse Siu-wa said. Tse also emphasised the government’s efforts to explore administrative...

Rigid goals not set in Hong Kong’s 5-year plan to allay fears of planned economy: Tse

Zheng Yongnian on China-US realism and battling for the upper hand before the next summit

Zheng Yongnian is a political scientist in China and a government adviser. His academic work is mainly about contemporary China, particularly politics, the country’s transformation and its external relations. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. Many have offered a lukewarm assessment of the Xi-Trump summit in Washington, citing the lack of a breakthrough. What is your take? There are two primary views right now. One is...

Zheng Yongnian on China-US realism and battling for the upper hand before the next summit

Ambassador Xie Feng Attended "ShanghaiEye Night" Events

Ambassador Xie Feng Attended "ShanghaiEye Night" Events

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Hong Kong builders take three WorldSkills honours in best CIC haul

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Nine young construction competitors from the Construction Industry Council returned from WorldSkills Shanghai with three Medallions for Excellence, the strongest finish the CIC has recorded at the competition. The honours went to Law Chak-sum in painting and decorating, Tse Yu-lok in welding, and the concrete construction work team of Huang To-kong and Wan Tsz-ho. It was Hong Kong’s first WorldSkills honour in concrete...

Hong Kong builders take three WorldSkills honours in best CIC haul

Hong Kong woman with knife arrested after demanding cash, Octopus cards at MTR station

Police have arrested a woman on suspicion of attempted robbery after she brandished a knife at staff at an MTR station customer service centre and demanded Octopus cards and cash. A source familiar with the case told the South China Morning Post on Monday that the woman, a Hong Kong resident surnamed Lai, was armed with a ceramic knife and demanded all Octopus cards and HK$100 (US$13) banknotes from staff at the Diamond Hill MTR station customer service centre on Sunday evening. “When the staff...

Hong Kong woman with knife arrested after demanding cash, Octopus cards at MTR station

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