Yonhap news agency says South Korea’s prime minister and top presidential advisers have offered to resign

Apr 11, 2024

Yonhap news agency says South Korea’s prime minister and top presidential advisers have offered to resign

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Yonhap news agency says South Korea’s prime minister and top presidential advisers have offered to resign.

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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

Police trace woman with knife to Wong Tai Sin flat, arrest her over attempted robbery

A woman suspected of carrying out an attempted robbery with a knife at a Hong Kong shopping centre was arrested after police officers traced her to a flat at a Wong Tai Sin estate on Sunday night. Police received a report at about 6.50pm that a woman in her forties carrying a knife had travelled from Diamond Hill MTR station towards the nearby Plaza Hollywood mall. Officers were deployed to the scene and searched the area. Members of the Counter Terrorism Response Unit carrying round shields...

Police trace woman with knife to Wong Tai Sin flat, arrest her over attempted robbery

China responds to US criticism of Starbucks' Xinjiang expansion

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Saturday dismissed allegations from a US congressional committee concerning northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as lies and smears.

China responds to US criticism of Starbucks' Xinjiang expansion

1,500 Hong Kong residents tour revamped Huanggang Port border crossing

More than 1,500 Hong Kong residents toured the revamped Huanggang Port border crossing on Sunday as authorities pushed ahead with preparations for its opening. A Security Bureau spokesman said that participants took franchised buses or cross-boundary coaches from various districts to reach the crossing and were shown the new port building in groups. “The event effectively enhanced participants’ understanding of the public transport arrangements, immigration and customs clearance and...

1,500 Hong Kong residents tour revamped Huanggang Port border crossing

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